All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 299: The New Chain Enters the Field

Hans’s next signal pulled Hajin from the forge road toward the southern command ridge, where militia shields advanced behind white custody stakes.

The region kept fighting behind him, carrying prisoners away while road crews opened lanes through Loccy’s folded siege line.

Juna’s northern signal remained steady above the quarry, leaving Dreth’s command standard as the only moving mark ahead.

Hans waited beside the final militia board with a copied strip recovered from Juna’s intact relay chest.

{Dreth’s execution guard: fifty-four assigned, custody lanes closed under direct command, retreat violations punished at the command ridge.}

"Fifty-four between you and Dreth," Hans said, handing over the strip, "seventeen near the western stakes keep watching our surrender lane."

"Keep it open," Hajin replied, passing the board, "anyone who crosses stays outside the strike."

The execution guard occupied the ridge approach beneath an ash-cord standard, forming three weapon ranks before an anchored siege screen.

Six fitted panels covered Dreth’s command socket, with bolt rails extending through gaps between reinforced plates.

The guards carried hooked spears meant to catch a weapon before square blades entered around the trapped wielder.

Dreth stood beyond the screen with his spear grounded inside the socket, letting the Zone move through every panel brace.

Hajin stopped at the first white stake, leaving Hans plus the militia reserve behind his chosen line.

He summoned the restored Chains of the Goddess from inventory directly into his right hand before opening any Ring.

[ Chains of the Goddess ]

[ Type: Growth Weapon ]

[ Rank: Legendary ]

[ Condition: Active — 0% Damaged ]

[ Solar Anchor charges: 1 / 1 ]

The links settled without the crooked pull left by the mountain strike, placing their full length under his control.

Several guards looked toward the gold mark beneath Divine Bind, although none could know what Ferra had stored there.

"Drop every weapon and move behind the western white stakes," Hajin said, holding the Chain beside him, "anyone who advances dies here."

Dreth drove his spear deeper into the socket, sending ash-white mana through the siege screen plus every guard cord.

"Close the custody lane," Dreth ordered, pointing the first rank toward Hajin, "bring me his weapon before their shields reach this ridge."

Six guards nearest the western edge lowered their spears before the command pulse reached their reinforcement.

Eleven more followed, dropping square blades while they crossed the white stakes with both hands above their shoulders.

Hans moved militia binders around them without entering Hajin’s forward boundary, keeping every surrendered guard behind two shield rows.

Aria changed seventeen hostile marks to custody white after the last discarded weapon crossed beneath militia control.

[ Execution guards surrendered: 17 ]

[ Remaining active execution guards: 37 ]

The other thirty-seven tightened their ash cords, allowing Dreth’s reinforcement to lock three ranks into one advancing wedge.

Hajin opened one Ring around his right forearm, placing Aegis between the western custody lane and the approaching formation.

Dreth’s Zone fired the first bolt rail above their shoulders, aiming through him toward the militia handling surrendered guards.

Aegis turned the volley into the empty eastern slope while Hajin drew the Chain behind his right shoulder.

The front guards spread their hooked spears before contact, creating overlapping catches across the weapon’s expected path.

Dark-gold mana entered every restored link without snagging, distortion, or another damage warning from Aria.

"All thirty-seven remain active inside one strike boundary," Aria said, closing her marker before the white stakes, "the surrender lane is excluded."

"Leave Dreth outside it," Hajin replied, planting his feet, "I want him standing after he sees the difference."

[ Skill Activated: Eclipse Lash ]

The Chain crossed the first hooked spear before its wielder felt contact, cutting the reinforced head away from its shaft.

Its next links entered the front rank at chest height, opening armor plus bodies across the wedge’s full width.

Dark-gold force followed the guard cords backward, tearing their shared reinforcement apart without entering the western custody lane.

The middle rank tried separating, but the restored Chain changed direction without any damaged link dragging behind Hajin’s hand.

It curved through thirteen turning guards, cutting weapons, arms, plus torsos before their broken formation found another spacing.

Twelve rear guards drove forward beneath Dreth’s order, using the bodies ahead as cover for their square blades.

Hajin pulled once, bringing the returning length across them from the opposite side before any blade reached his barrier.

Every remaining guard fell inside the marked boundary while the Chain continued toward the anchored siege screen.

The first fitted panel divided around its central brace, exposing the bolt rail behind it before that weapon split lengthwise.

Five more panels followed across the same release, their reinforcement carrying dark-gold fractures through each connected frame.

The entire siege screen opened behind the dead formation, throwing severed plates across Dreth’s empty command approach.

Hajin stopped Eclipse Lash before the final link entered the command socket, leaving the Zone structure outside its cut.

Dreth remained visible beyond the wreckage, holding his spear while pieces of his screen fell around the socket.

[ Hostile execution guards eliminated: 37 ]

[ Hajin gained: 185,000 EXP ]

[ Hajin Ring Progress: 24,290,000 / 25,000,000 EXP ]

[ Solar Anchor activation: no ]

[ Solar Anchor charges: 1 / 1 ]

The Chain returned to Hajin’s right hand without a warped link or new fracture across its restored channels.

[ Chains of the Goddess condition: Legendary / 0% damaged ]

Hans’s militia binders finished securing all seventeen surrendered guards before anyone approached the broken screen.

None had entered the attack boundary, leaving weapons plus bodies separated by the western white stakes.

{Execution guard reconciliation: 54 committed.}

{Dead: 37. Surrendered for militia custody: 17. Unreconciled: 0.}

[ Active Flint siege force: 823 ]

[ Sixth campaign ledger: 27 deceased / 88 serious injuries — unchanged ]

Standards farther along Dreth’s line lowered their points after witnessing one Ring erase the command ridge’s guard formation.

Those soldiers remained armed inside their positions, so Aria kept all eight hundred twenty-three within the active force ledger.

Behind Hajin, Hans ordered the militia advance to hold outside the broken siege screen instead of crowding the Zone approach.

Road bells continued from both flanks while casualty crews plus custody teams worked behind the region’s shield line.

Hajin crossed through the divided panels alone, letting the Chain drag a dark line across their severed braces.

Twenty-three ash-cord elites stepped from separate command sockets around Dreth, each carrying a reinforcement line beneath the ground.

The seven-Shard deputy waited beyond them with Corven’s circulation bank fastened across his back, staying outside Hajin’s direct approach.

Aria marked every prepared socket while the Stolen Moment remained available inside Hajin’s inventory.

[ The Stolen Moment: available ]

Dreth looked across the bodies of his execution guard before raising his spear from the central socket.

"You repaired it," Dreth said, drawing the surrounding ash into the exposed approach, "the last one still broke against my ground."

"You left Ferra a sample," Hajin replied, stopping beyond the first elite socket, "she found a use for it."

Ash-white lines closed beneath all twenty-three elites while the deputy carried the outer circulation bank farther along the ridge.