War

In the clearing, a big tailed light brown tarasier was attacking Ents and Thunder gorillas. He already managed to take down a fair number of them. Surrounded by 20 or so of tier 3 tarasiers, they became an unstoppable force.

Boom

Bright lightning filled their view and an enormous fair furred Gorilla tackled him, sending flying many other tarasiers.

Sizzle

His golden fur rippling electric energy, he threw himself towards the tier 4 tarasier and punched him repeatedly.

The big tailed monkey, did not let himself go down so easily and clawed, bit and hit as much as he could.

The 2 monsters were clashing in a deathly confrontation.

The tier 4 Gorilla was enormous. His whole body was covered with lightning. Fast, massive and strong, he tugged and punched the tier 4 tarasier. He then grabbed his head and shoveled it in the ground, dragging him across few meters.

On the defensive, the tarasier kept being pushed back, even when using his tail as another limb. Despite being strongly attacked, the golden Gorilla pushed through and did everything to obliterate his enemy.

He zoomed on the tarasier and, concentrate most of his energy in his right fist, assening a very powerful Thunder punch, making the big tailed tarasier crash against the olive tree, more than 100 meters away.

The ground was destroyed from the clash between the 2 tier 4 creatures. Craters biggers than a 2 storey building, trenches and remaining mana is the reality from a rapid clash between strong beasts.

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Meanwhile, tier 3 tarasiers, Gorillas and Ents fought one another. While the Ents took the brunt of the enemies' attacks, they did not strike much besides air, even though they tried. When they did manage to get ahold of or punch tarasiers, they utterly destroyed the monkeys, crushing their flesh, bones altogether.

The gorillas were the main stricking force. Jumping from Ents to Ents, manoeuvring to throw the monkeys in Ents' way, punching and delivering Thunder shocks, they are a strong strike force.

The Ents are enormous targets. Their physical strenght is impressive, as much as their resistance. Moreover, they can regenerate thanks to absorbing ambient and underground Mana. Still, when being faced by more than a dozen tier 3 enemies, without the help of gorillas, they died, returning to the ground.

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Clang, clang, clang

The unshakables thumped their shields with their lances, their armor with hard gauntlets. Ezyze was making firework after firework.

The noise that these creatures created and this small human harming more and more of them grew on their nerves.

More than 200 tarasiers banded together, in front of the hoplites. More and more joined the fray as time passed. They were countless tier 1, 2 and several tiers 3.

"Listen Unshakables. We do not let any family member die today. We killed one of their strongest beings today. Look at those puny monkeys trying to faze us. We are not fazed! We are the Unshakables! Tonight, we feast from their flesh!"

All the other roared at Ezyze's bold declaration.

They assumed a two- lined formation. All the Entgoblins besides Whoblin were manning this line. All the others formed a second line, 20 meters behind. At the sides of the second line, on the right, closer to the edges of the field, Arthur, Baal, the twin goblins, and 5 Aries warriors were detached. Similarly, on the left side, closer to the Olive tree, Ezyze, Eve and the rest of the Aries were together.

Seeing that the clustered group of enemies had a detached line, many tarasiers launched themselves towards the front line. Ezyze launched spatial rays after spatial rays. Coupled with his Passive gravity gathering, his big wisdom Statistics and enormous Mana pool, he could fire spatial rays continuously for quite a long time. Tarasiers were hit and some dead before they could even properly fight.

The bulk of the tarasiers were met with a line of 10 strong hoplites. Strong, the Ents goblins were not fazed. They were still facing more than 10 times their numbers and the monkeys started to appear at their sides. The Boar goblins in each group, the hoplites charges and pushed back the line and the goblins, manning the wall. It had a '\_/' shape, with tarasiers I'm the middle of the meat grinder.

Still, as many tarasiers diverted their attention from the fight, 20 hoplites couldn't face 200+ monkeys. The Aries and the rest charged.

It was the start of another harduous battle.

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The hoplites started to be overrun. They stood strong for now, but worrying that fighting in numerical inferiority was harder. It was moreover harder in the long run

Arthur instructed his group to run counterclockwise around the hoplites. The goal was to decrease the burden on the hoplites, while killing if possible, but wounding enemies.

Zephyr and Rea jumped in the fray.

Zephyr speeds up. He found one batch of tarasiers that threw different elements at him.

