The Tales of Draconic Warlock

The fall of Repest has begun.

The fall didn't just start now. It started hours before even the monster tide appeared near the town. Yeah, the first step of the fall was that the town didn't get the warning regarding the monster tide's move up in the invasion timeline.

The scouts failed to report back to the town. This made it easy for the monsters to catch the defenders with their pants down. Though once they were in the eye line from the top of the walls, and the town was alerted, it was already late enough for the monsters to take advantage of the situation.

The few readily available defenders made themselves into a makeshift defence to stop the monsters until the others joined them, but they couldn't hold on much. The first line of defence broke down easily, killing many of the defenders and injuring many more.

The injured were carried to the rear but even they were not ready. The good thing was that they knew not to trust the estimate and were prepared for an earlier attack of the monster tide. So preparations were done but the personnel were not at the positions.

So even if every preparation was done beforehand without the personnel, it became a hassle.

Other defenders and healers appeared but not before a lot of damage has already happened. Even then they fought with all their strength and started to push the monsters back. The healers worked till exhaustion to heal the injured fighters, making sure that they were ready to get back to the frontlines in no time.

Such hard work paid off.

The defenders were successful in pushing back the monsters back to the first defence line. Though most of the defences placed there were broken, it was still better to push the monsters to here, rather than fight near to the town, where it would be possible for the monsters to slip by and reach the walls.

If they reach the walls, there are no close-range combatants there, only long-range combatants. It would mean death to those defenders as they are usually weak at close-range battles.

From there it would be easy for them to breach the walls and reach the town.

Though most of the town residents were relocated, not all were. To make this battle successful, there are still people needed. So many common people are still there with many non-combatant awakeners. They would be worse than the defenders on the walls.

They most likely never killed a monster in their lives nor fought anything either. So once the monsters appear in the town, that would be a death sentence to the support staff in the town. There is no other outcome.

This is why, before the battle even began, the town was fortified in every possible way possible. Even the ground was fortified with concrete and other defence measures, so that no underground ground monster may find a route into the town bypassing the defenders.

The town and the support should have been safe with all that measures but they weren't.

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The underground monster burrowed tunnels from under the walls of the town. They knew that as long as the defences stood tall, the town would never fall.

To destroy these defences many steps were taken. The scouts were stopped before they could relay the information to the town catching them off-guard.

Even that was not enough. Though the defenders are absent, there were measures well prepared long before, making it difficult to destroy the defence.

With the sacrifice of thousands of monsters, the first line of defence was broken and only two were left but the defenders appeared before that could happen and pushed the monsters back to the first defence line.

This irked the high-ranking monsters to no end.

They ordered the worms to dig tunnels under the walls. They saw that the defences may still stand even after 90% of their forces fell. That is not a good outcome. If that happens, the high-rankers from the humans could easily deal with them.

Their deaths would happen for sure in that situation. That is something they can't let happen. They needed to break the defences before the scenario where the humans would get the advantage.

There is only one thing they could do and that is to get rid of the defenders on the walls. Find more to read at m_v l|e'm-p y r

Of all the defenders, those ones are the ones causing the maximum damage. The high-ranking monsters are intelligent enough to under what is happening.

They knew that the defenders on the walls were using magic in very high amounts, while the ones on the ground were not using that much magic. The defenders on the ground are physically strong but are weak in the magic category, while it is the opposite for the ones on the walls.

These high-ranking monsters have a lot of experience fighting other monsters and humans too. They can easily understand that for humans, there are not many who are both proficient in magic and at the same time have great physiques.

One or the other would be lacking for them. So to eliminate those magic users, the best way was to get close to them but the defenders on the ground won't let that happen. Those troops knew that once the magic users were down, then the entire defence would go up in flames.

So the best way to get to them is from the back.

The only way was through the underground. If any flying monster appears, the magic users would bring it down before they can approach them, because those are very much visible. Even though the flying monsters had a chance of reaching them, with their long-range magic attacks, the flying monsters were dropping dead easily.

They ordered the worms to dig tunnels for the monsters to enter the town, and attack those magic users from behind. There is no way that humans are prepared for such an occasion, and they are sure to fall quickly using a pincer attack.

Once the magic users are down, the defence won't stand for long. Victory would be soon theirs.