"Listen up," Doaf suddenly stopped everyone. However he didn't need to do so. The scene of what was going on at the front made everyone stop and feel amazed by how strong that technique was.
"The moment the technique is over, most of you will go forward and aim at the portals while few will stand around Amera and help to protect her."
Everyone nodded in understanding while feeling great awe towards Amera. She alone managed to wipe out a large number of forces of the enemy on the expense of her strength.
So protecting their hero now seemed like the best thing to do in such a situation. It was the least act of respect towards her.
Especially when many realized the dark angel mage would try to target her once she got weakened. If they were in his shoes, they wouldn't feel any comfort unless she was killed.
"I can't say anything but Amera seemed to be the nemesis of that dark angel mage," Nicole couldn't help but laugh and her comment and laugh came just in time to dispel part of everyone's stress.
And she wasn't wrong about that. Since the beginning of this fierce and bloody war, Amera was the sole hero who always crushed the dark angel mage's plans one after another.
Amera's special technique kept rampaging all around her, killing anyone she pointed her spear towards. However brutal and domineering her technique was, it had a time limit, a short one.
"Now!" Doaf instantly decided to lead everyone towards the front the moment he sensed the end of Amera's technique was there.
He already saw Amera doing this before and so he could guess the moment where her technique was dying. At the same time, the dark angel mage was already waiting for the technique to be over.
It was a secret race between the two sides, one wanted to save their heroine and the other wanted to kill her.
However the dark angel was destined to be the fastest to reach her. After all he was all hidden from this world's eyes and could travel as freely as he wanted.
All this time he stayed barely on the edge of Amera's technique reach. The moment it died off, he instantly darted forward.
Amera could already feel him coming with her mind. She knew he wouldn't let her live and would retaliate at her at this moment.
This moment was the most vulnerable moment in her life. She had no strength to even stand, and as her body fell to the ground she could see Doaf and others hurrying from behind while a strange shaped saber with three edges instead of one appeared from front.
And it was mercilessly heading to cleave her head.
"No!" Doaf roared in anger. He tried to cross the remaining distance as fast as he could. He wasn't the only one trying to do so, but all others were so much infuriated at this moment.
However no matter how fast they flew, they couldn't beat the speed of that sword.
"Boom!"
The sword passed through Amera's body before slamming over the ground. A fierce explosion occurred there followed by a barrage of attacks launched by the incoming mages.
The two sides faced off brutaly at this moment before the sword vanished alongside his owner, leaving the weak and helpless body of Amera on the ground.
"Amera!" Nicole was the first to reach her. She moved even faster than Doaf and looked more devastated than anyone else.
After all, the two came from the same clan, shared the same dream and lived together for quite some time. However the moment Nicole reached her, she stood there motionless with a stupefied look over her face.
"How come…" She muttered in deep shock before everyone else felt the same way the moment they reached Amera as well.
"There's no time for that," Amera weakly said, "go, don't make my sacrifice be wasted… Go now and crush these portals!"
Doaf clenched the hilts of his two swords before nodding. "Protect her," he shouted at Nicole and the few elites chosen to protect her before he started to fly fast towards the portals. "Destroy them… let's do it together!" he raised one sword high in the air before another was pointed towards the portals.
However, on the other side, that dark angel mage was very furious at what just happened.
"How dare you try to save her?" he roared and the next moment he appeared in front of the portals. He wasn't visible to anyone, but his ominous aura could be felt miles away already.
He alone stood there, facing the angry group of elites led by Doaf and others with much more rage.
For him his life is worth nothing at the moment. He already passed over that forbidden line and now he was fighting not to live, but to take revenge before dying.
If the instinct to live was so fierce, the desire to have revenge before dying was without any doubt fiercer!
"He is there," the crow screamed in rage, "let's get our revenge boys… Let's have glory, all together!" he yelled at his men while they all were experiencing different waves of emotions at the moment.
They were the ones who weren't able to go up to the higher realms and didn't know the fate of their worlds. For them they believed in the worst and right now they had a chance to retaliate for their own people and world.
And their honor!
However the dark angel mage wasn't fazed by all this. He just let them come closer before he started to act.
"Woosh!"
"Woosh!"
"Woosh!"
All of sudden portals popped out of nowhere. Their sudden appearance all over the place, around the dark angel mage made everyone feel doubt.
"Are they… Arthur's?" Doaf couldn't help but ask himself in puzzlement, "or…"
However his and everyone's puzzlement was all solved when many mages and monsters passed from them. The first to appear were the surviving leaders followed by few elites.
These leaders weren't anyone but those who were supposed to keep the array working to summon the portal. Everyone already forgot about them, however the dark angel mage decided to summon them now.
After all, the portal he was trying to summon was about to be destroyed in either way. So it was best to put them to good use instead of wasting their efforts at that useless array.
And the scariest fact about them was simply that none of them used their ultimate technique yet. In addition to their lack of fighting during all this time, making them well rested and very refreshed compared to everyone else, compared to their foes.
And yet again the balance of this war began to shift away from Doaf and others while heading towards the dark angel mage and his dark forces.
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