Chapter 681-690

Chapter 681 Retreat
Evie looked at the core and gritted her teeth. It seemed as though what she had been afraid of had happened. She mourned at how accurate sometimes her instincts and gut feeling could be. It was almost prophetic to a degree. And now even Zolan was advising her to call the troops to withdraw.

“RETREAT!” she shouted out using her magic to amplify her voice so it could reach the ears of all the members of their allied forces. Everyone was swift and immediately moved to retreat as per the orders given by Queen Evie, even as they did not understand what was going on. In their minds, they had already secured the victory as all the monsters had been slain. They were just delaying the victory celebration until Vera and Azure returns with Prince Gideon. Thus, even as they were running back, retreating as they had already determined on if they ever needed to retreat, their minds were still in chaos and confusion.

The soldiers on the ground flew back as they tried to get as far away as possible from the core. Since their leader had already spoken, they only needed to obey and follow.

Just as everyone was trying to retreat, the core once again, acted strangely. The tentacles that had been dormant after all the monsters had been killed off, now lengthened at will, as if it did not have any intentions on allowing anyone to escape.

Many were caught and could not escape. The dark tentacles’ movements were just too quick and swift that even with the orderly retreat from the armies, one after another were caught and fell prey to the clutches of these long appendages. Frightened screams and panicked shouts rang out across the battlefield that was only for a short moment earlier, quiet and calm.

Evie could only turn around, shooting out light beams in order to free everyone. Her brilliant light magic lighted up small sections of areas in the darkness, along with Onyx’s horizontal columns of fire that was being breathed out and controlled in cylindrical, concentrated streaks. Everywhere that Evie’s light and Onyx’s fire shoots out at, their allies were released from the entrapment of those wicked dark tentacles. However, there were only the two of them, but numerous tentacles had shot out to take their people captive. Still, Evie and Onyx did not stop, and the other fire dragons and their riders also tried to help by emulating Queen Evie and Onyx in helping their own people who were caught.

Queen Beatrice had already gone berserk, after watching how the armies were being toyed with by the tentacles. She zipped around, tearing up the tentacles using her sword like a deranged warrior with just one strike. She continued on that way, flashing from left to right, from the front to the back, freeing up as many dragons and soldiers as she could with each strike and slash of her sharp blade.