Chapter 412 : Trolls Attack
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The basilica is surrounded by a considerably vast cloister. Between that field and the piazza, there are lines of wooden houses. The last villagers run from the piazza towards the cloister. Most of them have entered the church. 

"Look! The adventurers are being blocked by the monsters!" Dozens of men are still lurking near the entrance point to the piazza. The pastor is standing among them. 

Four individuals are standing between the piazza and the row house; three women and a man. They are being encircled by trolls.

Many trolls appear from the other outlets into the piazza and block their way.

"I told you before. Don't get involved with the village's affairs!" The pastor shouts.

Several women voice up,

"But, they saved us from the trolls back in the village!"

"Yes. They fought the trills so that we could escape!"

"Forget it, they are beyond salvation!" A man barks.

The pastor becomes puzzled as the crowd are increasingly apologetic towards the adventurers.

"Fool."

The pastor and villagers have already given up on the four adventurers. Several hundreds of the trolls are facing them between cloister and piazza. 

During the standstill, footsteps come from their left side. They turn to their side and notice a female knight strides with a solemn expression towards the horde. 

"Hey, lady knight!"

"Fool. They can't be dealt with normal mean!"

Ignoring the villagers' calls, she steps past the cloister while unsheathing the sword that is nearly as long as her legs. 

Before the nearest trolls could turn back, she slightly crouches, places the blade behind her and pulls it vertically towards the line of monsters.

While slashing vertically, she makes five steps. About thirty trolls lining up before her are cut from their back. Most of them are decapitated. 

The villagers gawk and swallow their saliva. 

"Reverend..Did you see that?" The village chief asks the dumbfounded pastor.

"She is a monster!" A villager mutters.

Inhaling air throughout the time, the female knight rests the tip of her blade on the terra firma. 

As the hideous creature is still gaping, she exhales whilst swings her sword upward, hitting a troll before changing its direction into overpowering vertical slash, cutting several trolls in its way. 

The onslaught was immensely high-powered that she lost her balance. 

Believing she is losing her footing, nearby monsters laugh and jump at her but to their surprise, she uses the falling momentum to launch a rotating slash. Over a dozen trolls that are in the mid-air are cut into two. 

Like before, she seems to be losing balance but turns that propulsion to rotate two more times towards the next area. Each rotation hacks about a dozen trolls before she finally lands on a vacant area, squatting. 

When she catches her breath, the man piggybacking a girl, the female assassin and the red haired girl kill the trolls coming after her. 

"Let me down!" The blonde girl yells while shooting trolls with her automatic shotgun. 

He put her down and shouts,

"Farnese and Tina. You get into the church!"

"But.." The blonde girl called Farnese argues but...

"Look! The trolls are going to the back of that church!"

"Leave this place to us. Make sure Selene complete her defensive spell!" The red haired girl called Brita yells.

The man barks while cutting a troll blocking the way towards the cloister, 

"I'll clear a path. Run!"

Farnese clinches her small fist. 

"Stay safe, Your Majesty, Brita, Lyla!"

Reluctantly, Farnese and the assassin dash past several trolls with the help of the man who randomly cut the blocking creatures. 

The crowd that were lurking at the door enter the cathedral in panic.

The duo finally make it to the hall inside.

***

On the rooftop of basilica. Two young women are standing, beholding the breathtaking event unfolding beneath their eyes. One is an elven girl holding a stick and beside her is a buxom girl with a bow. 

"Amazing! You can't tell who is the monster here!" The curvaceous girl jumps excitedly while the elven girl furrows her eyebrows.

"Yes, Brita is hardly human and Lyla...what are the black aura that I see is covering her blade."

The elven girl looks at the busty girl,

"Suzy, is your preparation complete?"

Showing hand gestures, Suzy replies,

"Selene. I was born ready. I put the charms on the wall facing the direction you asked."

Nervously she inhales air and bawls,

"Villagers. I'll use magic to erect a shield around the cathedral!" 

"Accursed witch. Village chief, please drag her down right now!" The pastor barks.

As the villagers ignore him, the pastor darts away, climbing the stairs. 

"Reverend!"

On the rooftop, the elven girl, Selene is standing weirdly as her body is waving like a grass blown by wind. She loses consciousness but her body remains standing while being guarded by Suzy.

"Huh. Huh." She hears a voice of someone is catching his breath. 

The pastor has reached the rooftop.

He barks, "No. Stop! I forbid the chanting!"

He strides angrily.

"Oi. Mad priest. Don't come here!" Suzy moves to Selene's back.

"Heretic. How dare you perform such heinous acts against God!"

"Who do you think Selene is trying to help?" 

He slaps and pushes Suzy to the side before grabbing Selene's shoulder.

"Huh. Huh. You're the one who needs to stop!" Farnese calls out to him. She left Tina at the ground floor and chased after the pastor.

"She is trying to save the village. Can't you see that?" Farnese yells.

"Silence, little girl! Even if we survive because of this witch, it would be meaningless! If we die, we die. God ordained it!"

