Violet and Kenji rode Tenko forward, the crystal knight galloping beside them.
All around them the Guildmembers fought by the dozen, desperately, and with no few having to be dragged away as wounded. Arrow's filled the air thick as locusts, knives flashed and the Guildmembers forced hard laughs as they attempted to compete with who could kill the most undead.
"5!" Shouted a girl with a spear, the spear tip bathed in light. The added agility made her light as a feather, her movements flowing like water as she burnt many a hole through zombie limbs.
"6!" Shouted a youth with a bow, each flaming arrow setting its target alight. His hands moved at a rapid-fire pace, and while only too few of the enemy died to his attacks, many more were weakened.
"7-ah!" A wizard who had been forming a ball of flame in his hands suddenly found himself surrounded by Ghouls. Armoured warriors defended him with stoically held shields, yet with the enemy so close the wizard could no long unleash his destructive spell safely.
Nearing the enemy formation, Tenko howled. First, her moon was summoned, the adventurer defenders throughout the field encased in a silver bubble. Then Tenko howled again, her moon turned silver, and the beleaguered defenders found their agility increased.
With the speed boost, the crystal knight crashed a path through rank after rank of the dead. Those old bones raised from the cemetery broke like old clay, but the freshly raised zombies and Ghouls took their tole about the summoned knight.
By the time they had reached the enemy Necromancer, the crystal knight was overwhelmed.
"Left!" Called Tenko, charging the left most pack of Ghouls.
"Right!' Called Violet, sending bursts of crystal to erupt beneath the rightmost packs' feet.
"Middle," Kenji groaned, forced to face off against the armoured pack. On all fours, the once townsfolk now ran like dogs, unhinged jaws foamed and snapping as they attacked.
Kenji couldn't use the Corrupt Spirit Tree so quickly after leaving it's copied body behind and was thus forced to fight as the boy knight. But he wasn't alone.
The earth erupted with allies.
They appeared from fox holes that had been covered up, the hidden Guildmembers attacking now that the necromancer had been pulled in. They made short work of the regular dead, and were strong enough to deal with the Ghouls too. If slowly.
"Fools! You would dare cross the Three gods? The One will have your hearts on a platter for this transgression!" The shaved-headed necromancer cackled as Kenji charged.
With a flick of her wrist, the Necromancer sent a Ghoul galloping past. Frowning Kenji followed it, the Ghoul heading straight for the buck-toothed boy. His hands were shaking as he cast some ice spell, a blast of cold air slowly the charging Ghoul. It would not be enough.
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"Kid, Run-," Kenji was forced to block as an armoured Ghoul launched at him, the buck-toothed boy moments from death in the corner of his vision. Slashing the armoured Ghoul across the face, Kenji turned and found the child soldiers fighting the ghoul off, it's scratching claws and snapping mouth being held off by a dozen pitchforks and lessor weapons.
"We've got this, go put that bitch in the ground!" The wicked girl screamed as she plunged her knife into the Ghoul's eyes, and the buck-toothed boy finally started to build ice up along its limbs. Slowed down further, it was weakened to the point that the children could handle it for the moment.
Nodding, Kenji refocused on the objective.
Now that her guards were distracted, Kenji could reach the necromancer herself. Jumping to the ground, she whispered something to her raised barbarian and pointed.
Immediately the barbarians eyes glowed a crimson red, its muscles expanded and it began to swing its huge claymore in wide arcs. Having already used his Corrupt Spirit Tree, Kenji was forced to fight as the boy knight for the moment. He considered Ash, but knew that she was likely to dive to the side to defend Violet rather than follow the plan.
"We want him alive!" screeched the necromancer as Kenji narrowly avoided being split in two. Dodging past the barbarian's next swing, he skewered the zombie through the stomach to no effect.
"Fool! you cannot harm my creation!" she laughed derisively and even added a [Blessing-fire] to the barbarians blade for added effect, yet her laughter was cut off as crystals erupted all around them.
Having a pair of Ghouls break the crystal aside, she peered around for Kenji with no success.
"Bastard, don't let him escape!" she hissed, her giant turning to charge right at her.
"Stop you oaf, STOP!"
The barbarian froze and continued to stare at the rat that scuttled past her feet. Kicking away the filthy creature, Dana the Damned searched for her prey.
"Come out come out wherever you are-huek," from her belly had appeared a blade coated crimson. Falling back against strong arms, the boy knight met her with a look of deep-set hatred.
"Die already," he hissed as he pulled free his blade to lop off her head, "and give my regards to your god". As she died the undead army stalled, then turned feral. Ghouls remained in their packs, but all other creatures snapped their jaws around the nearest hunk of flesh.