Chương 129: The First Assault

"Hehehe. That move was not bad at all. What a lovely child." Apollo's face flushed with unsettling excitement as he watched the broadcast.

"But Hestia, even if he can fight above his Level, trying to attack a city with only a dozen people is far too naive. My defenders outnumber yours ten to one."

"Just watch," Hestia said, arms crossed and eyes fixed on the image.

"Cael, do your best."

"Damn it! Is that a magic sword?" a Lv. 2 elf adventurer shouted from the wall.

"Attack! Hurry and attack!"

"He took out several archers the moment he appeared." More than thirty archers rose along the wall and released a dense rain of arrows. The area they covered was enormous. There had to be more than three hundred arrows.

"Projection, start." Cael calmly raised a hand. Blue magical light surged, and the frame of a golden shield formed before him. In the blink of an eye, a large shield appeared. The arrows struck it with a storm of metallic impacts. Unlimited Blade Works could project more than swords. As long as Cael had the structural data of an object, he could project it. He was simply far more comfortable projecting blades.

"What?" The Apollo Familia members on the wall froze for a moment.

"What is going on? Magic swords and now a shield? What kind of Magic is that?"

"Careful! Another one is coming!" Before the warning finished, an explosion shook the wall. A deep crater appeared, and the archers standing nearby were blasted off the battlements.

"Aaaah!"

"Damn it! Mages, prepare Magic!" Three Lv. 2 mages raised their staves and began chanting. Three fireballs formed and shot toward Cael. Before they reached him, three swords met them in midair and exploded, creating three bursts of flame. Stolen novel; please report.

"Hahaha! Is that all? Is that really all you have?" Cael moved quickly, never letting the defenders aim properly. At the same time, he continued to provoke them and fired second-tier weapons from his bow. Boom! Boom! Boom! Each sword struck the wall like a rocket. The ground trembled, and pieces of stone cracked loose.

"Fall back! Everyone, take cover!" the elf commander shouted.

"Damn it! At this rate, we can only let him attack us. If he keeps bombing the wall, he will eventually blast open a hole."

"Aaaah! Another one is climbing! Too fast! How is he running up the wall?" Obanai Iguro rushed from the rocks and charged straight toward the wall. With his speed and Skills, he temporarily defied gravity and ran along the vertical surface. Dense arrows quickly blocked his path. He swung his sword into a curtain of light and knocked every arrow away.

"Hah!" From the rocks, Mitsuri Kanroji lifted a stone taller than herself and hurled it at the wall. It crashed into the battlements, scattering defenders before they could react.

"What is that now?"

"How strong is that woman?"

"Dodge!" At the same time, Kyojuro, Sanemi, and Tengen attacked from the other three directions. Kyojuro moved along the wall like a blazing dragon, making the defenders on his side tremble. Sanemi did the same from the south. Tengen attacked from the west while throwing gunpowder at the archers on the wall. The visual effect was not far from Cael's Broken Phantasm.

"Captain, this wall is too tall and too straight," Obanai said while dodging arrows.

"Without other footholds, I could climb it, but with interference, the difficulty is too high. I might exhaust myself before reaching the top."

"Climbing it would be good, but our main goal is to draw fire," Cael said, firing another sword at the wall.

"We make them believe we are breaking through here. That way, Kyojuro and the others can create openings elsewhere." Their goal was to make Apollo Familia think the north gate would be the breakthrough point and pull most of the defenders there. Then Lili would open a gate from within. Once they broke through, they would go straight for the enemy general and end the battle.

"Ohhh! Incredible! What fierce magical attacks! Apollo Familia's defenders cannot even raise their heads!"

"Hestia Familia's captain, Cael, is truly Lv. 1? This is eye-opening! Is he going to blast down the wall and force a breach?"

"Lord Ganesha, what do you think?"

"I am Ganesha!"

"Could you please take this seriously, Lord Ganesha?" In the gods' spectator area at Babel, many gods had already jumped to their feet.

"Hestia's child is amazing! Is he really only Lv. 1?"

"Hahaha! He is keeping so many defenders pinned down. I like that child."

"And the others too. According to the Guild, some of them have reached Lv. 2, but they are showing Lv. 3-class strength. More fighting above their Level. Wonderful!" At the same time, inside Apollo Familia's defenses, Lili appeared at the east gate in Luan's form, panting heavily.

"Why is the north gate so loud? What is happening over there?"

"Explosions? What is going on?"

"We are under attack!" Lili shouted.

"Hestia Familia is focusing on the north gate. They are about to break it!"

"What? How is that possible?"

"What exactly happened?"

"Magic swords! Hestia Familia somehow got a large number of magic swords. Captain Hyakinthos ordered the east, west, and south gates to each send twenty people to support the north. Otherwise, it will fall!"

"Twenty? Each gate only has thirty defenders!"

"There is no choice. The east, west, and south gates each face only one enemy. The north gate is being attacked by most of Hestia Familia."

"Hurry!" Lili shouted.

"Damn it. No choice. Everyone, follow me to support the north gate."