Now, two weeks have passed since the start of the challenge.
They are only half a month away from their target.
Although the first day suffered quite a lot of damage, thanks to Kain's timely and close leadership, everything was safe and on track.
His status, unconsciously, had been raised to the highest level, even though he had never declared himself a commander.
However, two weeks had passed without any major incidents, and almost all the monsters in and around the base had been wiped out, so it was inevitable that everyone's mentality would gradually loosen.
At the same time, on top of the city wall approaching the base.
Two students were walking on it on patrol, each holding a rope, which was connected to a bell system that extended down below, once something happened, they could ring the bell and alert the students stationed in the base.
"Damn, this place always gives me the creeps."
A student rubbed his hands together and complained. The person next to him just clicked his tongue.
"Hang on, it's almost time to change shifts."
"Okay, just say it..."
Their voices stopped.
Because they heard the sound of claws hitting metal.
But in a situation covered by fog, both sound and light are restricted from transmitting, so once you hear something, it means the source of the sound is very close.
Both of them reacted immediately, hastily pulling the rope.
At the same time, they looked down and saw many blurry figures crawling up the wall made of bricks, stones, and steel.
The sounds of claws hitting hard objects grew more and more frequent and piled up on each other.
Crawlers, lots of Crawlers!
However, this is not all.
Because from the front of the base, a large number of Crawlers were also looking to attack.
Kain immediately appeared, when he heard the report from the students acting as scouts, Kain actually let out a sigh of relief.
He knew that the Crawlers were coming from other areas.
He also knew what had driven these Crawlers to attack.
It was that "thing", the thing he saw.
The danger of this thing is undeniable, however, the crude attack method lacking strategy, along with the somewhat slow reaction speed, reflects a fact.
It is something that is not yet "awake", or at least it has not yet developed itself to the extent that it can be called "intelligent".
It just protects itself instinctively.
In other words, even if the situation was 78 against 16000, he still wouldn't lose. Besides, Kain was still saving his last plan, if his guess was correct.
"This must be just the first wave."
Kain's thinking was correct, but he still slightly underestimated the destructive power of this "first attack".
It took a whole day and three changes of personnel before all the monsters were destroyed and the defense was successful.
The first battle defending the wall was extremely difficult with the large number of monsters surging, forcing Kain to completely ignore the other side of the battlefield in order to defend without any casualties.
+[Thunder Spear level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Arrow level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Descend level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Flash level 1] 0/200
+[Thunder Control level 3] 0/350
-[Enhancement Magic ★] 94/1500 (+94):
+[Enhancement Body level Max]
+[Enhancement Tool level Max]
-[Spirit Magic ★] 0/1500:
+[Imitative level Max] (+43)
+[Mind Sense level Max] (+ 173)
-[Life Magic ★] 0/1500:
Once again, Kain exhausted all his skill points in combat.
At the same time, he also aimed to maximize the amount of skill points to focus on enhancing [Enhancement Magic] from [★] to [★★].
Kain wanted his power to expand further.
At the same time, if he could enter the sublimation state again, he wanted to confirm the state of "that thing". From there he would decide whether running away or defending would be the next plan.
The students at this moment, except for feeling a little pressured, it was fine, because they had experienced this kind of huge battle before.
But they will soon know what real pressure is.
Right after the first attack ended, only half a day later, the second wave of monsters arrived, with even more terrifying power than before.
Moreover, it is an attack on both sides.
The hundreds of dead monsters earlier seemed to have no effect on the monster army at all.
Looking at the five tall Nightcrawlers entering the battlefield one after another, the students couldn't help but secretly swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Overwhelming numbers.
These were the only words they could use to describe their current situation.
Of the 78 students, only 64 are combat-oriented, the rest are all auxiliary healing Magus.
Therefore, dividing forces reasonably is always a big problem.
Kain can only guarantee one side of the battlefield.
Besides, he is about to leave.
"This time, I'll be here alone."
"Just leave about five people behind. In case something gets through."
"The rest of you, focus on dealing with the battlefield on the other side and protecting the base."
"Anyone have any comments?"
Although he seemed to be asking for other people's opinions, his tone was extremely domineering, not allowing anyone to object at all.
This is the power of what is called "power".
Unlike someone holding a knife to your throat and forcing you to do what he wants, power is invisible, intangible, and untouchable, because it does not exist. Power is just an invisible shadow projected in the human mind, an unreal thing created by perception itself.
Permeate and mold the mind into what power wants.
At this moment, even though Kain was just an average student, his words still carried weight, after all he had built.
This was the power that the students had voluntarily given him.
However, there was only one person who seemed to be completely unaffected.
"Kain, are you crazy?"
Mera did not hesitate to point straight at Kain's nose and scold.
Seeing the course's demon - the infamous Lady Devil dares to point her finger at the strongest person at the moment. Everyone could not help but panic.
But they guessed wrong.
With Kain's iron-fisted attitude just now, they even thought that Kain would punish Mera.
However, what they saw was Kain lowering his voice, then starting to relentlessly persuade her.
It wasn't until five minutes later that she agreed to let him fight alone.
Looking at the students retreating further and further behind, Kain sighed.
He wasn't angry at Mera for ruining his image, in any way. Mera was simply worried, because Kain couldn't handle this number of monsters.
But that was before that.
Now, standing on a straight and narrow path, with no attacks from any direction, Kain could confirm one thing.
"As many of you come, as many of you die."
And the war has begun.
Extremely quickly, the lightning net formed from the sky and earth covered the entire passage.
[Thunder Control] increased to level 3 made it extremely easy for Kain to cast basic magic and control lightning.
At the same time, [Spirit Magic] especially [Mind Sense level Max] made Kain seem to have a bit of the characteristics of the next upgraded magic skill [Multiple Thinking]. This allowed Kain to attack multiple targets more accurately and easily.
So, even though it looked like the same type of attack as two weeks ago, Kain's strength had completely surpassed before.
Kain muttered to himself towards the monsters.
Whenever the [Level] line changes, he immediately adds [Enhancement Magic].
This is to maximize the benefits of skill points.
Unfortunately, doing so requires a slight distraction, so this can only be used when Kain is completely overwhelming his enemies.
Seeing the skill points continuously being poured in, Kain suddenly became excited, not only because he increased his strength, but also because the stronger he was, the more favorable his next plan would be.
He could still bring everyone alive and leave here, even if it was a 78 vs 16000 situation.
As soon as the first wave of attacking monsters fell, a huge amount of skill points were poured into Kain's magic.
[Enhancement Magic ★] 384/1500 (+290)
During this time, Kain took the opportunity to rest.
According to his calculations and the scale of the monsters, this attack would last for about two days.
Fortunately, because of the shielding architecture, even if the enemy had overwhelming numbers, they could not completely take advantage of their numerical advantage.
"Hope they are okay."
Kain thought to himself, then continued to stand up.
+[Thunder Spear level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Arrow level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Descend level 1] 0/150
+[Thunder Flash level 1] 0/200
+[Thunder Control level 3] 0/350
-[Enhancement Magic ★] 549/1500 (+ 165):
+[Enhancement Body level Max]
+[Enhancement Tool level Max]
-[Spirit Magic ★] 0/1500:
+[Imitative level Max]
+[Mind Sense level Max]
-[Life Magic ★] 0/1500: