"If my King commands, how can I say it won't happen?"
Hueso, along with the end of his words, increased the amount of energy flowing from his body. The advance of the Diamond Cutter attack, which was trying to pierce the newly formed Bone Wall, slowed dramatically.
"Grandpa, are you okay?"
If Muslo had uttered this word a few minutes ago, it would have been considered weird, but right now Hueso looked an age that could be his grandfather. The Holy Bone Cult Sheikh, a walking corpse, had begun to spend the energy he had stored in his body for five years.
"Druid warriors, get ready! We are going to teach that insolent little girl a lesson shortly!"
The Windmills, unable to bypass the Fluid Ramparts skill, took flight from the magic circle once again. Their appearances were the same as the previous ones, but the red dot right in the middle of them could only be noticed by those looking carefully.
"Fools, they are coming with the same attacks again! Get ready, we will all attack together after dodging this!"
Nympha spoke with great courage while being protected by the Fluid Ramparts; it wouldn't take too long for her to attain what she had been dreaming of for a long time. After destroying the Windmills burying into the Fluid Ramparts and the Blood Needles, they were going to charge with their full power.
In theory, it was a flawless plan; they were going to catch the enemy at their most defenseless moment, but they either forgot or never knew who was opposite them. The Windmills inside the Fluid Ramparts began to explode where they should have vanished.
As the attacks formed with the Wind Element detonated, they were blowing the water masses surrounding them towards different points. The technique, which wouldn't have been affected if such an explosion occurred on its outer surface, was being shattered unstoppably because it was executed by only twenty people and took the blow from the inside.
"Here is the opportunity; concentrate all your attacks on where the insolent girl is!"
Along with the Hell King Joshua's order, all the druid warriors, Alis, Hueso, and Muslo attacked towards the same point. The enemy opposite them might be more than two hundred people, they might be only thirteen people, but thirteen people who united were actually much stronger than three hundred people trying to dig each other's graves.
Bone Stakes the size of an adult human's arm, Joshua's Blood Needles, the crescent-shaped wind blades coming out of Alis's swords, and the spells of the druid warriors exploded over the mages, passing over the collapsed ramparts. Someone was falling at every moment; Nympha's face, who maintained her dignified stance until then, turned ugly; she had fallen into the trap she prepared for her enemy.
Until the members of the other three societies remaining on the defensive reacted, the Hell Realm forces delivered a heavy blow to the Companions of Water forces. The Companions of Fire and Earth, who didn't care about the depletion of the mages led by Ventus, didn't remain unresponsive to the situation Nympha fell into.
"Hell Realm army, attack!"
The twenty-thousand-strong army waiting in the back were acting as if they didn't exist until that moment, but hearing their King's order, they took their weapons into their hands and released the energies appearing on the cold metals.
They were all a member of the Hell Realm army, they wore the same uniforms, but Joshua had left them free to use the techniques belonging to the lands they were born in. Even the members of the Holy Land and Holy Bone Cults, who were enemies with each other, fought against the same enemy while standing side by side.
The three societies, going on the defensive again accompanied by the attacks coming from twenty thousand people, wouldn't be able to help the Companions of Water. Nympha had to do something; while the number of her subordinates dropped below half, she could even lose her own life if she waited a little longer.
"Blessing of Haurvatat!"
The girl, who was the leader of the Companions of Water forces, took the crystal at the tip of her staff between her two hands and shattered it saying these words. At that moment, an energy wave radiating from the blue stone took an amorphous structure that would encompass all members of the Companions of Water. The fluid area, which also encompassed the dead, first bent inward every time an attack fell on it. Right after, while inside the place moving outward and eliminating these, the expression on Nympha's face had changed.
"Did she use it this early?"
Ignis was bewildered; you could understand the magnitude of what Nympha, the Leader of the Companions of Water, did from here. The red-haired young man didn't look like this even while resisting the attack made by twenty thousand people at the same time, and the state of the other two force leaders wasn't much different either.
"If they hadn't used the blessing carrying a part of the will of the Guardian Angel protecting the Companions of Water Society, none of them could survive now."
Solo, strengthening the earth wall braving the attacks with yellow elemental energy continuously spurting from his staff, was the person evaluating what happened most cool-headedly.
"We must hold out for ninety more minutes to be able to return to the Death Pass. If you don't want to lose all your subordinates until we fall back, use whatever you have in your hands!"
When the broad-shouldered young man with thick eyebrows told the others what to do, none of them objected. Until coming to this moment, they were making their way under the guidance of their arrogance, but apparently, fear was going to accompany them on the way back.
"The Will Remnants of the Guardian Angels can only maintain their effectiveness for an hour in these energy-deprived lands, and if we want to use them once more, we have to wait for the next day."
Even Ventus was showing she wanted to leave the battlefield. It was obvious a consensus of minds had been reached; now it was time to reach a consensus of words. Nympha, the person who suffered the greatest damage, contrary to her previous arrogant attitudes, wasn't going to hesitate to take priority in this matter.
"It is obvious that we will not catch the opportunity to take the enemy's head today, and if we don't combine our forces, the vast majority of us will not be able to return. I propose an agreement valid only until we return to the Death Pass, and in the name of this, I pledge to cover the cost of all the resources to be spent today!"
The ones in the most dire situation right now were the mages of the Companions of Water Society; the trump card that softened and eliminated any kind of incoming attack would be able to protect them for an hour, and in the half-hour time needed for them to flee back, they would be the target of the Hell Army.
They had come to the brink of death on the road they set out to take a head; they weren't in a state to care about material losses. When Nympha gave her personal guarantee, the attitude of the others softened; they had found solid ground to cooperate.
"The Guardian Angel Will Remnant of every society only works on the mages mastering that element. When an hour passes, be sure you have gathered enough power to protect yourselves; Ventus and I will handle the job of repelling the enemy!"
Ignis stated the plan in his mind; the others, including Ventus, had no objections to this. Apparently, the Guardian Angel Wills of the Companions of Fire and Wind were attack types; there could be no other method of repelling the Hell Army.
"Send your attacks not to the thirteen people in the front line, but to the army behind them. If we don't prevent them from getting support, we will be stuck!"
Solo was seeing that the biggest problem at the moment was the twenty thousand people keeping them under attack bombardment. The person who was going to fulfill the request of the Leader of the Companions of the Earth Forces would be Nympha.
While the remaining twenty mages from her subordinate roster of fifty began to meditate inside the area resembling a giant blue jelly, she began to draw a large magic circle on the ground with her new staff in hand. She made a stash of magical crystals reaching up to her knee at every corner of the star inside the magic circle with a radius of three steps, taking the shape of an inverted Pentagram.
The young girl didn't stop at this either; she covered the lines forming the magic circle with blue magical stones so that they wouldn't be seen, took a step forward, and moved right to the middle of the deep blue circle.
"Holy Spirit of Water, accept the offerings I give you and bestow upon me the might to destroy the enemy!"
When her words finished, the stones covering the magic circle began to melt, and before ten seconds passed, they turned to water and were flowing towards the young girl's staff. At the same moments, the magic circles the druid mages using the Water Element used to make attacks began to fade; a few breaths later, they would realize they could no longer use magic.
"I will restrain the Hell Realm Army until you use the Guardian Angel Will Remnant. Until then, at least manage to take the lives of some of the thirteen people!"