Free Web NovelChapter 53: A Bonus Chapter for Egypt’s World Cup Historical Performance - First Team Battle (2)
At such distress moment, Silas instantly took the lead. In this intense moment, a flash of shadows passed over his vision, giving him the best way to overcome those monsters.
Retreat wasn’t an option. He saw them getting shredded by the claws the moment they tried to do so. Standing scattered was suicidal, as these monsters seemed to attack in groups, coming from different impossible angles that not a single one of them could defend against.
The only option was to clump together. At this delicate moment, everyone listened to his orders without a speck of hesitation. And their trust in Silas and fast actions helped save their lives.
"Alfred," the moment they grouped, Silas instantly shouted a barrage of orders, "you will run around us in circles, defend any claw you see. Don’t think, don’t hesitate, just stop any shining, flashy claw you notice." freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
Alfred instantly started running, while Silas turned towards Cher.
"You’ll activate only one fireball, stay in the centre, kill anything you spot."
Cher’s face was a bit darkened, yet she nodded and did what he asked for. He then turned to Darius.
"Help me up!"
"What?!!"
Darius expected many things, but not this. Yet Silas wasn’t joking.
"Lift me, hurry!"
Darius didn’t know what went wrong in his friend’s mind, but he followed his instructions. Silas rose on top of him, sat over Darius’ shoulders, and took five daggers out.
"What about me?"
Once he did the absurd request, Darius didn’t hear any other instructions. So he panicked and shouted.
"What shall I do?"
"Don’t move a muscle!"
Silas narrowed his eyes and kept looking left and right. The next instant, he spotted a crack in the ground. Before thinking about it, his daggers moved and killed the squirrel that was about to come out.
FWOOSH! FSWOOSH! FWOOSH!
All of a sudden, his dagger kept flashing left and right, killing the squirrels which tried to emerge in the area around Darius and Cher. From outside, Many squirrels came out to attack, yet they were all stopped by Alfred.
"They are coming, man, what shall I do?!"
Panicked, Darius watched as the squirrels were sent away by Alfred’s scales, planning for a second attempt. Yet this wasn’t a problem anymore, as they weren’t invisible to them. And their attack paths were quite predictable.
"What else? Just wave your iron tusk and kill!"
Silas rolled his eyes, thought this was quite easy to grasp. Luckily, these squirrels were anything but monsters with strong defences. With a couple of hits, they died. Yet the team eventually suffered a few wounds from their claws, especially from that agile tail.
Watching her friends struggle made Lara grit her teeth. Her body even trembles slightly out of her inward rage.
"I’m just as useless as an exhausted Mana Crystal."
She bit her lower lip fiercely, leaving behind a bloodied mark there.
"If I can tame even a single monster, if my ability doesn’t have such a low success rate, I would have helped them instead of watching their struggle from afar."
For a moment there, she moved her eyes over to the squirrels attacking her friends, feeling the irresistible urge to tame them. The squirrels were not particularly powerful, yet the way they reshaped the battlefield fascinated her.
She tried, again and again, yet her ability kept failing, not responding to her inner rage and self-blame.
Eventually, five minutes passed before the last squirrel was killed. These five minutes were quite intense, but the danger was finally dealt with.
"Phew! That was close!"
Darius wanted nothing else but to retreat to the safety of the shield and lie down on the ground. He wasn’t the only one panting; the three others suffered from the same exhaustion.
"There is no time for that." Silas climbed down. "Let’s continue our fight like before. In case another wave of those squirrels appeared, let’s group and do the same."
Everyone was tired of issuing a single objection. Even if they were tired, the monsters around didn’t give them time or room to breathe. And like this, the hectic fight continued.
As the battle progressed, Silas became completely immersed in combat. His performance surpassed anything he had displayed during training.
The daggers moved like bullets, streaking across the battlefield, killing monsters before returning to him and launching once more. Training lately wasn’t the sole reason for such performance, not even his recent enhancement. He poured out all the rage, frustration, and helplessness he had, and let them flow into every attack. freewebnσvel.cøm
Rather than suppressing those emotions, he used them. Then Lara finally succeeded. She tamed a group of fierce tigers, creatures with long ivory tusks, thick fur, and triple-arched tails.
The moment they fell under her control, she positioned them around the edge of Cher’s hundred-meter area of influence. The beasts provided a protective buffer, allowing Cher to recover and replace depleted crystals without retreating all the way back to the shield.
Lara had managed to tame twelve tigers, the largest group she had ever controlled so far. Seven were sent to support Cher, three joined the trio fighting at a distance from Cher, while the last couple were left to roam freely, act as a contingency against another wave of squirrels that appeared almost every twenty minutes.
With the additional help from Lara and her monsters, their killing speed immediately surged. For the first time since the battle began, they started clearing entire sections of the battlefield. And their growing confidence spread through the team.
More importantly, the pressure on the shield decreased dramatically. To Silas, that was the greatest victory of all. Fortunately, their new formation achieved that goal without reducing their offensive power.
Eventually, after an hour of hard combat, the monster wave finally passed beyond their position. It was their first hard-earned victory as a team. Yet none of them possessed enough strength to celebrate.
One after another, they retreated behind the shield and collapsed onto the ground or leaned against the outpost’s massive stones. Despite their exhaustion, smiles appeared on every face.
"That was intense, especially those damn squirrels... I hate squirrels now!" Darius said first. "But we did great. I think we killed more than two hundred monsters."
"Two hundred?" Lara laughed. "We killed at least twice that."
Everyone laughed. After drinking water and catching their breath, they set out to collect the spoils of battle.
Silas, however, walked toward the Rune Heart. After confirming that enough crystals remained to sustain the shield, he sat down atop the crystal bed and closed his eyes.
Even after fighting for an entire hour, the turmoil inside him had barely eased. The cool energy flowing from the crystals spread through his body, soothing his battered mind.
’I just need to endure a little longer.’
’Eventually, an opportunity to release that monster will come.’
’Surely it will come.’
