"Hold steady! Be alert!"
"Pace yourselves everyone! We're in for the long haul!"
"Damn pests! Die!"
"Aim properly! How can you even miss when there are large clusters of them? Are you dumb!?"
"Watch out for the Insect Demons, they could sohow avoid the bombardnt."
The cacophony of screams and shouts echoed atop the city walls. The current situation was too hectic for everybody and the atmosphere was tense.
Down and outside the city, the growing see of horrors were plainly visible to them. The horde of demons was seemingly endless. So of them actually wonder if they had enough artillery shells to support this long-term bombardnt. This defense will surely cost the city a lot.
Thankfully, even with all the chaos so far, the situation was fairly stable. Only a handful of demons were able to survive the bombardnt and those who did were dealt with swiftly by their ground troops.
The sudden appearance of the Insect Demons threw them off guard for a bit but that has passed now. People just don't have ti to linger at the surprise. If they do, more of them will die. Thankfully, everybody who's participating in this defense had experience and could adjust swiftly.
So far, they've seen Beast Demons, Insect Demons, and Avian Demons. If anybody was counting the horde so far, they must've lost count already due to how hectic it is here.
The Black Sky was really horrible. Thankfully, the Lighthouse provides them with sufficient brilliance to see their enemies. This battle would've been lost before it started if they didn't have that around.
Of course, the Lighthouse was strictly defended as well. Even though it was near the core of the city, far from the heat of the battle and invulnerable so far, they just couldn't let it be without protection since it was crucial for the defense.
It will only take one deranged fool to turn that thing off and the city will be destroyed. They can't be having that.
On the east side of the city walls, the siege looked more intense. The number of demons appearing on this side seems to be greater compared to other sides.
This caused the people who were originally stationed here to ask for reinforcents, and they received it. Still, they're having a more difficult ti even with the backup.
Thankfully though, soone ca to help them out greatly...
BOOM! BOOM!
A woman fired off beams of concentrated magical energy towards the horde, decimating large clusters at once. Her face was solemn and chilling, one could even say that she's disgusted right now.
She twirled her wooden staff and summoned nurous glacial spears behind her. She then pointed her staff at the horde below and the spears flew off.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The ground shook when the glacial spears landed, the attack itself left large clusters of sharp icicles behind that ford a wall, slowing down the advancent of the horde.
So demons foolishly tried to break the icicle wall while so cleverly evaded it.
The woman didn't seem to care about how they dealt with her last attack because she was already casting another one.
This ti, four magical circles appeared behind her as she slamd the butt of her staff on the ground. She closed her eyes and concentrated, she then focused her mana on the dium and launched a spell that caused gravity to lose its aning.
Nurous demons started floating, and even the flying ones lost control over their body. The spell seed to affect a 1km zone where gravity was nullified.
Then, from behind her, the magical circles flashed and released large teorites oozing with lava. She then shot it at the floating enemies, burying them in the residual pool of lava that her last spell left behind.
The humans who witnessed her might be glad that she was on their side, they couldn't help but admire her sheer skill at weaving one spell after another. Her last attack actually displayed her ability to dual-cast spells, which is a rat ability even amongst the army of mages that have gathered in this city.
This woman is Francine Monalise, also known as; the 'Prodigal Witch'. She's an A-rank Superhuman Mage who reached Tier 5. Her class is called the 'Elental Witch' - a legendary tier Class which she bought from the shop. Also, she ca from a wealthy family, like a really, really wealthy family.
She's considered a genius because of her innate aptitude and willingness to pursue the path of a Mage, but her real strength lies in her wealth, why else would she be called the 'Prodigal Witch' then?
Almost all of the expensive skills that the System Shop offered? She has it in her possession. She even learned most of them and could use them effectively in battle. According to what the public knows, Francine knows and uses at least 30 powerful spells, which should've been impossible. Additionally, her equipnt was also the most expensive stuff available on the market.
Technically, she shouldn't be able to learn more than 10 spells at her level and even with her Class. But this was only applicable to those who couldn't afford the ans to buy items that give them additional Spell Slots. Francine? She has a bracelet that allows her to add 10 more Spell Slots equipped, and she has two of them.
Money has never been a problem for her. Even with the way she wantonly spends her inheritance, she would still have enough to live for at least five lifetis, that's how wealthy her family was.
But while most people are dazzled with her ability to wantonly spend money, even granting her the monicker of the Prodigal Witch in the process, her alignnt was very much clear from the way she perford at the city defense.
She hates demons to her core. Not only she's disgusted by their existence, she abhors them for so reason. It is said that the reason why she's learning all sorts of spells, not minding how much money she wastes by doing so, was to ensure that she'd have sufficient firepower to deal with them by herself.
And behind all the glitter and glamour she exudes, people can't deny that she has talent. Buying all sorts of spells to learn was one thing, successfully learning them and using them effectively was entirely different.
Right, Francine was also one of the VVIPs in the city. Rumor has it that she bought her way to this status, which shouldn't be possible, but like what was ntioned, Francine's family was really rich. With that much wealth, the ans available to her would be nurous so the rumor might just be correct.
'I should really pace myself here...they said that the Black Sky would last for a week at most. It hasn't even been a day since this started.' She mused inwardly while weaving spells at the enemy.
'But damn it! These demons are just really insufferable! They're irritating to look at! Seeing them just irks to the point of violent hostility!'
Boom! Boom! Boom!
'Whatever, I've got a lot of options to restore my mana anyway. If I run out of it, I could always just buy more. I'm sure the System Shop will never run out of them.'
Because of her deep-seated hatred against demons, it took little to no convincing to have help with the city's defense. Arishem visited her once the announcent was made and he didn't need to say much to get her help.
Hell, she even nearly volunteered for it.
Actually, yeah she is a volunteer. While the rest were promised compensation should the city survive this event, Francine has no need for it. Even if they wanted to pay her, she wouldn't accept it because, to her, any rewards she might receive here would just be a spare change in her eyes due to her staggering wealth. So yes, she might as well be a volunteer.
"Hmm?"
Francine seemingly sensed sothing strange, causing her to peel her attention away from the enemies below her. She turned towards the city and narrowed her eyes.
She scanned her surroundings for a bit but failed to notice anything strange. She was skeptical at first but after failing to notice anything, she shook her head.
'I could've sworn I sensed sothing just now...' she mused inwardly.
She sensed a presence brushing near her range. It was faint and it didn't linger so she wasn't able to latch to it. However, because everything happened too fast, she thought that must've thought wrong.
'Must be so kind of demon using illusions then.' She thought to herself before nodding, 'Yeah, that makes sense. These demons are cunning and wretched. I wouldn't put it past them to resort to such ans.'
Having that thought, her hatred against demons was re-ignited. Once again, she released a volley of spells at the horde below. The matter of that mysterious presence was thrown at the far corners of her mind, replaced by the sheer need to kill more demons to appease her anger.
Unfortunately for her, she was wrong this ti. She did feel a presence, she just failed to see them because her ans weren't sufficient enough.
However, that's fine. What she failed to notice was spotted by soone within the city. She didn't need to worry because that soone would deal with the thing she missed.
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