There was silence at first.
The bodies that had been moving through the air slammed into the ground one after another, their lifeless forms bouncing off the cracked dirt.
The sound echoed through the ruins like dull thunder.
The one in front who had been leading the formation fell on a broken spike of stone.
The sharp edge pierced through his stomach, ripping through armor and flesh alike, and left him hanging there, blood dripping down in thin streams.
For a moment, everyone froze.
Then Rita shouted, "Ambush! Raise the shields!"
Her voice snapped the Awakeners back to reality.
In the same instant, glowing barriers flared to life in front of the front line, glowing with holy light.
But the attack didn't stop… more arrows converged at them from all sides.
They moved at impossible speed guided by the mana poured into them.
The arrows hit the shields with metallic cracks, ricocheting off like bullets.
