In half an hour, he reached the peak of his, to find the outer protection ring was really under intense attacks from monsters!
The monsters already managed to fill the trenches with their dead bodies, and thus the following waves of monsters were able to easily cross over the bodies of their kin, reaching to the outer ten hills easily.
The aim of these monsters weren't to kill or attack the hills and warriors upon them, instead they wanted to come here to this central hill and reach the heavenly treasure.
So, they didn't focus their march over the hills, instead moved in great numbers, filling the valleys in between.
The warriors on the top ten hills used everything in hand to kill the monsters trying to reach them, and they used their new pets to help them defend these hills valiantly so far.
As for the valleys, the subsequent ten hills started to take the responsibility of defeating monsters there, and that made the attacks hitting the far distance cease to exist, adding more pressure to the valleys and the hills overall.
As for the sky, Lily was trying to do as best as she could, however she was limited by the few number of warriors on the back of her Birdy.
"That's not working, it's time to organize things up," Arthur muttered, before turning to glance on the tons of arrows made so far by the warriors here. This amount was also present on the other hills, where warriors kept coming to and fro, moving the arrows to the adjacent ten hills.
The valleys separating the central hill of his from the surrounding ten were almost clear of monsters. However Arthur knew this wouldn't remain as such for a long time if things kept going this way.
"You, take these and spread over the leaders of each hill. Make them drop their blood and then send it back to me. give them these as well, and tell them if anything major happened, they can write to me on these papers."
Arthur took out two piles of bird's wing, one unbound yet, and one was bound to him, and handed them over to a group of warriors here.
The warriors took these and hurriedly went to execute the order, while Arthur turned to glance at his working warriors as he shouted:
"Listen up, half of you move to handle these crossbows, while the rest keep working. Your aim is to fire as far as possible, targeting the area outside the hills."
He started organizing things, as he saw the best way to defend the valleys would be from the ten hills in the middle. They had a greater broader view over all the valleys here, and they could attack easily and efficiently without commiting many mistakes.
So, he gave his warriors here the task to attack the distance, while he glanced there, not seeing Tina anywhere.
"This greedy little girl, did she like the play of hitting and storing monsters so much?" he muttered, as he knew she was still playing with monsters out there.
His assumptions were right, as Tina was really immersed in bullying the monsters. She had filled her storage ornament long time ago with monsters, and thus she focused only to play, moving around unhindered, and hit the incoming monsters head on without suffering any losses.
In fact he didn't mind that, as her presence there helped in decreasing the toll gradually over the hills and valleys.
"Let's give a slight hand to you then," he muttered, before standing over the area with many runes buried underneath it.
"Weakening formation, activate!"
"Illusion formation, activate!"
"Confusion formation, activate!"
"Slowing formation, activate!"
He activated one formation after another. In the next minutes, the whole area started to show changes! Fog started to appear, thin dim fog that seemed so thin at first, but gradually it started taking shape.
The air itself started to show some aberrations, as many parts had many invisible waves erupting from the central peak, heading straight outward.
He had to stay there, controlling the four formations by his energy channeled into the runed down his legs, while a great shadow of a dragon represented itself behind his back.
This scene startled everyone around him for the first couple of minutes, but when nothing else happened, they started to grow accustomed to this. As for Arthur, he was quite busy controlling and directing the formations, trying to evade hurting any of his scattered warriors everywhere.
The addition of these formations came as a game changer! The monsters who were darting with extreme momentum were now trapped in place, played like puppets in his hands, and this helped his warriors to kill them easier, faster, and in bigger numbers than before.
The fight continued to rage on like this without any more surprises. The explosive arrows sent from his central peak were so many that caused the appearance of overlying layers of huge fiery walls, turning the area around the hills into a restricted one.
Despite that overwhelming crushing superiority he currently had, Arthur was worried about other things. This war was, from the start, an attritional one. The consumption of wood here in making arrows, coupled with the great consumption of arrows currently occurring by hundreds of crossbows made him worry about the wood reserves he had here.
He had already cleared a good space of the forest from trees, and they were all stored into his peak, and any extra was now residing into his rings.
However, even after a day of constant fighting here, the monsters didn't show any signs to decrease at all! After one day of this brutal fight, the amount of his wood reserves was getting low, reaching the point to be completely depleted in half a day most from now.
This was quite disturbing for him, as the main defense used now was a mix between his arrays, the pets of his warriors, and the mighty effects of the explosive arrows!
"We need more arrows!'' This was the single fact he had to admit.. However, to do so, he needed to go seeking trees beyond the five hidden points of his enemy.
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