Chapter 459: Beast Wave

As soon as they reached the top of the building, Song Xue immediately took a look at their current situation.

"Yeah. It’s really coming. I might never see a ruin forming with my own eyes, but when beasts enter the ruin, the damage they sustain is not as big as the damage on a human’s body. In other words, those beasts aren’t going to die." Song Xue squinted.

"I’m going to kill some of them a bit and scatter them so we won’t be overwhelmed. In the worst-case scenario, we will be surrounded completely. We need to either hold out long enough for reinforcements or find the exit." Song Xue looked at Auric, wondering if he could find the exit.

Auric couldn’t locate the exit even with his eyes. He had to go around the city first, but it wouldn’t work because the beasts would enter the city in under thirty seconds. In other words, the best way to proceed would be to wait for reinforcements.

Of course, in the worst-case scenario, he could use his chaos element to force open a path in the barrier. They would be safe. The secret wouldn’t be useful if he died anyway.

But it hadn’t reached that point yet, so it was better to focus on defending the area first.

Song Xue dropped her bag and took out a grenade launcher.

"Oh?!" Auric was startled, not realizing there were actually other weapons in her bag.

"Well, bombardment." Song Xue nodded with a serious expression. She aimed it upward and fired a couple of rounds.

The magic bullets flew like artillery shells. The beasts noticed it and tried to form barriers or shields using their respective powers, but most of them were still Rank 1 or Rank 2 beasts.

The moment the bullets hit, a series of explosions occurred, blasting dozens of beasts.

Obviously, the beasts wouldn’t let Song Xue have that kind of advantage.

They also launched a volley of attacks toward Song Xue.

Auric frowned, ready to utilize his power. However, Song Xue casually walked to the edge of the building and dropped her grenade launcher. She aimed her assault rifle this time.

She started firing her bullets and shot down the incoming attackers one by one. More importantly, she formed even more magic bullets outside her gun and fired them at the same time.

Song Xue focused on her gun so that it could accurately hit the incoming attacks while spreading the magic bullets to hit as many attacks as possible. This way, she could sweep the rest with her gun.

From almost a hundred attacks launched at her, not a single one actually reached her position.

Even Auric didn’t expect that Song Xue could actually do all this effortlessly.

Song Xue just looked at Auric and asked, "What are you still doing here?"

"You are right." Auric was simply too surprised. It was no wonder Katarina thought Song Xue was superior.

Both her aim and the way she used her bullets were simply too exquisite. She hadn’t even used her transformation or manifestation.

On the left side, Mathias looked at the incoming beasts while sighing. "This grandson-in-law of mine is really ridiculous. What’s next? Is he going to make a few ruins when he proposes to my granddaughter?"

"Well, I can think about that later. I really need to bring all the strong beasts to my side so that those youngsters can handle the rest."

Mathias closed his eyes for a few seconds before tapping the ground with his stick.

A flame burst out of the tip of his stick and spread in all directions. The blazing flame was radiating intense heat, but it didn’t melt anything, showing how skilled his control was.

With such enormous power, the beasts would have realized that someone strong was here, and they would have had no choice but to kill him first, or he would flank them.

Mathias narrowed his eyes. "When you think you’ve seen it all..."

As he expected, even a Rank 6 beast couldn’t stop itself from investigating the burst of energy.

"I guess I have found my opponent."

...

On the other side, Stella stood in the middle of the street while holding her spear. She hadn’t seen any beasts yet, but she could hear them approaching.

"How long do we need to hold out? Since it’s about Song Xue, one of the seven rising stars, I guess they’re going to be pretty desperate to send out the reinforcements. In that case, survival is the highest priority.

"Considering the elites that will come, I guess twenty to thirty minutes?" Stella took a deep breath.

When she started seeing beasts flooding the street, her avatar materialized a spear of her own.

The avatar then landed on the ground and stood next to Stella. This was the avatar transformation she got from reaching Rank 5.

Both of them raised their spears, ready to face so many beasts by themselves.

