As we move through the smoke, I can hear some banging at the front. Have they already engaged them? But there was not a single orc outside the wall.

When we got through, I raised my head to check.

"Sister!" [Mooly]

Suddenly. Mooly, grabbed me and pulled me down. As she did that, an arrow whizzed by to where my head should have been. My face then landed on her chest, a suitable airbag eheh...

"T-thanks." [Angelica]

"Sis, be careful next time! I cannot hear all of the arrows that are coming our way!"

I got scolded for being careless... Mooly has good hearing, is it for sensing predators? Her ears, each move in a different direction as if scanning the surroundings. I want to touch them...

"Hyahh?!" [Mooly]

"Sorry!" [Angelica]

She jumped when I traced my finger on the edge of her ear. Now, it's my time to pull her down.

I peeked from the sides. The elite knights are getting peppered by arrows from the orc archers. When their shields get hit by arrows, it makes this distinct banging, like it was rain.

"Heal!!"

"Steelbody!!"

"Impenetrable Shield!!"

"Point Barrier!!"

~~~

Supportive Spells

Steelbody - Makes the skin as hard as steel for a few seconds. Gives high resistance to piercing and slashing attacks.

Impenetrable Shield - Makes shields 4x stronger while reducing knockback effects, also applies its effects to shields that are linked together.

Point Barrier - Makes an invisible forcefield that slows down oncoming projectiles by 3/5 of their speed.

~~~

As the arrows rained, so does the Healing and Supportive magic on the meat shiel... er, knights.

When our archers returned fire. The orcs on top of the wall started to fall. Heheh, it's really like in the movies.

In an instant, most of the knights in the middle of the formation collapsed on the ground. They were screaming in pain, among them were eight knights, impaled by a ballista arrow.

They were like a barbecue on a stick... some were still alive, vomiting blood...

We have five groups of elite knights in turtle formation, each group consists of a hundred knights.

There are three ballista arrows scattered near them. One stuck on the ground like a pole, the second made a trail of earth, and the last with the impaled knights. They were focusing their fire on a single knight formation.

"Take out those ballistas!" [Elite Knight]

"We still need to get closer!" [Magician]

"Archers! Snipe them!"

If the magicians can't reach them, so will the archers...

"Arrows!"

"Heal them quickly!"

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"Use their shields!!"

"Incoming!"

The orcs fired a volley towards the downed formation. It's like a bunch of lines moving upwards like in the 300 movie... {1}

"Angelica?!" [Blake]

"Daughter! No!!" [Steven]

"Sister!" [Mooly]

"Deflect!!" [Maria]

As the adventurers helped the knights. Arrows are going to get them if I don't help.

I stood in front of them and raised my kris. Maria immediately followed with a protection spell on me. She raised her thumb and winked, that's our magician!

"She's going to get hit!"

"Wait, her sword!"

Wind enveloped my sword, forming a vortex, that was quickly increasing in size. This is the first time, that I'm using Crescent in a more powered-up form via crystal, I wonder how big it'll get?

Even though the arrows were still far away. I fired it early, just to be safe.

When I drew a line, a wall of wind appeared in front. 25... 50... 100... 150 meters? Hard to tell the size, since it's wind and all. I'm using the dust cloud it generated to measure it.

When the arrows made contact with the wind, it rolls in the air as it gets pushed back and falls harmlessly to the side of the field.

"She used a huge spell without casting?"

"Hey, it's still going on!"

My Crescent moved towards the city, it collided with the barricades and destroyed a part of it, opening up a path as it dissipated.

I have completely expended the power of the crystal, a part of it falls off my kris as it shattered. Maybe I shouldn't have used it at the limit. If I do, then I might've been able to use it a little bit more.

I've also imbued Bladestorm into this. I wonder how much damage will that inflict if I released it all at once?

Whew... I haven't taken the time it took to dissipate into consideration. I'm afraid that I may have nearly wrecked a part of the city...

"Don't just stand there! Help them!"

They managed to save some in time before the next volley fell.

"Cool." [Mooly]

"I need one of those." [Blake]

"Guys get serious, people are dying here." [Angelica]

"Sorry..." [Blake/Mooly]

"They're coming out." [Steven]

"Weapons ready!" [Kate]

Finally! The orcs inside the city started to move. I don't want to fight in the city because there is a high chance that we'd be cornered, there's also the problem with traps.

We moved forward. We're not going to wait for them to get in formation away from the city.

If they did, then we'll be target practice for their archers and ballistas, while they will be out of our engagement range.

Slowly, inch by inch, we march. Around us people fell one by one, some with only a whimper, others moaned in agony.

"The ballistas are in range!" [Magician]

"Begin casting then, dammit!!" [Everyone]

I nearly laughed at the funny exchange, luckily I managed to hold myself back.

"Fire Strike!!"

"Fissure!!"

"Ice Beam!!"

"Lightning Ball!!"

"Acid Rain!!"

~~~

Offensive Spells

Fire Strike - Red-colored lightning bolts, when it strikes the ground/target, it sets it and the surroundings on fire after a huge explosion. Looks quite similar to a mortar strike.

Fissure - Makes the ground shake then opens up a giant hole, swallowing up the target/'s.

Ice Beam - TM13? {2} A beam that freezes targets solid XD

Lightning Ball - A round orb of electricity. The initial hit will roast the target, followed by a discharge of lightning bolts in all directions. Very dangerous, as it has a high chance to inflict friendly fire.

Acid Rain - Rain that melts whatever it hits.

~~~

The ballistas are already destroyed in our first volley. They're throwing spells one after the other... this is payback I guess... The barricades are getting banged up really good too.

Michelle ordered us to halt outside the wall and said that we should engage the orcs coming out of the openings.

From the barrage of spells and arrows. A few of the orcs weren't even able to set a foot outside of their barricades. This will be our "Kill Zone" or "No man's land."

In two hours we held that position, till the magicians gave out. They had run out of energy potions, but they had effectively reduced the number of orcs.

I couldn't get a clear body count because they blasted some of them to smithereens. My rough estimate should be in the 5-6k's?

Sadly, we cannot obtain nor sell the equipment... Too bad, they are from a legion too...

Michelle, made the magicians and elite knights fall back to rest. They have had enough action for now.

Among the heaps of bodies, the warg riders emerge and the bat riders flew.

What followed behind, are the remaining orcs, with a single orc king and a dozen orc lords...

Contrary to the magicians falling back. The ones who pulled back were from the magic academies.

So Maria is still here to support us. We, adventurers, have our own magicians and they are still locked and loaded and ready to go.

The only difference between an adventurer magician to an academic magician is the Magic Levels. Those who came from the academies are likely to have more powerful spells and more variety in their arsenal.

Likewise, adventurer magicians have few of those, unless they are high ranked, for them to have access to more advanced spells by paying to be taught how to use a spell.

Now, that their archers and ballistas are out of the way. This is the time for us adventurers to shine.

References

{1} Reference to a scene in 300 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv51gMcV1Mw]

{2} Reference to Pokemon. TM13 an item which lets your pokemon learn the move Ice Beam.