The Tales of Draconic Warlock

(Magnus's PoV)

Once the monsters were spotted, everyone got into positions. Since I am a warlock and that means a long-range attacker, my position was on the wall, from where I would attack the monsters. There was no need for me to go face-to-face with them at this point, that would be for later.

"Long range, attack now", the commander ordered us.

Once the command was out, thousands of magic skills lightened up the sky. There are also arrows from the archers but in the presence of spells, they are almost invisible.

I too started my attack. In order to not attract too much attention from others and also from the monsters, I kept to basic skills, not my AOE attack skills. Attracting the attention of either party is not good, and with the smaller number of human defenders at this point, it is easy to discern who attacked who.

I hope others will be here quickly. Even with my high number in the attributes section, I could be easily overwhelmed by numbers. For me to use my skills without attracting anyone's attention was to use the skills when no one would be able to discern whose attack landed where.

The Monster Tide is a walking EXP packet that was delivered and I need to make the most of it. If I had dungeons, I wouldn't need to worry about these things but I don't. So I have to make do so with what I get.

If I miss out on this, there would be no way for me to find some high-level dungeon that I could visit every now and then, without raising suspicions from anyone. It would be absolutely impossible, at least not at my rank and skill level.

If I had stealth-type skills and that too at level 70 or above while I am at least Tier-7 rank, then maybe I could fool others but reaching such a height is not easy to do so.

So, a chance like this can't be wasted no matter what. I need to make the best of it.
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I attacked only Tier-3 monsters and below. Even though I am only Tier-2 to others, it was not uncommon to cross-kill at that rank. So no one was surprised when I started to kill Tier-3 monsters. I also made sure that I didn't cross that rank. I never went for Tier-4 or above monsters as that would attract too much attention.

As time went on, I was sure that no one would be paying attention, so I increased my attack frequency. I made sure that no one would be able to discern about that.

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It was not just me but everyone was killing faster than they usually do. They had no other choice. The defences were laid down based on how many troops would be fighting the monsters at the same time. Now the number is not there and so we had to halt their movements as much as we could.

Everyone increased their attack frequency and I did too.

The monsters started to cross the first defence line. There are only three defence lines before they can enter the town. The wall where I am standing is the third and final defence line for the town.

Slowly, these monsters completely broke the first defence line. A lot of adventurers and others who came to help fell. It was very bad.

Though I know that the monsters consume everything to improve their strength, this is my first time seeing them eating humans.

Puke!!!

I couldn't hold myself and puked my breakfast. The puke was in front of me and the smell and sight of that didn't help me much. Already the visuals of human internals and monsters eating are making my mind fuzzy and now my own puke which was the result of that scenario is making it worse.

Luckily, a few spaces beside me are vacant, as not everyone has arrived to take their places. I immediately changed my place. Well, this long into the battle, no one would care about their place anymore.

Where are those bastards?

There were sirens when the monsters were spotted from the top of the wall. The battle with these monsters has started and is ongoing for a few minutes which should have been more than enough for those sleeping to get ready and get their asses here.

What's holding them back?

Wait did any traitors appear or any underground monsters dug through the ground and entered the town?

Only these two scenarios should be the reasons that held them back from coming to the front line. If those are not the reasons, then...I don't know what I should do with them.

I mean, a lot of the warriors who took positions in the first line of defence are dead. If they don't appear soon, the second and probably the third line will fall as well.

Then even if we win, the losses would be too much to consider it as a win.

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A few minutes later...

Luckily for us, before too many deaths happened, others who were resting appeared at the defence line stopping the monster's movement.

If it had broken, then the monsters would have appeared near the wall and that means we would have become the prey for them. Once we fell, it would have been the turn of the town and the troops that were still inside.

That didn't happen. They were stopped before they broke the defence once and for all.

I mean, many would have been shivering especially the ones on the wall, whose speciality is long-range warfare, not close-range combat. Once the enemies close the distance, that would mean the end of them. This is why I learned how to fight at close range.

Though I learned close-range combat, my true power was still in long range and that means, it's best for me that those monsters stay at a distance from me, rather than near me.

Though I kept my distance, I have a feeling that I might fight them in close range soon.