For the first month, Billy didn ’t experience any difficulties with the work as a guard. However, he didn ’t drop his guard since everyone else looked pretty much troubled. Apparently, it was rare for the elementalists not to attack the town for such a long time… Billy considered himself lucky because he had more time to train with the adults, and unlucky, because he didn ’t have the chance to see their magic. Regardless, exactly one month after he joined the guard, they came…

”Go alert the other sides! ” Drew shouted.

Billy was sparring with Alexander when they heard that. It was the sign that they had to listen to immediately stop whatever they were doing and dash toward the other posts of the walls. Billy, Alexander, and five other recruits split to alert the other seven guarding posts. They knew the best routes to reach those posts, and they had been trained to reach those as fast as possible. Billy was supposed to alert the southeastern post, but when he arrived there, he knew that something weird was going on… the guards were looking at the distance with complicated expressions. When he went there to alert them, he saw another group of cloaked figures approaching like they were skiing on the ground.

”… Are they bending earth? ” Billy thought.

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The alert was used to call for reinforcements, but it looked like all posts were going to be attacked at the same time, so that they couldn ’t help each other. When that happened, they still had another countermeasure… the recruits had to go to all the residential areas and ask for the support of the guards who work at night.

Billy increased his pace to do that and returned with reinforcements after just five minutes. However, even before they could reach the walls, they could tell that something was off… the sound of powerful impacts were taking place very often, and they were so powerful that it made some parts of the town tremble. When Billy arrived, he saw numerous cracks in the walls… even though they were five meters thick and fifteen meters tall.