The Guardian System: The strongest Summoner's quest to save his family Chapter 282 282: The Siege (3)

[AT THE SA TI]

The Twin Boulderback Behemoths were slamming at the walls with relentless fury. Below their giant fists, the tal plating groaned.

Reidar stood on the ridge, watching the siege unfold.

Reidar's jaw tightened. He'd expected casualties. He'd planned for them. But watching it happen was different.

A Cinderheart Efreeti hovered above Viren, flas condensing into a Fireball. The sphere of white-hot fire streaked down, turning the air into a shimring haze.

Viren didn't dodge. He cast another one of his skills, and darkness wrapped around his body, absorbing the fire before it could connect. The flas vanished into the shadows like water into sand.

He retaliated imdiately with a skill that generated a crescent of black energy that tore through the air, bisecting the Efreeti. The elental exploded into sparks and dissolved.

< What did they feed this guy? I'm throwing an army at him, and he's treating it like a warm-up!>

Vorathid Foragers sward toward him, mandibles clicking. He expanded his control over the shadows. Constructs of solidified darkness impaled the insects before they could reach him.

"Let's send the titans then."

Three Twin Boulderbacks turned their attention toward the Deacon on Reidar's instructions.

One of the stone giants raised its foot to crush Viren. The Deacon looked up. He didn't block; instead; he cast Shadow Bind, summoning tendrils of darkness that wrapped around the Boulderback's legs until the stone cracked.

Viren clenched his fist, shattering the giant's legs, and as the Titan toppled, he jumped onto its back to collapse its head with a single touch of Implode.

Reidar felt the mana cost had hit him, and although his regeneration perks refilled his pool, the ntal strain of managing thousands of units caused a dull headache.

Viren stood on the corpse of the Titan and looked up at the ridge, locking eyes with Reidar. Reidar felt the cold weight of the Deacon's gaze, realizing Viren knew the summons wouldn't stop unless the summoner died.

Viren moved through the battlefield like a reaper. Every gesture harvested lives. Spectral Swordsn charged him. He cast Shadow Wave. A pulse of darkness cleared a hundred-ter circle, dissolving everything within its radius.

The space filled again within five seconds. More skeletons. More Shadow Guardians. More wolves and bears from the Feral Packs. More of everything.

The Deacon's body dissolved into shadows. He reappeared fifty ters closer to the ridge, cutting through the distance in an instant.

Reidar didn't move. He kept his position, watching Viren advance.

He could summon a raven to fly away and kite the enemy, but he chose to stay on the ground. Looking toward the main gate where Lena and Jake were moving into position, he knew that if he ran, Viren might return to defend the base and kill them.

"Co on," Reidar said. "Co and get ."

He needed to draw Viren away from the walls, so he sent a ntal command to the Titans near the periter to keep hitting the gate, making it look like his priority was still the breach.

But three more Twin Boulderbacks converged on Viren's position, while others ford a wall of stone between Viren and the ridge where Reidar was.

The man cast another crescent blade of black energy that tore through the first Behemoth's arm, severing it at the shoulder. The giant staggered but didn't fall.

Another Behemoth swung its fist. Viren shadow-hopped, reappearing behind it and destroying it easily.

The man vanished and reappeared a hundred ters closer, halfway up the slope, where he blasted a Bark Behemoth apart. Reidar didn't flinch, but internally he was shitting his pants. This guy was strong.

Reidar glanced toward the walls. Four Twin Boulderbacks were still hamring the compound. The defenders scread and tried to fight back, but the Titans crushed them.