Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the defensive dome array was now being attacked by the brute force of Rachana's army. However, would Eli and the rest allow them to succeed.
On the underground, Eli and a team of temple knight mages have been pumping a lot of holy power and mana to maintain the integrity of the dome.
"Let's hold it as long as we can… The longer the defense array stays the less the stress it would bring to our ground troops as soon as it breaks…" Eli creased her brows and focused on giving more of her mana to strengthen and maintain the array while she and her team used mana stones to fuel their operations.
The more the defensive array holds, the more that the troops outside can easily do attacks to the people outside the array and reduce the enemies by thousands.
They know fully well that they were understaffed as it was impossible for the alliance to transport such a large army in a small area like the island and also in a very short time period.
And so they have to hold on much longer in order for them to have a higher chance to achieve victory.
In their hearts they knew that this would be a bloody fight, however, they were all ready. Because if they don't fight now, they would still suffer under the tyranny of evil once they succeed.
Better die fighting now than dying under the enemy's oppression!
"Keep on attacking! We have the advantage of numbers! There were only a few of them and they would have plenty of mana in store!" The lieutenants of Rachana's army also encouraged their soldiers to attack more fiercely.
"Mage team and all who can do long-range attacks, defeat as many enemies as you can! Do not waste the time bought for us by the array team!" Abaddon, Gabriel, and Mishael also directed their team to shift to the offensive.
At his word, countless attacks shot from their end targeting the people who were fiercely attacking the array.
"Aaaaah!"
"Incoming!" One by one the enemy soldiers fell to their deaths and lost life as they were hit by their attacks.
Even so, the attacks did not even slow down. Instead, the enemy troops attacked more fiercely because they knew that as long as they were not able to break the barrier, there would not be any movement from their side.
"We should attack as well…" Prince Nalu looked at the other representatives of the races and joined the fight.
The others nodded with a determined expressions.
Woosh!
Soon as they did, the waters in the ocean started to open and several gigantic waves grew behind the enemy troops!
"Tidal Wave!"
"Everyone watch out!" The warning from the rear did not help when the wave attacks were already coming from behind.
The others tried to flee but there were still many who were engulfed by gigantic waves that were made by Prince Nalu's party.
"We should go as well…" Kayden looked at his platoon and took out their poisonous bombs and shot it at the fleeing troops.
For the second time, the momentum of the fight turned once again and it was Rachana's party who was forced to step back once again.
Watching from the shore, Rachana was once again angered by the turn of events.
Now she understood why the people of the temple back then were fooled. These people that they were fighting against had a lot of tricks in their sleeves.
She could not deny the fact that there would be someone or a group of people who thought everything together and made them successful in their attack.
"These people had brains!" Rachana could not help but admit it despite her frustration.
Even so, she had to do what she needed to do. Or else she would not be able to explain the reason for their loss.
And so she decided to move. She flew all the way to the top of the dome.
"Make way!" She roared in anger as she used her powers to sweep away her own allies who were blocking her way.
This caused the entire battlefield to momentarily pause as her actions really startled both sides of the battlefield.
Then she looked down at the people of the holy island with a look of disdain. "We are done playing with you!"
"You knew very well that once this thing breaks, you are all going down, right?" She gloated.
"But too bad, we would not allow you to get your hopes going any further…" Rachana smiled with a trace of ruthlessness.
"What are you doing?! Continue to attack!" Abaddon looked at the distracted soldiers and woke them up with a reminder.
With that, they directed their attacks toward Rachana who was just easily deflecting their attacks with the purple mana covering her body.
"I told you, your efforts are futile…" She said as the wisps of purple and black mana surged out of her body.
Vrrrrr!!
The next moment, an enormous amount of pressure landed on Abaddon and the rest, including the soldiers outside the dome.
Their faces slowly contorted as they could not contain the suppression effect of the aura that was being released by Rachana.
"See?" Rachana looked at the bad state of the people on the ground and chuckled, "Once I move, you will have no chance at all!"
"Arggg…." Abbadon gritted his teeth, and along with the men they started to resist, but most of them were already on the ground, eating the dust because of too much pressure from her suppression.
"Now, I have no time to play with you. Just stay there obediently and let my men kill you all!" She announced.
Then she stretched her hand and the wisps of mana all flowed toward it. Then it conjured itself into a massive mana ball that looked like a purple blackhole.
Everyone's heart sank as the cold waves of shivers ran down their backs.
Just by looking at it, everyone knew that its power was beyond what the array could take.
Moreover, with that kind of attack, it might even penetrate all the way to the ground where the array teams were.
"N-not good!" Mishael's face darkened.
He realized the damage capacity and trajectory of the mysterious mana ball and it would really go straight to the eye of the defensive array, which is where Eli and the array team were working.
"Eli-chan, the situation outside changed! The fake paladin is directly attacking the dome with her powers and it seems like she also knew about our position as well!"
Wisey who was quietly observing the situation from the outside with the earth fairies immediately reported the matter to Eli.
When Eli knew of this, she immediately alerted her team to escape, "All of you stay as far as possible to this point onwards, a huge attack is coming on this area!"
"But my lady, how about you?!" The mages did not even move as they were worried about Eli.
"Do not worry about me, I have my ways to escape as well. Someone just has to maintain the barrier at the last second to delay the attack and buy us a little more time to escape. I'm confident that I have the ability to escape so you guys should move."
Eli told them straightforwardly as she could not afford them to waste a second which might cost their lives.
Because Eli had already ordered them, the mages looked at each other and nodded. "We will do as the Lady says…"
Then they started to leave their positions and try to escape.
Outside, when Mishael and the rest of the captains and leaders were also trying to ask their troops to move so that they would not be able to be caught by the damage of Rachana's attack.
"Whether you run or crawl, stay away from the trajectory of the mysterious cursed attack!" They shouted to the point where their vocal cords were already on the verge of breaking.
Hearing their leader's desperate cry to push them to save their lives from imminent death, the soldiers grit their teeth and forced their bodies to move away from the trajectory of the cursed mana ball.
Watching them from above, Rachana let out a mocking chuckle, "Hahaha it's no use even if you dodge this. Once it breaks this puny barrier, you will be attacked by my people anyways!"
