My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World-Chapter 427: The Ground Floor

The moment that Melina and I entered G’Henna’s castle, we were perplexed at the architecture for a few seconds before looking down at the ground and seeing the overwhelming amount of demons wandering the place.

There were mostly lesser demons and fiends, with a couple of greater demons among them. Their formation didn’t seem to be organized at all, as if they were just waiting in random locations for our army to enter.

When a couple of flying fiends tried to attack us, I used my bo to slam them in the face while Melina waved her hand and shot small ice projectiles at them, killing them in an instant and prompting the other fiends to halt their attack out of fear.

Noticing that the demons were having doubts about attacking us, Melina and I shared a glance. "You thinking what I’m thinking?" I asked.

"Make way for our soldiers?" Melina replied with another question, nodding confidently and focusing on the demons below us.

Raising my bo in the air and spinning it around, I infused fire magic into it until it was lit aflame. Then, without stopping the bo from spinning, I made it shoot out hundreds of small fireballs at the speed of bullets, striking any demon in a twenty-meter radius from me.

On the other hand, Melina decided to use ice magic, raising one hand in the air with elegance and generating an arcane circle with glowing pieces of ice that resembled diamonds.

When she lowered her arm, the ice projectiles quickly came crashing down, generating a deadly hail and prompting most of the demons to get as far away from us as possible.

Thanks to our attacks, the area around the hole in the wall had been cleared, so our frontline soldiers started flooding the place and getting into formation inside the castle’s walls.

I thought it was curious that we still kept calling the place a castle when the structure was more akin to a mountain, at least in size. Either way, once our frontline, which consisted of Droman Empire soldiers, beastkin, and Vikings, went in, our backline advanced and stayed closer to our entrance.

Before Melina and I kept moving, I used my voice crystal to send a message to the other group leaders, wondering how they were planning on getting inside the castle as we needed the World Titan’s help to make an opening.

Our forces from the south and east had gathered in that one area, and the northern group, which was being led by Yuki, were on their way to regroup with the western team.

["Twenty minutes is all we need,"] Sage Astra said in her message.

It was thanks to Astra that those groups further away from us were able to get into the continent, and knowing that the old lady had some tricks up her sleeve, I thought it would be prudent to trust her.

Twenty minutes wasn’t necessarily a short amount of time when we were fighting, but considering that the demons on that ground floor were avoiding our army, it didn’t seem like it would be too hard.

Still, the other groups would be entering the area from the opposite direction we were in, and the space was so ample that we couldn’t see the back walls.

Rocks and corals had formed these small towers that blocked our vision, at least from the ground, and the illumination was very dim, so we had a few of the backline mages cast light orbs to light up our surroundings.

Thanks to the light, we were able to see small fiends hiding behind rock formations near our army, peeking from the side to get a look at our numbers.

However, Vespera had released hundreds of her demon spiders to scout the whole floor, and they began using their spiderwebs to capture the demons and bite them with their poisonous fangs, which killed them in a few minutes. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

As our army was able to settle inside, Melina and I used our magic to raise a few walls and towers of our own, where soldiers could rest and scout for incoming enemies—It was like making our own base inside the enemies’ base.

Right as we finished building our camp, we heard a loud ’boom’ that echoed inside the castle walls, but it was so far away that we couldn’t see the explosion. Not even thirty seconds later, Sage Astra sent me a message telling me that their group had successfully infiltrated.

She didn’t explain how she had done it, but hearing the explosion myself was all I needed to believe her.

Now that we had troops on both opposite sides of the castle’s bottom floor, a large battalion of soldiers started walking forward as a way to gain more territory and corner all of the scattered demons into smaller areas.

Melina asked Arashi and Frost to look around for anything of interest, which Vespera was already doing with her demon spiders.

Yoru was inside my shadow, in case I got ambushed by a demon, and Athena and Apollo, the two infernal bears, were walking with the frontline soldiers to provide heavy support.

Ovi, the little baby dragon, didn’t get off my shoulder the entire time. It didn’t bother me to have him there, but I wanted to make sure he was safe, so I asked him to use my poncho as a cover.

When the little dragon scurried under my poncho and climbed back up to my shoulder, only his little face was peeking out, so I felt a little better knowing that he was slightly more protected.

After advancing with the soldiers for a few minutes, Vespera approached me, saying that her spiders had found the staircase that led to the upper floors, which had almost a thousand steps.

I didn’t think that a thousand steps was a lot, but the problem was making thousands of soldiers go up and reach the next floor without being completely exhausted. Most of them were wearing heavy armor and carrying weapons, so it wasn’t as simple as it seemed.

When I started thinking of a way to get the soldiers to the next floor, Arashi returned and told Melina that she had found two areas where the demons of that floor were gathering.

The first group had around two hundred demons standing in front of the staircase to prevent anyone from going up. The second group was located more to the center of the massive room, and Arashi guessed that there must have been around 500 demons.

"Hmm, with those numbers, we could attack now..." I muttered, prompting Melina to ask about Frost’s whereabouts.

"My little brother is by the staircase. Should I tell him to return?" Arashi asked.

"No. Tell him to make way for us..." Melina confidently replied, gazing at me with a cheeky smile.