Maya was taking the frontal assault. Her black coat formed on her back as she snapped her fingers.

The silhouette ripped through the air and emerged from the void, holding a massive scythe.

Maya stood on top of the scythe while observing the enemy’s movements. As soon as the beasts came close enough, Maya raised both hands as the dark energy enveloped her arms and turned them into demonic arms.

...

Auric had regrouped with Katarina.

Katarina pointed at Stella. "I should support Stella. While you can release a bigger output, I’m more stable. Stella will need me more than you. Meanwhile, you should help Maya."

"I guess so. Song Xue will kill them one by one while we’re stopping them," Auric agreed. This was his original plan.

"It looks like there are a few hundred beasts coming to us, but I doubt this is everything." Katarina frowned.

"Most likely, there will be a second or third wave. We have to hold out until the reinforcements arrive. I’ll force open the barrier with my chaos element if we get cornered."

"All right. You really need to stop being impulsive."

"Someone wise once said, you live only once. Do something you want. It’s better to regret something you did than to regret something you didn’t do."

"Who corrupted you?" Katarina raised an eyebrow.

Auric smiled. "Well, I know what kind of business I can give you. A magic item. I will incorporate both my own creation, the flying equipment, the ruins, the artifacts, and my space and time elements this time."

"My bonus?"

"Yeah. If I do it right, I might be able to create a magic item that will allow you to use Space Storage." Auric grinned. "And it won’t be just a one-time-used magic item."

Katarina narrowed her eyes. If that was really going to work, that magic item would become priceless. She didn’t expect much regarding the size, but the function itself had unprecedented significance.

After all, she could store some first aid supplies or other things that could sustain her life in an emergency, not to mention that it could store explosives or other more dangerous things like a body if used in a different way.

"Fine. I’m going to work extremely hard for that kind of bonus." Katarina nodded with a serious expression.

"Then, shall we begin?" Auric smiled.

Both of them turned around and used their own abilities. They aimed at the beasts first and started bombarding them.

Maya sliced through the beasts with her claws, preventing them from attacking her. While she wasn’t in the military, she was quite used to fighting like this.

She would move so fast and rely heavily on her body that she would end up facing only one opponent at a time despite being surrounded.

Yes, in this situation, rather than fighting two to three hundred beasts at a time, she was actually fighting one beast two to three hundred times.

Meanwhile, her avatar continued to move around and kill a few beasts at a time, giving her a small escape route in case she made a wrong move. Of course, the beasts had an easier time fighting the avatar than fighting Maya, but that was why Maya poured most of her energy into her avatar.

It became a punching bag so that the beasts wouldn’t even think of approaching Auric.

Auric’s bombardment followed shortly afterward, killing a lot of beasts at once. At the same time, Song Xue also shot many beasts in succession. Her task was to not only thin down the enemy but also to snipe all the beasts that tried to ambush the fighters.

Stella and her Valkyrie avatar were facing the beasts in another way. They simply overwhelmed them like they were dancing on the battlefield.

...

While they were resisting the beasts, Song Wenling received the call and traced it immediately.

Of course, he mobilized his own family squads, but there was one more thing he had to do.

"For you to visit me like this? Are you done with the list?" The Sword Saint asked.

Yes, he had to borrow the Sword Saint’s power.

Song Wenling looked at him with a grim expression. "We’ve got a situation. It looks like Song Xue encountered a ruin that had just formed."

"Naturally?"

Both of them fell silent. Even though they wanted to believe it that way, they knew the answer was different.

"I guess it’s that child." The Sword Saint nodded in understanding. "Auric Elfe. To think that a child who is not even twenty years old can do all this. I really need to reevaluate him. He’s not just a rising star."

"Yes, sir. I’ve mobilized my family to rescue them, but..."

"They won’t be fast enough. Your daughter won’t bother to call for assistance if it’s something she can handle. That means we need either Rank 6 or me."

"Yes, sir. I’d like to ask for your help."

"Well, Song Xue is my student, and my curiosity about this boy got the better of me. Let’s go!" The Sword Saint smiled.