The evacuation in the castle was currently ongoing. Since the gate on the north is locked, they use the rear gate to escape. But unfortunately, fortunate wasn't in their side. Outside that gate was full of dragons hiding in the darkness just waiting for their prey.
"What are we going to do Sir Albericht?" Leonel asked.
Albericht was just spacing out while trying to rack his brain and think of a solution.
'Normally Commander will be able to think this far ahead. But why he didn't say anything about this? Is it just because he didn't predict it this far? No, knowing him that's just impossible. But what? There has to be some kind of message he relayed to me.'
While Albericht was lost in thought, the fallen soldier's family came looking for their loved ones.
"Where's my Daughter! Why I can't find my daughter!" A man stood up. He was looking in the carriage carrying the injured and some of the soldiers' corpses. "Tell me! Where's my daughter?!
The man grabbed the hand of one of the soldiers guarding the carriage.
"Your daughter died on the battlefield. She fights till the end and fulfills her duty."
The man falls to the ground. His eyes darkened after hearing the news.
"Can I at least see her body?"
"If your daughter wasn't in the carriage then she might be one of the corpses we've dropped to replace with the injured."
The man went looking in the corpses to search for his daughter. But he didn't see her. Not just him but the others too.
The soldier turned his eyes away from the mourning families and scowled at the Fairies.
One of the fairies reacted but someone stopped him.
"Dragons! Dragons coming from North!"
"What!"
One soldier who was on a lookout shouted. The news got Albericht attention.
"Cadets! Showcase what you learned in the academy! Time for you to hunt some dragons!"
"Roger!"
With that, the fairies took off.
They started hunting down the dragons one by one. Not just them but also the mages in the castle also.
Not too long after the fighting started, two fairies was approaching them. They attack the dragons from behind. The first one incinerate them while the other was hitting them with lightning.
With their help the number of dragons was cut down.
They go down to see Albericht.
"Fiery, what happened to your arms?" Albericht asked.
"It got bitten by a dragon... Wait! What's going on here? Why aren't you evacuating?"
"There are dragons outside. We don't know their exact numbers and its too dark for us to fight them."
Fiery flew up to the wall.
Using his blessing, he sense the temperature to determine their position.
"Its so hot." He says.
But instead of flying away, Fiery was enjoying the temperature.
The heat was making his body steam.
"My body finally recovered! Now let's try it."
He closed his eyes.
Gerald and Albericht also climbed up the wall.
"So what did you find?" Gerald ask.
Fiery turn to them.
"Six near the gate. And there's a high temperature I'm picking up in the passage up ahead. Three at least." He said while pointing in the road.
"It looks like there goal was to trap us inside. But if there number wasn't that big it's safe to assume that we can slay all of them." Gerald said.
"No. The heat was the same as those dragons who bite my hand. If they can think as well just like those four we fought earlier. This is going to be a bad news for us. Specially with those numbers of dragon flying in the air."
"How about using portal spell?"
"Impossible. The mages was already consuming their mana while trying to defend against the dragon earlier. They don't have enough power to cast that spell. Besides even they have, there's no way someone have the capacity to transport this many people." Albericht said
They turn there eye's once again to the fairies and mages that's defending against the dragons..
The number of dragons was decreasing time by time but in return the fairies and mages are getting weaker and weaker.
"This is bad. The longer this fight goes on the weaker our allies will get." Gerald said.
"Yeah not to mention those reptiles over there was already making their move."
He pointed out the dragons outside that's slowly heading their way to the three.
"What if we break the wall in the south east and use the forest to escape. While we fairies will fight the dragons to protect them." Albericht suddenly blurted out.
The walls of the capital was thick but with the intermediate magic and the fairy dust its possible for them to break it.
"Hoy! what are you saying?! Do you have any idea how many soldiers we lost already! We've been fighting since we arrive in here! Do you expect we can still fight for long!"
"The exhausted fairies will go with the humans. If all of them are, then we three have to face all the dragons all by ourselves. Do you agree, Fiery?"
Fiery turn his eyes away.
"We just need to stall them right. How long are we gonna do that?" Fiery said.
"I don't exactly know. Maybe until Commander and Odette arrive."
"What! We'll place on our bet to them?! We don't even know if they can get away from that thing."
"He's right,that's a dragon kin emperor. It's probably impossible for any of them to just stay alive." Gerald butted in.
"We don't have any choice but to make our move. We don't know when those dragonsoutside will decide to attack and how long before that dragon kin emperor head this way."
The three of them fell in silence.
Some mages was already collapsing due to mana deficiency. But the number of dragons was still double than theirs.
There's only a couple mages left that still capable of casting an intermediate spell.
"Let's go. Staying here won't do us any good."
Albericht fly in the sky, to give his order to the new recruit.
While the two headed to the ground to help control the people.
The people started to walk to the South East side of the wall.
The fairies and mages work together to break the wall. Upon breaching it the evacuation once again started.
The three rays was the one fighting the dragons while the other fairies was focus on defending the people.
The numbers of the dragon remaining was still hard for them to handle. The mages was ordered to recover their mana first before fighting again.
"One dragon slipped!" Albericht shouted.
The dragon headed towards the aligning fairies. But a wall of fairy dust stop it before it could get its fang to one of them. At the back of the alignment was the fairies specialised in long range attack by forming there fairy dust into arrow.
"The formation was going well. "Gerald said.
"Yeah considering that there just new. However we still don't know when are those dragons going to attack us."
"How long are we stalling them!" Fiery shouted.
"Until dawn, if possible. You also need to keep on monitoring those nine there." Albericht answered.
"I can fight and keep tabs of them but how long it is until dawn?"
"I think about an hour."
They keep on fighting the dragon around as they talk with each other.
