Within moments of the meeting ending, the battle had begun.
The ground shook as summoned beasts appeared on the western and northern sides of the stronghold.
Catherine had already announced her role in the Phantom Voice's disappearance, so the awakeners fear being ambushed by Phantom Voice while they were fighting the summoned beasts.
They mobilized immediately, pushing against the summoned waves.
The scene at the north wall was chaos.
A squad of four awakeners moved in tight formation.
The tank, a stocky man in plated armor, raised a barrier of earth just as a rhino-like summon with molten skin charged them.
Behind him, a pair of long-range casters launched bolts of wind and light.
The fourth, a woman with a crimson spear, blinked forward and pierced the creature's eye, ending it before it could roar.
Just a few meters away, another squad was using coordinated skill links.
