All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 300: Ring Three Against a Zone

The twenty-three elites fed mana into their separate sockets before Hajin could cross the first broken siege panel.

Dreth’s Zone carried that power beneath him, ignoring the straight approach while ash gathered around Hans’s militia line behind.

Hajin turned one Ring toward Aegis, spreading gold across the white stakes before the first prepared kill box opened.

The ground beneath the militia rose in four fitted sections, driving buried iron ribs through their shield positions.

Aegis caught the upper ribs, but the Zone redirected its lower braces through terrain below the barrier.

Harl held the center shield, the village headman whose bitten arm had healed after the first hound attack.

One rib entered beneath his shield and crossed his chest, killing him before the row could pull him clear.

Serrit stood beside Hans’s signal board, the bell worker who had counted thirty seconds during the village retreat.

Ash closed around the bell post before striking sideways, driving its iron base through Serrit plus the board.

Pavin left his shield to catch the nearest casualty frame, repeating the choice he once made when Garret needed carrying.

A second ground section folded over that frame, killing him while fourteen other defenders fell beneath separate treatment markers.

Mara’s crews dragged the living casualties toward the rear slope as the kill box tried closing around their frames.

Hajin pulled Aegis downward, holding the four sections apart before they crushed anyone beyond the first contact.

[ New Sixth Region casualties ]

[ Harl, Serrit, and Pavin: deceased ]

[ New serious injuries: 14 ]

Dreth used the barrier’s lowered angle to drive an ash blade across Hajin’s exposed left side.

The edge opened armor plus flesh beneath his ribs, carrying Zone residue into two mana pathways before he broke it.

The Stolen Moment had cleared before first bell, leaving its three-second reversal available inside Hajin’s inventory.

Hajin consciously activated it before the ash settled deeper, restoring his body plus personal mana to their state three seconds earlier.

[ The Stolen Moment activated ]

His position, Aegis, the kill boxes, and every external attack remained unchanged when silver passed through him.

The wound vanished beneath his opened armor, but all twenty-three elites continued advancing from their sockets.

A hooked blade emerged through the nearest socket, entering his left side from behind while one Ring remained committed to Aegis.

Hajin caught its shaft with the Chain, but the Zone pulled its edge through two mana pathways before the weapon broke.

He pulled Vella’s golden mana through Assimilation into his own left hand, pressing that palm directly over the new wound.

The touch-delivered healing stopped his blood without restoring damaged pathways or Vella’s unavailable remote range.

[ Hajin physical wound: stabilized ]

[ Mana pathways: injured by hostile Zone ]

[ The Stolen Moment: cooldown active ]

The twenty-three elites continued closing while Hajin kept one Ring committed to the casualty extraction behind him.

"Break your socket links, then stay down," Hajin said, holding Aegis over Mara’s final frame, "keep feeding the Zone and none of you leave."

Dreth rotated his spear inside the command socket, pulling every elite reinforcement line toward Hajin’s injured side.

"Close around him," Dreth ordered, widening the ground beneath their formation, "his barrier belongs to the people behind him."

All twenty-three answered by driving mana into their sockets, closing the first ring of hooked blades around Hajin.

Aria kept Corven marked beyond the exchange, where the deputy carried the circulation bank farther along the ridge.

"The mobile branch remains outside your strike," she said, mapping the elite sockets, "these twenty-three bodies are valid targets before it redirects them."

"Then mark every body," Hajin replied, tightening the Chain around his right hand, "leave the empty sockets for later."

The second Ring formed around his right forearm, stopping the nearest ash shells before their blades reached his wound.

A third halo opened around the same arm, widening beyond both others as gold pressure crossed the command ridge.

Every Flint standard within sight bent away from Hajin while the three Rings accelerated around his forearm.

[ Three-Ring manifestation: active ]

[ Current target set: 23 Zone-bound elites ]

Hajin drove Aegis beneath the closing formation, lifting their redirected terrain until every occupied socket stood exposed.

The first eight elites lost their lower attack angles, leaving hooked blades suspended above a gold barrier they could not cross.

He sent the Chain through them at waist height, cutting armor plus bodies before their sockets found another route.

Dark-gold links turned around the ninth socket, following Aria’s body markers instead of the Zone line beneath it.

Seven more elites attacked through ash doubles projected from neighboring positions, trying to hide which bodies carried active cores.

Divine Eye ignored the doubles, keeping each living core outlined while the Chain crossed all seven actual positions.

Eight elites remained around Dreth, forcing their socket lines through his central spear before charging beneath one shared shell.

Their combined blade struck Hajin’s Chain, pushing every link backward while the Zone drew pressure into the ground.

All three Rings turned faster, feeding enough force through his right hand to stop the Chain before it touched his chest.

Hajin stepped into the shell instead of pulling away, wrapping the free length around its eight occupied cores.

"Hold him there," Dreth ordered, forcing another Zone pulse through the socket lines, "the ridge takes whatever he releases."

The Legendary links accepted the opposing pressure without warping, carrying dark-gold mana around all eight bodies.

Hajin closed his right hand, cutting inward from every wrapped section while Aegis contained the released ash above him.

The shared shell split across eight lines, followed by the elites maintaining it from inside their connected sockets.

All twenty-three bodies fell before their empty reinforcement lines returned to Dreth’s central command route.

[ Zone-bound elites eliminated: 23 ]

[ Hajin gained: 90,000 EXP ]

[ Hajin Ring Progress: 24,380,000 / 25,000,000 EXP ]

[ Active Flint siege force: 800 ]

No fourth Ring opened after the reward, leaving three existing halos around his right forearm while the damaged pathways remained injured.

The dead elites’ sockets remained inside the Zone, continuing to carry ash from buried anchors toward Dreth.

Hajin sent the Chain through the opening their bodies left, aiming its restored edge toward the commander’s chest.

Dreth pulled one empty socket upward, replacing his position with a wall of fitted ground before the edge arrived.

Corven’s circulation bank pulsed beyond Hajin’s direct line, preserving the Zone pattern after its twenty-three body anchors died.

Aria overlaid Ferra’s Solar Anchor mark across the complete structure without activating its stored charge.

"Solar Anchor can fasten the Zone now," she said, showing the mobile branch beyond the ridge, "three Rings cannot draw every branch into one severing line."

"Then we do not waste it here," Hajin replied, pulling the Chain away from another redirected wall, "keep Corven marked."

[ Solar Anchor activation: no ]

[ Solar Anchor charges: 1 / 1 ]

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

Hans held his remaining shields beyond the kill box while Mara confirmed all fourteen living casualties had entered extraction.

The Zone continued reaching beneath Hajin’s barriers, preventing the militia from advancing through the broken command approach.

{Sixth campaign update: 3 deceased / 14 new serious injuries.}

[ Sixth campaign ledger: 30 deceased / 102 serious injuries ]

Dreth stepped between two empty elite sockets while ninety-five ash cords tightened across soldiers farther along the ridge.

Corven kept moving with the circulation bank as Dreth pulled open the damaged plate above his own core.