Dodging every attacks, he broke the distance and slashed them. Like a bird of prey, he zooms on his enemies. While his manoeuvers were not overly acrobatic, he proved himself as a magnificent dodger. His movements were precise, yet natural.

By moving, the tarasiers were generating air. The closest to him they were moving, the more the airflow was precise. His antenna like feathers were extremely thin nerves that were bending and moving according to the wind. They were shaped like feathers, moving like feathers and were place like leaves on a branch, looking like Lu Bu's airband. They transmitted the information directly to Zephyr's brain which then interpreted the airflow like the eyes interpreted the light. Zephyr's ranked two evolution granted him some traits of the garu bird by eating one. These birds seem extremely quick, yet their speed was at most average. They usually grow stronger by sending airbeams that can create holes in some tier 3's Ents. They usually eat rabbits, and picking up their preys was dangerous for them as land based predators could usually attack them from the ground.

Zephyr spent his week training his 6th sense, tuning his body's movements with the flood of information offered by this sense. While his brain could now read the flow of the air, it was still challenging to implement this sensation in order to link specific flows to precise movements.

Lastly the eyes of Zephyr, are similar to the Garu bird. They could see very far, like eagle's eyes. They could also 'see' the airflow of wind. These eyes help the user in predicting the opponent's next attack, because the airflow of the air when they moved.

Since its vision is tuned with their sight, they can make full use of the airflow and act accordingly. This allow these species to usually develop focusing all of their persona into fighting from a safer distance using wind magic. Very few of them attack in proximity. The ones that attack in close combat usually had tougher builds and really long feathers. While a few of them attack in close combat, those that do are usually very aggressive and engage in more fights. They grow bigger and their enormous physique and senses allow them to pick on preys that they can more or less outmanieuvre.

Many of them survive and have great experience fighting and surviving, according more opportunities for tier 3. Most of the tier 1 and 2 garu bird in general have bigger brains and are magic focused. Most of the bigger brained and more frail garu birds are magic oriented. They are so immersed in using the wind that they hunt solely to fill their stomach. They receive less experience and few ascend to tier 3. Seeing a tier 3 magic oriented garu bird was actually extremely rare.

Ezyze noticed that the corpse that Vevznir gifted him was one of the magic focused bird, it seemed that he deemed this aspect of wind manipulation strongly. This or an error.

Zephyr is a soldier, a goblin that was trained first to survive using his swords. While he did not fully understand why the lord picked fights against those that he did, he could grow stronger, sharper. He remembered just before the humans looking to kill his clan. They were many in numbers and yet lived only through their instincts. Very few managed to be Tier 3 and the tier 3 concentrated mainly on their survival. Eventually, some evolved to be something stronger that puny Tier 1 goblin and moved to establish a faction or what they believe is superior blood, thus they judge themselves superior than the rest of the clan and weaker goblins are left to survive. Because of this faction-like mentality, weaker goblins form clans that eventually wins over other factions. While the strongest - usually the chief - grows to tier 5, the rest of his tribe establish themselves in other regions.

There was a legend in their tribe, that a goblin once joined several cland together and managed to have the goblins into something that ruled over regions and eventually dominated a country. It is told that the stronger goblins protected the weaker goblins and fewer weak ones died. They managed to teach things to the weaker ones and some even explained how to do specific surviving skills. The lower ranks used to be stronger than the earlier generation. Because they grew too powerful, they were eliminated by humans and their prosperity ended when many humans attacked them with armies and killed the goblin ruler. The humans then killed all the strong ones and few of the weak ones since they did not offer great threat without their kings as weak individuals, but their strong tier 4 and 5s could.

Zephyr was from a village devoid of tier 5 and even tier 3s and saw the difference between being taught about wind magic from higher tiers, to someone being lost to himself and fighting every second to survive. Unable to kill a single target on his own, yet strong enough to survive for a few weeks Zephyr saw his own people get massacred. When he was offered to serve a worthy master, he accepted.

So far, under Ezyze's leadership, they were taught how to fight and even reached a higher rank. Even better, all of them survived so far. They all seem to cooperate and kill stronger enemies.

Zephyr relinquished on the opportunity to be stronger himself and fought in wild abandon.

He beheaded and cut many enemies. By moving quickly and using his senses and physique to the fullest, Zephyr could kill even tier 3s.

