There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 485

Chapter 485: Chapter 478. Tower Defense (2)

"It’s a jinx! It must be!" Gus yelled while striking the Specter’s shield with his heavy sword after he heard the blare of alarm from the other side of the base. "It must be yours again!"

Zhan grinned wryly, recalling how he callously said ’what? just this one?’ when he saw the Specter chasing the tracking team. At this point, even he thought he had it.

"Can’t we just ban him from speaking from now on?" Naoya grunted while letting go of his arrows to counter the miasma projectiles the Specter hurled at them.

"Hey, that’s against my human rights!"

"Can’t you people just shut up?!" Senia stomped her foot to the ground--yes, to unleash a spell that made the Specter lose a footing, but also to express her annoyance.

Zhan jumped out of the spell path and pursed his lips. "I’m not taking anything from someone who’s useless just a moment ago!"

"S-Shut up! Wait until you can’t attack with anything but magic! Hmph!"

Bassena rolled his eyes and smacked the back of Senia’s head. "All of you shut up and focus on attacking."

"Ouch?!" Senia turned to glare at the Saint class. "Why are you only hitting me? They are the ones being noisy!" she pointed at the other espers and stomped her feet again--this time only for her annoyance. "And that ghosty thing is the noisiest!"

"You’re yelling too," Bassena said nonchalantly while taking out an earpiece and putting it in his ear before smirking at the girl. "And you’re the nearest."

Senia parted her lips, probably wanting to hurl all kinds of expletives. But the man was her commander now and her favorite guide loved him so all she could do was scream in frustration and make a mess of the ground around the Specter. "Aaargh!"

"Hey--we’re here too!"

"We just paved this ground, Goddamn it!"

"I told you to be quiet," Bassena roared at the field--enough to even make the Specter stop shrieking for a moment. "Do it quietly; I have a call to be made."

"How unreasonable!" Senia protested.

But still, she pressed her lips and unleashed her skill without saying anything. The others too, stopped conversing and focused on the Specter, letting Bassena call the command center in peace.

"Kei, give me the situation."

[It’s a horde over here] the scout replied immediately. [The one at the front looks like moles--might be another colony from the hills the clean-up crew destroyed the other day]

Bassena raised his brow. "Revenge?"

Was the beasts capable of such a concept?

[Does it matter? There were hounds in the back, and some ogres--I think it’s the leftover beasts around here, Commander] Kei paused and Bassena could hear a vague sound of someone else’s voice informing the scout about something. [Oh, something’s coming from the sky too]

Bassena glanced at the distant sky. It was hard to discern inside the Deathzone’s dark canopy, but he could make out a black cloud of steel-clad murder--flocks of crows with plumes that could turn into steel projections. They weren’t very strong, but the steel bombing was destructive.

Was they on the move because they saw the tower? Bassena wondered as he glanced at the shards. The beasts wouldn’t be able to come inside the safe zone, but dropping their weapons inside was another matter. Perhaps... were the hordes only there to make them too busy countering the crows?

"Still yellow?"

[Yes]

"That side is in the direction of where we came from, right?"

[The marsh and the hill, yes. We’re waiting for your order]

From the timing, people would think the horde was following the clean-up crew. But Bassena knew for a fact that the clean-up team made a detour after reaching the edge of the forest, looking for an alternative route that might have better accessibility--scouring the jungle instead of following the river.

That means these beasts were not following the clean-up crew. Perhaps even...running from something; a migration, and the base was on their way.

"Put the espers on standby, and send those not in combat indoors," Bassena waved his hands and deflected the Specter’s attacks, eyes still on the other towers. "We’ll be using the guns."

Kei paused for two seconds before replying. [For all of them? I don’t think we’ll have enough ammunition or mana]

"Just do it; we need to test our defense system anyway."

[Whatever you say, Commander]

Bassena did not end the call, but he finally shifted his gaze toward the Specter, whose shield had been half destroyed by Gus, Zhan, and Naoya while Senia made sure it couldn’t move anywhere else.

"Alright, let’s get this over with quickly."

* * *

Right after receiving Bassena’s order, Kei went down to the guiding section. "Who have you guided so far, Zein?" she asked while glancing at the queue.

"These ones, Sis!" Dheera readily came with a list in her hand.