[You fool. Do you think we’re dealing with the remnants of the Light Faction here? We’re after a single lowly inhabitant of a lower dimension and we have to catch him within three days!]
[A-Argh!]
[Do you think we have time to send out a scouting party? Really?!]
[I-I apologize. I didn’t think this through. I’ll tell everyone to hurry up.]
[Finally, you understand.]
[I-I apologize.]
Gulp.
Barely swallowing the blood in his mouth, the mid-rank sorcerer got back up and ordered the contaminants to speed up.
“Kwak! Kwak!”
Chuck!
The contaminants started moving forward rapidly.
‘Hmm, not bad.’
Haverus smiled in satisfaction.
‘Ugh!’
The mid-ranked sorcerer rubbed his still painful chest.
‘Damn it, he could’ve used words. Why’d he have to hit me!’ he grumbled inwardly.
The lower-ranked sorcerers around him cowered as best as they could so that the mid-ranked sorcerer’s anger wouldn't be directed at them.
‘Huh?’
Suddenly, a high-ranked sorcerer sensed something strange.
‘What is this feeling?’
Since the magic circle had been destroyed, it wasn’t something that could be sensed in this land. It didn’t have a murderous aura or anything like it, so the high-ranked sorcerer thought it was strange.
Swoosh! Boom!
[!!]
[I-It’s a raid!]
Boom!
Two explosions occurred.
Rumble!
Boulders instantly blocked the entrance and exit of the canyon.
[L-Look up!]
As soon as a tamer shouted, an arrow made from red lava flew out from nowhere, piercing the trainer’s forehead and melting his brain.
Stab! Tsssss!
The trainer was assassinated without even knowing why he died in the first place.
[D-Damn it!]
The sorcerers panicked.ÚpTodated novels on no(v)el()bin(.)com
The contaminant army’s weakness was when they got trapped between the canyons like this. Early on in the war with the Light Faction, they suffered quite a bit of damage from ambushes in the canyon. Later on, they eventually sent out scouts and changed formations and no longer fell for this trap, but right now, they were completely unprepared.
[S-Senior sorcerer!]
[Ughhh! This damn lower dimension citizen!]
The high-ranked sorcerer was furious at the unexpected ambush, but his nightmare was only about to begin.
The reason why this battle in the canyon was so unfavorable to the contaminant army led by the hyena sorcerers was relatively simple. The massive contaminant army boasted elite contaminants with great strength, but the most threatening aspect was undoubtedly their overwhelming number. If a battle was fought in a canyon with such a steep angle, the contaminants wouldn’t be able to move because of how many of them there were. In other words, the contaminant army’s greatest strength couldn’t be utilized.
“Stewart.”
“Understood.”
As soon as Han-Yeol gave his order, Stewart snapped his fingers.
The Shurarmors and Lava Golems positioned on either side of the canyon began to fire ranged attacks in unison.
Whoosh!
The Shurarmors fired bolts of deep pink mana, while the Lava Golems unleashed a rain of lava arrows.
Whoosh!
The golems weren’t very accurate when it came to aiming, but that didn’t matter since the contaminants were densely packed in the narrow path below the canyon. Even if they didn't aim, their arrows and ranged skills would hit them anyway.
[Senior sorcerer!]
Several mid-ranked sorcerers called out to the high rank sorcerer with an urgent expression.
[Damn it, what are you guys waiting for? Send the contaminants that can climb the cliff to kill them, and send the ones who can’t to the front and back to open up the exits!]
They weren’t going to win just because Han-Yeol had succeeded in trapping them and bombarding them nonstop.
“Gaa! Gaa!”
Thump. Thump!
Not the ordinary contaminants, but the enhanced contaminants that the sorcerers had carefully crafted were steadily crawling up the cliff.
But Han-Yeol wasn’t too worried about that.
"Just as the Bastrolings' weakness is their lack of ranged attacks, the contaminant army also doesn’t have many ranged attacks. Of course they do have some, but it’s not like they can properly use them.’
The lack of ranged attacks was, in a way, the official mark of the Bastro Dimension as a whole.
‘Well, the only thing the hyenas have going for them is that their enhanced and special contaminants can attack from a distance, which is why they ended up dominating the Bastro Dimension.’
Therefore, Han-Yeol was wary of such things. It wasn’t like the Light Faction didn’t have any sorcerers with ranged skills. However, they were more focused on mastering spells that were more life-oriented or specialized in oracles or combat support rather than strict combat-related spells.
Kwang!
[Senior sorcerer, the contaminants have finally climbed to the top.]
[Haha, good. Now we’ll fight for real.]
[Hehehe, yes.]
One thing about the hyena sorcerer’s spells was that they were weak in movement-related skills. However, the high-ranked sorcerer had a few useful movement skills.
[Change it up, contamination army!]
Haverus, the high-ranking sorcerer, raised his skull staff and chanted a simple incantation. A huge magic circle formed around him.
‘What is that?’
At the same time, a magic circle formed beneath the contaminants who had managed to climb the cliff.
‘No, it can’t be?’
Han-Yeol suddenly grasped what kind of spell it was, but it was too late to counteract it.
Swoosh!
[Khahaha!]
‘Ugh, I didn’t expect him to have such a movement skill.’
Han-Yeol planned to attack them from above the canyon and drain their energy as much as possible before fighting with them directly because he wanted to conserve as much energy as possible. Han-Yeol’s group were clearly the intruders, while the hyenas could defensively draw a huge amount of resources from the Bastro Dimension.
It was common sense to avoid going all out in this kind of situation.
‘Tsk, he got me good.’
Han-Yeol hadn’t expected Haverus to have such a movement skill since the hyena sorcerers were known for not having many, but he was wrong.
“Oh well. Tara!”
[Yeah, Han-Yeol.]
Tayarana turned around with twinkling eyes when Han-Yeol called, excited to do something as she had been so bored all this time. She remained expressionless, and only her eyes twinkled slightly, but it was hard to tell from afar. No specific orders had been given yet, but she knew roughly that it was her turn to step up.
“I’ll need your help. This is going to be a proper battle starting now.”
[Okay.]
“Master, I can join too, right?”
“Of course.”
“Hehehe.”
Tia was smiling, but her eyes were filled with a murderous aura.
[...]
Tayarana liked the idea of joining the battle, but she hated that Tia interrupted her conversation with Han-Yeol.
“What’s wrong, Tara?”
[I-It’s nothing.]
With that, Tayarana lowered her visor.
Click.
‘I wonder what’s wrong?’
Tayarana’s sudden lack of energy left Han-Yeol slightly confused.
Thump!
However, he couldn’t think about that for too long. The group of high-ranking sorcerers who had succeeded in climbing the cliff were about to engage in a full-scale battle.
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