He retorts loudly.

Farnese turns speechless.

"This man is the same as the old me. Damning people to their death in God's name." She mutters to herself.

"So, words don't reach you?" Ignoring the girls, the pastor is shaking Selene's body.

"Farnese, help me to stop this madman! When Selene is chanting, she has no sense of what's going on!"

She runs to them.

"Let go of her!"

"Don't interfere!"

"Let her go, you religious maniac!"

"Grrrrr!"

"Grrrrr!"

Groaning is heard around them. 

Trolls with bony weapons in their mouth, are climbing the roof. 

Meanwhile, on the ground floor the villagers are watching the piazza's fight from the door and windows. 

A small girl furthest is staring on the other side as she is too short to see past the adults.

She sees trolls climbing over the rear windows. 

"Yaaaaa!!"

People turn backward as they hear the scream.

"Oh, no!'

"Trolls are inside!"

The villagers are now scraping any tool they could get their hands on. In the interior hall, the humans are being pressed backward by the overwhelming trolls.

Suddenly, a silhouette whizzes past them.

The figure belongs to a girl donning breastplate.

She cut two leaping trolls with her daggers.

"She flew."

"No. She leaped over us!"

The assassin girl kills trolls one by one as the villagers helplessly watch.

"Damn. These monsters just keep coming!"

There are over fifty trolls slowly advancing.

She keeps her short weapons and pulls out a spare sword borrowed from her ally. 

She jumps in between the trolls and launches random attacks.

Trolls keep being killed one by one until...

She stumbles.

"Oh, no. The sword has thrown me off balance."

Already lost her footing and falling, a troll swings its cub at her.

"You gotta be kidding me. Will I die here?"

She falls onto the ground and closes her eyes. She reluctantly accepts death.

The club hits hard on a flesh..Blood sprays but she doesn't feel pain. 

She feels a man's body on her chest. Opening her eyes, she sees a familiar face on her.

"Old man Morgan!"

Morgan had blocked the troll's attack using her old body.

The villagers are shocked and embarrassed.

"Morgan!" A middle aged man dashes forward to pierce that troll with his pitchfork. 

"Hey, cowards! Don't leave it to a girl and a dying old man!"

The villagers, using whatever they possess, run forward and attack the trolls.

The trolls keep pouring into the hall but there are over six hundred of villagers in there. They overwhelm the invaders.

"Hey, gramp! Why did you save my life!"

He smiles, "I hope you can carry my dream to venture into the outside world."

"Idiot!" She cries out.

***

Meanwhile, Selene's consciousness floats in the sky unseen by others. 

She meets a familiar figure. An almost nude woman whose body seems to be covered by tree veins in many parts. 

Her hair is purely green while her beautiful skin is greenish or to be precise, asparagus coloured. 

"Lady Hamadryad! Why are you here?" The elven girl asks.

"I protect Korcari Wilds. Of course, I should be here. For many decades, I couldn't enter the village because of this building. Thanks to you, I am now here."

"The trolls?"

"The trolls, as I said before are the strongest among low demons. Recently I found out about the existence of a higher demon in Korcari Wilds. They are the ones who summon the trolls."

"Are there other demons?"

"Yes. But that's none of your concern now. Your friends, and Master Hiro are in danger. Because of the church and the higher demon, I can't exert my power but I will perform adequately."

***

Suddenly, green lights descend from the sky. The lights envelope the part of the piazza and inside the basilica.

"Look. The trolls are crumbling!"

When touched by the lights, trolls dissipate like. After they are gone, there are no corpses remaining. 

Even the wound in Morgan's body is being healed when touched by the light.

On the rooftop, Selene regains her consciousness.

She realizes what happened and tells the pastor,

"We build a circle protecting the cathedral and lands around it. Any troll inside the circle shall be destroyed. Trolls outside cannot enter the circle. Evil souls  cannot exist inside the circle."

"Magic." The pastor is adamant, not accepting what is happening.

"I will not accept this evil magic" The pastor kneels to the ground and trembles.

At the same time, the ground trembles as if gigantic footsteps are approaching the center of the village.

"Look. Giant!"

"What is that?"

A six meter troll is walking while destroying houses that get in its way. The giant troll differs from the usual ones as it is hairless and its head is like a whale. 

It even steps on some of the small trolls. 

Brita, Hiro and Lyla only stare dumbly and are rendered speechless. 

Fortunately, the giant can't enter the part of the piazza where the three adventurers are standing.

It becomes furious and hits at them but its attack is repelled. 

"Don't go out of the circle, Hiro!"

Suzy shouts. 

The giant suddenly ponders something. It turns back and picks up a big plank from the destroyed houses. . It picks up a log.

"Oh, no. Selene hide. The giant is throwing something big!" Hiro warns.

The thrown plank crashes into the wall of the basilica. 

"Why it came in?" Hiro bellows at Selene.

The elven answers loudly,

"The shield only stops something in spiritual form, not physical things. You must stop it from throwing more physical things!"

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