RISE OF EROS

Chapter 153: CHAPTER 152

A few minutes later Oliver entered the office and Andrew mentioned the idea of using some guards as an audience for the dancers to practice. Oliver thought about it for a moment and then said, "It can be done, as long as there are no more than 10 people or we will have problems with the defenses."

Andrew nodded and gave him the list of guards he'd chosen. Andrew was always watching everyone in the Heavenly Palace with his Eros eyes, to see if there were any changes, whether they were bad or good, that's why he knew who the most loyal guards were.

It was not strange that the most loyal guards were the oldest since they had been with him the longest and had developed a feeling of respect and loyalty towards him by the way he treated them.

Oliver took the list, reviewed it briefly, and nodding his head, said, "Okay, I'll notify them so they can report to the dance room after breakfast tomorrow."

With that topic concluded, Oliver left to brief the selected guards while Andrew and the girls remained in the office discussing various topics.

While everything was going on as normal in the Heavenly Palace, a falcon had arrived at the messenger tower at the castle. The administrator of the place took the message from the falcon's foot and after reading it, he ran to the meeting room where the king and the ministers were discussing the stampede of monsters.

Zelfit was reporting on the defense strategies they were adopting when there was a knock on the door that interrupted him. "What's going on?" the king asked aloud, and without the door being opened, one of the guards was heard to report, "The manager of the messaging tower has an important message."

"Let him in," the king said again, and the door opened. The man entered the room and after bowing and greeting all present he respectfully delivered the message to the king.

The king read the message with a serious expression and told the man who had brought the message, "Send homing pigeons throughout the city, from noon martial law is declared until further notice. Only food, medicine, and weapons stores can conduct business, the monster stampede might come tomorrow."

The messenger promptly replied, "Immediately, majesty" and departed. The moment the study door closed, the king passed the message to the ministers to read and avoid unnecessary questions.

When everyone had read the message, they were all serious. It wasn't the first time they had faced a stampede of monsters, but according to the message they received, this time it would be much bigger.

That was not the only problem. The message also said that the scouting team had spotted two peculiarities. The first several flying monsters could be in the stampede, which was bad news since they could overrun the wall.

It wasn't like there weren't any flying monsters in the past, but they were always few in number, since in the black forest there weren't many flying-type monsters, but this time they had spotted a lot of them and that was troublesome.

The other peculiarity, which was also bad news, was that the scouting team had seen a group of hooded men inside the black forest. Unfortunately, the scouting team couldn't capture or know what their purpose was, but the fact that they were in the black forest when a stampede was coming was not a good sign.

They all had bitter expressions on their faces, but they couldn't do anything at the moment, they could only face the problem in front of them and that was the stampede of monsters, so the king said in an authoritative tone, "Zelfit, report about the flying monsters, strengthen the crossbows and let the magicians be attentive to the sky".

The king paused and spoke again, "As for the men in the black forest, we will deal with them later." Zelfit responded with a short, "Yes, majesty" and hurried away.

The others remained in the room discussing other matters until the meeting ended an hour later. Now the king was alone and he said softly, "Demon, have you found anything?"

And from the shadows, the hooded man from the last time emerged and delivered a letter to the king before disappearing into the shadows again. The king was not bothered by the man's attitude, because he always acted like that.

The king opened the letter and upon reading it, his expression turned deathly cold as he said, "Keep gathering information". This time there was no response, but the king knew that his orders had been passed on.

Shortly after the castle's messenger tower manager received the king's order, a large number of homing pigeons flew through the city reporting martial law and everyone knew then that the stampede of monsters was coming.

Since the fact that there would be many flying monsters this time had also been notified, everyone was in a panic, as those monsters were the biggest threat, as they could cross the wall without any trouble.

For that very reason, Andrew and Oliver decided to cancel their plan to use the guards to help the dancers, as they needed every man to protect the Heavenly Palace now that they knew that flying monsters were coming.

Andrew also consulted with Fluffy if there were any combat skills he could buy to defend himself now that there was such a risk as flying monsters, but he ended up disappointed, as he didn't have enough points.

Andrew couldn't help but get annoyed at how expensive the combat skills of an Eros god were, since he had close to 5 million points and it still wasn't enough. That frustrated him.

Oliver made sure that all the residents of the Heavenly Palace knew about the new threat and it worried them, but since there was not much they could do, they could only pray that nothing bad happened to them. story-at-MvLeMpYr

The threat from the flying monsters was so great that everyone in the city was depressed and the residents of the Heavenly Palace were no exception. The anxiety was so great that even at night Andrew and the girls did not feel like having fun and just went to bed early.

The next morning, the atmosphere in the city was heavy and depressing, as everyone knew that the monster attack could start today. The meeting that Andrew had scheduled with Nadila had also been postponed, since with martial law it would be complex to meet, not to mention dangerous.

The hours slowly passed, increasing the anxiety and worry of the city's inhabitants, and afternoon, the city's alarm sounded. The soldiers quickly began to mobilize and take their positions.

On the wall, Zelfit looked to the horizon where a black patch could be seen on the earth and sky. More than 2,000 ground monsters and close to 1,000 air monsters made him put on a serious expression because as long as he could remember, there had never been such a large stampede.

Monsters of all shapes and sizes were running and flying with murderous glares and saliva dripping from their mouths rushing into the city and when they were a few kilometers from the city, Zelfit shouted, "GET READY!!!"