Samiel and Yvraine rushed at the city walls that were enveloping the entirety of Zephystrand City, as runes inscribed around the walls lit up, creating a translucent runic do around the entire city. This was one of the defensive asures of Zephystrand City, if not the best one.
"You have this place really well defended..."
Samiel said absent-mindedly as he looked at the runic barrier enveloping the entire Zephystrand City and all of the other defensive asures which were showing themselves at this ti.
Yvraine once explained to him that all cities on most floors had so sort of defensive barriers and wards around them in case of situations like this or other attacks. Of course, as a mber of the 13 Gates, the cities of the Nesser Dynasty had one of the best protections and fortifications in the entirety of the Cosmos.
But those protections too could be breached because they mainly aid at the high-tier enemies, not the low-tier ones, because that would be detrintal to the growth of the population.
It was the first ti Samiel experienced Monster Invasion or Magical Beast invasion of so city, and even Yvraine looked no different from it. He could see that she was nervous, probably because this would be the first ti on the front lines, not behind the safety lines, protected by peak Legendaries.
City Guards and Silvermoon Knights were running to the walls to fend off the invasion of the Magical Beasts, as Magical Towers were active by their Magicians, and even weird steampunk-looking mana cannons were being loaded by up bunch of dwarves that were living in the Zephystrand City.
Ordinary citizens were ordered to either stay in their hos if they were well warded and if not, then there were various evacuation shelters across the city for those who couldn't fight.
That was mainly for the ill, children, or weak, which ant those at the Iron-Tier or unawakened, though there were very low numbers of unawakened, aning those who didn't practice because, in the Tower, it was rare due to high Mana density.
"What is coming that everyone is so nervous?"
Asked Samiel absentmindedly, as he could sense everyone on the walls was pretty stressed. Even Yvraine looked stressed up about what was to co, as she felt so malevolent aura in the air, sothing that was not present here on the 3rd Floor for a long ti already.
"Spiders!"
Shouted so soldiers on the top walls as thousands upon thousands of giant spiders appeared from the forest. It was evident that nobody awaited them as the main attacks in the Magical Beast Horde, and Samiel could see that sothing was not playing according to the rules.
They started crawling from the ground, and soon enough, one could see thousands upon thousands of them. The majority of those spiders were only Iron-Tier, and approximately a third were Steel-Tier, so their imdiate presence was not threatening the existence of the Zephystrand City.
And together with the spiders were other creatures, sothing weird and abomination that Samiel didn't recognize, but they were dangerous and powerful just by a single look, and one could tell they would be the problematic enemy.
"Those are Ettercaps. They are more dangerous than your usual Monster Spiders, not only through their individual power but, most importantly, due to their ability to command various types of spiders. Basically, humanoid spiders tend, feed, and watch over the spiders and could control entire spider hordes. If such a large spider horde appeared on the third floor, then it must be a work of Drider, fucking Drows..."
Cursed Yvraine as the situation instantly beca more ugly.
As an Eldritch, or rather a partial one, Samiel could easily sense emotions from people when he was standing close to them. He sensed so much hatred and anger right now in Yvraine, so much that he refrained from mocking her for her language as he usually would.
Samiel knew that the eternal enemy of the Silvermoon Elves were Drowes, basically the sa equivalent of what were the Silvermoon Elves to ordinary elves; only that the Drowes were royalty among the Dark Elves, aside from Svartálfar.
Driders were forrly drows that had been transford from the waist down, so they had the spider's body; they were the monstrosities and abomination of nature itself, created by the Spider Goddess.
This transformation was typically a punishnt from their Goddess, Lolth.
Still, so mad Drowes took this on themselves voluntarily just to increase their power, even if it ant becoming an abomination. While it was punishnt, it still substantially increased soone's power and gave him so cool abilities in Samiel's view of point.
Drow Gods were a very cruel bunch that loved to tornt even their own followers into insanity. Because of that, their Pantheon was often called Dark God Pantheon because many of their gods represented darkness that put to sha even many sadistic Devils and bloodthirsty Daemons.
Drows had their own faction or were part of a faction among the 13 Gates, called Underdark, and it was the bitter enemy of the Nesser Dynasty. Similar to the Nesser Dynasty, it was backed up by the Drow God Pantheon and was a powerful faction on its own.
,m "I don't sense the drider... aning this is just a test wave or god knows what."
Stated Yvraine as the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were ferociously charging at the walls of the Zephystrand City. The tricky thing about spider-type enemies was that they could climb the walls, so they would be forced to fight them on the walls.
But before that.
