Chapter 455: Magic Formation
The allied army has been given the signal to attack. The army is separated into squadrons that have a general leading. Each squadron has a thousand members that consists of a mix of classes.
Each squadron has five hundred foot soldiers, a hundred armed cavalry, two hundred rangers, a hundred mages, and a hundred priests. This formation is the most effective way to siege a world boss, but the difference is that they are attacking a dark god.
The magical formation that the Church of Light has acquired will be used in battling the dark god. The allied army needs to reach the center of the fallen imperial capital in order for the formation to be set up.
The allied army all entered the barrier set up by the gods with caution. The scouts already tested the barrier by entering it. The barrier does not repel those who want to enter it, but the monsters inside will immediately sense those who enters.
From trial and error, the scouts tried looking for the routes where monsters will not immediately attack or where a large army could rally. The scouts also noticed that the barrier seemed to limit the perception of the dark god because it did not try to attack them.
The scouts did not know that the dark god only treated them as ants. Elephants really did not care for ants as they do not even notice if they trample on them. The dark god, Nyarlathotep, will only move when demigods are present because those are the beings that could potentially injure it inside the barrier.
The dark god, Nyarlathotep, would not have cared for demigods if it was not inside the barrier. It managed to kill a demigod easily when it first step foot on the mortal plane, but the barrier weakened its influence.
"Everyone march forward!" All the generals commanded, and the allied army started to enter the barrier one by one.
The vanguard for the allied army consists of 80% players and 20% NPCs. The allied kingdoms want to minimize their loss which is why they opted for the players to be the vanguard. A lot of players joined because they get 100 gold as a reward even if they die.
This is also the time where the Church of Light will test the magic formation that they got from the Asmodian. The Church of Light gathered most talented alchemists and mages to look at the magic formation in case it was a trap. The mages and alchemists gathered were mind blown by the beautiful and powerful magic formation that they did not stop talking about it.
As soon as the allied army vanguard has entered the barrier, the numerous faceless monsters started swarming them as if attracted to body heat. Each of these monsters are actually reliant on their keen sense of heat detection.
These faceless monsters swarmed each squadron in haste. Each of these monsters is above level 200 and does not move in groups. Some of these monsters are even fighting for their meals as they do not like to share. One thing is for sure, these faceless monsters are hungry.
The allied army did not show great coordination as they are just bunched up players and NPCs. They started becoming more coordinated when the generals started to personally lead. The general will issue a command and the player will receive it through the system notification.
If the player disobeys, they will lose contribution points but if they follow then it will increase depending on the command. The players did as they were told, and the squadron started to become more coherent. Each player or NPC started to show great coordination that they can easily push back the faceless monsters.
The allied army moved slowly towards the center of the imperial capital where the dark god is currently seated. The rangers are responsible for long range scouting and their main priority is observing the movements of the dark god.
The dark god that is treating the imperial castle as its throne did not appear to move but looked like it is meditating. The dark clouds that cover the imperial capital is forming a vortex where the center of it is the dark god. These dark clouds look like it is giving power to the dark god as the land below it is starting to terraform.
The ground below the dark god is the thing responsible for the spawning of the faceless monsters. The faceless monsters will just suddenly emerge from this dark tar pit. The rangers who saw this happening reported it to the mage division which will report it to the higher ups via magic telegram.
The vanguard is not to go to battle with the dark god unless commanded. Their purpose is to reach the desired area to test the magic formation. Basically, they are expendables if the magic formation is actually a giant magic bomb.
The players actually did not know this as they were told that they should try their best to reach the dark god. They are making considerable progress in getting to the center of the imperial capital though.
"Hold your positions! Defend the High Priest!" The generals commanded as the high priest of the Church of Light brought out a pure mana stone.
There are exactly twenty squadrons with a high priest each. The magic formation could be cast by one individual but that would take a godlike individual like an Asmodian to do it. The mages and alchemist decided to ease this burden by separating the magic circle into twenty points.
Each point will be the foundation while the drop of Asmodian blood will be tossed in the center after the magic formation is created. The twenty pure mana stones started to glow and create a converging magic circle that covered the designated area. A bird soulbound then delivered the drop of blood in the center of the formation where the dark god stayed.
Once the drop of Asmodian blood reached the center, the magic formation suddenly glowed in a rainbow aurora indicating that it activated. A scream is suddenly heard from the dark god which was previously quiet. One thing is for sure, they managed to agitate the dark god.