Rea was a goblin that grew in a village that had few tier 3s. When they are born, some or them are repeatedly beaten to death for half a year. Those that survive grow into very powerful goblins. She similarly saw the abundance that she lived in, yet was the sole survivor from a human attack. On her own, she lived through dangers yet did not manage to kill any enemies. Under Ezyze, she not only managed to survive but also kill enemies. In their cores, both had enormous loyalty towards Ezyze.

When they had the opportunity to grow stronger, they took it.

Because she never forgot all the times that she was hit, nor did she forgets how thrilling it is to grow stronger by crushing bones, she smashed several tarasiers at once, kicking and jumping around quickly. Speed and strenght was good to destroy, as well as to survive. Rea thought that the rabbit had the strongest legs and is the fastest among weak monsters in their area. She felt that stronger legs would be better than more generally buffed physique in general, slow yet strong, or a less strong physique in general, but faster. Concentrating the evolution on legs could allow for her leg kicks to grow stronger, her deplacements to be faster and to jump higher. As she knew and used mainly leg kicks in her fights since tier 1 because they delivered more damages than punches, she also knows and use mainly leg kicks. She estimed that the legs offered the highest boost in power as a martial beast.

Tall and with a strong hobgoblin body, her power as a martial artist skyrocketed. She rotates and jump around, delivering strong kicks and moves like an acrobat. She crushes the joints of tarasiers first, kicks and punches as hard as she could. She moved from enemy to enemy, leaving broken bones in her wakes. Her blade like hands caused many tarasiers to bleed profusely.

She and Zephyr coordinate their attacks. When the tarasiers were distraught by their gaping wounds, Rea crushed them. When their bones were broken, Zephyr slashed them. Sometimes, tier 3s had great reaction speed or were stronger fighters. They thus both cooperated to take then down.

The Aries warriors were way slower. Even though they had strong power, they maintained a formation and did not rush. Their focus was solely on killing the monkeys. Some of then diverted their attention from the hoplites to the Aries.

Together with the Aries, Ezyze hacked and slashed many monkeys on the left side of their formation. He registered the Aries as allies and could control for them to be unaffected by the increase in gravity that he caused 5 meters around him. Heavier and more sluggish, they quickly disposed of monkeys around them. Ezyze sent several death rays, further angering monkeys. It was hard for him to fight using in close combat, maintain the gravitational field and keep attacking. While his close combat style is quite fierce, he needs to stay cool headed in order to maximize his advantage as a magician. Doing both at the same time was hard.

The hoplites were standing strong. Facing numerous foes, they succeeded difficult fights after difficult fights.

The monkeys were quite fresh although startled at first. They for the most part, engaged in this squirmished for their first fight of the day. Fresh, strong, energetic and motivated to defend their homes, they were great challenges for the hoplites.

Because the fights kept piling up, most of them felt the fatigue. Worst, they started to feel exhausted.

The deer hoplites poisoned many monkeys, finishing them off because of their sluggish movements. They worried for their own movements to become sluggish

The wolves and Boar hoplites were similarly gasping for air.

The Ents goblins were however unstoppable. They were in the very middle of their formation and most monkeys were chsnbeles to their position. They were regenerating their wounds and Stamina. Tough, they could maintain their pace. Despite being bitten and clawed at, they were very dynamic in fighting. Their evolution granting them special abilities, they killed many monkeys. Tier 5 monsters are beings of a legendary tier. Rare in comparison to the millions of other monsters, their abilities are honed through countless fights and only the strongest survived. The goblins that inherited such strong powers are a fearsome force.

Froblin freezes many monkeys by coating his spear in ice. They were getting slower. This coupled with sherp frozen leaves attacks allows him to defeat many monkeys.

Whoblin and Golblin have strong physique. Using their spores, they were healing periodically the other hoplitesx allowing to maintain their onslaught. Moreover, they killed a few monkeys using light magic to either incapacitate their sight or hitting with light and gold magic rays.

Ghoblin was a killing machine. In this madness, his figure was hazed. His movements couldn't be seen easily and many monkeys were killed. His ability had monkeys hallucinate and they battled their own brethren.

Broblin was the most fearsome warrior among the hoplites. His tough bark and strong regenation rate allowed him to take more risks, thus killing many monkeys. The needles that he sent pierced the flesh of the monkeys, that he finished off.

The current hoplites were unstoppable. Losing their Stamina was worrisome. Although by a thread, they were hanging on.

Ezyze's and Arthur's group were slowly rejoining each others, in front of the hoplites and at the heart of the incoming tarasier horde.

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