On the outskirts of the military town of Sakerid, the reinforcements from the Octavian Empire(Knights) and the Aldrich Empire(Magic) had already arrived. What they did not expect to have happened, was for the path ahead of them to disappear as soon as they had entered the town’s boundaries. They were able to see the town ahead of them, but no matter how much they walked, they didn’t seem to be getting any closer of Sakerid.
“Everyone, halt! There is definitely something wrong with this path, we’ve been travelling in the same direction for hours now, and we haven’t even reached that big tree over there yet. Princess Effie, do you know what’s going on?”
The Dragon Knight Shawn turned his head to look at the 3rd princess of the Aldrich Empire, Brittany Effie, who headed the magic empire’s reinforcements. Shawn was a normal dragon knight and didn’t know much about magic, but the only explanation as to what was happening to them was that a magic formation had been placed over Sakerid that stopped them from being able to approach the town, and a strong one too.
“Shawn-dono, give me a bit of time to use my own magic and see if anything can be done.” Effie’s knowledge of magic could be ranked in the top three in the Aldrich Empire, and was a strong mage to boot. She had also noticed that something was wrong with this path.
Not long after Effie began scanning the area with magic, all the blood suddenly drained from her face, as if she had just seen something terrifying. This magic formation wasn’t created by any human mage, Effie’s detection magic wasn’t able to see anything within the magic formation, instead she had seen countless different dimensions, ones similar to this and ones that were bizarre and strange, the sheer vastness of it all made Effie feel miniscule.
There was also a female voice whispering into her ear, telling her to leave, but Effie was unable to find where the voice came from. The voice also told Effie that they should all remain where they were and not try and continue forward to Sakerid, the path will open itself in 3 days.
“Shawn-dono, I suggest we backtrack and set up camp outside of this magic formation’s range then wait for the other three empire’s reinforcements. I don’t think it’s possible for us to reach Sakerid right now, but this magic formation probably won’t stop us from leaving.” Effie wiped the cold sweat from her brow and give a deep bow to the path in front of her before ordering the Aldrich Empire’s forces to withdrawn. Leaving behind a puzzled Shawn.
Seeing that the Aldrich Empire’s forces had already retreated, Shawn could only give the command for the Octavian Empire’s forces to fall back as well. While he was worried about the fates of the Church of Light’s templar knights and the Gabriel Empire’s(Swordsmen) royal guards, but without the aid of 【Magic Dragon Knight] Lisha and her Anti-Demon Knight corp, Shawn didn’t want to enter Sakerid without knowing what was ahead, especially now that such a powerful magic formation had been placed on the town.
None of the retreating soldiers were able to see a loli with pink twintails the tree which they had been unable to reach, the loli was sitting on a small wooden chair with a lollipop in her mouth, seemingly lost in the manga that she held in her hands. Not paying any attention to the retreating human forces.
This loli was none other than the 6th dimension’s creator god, 【Extradimensional Creator]Stephanie Alfreia, who was one of the Creators who had came to this dimension at Bella’s request for help. The Creators who had came had obtained permission from the leader of the female Creators, 【Light Creator]Anastasia Vianne, so they technically weren’t breaking the Creator faction’s rules. Alfreia’s mission was to seal the entire town of Sakerid into a magic formation so that outsiders would be unable to enter and give the other Creators time to deal with whatever was happening inside the town.
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Within the region that was sealed off, the villages around Sakerid had already been cleared of infected by numerous five-meter tall bipedal mechs modeled after fierce beasts that were equipped with what seemed to be gatling guns where the hands should have been. Whenever an infected came into their sights, these mechs would release all hell on them, firing fluid from the gatling guns until the zombies were reduced to mere pulp.
The bipedal mechs weren’t the only type of mech present, and travelling behind all the mechs were a large number of humanoid beings. These beings all wore metal armor designed for strong resistance to airborne chemicals and viruses, carried peculiar rayguns, advancing cautiously and picking off any straggling infected. In the skies above were many different machines that one would only be able to see in sci-fi movies that also seemed to be giving orders to the ground forces while keeping a watch on the situation from above.
