" Monsters...What are these things?" An adventurer spoke as he witnessed the monsters wearing black armour running towards them.
Many physically strong adventurers tried to confront the monsters but their strength couldn't be compared to the Goliaths'. Long-distance attacks were not effective and physical attacks were not possible with how dangerous it was to get closer to them.
The monsters demolished building after building using thier monstrous strength. When everyone was busy fighting, an unexpected thing occurred. A shadow surrounded the area, it covered the surface below a Goliath's feet and sucked it inside. One by one all of them were sucked by that shadow.
" This is the power of the shadow...Madam Shiloh is helping us...She is one of the people who can save us." The adventures cheered as they finally saw some progress. There were still many of the monsters roaming around and the shadow was devouring them one by one.
On one of the huge towers of the town, a person in black armour with a Bident in the hand was analysing the situation.
[ My lady, The temple is surrounded by Black Dawn's Goliaths]One of her servants reported using a communicator.
Shiloh jumped off the building and using her shadow teleported from one place to another. From her, a black smoke-like aura was oozing out.
She had drank all of her mana recovery potion reserves to use the shadow-devouring skill which consumed all of her mana at once. She had dealt with more than a dozen of these monsters with the help of that skill and thus no longer had any mana.
" I will clear them out, is there anyone already confronting the enemy? Try to send a backup before it's too late" Shiloh asked. " Tell Manager Jin to come and assist as well..."
[ Understood]
' Is my strength alone enough for this fight?' She thought, ' I am sure that John is already fighting at the church, I need to hurry.'
She dashed as fast as possible with the Abyssal armour she had boosted her stats by 5 times and after getting the bident she had converted it to 10 times. She was unmatched when it came to physical prowess.
" Brother, I promised to protect the Luxor Town in your place, I will not let another demon destroy this town." She spoke.
She finally saw the church in her sight and increased her speed, several strong adventurers with thier parties were already gathered here and were dealing with Goliaths. The Goliaths were strong but the adventurers had experienced dealing with monsters way stronger than them when they are fighting together.
' There is no way the Luxor town would let them do whatever they want.' She smiled proudly as she thought that and moved faster to assist.
Shiloh could see that there were many reliable people here fighting to protect the town but she could not see John or Jin anywhere. Quickly she jumped to participate in fighting against one of the Goliaths that was more fierce looking than others.
She shadow-stepped over its head and thrusted the Bident into it, shattering it in one strike.
' I did not expect such a result.' She thought.
" It's Madam Shiloh...!" Others cheered when they saw her.
She quickly shadow-stepped on other monsters and did the same. The adventurers infiltrated the church, while Shiloh stayed behind to deal with the remaining Goliaths.
*****
" Hey...What did you do to John?" Oscar screamed, currently restrained by chains he was not able to take any action against the enemy but still struggled to fight back as much as possible.
The Leader of the Black Dawn was monitoring the summoning of the demon, in front of them, Oscar could see a huge magic circle that opened some kind of portal.
Oscar smelled the demons from the other end, he didn't know if it was even possible because the empire is protected by Sun God and it's very difficult to teleport from the Demonic region to here in the empire.
" Was the Black Dawn responsible for summoning the demons eight years ago?" Oscar asked, however, the man maintained silence. ' He keeps on watching that clock, it could be the item that brought John under his control.'
Oscar turned to look at John who had a blank expression on his face.
' Shit, even if I free myself, I will have to fight him after that... Come on John, Get a hold of yourself before it's too late!' Oscar was beyond frustrated.
He was also afraid that if Shiloh will find him in this situation then he wouldn't even be able to defend herself.
' ...Anyone but her, Come on Dave, you have to come to help us before Shiloh!' Oscar thought.
" Who is this Dave?" The man who had mind-controlled John spoke.
" Can you read my mind?" Oscar asked.
The man didn't reply to his answer and instead repeated the same question.
" Who is Dave? We have no mention of such a name. You were also not a part of our plan, now there is another unknown threat." The Man spoke with a contorted face.
" Pft, Dave is Dave...But yeah that boy is an unknown threat to your plan, he had already f*cked your people once before."
Oscar laughed realising that he didn't know much about Dave, he never asked him about his past and just knew that he was a transmigrator. He never tried to create a friendly bond with him as he had with other people in his guild and treated him like someone from whom he can reap some benefits.
And now, he was hoping that Dave, a person who he hadn't known for a long time will come and save him. Shouldn't he doubt that Dave would run away instead of risking his life?
'...No, as far as I had heard about him from Conan and Iris, that guy is crazy. He would rather fight than run. He is a little immature but he is just as crazy as Salem.' Oscar thought.