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The soldiers perked up at Lieutenant's order. Their dwindling hope rose and they rushed to bombard multiple sections of the flame barricade with explosives. They destroyed it easily enough but it did them no good.

Someone dropped to their knees and wailed to the skies, "We are doomed."

A lieutenant kicked the doomsday crier and rebuked him. "Shut your mouth. You have to maintain a healthy attitude and keep the morale up."

Another one said in awe, "How can you make two walls of this size and still maintain it?"

This person's words drew the attention of others. 

"That is one hell of a healthy attitude." The doomsday crier marveled at the one who spoke.

The lieutenant that rebuked the doomsday crier said to him, "I don't mean him. Don't be like him. He is crazy."

The one they said was crazy because of his so-called healthy attitude just shrugged. They are doomed but that doesn't mean they can't admire what doomed them. She is just being open minded enough to appreciate the work that has gone into putting them in this situation.

The first barricade of fire and earth is almost a kilometer long. It formed a circle around the army of the ten thousand. The second wall is larger than that and yet Soverick can create and maintain them simultaneously. The breaches in the first wall are being healed as they watched and the wall is creeping slowly toward them. 

This is not some fireball that will explode after being released. It is a constant torrent of flames being channeled in two different locations. Then there is the earthen wall behind them. So Soverick is manipulating two different elements, keeping them going, and doing all that in two different directions.

"Shut up every one of you." Someone shouted to get everyone's direction. "We are not dead yet. We can't give up until we are dead. We must continue forward."

That roused everyone. This feat of the child of the plane is impressive but it is bound to fall apart if they put more pressure on him. Could he be capable of creating and maintaining a third wall? If he is, then they will accept defeat. They will give up if there is a third wall. But they will continue to fight until then.

"Let's go." Someone shouted and the army responded.

They roared as they funneled through a single section of the broken wall. They decided not to disperse their efforts and instead focus in one direction to breach both the first and the second wall quickly.

The first barricade began to fall and wasn't replenished when everyone funneled out of it. 

Someone pointed at the breaking wall of fire and said, "You see that. He can't keep it up. Continue rushing forward." 

That's the last thing this person said before going up in flames.

Soverick was running in between the two barricades he set up so one of them is on his right side and the other one is on his left. Creating the walls was easy. Maintaining them on the other hand is very difficult. His divine sense has been suppressed so it is not enough to maintain a channeling of this size. What he did to replenish the depletion of the first barricade is by employing swift addition.

That's why he is running. He is constantly adding more to the barricades. It looks like one intact structure because he adds more flames to it faster than it can deplete. At first, he only set up one barricade. He set up the second one when he saw them preparing their explosives. 

"They haven't given up huh." He chuckled to himself.

He can see whatever they are trying to do through his eyes and the law matrix. He saw and heard the speech. He also saw them deciding to push him to his limit. They were right about something though. He can't maintain more than two barricades at the same time. But he doesn't need to since they have funneled themselves in one direction. So he stopped replenishing the first barricade and began bombarding them with fireballs. 

Balls of fire flew from him towards them. Everyone in between the first and second barricades got a load of fireballs to their face. Sure, they can pressure him. And sure they will get their freedom if they breach the second barricade. But they have to get past him first and reach the second barricade before they get their freedom.

Explosives are great for those that can't use laws in this arena but those that have mastered the laws of fire in this law matrix don't need them. The army found out the wrong way how effective natural explosives are. The first ones to exit the breach in the first barricade were blown to bits. Soverick threw enough fireballs at them to drown them. They would have drowned if it was water that he threw at them in such a large amount.

"Scatter." Someone shouted before being scattered into the wind by another ball of fire.

The ones behind him heeded his advice and scattered in different directions. The rest decided to take different openings in the first wall but they were met with the same thing. The problem with their escape is that they have to funnel themselves through the first wall. It made them perfect targets for elimination by explosions. 

If they are too slow, then Soverick will be able to replenish the first barricade and attack them. If they are too fast in funneling out of the first barricade, then Soverick will ignore the first barricade and contrate all his firepower into eliminating them. They have literally been caught between a rock and a hard place. Or in this case, between a wall of fire and another wall of fire.

Soverick ran around the army between the two walls of fire and punished anyone that tried to escape the first wall. Fire bombarded them again and again until the first wall healed and sealed the breaks within it. Then he made the first barricade shrink to corner those still within it.