In a world shrouded in darkness illuminated by seven moons a man was staring into the night sky, he had four wings protruding out of his back they were made of obsidian feathers, his face was hidden from view but emanated a ghastly aura.
"My lord"
A vague humanoid silhouette appeared behind him, it was covered from head to toe in a dark fog.
"The King has ordered for you to return to the castle and prepare for the siege on the new world"
"New world?"
"Yes my lord, a new world has emerged in the terra realm, the king wants to assimilate this unclaimed land"
"Mhmm.... tell my father ill be there, now go"
"yes my lord"
the vague silhouette disappeared and the four winged man was left alone
"New world huh, interesting"
******
A group of seven people were gathered in a field, it was a local football field.
The gate will be opened here, which was quite fortunate since it will be easier to deal with the creatures in an open field, it would be way harder to deal with them if it was in a building or some other bad location.
The six people in the field were reading there weapon, these were the pro hunters that would be dealing with the gate today.
There were two guys in the frontline fighters, they wore light armor made of something that resembled chainmail and steel. one of them were using iron sword whereas the other was using a great axe.
There were three people in the rear, one was a male Archer that was readying his composite bow, curiously he had no quiver or arrows with him, the other two were females, one was just wearing a dress with a book that resembled a grimoire on her hands, the other was wearing a cloak that covered her entire body and she had a wooden staff on her hands, they were the sorcerer an healer of the party.
There in the front of the party a huge guy over 175cm tall with a muscular physique was observing the empty space in front of him.
He was wearing a Dim Silvery alloy armor from head to toe, his face was covered in a fearsome helmet.
He had a massive kite shield and a weapon that resembled a war pick.
His body was oozing a modest amount of aura that can be felt all the over where the students were safely observing from.
This was the presence of a Sentinel, we could feel the mana coursing through his body.
''That's some aura'' Chrome said "how many mana cores does one need to consume to get that amount of pressure"
As I was wondering what to reply to that question I heard a voice from behind
"That depends" Ayumi said as she was observing the soon to become battlefield
"A rank S Behemoth core can bring you from Dormant to a Sentinel, but it's likely that your body will disintegrate from the massive amount of mana pressure"
" So most people hunt beasts and monsters to slowly saturate their mana and grow to a higher class"
"It also depends on the rank of the monster and your own rank as higher ranks are more efficient in mana absorption..."
She noticed the perplexed gazes of Chrome and Kei and realized that she was rambling on,
"Ahem" Ayumi coughed while looking away avoiding the gaze of the two
"Hi Ayumi" Chrome said, "You also came to see them fight, I thought your dad took on his hunts"
" I'm far too young and inexperienced to join my father so I'm here gaining experience"
" By the way, your Clover old man's grandson right?"
".....oh, yes" Kei was startled he didn't expect Ayumi to know him
" Your Archery is similar to your Grandfather"
'wait she was watching me ' Kei seem to blush a little
"Your name was Kai right?, I've seen your grandpa he seems eccentric, my father always talks about him"
" It's Kei "
' damn it, she doesn't even know my name'
" Ya, Gramps can be a handful sometimes"
They talked some more and then she left them to go where the other girls were standing.
Chrome was looking at me with a smile
"Well hello there KAI"
He said with a suppressed laughter
"Haha very funny Chrome"
I was giving the the side eye glance
*****
We felt a tremble and a rush of mana energy flowing through the field. In front of the party, a fissure in space was slowly forming. At first, it grew slowly, then rapidly, until it reached nearly three meters in height. It looked as if someone had torn space with a huge knife. Curiously, we couldn't see what lay on the other side of the gate, as though it was obscured by some otherworldly power.
There was a roar and suddenly multiple creatures emerged from the gate, the party took a combat position with the Sentinel as the vanguard and the melee fighters on the flanks, the sorcerer and Archer took their position and readied their weapons the healer was on the rear ready to heal any injury her colleagues received.
The creatures stood around a meter tall, their four legs ending in sharp claws. Their bodies resembled lizards, but with long, serpent-like necks. When their maws opened, they revealed rows of incisor-like teeth and a snake-like tongue.
The first of these creatures lunged and the party of hunters their eyes filled with rage and madness. They used their sharp claws strike and their sharp teeth and long reaching necks to bite at the humans.
Before the creature made contact with the party a arrow made up of scarlet light pierced the creatures in it's open maw, the creature toppled over as it died in an instant.
Another creature was burnt to crisp by a ball of fire hurled at it.
The sorcerer and Archer bought down multiple creatures before the main force of countless lizard-serpent beasts collided with the melee warriors
The fight had begun....