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Chapter 91 Beast Tide (7) (Bonus Chapter 1/6)

"roar!!"

The two-headed ogre roared simultaneously from both heads, its flail whistling as it smashed into the crowd.

"Get out of the way!"

Valen's eyes narrowed, and he charged towards the ogre.

The longsword collided with the iron ball, sparking a string of sparks.

Valen took a half step back, managing to withstand the blow.

"What strength—" Valen felt a slight numbness in his wrist, but he didn't give his opponent a chance to catch his breath. He swayed and lunged forward, thrusting his sword at one of the ogre's heads.

A flash of white light, and blood splattered.

The ogre, in pain, wildly swung the iron chains in its hands.

But at that moment, several monsters hiding in the shadows seized the opportunity to pounce on Valen.

"Watch out!" a soldier next to Valen exclaimed.

Valen felt a chilling wind behind him, but he was entangled by the two-headed ogre in front of him and couldn't turn around at all.

At that moment, a figure appeared out of nowhere and stood in front of Valen.

Ryan simply made one move—to parry.

[Iron Wall Stance].

The monster's claws gripped the two-handed greatsword, but apart from a few sparks flying, they didn't even leave a mark.

Renn didn't even flinch, perfectly channeling all the impact force into the ground.

"roll."

Raine loosened his grip on the sword hilt with his left hand, clenched his fist, and unleashed a powerful punch.

The punch landed squarely on the head of a monster.

Taking advantage of this lull, Valen finally adjusted his posture.

"Well done!"

He roared, no longer having any worries.

The longsword in his hand continued forward, and with a [Cross Slash], it directly severed the other head of the two-headed ogre.

The enormous corpse crashed to the ground.

Renn withdrew his fist and stood next to Valen again.

The two stood back to back amidst a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

"Good teamwork." Valen panted, a grin spreading across his face.

Raine remained expressionless, but the greatsword in his hand protected Valen's side.

With the addition of Raine's fresh troops, the situation on the city wall finally stabilized.

But this does not mean victory.

The monsters below the city continued to surge like an endless tide, wave after wave crashing against the defensive line.

Following Rein's orders, Thales cast a fireball spell from the side and rear of the monsters. While this blocked some of the monsters, it also drove the remaining monsters even more berserk.

"This can't go on."

Raine stood at the edge of the ramparts, cleaving a ghoul that was climbing up in two with a single sword stroke. "Too many of them."

Although his physical strength was supported by his breathing techniques, ordinary soldiers were already nearing their limits.

Just then.

More figures slowly emerged from the distant city walls.

Ella's excited voice rang out: "Raine, look! Those are other troops!"

Renn suddenly looked up.

Around the black pine forest, the various patrol teams stationed in the surrounding areas finally rushed to provide support after seeing the black smoke rising from the battlefield.

They are coming.

"Waaah"

A bugle call pierced through the clamor of the battlefield, coming from the flank.

Then came the rapid sound of horses' hooves.

"Knights of the North! Charge!!"

Flags came into view.

Those were reinforcements from various garrisons.

Although each team consists of only a couple hundred people, or even just a few dozen, the leaders are mostly official knights from the Northern Knights Order.

They chose to go down the city wall and attack the monsters from the side.

Several hundred cavalrymen plunged straight into the horde of monsters.

"Kill them all!!"

"For the North!"

The horde of monsters that had been frantically attacking the city were thrown into disarray in that instant.

Panic, with enemies on all sides, spread through the herd.

The cunning monsters finally began to scatter and flee.

The balance of power on the battlefield has shifted.

"Counterattack!!"

When Valen saw this, his blood began to boil.

He raised his longsword with his right hand and roared hoarsely at the soldiers behind him, "Open the city gates!! Everyone who can move, charge out with me!!"

"The time for a counterattack has come!!"

The gates of the fortress opened again.

Raine raised his two-handed greatsword and glanced at Valen beside him.

"Don't die."

"Ha! I'm tough as nails!" Valen laughed loudly. The two exchanged a glance and rushed out of the city gate at the same time.

At this moment, in this black pine forest stained red with blood, the roars of humans finally drowned out the howls of the demons.

This first wave of monsters finally collapsed.

They were originally a motley crew, and only managed to suppress the defenses by sheer numbers and madness.

Now that their numerical advantage is gone and their escape route has been cut off, the primal fear deep in their bones instantly takes over.

"Awooo————"

A dire wolf, its tail between its legs, howled and turned to flee into the depths of the dense forest.

Its escape seemed to send a signal to the group of monsters.

The ogres that had been putting up a fight began to retreat, and monsters scattered and fled in all directions, even trampling each other in the chaos.

"Trying to run away?"

Renn stopped in his tracks, his chest heaving violently.

He stared at the dire wolf trying to escape into the woods, his eyes as cold as ice.

He didn't chase after them.

Instead, he temporarily planted the greatsword in his hand into the ground and took the standard longsword that he had never used from his waist.

Take a deep breath.

The Black Rock Breathing Technique erupted instantly, life energy surging to his right arm—it was the same move Rein used against the gnolls.

This wasn't exactly a technique; it was Rein's instinctive reaction in that instant.

With a whoosh, the longsword flew out of his hand, instantly covering a distance of fifty meters.

Then, the dire wolf that was running wildly suddenly stopped.

The longsword pierced its neck precisely from the back, going straight through its throat and pinning it to the trunk of a black pine tree.

The dire wolf twitched twice and then stopped moving.

Half an hour later.

The snow was still falling, but the battle cries on the battlefield had gradually subsided.

Outside the Black Pine Forest encampment, corpses lay strewn across the field.

Black blood mixed with melted snow water gathered in low-lying areas, forming small pools.

Raine pulled back his longsword, then picked up the greatsword and walked back to the city gate.

He found a rock that wasn't yet covered in blood and sat down, placing the greatsword across his knees.

After a period of intense exertion, waves of physical fatigue inevitably wash over you.

Even with the support of the "Black Rock Breathing Method," the soreness in his muscles still reminded him how much energy he had just overdrawn.

"Give."

A water bag was handed to me.

Renn looked up and saw Valen's face with a hearty smile.

This official knight had completely lost his usual imposing manner.

His plate armor was tattered, his left arm was simply bandaged and slinged to his chest, and fragments of what appeared to be the internal organs of some monster clung to his messy hair.

"Stop looking, it's water."

Valen plopped down next to Renn and let out a long sigh. "The wine was all gone a long time ago. Even the flask of wine I treasured was just drunk up by that old mage you brought."

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