It didn't matter now how many were thrown at her, she would kill them all in a fraction of second. The two inside the circle saw what she was doing and finally got some confidence in crushing that weakened shield.
The attacks of Arthur and his combined forces seemed too brutal for the shield to endure. The octopus monster was his strongest asset, but others combined dealt much more damage.
The shield kept fluctuating all the time, but it seemed it was still enduring their attacks. That drove Arthur mad and didn't even stop for a second to catch up his breaths.
He also heard what that treacherous dark angel mage said. He knew any moment taken for this shield to be brought down would cause more casualties to his forces.
However at some point he spotted Amera, Doaf, and the crow coming fast towards the shield. Without any room for speculations, he knew what the three were trying to do.
"Everyone focus on that point," he instantly moved along the shield, heading towards the point the three stopped at, "let's help them..."
Arthur's shouts were even heard from the inside as well. Doaf and the crow already started their barrage of attacks.
And as Arthur expected, their attacks were mighty but not enough to take that damned shield down.
The shield was already getting reinforced by the grandmasters of the higher realms. It wasn't something to be crushed this easily, and he was the only one who could tell that.
He could see the dark energy surrounding the shield getting consumed by the white energy from the attacks. However just before the dark energy would all be consumed, a sudden gush of energy came from one point and replenished it.
That made the shield sustainable to this moment. However Arthur saw at last a silver lining of hope here.
"If we manage to consume the energy faster than the time of the reinforcing higher dark energy would come, then we will win this war," he said to himself as he noticed the pattern.
There was a pattern in the supplement of the grandmasters' energy. It seemed they couldn't support the shield all the time and needed an interval between each time.
This interval wasn't that big to begin with, at least it would take roughly twenty seconds between each wave of dark energy to appear.
So he knew they had to take down that shield in these twenty seconds no matter what!
"C'mon," as he gathered up his forces at one point, the consumption rate of the dark energy of the shield got faster.
But not fast enough yet.
They took roughly twenty-five seconds to deplete the shield energy. They lacked five seconds, only five seconds made the difference here.
But for him it looked like five years. It wasn't that easy to cut these five seconds, especially when that damned dark angel mage was releasing more grandmasters here in each passing minute.
Arthur had no way to increase the number or strength of his forces. His only hope now lay in his current forces to be able to get this shield down before it was too late.
"Attack them," however as he hung everything over the three inside, the dark angel grandmaster wasn't slow in noticing his plan, "stop these three at any cost!"
As he shouted, the next moment Arthur could notice many rays of light coming directly towards the three inside. They were grandmasters and if they arrived the three now, everything would be lost.
"No room for hesitation then," Arthur clenched the hilts of his two swords before waiting for the reinforcing wave of the dark energy to appear and reset the clock for him. "Amera... Activate your technique now!"
That was his only hope. Amera was so busy dealing with all the mages coming hot at them. She couldn't help in attacking the shield, as if she did they would get attacked by those mages.
However none of the three inside noticed the great threat drawing fast at them. There was no time to hesitate, as these grandmasters wouldn't take longer than thirty seconds or so to attack them.
Amera stopped what she was doing and gazed up at him. Arthur didn't stop his barrage of attacks for even one second. However from this brief gaze, Amera knew things weren't looking good for them.
"Alright," she didn't hesitate to believe him and without any hesitation he activated her technique.
"Stop them now!" the dark angel grandmaster seemed to see all through Arthur's plan. He knew what Arthur was aiming for and so he couldn't stand silent while watching Amera activate her brutal technique.
However Amera's technique was activated even before any mage around could reach her or the other two. A bombardment of fire attacked the shield mercilessly while she pointed her spear towards it.
"Ten seconds... twelve seconds... fifteen seconds... seventeen seconds..."
Arthur kept counting seconds while the entire shield turned into a little star, shining brightly in white light over this world.
"Eighteen seconds... nineteen seconds..."
"Rumble!"
"Boom!"
At the last second, the shield exploded fiercely and created a gale of wind that swept away everyone in its path. Even Arthur was thrown hundreds of meters away before he instantly thought of a countermeasure.
"Gege..."
'I got it!'
Without further ado, flashes of portals appeared all around just behind anyone of Arthur's forces. Arthur was swallowed by the portal before appearing just beside the trapped forces of his.
And he wasn't the only one to have such treatment, everyone on his side also appeared next to him.
Including Doaf, Amera, the crow, and Jud.
"We... made it..." the crow was already panting while gazing around in haste, "it's good. We haven't lost all of our forces yet."
Despite him saying that, Arthur knew they lost a lot already. Almost one third of their combined elite forces were killed or injured in this trap only.
"Attack!" Arthur didn't want anymore to die, and thus he issued his order even without the assembly of everyone or waiting for the shockwave to end.
"Attack!"
"Kill them all!"
"Don't leave any alive!"
Arthur's order was repeated in different ways by the others. Arthur didn't join this fight yet, he had more stressing matters to attend to.
"Gege... Move me, the recently summoned dragons, the werewolf, and the octopus to where those damned grandmasters are."
'Right away!'
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