As Atticus's words echoed across the camp, every youth currently gathered below felt their blood boil as they all had their morale boosted.
Multiple youths all suddenly started echoing his order all across the area.
"Prepare for battle!"
"Prepare for battle!"
They had truly trained and worked hard for the past three weeks, and now they would all be given a chance to showcase their improvements!
The massive gates of the camp suddenly swung open, and without needing to be told, each one of them started marching out of the camp gates with fervor.
Their intense march and heavy selves caused the earth around them to subtly quake as their armor clattered about, their footsteps sounding.
Atticus watched from above the wall as each of the youths spilled out from the camp, gathering and forming up in front of the camp walls.
He had already discussed with Lucas about the different types of formations that they could utilize during battles in case they were ever attacked by the beasts again.
Lucas had initially brought out a truck load of complicated formations and battle plans to Atticus, but after a brief while of thinking, Atticus decided not to use any one of them.
What he had eventually decided to use was a very simple and basic formation. It was one of the formations most armies in the Middle Ages back on Earth utilized.
It wasn't at all a complicated or difficult formation; quite the contrary, it was very simple.
Atticus gazed downwards as the more than three hundred youths, all donned completely in heavy armor, all wielding massive 3 meters tall thick and heavy shields lined up at the front lines horizontally in twos, their sheer numbers covering the width of the wall facing the direction of the approaching horde.
Then each one of them lifted up and planted their humongous shield on the earth simultaneously,
BAM!
The loud sound reverberated across the area as evidence of the shields' might.
Then each of the youths, who were each standing close together, got even closer to each other, immediately interlocking their shields together, tightening the line.
After that, a more numerous number of youths, more than 500 all donned in simple light armor aimed at maximizing their movements while at the same offering the least amount of protection, all walked forward, positioning themselves directly behind the heavy armored youths holding the front lines.
With each of them holding a spear, they got into a stance, ready for battle.
Then, about 200 youths formed up horizontally behind all of them, each of them wielding different varieties of ranged weapons, all ready to be fired at a moment's notice.
The last group was only a small number of 20 youths who stood in front of the rangers.
Unlike the last time when the horde had attacked the camp from all directions, this time around each one of them was attacking the camp from a single direction.
This was why Atticus had decided that for today's battle, instead of battling separately in units, it was better to unify them all for just today.
Seeing that everything was in order, Atticus nodded in approval.
The formation truly was simple.
For the first formation, with the horizontal line of heavy-armored youth, their duty was obvious, a front line shield wall.
Their duty was to act as an impenetrable barrier on the front line, stopping and protecting the other students against the relentless onslaught of the beast horde.
Because of the dangerousness of their duty, they were all currently fully armored, with a gladiator-like helmet covering their heads, leaving only a small part open for sight, and a full, all-encompassing armor covering the torso, hands, and legs completely, leaving only some parts to ease movement.
And this formation was possible mainly because of each of the massive thick shields each of them wielded, being able to withstand the huge wave of beasts.
The interlocked shield between each of them created a continuous horizontal and solid barrier that would block the beasts' advance.
The duty of the second line of heavy armor positioned directly behind them was simply for a rotating system. This was put in place so those holding the front line could rest periodically during the battle.
The youths positioned at the secondary line just behind the heavy armor were, as termed, the dealers.
Their duty was to keep killing the beasts that the heavy armor were blocking and keeping at bay, whittling down their numbers continuously.
And lastly, the back lines. The 200 youths behind were the rangers, with the simple duty of shooting and killing as many beasts as possible from a far distance.
With the 20 youths positioned in front of them, all to protect them against any beasts that managed to get past the formation.
Every single one of the youths stood at the ready, their determined gaze forward.
On top of the wall, just as Nate and the other Ravenstein youths were about to jump down from the wall and join the youths below,
"Wait," Atticus suddenly called out.
They each turned towards Atticus with inquisitive gazes, "Let them fight for a while first before you join," Atticus instructed, causing Nate's initial grin to immediately crumble, immediately replaced by a sad expression, akin to a puppy that had something taken away from it, a buff puppy.
"It's just for a few minutes, calm down Nate," Lucas said while shaking his head, seeing Nate's teary eyes.
The rest of the Ravenstein youths too all had sad expressions on their faces, but none of them raised an objection, even Aurora, which was very shocking considering her hot personality.
But it was simply because they all knew the reason he asked them to stay back for a while.
It was to see if the youths could handle the situation on their own. If they couldn't even manage to do this for a few minutes, then all the 3 weeks of blood and sweat would have been wasted.