The cracks continue appearing until finally the first 3 formations explode into pieces, the skeletons and other undead then crash with the second layer but this time they also encounter the contracted creatures.
Modified golems and modified undead destroy the enemy undead with extreme ease, preventing them from even getting close to touch the three formations, but not everything would be so easy, the 3 giant figures begin to throw the trees they had knocked down before, working as battering rams at great distance.
While the sounds of the broken armors of the undead warriors…
One of the members of Feicui Long's troops sees this and says: "What the hell!, it's my first time seeing an undead being used as living artillery."
At her side a companion looks at her and says: "That's not the important thing, the important thing is… how will we eliminate them?"
The soldier looks at her confused as if she were seeing an idiot and says: "The leader has the talismans that the great lord gave them and also those of the lord, with that even a mystical realm grade 9 would be fatally wounded, not to mention a grade 6."
The companion at the side holds her face in frustration, thinking why she has to be the partner of the stupidest one and says: "And how the hell do you think to reach them?, no matter how powerful they are, if you realize those things are quite far away, it's obvious that that Lich knows they are priority targets and wouldn't expose them to such a simple risk."
Then the soldier realizes the nonsense she said and blushes, only to say: "It's just that I was nervous, that's all."
…
Meanwhile around her the ranged attack companions attack without stopping, fortunately several of them are in the mystical realm, not only their section commander, in fact now there are three mystical realms, the commander at grade 2 and two at grade 1, so they can hurt the undead beasts.
Not counting the contracted undead of ranged attack that throw javelins and are in grade 4 of the mystical realm, so they have decent firepower, the problem is… the numbers, their enemies are so many that even though they kill a few that hole is filled.
All this has Ada a bit annoyed, she continues firing her rifle, killing undead while she looks for a single opportunity to kill that Lich, but at the same time she is worried that something happens to her young lady, who already has been gone for half an hour.
…
Isabella continues running in the middle of the forest and the night, when finally she finds one of the satellite nests, she activates the bait talisman and immediately starts running back at high speed, at her back she can feel the sounds of hundreds, perhaps at least a few thousand legs.
Which soon move in her direction, but she has no time to look or check how many follow her, she simply keeps running at her maximum speed without doubting for a second, she knows that to hesitate would mean her death and that would cause an incredible sadness in her sweetheart.
Behind her an army of very large ants of deep black color come out from the depths of the earth, each one the size of a small dog, while the soldier ones are the size of a large one, in their gasters can be seen a cavity brimming with an extremely dangerous liquid.
All of them seem completely crazy, even though insects cannot show expressions in their eyes one can see a hint of something strange, almost as if something is telling them to follow it, this is the effect of the beast bait, an almost hypnotic ability made to attract the lower level wild type energy beasts.
Isabella feels chills but does not dare to neglect herself, even though she tears through branches, bushes and more she does not care, because just moments later several shots easily pierce those trees consuming them leaving black holes and even lasting quite a while.
She can even see how a single shot falls on a large rock and leaves a hole three times the size of a human head, leaving a grotesque smell in the air that makes her feel dizzy.
…
Back on the battlefield, Callista makes one of the two undead faun commanders grab their javelins, which are all pseudo artifacts, and aim at those giant creatures.
The fauns compress their muscles at the same time that the runes, sigils, glyphs and other inscriptions shine illuminating the area, that kind of artifacts embedded in the body begin to shine, the 7 of them at once.
Then the first two javelins fly with a thunderous sound, almost as if a cannon had been fired, but not just any cannon, one of about 200 or 300 kilos.
The two javelins pierce through everything that opposes them, from common trees which burst into pieces leaving holes that make them fall, to undead beasts that are split in halves, showing the power of two undead improved to the extreme almost like Feicui Long's faun leader.
The lesser Lich notices this strangeness immediately and doubting she takes the four spheres from her spatial storage ring, if Feicui Long were here he could recognize them immediately…
Because these four strange spheres are the same that allowed the creation of the undead monstrosities, the Lich gathers energy into the spheres and throws them immediately, the spheres begin to gather all the pieces of flesh and bones quickly.
She herself quickly also takes out three talismans and says: "I never thought I would need something like this again."
Then while nodding she gives the order to all her undead except the beasts, the three undead abominations that protect her and her elite guard, to throw themselves suicidally at the formation, ignoring the attacks, just throwing themselves.
…
The melee soldiers are stunned, because the undead that at least tried to fight before, now ignore the attacks of their contracted creatures, only wanting to touch the formation, they can even hear the sound of bones grinding, that burning sound of the formation disintegrating something.
The guttural screams of the undead without any sense and all in great numbers, but then what makes them be in shock and order the retreat of their troops is that under the suicidal attack of the undead and the ranged attacks the second formation begins to break.
Only after the creatures reach the third layer of formation do they calm down a little…
Even though the enemy undead producing grotesque sounds of bones colliding and rotten flesh rubbing with armors, in addition to the disgusting smells filling the air, follow them closely.
But that joy in their faces soon vanishes with fear, because the next moment three strange talismans crash against these formations, sticking to them, almost like a parasite, but the worst was not that, but that little by little in the place where they stick spider-like cracks start to appear.
Finally recognizing all this, Melina shouts: "Retreat all now!, that is a barrier breaking talisman!"
All can only summon their contracted creatures to their dimensions and abandon the barricades and other defenses to retreat this time directly to the fifth layer of formations, putting at least the fourth layer of formations in the middle.
Already all resting, they can only see with horrible faces, how in the next instant the barrier fills with those golden cracks full of inscriptions, then breaking into thousands of pieces.
Callista says annoyed: "I didn't think someone would have such a high-level barrier breaking talisman around here, those talismans are at minimum of earthly palace grade 1 quality level."
Melina shakes her head and says to her: "It doesn't make sense to worry about that now, I think it is time to sacrifice the last area attack talismans we have."
But before they can relax they can only hear the sound of thousands of legs sounding through the forest, at the same time they can see how trees fall everywhere in that direction.
Only to see the figure of a woman with an exquisite and beautiful face very dirty and with her armor all dirty and with the clothes under that armor very worn out, it is clear that she has gone through several difficulties, that woman does not stop, she keeps running towards the undead and activates a kind of talisman and throws it to an undead beast.
Then she uses a technique that creates a pair of wind wings on her back and jumps as if she were an Olympic athlete.
Finally the twins can see her, it is their aunt Isabella, but she is all dirty and disordered, she even has slight wounds on her body, she barely has managed to escape from whatever was chasing her.
But soon they will see it… because like a black tide the ground covered in snow can no longer be seen, some three thousand or four thousand ant figures emerge from workers to soldiers, with incredible rage and head to the undead, as if there were no tomorrow.
Although that is not the terrifying thing but that several hundreds stay still and raise their gasters almost as if they were pistols and shoot with great strength and speed, small jets of a yellow liquid, which as soon as it comes into contact with the undead begins to consume them at great speed letting out sizzling sounds and nauseating smells.
Only afterwards the bigger ants with their great mandibles large enough to split a human in two, throw themselves into melee combat, but with their attacks the same thing happens as before.
Isabella smiles proudly and says: "The cavalry has arrived."