Those few seconds were enough for the nearby monsters and beasts to launch their attacks and then hit the people behind the barrier.
The battle had been going on for an hour, and there were already two waves of attack from the beasts and monsters around.
This batch alone was actually just a group of beasts and monsters who were distracted and didn't run away or go berserk in the same direction as the huge tide.
The real beast and the monster tide had a few hundred thousand monsters and beasts, which was enough to drown everyone even if they had five-layered barriers, arrays and the blood dome.
Ainsley's blood dome only protected the rooftop before, so when there were holes in the barrier outside of the castle, there would still be some students and contestants being injured.
The whole group moved in an orderly manner, and if some people were tired, they would return to the rear and people from the rear would replace them to the frontline.
The battle didn't really feel that difficult, mainly because of the five-layered barriers, the sky array and the ground array that could kill so many beasts and monsters at the same time.
There were also the two 'guardians' on the rooftop, Ainsley and the old general who secretly killed many dangerous beasts and monsters at the back.
That was why, so far, there had been no strange event such as the one Ainsley experienced at Godlif Country's annual beast and monster tide outside of the capital city.
However, the smooth battle didn't mean they would always have good news.
Just an hour after the battle against the beast and monster tide, the academy sent a new urgent message to the contestants and the students in the castle.
[Emergency news! The Abyss gate at the academy has started to open. It is predicted that 20% of anything that comes out of that gate will come to the Four Seasons Island.]
Then, this 20% of creatures that came out of the abyss would be scattered all over the island, but they would always move towards places with more beasts and monsters or areas with the breath of humans.
[Please prepare for the abyss' opening, and please stay away from any miasma. Don't be affected, and please survive until the magnetic field around the island stabilizes so that we can teleport all of you back to the Academy.]
After seeing the news, everyone's faces darkened.
Still, they also didn't have time to worry more about the abyss' gate at their academy finally opening or something because these beasts and monsters suddenly became even crazier than before!
Especially the monsters.
More and more mother monsters with their children appeared on the battlefield, and more beasts and monsters from the main tide got attracted to their direction.
The previously estimated 5000 beasts and monsters slowly grew to 10.000, and the strength of these beasts and monsters also gradually soared.
More beasts were alienated and turned into strange monsters with relatively high intelligence and good uses of their abilities.
This means, more and more abnormal beasts and monsters appeared, which gradually exhausted the two guardians on the rooftop that had been cleansing these abnormal enemies.
While Ainsley and the others were sweating hard to fight the sudden influx of monsters and beasts, the abyss gate at one of Elton academy's three floating islands slowly showed signs of change.
The abyss entrance was usually like an invisible space on the ground, but there would be obvious space fluctuation and thick miasma around that area, which greatly identified the appearance of abyss gates.
However, now, the previously invisible abyss entrance, with only thick black miasma around, suddenly changed.
First of all, the thick fog of miasma became denser, and it also floated to a certain height of more than ten meters.
It was as if the fog wanted to become a curtain to hide something.
Then, as the miasma became thicker and thicker, people could no longer see anything behind the miasma curtain, and that was when the abyss' entrance changed.
The entrance that was previously on the ground, slowly appeared floating in the air by a few meters.
The abyss entrance was just a huge black hole at first, but as the miasma around thickened, the shape of the gate slowly changed and transformed into a formal twenty-meter-tall gate with two doors.
The gate looked so similar to the underworld gate, heaven gate or hell gate, but this once was just made of dirty stone and thick black fog, so shabby and looked a bit more desolate than the other three gorgeous gates.
Once the gate appeared in the shape of a real gate, the sky a few miles around the gate slowly changed.
The white clouds gradually blackened, the blue sky turned grayish, and soon, the sunlight dimmed, but the sun was still there.
It was just that, the color of the sun seemed strange, as if it was dyed in black and red paint.
However, this phenomenon only lasted for a few seconds, and the sun officially disappeared behind the thick black clouds without changing color anymore.
Still, the color of the sky remained dull gray, and there would be a flash of lightning once in a while flashing over the gloomy sky.
It was just that, the color of the lightning was obviously not white, but deep red.
The wind blew over, and one could even sense the smell of rust, burnt smell and the thick smell of blood from nowhere.
Then, the dull and desolate abyss gate slowly flashed with a few colorful lights before one saw a huge magic circle full of runes right on the surface of the gate.
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