The machine army was only one of three forces that were cleaning the area in and around Sakerid. Of the other two, one was made up of various magical dolls that were tasked with using their otherworldly magic to repair the damaged buildings and flora. The other force was composed of varied and numerous evil beings that were responsible for clearing the area of malicious spirits because the malicious spirits were unaffected by the attacks of the machine army.
“Attention all squads, attention, apart from those with type-8 life signatures, all organic and magical beings are allies. I repeat, all…”
It was quite confusing to see such a futuristic army teaming up without beings of magic and fantasy to fight against zombies in a town that looked like those of middle ages Europe. To any transmigrators, the scene would make them feel as if the time-space continuum had been disrupted.
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In a giant flying machine high above the action, 【Machine Creator] Gladys Andrea was sitting at the point of a horseshoe-shaped, still wearing the cat-eared headphones, seemingly listening to music. Not far in front of her was a large display that was showing a live broadcast of the battle below.
“Andrea, Alfreia just reported that this dimension’s humans have already arrived, but she had already gotten them to fall back for now. We need to speed this up a bit.”
“Bethia, I want to finish as soon as possible too, but Bella is scared of damaging this place beyond repair, so she asked me not to use larger mechs and weapons of mass destruction. The current rate is as fast as we can get with these smaller mechs.”
Seeing 【Magic Creator] Oliveira Bethia sitting casually while snacking on some snacks that Bella had given them, Andrea felt a little regret at contending for the position of the “High Commander of the Allied Army”. Because she now had to give orders and commands to three different armies at the same time, she didn’t even have any time to drink water during the several hours since the operation had began.
“Mystica, do you have Bella’s exact location? I want to get permission to use atomic fission weapons, only one, I promise. All I need is one and I can achieve ‘world peace!’”{1}
“Andrea, I don’t know where exactly Bella is either, but you might as well keep things as they are and not do anything drastic. Don’t worry, the town of Paknir had already been recaptured by Bella’s subordinates, victory isn’t far and you’ll be able to rest soon enough.”
【Dark Creator] Tracy Mystica sat elegantly on a spinning sofa, enraptured by the yuri manga in her hands, not even raising her head to answer Andrea. Andrea could only grudgingly continue to direct the allied forces, but she decided that she was going to ask for some more payment from Bella later.
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In one of Sakerid’s secret underground passages, Bella’s party was carefully making their way through. Bella had learned of this route from the Church of Light’s 4th holy maiden, Daisy, it was one that didn’t even show up on the map that Clement had obtained from the Gabriel Empire’s upper echelons, meaning that it was probably built by the Church of Light without knowledge from the Gabriel Empire.
Right now the entire town of Sakerid was overrun with infected and it wouldn’t be a very intelligent decision to enter the town the normal way. There were simply too many zombies, possibly enough to even delay Bella’s party simply by throwing themselves at the girls and blocking their way, and time was of the essence right now, because Kriss and the others were still waiting for Bella’s group to come and save them.
The two void monarchs earlier had already been defeated, 【Black Ant King] Malthus retreating underground while 【Death Flower Empress] Heklis had been destroyed by the joint forces of four of the Dark Sanctuary’s own void monarchs, but that was only one of Heklis’ numerous avatars, not it’s been body, meaning that it had also been able to retreat without much loss. As the two void monarchs had not been captured, Bella was unable to know if 【Tenebrous Demon God] Elise had already descended upon this dimension and also unable to find out if Malthus and Heklis had came here on Elise’s orders.
There were torches on both walls of the passage and they had not yet encountered any infected, meaning that this passage was rather well sealed, at least well enough to keep zombies out. The other end of the passage lead to one of Sakerid’s smaller and more isolated churches, Daisy had told Bella that there would be people from the Church of Darkness waiting for them there.
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Sakerid’s small Weir Church was currently surrounded by a sea of infected, the members of the Church of Darkness present had almost been completely wiped out, leaving only a few warriors that had fallen back to the church’s doors, swinging their swords at the infected that threw themselves at the doorway. The church’s door had been broken in to pieces by the infected long ago.
Underneath the broken statue of the god of light, a black haired beauty leaned weakly on the statue. All of her clothes had already been wasted away by the toxic air, leaving behind only the bone staff at her feet.
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