Chapter 343: Distribution of powerhouses.
The arrival of the armored hippos further increased the tension and raised a question in the minds of every student.
Why hadn’t they started bombarding the beasts outside the wall? The more time they wasted, the more time the beasts had to set up their plans.
[The first thing you should put into consideration, is that the beasts aren’t that dumb to setup up things like these if they didn’t have ways to counter attacks that would disrupt them.
Secondly, there is a chance that the ash corps are not ready for an all-out war, especially without knowing much of the beast plans and having limited resources.] The system explained.
It would be unwise for the ash corps to fully commit to a battle with the beasts when they hadn’t seen a substantial amount of their cards. Besides, the beasts were the aggressors, so the humans did not need to attack them unless they were attacked.
‘That explains why it took them so long to show themselves’ Blake said in the mind link when he thought of how deep and far into the forest all the tunnels would have gone to connect both the armored hippos and such large amounts of water.
While all those on the wall were still talking about the armored hippos, the forest began extending towards the city.
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“Are my eyes failing me or is the forest moving to us?” Blake couldn’t help but ask because hundreds of trees were sprouting from the ground in seconds.
Soon, the sea of beasts was slowly getting concealed by the large leaves of the trees, until the sprouting trees stopped inches away from the city barrier.
At that moment, sounds of tree-climbing animals, insects birds echoed throughout the wall as a new batch of magical beasts made their way out of the forest.
‘Isn’t this the perfect time to start firing at them?’ Castiel couldn’t help but ask when he was unable to differentiate between the original boundary of the forest. 𝒃𝙚𝒅𝙤𝙫𝒆𝒍．𝙘𝒐𝙢
[Not at all. The city should have an array of some sort that sees through the forest.] The system said.
‘Then that means it is a dumb setup?’ Brian asked.
[Not really. The creation of the extended forest is more like a resting place for some special beasts like the birds since they can’t fly forever. Also, it puts the beasts in their natural habitat, thus increasing their fighting capabilities and opening up more opportunities.
Still, it isn’t enough for them to start attacking.]
‘Don’t you guys think we should be more worried about what was able to sprout so many trees?’ Blake asked making the other ponder over it.
‘Are we looking at an emperor beasts?’ Castiel couldn’t of how the situation could get worse.
[Most likely a plant-type emperor beast, but there is a chance that multiple king-rank plant-type beasts might be responsible for this.]
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At the city military chief palace.
After the preparations for the surprisingly early beast tide were done, Prince Bryon had left for the capital, and had left Colonel Darius in charge of the military activities of the city.
Currently, in the war room colonel Darius and his assistant Ashley were going through a status report of every wall.
“The beasts having taken a similar approach of digging tunnels and extending the boundary of the forest at the southern, eastern, and western wall.” Ashely reported, causing colonel Darius to frown before asking.
“All at the same time?”
“Yes, but the simultaneous extension of the forests at the 3 walls, eliminates most of the chances of facing a plant-type emperor beast.”
“Although having to deal with a plant-type emperor beast is a pain in the butt. It is nowhere compared to having to face a united army of beasts.” Colonel Darius said in a serious tone, shocking Ashely.
‘I can’t even remember the last time he was serious, talk more of this serious?’ Ashely couldn’t understand what was going on but she knew it was very serious.
“Since you are relatively new you won’t understand, let me give you a little explanation.” Darius said when he saw the confused look on Ashley’s face.
“You see, during the beast tides, all beasts are seen as united but that isn’t totally true.” Colonel Darius continued as he began pacing around the room. “For example, during the last beast tide, although every beast had attacked at the same time if you study it, you would notice that the beasts at each gate had taken different approaches at attacking the city.”
Ashely was thinking why he would say they were united when the beasts at the northern wall hadn’t taken the same approach.
That was when she remembered that the north consisted of mountainous regions and not forests. So they would be close to no plant-type beast in that region.
(AN: For those that are confused, Bulian hills is located northeast of Calton city, not direct north.)
“Now, you might be wondering how is this dangerous? What you need to know is that, throughout the history of this city defending against the beast tide, only in a handful of them were all beasts truly united, and in all of them occasions Calton city had suffered great losses.”
“Thank you for the explanation. I now understand.” Ashley said with a bow.
“Report on the Northern gate?” Colonel Darius asked.
“Nothing had changed from the last report, sir.” Ashley said causing Darius to deeply ponder because it was highly unlikely that nothing serious would be happening in the north when the other 3 sides had shown to be united. It was most likely that something was happening, but they had no clue of it.
“Time for the distribution of the powerhouses.” Colonel Darius said, as the 4 by 4 meters crystal table lit up showing Calton city and every available powerhouse.
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