They're now in the middle of the forest. As the fairies was fighting in the sky, noises can be heard below.
Monsters in the forest started on attacking them.
"What's the matter?!" Albericht go down.
"Monsters are attacking us! They're coming from any direction!" Leonel answered.
Albericht clench his jaw.
"Tch. Soldiers come down—"
"No need Sir Albericht! We can handle this ourselves."
A gleam appeared on his eyes.
"HAAAAAH!" He shouted as he draw his sword upwards.
A brilliant light covered his body. The soldiers around him yell as well. The same light shines through them.
All of them charge into the monsters without a single trace of hesitation.
"The Dragons are moving!" Fiery shouted.
The fairies in the alignmentstrengthen there posture. While those in the back was preparing their arrows.
They'refacing on the directionwhere those dragons are.
The two was focused on fighting the dragons that had been drastically reduced.
As they continue fighting, Gerald's eyes caught a glimpse on the shaking trees that's leaving a trail in the ground.
"In the ground, they're coming!"
As he said that the fairies turn there eyes on the ground but its too late. Two dragons bite off the body of two fairies in the back.
Out of rage some of the Fairies attacked on their own. But the dragon immediately retreat.
While the seven dragons rampage in the ground.
Some soldiers tried to defend but they just deliver there body to the dragons as food.
The humans carrying the injured left their stretchers and run.
Upon seeing the panic of the people. Albericht whose only observing stepped in.
"All of you run away! Stay out of my field of vision!"
Upon hearing this the soldiers run away.
Albericht remove the eyepatch in his eyes. After doing this all of the things in his field of vision turn into stone. That includes the three dragon, the ground and the trees, even the misfortunate soldiers.
Albrecht's blessing was too strong but he can only use it three times a day not to mention its too dangerous to use. That's why he rarely use it.
The dragon who saw this run towards the trees for a moment but return to attack on the front where there's many people.
But unfortunately for them the light in the body of the soldiers was shining brightly than before. Indicating that fear and hesitation wasn't in their vocabulary anymore.
They dive into the body of the dragon and hold to it tightly while piercing its body with their swords.
Normally, swords won't work against dragons tough scales. But Guerrero family's warriors brilliance didn't just inspire comrades but weapons as well.
The dragon keep on wiggling to shake the soldiers off.
Some of the dragons try to remove the soldiers in the body of their brethren but by that time the dragon lost its strength and die.
The dragon who tried to help, roar ferociously. Using its tail whip off the soldiers. The dragon tried to breath fire but the soldiers jump to its body.
The dragon fly, some of the soldiers fell off from its body but those who didn't fell keep on thrusting there sword to its body.
The dragons body fell down along with the soldiers riding it. Those who survived the fall stand on top of the dragon. Then glare to the two remaining, upon seeing the faces of the soldiers the dragon fall back.
The fairies earlier successfully defeated the twodragons. But by doing so, three dragons slip through them and headed towards Albericht. He was ready to blast the two.
But he didn't get a chance to do it since two vines bound its body. Odette who just arrived at the scene make her action.
She swing the first dragon and slam it to the ground. She pulled the second one towards her. Her right hand return to normal. With a sharp glares, she use it to fill the dragon's mouth with fairy dust and blast it inside.
The dragon fell down but Odette keep on moving.
"Odette why are you here? Where's Commander Alvino?" Albericht asked.
Odette ignored him and continue flying. Its clear that Odette's out of mana since she can't fly straight.
Upon arriving where the humans are. She's turning her head left and right then she stop upon seeing the mages whose treating the wounded soldiers.
She quickly move her feet to that direction.
"Can you recover my mana?" She asked.
The mage nodded.
"Recover my mana! Fast!"
The mage stated to cast a spell to transfer his mana to her.
"Odette!What's happening?"
Odette still didn't answer him.
The mage weakened and fall.
"Thank you. Don't worry your efforts will not be wasted."
Albericht whom she keepson ignoring, step in.
"Hoy—"
"Order the fairies to fall back! You! tell your commander to order the people to gatherin the same area!"
She ordered to Albericht and the soldier nearby.
"Why the hell are we gonna do that?"
"Shut up and just do it! Its your new commanders order!"
Upon hearing this, a wrinkled brow appeared on his face.
"What are you saying? Your not making any sense right now! He said with a raised voice.
"Hurry up!"
Albericht grind his teeth.
"Damn it!"
Then he headed towards the fairies.
Meanwhile even after ordering by the commander and the king himself. Some people still continue on walking.
"Like we believe in you!"
"You demons!"
"You sent our children to death do you think we'll still believe what will you said."
Some of the parents of those soldiers who fought with the dragons and witnessed how their lovedones were all killed. Refused to believe them.
But the trees in their path and everything around them started to grow trapping them like a cage, while the fairies fly rapidly to enter the trees. Leaving all the dragons outside. Only the light of the torches, the fluttering wings of the fairies and the green light coming from Odette was shining in the dark cage.
"What the hell are you doing!"
"Let us out!"
The people protested. The noise of the humans voices was all over the place. But Odette didn't mind it, she's just in the air not doing anything but to stare blankly.
A moment later outside the cage a bright light illuminated the dark surroundings with a strong gust shaking the trees encircling them. The light's warmth can be feel inside the cage comforting the raging people and their broken hearts.
But this light feels different for the fairies.For a while, non of them are able to move. Their eyes didn't blink as they're looking through the gaps of the trees.
As the rays of this light touches their skin. Their shoulder began on quacking suppressing the sadness they're feeling.
Fiery who also feels the same grittedhis teeth and approaches Odette.
"Hoy! Old hag! What the hell—"
He approached her furiously but his anger vanished after seeing Odette's tears overflowing in her eyes while she's crying like a child.