Supreme Magus novel Chapter 4249

Chapter 4249: Warrior’s Oath (Part 2)

Sentinel, the King in the East, couldn’t afford to fight so many powerful Awakened alone, especially when the weak members of Lith’s family might be caught in the crossfire or used as meat shields.

As soon as the Awakened had appeared, she had contacted Faluel and the other Kings with her communication amulet. Only then did she howl. It alerted the enemy to her presence, but it also forced their hand.

Knowing that the Kings of the Woods and their magical beasts were coming, no one could afford to take their time to reach whatever goal had brought them to Lutia.

At that point, Sentinel cast a Spirit Spell to conjure a dimensional beacon that allowed the other Kings to lock on her position.

Normal Steps were faster to cast and required less mana, but a simple elemental-sealing array could disrupt such spells with ease. The Spirit Steps led the battalions of warrior magical beasts before the enemy, creating the first wave of the tide.

Anyone and anything would be trampled over if they stayed, and chased after if they ran away. Which was what had happened after one Spirit Steps for each clan opened.

The Awakened humans had formed a perimeter around Rena’s house that was supposed to fend off the squads of the Queen’s Corps, and delay any reinforcements that might interfere with the plan.

The flood of magical beasts had slaughtered the lookouts, opening the way for both the Queen’s Corps and creating a surveillance net that forced the Awakened who had kidnapped the children to take detours.

A single magical beast was just an annoyance for a powerful blue-cored Awakened, a pack was a threat, and an entire clan was a death sentence. With the Crons and Lifebringer patrolling the sky, it only took one howl to draw the attention of the magical beasts and start a charge.

The Awakened couldn’t afford to slow down or fight, they could only hide and run. It was the reason the squads of the Queen’s Corps had caught up with the runaways so quickly.

The opening move of the Byk clan was known as the Black March, but everyone else just called it a stampede. The magical beasts simply charged at full speed while conjuring as much darkness element as they could.

Being rammed by a Byk meant facing a creature weighing almost a ton that released a pulse of darkness magic upon impact. A well-armed blue-cored Awakened could easily resist the first blow, but not all those that quickly followed.

The Awakened standing watch who had dared to stand their ground against the Black March had been knocked off their feet, weakened by the darkness blasts, and then stomped to death.

The Byks didn’t bother stopping to finish the Awakened off. They just put their full weight in their steps and released more darkness from their paws.

After breaking the cordon, the Black March scattered but didn’t stop. The magical beasts switched from killing to searching, looking for any sign of the enemy or the members of Lith’s family in need of help.

Makhari was patrolling the western area of Lutia when he stumbled into Barago. The Awakened was fleeing the scene of the kidnapping, carrying Lenart over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

According to protocol, Makhari had to roar and alert his allies of the sighting. It would be the Kings of the Wood’s role to perform the rescue. Yet doing that would also mean alerting the Awakened man and potentially losing the child.

The Byk clan still suffered from the humiliation for Irtu’s and Gerda’s crimes. The fact that none among their ranks had managed to become an Emperor Beast and take the mantle of King in the West only made things worse.

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