Chapter 85 - Questions

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

“Okay everyone, here’s the plan, I’ll use shared moment so that everyone can understand it easily.” Ken conjured countless white balls and sent each of them to everyone in the field including the lion soldiers, lava wolves, and the normal looking pack wolves.

Everyone stared at him wide eyed, as he smiled at his accomplishment, but this was not due to him thinking that he had passed his plan to every single ally around, but because he thought that everyone agrees and are dumbfounded with his plan, boy was he so wrong.

“Umm, Ken, is it okay for everyone to know of this?” asked Coralia.

“Yes auntie, I’ve already considered the weaknesses of this plan, and that is if it’ll ever be known by our enemies, not to worry, as I’ve manually inputted a defense mechanism of the plan to retract from the brains of anyone that will be possessed or held captive by the opposing factor.” said Ken.

Well that is not what we are concerned about, thought by everyone.

“Fair point.” replied Allen, as it may not have been their main concern for they were concerned how Ken was able to use his magic that much after using two grand ones, what would happen to Ken -or so Allen thought-, nevertheless Ken’s concern was viable in the battlefield.

“Mm *nod*, just help me keep busy that new arrival, and remember, to play around on everyone’s cooldowns, got it?” the group nodded, but they were confused.

“What’s a cooldown?” asked Celine, frankly this was their first time encountering such a word from Ken.

“Oh, pardon me, I didn’t explain it, that’s my short term for the time for a spell to activate, if you would scour the memory you can find a pattern that I have laid out for you guys to follow, or if you have any other thing that you can do, make sure to communicate it to everyone.” said Ken.

Ken’s plan, simple as it may, had only two important parts, one is for the regular fighters, or soldiers to reduce the numbers of the opponents armies while Ken’s group along with some other individuals assist Ken in taking down the demon vanguard, or the newly arrived opponent as Ken had deemed.

“Does that answer your questions?” Ken asked.

“It doesn’t.” the group chuckled at Glen’s bluntness, except for others that perceived it as a serious matter. “but since we’re on the battlefield we’ll have to leave the questioning for later.”

Ken nodded at Glen, turned around and brandished his weapon.

“Alright, use this window of time to annihilate as much monsters as you can while they’re still frozen, Wilbert, Glen, come with me and help me take care of those twisted creatures, to arms!.” Ken jumped forward followed by the other two as their army’s vigor was replenished.

The conversation earlier, although short was heard by every lion, and wolves in the area, a sub function of the spell ‘shared moment’ Ken activated so that everyone can understand if not fully the plan he shared to everyone.

The army marched forward to intercept the frozen bodies of the monsters, easily wearing their numbers down, little by little, even though the wolves recognize the werewolves as similar to their kin, but seeing as they were twisted by the chaotic energies of the demon world, they did not hesitate tearing their bodies, limb from limb,

For they too had their own comrades torn apart by these distant cousin of theirs due to their hesitation earlier, hence why their territory was overrun.

As for the lions, it was redemption time, for they had arrived late and were disoriented when their King was intercepted early in the battlefield and wasn’t able to give out orders, but it’s funny how they had obliged to the order of that human.

Maybe it was because their King threw them a stern and scary look, making them oblige or it was their bloodlust for these fiends that they wanted to sate, either way they were easily tearing into the enemy’s ranks.

“Fire Magic: Pyrokinetic Burst!” casted Ken as a big magic circle appeared in front of him targeting the lined up ogres that he bypassed earlier. Up earlier in the sky, Ken had viewed that there were three battalions on each left and right side of the demon gate, all of which are monsters.

Each battalion had had ten lines, three lines in the back consists of ogres, while the rest are werewolves. In front of the demon gate had about one battalion with twelve lines, four for the ogres and the rest are werewolves as the front.

Each line had ten monsters each. Wow, they’re organized, Ken thought earlier. Ken had pointed at the frontlines of the battalion at the center resulting in his group unleashing those twelve different colored light beams, annihilating almost ninety percent of the werewolves on it.

Coupled with his wide area of effect ‘Freeze’ each monster was left frozen in place, and are being killed, unfortunately, nine battalions are already waiting at the back in a cubic formation, and all had the same structure as the others.

But they were frozen along with the others so it’s still good. Ken sliced off the remaining eight ogres frozen by blinking at their back, and then blinked himself in front of the demon slaves again.

He smiled sweetly at them, but to the demons, that smile spiked dread and a butt-load of fear into their system.

“I must say my apologies first for freezing you all rendering you unable to fight, including your army.” Ken bowed. “But this will not amount to the overwhelming emotions I’ve suffered from your brethren from another location.”

The demon slaves were confused of what Ken said, for they do not know any of their brethren that came with them and went to their location, not unless…

Ken had other thoughts, so many things were swirling within his head, along with the fact that he had to dish out those spells in quick successions and almost instantly, but with this window of time he had made, there’s nothing much to worry about.

He took a deep breath, and smiled again, this time mischievously.

“Now what shall I do.” said Ken casually, leaning sideways and using his scythe as a pole, or something. “Should I make you pay for what your brethren had done, or should I just wipe you all out in a single swoop?”

Ken even touched his lips, as if deep in thought, but his eyes held no different, he was still pissed off.

“No, where’s the fun in that? Sword Style: Precision Strike.” Ken gave all twenty two strikes to their bodies in a cross shape in a quick flash, the slaves did not even notice him move, until late that they notice a stinging sensation on their body.

They wanted to scream but their voices were also frozen over, for they did not know why but the blade that struck them must have some remnant of light magic making their wound unable to heal and bleed out, they could not even use their magic.

Everything felt like it was sealed. Ken heard a crack.

“Hmm, the spell must be wearing off.” hearing this, the slaves were dumbfounded at how this creature is so casually saying important things out of the blue. “Nah, I don’t need to worry.” He turned around swinging with him his scythe and pointed his blade at the twenty.

“Fire Grand Magic: Igneous Force.” Just as a magic circle the radius of fifty meters appeared, so did three giga explosion occurred simultaneously on top of one another, even the air wasn’t spared, -it didn’t do anything-,

Incinerating those unable to withstand the blast, and pushing those that could, around Ken, but it didn’t left a dent on the demon gate.

Ken was left unscathed from the blast for it originated from him, he looked at his surroundings for a brief second and shouted…

“FINISH THEM OFF!” the lion, wolves, and his group shouted a battle cry behind him and jumped into action, more action, by this time, the freeze effect was lifted and the demon army was beginning to fight back.

“Flame Magic: Soaring Torrents!” casted Icarus as a line of flame pillars appeared in front of him targeting the left battalion’s left flank, the monsters in a line were incinerated on the spot while others flew into the air.

Icarus jumped to the right battalion to help out in fighting through close combat, although the animal beast army was able to tear most of the first right and left battalions, more monsters poured out of the demon gate.

And they were all eager for blood as they ran forward to intercept the animal beasts, those that were frozen had a slower pace, as their speed was reduced by fifty percent, as a lingering effect of freeze.

“Shadow Magic: Arrow Dagger!” casted Lila targeting the right battalion’s right flank as bursts of dark arrows erupted from the magic circle created by a black arrow she shot on the ground, piercing anyone around a ten meter radius, with a clench of her fist, the arrows burst into daggers, further piercing her targets.

She jumped to help Icarus along with the animal beasts to intercept the incoming wave of demons, although it might be late to notice but the newly arrived monsters, targeted those at the right battalion, and they’re mostly werewolves.

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