"Send them back to the Abyss! Fire!"
Shouted muscular heavy armored dwarf with a long brown beard, as tens of mana cannons started firing spells as magic circles appeared in front of them, and the barrage of 1st Leve, 2nd Level, 3rd Level, and 4th Level spells rained at the incoming spider horde.
Thousands of Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were torn into shreds, burned, blasted, or killed from the rain of hundreds of spells. The barrage from the walls was slaughtering hundreds of them with each second, as they couldn't defend against the incoming spells.
Though in the greater picture, it seed like no matter how many Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were killed, more new ones always took the place of the killed ones, but the sa could be said about the preservance of the defenders and other asures that the Zephystrand has prepared for those who would dare to attack it.
"Recharge!"
Shouted the dwarf in charge of the mana cannons. Dwarven Technology was really wondrous, as they were able to take any tech from scientifically-oriented civilizations and rework it, so it functioned on mana instead.
The problem with technology in the Tower was that standard technology didn't work here. Apparently, the reason for that was that in environnts with extrely high Mana Density, electrical devices often malfunction due to dense mana disrupting the electromagnetic waves.
anwhile, all elven archers readied their bows and cast their enchanting spells on the arrows. Elves were species known for their skills in archery, and practically every elf, from the lowest and weakest Wood Elf to the noblest Silvermoon Elf were natural-born archers and sharpshooters.
"Archers fire!"
Ordered Elven City Guard Commander, as thousands of Elves, released their bowstrings and fired their arrows at the incoming spider horde, which despite losing thousands of spiders, looked still the sa as they steadily advanced towards the city.
After the archers killed a whole bunch of Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps, the mana cannon were recharged once more and fired instantly, killing more than 6,000 enemies altogether in one go, from what Samiel could see.
But the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were pretty fast and had already arrived near the walls and started climbing the walls. Because the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were what they were, aka, spiders, they could easily climb the walls and fortifications.
Even though these walls were inscribed with protective Runes and Spells, it was not enough to dispose of all the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps that started climbing the City Walls. It was to be expected so percentage of the Monstrous Spiders would climb the walls, and they would be forced to combat them head-on.
"They have reached the walls! Squat 1 imdiately annihilate them all!"
Shouted Sarun Daragan, as he was in charge of the Silvermoon Knigth Squires on the 3rd Floor. Samiel turned around and could see enormous Ettercap pricing through Elven Archer with his claws. Ettercaps had two shart black chitinous claws instead of hands and feets.
Samiel imdiately summoned all of his undead and unleashed them at the Ettercaps and Monstrous Spiders as he conjured several Ice Weapons and shot them towards the nearest Monstrous Spider, piercing their skulls and killing them instantly.
[3rd Level Spell, Void Strike]
He cast several of these spells, all aid at the incoming Ettercaps that were about to engage his undead, as suddenly space twisted and their heads burst, killing 5 Bronze-Tier Ettercaps in one go.
The Void Magic was weak at the start, as its spells often lacked high destructive power, but that changed the higher level the spells were. Like just now, the 3rd Level Spell was enough to kill powerful Bronze-Tier Ettercaps instantly.
Other Ettercaps and Monstrous Spiders turned their attention to this, but soon, Samiel acted before they could.
Imdiately after, he flipped backward as he dodged an incoming claw from Monstrous Spider, who managed to sneak up on him. Samiel stretched his hand forward as a small wave of frosty energy burst out, turning enormous more than three ters tall Monstrous Spiders into a huge icicle; with one punch, it was shattered into countless pieces.
"Damm, these things are troubleso."
Samiel cursed as he watched how the Elven City Guards and Silvermoon Knights slowly regained their ground and were killing one Monstrous Spider and Ettercap after another, and his undead were unstoppable machines on the battlefield.
They didn't feel pain, were clad in the best armor that he had, and were ard with the best weapons. The combat efficiency the Undeads were exhibiting when they were properly ard with good armor and weapons was trendous, compared to the state when they were ard with just scraps from the battlefield.
No matter how injured the undeads were, they still continued to fight and were slaughtering the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps with relative ease. Due to the strength and quality of armor, they were wearing, the Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps were having a hard ti destroying even a single one of them.
When one of them fell, he just created new undead, and due to this battlefield, he had 240 Undead under his control. Samiel kept resurrecting deceased Bronze-Tier Ettercaps and replacing the killed undead through the process of attrition.
Basically, heaven for Necromancer, as no matter how many of his undead were destroyed by Monstrous Spiders and Ettercaps, he could always create new almost instantly.
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