[Note: In the previous chapter, I mistakenly mentioned Knight. My apologies for the confusion. I will correct this in the revision. I’m leaving this note here in case the earlier section hasn’t been updated yet.]With a ping sound echoing through the battlefield, they quickly noticed that the unseen force that had been restraining them in place had suddenly disappeared.“Go now!” Alec immediately gave the command, seeing that his teammates were momentarily stalled, without hesitation, he dashed forward first.The others quickly followed behind him at high speed, after a few seconds, they finally reached the location of the first rune point which was closer to them, using their movement skills, they had vaulted over the remains of damaged structures and scattered rocks until they arrived before a ring-shaped white light floating just above the ground. From the center of the circle, a beam of light shot straight into the sky, this was the southern rune, the first strategic rune point A

The voices were the last thing Alec heard before a moderate Earth Dome, slightly taller than him, formed around his body, but even though his vision was completely blocked by the dome, his teammates’ defensive preparations didn’t stop there.The second and third spells layered themselves over the Earth Dome to reinforce it.The Glacier Guard spell summoned multiple floating ice shards shaped like runic symbols, and they began orbiting around the dome like a protective formation. Meanwhile, the Ironwood Barrier manifested as a wall of hardened wood.Thick roots burst from the ground and twisted together, forming a reinforced barricade in front of the dome.However, despite the number of defensive spells that had been cast, they all had one thing in common—they had been deployed in extreme haste.Then the crushing wind pressure finally descended.Boom!The impact thundered across the battlefield.The Glacier Guard formation was the first to collapse as the orbiting ice shards shattered

To be fair, Carmilla was doing everything she could to keep her left arm from becoming completely useless, at that moment she was manipulating the blood within her arm, forcing it to resist the invading plant energy and suppress the foreign element spreading through her shoulder.That was the only reason her arm hadn’t exploded from the wooden parasite Endrick had activated the moment the arrow struck its target.This particular technique was one Endrick rarely used, after Alec had given him a manual containing numerous plant-element spells fused with archery techniques, he had promised himself that he would only use them in life-and-death situations because of how brutal their effects were.But now, he felt no need to restrain himself. After all, the bodies they were using were merely astral projections, not their real physical bodies.While Carmilla struggled to locate him, Endrick had already taken position inside a nearby damaged building, specifically on the upper floor overlookin

A short while earlier, when Lucas and Brandon had retreated toward the eastern rune, Brandon had suggested setting up a trap.Though Lucas didn’t know much about how traps worked, but he figured it wouldn’t hurt to try, as if it worked out it would be in their favour and even if it failed, it could at least distract their opponents long enough to create an opening.Acting on that, Brandon formed a series of hand signs before thrusting his palms outward in multiple directions around the rune’s vicinity.Semi-transparent earthen hands, tinted in a faint brown hue, shot out toward the spots he targeted and sank into the ground as if nothing had happened, the only indication that anything had been placed there was a faint glow that vanished almost instantly._ _Back to the present.All this time, Brandon had been subtly trying to lure them into the trap’s range, but they had never come close enough, and with Damien, being highly proficient in long-range combat it became much more harder f

The reason Carmilla had been able to win so easily was clear, she was in her transformed state, and was fully clad in her spirit equipment set, all of these just serves to augment her physical abilities beyond the normal state she was once in.Although Endrick possessed a spirit weapon, but it was a ranged weapon and in close combat he simply couldn’t match Carmilla’s physical capabilities. In her current state, the only way he could have stood a chance was if he too had some form of enhancement to bridge the gap.“Brandon, get her. Lucas, hold that other vampire. Pale, stall the remaining two until backup arrives,” Alec commanded.The battlefield instantly descended into chaos, as Dragov dropped straight onto the central rune, his massive greatsword crashing down with him. Alec managed to block the strike, but the force behind it pushed him back nearly eight steps, leaving him just inches from falling off the floating platform.Meanwhile the War God Mage Team didn’t hesitate to exe