Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 152: Realization (2)

On a night three days after Rain managed to kill the spies, he felt that most of his body was back to normal. Around the same time, he noticed that Liss had finally made some serious progress with her training. While she needed to total focus, she could use the mana that she recovered during meditation to warm things around her in a five meters radius.

"Ahhh, this is life..." Asche said while feeling truly relaxed thanks to the warmth.

"Don't drop your guard; we still didn't do anything in this mission," Jori said. "The progress of the fortress speed up in the last few days, so if the enemies might do something, it will be soon,"

Rain wondered if that was true... Jori had some good instincts sometimes, but Rain didn't feel alerting him yet. However, once night fell, and Rain began to check the area around, he soon saw numerous auras approaching from north, south, and west.

"Did my senses get dull since that fight boosted my confidence?" Rain thought. "I can't think of anything else..."

Rain didn't like that, but it seemed the only explanation... or maybe his senses were only good at alerting him from ambushes. While it wasn't a large number... Rain could see at least fifty enemies coming and ten times more monsters... they were the magic people that could brainwash others. It was the only explanation.

"The enemies are coming. Alert everyone for combat," Rain said while looking at his allies. "Their numbers are too high; we can't deal with them by ourselves."

"What? From where?" Jori asked while looking around and only seeing darkness.

Still, Rain created a Fireball above them and soon fired in the direction of the first group of enemies. When the attack crossed five hundred meters, a wave of Fireballs emerged from the darkness and hit Rain's projectile. Flames and light illuminated the area, and soon everyone saw hundreds of monsters coming from that direction.

Everyone gulped when they saw that... more of them were coming from other directions. Still, that size alone already heavily outnumbered them.

"Fight as a group, don't do anything stupid, and we will win this," Rain declared.

The enemies stopped just before their silhouettes could be seen in the distance; they were also surprised that somehow the humans managed to identify them with such antecedence... Still, they didn't have time to waste; now that they had moved that many men and resources, they had to kill everyone and burn down the fortress once and for all.

After ten minutes, the enemies began to move. At that moment, Rain used the mana in his eyes and confirmed that the masters controlling the beasts were behind all of the groups. Two of them had fifteen, and one had twenty masters... they were smart enough to split their forces to avoid all of them being attacked at the same time...

"Fighting the monsters while they are being controlled will be too hard; they will just bombard us from a distance," Rain said. "I will make them become a mob."

Before anyone could say anything, Rain used Impulse... this time, he did it upward, and soon he disappeared like a shadow in the dark sky. Before he could lose altitude, he used wind magic under his feet, and then a blast of wind propelled him forward once more. He just had to do that three more times before he reached the enemies and began to fall... Still, he could see their eyes on him.

"It is useless, shitheads..." Rain said and then covered his arms with wind instead of Earth. "Neither of you did that to my father, but all of you will pay for the crimes of that bitch."