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Chapter 225 Defensive Battle

The fla the defensive lines had been breached The witcher-knights rode tall on their swords, frequently appearing at the edge of the adepts' base They engaged in deadly battle with the voodoo beasts, robotic beasts, and ghouls standing guard there

If the surroundings of the base hadn't been littered with nuhts would probably have long since sware on the war tower

Even so, the space left for the adepts to radually closed in to the adepts' tower A final fighting force was slowly asseates of the tower Thirteen adepts were defending this spot to their deaths, not giving even an inch of ground

Over three hundred summoned beasts and puppets of all kinds were active in this flat, five hundred meter wide battlefield The weaker voodoo beasts and robotics beasts had already fallen under the butcher's blade of the witcher-knights

The forest to the side of the tower had received even e Vast stretches of fla everywhere Once the violent flauish them In the blink of an eye, the woods in a radius of several dozen kiloulfed by a sea of fire

Squad after squad of witcher-knights scra outside the adepts' base

There were still burnof flames, while fine cuts and scratches left by wind blades could be seen on their ar place had caused them severe losses, they still pushed forith all their strength while keeping the hope of victory and hatred for the adepts fresh in their hearts Finally, they arrived at the base of the do adepts' tower

The witcher-knights gathered in pairs as well as groups of three, replenishing and reorganizing their ranks The nine radiant knights took the lead and led barely four thousand witcher-knights to continue their charge through the adepts’ last defensive line

If one turned back to look at what had been left behind on the path here, they would see that the losses were devastating!

In this narrow strip of forest was less than five kilohts' arhts, thirty-three spellbreaker knights, and two thousand witcher-knights to get here Such terrible losses had exceeded everyone's expectations!

This stretch of forest had turned into a graveyard Everywhere you looked, you could see the broken corpses of witcher-knights and the scattered re consuhout the land

If it hadn't been for the dragons’ and dragon knights’ continuous destruction from above that destroyed nificantly larger!

Cohts, only two adepts had fallen in battle

This also meant that there were a total of seven adept casualties out of those sent to the knights' plane by the Sarubo clan This… this was extreher-ups had set for themselves Once the losses were more than nine, the clan wouldn't be able to rapidly exploit this plane even if it did e to conquer it

The roots of the clan in the World of Adepts needed adepts to guard this plane The two lesser planes in their possession also needed adepts to keep the the main force of adepts within a lesser plane for a short period of tie in a planar ould not cause too much effect or impact to the situation in the plane However, if the main forces of the clan were held back in a certain place for long periods of time, or suffered tremendous losses, the rule of the clan would start to destabilize

The successful invasion of the knights' plane could bring about rip over the plane required the presence and of a powerful force It was the same for the other two lesser planes If the clan's , the native resistance would start a neave of rebellion once they caught wind of the situation When that happened, massive losses would ensue for the clan!

Thus, after two adepts had died to the ahts, the clan's elders finally decided to strategically withdraw, pulling the defensive line all the way to the gates of the tower

As of now, the internal construction of the toas still keeping eleven adepts busy at work Only thirteen adepts were left standing guard before the doors, including Second Grade Adept Fügen

The ones standing at the very front of the forh Physiques Three of thee swar them on the side Greem and Adept Hyde also possessed supernatural Physiques after their transforht and left flanks to help the defense

Most of the adepts stood inside the defensive circle, continuously launching large and powerful area-of-effect spells into the dense knights’ ranks Those adepts that weren't proficient at fighting were mostlyout nu creatures with all sorts of odd abilities, while others dragged out their bags of spell scrolls, frantically casting thehts