As I sent the students away from the gate, I tried to use my eyes to see the movement of our enemies, even though my vision is hampered by the energy the fort still has within its structure I can still see the shadows of the auras and mana of my enemies. They are gathering near the gate, but the reason they haven't started attacking the gate yet is that a good part of their warriors is still breaking free of the earth that held them back.
More as most of them were already leaving the earth I believe we only took a few minutes to be able to get away from the fort and escape this matrix, but I decided to change this plan because of the amount of damage our enemies had, the combat power of them has been reduced by a much larger amount than I expected or thought possible, if they fall into the next trap, I believe our chance of coming out victorious is high, so I believe it would be a very big waste to let that chance pass.
Even with the healer mage who is on Flora's side healing several wounded warriors and mages the combat ability of the elves group still drastically decreased, the life element mage's mana is not enough to heal all the injured immediately, he is too more effective if I had a lot more time to treat the wounded, but in mine from a battle like this it barely heals a dozen people, the faster it heals the more mana and elemental energy is wasted.
I let my team to stand just one pole away from the fort wall, we set up a formation in a line. The shield warriors in the front, then the offensive warriors and finally the archers and mages, a simple formation for a complicated battle.
I could see several shadows approaching the gate and climbing the fort wall, when the scouts saw our formation from the top of the wall, they immediately went to shape their leaders. It didn't take long for Flora and Caliban to appear at the top of the wall to confirm our position, obviously they were surprised by our strategy, but unfortunately their mental state is impaired, around Flora's head I see a subtle distortion caused by a very elemental energy. hard to detect, but with its magnification it became visible to me.
Flora is under the effect of an illusion element, if a Flora ravaged by rage wasn't something a little terrifying, I would find this situation very funny. It wasn't so long ago when she tried to use the element of illusion against us, only to fall under someone else's influence a few minutes later.
I'm just not sure of the source of this illusion element, it could be coming from the matrix or from another student, but I find it extremely difficult to discover the origin of this illusion element, the examiners may not have much reason to do this with Flora, but the director may have, making Flora unstable can be a great source of amusement for the director.
But if the source is another student, it means that Soran is not exactly a simple traitor, he could be there as a saboteur and it will help our victory or he could simply be an even bigger traitor. Just as he betrayed the alliance, he is betraying the elves so that our two sides will weaken themselves by fighting each other, so that he can then use his men and maybe even Noel to gain the final victory in this test.
Soran can be a complicated enemy, if he is the source of this manipulation, it means he has a lot of patience and a very creative mind to create complicated schemes. I prefer not to screw with people like that because they can have two ways of reaction, they will get revenge later and as they are people with great patience the later of them can be several years or decades later, and the rarest reaction is that he just accepts defeat and don't hold a grudge.
But back to Flora who unleashed some white fire boas against us just to release her anger, I can barely hear her orders from this distance, but where I can understand she wants to attack us immediately and by the pattern of movement I can to see, the mages seem to be climbing the wall and the warriors are heading for the gate.
It seems that she wants to reverse the roles that we started the combat, it seems that Flora wants to use the advantage of the wall to attack us at a safe distance while the warriors attack us, this is a very stupid strategy as if we run away the warriors will leave the protection of the mages chase us if we back off, but I have different plans.
When the proton has been opened by the two mages who have the earth element on Flora's side the warriors pass through the gate. I activate the rune array I have in my hand with my aura, immediately after my aura activates the array a frequency and released from it detonating all the explosives in that fort wall.
With the explosions the entire wall began to crumble, the earth element mages who were at the gate didn't have time to stop the wall from collapsing, they barely had time to protect themselves and try to save the warriors near them. The cave-in completely buried the elves' troops, even the mages were not spared.
Having the ground under them plummet caught the wizards and arches in surprise, even the quickest ones who could conjure a defensive shield or leap away, but seeing nowhere to run, the wizards and warriors fell on the warriors passing through the gate.
"Attack all warriors and mages that come out to the surface, they should still be able to fight back so be careful. Let's end this fight now!
