Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 423

Chapter 423: Chapter 423 - Tamers War - Numbers

The soldiers could clearly see the dust cloud that the enormous serpent’s swift advance generated, a trail of destruction approaching inexorably toward their positions.

Although it really wasn’t the rear guard that would encounter it... geographically it was hitting more the flank of the army’s advance entering the expanded wall. Still, the poor soldiers had trouble deciding what to do against such a threat to their right side.

A squadron leader took command when it became clear that orders wouldn’t arrive from the main chain of command soon enough.

"Attack together when it reaches range!" she shouted, trying to organize a defensive response. "Don’t let it get closer!"

Being in the rear formation, most troops in that position were distance throwers and healers, water, fire, and wind specialists who provided support to the main defenses. They didn’t have enough earth or wood controllers to generate another defensive wall or advance significant fortifications.

But they attacked with everything they had anyway.

Dozens of fire projectiles streaked through the air like shooting stars, followed by compressed wind spears and pressurized water spheres. It was a numerous attack that would have devastated any normal opponent.

Yet Selphira simply split them with a pointed ice shield.

The defensive formation she created was a work of art as much as a demonstration of power control. Ice crystals rose before her in a simple long arrow point, their surface angled perfectly to deflect attacks rather than absorb them directly. Enemy projectiles crashed against the shield and were redirected harmlessly toward the sky or earth.

They were facing the most powerful person in the Kingdom in the King’s absence. While she wasn’t supreme in the air like Victor, that dominion belonged indisputably to the aerial forces commander, on land or water Selphira had absolute and indisputable mastery.

The number of lesser attacks didn’t matter. They could never destroy her shield with their dispersed, lower-quality power.

The reality was stark and demoralizing. Hundreds of Silver-rank soldiers attacking simultaneously couldn’t match the focused power of a single legendary tamer.

It was like trying to break a mountain with thousands of pebbles... maybe impressive in quantity, yet meaningless in effect.

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"Idiots!" A veteran voice cut through the growing panic.

An older Blackwood leader pushed his way to the ’front’, his experience evident in every movement.

"You’re wasting them!" he shouted at the young commanders who had been coordinating the dispersed attacks. "You must concentrate firepower!"

He pointed toward the wind specialists, who had been attacking independently.

"Accumulate the fire or water before launching and increase concentration with wind so everyone’s power comes together at once! Only then can you accomplish anything against someone of her level!"

It was a basic tactic any veteran would have used immediately. Selphira Ashenway wasn’t an opponent who could be defeated by dispersed attacks, no matter how numerous they were. She required concentrated power applied at the center of her defense to have a chance at breaking it.

"Convergence formation!" the veteran ordered, assuming de facto command of the dispersed forces. "Wind specialists, prepare concentration channels to feed fire and cool water! Fire and water, prepare maximum charges!"

The soldiers responded to the authority in his voice, reorganizing into the formation that could, perhaps, penetrate the defenses of a living legend.

But even as they organized, Selphira continued approaching implacably, and her smile suggested she had anticipated exactly this response.

’Let’s see,’ she thought while observing their preparations, ’if the current generation has forgotten what their leaders are able to do.’

The answer, as she well knew, would probably be yes. But it would be interesting to discover exactly how much effort they would require to learn that lesson from scratch.

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Kharzan awakened again.

This time, however, there was urgency in his return, a need to understand exactly what had been happening while he was... absent.

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