Ascension of the Nephilim

The knights were very thorough in building the blockade. After Kyros's instructions, the group ran back and brought in more of the Lizards they killed on their way to the room to add to the dead bodies they already had found in the room.

The plan was to plug the entire narrow path with the bodies of the lizard. The narrow path could only fit two or three people to pass through simultaneously, but that meant that two lizards would find it hard to move inside and would already be bumping into one another.

This narrow path was now plugged with the bodies of the lizard. The knights followed Kyros's instructions to ensure that no gaps in between these bodies would exist. 𝗳𝔯𝙚e𝒘e𝚋𝘯𝚘ν𝙚l.𝑐o𝙢

"The path should stop the charge of a platoon of knights like Uncle Aron!" This was Kyros's instructions. And so the knights quickly labored and stuck the tails, bodies, and decapitated limbs of the lizard into whatever gap there was.

They even tested it by charging against the wall of dead bodies to confirm its' strength.

When the lizards arrived and rushed towards the area, they charged and tried to smash their way through the lizard corpses. But adding the fact that the space was narrow, the lizards couldn't do a united charge that had enough strength to breach the wall. And when they couldn't, they began to push, pull, and even devour the corpses of their allies.

This went on precisely as Kyros planned. Kyros knew that the monsters like these lizards would grow stronger through consuming others. The lizards could consume the golems, and they would even cannibalize each other to absorb a small percentage of strength and energy their allies had.

The bodies that were pilled up and used to cover the entrance to this small room fulfilled their purpose. A group of lizards rushing and charging towards them would have immediately killed all the knights and even Kyros. The force would crush them, and their shields and swords won't save them.

Kyros couldn't afford to use his Earth Cross attack because the ground was harder, and it wouldn't have the force to disrupt the charging monsters as it did on the previous time they clashed.

There was also the concern of mana. Although Kyros had forced himself to drink the lizards' blood earlier and restored a portion of his mana, it was too little, and the cost of using such magics would easily outweigh the gain. Kyros hadn't tried drinking blood again, now that the Fanged Fallen had awakened as he didn't have the time, but Kyros estimated, the magic that he could restore was still too little, and he needed time to drink and kill.

And so, Kyros made the group pile the enormous bodies of the lizard to create a wall that would protect them from that charge. The wall did so, and while the lizards were able to push through the dead bodies, their speed and charge weren't strong or fast enough to knock off the knights.

When they breached the wall, the knights were already there to attack them with powerful skills Kyros instructed them to use. The staggered lizards caused more traffic.

Kyros also deployed the Shadow Ghouls and his Familiar on his first strike and sent them to attack and annoy the lizards stealthily. With Calaminus controlling them, the shadows were able to easily harass lizards at the right time and place to further add to the congestion in the path.

And due to the small gap, the lizards were moving shoulder-to-shoulder with each other, which created immense traffic, causing only a few to slip through inside the room. As such, the Knights all stopped the lizards in that choke point as Kyros planned.

Aron was standing at the very center of this chokepoint and bashed the lizard with his shield with his Knight's Charge. The disruption of movement at the center of this chokepoint caused even more issues and stopped the lizards from breaking in.

The Earth Swords were effective against this, and since Kyros had returned the Earth Sword he was holding, all knights could fight effectively.

Kyros had attacked the place right next to where Aron was guarding. Since Aron had stopped the lizard in the center from gaining any grounds, the lizards next to it were also struggling to move right inside.

With the Vermillion Earth Sword and the Sword of Ten Thousand Grudges, Kyros immediately stabbed against the eyes of the lizards that managed to just break through the barricade.

After stabbing one, Kyros began to take advantage of his small frame to slip to the left and right of the line to attack and ambush more of the lizards as the knights stopped them.

One of the lizards was stabbed by a knight, and using the deep wound, Kyros buried the Blood Blade inside. After destroying the seal, the Blood Blade had fallen into a pitiful attack point of 5 and became a small dagger.

Kyros buried it deep into the body of the lizard and kept harassing it and striking it. He then retreated and observed the battle, and gave instructions on what to do.

Kyros also utilized his juggling skills to throw and disrupt the lizards.

"You've been holding out on us, young master!" One of the knights laughed as he fought.

Kyros couldn't smile at this praise. All his skills were supposedly secrets that he wouldn't reveal but were forced to now. Kyros kept ordering and using his throw and quick inventory retrieval to give the knights the chance to kill the enemy in front of them.

Soon, the bodies of dead lizards were growing, and the lizards were now climbing through the hill of corpses that was forming.

Scarlet and Gregory finally emerged from the small tunnel. Gregory joined the knights in battle while Scarlet gave her report.

"Master! Avary has safely passed through the Golem patrol! As you predicted, there were many golems there and were led by those metal golems! Avary snuck out first, and before they could notice him, we appeared and drew their attention that allowed Avary to breakthrough!"

"Good! Go and help the knights!" Kyros answered while throwing his sword and switching his perspective to see the map through his Micro-management skill.

He could see Avary moving on the map as they were of one Coven.

"Avary, go in this direction." Kyros tried to issue a command.

Avary, who was moving past various paths, suddenly slowed down and stopped.

"Avary, this is Kyros. Do it." Kyros urged.

After a moment's hesitation, Avary continued and followed the path that Kyros instructed.

"It seems I can't communicate clearly. But Avary seems to have sensed my intentions..." Kyros concluded.

He gazed back and look at the line of knights that he called family and the newest addition.

"I better not fail them. If we stayed at the Golem City place, I wouldn't have the chance to do this with the Lizard threat approaching. Now comes the hard part. Getting from this place to the Golem City."

"You're insane. This plan is just crazy. You could just try to move through the small tunnel and get to the Golem city from the back." Calaminus pointed out.

"No. If I go that direction, I'd still be forced to fight those Golems. Aside from the fact that my swords couldn't wound those metal golems, I would be in trouble if I kill some golems along the way. This is the safer route." Kyros smiled as he looked at the swarm of lizards trying to breakthrough.

"There he is. And with his arrival, I finally got my opening path." Kyros caught sight of a large lizard deep inside the darkness. It was clinging to the ceiling and looked from the outside of the narrow path. The Dark Lizard didn't attempt to crowd into the group of lizards, nor did it shoot. It kept howling various orders at the lizards.

The orders were to slowly devour and clear out the corpses of the fallen lizards. He kept shouting to even tear apart the bodies of the corpses they could find nearby. The once chaotic charge slowly got organized as the corpses were being picked up and tossed towards the back. The lizards began to bit and chopped off parts of the corpses as it was being sent back.

The charge of the lizards even began to slow down as most at the back focused on clearing the bodies that blocked the way, and only a few lizards continued to fight at the front.

"Incredible. Such intelligence. I really need to stop that, lizard!" Kyros had already expected the Dark Lizard to be this intelligent. The fact that both the golem and the lizards stopped fighting was proof that this lizard coordinated in giving the orders to stop. If only one race stopped fighting recklessly, the battle would have continued longer. But in only a few minutes, the battle stopped, and the lizards moved in an organized manner to attack them.

"That Lizard must have immediately found out that the golem that attacked it was a different kind and somehow considered how I was behind it. What lies on the nest of these lizards, I wonder." Kyros recalled the Earth Core and began to channel the earth's energy to the Vermillion Earth Sword.

"Knights. Await my return!" Kyros suddenly informed the knights that he was to go with the next phase of their plan.

"Kyros. Be sure to keep safe. We'll hold as long as we can as discussed and use the tunnel if things turn sour."

"You too, Uncle! Stay strong and hold the line! No one must die!"

Kyros ran towards the heart of the battle, and he activated Pronto.