NOVEL NEXT Chapter 37: (2)
They continued to attack the soldiers as if nothing had happened. However, their numbers were small, so the damage they caused was minimal.
“…It’s beyond my expectations.”
Indeed, it was an item from the player’s shop that never disappointed the buyer!
For just 40G, it had an incredible effect of gathering so many aerial monsters in one place.
“But… now what?”
It was good that he managed to remove the monsters from the position in a hurry, but the problem was that he hadn’t thought of a plan beyond that.
If he didn’t come up with something, the monsters would return to the position the moment the doll’s functionality declined. In that case, the soldiers would suffer the same amount of damage, albeit slightly delayed.
“Ha… It’s amazing to see those monsters gathered in one place. If I had known, I would have stationed battle mages at Panielun.”
The old knight, who had quietly walked out of the protrusion and stood beside me, sighed regretfully as he watched the scene.
As he said, there were no mages in Panielun. Well, they did exist, but unlike Gami-an, they didn’t participate in battles.
Their main mission was to infuse mana into the underground magic circles to activate spells.
“There’s no way to deal with them all at once, right?”
Upon hearing the old knight’s words, it felt quite regrettable that powerful magic like the flames being used there couldn’t be easily unleashed to easily eliminate the aerial monsters.
“I guess not. I don’t know why they suddenly started acting like this, but the problem is how long they’ll keep doing it.”
“I don’t know either.”
It was a funny situation even for Kaiyan, the one who bought the toy.
The player system wasn’t so kind as to provide detailed explanations.
“Well… huh? Huh?!”
Just as he was about to retort to the old knight’s remark, the mass of monsters, which had been floating like a ball in the high sky, started descending rapidly.
The problem was that their descent speed was remarkably fast.
“Ah, hurry, go inside!”
“The monsters are gathering and coming down! Quickly, get inside!”
The soldiers who had been watching the scene hurriedly went back inside the cave.
They realized that being caught in that mass of monsters meant instant death.
“Are those monster idiots?”
Whooooosh!
“Kiiiaaah!”
“Kruwaaaah!”
The mass of monsters that had been descending rapidly had suddenly arrived right above the 12th defense position.
One peculiar thing was that the monsters were descending towards the protrusion, the cliff of the 12th defense position. If they continued like this, they would collide with the protrusion.
“They’re going to collide, aren’t they?”
Whooooosh!
Quaang! Quaang!
Ding! [You have leveled up]
Ding! [You have leveled up]
“….”
“What on earth is happening? Are those guys really insane?”
“No, did they drink something? Like alcohol?”
The protrusion vanished in an instant.
In that moment of realization, the monsters collided with the cliff, causing the protrusion, unable to withstand their weight and impact, to crumble away. And with it, the level-up notification rang twice.
Leveling up was undoubtedly a joyful event, but in this sudden situation, Kaiyan couldn’t even react.
‘What did I do to make my level increase?’
Kuuuuuung!
“Ugh! The ground is shaking!”
“Everyone, hold on tight!”
Tremendous noise. And a tremendous vibration that shook the entire fortress.
Ironically, the mass of monsters that broke the protrusion descended straight onto the ground.
Ding! [You have leveled up]
Ding! [You have leveled up]
…
Ding! [You have leveled up]
Ding! [Your Aura (D) rank has been upgraded to Aura (C)]
Ding! [Aura [C]: By consuming Aura, you can further enhance your physical abilities by 50%]
Endless level-up notifications rang out.
Since awakening as a player, this was the fastest leveling speed Kaiyan had experienced so far. No, it couldn’t even be compared. Adding up the first two level-ups, it felt like his level had increased by at least 20 all at once.
And on top of that, there was the eagerly anticipated promotion in Aura. The amount of Aura felt in his body had instantly more than doubled.
“…What on earth is happening? No, what did I do to make my level go up?”
Rather, as my level increased too much, uneasiness crept into his heart.
Normally, you would be proud and delighted when your level went up because of something you accomplished. But this time, there was truly nothing he had done. All Kaiyan did was shoot a low-grade toy into the sky.
“No way, could it be because of the toy? Ugh… That can’t be right.”
“Wow… What on earth happened? Why did the monsters crash to the ground like that?”
“It seems like a lot of them died, huh? Most of the survivors also seem to be injured.”
As they hurriedly approached the broken protrusion, the situation on the ground below was in chaos.
The solid stone floor beneath us had been deeply dented from the impact of their collision. And scattered all around were puddles of what seemed to be blood, presumed to be the corpses of monsters.
Moreover, there seemed to be far more survivors than dead monsters, but even they were all screaming in pain, with injuries all over.
The only ones that seemed relatively unscathed were the Griffins, with their tough hides.
Whooshhh!
At that moment, the war horns resounded throughout the Panielun Gorge. If it were the Gami-an Plains, it would be a signal to retreat. However…
“What does this signal mean?”
Panielun is a fortress. It doesn’t have a separate signal for retreat.
The meaning of the just-rung signal was a total attack. It was a command signal to all soldiers to attack the monsters. The commanders hurriedly conveyed the attack orders from the headquarters to the soldiers.
“It’s an attack! Attack all those stupid creatures!”
“Shoot! Kill them all!”
Pop, pop, pop, pop!
Hundreds of arrows were fired toward the ground at each position. The fortress had a total of 1,000 positions. That was tens of thousands of arrows.
And now, they were aimed at the monsters on the ground, not the ones flying in the sky.
The bow itself was the most powerful weapon when aimed and shot toward the ground. And now, there were tens of thousands of such arrows.
Pop, pop, pop, pop!
Whoosh! Thud! Puh!
“Kiiiaaah!”
“Kyaah!”
The monsters, in a hurry, tried to ascend into the air, but it didn’t seem easy for them to pierce through the barrage of arrows and rise.
Before they could flap their wings a few times, they transformed into hedgehogs.
Ding! [You have leveled up]
“…Why?”
Kaiyan froze in the midst of preparing to shoot arrows at the monsters.
He hadn’t even released the arrows yet, but suddenly, there was a level-up. Moreover, although he hadn’t confirmed it exactly, Kaiyan had experienced dozens of inexplicable level-ups.
If that was the case, it should have been difficult to further raise my level, but this insane speed of leveling up was just…
“What is this…”
Ding! [You have leveled up]
“…?”
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