Demon Beast Horde
(Jun's POV)
Over the next month, Ye Zong starts suppressing the Sacred Family's power and removing them from the City Guards. With support from me, the Snow Wind family allies, the Alchemy Associations, and families that don't like the Sacred family, it was easy to suppress them to the point where they couldn't do anything without looking suspicious.
Ye Zong also started to remove the spies inside Glory City. He hasn't done anything about the Dark Guild bases yet but I suspected he will start on it once the danger from inside the city is gone.
School also started again, not that it matters much since there is nothing to learn there. One advantage of being in the genius class is that we can basically skip school and still pass. We just need permission from the person overseeing our training then we don't have to go anymore. Since the person teaching me and the girls is Master Jian, I can skip whenever I feel like it.
Another group of students that didn't stay in school is Nie Li and his group of friends. They went into the Abyss Prison Realm at the start of school and still haven't come out yet.
After a month of enjoying myself, I've started to prepare for the Demon Beast horde that's going to attack soon. I start drawing defensive and offensive arrays on the wall. The defensive array reinforces the array making it strong enough that only Legend Rank demon beast will be able to smash through. The offensive array will absorb the attacks of demon beasts up to peak Gold rank and send it back at the demon beasts.
The reason I didn't make the arrays stronger and just wipe out all the demon beast is because I don't want to make the people of Glory City reliance on me. With just this level of the array, the guards will have an easier time defending while Ye Zong and I'll deal with any strong demon beasts that come near.
About 12 days after I started working on the arrays, Nie Li comes out of the Abyss Realm. From what I see, he and his friends seemed to have benefited a lot from the trip with Nie Li reaching 3-star Gold Rank and his friends being somewhere around 2-4 stars Gold Rank. He didn't talk to Ye Zong about the Abyss Prison Realm though. Instead went to the Alchemy Association to do his own preparation for the attack.
18 days after I started on the arrays and 2 days since I finished them, the alarm rings signaling a demon beast horde attack. I and my persona, Jian, made our way toward the North Wall where everyone seems to be gathering. In the of everyone, I can see Ye Zong with elders and patriarchs of other families.
"Lord Ye," Jian greet him when he notices us.
"Master Long, Jun, it's good that you can make it. We'll be needing all the help we can get." Ye Zong looks a little relief when he sees Jian.
"What's happening? Are we getting attack again?" this is the first time Glory City was attacked by a demon beast horde while I'm here so I pretend not to know anything.
"Unfortunately yes. Currently, a horde of about a million demon beasts is heading this way." Ye Zong answer
While Ye Zong is talking to Jian, I look over the wall to see that Nie Li already have a group of people helping him dig holes and pouring large amounts of liquid into the holes.
"Oh? I wonder who's the little genius that came up with this idea." Jian says as he looks over the wall.
"You know what they are doing?" Ye Zing asks
"Yes, they are mixing red oil with a few other materials to create a highly unstable liquid. One the fur of a demon beast comes in contact with it, the oil will ignite catching the demon beasts on fire." Jian explains
"How many demon beasts will it be able to take care of then?"
"With the amount of oil they currently have… I say about a hundred thousand."
Ye Zong looks a little surprise before sighing. "Only one-tenth of the horde then."
"Don't worry too much about the horde, Jun and I already put a defensive array around the city wall after finishing the Ten Thousands Demonic Beasts array. Anything below Legend rank won't be able to break the wall and anything below Black Gold rank won't be able to make it over."
Ye Zong is more surprised this time "Really?!"
"Yes, you should have the guards be put in groups that can handle Black Gold rank demon beasts. Anyone that won't be able to withstand Black Gold ranks should retreats and give support." Jian suggests.
"Hahaha, of course. With yours and that brat Nie Li's help, I can already see us winning this with only a little to no causality." Ye Zong said happily. "Excuse me for leaving but I have some work to do." He said to the patriarchs and elders in the group before leaving to give orders to his men.
Before Ye Zong come back, Ning'er and Ziyun was able to get to the wall and find me.
"Jun!" they call out as they make their way over.
"Ning'er, Ziyun, guess you two got news of the demon beast horde?" I greet them with a hug.
"Yeah…" they both said while blushing. They are used to me hugging them but they are not used to doing it around other people.
"Here." I give them each an inscription and whisper to them, "You should only show the strength of a Gold Rank expert. If you need to show more strength to help others, use the inscriptions. It'll cover up your ranks and create a complicated looking array that does nothing. People will think it's the array's power when you do that."
They both nodded and take the scroll. "Thank you"
"No problem, I can't just have my beautiful wives go fight without protection after all," I said loudly for everyone to hear making them blush again.
After a while, Ye Zong came back and see Ziyun and Ning'er here too. He tries to convince them to go back but they didn't listen and choose to stay. When he sees that they won't listen he sighed and told me to protect them.
It wasn't until sunrise that the demon beasts horde finally show up.