Chapter 213: The Calvary is Here
Within the first five minutes of fighting in the Orange Gate, five more superhumans had died! The Lightbringers guild leader was putting up a good fight against the Vipers with his members, but they were being overwhelmed by the sheer number of Vipers that were inside the swamp! They had already killed more than ten vipers, but it didn’t seem like the vipers were slowing down at all! In fact, the more vipers they killed, the more of them seemed to be coming! The Lightbringers leader realized that maybe he had been a bit too rash in his decision, and he thought about going back to team up with the Hornet guild, but the two guilds were already too far from each other, so it was going to be difficult to pass through all the monsters in their way!
The Hornet guild, meanwhile, were waiting on a platform far enough from the Lightbringer guild while trying to make sure no vipers could reach them! Madam Rose knew that her guild didn’t stand a chance against any of the monsters inside this gate! The Vipers were high-level C Rank and B Rank monsters while her guild was made up mainly of D, C, and low-level B ranks. They would be eradicated if they even tried to fight against the monsters, so the best thing they could do now was to try and wait out the fighting. The Lightbringers were putting up a good fight against the monsters and that made most of the vipers go in their direction, so if the Hornet guild waited long enough, then they might find an opening to get out of there!
Madam Rose already planned on filing a lawsuit against the leader of the Lightbringers once she got back to Earth, but she had to first make sure that her guild members made it back in one piece! As time went on, the fighting intensified and the death toll continued to rise. Madam Rose and some members of the Hornets were forced to finally join the battle since the Lightbringers were losing quickly, but things had already gotten out of control and it was obvious that they were all going to die!
Madam Rose used her flaming fist to blast another viper back into the swamp and she looked around with a worried expression as her group members teamed up to fight some of the monsters! The Lightbringers’ leader had finally started to provide support for everyone, but it didn’t seem like it was doing much good at all! Their initial plan of attack was already useless, so it was easy for the monsters to break through any formation they made! From what Madam Rose had seen, there were close to two hundred vipers in this swamp, and Madam Rose knew there was no chance they would be able to win against that many monsters!
’We haven’t even seen the Boss of the gate yet! And there are always stronger monsters guarding the Boss, so we’re still fighting against the mobs! This is a disaster!’
Madam Rose felt dread building in her heart as this thought crossed her mind. Was this really where she would die? If she had known that the Lightbringers’ leader would be so difficult to work with, then she would have declined this Gate request! She knew her guide wasn’t strong enough to go into an Orange Gate, and when she first heard that the government wanted to give them this Gate to clear, she had obviously been skeptical, but she thought that having an A Rank guide with them would even the odds and make things easier! Madam Rose realised that her greed and the stupidity of the Lightbringer’s Leader was going to cost them all their lives!f(r)eew(e)bnovel.(c)o(m)
But before she could lose all hope, Madam Rose saw something strange move across the swamp surface. It looked like a shadow to her, but she had no idea what it really was and she could only watch and wait while moving into a defensive stance in case it was an enemy! The shadow crept across the swamp surface and headed towards a group of vipers that were completely oblivious to its presence, and Madam Rose couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw a large ant with silvery armored skin burst out from the shadow and grab the vipers in its tough mandibles! The ant tore the vipers to shreds and then released a loud screech that shook the Gate down to its core!
SCREEECHHH!!
The snakes all zeroed in on the ant once they heard that screech and they all began to head towards it, but they didn’t go far before more monsters began to emerge from the shadows and attacked all the vipers with a ferocity that Madam Rose had never seen before! Large ants and spider-monkeys began to fight against the vipers and Madam Rose couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
"Are those monsters... fighting against other monsters?"
One of the guild members from the Hornet guild was able to articulate all of Madam Rose’s thoughts into that one question, and for a moment, Madam Rose began to wonder if her fear was making her go insane! Up in the air above the swamp, various white-winged falcons could be seen circling the swamp with ferocity. Madam Rose wondered if they had landed in the middle of some monster dispute, but she shook that thought out of her head. The monsters weren’t attacking them, so they weren’t enemies.
’Are these summoned monsters?’
Madam Rose immediately turned around and looked at all the summoners that they had in the guild, and she knew that it was impossible for any of them to summon monsters that were this strong! Her guild members weren’t even strong enough to fight off Disaster Rank monsters on their own! But if it wasn’t them, then who was it? Madam Rose turned back to the monsters and watched as they tore the snakes apart with ease! Some of them were also being killed by the vipers, but that didn’t matter since each time one of them died, it was like another identical monster appeared in their place and took over for them!
The falcons in the sky let out loud cries as they began to swoop down to the ground, and Madam Rose’s eyes widened when she saw the Falcons bring their wings close to their bodies and angle themselves downwards to make themselves more aerodynamic before they shot into the lake like missiles!
Twoom! Twoom! Twoom!
The Falcons absolutely eradicated tens of vipers all at the same time and Madam Rose had to raise her hand up to her face to block the wave of swamp water that washed over the region from their impact! Madam Rose turned back after she was sure that the falcons were no longer diving down and she watched as the large Silver Ant continued its monstrous rampage across the region! It was like watching some sort of movie! Madam Rose had seen summoned monsters fighting against other monsters before, but it had only been one or two monsters at a time. There were no superhumans alive who should be capable of summoning this many monsters at the same time!
’And they’re so strong. That ant... it’s as strong as an Eldritch rank. No, it’s stronger than that! I need to find out who is doing this. If I can get that person to join my guild, then we will be unstoppable!"
This thought was not only going through Madam Rose’s mind. Even the leader of the Lightbringers who was watching the fight play out from the other side of the swamp felt like he was seeing something unbelievable! He knew that this was not normal, and he was desperate to find out who was behind this!
Screech!
The leader of the Lightbringers suddenly jolted when he heard a loud screech coming from right behind him! He turned around in shock, and he saw that a large Adamantine Ant had come over to him and his guild members, and it was currently towering over them in all its glory! He swallowed in fear and wondered what it was going to do!