I led the attack along with Hilda and Sindri, when we reached the remains of the wall some of the warriors that were farther from the wall were already coming out of the ground, their state was the way I wanted it. Not only are they hurt, their equipment is basically broken, their armor is missing several pieces, Ryas's black shower may have taken a while to take effect, but now that she's done damaging their equipment the advantage is completely ours. side.
The first warrior I attack tried to defend with his shield, as he still had one of his legs knee-deep in the ground and this prevented him from escaping. My flaming fist shattered the simple shield and hit the elf warrior's chest, my blow not only cracked his armor but also cracked some of his ribs, this elf won't get up anymore.
The first clashes ended up pretty much the same way as mine, the enemies weren't quite ready to fight coming out of the rubble, but it wasn't long before the warriors who were still able to fight appeared, a red and gold aura burst from the debris, but while the red aura still manifested as an uncontrolled flame the golden aura was less vigorous and brighter than before, this fight seems to be pushing Caliban to his physical and energy limit.
What worries me most is that I haven't yet seen Galelmar come out of the rubble or Flora, but the latter is a mage then and it's understandable that she has more difficulty getting out of the rubble even though she was on top of the wall when she collapsed. Sindri ran towards Caliban along with two more dwarf warriors, he really wants to be the one responsible for taking down Caliban.
I go towards Merilren with the help of Hilda and Vanessa I believe we might have a chance to hurt Merilren before more strong enemies show up. As I approached her, I was already attacked by her whip that released its red aura through her body, even though I was not hit by the aura I still felt discomfort when my aura and wind element energy served as a barrier in my body to protect me from red aura.
I didn't attack Merilren from the front, I went around her while she attacked me and this allowed me to have a much greater freedom to dodge Merilren's attacks who was surprised by my movements. She was expecting me to attack her directly, but that's the job of Hilda and Vanessa who are already unleashing aura and elemental energy attacks against Merilren.
Seeing that I was unarmed Merilren turned to protect herself from the icy onslaught and the onslaught of purple lightning, and this allowed me to approach her while she was defending herself from Hilda and Vanessa. Merilren may have the advantage because of her superior weapon, but the power of Hilda and Vanessa's attacks weren't much inferior to hers, fighting them both at the same time Merilren couldn't even get an advantage and when I approached her, she needed me. attack as well and this allowed Vanessa and Hilda to close the distance.
It didn't take much more than three rounds of attacks for Merilren to be completely surrounded by the three of us, as the distance between us shortened the use of her whip became more complicated and less effective. Merilren wrapped the whip around her left arm and drew the sword with her right hand, she gave up attacking with her whip but the red aura it released now covered Merilren's body like a red mist.
Just getting close to that aura made me feel like my skin was being burned, but I only felt the pain and not the heat of that burning sensation. This weapon is really cruel, but her aura consumption is accelerating when she fights the three of us.
A blade formed by a concentration of lightning and aura comes from Vanessa's attack which is blocked by Merilren's sword, her left arm having to block Hilda's charge. Merilren blocked the spear with his gauntlet and the whip that was coiled, but from the pained face on the three of them I could see they were in even combat.
I took this opportunity and fired a lasso of wind and fire, I used a single move that was taught to me by captain Raven, this move consists of an explosive attack of aura and elemental energy, but this is a very risky attack because it's me hit a very hard enemy I'll have my arm shattered by the package.
More to my luck Merilren's armor was damaged and his aura was focused on Hilda and Vanessa's attacks, this allowed me to land my blow without suffering too much damage, my bones must have cracked slightly and I'm feeling an extraordinary pain because of my bruises and the red aura that's hitting me, but I managed to seriously injure Merilren and interrupt her defense.
Before she could lift Merilren she was hit in the chest and head by Hilda and Vanessa, even though they didn't use the blades of their weapons the blows were strong enough to knock Merilren down. I just hope she didn't take too much damage, taking a blow to her head is always very dangerous.
When Merilren passed out her red aura dissipated, but before we had a moment to breathe the pile of rubble was destroyed by the earth element mages and Flora. The three rescued the warriors who were still buried and the mages who were injured in the fall, their condition may be bad, but I don't doubt that Flora can still cause a lot of problems.