The Magician of Sound

As the battle progressed, the sea creatures coming to the left army began increasing, adding an expression on Sarah\'s cold face. She stopped fighting in the front line and climbed the hill again to observe the situation.

The battle just began for thirty minutes, and all she could see was a huge swarm of magical beasts. Even her fighters started getting overwhelmed.

"Four… No, five thousand... Although it will take a while, more will be coming. Looking at that clown, we will most likely fight seven thousand magical beasts with our one thousand. This will be a gruesome battle even with high ground advantage." Sarah clenched the spear in her hand and looked at Shirotsuka Sanae, who was killing those magical beasts like a machine.

"That woman won\'t last long if she continues killing that way… I have made this hill become a traditional fortress, so I can only watch what would happen next."

She shook her head and came to the gunners. "Gunners, look at my signal and aim the magical beasts around there. I will lead the fighters to push them back."

The gunners stopped shooting for one second, glancing at her. Unfortunately, with the lack of force from the gunners, they pushed the fighters a little bit, startling them as they quickly shot again. 

Sarah clapped her hand, made a magic circle, and created a small ice crystal. Unlike Jack and Marsha, she had enough power to use her magic, making her not reliant on her weapon.

"Ice Blaster."

The ice crystal didn\'t explode or something. Instead, it was grabbed by Sarah as she made her way to the front line. Using her agility, she leaped around by stepping on the giant shells until she reached a certain point where she threw the ice crystal inside.

*Boom!*

An explosion occurred in the middle of the enemy, creating a huge spike of ice that was very visible to the gunners. The moment this crystal made its appearance, the gunners understood what she meant earlier and started shooting at that area, holding them back.

At this time, Sarah already came back to the fighter line as she shouted, "All fighters will charge alongside me. We need to restart the battle and push them out of the hill. In this period of time, you are not allowed to go back to get healed, as this will be a very important mission! Do you understand?"

"Yes, Ma\'am!" The fighters shouted in unison.

"Good." Sarah nodded, raising her spear and cutting down one of the beasts as she said, "Charge!"

"Ooh!" 

...

Just like the left situation, the middle army also had their difficulty. The first and foremost problem was to direct the magical beasts to the left.

Due to their number and size, it was hard for Jack to calculate how many had passed through them. Even though Kai would be taking command on the timing, it was still put him to ease just to know how many they had directed.

With their limited one thousand, five thousand giant sea creatures made them look like an endless stream. For Jack and the soldiers, it could pummel their morale bit by bit.

He looked around to see his soldiers\' condition, and he couldn\'t say they were doing good. Tasha and Michelle helped them, but not much. After the first magical beasts rain, Tasha didn\'t do it anymore because she wouldn\'t have enough magic power to last the whole fight.

Jack had no clue about Tasha and Michelle other than their achievement, so he could only nod and let her do what she wanted. 

Halfway, Tasha even pulled back, stationing herself with the other gunners while Michelle fought together to conserve her strength.

They continued to endure the full brunt of the magical beasts, slowly pushing them back to the city. 

Suddenly, Michelle appeared in the middle war, right beside Jack. "It will be hard to maintain our position like this."

"I know that already." Jack gritted his teeth, observing his soldiers\' faces. "Even if we retreat to the town and start phase two early, we won\'t be able to take down all of them considering the unbalanced number of our fighters and gunners. That\'s why I can\'t order a retreat."

"Seems we only have one choice." Michelle sighed after confirming Jack\'s opinion. "Commander Jack, as soon as you see my skill inside the enemy, it means there is a gap inside their rank. I want you and your soldiers to push them back even a little."

"?!" Jack had a hard time picturing what she wanted to do. "Even if you are that Michelle Graham, I can\'t follow your order on a whim. I still need to take care of the lives of one thousand soldiers."

