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Zoemi cheered at the sight of his dragon daughter and the green dragon cried out in response.

"Nnn...?"

Karall let out a curious sound and looked back, either at her own back or at the Atreterve forces behind the wall.

"Papa, aunt Kierul asks if she should fry those tiny people swarming under here!"

The dragon turned back to Zoemi and called – the two of them could speak normally only because both of them had a sense of hearing far above the level anyone would consider normal.

"Why would you bring Kierul here?! Haaa, never mind. Tell her that we are at war, I leave things up to her own judgment! Oh, but they do have magic barriers!"

"Okay~!"

Zoemi shouted staring straight up toward Kaaraal and the green dragon cheered back to him.

The black-haired young man breathed out and turned around just in time to see the real army of the Bellcephora kingdom being teleported in platoon after platoon by Aspakeony's light corpse puppets.

"Kaaraal, tell him that it looks like the enemy is retreating, the wall and a big girl like you must have scared them."

The red-haired magician riding on the back of the green dragon said while patting the monster's back.

"Papa~ aunt Kierul said that they are retreating and...!"

"Sweetie, I can hear her too, it's okay."

Kaaraal was keen to relay the words but Zoemi merely chuckled and stopped her.

"...there was a watchtower here... Zo-mi, what did you do with the watchtower?! And why the hell did you build a wall like that?!"

One of the gold-haired corpse puppets ran up to Zoemi and cried out skulkingly while looking up at the young man's face whit a grumpy expression.

"Aspy, it's cute but we have no time for it now. Please, pacify the soldiers and take away the submission collars. Hopefully, the commoners can be completely freed from the control after I cleanse them with the law of Aquarius."

The black-haired youngster breathed out and tried to smile while rubbing his head with a rather troubled expression.

"...?"

The corpse puppet controlled directly by the gray-haired necromancer made a worried expression as she gazed upon him with concern.

"Zo-mi...? Is everything okay?"

She asked reaching out and affectionately taking his hand to which the young man smiled reassuringly.

"Yeah... I am not sure whether I reached my limit even being the Heavenly Star Warrior, or maybe because my consciousness is spread equally amongst my other selves my will is stretched thin I am not as efficient as I should..."

Zoemi breathed out, furrowing his brows as if he was dealing with bothersome discomfort, making the corpse puppet controlled by Aspakeony look even more worried.

"How about you come back to the Academy? I am steadily bringing the bulk of the defensive force here and the supply units are coming along on their own.... look things will be fine. I will comfort you as much as you wish."

The corpse puppet fidgetted and looked up at the black-haired martial artist while making an adorable face.

"That would be nice... but not yet. I get this uneasy feeling that I am missing something and the troubles are far from over."

Zoemi responded turning towards the wall that he created with the element control of the star power.

"Fine, but don't push yourself too har..." *WHAM* *RUMBLE*

"!!!"

Just as the corpse puppet was nodding, dropping the subject for the time being a large tremor shook the entire area causing a could of dust to rise from the massive border barrier.

"?!?!?"

Even the green dragon perched on top of it seemed to be taken by surprise – she had to spread her enormous wings just to keep her balance.

*WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* x40 *RUMBLE*

The hollow sound of the earth being hit began to repeat in regular intervals and the wall began to shake more and more with each round.

"Kaaraal! What is going on over there?!"

Zoemi left Aspakeony's corpse puppet and rushed toward the wall, shouting to the green dragon while already jumping through the air as if it was full of solid platforms.

"Some really big people moved walked in from the back and started hitting the wall with really big hammers...!"

"Zoemi! Did you make the pillars on this side?!"

Kaaraal reported what she was seeing but Kierul still on her back had her own observation and worries connected with it.

"What pillars?"

"Dad asks what pillars."

Zoemi questioned taken aback and the dragon repeated his question at the same time that he landed by her side.

The sight below wasn't too promising – the Atreterve forces showed up with more artifacts that created barriers over their heads protecting them from the falling debris while also just as Kaaraal said before heavily armored soldiers with hammers were doing their best to bring the said wall down.

