PoV: Aurea
"Did you feel that, Lovelace?"
We are in the office room of Steelgarden Castle, where the hidden army centralizes its activities.
The other girls are out, each with their squad, doing so small-scale attacks on the enemy. I have stayed behind to coordinate them.
"Yes, I did. Three powerful beings just descended on the battlefield."
"Ugh. I was wishing that I had just felt it wrong. Are they the heroes?"
"I think that we should go there and see for ourselves."
"You’re right. There’s no sense in just speculating about it."
I get up from the chair and head to the portal that leads to the outer wall.
"We are heading to the wall to check on sothing. If anything cos up, just call there."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
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On the wall we et Ingela’s squad, who had just returned from an incursion. She is haggard and short of breath, and so of her people are injured. One is in very bad shape.
I glance to Lovelace, but she is already moving before I can say anything. She swiftly proceeds to heal the injured.
"Aurea! I’m glad to find you here already. Those new girls are bad news."
"Hi, Ingela. What is the report?"
"We were launching so spells at the army from a safe distance when they arrived. They descended from the sky, enveloped in a white light. One of them then ca straight to us. I barely managed to hold her back so everyone could escape through the portal."
As she speaks, other squads arrive through their portals. We decided that the portals that connect to near the enemy army would always co to this point in the outer wall, because if the enemy manages to send soone through them, it’s a position where we could imdiately see them and defend against them.
"Hi Yawarete, Kwarah!"
"Aurea! Lovelace! Please, she is almost gone!"
Lovelace had already given the first healing to the badly injured person from Ingela’s squad, so he is out of risk. She quickly switches to treat Yawarete’s squad mber.
It’s a human girl, around seventeen years old. Her body is burnt, and she lost one arm and has a ghastly wound in her abdon.
Yawarete is visibly shaken, trying to help Lovelace with her own healing magic. The other people of the squad are also in a bad psychological state. And there are noticeably fewer of them than I rember. I guess I’ll wait a bit to ask for her report.
The one squad that hasn’t co back yet is Yaci’s.
I look at the enemy army for the first ti, trying to get a feel of what is happening.
I can see the tents of the command. They are bigger and fancier than the ones used by the rest of the army. From here I can see so commotion going on but not hear anything. There seems to be a sound barrier there.
I see two girls who are extrely beautiful and wear traditional Roman clothing. The purple togas and the laurels on their hair denote them as royalty. I don’t know if they are heroes from our world, but I’m positive none of them were in the cafe where I died.
What bugs is that I can see only two. Where is the third one?
I extend my mana perception, but an explosion in the mountain near the farthest side of the enemy army brings the answer. The third girl is there, blasting spells on sothing.
"Yaci!"
Without thinking twice, I open a portal directly to her.
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PoV: Urraca
"See? See? She has not abandoned us!"
The High Bishop was crying with relief at the sight of the new arrivals, the answer to all his prayers for the last decade or so.
The goddess was back, and this is the proof. She sent her angels to help them.
Not even Urraca could argue that, so she sheathed back her sword, but sothing didn’t sit well within her.
After all, she had never sent anyone to fight the battles in all recorded history. She always just blessed the side she chose to win whatever battle was at hand.
And yet, right now the army was still without any blessing. And she sent three of her close servants.
Urraca wasn’t so stupid as to not understand what that ant. The sa way she understood what the absence of punishnt against her ant.
There is sothing, or soone, holding her back. She can’t get herself directly involved, for so reason.
Still, the arrival of such allies was very welco. Urraca watched with delight as they chased so of the Wesgothian troops that had been showering trouble on her army.
The Wesgothian hit-and-run tactics had been really bad for morale, even though they didn’t amount to much real damage. And the angels were able to make them run for their lives in a matter of minutes.
For the first ti today, a real smile appeared on her face, reaching her eyes.
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PoV: Yaci
This is bad.
That was the first thing that ca to Yaci’s mind the mont she saw the otherworldly beautiful girl locking in on her.
"Retreat!"
She shouted imdiately, prompting the twink guy who was responsible for opening and closing portals in her squad to start chanting the aria.
He was a nervous guy who still struggled with chantless spellcasting when under pressure. And, this ti, those seconds lost proved to be fatal.
Before he could finish chanting, a spear made of rock rose from the ground and pierced him.
"I’ll buy ti. You all, just flee!"
Shouting her order, Yaci grippedd her spear even harder and braced herself for the fight that was about to start against the angel.
The guy responsible for the travel wasn’t the only one capable of using spatial magic in the group. There were two other ones, who also started casting their spells.
They weren’t able to finish them, though. The ground started to tremble, throwing them around.
"You insects! You will pay the price for angering my master!"
Her voice and her expression conveyed a deep feeling of hatred and a strong resolution.
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