Aelrinder charged with his royal guards and immediately started a slaughter, even though the monsters in front of him were all-powerful creatures that were level 40 and above, for him, they weren't a real threat when he was fighting alongside the 10 royal guards. He used his silver spear with incredible efficiency and grace as each thrust was calculated to hit a vital point of his enemy. It was obvious that his fighting prowess had increased immensely after fighting in close quarters, his long-range attacks, although efficient and powerful enough to cause serious damage to the monsters, were still limited and lacking compared to his close-quarters skills and proficiency.
The royal guards as well were nothing to scoff at, every single one of them was trained since they were young and were an incredibly deadly team, especially when fighting together. Each of the royal guards had a role in the team, two of them were long-range fighters while the others took positions of tanks with their shields, healers, and melee combatants. Their teamwork and chemistry was great and no monster could survive their joined efforts.
The elite soldiers, on the other hand, followed after the commander and the royal guards, even though they were a step below the royal guards, they were still incredibly powerful and they numbered 14, each of them was well equipped and trained to deal with a variety of enemies. The display put by the two teams made the jaws of the players fall, not only were they able to fight against the horde of monsters in front of them, but they were able to annihilate even the more powerful monsters with no real danger.
Of course, that was all possible thanks to Reign and the others, the slaughter they had made the horde go through previously had forced most of the horde to focus completely on them and only a small portion was left at the dome. The commander used that to their advantage, he knew how powerful Reign and the others were since their display of strength was closely monitored by him from the moment they joined the battlefield.
After making sure that their allies would be safe even after drawing the attention of the horde he devised a simple plan, continue barraging the monsters with long-range attacks and force them to shift their focus towards their back, after most of them did so, charge with everything they had in order to take the monsters by surprise and deliver a great blow to them.
Such a tactic was of course only possible if both sides had great power, luckily both Reign's team and the elves were powerful enough and the plan worked. Not only did they manage to deal a great amount of damage to the horde, but the monsters were once again confused by the change. During the battle they had started with an all-out attack at the dome, their only opponents were the elves in front of them and they didn't need to worry about their back.
After some time, however, the monsters were taken by surprise by Reign and the others who manage to eliminate a huge number of them in a relatively short period of time, deciding that the strength and danger level of the enemy behind them was greater, the monsters shifted their focus to them.
The final surprise however was that the enemy they were fighting against for a long time discarded the safety of the dome and initiated close quarter combat, not only did they take them by surprise but their power was also not something that the monsters expected. The monsters were simple creatures that lived by the law of the jungle if an enemy was simply standing in front of you and being protected by something then most of the time such an enemy was a weakling.
The elves had managed to kill tens of the monsters previously, but compared to the total number of them, that was just a small part of the horde. Seeing the constant attacks landing on the numerous monsters and not dealing truly significant damage, the elites and more powerful monsters simply believed that their prey was weak and wouldn't be able to harm them.
After witnessing many of them die under the blades of the elves however that was again overturned, at this point the monsters didn't know what to think anymore. Both at their front and back were powerful enemies that couldn't be taken lightly and soon a couple of elites charged toward the elves.
Clang!
Reign's swords collide with a sting and he was pushed back. The sting was covered in a thick green liquid and wherever it dropped would produce sizzling sounds and smoke could be seen. The sting was the end of a tail of Reign's opponent, a huge scorpion was in front of him, the dark brown scorpion was many times larger compared to his normal counterparts as it was a bit above 1m tall.
Its powerful pincers were aimed at Reign the moment he was pushed back and forced him to dodge the attack as blocking wasn't an option at the moment. Not only was the scorpion armed with his two deadly pincers that could bend and rip apart steel, but if an enemy was unfortunate enough to get caught by them and survive, the sting would immediately follow. Not only was the sting incredibly sharp and fast, but it was obvious that the poison it had was incredibly deadly and could probably kill an enemy relatively fast.
Shadow's opponent was a stone golem, the 3m stone golem was slow and its attacks couldn't touch Shadow but the incredible defense it possessed was a headache for him. He could deal damage to the golem thanks to his daggers, but in order to defeat the latter he would need to destroy its core, by using the [ Darkness Implosion ] skill he could make the whole battle a lot easier and end it quickly, but doing that would drain a lot of his mana which wouldn't allow him to fight the other monsters efficiently.
Wolf on the other hand was targeted by another crocodile and its brethren, differently compared to the ones they had killed previously, these crocodiles had a dark blue color and were much slimmer and smaller compared to the rocky ones before. Thanks to that their defense was lower but their speed was higher, that however was insignificant as the most troubling thing about them was the fact that they could manipulate water.
Wolf's flames were incredibly hot and could evaporate water rather quickly when faced with so many monsters that were constantly using the river as their main supply of water, thanks to that they were able to conserve a lot of mana and could bombard Wolf without stop. The river that divided the elven base from the rest of the forest had been covered by many fallen trees and soil, thanks to their ability however the crocodiles were able to easily draw the water from underneath and launch it towards Wolf.
Powerful jets of water, thin and compressed water blades, small water balls that were launched at incredible speed, all kinds of water attacks were sent Wolf's way as the latter did his best in order to defend himself. Each time he would attack the crocodiles they would use the water in order to extinguish or waken his flames which started annoying him, to say the least.
Greenie was simply enjoying the slaughter before being confronted by an angry ape, the latter charged at Greenie and initiated a melee battle in which neither one was backing down. The ape was incredibly powerful and his attacks could shatter trees with ease, its 4m tall frame was packed with muscles and its movement was much faster than expected. Greenie was no slouch however and he was able to match the powerful elite monster in almost all aspects, being challenged by it ignited Greenie's competitive spirit and he put his hammer on his back before fighting the ape bare-handed.
The elites that were currently locked in battle with them were of course not all that was present on the battlefield, each one was vary of their surroundings and they knew that there were more monsters that were simply observing them and waiting to attack, one mistake could lead any of them down a dangerous path and they tried their best during their battles.
Beast and Laura were the ones with the least amount of pressure currently, they were located at the back of the party and the monsters would be stopped each time they tried attacking them, even the elite monsters couldn't simply come to them as each of Beast's tamed beasts was a variant and they were all more powerful than monsters of their own level.
Some, of course, tried to charge at them but were quickly stopped and ganged up on by Beast's tamed beasts, none of the monsters could survive for long and only some elites had the courage and power to charge at the two now. Of course, if one of them managed to get close to them then Beast would simply use his fusion and fight the monster in that state.
The number of monsters that were present in the monster horde was slowly dwindling and they were now down to less than 200, of course, most of those 200 monsters were all more powerful compared to the ones that had been killed. With Reign and his team fighting one front while the elves were dealing with another however the scale was slowly tipping in their favor.
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