The Nine spears of ice were like meteors as they came falling down towards the city.
Each one of them ranged from 14 meters in width as for length the other end was still in the sky while the pointed end was several hundred miles above everything but gradually picking up speed from gravity.
There was a moment of silence and a sense of crisis that pervaded within the area.
Before finally...
Chaos!
No matter who they were soldiers, civilians, nobles.
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the fear of death made many reactions, from people simply giving up to those abandoning the very people they 'loved', some attempted to save their families, while the useless ones just ran.
But not all hope was lost as one woman wearing simple clothes under a stained apron carrying a greatsword would defend this city one because it was her duty, and two her skill will deactivate if she lets it get destroyed.
her name is Alicia and the name of her skill is called the 'immobile fortress' where as long as she stayed within a designated area her strength, ability, and other positive prospects would continuously grow, her aging process would stop upon activating her skill and would only resume upon deactivating it.
Wielding her weapon in hand, she crouched a bit before sending herself flying into the sky with a jump, releasing a swing of her greatsword that generated an Airblade that obliterated one of the ice spears, before doing another unbelievable feat as she took a deep breath then shouted.
"Not today!"
the people nearby were stunned by this including the bone fiends that were trying to kill whoever wasn't of their kind.
This gave the local adventurers a chance to cut down the number of these monsters while Alicia was heading to the nearest ice spear.
She used the flat side of her sword to smack the next large projectile that created a sonic boom as the air around her was pushed away because of this while the ice spear that she had hit as Alicia made a loud guttural grunt before the object she hit broke into pieces then went flying towards the other spears of ice breaking the majority of them.
while she may be strong, she wasn't going to do everything as the remaining ones headed towards two areas she was fine with it crashing into~
The first, that was knocked off course, crashed into the nearby sea as the ground shook upon its landing before a large frigid wave started heading towards the city, boats were destroyed, many drowned as they were the ones that attempted to escape via boat from the horde of monsters to which sealed their fate.
thanks to the spear of ice the wave gained the ability to freeze anything and anyone it touched which lead to countless fish and sea creatures turning into popsicles, the people who attempted to escape suffered the same fate.
many of the skill users within the ranks of the guards posted on the walls of where the waves were headed used their abilities to somehow save themselves from summoning blockages that broke easily to sacrificing their beasts that could be summoned.
A variety of elements struck the approaching wave but the majority of these skill users were former E to C ranked adventurers so even if there were hundreds of them it was a waste of energy to stop something that was made, albeit unintentional, spell from a champion that is an S ranked Adventurer.
As an example to compare it to imagine hundreds of mosquitoes drinking from an adrenaline-filled elephant~.
Oh yeah and not all of them are able to reach past the thick hide!
So their futile attempts only ever so SLIGHTLY delayed the inevitable!
They all started making their battle cries as they fuelled their abilities as best as they could before the wave finally crashed into the wall causing it to shake causing many of them unable to stand their ground as they fell to the ground.
Despair filled their minds as the walls started forming frost that was spreading slowly but gradually covering the whole side that they were at.
Many of them calmed down when the wave died down and receded back to the ocean but still reaching the area where the orcs and bone fiends killed each other in vicious manners leading to some of them turning into popsicles forcing both sides to move their fight to elsewhere.
but the people within the city were unable to relax as one more spear was still heading towards the city more specifically to the very center where all of the nobles hid away, except for one.
This noble was already familiar with how the woman thinks and he'd never stay in the same area where most idiotic nobles would pile together making them targets for a perfect chance of killing all of them in one go.
The spear of ice had numerous cracks thanks to the shards that Alicia had sent from another spear.
While it still caused the area to shake heavily as it crumbled to pieces the shockwave was enough to wipe the surrounding area clean of everything, buildings, people even the very ground as frost took control of the area!
Reducing everything to white dust that was akin to snow as the city lord was now included with the ranks of the dead.
Somewhat happy with clearing the city of a good number of fat leeches, Alicia returned to her tavern as the patrons that knew they wouldn't be able to do anything against the situation simply returned to drinking and partying as they ignored the occurrence happening outside.
Was this selfish of them?
yes, yes it was.
Can you blame them?
Not really as the majority of them were either farmers or merchants that had no skills, so if they were dumb enough to venture outside and try to 'help' it was only asking them to be put in a body bag or to join the ranks of the bone fiends.
So they made their choice that was logical and safer to follow through as their families resided within the tavern at least those that were either brave and smart enough to bribe Alicia into safeguarding them here.
An average-looking male figure wearing a cloak had appeared near the walls that faced where the Champions, Rukgar, and Mark were at.
As his flesh and bones creaked and turned before his face disappeared as a large maw formed, his nose disappeared, his eyes did as well, as a long spiked tail emerged from under the cloak, before he clenched his fist that popped and crackled then raised as he said in a bloodthirsty tone.
"I guess its time that I show myself to the little brother~ the BLOOD of the champions should help make him cooperate more easily~"
he swung his clenched fist slowly yet the effects of his race's skill quickly became prominent as everything within a hundred meters of him was turned into dust!
Before the deafening sound of something exploding was heard as every construction within a mile radius had cracked, and anything that was alive within the same radius whether they were in the sky or land they all fell to the ground.
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