Chapter 235: Flames, Steel, and Shadows
About two hundred kilometers from Seika, in the city of Volga, the landscape had become a veritable snow-covered battlefield. Frozen bodies lay piled up in hills of flesh and blood.
[Boom!]
Defensive cannons fired again and again, sending flaming projectiles toward the battlefield regardless of whether they hit allies or enemies. Wherever there was a concentration of black figures, there went the shots.
The remaining soldiers, teeth clenched and gripping their rifles, watched helplessly as their comrades fell, sacrificing themselves in a desperate attempt to hold back the enemy, only to die under enemy swords or friendly fire.
If the shots were not enough, from the top of the walls, trained dangerous beasts released an icy breath capable of freezing everything.
And if even that failed, General Kiba would go out and fight himself.
The deafening screams of battle echoed everywhere, mixing with the sound of swords clashing, weapons breaking, and flesh being torn.
Thousands of warriors in steel armor and helmets charged like raging beasts, wielding icy spears and swords as they screamed and charged at the black-robed swordsmen.
However, the first to clash with the enemy were torn to pieces by fire, lightning, water and gusts of wind. Their steel armor offered no protection.
"Geppo!"
A man who, unlike the other swordsmen, wore a black cloak on his shoulders. Facing the spears surrounding him and the ice wolves attacking him, he leapt into the air, stepping on the air as if it were solid, and in the blink of an eye, he released a crescent-shaped air wave from his leg.