The Guardian System: The strongest Summoner's quest to save his family Chapter 406: The Last Stop (11)

The noise of the wall breaching was deafening. The palace groaned, and the stone shook under Reidar's boots as the walls gave way to the brute force of the monsters outside.

"Shit!"

If the walls got breached, then it ant Reidar didn't have much ti available.

Reidar crouched behind a shadow wall, watching Mara through the eyes of a Vorathid Sky-Hunter. She was bleeding now—not much, but enough that he could see the red liquid dripping from cuts on her arms and legs. The summons were landing hits. Not often, but they were landing them.

However, the problem wasn't Mara anymore; it was the palace.

Through the shared vision of his summons outside, Reidar saw the titans smashing through the outer walls. The Verdant Sovereign's roots were being torn apart. The Dreadmaws were barely holding the main entrance, and many Ignis were already inside the building despite everything the summons did.

Reidar checked the map in his mind. The ballroom was far from the breach, more or less two minutes away.

The situation was bad.

If the monsters got too close when the portal opened, they would be sucked through to Earth. A single level 600 titan would be enough to wipe out a country.

A pack of Elite Feral Ignis could slaughter thousands of people in minutes.

He couldn't stay here and fight them, not in this room, because the portal was his only way ho. If he ran now, he might lose his chance forever; Mara would either escape or die, and the circle might be destroyed in the fighting, which ant he would be stranded.

But it also looked like the portal was almost ready, so if he managed to stop the Ignis from reaching the room, maybe he could still cross it and prevent the monsters from reaching Earth.

The best move was to buy ti. He needed to stall the monsters long enough for the portal to finish activating. Then he had to kill Mara, cross through, and destroy the circle on this side before anything else could follow him.

His mana was full again. The constant regeneration from forty thousand summons kept his reserves topped up, even after the massive summoning spree. He could cast more.

He turned his attention to the ballroom first. Mara was still fighting his troops, teleporting through the shifting maze of shadows. She was fast, and she was strong, wounding his creatures with those black claws, but she wasn't killing them—she was just slippery.

He needed to change that. He needed to trap her.

The ballroom was massive, but it wasn't infinite, which ant that if he summoned full-sized Sky-Hunters, they would block each other out and make it impossible to move. Small Sky-Hunters, however, could weave between the shadow walls to swarm Mara from every angle and fill the room without blocking his own view.

Reidar activated a skill.

[Skill Activated: Summon Vorathid Sky-Hunter]

The insects materialized around him to fill the gaps between the shadow walls, yet instead of letting them grow to their usual size, Reidar ordered them to remain small—trading strength for speed—because the cramped ballroom could not fit hundreds of giants but could accommodate thousands of smaller summons.

As he summoned them by the hundreds, they spread through the room like a plague, filling the corridors, crawling across the ceiling, and hovering in dense clouds near every exit to ensure that no matter where Mara tried to blink, she would land in a swarm.

The woman noticed this and teleported away from a group of Spectral Swordsn to a clear section of the floor, but three of the smaller Sky-Hunters dove at her, and even when she vanished again, they adjusted their flight paths to track her movent.

She teleported. They followed. She teleported. They followed.

The constant teleportation was draining her mana. Her attacks were becoming wilder and less precise, and she was teleporting less and less. She was losing herself in ferality more and more.