Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 587

Chapter 587: Chapter 587 - Taming the Swarm - 2

The non-combatant people of Yino weren’t mostly to blame for the past war, so letting them die would be unjust in both leaders’ opinion.

These were civilians whose only crime had been living in the wrong place when corruption decided to awaken.

"We have to split up," Victor decided, rapidly evaluating the situation while watching smoke rise from multiple directions. "I’ll go to Yino’s side with part of the army to stop the creatures there."

Selphira nodded, though she could see the strain this would put on both forces. Dividing their resources felt like trying to dam two rivers with half the stones needed for one.

"Distribute the earth tamers well... We’re going to need to close all possible entrances and defend the city with a complete external circular wall," she murmured, calculating the energy that would be required for such an ambitious defensive structure.

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At first, everything went well. The efforts to keep the city’s underground defended already had thousands of earth tamers mobilized who stayed active in rotating shifts. Now they would have to work 16 hours instead of 8, but with a little more pressure, the number of defenders could increase by adding thousands from the abyss wall and thousands more who weren’t participating.

The opportunistic noble families had many of those on standby, waiting for a specific signal before committing their resources.

But while Selphira and Victor built defenses and managed to stop the initial advance of creatures, a fourth line of mutants arrived at Selphira’s side of the wall from Starweaver territory. This was a line that not even Ren had had time to sense during his current battle, emerging from a completely unexpected direction.

Their defensive planning became exponentially more complex.

"Damn!" Selphira shouted while reinforcing a section that should have been covered by Sirius’s family and had begun cracking under the assault. "Where are so many vermin coming from?"

Victor, who had reached Yino’s side with part of his forces, found himself also facing no longer just one flow of creatures, but two simultaneous flows converging on the same area. The situation was much worse than his scouts had reported, and the refugees were caught in the crossfire.

With the flow from the side where Ren was fighting, which would undoubtedly increase when they retreated due to the new artifact they had discovered, the cities were about to find themselves completely besieged by six different flows of mutant creatures.

And maybe they weren’t yet all the flows they would face.

Did all these flows originate from different artifacts?

How many artifacts were scattered around the kingdom?

Their soldiers were being dispersed in a narrow line around the cities and were therefore being pushed backward despite their best efforts. The refugees from Yino kept arriving in numbers that strained their logistical capabilities beyond reasonable limits.

Selphira made the decision to extend her side of the wall even more, using energy reserves she knew she couldn’t maintain indefinitely.

Now even the new doubles and most Gold ranks in Selphira and Dravenholm power were spread thin.

"How many more are going to appear?" she wondered while reinforcing another section of the wall that had begun to crack under sustained assault.

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The defenses were covering six different flows when Selphira received the report she had been dreading.

A messenger arrived flying, his breathing labored from urgency and the strain of maintaining high flight speed over long distances.

"Matriarch!" he shouted while approaching where she maintained control of the ice wall. "Two more flows have emerged from Yino’s side!"

"How many non-combatant worker families do we still have within the outermost perimeter?" she asked her second-in-command. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

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