Akira grew even warier of the newcomer when he noticed who it was.
With a quick swipe of his claw, he gave a silent signal to those under his command. As one they quickly distanced themselves from the demigods in front and the third party that had just arrived on their right.
Since they did not know if they would help the BenDover guild Akira decided it was best to have a large enough distance between them to allow them to react to any attack from them.
“Teresa, what are you doing here?” asked Dover with a sour look on his face.
“I was in the area when I heard from a few travelers about disasters happening around here. So I decided to come and take care of them,” said Sister Teresa.
Upon inspecting her, Akira found that Sister Teresa had reached lvl 61. He scanned over the demigods that were all gathered around her.
With just a quick head count he could see that her entourage of low-level demigods had at least doubled and all of them were guild-less.
She was still being protected by Rondie and the three other high-level female demigods that were all now all around level 110.
From what he saw it looked like she had gathered all the weaker demigods that had nowhere to go and did not want to or could not participate in the bloody battles up north.
“Shouldn’t you be playing in the south with the demon races?” asked Ivana. She was not happy to see Sister Teresa here.
The local area nomads who had been caught between the two sides before were all excitedly chattering as they realized who the leader of the third party was.
Many of them had personally met her before or had heard rumors from others who had been helped by her. Due to these rumors and stories, it was partly why they were willing to trust her words far more than the BenDover guild or even the Kodria soldiers that were about to clash with each other.
“What is going on here?” asked Teresa again, ignoring the failed snarky jabs made by Ivana.
“Those mutts have been causing disasters and trying to kill us!” said Shaker with an indignant expression on her face as she pointed at Akira.
Sister Teresa looked at Akira and recognized him from their short meeting not too long ago. She did not say anything and only waited for him to speak.
Akira thought over his previous interactions with her and after a few seconds of silence, he explained all that had happened up to the point where she had arrived.
“Is that all?” asked Sister Teresa.
“It is. If you still want to take the side of the BenDover guild there is nothing I can do about it right now. But we will remember it,” said Akira, ready to make a quick retreat.
“Roar!” said Fluffball, agreeing with Akira his ice armor still shining like a gem.
Sister Teresa turned to Ben and his gathered guild members.
“Don’t look at me like that! He is the real culprit! He caused disasters so that he could steal the resources from the towns and encampments that were abandoned by everyone here!”
“Guild leader Ben, every demigod knows of your temperament and your scheming nature that often lands you in hot water when your plans fail. All this sounds exactly like something you would do!” shouted Rondie.
“We have proof,” said Dover as he waved for his guild members to bring something forward.
The demigod that had led Akira and co on the short chase back to the town handed over a chest to Ben. Several other demigods did as well.
“While we were hunting we came upon the Kodria mutts scavenging inside one of the villages so we fought them to stop them from looting all the resources. We took the chest they had and brought them back to return the items to the people they belong to!”
Hearing this the armed refugees’ fury reached a new height. Behind them, a demigod blew a cloud of fine dust into the air and activated a soft wind skill unnoticed by everyone.
The dust further agitated the angry people and as if a dam broke, their anger reached a boiling point that clouded their judgment and removed all fear of the terrifying aura coming from Akira. They rushed towards Akira and those around him.
“Everyone calm down!” shouted Sister Teresa, but her words did not reach them as they were focused on one person.
At that moment several smaller groups of demigods not part of the BenDover guild appeared on the wooden walls of the town and launched a surprise attack.
The different types of skills that shot through the air pierced, tore, burnt, froze, and exploded several bodies.
Large plumes of light fragments burst into the air all around Sister Teresa as dozens of lowest-level demigods were instantly killed by the attacks.
“Surprise!” shouted a large female demigod on the wall as she laughed maniacally and launched many skills toward the low-level demigods.
Rondie jumped in front of Sister Teresa protecting her from the raining skills.
With a guttural roar, her body expanded, increasing her height several feet as well as her width. Her leather armor tore apart revealing a rubbery suit underneath.
She used her body as a shield and began to smash the incoming attacks with her metal fists knocking away or blocking the attacks that were targeting Sister Teresa.
The three other high-level demigod females grabbed Sister Teresa and pulled her away from the battlefield.
A large portion of the low-level demigods were enraged at being attacked and began launching their own attacks toward the town… but their attacks only managed to cause minor damage. While they were attacking even more of the low levels were being cut down by the raining skills.
“HaHaHa! Teresa with your low level you shouldn’t be sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong!”
“Serves you right for being a demon lover!”
“After her!”
The demigods hastened their skill casting trying to wipe out everyone they saw!
“Awoooo!”
Akira and the werewolves were not spared from the attacks either and several of them had been wounded.
With the chaotic situation spiraling out of control he decided to temporarily retreat not wanting to kill the locals as well as being unsure how many demigods were hiding inside the town or how strong they were.
Because of this, they ended up retreating in the same direction as Sister Teresa and the surviving followers under her command.
He did not care that they were running together, his only focus was on keeping his forces alive.
The slower demigods at the rear were being picked off by the chasing demigods.
As Akira looked back he saw a large majority of the low-level demigods had all given up running and had instead stopped and turned around.
Even though they were out-leveled and were using inferior armor and weapons they charged toward the chasing demigods and blocked them from nearing the escaping Sister Teresa.
With their help, both Akira’s and Teresa’s groups were able to lengthen the distance between the chasing mob to the point they could see but could still hear the fighting behind them.
There were still several demigods that did not want to let this chance go and broke through the low-level blockade with a few skills and ignored the rest as they chased after two groups.
The chase lasted over an hour. Akira could have stopped to handle them but if he did then the mob of reinforcements would catch back up to them if the fight took too long.
Skills from behind keep flying over their heads missing by a long margin due to the long distance they were launched from.
As the last of the daylight was disappearing, a large number of shadows on the distant horizon caught Akira’s attention.
A thought jolted Akira into action as he ran toward the shadows which were also moving at a fast pace.
In less than an hour of running Akira finally made out what the shadows were… It was Varbu and the reinforcement soldiers that were sent to handle the demigod problem!
The few remaining demigods that were chasing them immediately stopped when they sensed something was wrong and immediately hightailed it back the way they had come.
