The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Finally, it was done. The monster tide is over. I can finally return to the academy now, though that would take a few hours.

Truth to be said, it was not over but it was taken over the reinforcements that came to help us. Most of the defenders are already tired and are in no position to fight anymore, and that included me.

I may be strong but those damn monsters, would spring from unseen places, and that too without sensed by us before they are right in front of us.

I have no idea how they are doing that.

If they were like the assassins I can understand but the monsters that I faced don't belong to that category. How they are achieving this is a mystery, something that the higher-ups had to think about, not me.

For me, since the reinforcements have arrived, it's time to rest for a while.

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It took more than three hours before the battle was over.

After taking a rest for an hour, I had to join the battle again because even though the reinforcements came, they were not too many. It was said that two Tier-7 combatants came with the reinforcements but they were nowhere to be seen.

It's mostly likely to improve the morale of the troops. It's a nice tactic but they are deceiving these poor sods who thought that those Tier-7 would hold the monster tide back if anything disastrous happened.
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[Shadow Bolt]

I kept spamming Shadow Bolt, sometimes Shadow Bolt Volley and I didn't wear the war badge this time. I removed it after I was once again assigned to the frontline once my rest time was up. I saw how many kills I have and they are more than enough for me.

Though I lost a lot of points, I learned a lot.

Though I may be strong when considered at an individual range, I am not infallible. If the numbers are good enough then smashing me would be as simple as smashing an ant.

Moreover, I learned from this monster tide is that not everything you read is true. There are many things that you don't know to make assumptions about something.

There is always something to improve, and when you stop trying to improve is the day when you truly die.

This is not something I learned now. No, this is something I remembered after facing this tide. I always thought I was very good at perception, though with the meagre level, I never thought to be at the epitome but believed that I was good enough but I was proved wrong.

If I hadn't learned that now, one day that could become the death of me, that I was sure about. So I could never stop learning.

Anyway, since I am still young, I don't need to worry much about that. There is a lot of time for me to know all the things that were there to know.

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The battle ended when huge bombardment sounds were heard one after another, coming from the rear of the monster tide.

What could have happened?

I have no idea but once those bombardments stopped the monsters started to retreat. A few fought to the death but most monsters retreated from the battlefield.

The battle ended with a lot of deaths of both monsters and the humans.

If you think logically, no party won this battle but monsters don' work like that. For them, though they failed to destroy the town, causing this many human lives should be considered as a win.

Well, that is my opinion. Whether the kingdom would arrive at the same opinion as me or not, I don't know and frankly speaking my mind that is not my problem.

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"Everyone, the battle is over. Academy students can directly go to their academies and show their badges there to redeem rewards, while adventurers who are registered in the adventurer's guild can do that there. Others have to wait for some time as everything is a mess here and it would a few hours to get everything in order before we can start to distribute the rewards", the commander announced.

Once that was announced, I immediately left for Racher City, which is the nearest city to Repest.

I wonder what the situation with the city might be after what happened these days. The civilians are usually relocated to nearby cities during a crisis like this.

Since Racher City is the one nearest to Repest town, they had to bear most of the burden of receiving the refugees.

Usually, once the crisis was gone, most would choose to return to their homes. Not many would be comfortable to settle away from their homes. So they would choose to return to their lives, though destroyed, that would be where they would be comfortable.

Most would return as long as the crisis is not big but not all would return. These people would be usually who have no permanent lands there or whatever little riches they have are now gone.

Since they wouldn't gain anything by returning or have anything to return to, some would settle in the cities to where they are relocated temporarily.

These people would make the temporary settlements into permanent ones, causing the population of the city to increase. Usually adding a few to the cities wouldn't be much of a burden for a few days, but permanently is a totally different issue.

If those newly settled ones can't find jobs to earn a living, they would form a slum area, where everything would cost nothing but those areas are also where the crime rate would increase at an exponential rate.

This would become a problem for the city, so most cities wouldn't encourage refugees to settle in their cities but that doesn't mean, they would evict them either, unless they commit crimes.

The reason why no one would evict refugees was...well, I don't need to say why. If they do that, they will have a nightmare on their hands. So unless crimes were committed by them, they can't do anything.

So let's see how Racher city is faring, in one or two hours.