"Argh!" Michelle was frustrated. If Kai were here, Jack would surely nod his head without thinking much, but Michelle didn\'t have any accomplishment in the army. After all, for a few years she was in school, doing missions and other things, she only completed normal or special missions. There was no relation between those missions and the army, so Michelle wasn\'t famous in the army, making it hard to trust her plan.

She pondered for a moment before saying, "Remember the last black fire attack? I will cut down every magical beast in a single line to create a gap for you to push back."

"!!!" Jack furrowed his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and asked, "But are you going to be alright?"

He noticed it earlier, but that technique carried a huge amount of magic power, so he felt Michelle couldn\'t use it many times.

The answer came in the form of a smile. "There is still a few minutes before the sunrise… It\'s not going to be what you think. If you don\'t trust Michelle Graham, then please trust the eldest daughter of the Graham Family."

As soon as Michelle said her piece, she disappeared, coming back to her position.

Her shadow power needed more magic power to operate under sunlight, and the sun already shone on the horizon, but it still needed a few minutes before illuminating this battlefield.

Under the darkness, Michelle might be able to use her twice of her power with half effort. And in this situation, with the little darkness that would soon be washed away, it was still enough for her to conserve a portion of her power.

Michelle wanted to take advantage of this to give the last push for the army until Kai\'s order arrived.

After becoming punching bags for these magical beasts, the soldiers had terrible expressions, forcing Michelle to think of this possibility.

She rose both of her swords, enveloping it with her shadow magic. The dark blazing fire was even bigger than the previous shadow slash used to guide the army. After channeling in magic power, she slashed downwards, shooting out a powerful sword slash.

The two sword strikes cut down every single sea creature in their way. Even a turtle was split into two cleanly, including its shell. 

Michelle\'s dark flame rose to the sky, even higher than the giant sea creatures, signaling Jack to move.

She didn\'t stop there. The moment the gap was created, she placed her hand on the ground, creating a black magic circle. Her shadow slowly spread out toward the dead magical beasts, reviving the shadow of the dead magical beasts.

"Shadow Manipulation Doll."

The two parts that had been split cleanly slowly attached back like stitching the two parts into one. Around twenty giant shadows rose in the battlefield, stopping the magical beasts advance. 

This would drain a huge amount of magic power, but it was worth the effort as Jack would certainly make a turn around in this situation.

Although Jack was not aware of what happened in the middle of the enemy, the black wall alone was enough for him to make a decision.

"Tch, Though I don\'t like it, there is no other way." He clicked his tongue, complained, and turned around before commanding the army. "All of you can see that black wall over there? We need to push the magical beasts to that wall. There are only five hundred in front of us at the moment. Fighters will pair up with the person beside you and kill the magical beasts. Remember, you only have one minute to kill the magical beasts. If you understand, then go!"

Jack shattered the magic beast in front of him and led the group to charge.

After one minute, Michelle started sweating, feeling that she had lost around a third of her magic power in only one minute.

Luckily, Jack\'s group managed to catch up, setting up a new wall in front.

Michelle quickly retracted her magic, letting the giant shadow crumble. She let out a relieved breath before resting for a while.

In the reserve army,

Kai furrowed his eyebrows, never expecting Michelle to be that reckless. Considering Tasha had more than enough magic, she should do that instead. However, he could somehow understand Michelle\'s reason, which was supposed to be the worst-case scenario where Kai needed to use the teleportation magic. However, even after spending half of the magic, Kai should still have enough to teleport twenty-five people to Colombia.

He could only sigh and observe the other battlefield before hearing another thing from the enemy.

"Skelta Sia Mita."

"Morg?"

"Khtls Snonmen routnal."

"Roa!"

Kai furrowed his eyebrows, not understanding a single thing in their conversation. Due to the tone both creatures produced, one thing was for sure, they were going to command the magical beasts.

In that instant, Kai even believed that the enemy would move their magical beasts to the left army and ready to swarm them. However, the sound of flying beasts started echoing inside his ears, making him recognize their real plan.

He rose from his feet, turned around, and shouted to the leader of the base.

"General Sanders!"