Chapter 17 Zodiac Invasion 1

• The builders in charge of reconstructing the fallen walls of Edevin are currently being busy at work, there are those that are moving the building materials to their needed station and those carefully laying the bricks that forms the wall onto each other. Even though it was a tasking job the workers did it with enthusiasm while still chatting with each other. Their appreciation for the soldiers that died protecting them and for the appearance of a noble that shows his caring side for his people, opening up his food storage to feed the hungry and lessening tax and even increasing wages all just to ensure a better form of living for the working class. This are all benefits they would never dream of enjoying under the leadership of Zarek especially after the feudal dispute that just happened not too long ago, he would raise the tax even more with the excuse of using it to rebuild the town when he actually plans on embezzling it all. With the arrival of the illegitimate son the people's living conditions is better than ever and he has also proved himself capable enough to protect them from the neighboring Lord's Invasion, all this was more than enough to overwhelm the workers with immense joy, now they will be able to make a proper living instead of just working without them being paid and the youths will also want to join the army if they know they are going to be paid what they deserve. During their moments of joyful thinking the sky suddenly became dark, they looked up to see what could be the cause of this phenomenon and behold a giant scorpion falling from the sky thus. It landed on the walls the builders had spent efforts arranging and broke it apart in seconds, the builders all ran for their dear lives but they were trampled on by the scorpion, one of the builder who was able to get out of the scorpion's range of attack decided to run towards the city to inform them of the news, when he turned back he saw giant animals with the same body size as the scorpion in different shapes tearing the city apart. Lion, Ram, Bull, Crab, Horned Sea Goat, and a centaur with the body of a horse and the torse, head and arm of a human carrying a bow. This animals or rather monsters, since their size is too abnormal to be called an animal, either ways this monsters raged down houses and smashed the townspeople into pieces and smeared their bloods on the city's floor, it is truly what you would call an horrific nightmare. Accepting that the scene and event before him is indeed real was too much of a burden for the ordinary builder who has never wielded a weapon with a killing intent nor has he seen the brutality and casualties monsters can cause, to shy away from the reality that was unfolding before him he deluded himself into thinking that this was a nightmare, a very scary horror nightmare, one he would wake up from any moments in time. This delusion served as a form of salvation for the builder who ended up getting stepped on by the Scorpion.
• One of the villagers barged into the adventurers guild panting heavily as he shouted "giant monsters are attacking the city" to the adventurers, all the adventurers who were around took their weapons and ran outside to face off against the monsters, the receptionist ran up the stairs to the guild master's office to inform him of the situation.
• Ricus who had already seen the monsters from his window view shook in disbelief, his first thought was (how they had gotten into the city and why monsters of this rank can collaborate together to attack one city, usually monsters with high rank move alone, but right now there is monsters of the same high rank causing havoc in one city, it definitely reeks of a plot, the question is who could have a deep animosity towards this city to set such monstrosity upon them. The receptionist interrupted Ricus's thoughts and came in to Inform him of the events that is unfolding outside "I am aware already, dispatch the adventurers to all corners of the city, the low level adventurers should focus on evacuating the civilians faraway from the city while the high level adventurers are to join forces in taking down the monsters". He finished giving the order to the receptionist who hurriedly ran downstairs to carry out the task "sigh what has become of this city with not a moment of rest".