Magic Research - Chapter 32：Awakening and The Guardians

The fight lasted another hour before ending with the annihilation of the demons and the death of more than 75% of the apprentices, the commander seeing the loss ordered 2 caravans to turn back to bring the bodies of the deceased to their family .

They got back on the road, and it was after 1 month of road that they arrived at the fortress, the battle was raging outside the forterrese, catapults and the mages bombarded the magical barrier of the fortress, the commander decided that they would enter when this battle will be over.

Adrian was already awake for 1 week but staying in a bed in one of the caravans, when he woke up he asked how was Emill and apparently he was fine and had visited in his free time, Adrian was relieved to hear that the only person in the caravan convoy he knew was in good health, he decided to spend his time training and resting.

They stayed for an additional month until the siege ended, the demons retreated and the convoy appeared in front of the immense iron gates of the fortress, Adrian was now on foot again after 2 months of rest and he had progressed hugely, its accumulation had reached the 60%, still 5-6 months and it will be able to pass to the crystal stage.

General Atribane led the fortress and maintained the magic barrier around the fortress, Adrian was ordered to join his regiment placed south of the fortress, apparently the mage who oversaw the runic department had died during the ambush so he was in charge of the department which added to him responsibilities.

Adrian performed different tasks during the first month like enchanting the arrows of gigantic crossbows placed on the walls of the fortress, Adrian gained the confidence of his department little by little, the apprentices under his responsibility realized that during the distribution of Adrian’s tasks did not give a mission completely impossible and send reinforcement when it was needed, Adrian again received members including 3 mages who at first did not want Adrian to be the captain of the Department but they were silent when they saw that Adrian was not far from the Conjuration.

For a month no attack of demons had come to smash it on the walls of the fortress until a gigantic army was one kilometer away from the fortress.

“Your department is posted to the south gate, order of the general.” Adrian received the order from the general via the commander, the general knew that his department was weak so he sent them to the least dangerous gate, the demons were stationed near the north and east gate.

Adrian every morning had been trained to manipulate the Guardians, a huge stone that formed soldiers in energy particles that would defend the wall without sending a man to the battlefield.

Adrian went to the wall and was in front of a huge crystal, Adrian was accompanied by 4 mages to ensure his protection while he controlled the guardians.

Adrian placed his hands on the crystal and sent the 5 types of energy in the crystal, near the doors 300 soldiers of 5 different colors for each elements appeared then were joined by other energy soldiers created by the 3 other crystals placed at the southern gate, which was an army of 1200 soldiers, on the walls, there were about 100 archer and 3 ballists ready to welcome the demons.

At the south gate a small army of about 6000 demons a dozens of catapults and a dozen mages were present, the soldiers put it in a defensive position and the archers were ready.

The demons were shaking the ground by tapping the ground at the same time, the demons were out of the range of archery and ballista and took the opportunity to try to destabilize the enemies.

Adrian meanwhile gave orders to the guardians, even though he could not control them in combat he could control their placement and their goals, the goal of the guards was to win the time the archer kills the demon soldiers and during this time the wizards had to deal with the enemy mages, while the ballista their arrows was enchanted with rune of explosion to destroy the catapults.

Residents of the fortress had volunteered to place it at the top of the walls to throw boiling oils and rocks at the enemies who ascended with the help of ladders.

Silence reigned over the future battlefield.

It took 10 minutes for the assault to be launched, in the first line was the Gragnirs followed by soldiers like those in the ambush and finally catapulted with Ogre creatures measuring more than 8 meters high equipped with a tree trunk as a weapon.

The wolves arrived at the same time in the shooting range of the archers, a shower of enchanted arrows descended on the Gragnirs sometimes reducing the skull of Gragnirs in porridge, they were fast but their defense were weak, the rest of the Gragnis engaged the fight with the Guardians, the demon soldiers had also just returned to the draw zone but their victims were small because they advanced by raising their enchanted shield but however their advance had been slowed down.

It was at this moment that the mages decided to act.