Being confined inside these walls and defensive shields didn't seem a bad thought. Kiting this enormous number of enemies over the walls and the towers of this fort was the best plan.
But it wasn't the safest plan to adopt.
The next moment he launched his two pillars up to the forefront before finally activating them.
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
The world echoes with two rumbles before the two pillars create a big gap just adjacent to the fort.
"Now!"
It was Amera who shouted while Arthur was deeply planted in the depth of the crater he created by his fall. Just when he stood up, the two pillars were already summoned back by his system.
But he didn't give them any heed, as he watched a more amazing scene in front of him.
"You are really quite capable," Arthur commended Gege for her efforts.
'I made them train over this scenario for days inside my body,' she proudly braged, 'if they didn't pull this perfectly then I should kill them myself.'
He laughed with the three others in his mind while moving fast to the front trying to catch up with his forces.
The moment his two pillars exploded, all of his flying forces entered inside his fort's defensive shields. The shockwaves were stopped abruptly at the edges of these shields.
Then a miracle happened.
"Move faster!" the crow shouted, "don't let them fill the gap, hurry!"
He led the elite forces to the forefront where they started a massive wave of attacks that helped in expanding the gap a little. The ground army was already in a bad shape, and after these explosions and coupled with the hits coming from the towers; the gap kept expanding at a slow rate.
But there was something else moving on a much slower pace… the entire fort itself!
The moment Amera shouted, the fort as a whole got uplifted for a few tens of meters of the ground as gigantic wheels appeared all of sudden from its bottom.
All the standing silent villagers inside the fort had large tools that contained a seat, two small pedals, and a large pyramid shaped lower part that contained the mechanism connecting with the wheels.
They all started to move the pedals as hard as they could, and in return the wheels started moving.
"This is so slow," Arthur watched this from high in the air before shouting, "all the mages who can be spared listen to me… go down there and replace the villagers."
He knew the main issue rested in the weak bodies of these villagers. Despite the magical effects of his garden over everyone, they didn't live there for enough time to gain such benefits.
The next minute a large number of mages descended from the walls and towers, moved from the back of the walls as they were stationed as reserve forces and went all over the fort.
"This much better," Arthur nodded in content when he noticed the obvious increase in speed this time compared with before. "I should keep myself inside then," he learnt from what happened to his elite forces and decided to stay inside the defensive shields while activating the pillars.
"Go inside now!"
Just before unleashing the two pillars to the front again he warned. All his flying forces retreated all of sudden before the next explosion occurred.
"Damn… this looked much better," he laughed as he didn't get any hit from the two mighty shockwaves this time. "I should have done this from the start."
Just as his forces started to implement their tactic, the enemy showed a disarray. They were shocked by this plan, and it seemed that the mighty and cunning foe of his wasn't prepared for such a scenario.
"You thought I would either attack recklessly or defend stubbornly, don't you?" Arthur laughed before starting to activate his pillars again.
And now he wasn't only creating gaps to be filled with his enemies, he had a gigantic fort that crushed anyone on its way… a beast marching on the ground on wheels that couldn't be stopped.
"He seems restless," Arthur noticed the sudden appearance of a large aerial force gathered up from the entire army here, "so you knew the ground fight is lost, and decided to crack my shields? In your dreams… hahaha."
Arthur wasn't that much confident in his shields, but his enemy missed one simple thing.
"Let's see how good you will do against my pillars mighty monsters," Arthur sneered before launching his two pillars again and this time he didn't throw them to the ground but high in the air.
The moment these two pillars penetrated deeply inside the ranks of the flying monsters, Arthur started raining them with his arrows.
The thing was that throwing his pillars so far away while being surrounded by a large number of enemies meant many of the arrows would be lost.
Despite controlling the arrows he launched, he took roughly a minute to finally hit the two pillars after many monsters committed suicidal defensive moves.
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
Almost half of the entire army flying forces were swept by these two explosions which created a vast gap inside the sky. The remaining forces didn't escape unscathed as many were hit by the shockwaves and got planted deeply in the ground.
"Take a bitter taste of what I suffered so far," Arthur laughed over their fate while Doaf shout reverberated in the entire fort:
"Launch all the towers… kill those still standing."
"Follow me," Amera shouted as well while taking the charge personally with her superb speed to hunt down the disarrayed flying monsters scattered all over the sky.
Then it was simply a massacre not a fight anymore.
Yet Arthur wasn't feeling content. He knew the victory of this war wouldn't be decided by these fights… but with the summoning array.
He turned his gaze towards the rapidly approaching fist fortified point of his enemy as he muttered, "I hope you are in there, or else I would have to crush everyone here to kill you."
The fort kept moving to the front while he kept supporting it with his pillars. At some point, he didn't need to use his pillar anymore as the enemy started regrouping and rearranging his forces to form a stronger meat shield in front of the first point.
"Trying to defend yourself?" Arthur muttered, "or trying to buy as much time as you could until the array is activated?"
His mind leaned towards the later scenario as he knew if he was in the place of this foe he would prefer to put a hard rock after another in front of his path.
And also that meant another thing.
"You bastard aren't here in this spot!"
Arthur turned his gaze to the darkened sky before muttering, "Can anyone tell me if the summoning array is complete or not?"
'I believe it is still amassing energy,' the golden dragon said.
'What you caused by the damage out there is the only reason why it isn't activated yet,' Gege said.
'Agreed,' the golden dragon replied, 'and I believe this is just the portal array. They need to fully activate it before starting the real summoning array.'
"So we still have time," Arthur heaved a deep sigh of relief, "do you know how much I have?"
'I can't precisely judge,' the golden dragon hesitated as he knew his answer would bring disaster if he was wrong, 'but I think we still have six to twelve hours ahead.'
Arthur turned his gaze around, checking over the armies still standing in his enemy's camps. "Six hours aren't that bad," he sneered before turning his gaze to the first heavily fortified point here, "it's your bad to not work on fortifying this place with walls and towers like I did.
It's a shame you underestimated me… it's a grave mistake to underestimate me bastard, a mistake you'll atone by paying your head for it."
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