Chapter 206: Barrier


    Hugh had to hurry back towards the army. He had to go and let themander see that he would go back and protect the army.


    Although it would be a good idea to let them deal with it by themselves, Hugh thought that it would be better to make sure that he whisk earn the respect and trust of themander.


    Hugh rushed towards the army. He brought along a horse from the soldiers and hurried there.


    As he went towards the army, he heard distant explosions and earthquakes made from them. Hugh could tell that there was a huge battle going on.


    He never expected that the Shark Loanpany would try and attack the army at this point in time. He did not never know that the Shark Loanpany had enough numbers to fight against the Shark Loanpany.


    Hugh looked towards the front of the army and saw that people and slowed were dying all together. Fireballs do big stature hit one of the most densest part of the army and decimated the soldier.


    Hugh saw the army and knew that they were all in disarray. The army was getting attacked, but there was one thing that he could not see.


    He could not see any instance of his enemies out there. There was no opposing soldier, no army, nothing. It was just empty air and fireballs and cannons appearing out of nowhere.


    Hugh looked around and used his eagle eyes. Then, he saw some kind of spell all around the army that seemed to dispel the light and reflected it around them, making it look transparent.


    Hugh hurried towards the center of the army, where the upper ranks would inevitably gather to try and deal with the situation.


    The soldiers al around were too busy dealing with the assault that they did not notice Hugh. He quickly saw a shabbyrge tent where he could hear shouting all around.


    As he got closer, he heard more and more arguing from the upper ranks.


    "We should attack them right now!"


    "We don''t know where they are!"


    "We should just attack anywhere! Overwhelm them with numbers!"


    The upper ranks were all standing up and pointing at each other, seeming to ce the me on others. This was a crisis, and the upper ranks were not equipped to deal with such things.


    "Shut up," themander said. Immediately, the upper ranks all closed their mouth and looked at themander.


    In this dire times, they knew that they should follow themander''s orders to the tee. He was the only one capable of trying to salvage this situation.


    Then, themander looked at Hugh, who had just opened the tent and stepped inside.


    "Aren''t you gong to sit?" themander asked.


    Immediately, the upper ranks all looked towards Hugh. They red at him, clearly mad at him for being in this ce.


    The reason why all of them argued over the course of action was because they all wanted the prestige and respect of themander for resolving this situation.


    In their mind, if theypletely solved the situation by themselves, they could over turn Hugh''s piston as themander''s right hand man.


    Hugh saluted over to themander and sat down on of the seats in the round table. He was at the furthest seat from themander, a n hatched by the upper ranks.


    "What are you doing?" themander asked. "You are my right hand man." Themander pointed over to the chair next to him, which was currently upied by a upper rank.


    The upper rank in the seat had no other choose but to stand up and let Hugh take his seat. This was a humiliation he could not endure.


    He had fought teeth and nail against the other upper ranks for being in the seat next to themander. However, Hugh just stole his seat in just a second.


    After Hugh sat down, themander put his chin in his hands and looked at all the upper ranks. In contrast to their expressions, themander hadpleteposure.


    Hugh could see the reason why his army respected themander so much. Even in this dire times, he still had theposure needed to make the right decisions in a split second.


    "What is our current situation?" themander asked.


    Then, a person immediately showed himself behind themander. This was one of the personal guards of themander.


    "We have lost a thousand men already," the man said.


    The upper ranks immediately went into a panic. A thousand men was arge number for them. It was not a simple thing since they knew how long they had to grow a man into a soldier.


    The upper ranks immediately went into silenced whispered with each other. They were all at a panic.


    "And our enemies?" themander asked.


    Then, another person appeared behind themander. Hugh was sunrises to see the guard, and the guard was surprised to see him.


    However, the guard knew that this was not the time to think about other things. He had it report his findings over of themander.


    "Our army cannot see them only because of a spell all around us," the guard said.


    Everyone went into another uproar. An invisible enemy? being trapped? Everything about this battle was a nightmare to deal with.


    If they were to deal with this individually, they would not panic as much. However, both fo these problems were not additive, but they were multiplicative. Meaning that it was harder to deal with together than individually.


    "Commander, we should break through with our numbers," ab upper rank said.


    "We cannot seem to break through," the guard said.


    Immediately, everyone went into another uproar. Everyone knew the extent of powers of themander''s personal guards. If they could not break through, then no one can.


    "There must be another way! No spell is invulnerable!" an upper rank said.


    *BOOM*


    Another explosion urred near the tent. The tent got disced by the air, and everyone felt the shockwave. They could immediately hear the sounds of soldiers dying.


    "Calm down," themander said.


    Everyone would have gone into a craze if themander had not said that. They were all ready to evacuate seeing that they are being pushed back.


    However, themander was able to bring the room at peace once again with only one sentence.


    "Cannons are going in. That it our way out," themander said.


    Everyone gasped. They had not thought of this solution, and it seemed usible enough. As expected of themander, he had the wisdom to be able to deal with any situation.


    "Find some men to tryand attack the moment the cannons go in," themander said.


    Immediately, the upper ranks all scrambled to send in their men to do it. If they were able to sessfully pull of this mission, then they would be able to gain the respect of themander.


    The soldiers were all sent into the borders of the barrier. As soon as the cannons came in, the soldiers all threw their swords into it.


    Some of them were not able to time it well, and the swords all ricocheted off the barrier. However, some lucky swords were able to go in.


    The soldiers rejoiced, but the cannons once again attacked the army. Their victory was far too small to be considered a victory.


    "Commander, some soldiers are able to send the swords, but there was no reaction from the opposing team," a soldier reported.


    The upper ranks were once again in uproar. They were losing far too much men for this kind of progress. They could not bear to lose in such a way.


    "Send in the men," themander said.


    The upper ranks all gulped. If the soldiers were sent out, then it meant that some of them would be able o get though.


    However, they would be trapped with the side of their opposing army. They would be killed instantly. This made the mission very risky and the morality rate would be off the roofs.


    The soldiers who were unlucky enough to be assigned to this mission would be handed a death certificate. However, the upper ranks ddi not care for this.


    If themander said to do something, then they should do it without any second thoughts. So, themand was handed down.


    After all this was handed out, everyone waited for the results. After a few minutes, the results were out, and it was not good news.


    Out of the fifty men that were set out, only ten were able to go through the other side. And of the then men, no one was able toe out just yet.


    This was a disastrous result. Those ten men that were able to go out were presumably killed by the opposing teams.


    At this rate, the army would be decimated. The upper ranks had to do something, but they could not do anything else.


    Everyone looked towards themander for answers. However, they could see him in deep thought.