The Insider System

Chapter 251: One At A Time

Chapter 251: One At A Time

Seeing the cloud finally start to open, Tiff just kept running because she knew the Temple Head was the one who would be fighting this first of the Demigods that would be coming down to get them. And she was hoping that by the time the second one got down here the first Demigod from their side would be here to help them.

Seeing the dark figure stream towards them from the now open cloud and a shield of light blocking it for about half a second Tiff knew the Temple Head was already doing her job so Tiff took the chance to look back at the sky. Seeing two new clouds starting to spin, Tiff knew she was right that there would be someone other than the Temple Head to protect her from the next Demigod.

The next cloud that opened was one of theirs and Tiff stopped paying attention to what was going on behind her and just focused on running to make this battle as short as possible. If she kept looking she would have to stay out on the road so she didn't run into something but this would make her trip longer since she wasn't moving in a straight line towards the Holy Domain's capital.

It was one of the benefits of moving towards the Holy Domain. For whatever reason they had decided to make a spire on the Alchemist guild that you could see from really far away. That being said she had seen what was planned for the Alchemist guild in the fake city and the spire there had been visible from the Light Domain.

She was just happy the war wasn't currently threatening the city or she wouldn't have been able to see the Alchemist guild because of their barrier. Hearing another loud noise and another wave of odd mana sweeping across the landscape Tiff knew another Demigod had come down from above.

She wasn't sure what this element was called but she could tell it was probably based off of the Dark element originally so they were probably on the enemies side. It was fine because a second later a much more comforting wave of mana came down and countered the darkish mana that had just swept through.

It seemed the God of Light wasn't just waiting to send his people to save their time; he planned to send the counterpart to whoever the Demon Lord sent down. She guessed this was a smart tactic at their level since the majority of demigods were skilled in magic. This meant you needed to counter each other or you wouldn't have much of a chance at a real fight.

It would just be two people using spells that had no business being used down here around mortals. Hearing another loud boom Tiff knew leaving Dawn back at the gate had been the right call. They were about the same speed if they went all out so she wasn't worried about being slowed down but the size of some of the attacks that were happening behind her guaranteed that Dawn would die on the chance one of them hit them.

Tiff hadn't tested the new talisman yet but she would most likely survive since it was something the God of Light made himself. After a while of running Tiff noticed that no more clouds were in the sky and guessed two was the max the Demon Lord had been willing to send after them and with two of theirs here as well she should be meeting up with the Temple Head soon.

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Walking back out of the base after checking on Wezz, Lake went towards the guy with the armor to see if the barrier had failed yet. It was bound to happen soon as long as it wasn't able to power itself by means other than whatever it had been charged with before the man's death. Lake had to stop and see if he could get close to the man since the barrier was see-through but it still only took him a few seconds to see it was still up and he was able to get back to looking for new equipment.

Landing on the streets he had already checked for weapons when Wezz had asked him to. Lake quickly found a few nice pieces of armor he had walked past without noticing the first time he came through and added them to his bag since none of them were what he was looking for. He just needed some boots that would actually fit and he was done putting together the new set he was going to wear until he could buy one that matched or got lucky enough to steal a full set off of a body.

As for the gloves he had given up on finding any he could wear that weren't too clunky. He needed to be able to use his fingers so having thick metal wrapped around them wasn't worth the extra protection especially since he had a skill that let him grow them back.

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"Hey are you Donny?" Donny wasn't able to look back since he had to focus on what he was doing but he still answered. "Yes."

"I just wanted to come by and thank you in case I didn't get the chance again." Donny had already gotten 20 or so people coming to thank him for saving their lives so this was nothing new so he said. "It's no problem. Try not to get grabbed again and we're even. I don't want to have to fight more undead than are already out there if it's ever my turn to go outside and fight."

With about 600 people inside the base at the moment Donny had saved about one in ten of them so his name was all over the place at the moment and he was expecting a few more people to come see him to say thank you. It wouldn't be all of them though, there were a lot of people who didn't like to say thank you so he was expecting the number to be just about half.

"Well I'm up in about ten minutes so goodbye." Donny almost wanted to laugh at how curtain the man sounded that he was going to get killed this time for sure and took a brief second to get a look at them while they walked away. Seeing them he was sure they would be fine as long as they did what the others did.

It had been a few hours since they lost anybody so he was sure teamwork was the most important thing on the walls. The only people that were getting taken were those that tried to do something fancy or lost their cool. That was why the losses had been so much worse at the beginning.

Feeling a spell hit the part of the wall he was reinforcing, Donny took the time to repair any damage that had been caused to his formation before he looked to see if anyone else had taken damage from that attack. It seemed it had been a direct hit on his part of the wall and everyone else was just fine.

Turning back to Fendis he said. "Have you heard anything about what it's like out there?" Fendis didn't spend as much time asleep as the rest of them did since he was able to use Wind Mana to do his job for him so he had more chances to talk to the people on the other shifts. "They're saying we're starting to make some real progress killing the Demon Worshipers but the attacks won't end until we find the person who can turn all the bodies into undead."

"Less spells to defend against though." The undead outside were mostly the mindless type that didn't use magic so once they got through the Demon Worshipers they wouldn't be getting hit by so many spells. "What, you want to be out on the wall that bad?" Thinking about it Donny started to nod and said. "I would rather be out there. I'm a fighter first, then a mage." At least when it came to combat.

Donny saw Fendis look at him so he looked over more and saw Fendis staring at his highly damaged sword. "What are you going to do with that?" Knowing Fendis was right that his sword was pretty much useless at this point he said. "I picked this up after my spear was destroyed. So I would get a new spear then go out on the wall."

"You know they do let the mages go out there as well and I've seen you use magic to destroy the gargoyles so maybe you should just ask to see if they need someone out there."

"I don't think they need a Metal Mage out there when there isn't any Metal Mana. You're more likely to get out there than I am."

"I'm not exactly what you would call deadly. I just started my training in Wind magic and my spells don't make it past armor."

"It looks like we'll both be staying here then." Donny truthfully didn't mind standing right here until this was over if it was what he needed to do but he felt bad about the fact he could probably make a difference in the fight if he had the chance.

The chance would come even if he just waited patiently so he had no need to go and bother someone about getting to fight. There was no way the people in charge here in the fortress would waste so many talented mages inside once the walls were no longer getting bombarded. They would need them outside to help destroy the bodies past the point where they could be used to make more undead.