Chapter 18
The robots at the front line were holding on, and the robots firing from the wall were doing their job. People, demons, beasts, and elves were fighting side by side, holding on and killing the monsters that were coming through the portal. For a moment, all seemed too easy; they were killing monsters like weeds.
But the top players were looking grim; they didn't share the people's feelings. They looked inside the portal and saw further than what the rest of the people could see.
They saw behind the horde of monsters some tall silhouettes. They were between five and fifteen meters tall; they had long arms that reached beneath the knee, and long legs like sticks, with spikes on their shoulders.
Their heads were in the form of a rhombus, with the mouth taking up most of the face. The spikes were made of black flames, and behind them were broken wings of dark flames burning, causing everything nearby to melt from the heat. The bigger ones looked like they had a mind of their own, and the biggest of them all was a devil twenty-five meters tall, with a smile on his face that looked anything but a smile.
The big players knew that when the devils reached the portal, all hell would break loose. And those were not even the most dangerous; the truly dangerous ones were not even showing yet. They were watching how everything unfolded, like hunters watching their prey, waiting for the perfect opportunity. They were the real threat.
Then Kyle gave an order:
"People from the front lines, 'Retreat.' Let the robots take charge."
On the other side, in the darkness, invisible to the eyes of humans, were five devil generals. They looked like humans but with red skin and long arms with nails like knives. Their heads were still in the form of a rhombus, with no lips; only the saw-like teeth were visible. The lower half was not human, not legs. They had werewolf-like hind legs with bear-like claws, and their wings were formed only from dark fire, burning slowly but with 100X more heat than the flesh wings of their kind.
There were four males and one female, looking at the humans' side retreating strategy and the robots taking their place.
Then one of the devil males spoke:
"So, the weakest of them all, the humans, are now able to fight with the trash and rejects of the Dark Beings and not... 'Lose'."
Another one said:
"Yeah, that is not what I expected. The weakest race, humans, can now put up a fight."
The woman also spoke and said:
"Our kind will soon reach the portal; they WILL kill them all. And don't forget, the... 'High'... one is watching us, so don't make mistakes. And don't play with your food."
The big players were also planning what to do when the devils reached the portal. But before they could make a plan, some strange sounds were heard from the other side.
The people were starting to hear some baby-like cries, combined with animal or monster sounds, and they were very quiet.
But slowly, the sounds grew louder and louder, until they were starting to hear the sound right next to them. The retreating people began to stop and look around, and all of a sudden, they started to fire at one another and attack the ones next to them, screaming, "I will kill you, monster."
When the big players saw this, they knew the easy time was done, and the really dangerous things
were upon them. Melody looked around and said:
"Clear Mind, Soul Cleanse, Lion's Heart."
Immediately, the people were surrounded by white light, and the hallucinations were broken. They looked around at one another and asked, "What just happened? There were only monsters around."
Melody's voice sounded again:
"Keep on retreating, don't stop; go to safety behind the walls."
When they heard Melody's voice, they woke up and started running, leaving their brothers' bodies behind.
The robots filled the empty spaces and continued to kill the monsters, but now the robots were also starting to be destroyed, and the devils were almost at the portal.
Just before the people were behind the wall to safety, a ball of red energy with red lightning all over the surface came from the other side. It looked slow at first, but before anyone could react, the ball was right behind the retreating people.
Some managed to look behind, but even so, they couldn't do anything. Because the ball exploded. The explosion was so great and strong that the people who looked behind didn't even have time to complete a thought before they were dead; their bodies all of a sudden just disappeared, as if they never even existed, so fast and strong was the explosion.
Then the shockwave reached the barrier, and the first layer was destroyed immediately. The second layer held for a second, then that was also destroyed. When it hit the third and strongest barrier, cracks appeared on the surface but held.
The walls shook and the city trembled from the hit of the shockwave. Most of the people were dead; less than half survived because they managed to enter the barrier inside the city. But most of the survivors were also injured.
The devil generals managed to do more damage to the people with one attack than the people did to them the entire fight. The big players were looking at the destruction and the more than half-dead people, most of whom didn't even have a body anymore, and they felt rage.
Melody said:
"Live robots 100,000X."
"Armament."
"Mass Destruction Weapons."
"Auto Aim."
"Titan's Strength."
"Haste."
"All Auto Augmentation."
Then, all around Melody, weapons appeared, bigger than those on the wall, and scarier. Robots began to appear again on the battlefield, even scarier than the ones before; then the mass destruction weapons appeared.
They looked like helicopters, hovering above, with cannons in front. They looked the least impressive of all the weapons, but definitely the most powerful.
Then armor appeared on her body, and a milky white aura surrounded her.
The white aura also appeared on the big players, making them even more powerful.
Then she took aim inside the portal and fired.
The 'Auto Aim' made every shot hit; Melody just fired inside the portal: lasers, energy cannons, explosive bullets, rockets. Then the big guys started to light up, loading for the shot. After ten seconds of loading, the cannons from the 'Mass Destruction Weapon' fired inside the portal.
Two plasma beams flew at the speed of light into the middle of the remaining monsters and devils that Melody had already made a beehive out of.
When the plasma beams hit, the darkness was completely chased away for miles inside; the monsters and the devils that were farther away were first blinded by the light and then killed by the explosion. The ones nearby were not even left with shadows.
The monsters and the devils for miles were completely killed; the destruction made by Melody was even more exaggerated than that of the devil general.
Even the dimension inside where the generals were was starting to shake from the explosion. The devil leader looked at Melody and the destruction she had caused and said:
"That human girl is mine. No one is allowed to touch her."
The other generals looked at him and then at Melody; they all thought,
"Little girl, you are really unlucky to catch our leader's eye."
Melody also felt someone watching her, but she couldn't find the source, so she looked around the empty space behind the portal and waited.
Kyle, Zmaug, Elion, and Leah—all the people were looking at Melody and the weapons floating around her, and they couldn't believe that a human had such destructive power. Then they cheered again,
"Computer the Destroyer."
"Computer the Destroyer."
"Computer the Destroyer."
Melody almost tripped when she heard the cheering, and her ears were becoming redder and redder. So she said:
"It's not over yet; tend to the injured ones and prepare for the second wave."
Everyone immediately started to busy themselves. Kyle and the others came next to Melody on the wall and looked inside the now empty portal.
Leah asks:
"Melody are you alright, do you still have energy left?"
"Yeah, don't worry I'm alright."
Kyle looks at Melody also, and asks:
"Do you know anything about Ark?"
Melody turned to him:
"I can't contact him; inside the core, everything is probably blocked. Nothing gets in, and nothing gets out."
Zmaug watched the empty space, and his dragon eyes could see more. He saw that there was a separate dimension inside the portal; he knew that the generals were there.
"I know where the generals are."
Everyone looked at him and asked:
"Where?"
Zmaug transformed into his dragon form, stage 1. He took his spear out and said:
"They don't know that we found them, so I'm going to make them a surprise."
The other big players looked at him and watched what Zmaug wanted to do.