Arthur felt little suspense when he heard Gege's words. However, his wait didn't last much longer. In less than two hours, he spotted two groups of originals heading towards the enemy forces from two different angles.
At this moment almost four hours passed since the start of the fight, one hour separated them from the arrival of his reinforcements.
During these four hours, the enemy managed to break through the tight defense done by the shield and originals combined. Many parts inside the city showed thick tongues of smoke rising from within, but the attack never reached the mountain.
It wasn't thanks to the weakness or lack of aim of the enemy. One could easily say they targeted the mountain and the factories built on its bottom all the time.
Yet the tight defense exerted by the octopus family proved its worth at the moment, coupled with Gege's portals' help.
Gege tried to shift part of the attacks away all the time using her portals. She failed many times, but in the end she managed to divert many attacks and weakened their offensive power.
She teleported almost one third of each attack away, an effort that helped a lot in the defensive battle here. The diverted attacks landed on top of the high end forces of the enemy, claiming many lives and leaving behind a large number of injuries.
Gege did that without the order of Arthur, which made the latter more satisfied about her personal growth. She never was a smart or tactful person to begin with. Yet this battle proved how much development Gege had since Arthur met her.
As for this current moment, the two groups of almost ten thousand each, moved at the enemy in pincer attack. When Arthur saw them, he couldn't help but frown.
"The enemy had over eighty thousand high end mages there, twenty thousand originals won't be enough to stop them," he couldn't help but warn Gege, fearing she might have overlooked the potential of the originals.
Originals were a terrifying existence without doubt, but they were on par with any elite from the higher worlds. If faced with grandmaster caliber mages, then even ten originals might find it hard to contend equally with them.
'Don't worry, just watch,' Gege's swift and firm answer told Arthur that she was prepared for this point from the start.
And time proved she was.
Just as the enemy noticed the two forces coming at them, they started to dispatch two groups as well to handle them. Each group contained almost fifteen thousand mages, who took leadership of the large number of weaker mages scattered around and almost filling the world.
During this time, the third original group Arthur dispatched made great contributions in this war. They massacred hundreds of thousands of weak mages during the past hour alone. If the final toll became in tens millions, Arthur wouldn't find it strange.
But no matter how much his forces killed, much more would reappear from the grand portal hovering on the top of everyone's heads.
Arthur was sure that if the enemy found it hard to replenish his losses in grandmaster mages, doing this for weak mages would become nothing at all.
After all, if his enemy just gathered the members of each dark clan and sent their grandmasters and elites to this war, then forget about killing tens of millions, even killing hundreds of millions wouldn't make any difference.
From the start, the result of this war depended entirely over the result of the clash between the elites and grandmasters of dark clans from one side, and Arthur's top warriors from another side.
Just before the two sides would clash with each other, all of sudden two groups of portals opened behind the incoming groups of enemies.
They appeared to block any retreat for the enemy high end forces. The moment these portals came to sight, Arthur realized the plan of Gege. and he couldn't help but admire this deadly move.
She lured out thirty thousand high end mages from the enemy side, cutting their path from their main forces, while being trapped between two sides of mighty originals.
Without the need to say what happened in detail, all the thirty thousand high end mages were exterminated in less than five minutes. The other side didn't stand idle and instantly stopped their offense and dispatched two groups, each composed of twenty thousand mages to help their friends.
But before they could arrive and make a difference, the originals showed their explosive strength and managed to kill everything standing in their way.
After all they were facing a panicked and less organized enemy who was taken by surprise. Just before a fight would appear between the incoming forty thousand mages and Arthur's originals, portals flashed again and sucked away most of the originals, leaving behind two groups, each not exceeding five thousand originals.
These originals turned tail and started running away, in a pace that wasn't so fast nor slow. The enemy was already in the middle of the battle, so they didn't see the second trap Gege prepared for them.
For almost half an hour a wide chase erupted between the two sides. The originals kept running in circles, slowly taking away the forty thousand high end mages off the forces they left behind.
And just after half an hour, many portals opened all of sudden and a large army of originals gushed out to fight the left behind ten thousand mages.
The battle was simply described as a one -sided massacre. Originals appeared surrounding the entire group of mages and even appearing in gaps between them.
This sudden appearance came to startle the enemy, but not the originals. The originals knew about what they should do, and they instantly moved their strength in the middle of these mages.
When the scattered and far away forty thousand mages saw this, they realized the trap they fell in. instantly they turned around and ran as fast as they could to help their friends.
But they couldn't move for a few minutes before the entire ten thousand mages were exterminated.
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