Supreme Summoner Overlord: Rise of the Endless Legion-Chapter 406: The Last Stop (11)

The noise of the wall breaching was deafening. The palace groaned, and the stone shook under Reidar’s boots as the walls gave way to the brute force of the monsters outside.

"Shit!"

If the walls got breached, then it meant Reidar didn’t have much time available. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

<I need to kill her...>

Reidar crouched behind a shadow wall, watching Mara through the eyes of a Vorathid Sky-Hunter. She was bleeding now—not much, but enough that he could see the red liquid dripping from cuts on her arms and legs. The summons were landing hits. Not often, but they were landing them.

However, the problem wasn’t Mara anymore; it was the palace.

Through the shared vision of his summons outside, Reidar saw the titans smashing through the outer walls. The Verdant Sovereign’s roots were being torn apart. The Dreadmaws were barely holding the main entrance, and many Ignis were already inside the building despite everything the summons did.

Reidar checked the map in his mind. The ballroom was far from the breach, more or less two minutes away.

The situation was bad.

If the monsters got too close when the portal opened, they would be sucked through to Earth. A single level 600 titan would be enough to wipe out a country.

A pack of Elite Feral Ignis could slaughter thousands of people in minutes.

He couldn’t stay here and fight them, not in this room, because the portal was his only way home. If he ran now, he might lose his chance forever; Mara would either escape or die, and the circle might be destroyed in the fighting, which meant he would be stranded.

But it also looked like the portal was almost ready, so if he managed to stop the Ignis from reaching the room, maybe he could still cross it and prevent the monsters from reaching Earth.

<Think.>

The best move was to buy time. He needed to stall the monsters long enough for the portal to finish activating. Then he had to kill Mara, cross through, and destroy the circle on this side before anything else could follow him.

His mana was full again. The constant regeneration from forty thousand summons kept his reserves topped up, even after the massive summoning spree. He could cast more.

He turned his attention to the ballroom first. Mara was still fighting his troops, teleporting through the shifting maze of shadows. She was fast, and she was strong, wounding his creatures with those black claws, but she wasn’t killing them—she was just slippery.

He needed to change that. He needed to trap her.

The ballroom was massive, but it wasn’t infinite, which meant that if he summoned full-sized Sky-Hunters, they would block each other out and make it impossible to move. Small Sky-Hunters, however, could weave between the shadow walls to swarm Mara from every angle and fill the room without blocking his own view.

Reidar activated a skill.

[Skill Activated: Summon Vorathid Sky-Hunter]

The insects materialized around him to fill the gaps between the shadow walls, yet instead of letting them grow to their usual size, Reidar ordered them to remain small—trading strength for speed—because the cramped ballroom could not fit hundreds of giants but could accommodate thousands of smaller summons.

As he summoned them by the hundreds, they spread through the room like a plague, filling the corridors, crawling across the ceiling, and hovering in dense clouds near every exit to ensure that no matter where Mara tried to blink, she would land in a swarm.

The woman noticed this and teleported away from a group of Spectral Swordsmen to a clear section of the floor, but three of the smaller Sky-Hunters dove at her, and even when she vanished again, they adjusted their flight paths to track her movement.

She teleported. They followed. She teleported. They followed.

<That’s enough for her.>

The monsters outside were still coming, so that had to be addressed too. Reidar turned to the Shadow Sovereigns.

"Send some Dread-Shields and the Mana Knights to intercept the monsters. Block the stairwells. Hold them for as long as you can. They must stay as far away from this side of the palace as possible."

The Shadow Sovereigns then summoned Dread-Shields from the undying legion and Spectral Knights from the Quadragintas.

Thousands of them poured out of the ballroom and into the palace proper, a tide of summoned creatures heading toward the sounds of combat. They were not going to last for long, nor were they going to stall for a lot of time, but whatever they got him, Reidar had to do with.

<Now for Mara.>

Reidar turned his attention back to the ballroom. The fight had shifted while he was giving orders. Mara was bleeding and was surrounded.

The Vorathid Sky-Hunters had gotten to her. Even at their reduced size, their stingers were sharp enough to pierce her hardened skin. Dozens of small wounds covered her arms and legs, each one leaking blood.

She teleported again, trying to escape the swarm. But when she reappeared, twenty Sky-Hunters were already there to wait for her. Their stingers drove into her back before she could react.

Mara screamed, but the sound coming out of her mouth was more animal than human.

She spun with her claws, sweeping through the air, slashing at the swarm with desperate fury, but she was too weak to kill them, and her movements were growing sluggish because of the wounds and the blood loss.

Slowly, Mara was getting overwhelmed. The swarm was too big, and every time Mara moved or teleported, the insects were already in the surroundings, making sure that while the shadow walls blocked her escape routes, the Sky-Hunters filled every remaining gap.

It also looked like Mara was not in a state of mind sane enough to think about teleporting away. That most likely was also because the portal was there, and it was about to open. If she missed this opportunity, she would not go back to Earth anymore.

That must have been the last vestige of her will. To cross the portal and go back home, but aside from that, Mara was now too feral.

<C’mon, just die!>

The constant teleportation was draining her mana. Her attacks were becoming wilder and less precise, and she was teleporting less and less. She was losing herself in ferality more and more.