Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 311 - 86: Dark Beast Tide

Therefore, due to the embezzlement of the lower-level city defense officials, some of the engraving arrays that hadn’t been replaced or renewed for many years had already failed, lingering in a state akin to Schrodinger’s protective array.

Before truly being activated, no one knew whether it could still function properly.

Against ordinary beast tides, perhaps there was indeed no need for a defense system, but when the Resistance Army approached the city and launched a fierce attack on the City Lord Mansion, this became a fatal problem.

Regrettably, a miracle ultimately did not occur.

When the professionals within the Resistance Army suddenly rose up and caused trouble within the city, the City Guard Officers immediately activated the defensive arrays.

But the Magic Shield merely flickered once and then went out completely, due to the overload of some aged inscription materials.

Realizing that something was amiss, the City Guard Officer ordered the lower-level City Guard Army to resist desperately, to stall the Resistance Army’s assault, while he himself slipped away through a secret passage.

Unfortunately, he ultimately failed to escape, and ran into the encirclement laid by the Resistance Army outside the city to prevent important figures from fleeing, where he was captured on the spot after being overpowered in fierce combat.

This was a serious provocation against the Empire’s rule, and everyone who learned of the news for the first time was astonished at Starfire Organization’s ignorance and fearlessness.

Frey Province was the territory of the Aslade Family.

Normally, even if the Gloria Empire’s attention was severely diverted due to ’allied’ reasons, the strength of the Aslade Family alone was enough to easily exterminate these resistances.

It was like a group of ants uniting to rebel against a Giant engaged in battle.

Perhaps the Giant was temporarily busy fighting with another Giant and couldn’t spare the attention. But even a mere pinky finger, if extended amidst the busyness, would be enough to crush these rabble civilian resistances.

Unfortunately, neither the Gloria Empire Family nor the Aslade Family can spare even a pinky finger now.

More pressing than the Resistance Army, another grave matter has tied up all of their energy.

On the evening of the first day of the new moon, an unprecedented, colossal dark beast tide suddenly erupted throughout the Empire!

Wailing Cave in Frey Province, Whispering Abyss of Dead Spirits in Paravani Province, Kalko Rift in Karlars Province, and so on...

In various locations throughout the Empire, passages and cracks leading to the Underworld, as well as new openings carved out by dark creatures, were now pouring out all manner of peculiar dark beasts.

Dark Three-headed Pythons, Nether Sea Dragon Beasts, Shadow Reapers...

Countless dark creatures formed a colossal, cataclysmic beast tide. Engulfing everything in their path, they advanced with unstoppable, terrifying momentum towards the east.

Heading straight for the location where a meteor fell in Magna Province, and even further east to the Endless Sea.

It was as if there was something there calling for them—

At first, although a few High Rank Prophets had issued a warning a day in advance, the Empire was still caught off guard.

Several medium-sized cities were utterly destroyed by the surging tide because of the depleted defensive forces and the failure of the aging defensive arrays.

But after suffering the initial devastating losses, facing the ferocious dark beast tide, the Gloria Empire’s nobles promptly reacted, beginning to defend their territories with full force.

After all, not all City Defense Officers were embezzling, and the most egregious embezzlers had already vanished along with their cities, whose defensive arrays failed, swallowed by the vast beast tide.

Many City Defense Officers managed to skim less, ensuring the Defensive Magic Array could still operate, which allowed them to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

In less than two days, all High-Rank Professionals had spread out, defending large and medium-sized cities throughout the Gloria Empire against the devastating Dark Beast Tide, to prevent the cities from being trampled into nothingness by the tide.

And the residents of the small towns near each major city had already sought refuge in the main city with the protection of the City Guard Army and High-Rank Professionals.

However, for some remote small villages too far from the cities, the villagers could only rely on their own luck.

In such a severe situation, the Aslade Family temporarily had no intention of troubling the Resistance Army.

The Beast Tide does not discriminate against any camp; it treats everything that stands in its way with equal indifference.

Seizing two cities at this time could temporarily avoid punishment from the Aslade Family, but it also meant facing the terrifying impact of the Dark Beast Tide.

And in this regard, the Resistance Army faced as many problems now as it had been easy for them during their attack.

Although Spellcasters had been arranged to urgently repair the protective array, it was still too late.

Moreover, the leader of the Starfire Organization realized that the value of the scarce resources required to fully repair the city’s defensive array exceeded the total resources gained from conquering the city!

In other words, after subtracting and adding, the Resistance Army not only didn’t gain resources but also had to furnish their own resources to fix the array, or else they would have to fill the gaps with lives.

Upon learning of this, the leader of Starfire Organization gritted his teeth, ordered the Spellcasters to continue the repairs, and immediately had the original City Defense Officer dragged out and executed!

The soul was extracted to be given to the Necromancer as material, and the body was discarded as food for the dark creatures!

It was under such chaotic circumstances that Anvis, who had chosen to stay at Pamir Academy with Fiona, finally received a message from Duke Carrot.

Activating the Crystal Ball on the table, the image of Duke Carrot appeared from within the Crystal Ball.

Anvis could see that the environment the Duke was in seemed to be a makeshift Alchemy house.

"Excellent! Anvis, your prophecy came very timely!"

In the Crystal Ball, the Duke’s expression seemed very satisfied.

"You must have heard about the Emperor holding the Saint Messia Empire accountable for the mysterious attack at the birth of month Zero.

And now I can tell you, the place that was attacked by the holy beam of light was precisely the temporary command post for the ruins exploration, roughly equivalent to the strength of a Ninth Rank Limit strike."

"In this incident, the Empire had three Ninth Rank injured, an Elder from the Magna Family, and Marquis Anrita suffered minor injuries.

One Ninth Rank from the Aslade Family was more severely wounded and had to temporarily return for recovery. Speaking of which, last time that fellow was responsible for the security during your True Knowledge Society admission test, unfortunately, not very useful."

As he spoke, a trace of a smile appeared in the Duke’s azure eyes.

"Thanks to your information, both I and the Ninth Rank from the Alfred Family temporarily left to check for hidden dangers and just happened to avoid the core area of the beam’s attack.

You’ve done well, Anvis! Some information can only be foreseen early by Prophets with the right Bloodline relations.

It was after the attack that the Prophets of our family urgently sent me a message."

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