To call those units heavily armored was an enormous understatement, the heavy enchanted armor that the King's Guard used was thin like the finest silk in comparison to what they were equipped with. Similarly, the hammers they used were artifacts that utilized the wind and fire magic crystals to boos their destructive power.please visit

Thinking that a wall made without the use of mana would stop them for long was a gross miscalculation...

But what was even more threatening was the sight of dozens of towers reaching into the sky in places where minutes earlier the land was barren and empty.

There was movement on top of those towers too and a faint glow of unknown origin or purpose began to emanate from a couple of them...

"Okay, so it's not our doing."

Kierul looked between the green dragon and the black-haired young man before nodding and winding back her finger as if preparing to flick someone's forehead.

"I believe that the towers are the real problem, so let's get rid of them first. Kaaraal, sweetie, do you mind flying around so that as many of them would align for me to bring down?"

"Okay!" *WHOOOOOOOOSH*

Kierul shook her head and didn't bother with interacting too much with Zoemi, instead she tapped Kaaraal's side with her heel and asked, making the green dragon comply with a cheer and ascend into the sky with one flap of her monstrous wings.

"...what are those supposed to be...? Tsk. Kierul focuses on the wrong things..."

Zoemi furrowed his brows, taken aback by the sight of the massive pillars that weren't there before he created the wall, still, in the end, he shook his head and looked down at the Atreterve forces gnawing at the wall below.

"...not important..."

He flinched and looked up for a moment, frowning at the towers that one after the other began giving off a more intense light as if it did bother him a bit, but then he shook his head - ignoring them - and waved his hand to the side.

*CRACK* *RUMBLE*

The pieces of the wall began to break off and fall rain on the Atreterve soldiers but all of it crushed against the barriers created by the defensive artifacts with no immediate effect.

*^%#$@#^$%%@#$#^%@$#^* *BOOOOM* *RUMBLE*

At the same time, Kierul riding on Kaaraal's back unleashed her attack and a beam of blue light pierced through several mysterious towers before expanding into a white beam and taking down an additional two.

Still many of the towers were still up - and all of them managed to light up with rather disturbing light.

Well... it was wrong to call it light, really - while at the start it was giving off a certain glow, it turned silky-black in no time at all.

*)()$%$^#$_)%$#@*

As if in response to Kierul taking down a quarter of the total number of the towers, pillars of jet-black darkness shot into the sky from the tops of the remaining ones - at a certain height the beams of darkness spread out and turned the sky completely black, bringing complete darkness to the border pass and its proximity...

"!!!"

The forces on the Bellcephora side fell into chaos but the only reaction the Atreterve soldiers had to the sudden blackout was to activate additional artifacts that lighted up their surroundings.

"...tsk. Just retreat!"

Zoemi's odd behavior only intensified as the darkness didn't bother him no way near as much as the presence of the forces gathered by the wall.

*WHOOSH* *RUMBLE*

This time the black-haired youth waved his hand back and a wave of earth bulged out from under the panicking soldiers' feet and carried them away like a surge into the darkness.

"ZOEMI, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"

*WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* x40

Kierul lighted up the area by conjuring a large fireball over the wall and roared at him from the dragon's back while the sound of hammer strikes continued...

"Getting rid of the nuisance."

Zoemi scoffed, shrugging his shoulders dismissively.

"YOU CRETIN, YOU JUST ATTACKED OUR PEOPLE!"

"...!"

Kierul howled making Zoemi flinch and turn around.

Indeed - the Atreterve forces were still hammering away at the wall while the soldiers pushed away by his power were on the Bellcephora kingdom's side...!

"What? No...! Impossible...! Ah..."

Zoemi staggered back and ended up tripping an...

...falling down the wall, to the feet of the Atreterve forces...

"This is what we were worried about? Pretty pathetic if you ask me."

"..."

An aloof-looking woman with golden hair with black streaks appeared in mid-air, catching the falling young man who looked as if he wasn't aware of her presence.

The woman teleported to the ground with him and already on the ground she took out an object that was just a rune-covered blade of a dagger stuck to a jet-black magic crystal and...

"PAPA!"

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HIM!"

*THUNK*

Kierul roared as Kaaraal dived after Zoemi - but they were unable to stop the aloof-looking woman from stabbing the object right in the middle of Zoemi's forehead...