Thalion was up in the sky again, on his way to the next tower. He saw that the breach from Garrick's side was progressing, and Kai's team was winning decisively, while the others hadn’t made much progress at all. He dove down towards the next tower, where orcs were firing arrows with grins on their faces at the attacking n, who were running fast from side to side to dodge the arrows.
Thalion transford into his human form a hundred ters above the orcs and fired blood thorns at their heads, which was pretty easy since they weren’t moving at all. He landed on the tower and fed the blood of the orcs to the sanguine thorn, which humd with desire. Then the door opened, and a mage sprinted out. Before the orc could react, a vine with a black thorn pierced his heart and began draining his blood. Monts later, the mage orc fell to the ground dead.
Thalion began bombarding the archers and mages on the wall below him and managed to kill over ten before they noticed him and started shooting. Thalion moved to the other side of the tower and continued bombarding the archers and mages. There, he managed to kill even more orcs before they noticed him and began shooting upwards. The human warriors, thankfully, weren’t sleeping and had climbed the wall, attacking the orcs with furious strikes, probably as revenge for the earlier bombardnt.
Thalion’s job was done. He turned into an eagle and shot into the air, moving quickly to the third tower. He saw that no attack was happening at the fourth tower, with over thirty human corpses lying on the ground.
“What had happened? Where are all the fighters? Was this Michael’s side?” Thalion thought with worry. Sadly, he didn’t have much ti to search for them, but he hoped they weren’t making a move on Kael and Sylas. He was confident they could handle Michael and a few others, but there were over forty fighters missing—that would be too much.
As he approached the third tower, the orcs noticed him and began firing arrows and fireballs at him. From this distance, it was easy to dodge with his eagle form, as the reflexes of an eagle were just too fast. He transford into his human form mid-flight and started dashing, firing blood thorns at the orcs on the tower. One got hit in the head and died instantly, while the others were blocked by a manashield from one of the mages.
Thalion charged a fireball and threw it at the orcs. The explosion destroyed the manashield and threw two of them off the tower, leaving only one mage, who had blocked his spell earlier. Thalion prepared a stronger version of the blood thorn and shot it at the orc, who again tried to block it with a manashield while his right hand was surrounded by lightning. The shield wasn’t enough to stop the powered blood thorn, but it slowed it down, so it only ripped open the orc’s arm.
The orc unleashed the lightning at Thalion with an angry roar, and Thalion wasn’t fast enough to dodge it. He was hit in the side and thrown back, his body spasming from the lightning. He quickly transford into an eagle, which absorbed the electricity with his passive skill stormborn resilience and slowly healed him. Thalion shot up into the air, activating feather glide and tempest shroud, speeding up significantly while still absorbing the lingering electricity. He dodged an ice shard the orc shot at him.
He dove down at the orc, activating lightning bolt, and shot a streak of lightning out of his beak. The orc blocked it with another manashield while countering with a swarm of ice shards. Thalion circled the tower with incredible speed and began to cast eye of the storm. The surroundings turned dark, and a storm rose around him. The orc mage was struck by a lightning bolt from above. "Sucks to be the highest point," Thalion thought with a grin. The bad thing was that all the other orcs on the wall had now spotted him, making the situation much more dangerous.
He rose higher, now circling 50 ters above the tower, dodging all the spells and arrows being fired at him. It wasn’t as difficult as he first thought, since his speed was already too fast for the orcs to hit him, so they just shot in his general direction. He then activated his second thunder skill, lightning bolt barrage, and soon after, lightning bolts rained down on the defenders. Thalion watched as the powerful area attack hit multiple orcs, and the mage was sent flying from the tower as three lightning bolts in rapid succession smashed into his shield. An additional bolt hit him while he was falling, ensuring a not-so-safe landing.
Thalion landed on the tower and transford back into his human form. He had nearly spent all of his mana and needed to recuperate. He sped up the process by drinking two mana potions, restoring his mana to roughly fifty percent. He already heard steps on the stairs below and waited for the orcs to approach. Thankfully, his mana and health were regenerating quickly due to his purified blood, the sanguine thorn, the amulet and his passive skill, heartbeat of the sanguine archon.
He patiently waited until the orcs arrived at the door. Then he shot a charged blood thorn through the wooden door, hoping to kill the orcs behind it. Thalion heard pained screams and activated vine of the sanguine thorn, which ripped through the door. He could almost locate the orcs by feeling their blood, and the vine pierced the chests of three orcs standing behind the door. Before they could cut the vine, he activated crimson Harvest. For the first ti, he felt strong resistance from all three orcs.
Thalion fought against the combined will of the three orcs, while he moved the vine to injure them more. It was pretty even, but then, with a beat of desire, the sanguine thorn made itself known, and with a pulse, the orcs were completely overpowered. Soon after, three dried husks fell down the stairs. Thalion felt the satisfaction of the sanguine thorn as it fed on the orcs’ blood. He wondered what the plant was capable of after fully awakening.
Next were the orcs on the wall, who had mostly turned back to the approaching humans now climbing the walls. Thalion started bombarding them with blood thorns, piercing multiple orc skulls and making it easier for the humans to climb and attack the orcs.
It helped that most orcs were now running to aid in defending the breach in the wall, making it easier for the humans to overco their defenses. After so more fighting, this part of the wall was almost under their control. The orcs from the fourth tower, not needing to defend their post, were now helping the other orcs and attacked fiercely.
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Thalion soon faced real problems as two archers started aiming for him. "Ti to check on Kael," he thought. He placed so of the large orc weapons in his spatial ring, turned to mist, and shot in the direction of the gate where Kael should be.
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