Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 403 - Tamers War - Barricading the Bridge (1/2)

Victor observed with the ʼslightest and most minimalʼ frustration how the poorly organized defensive lines of the bridge were beginning to let some flying soldiers and diggers pass through.

Some of his soldiers were still arriving, ʼmarchingʼ from behind in unorganized and hasty formations that spoke of poor professional military training.

The delay in their positioning had been unfortunate, but not catastrophic… He had a plan.

The Yino soldiers had managed to establish what already seemed like a solid foothold in Yano territory, and their numerical superiority would start showing tangible results if they allowed many more soldiers to cross.

ʼContainment within the bridge would have been easier, but that plan has failed thanks to our slow reaction,ʼ he admitted mentally while his Golden Eagle executed an evasive maneuver to avoid a spear of purple energy that crackled through the air where they had been moments before. ʼIʼll have to retrain the soldiers to react twice as fast when this is over...ʼ

From his privileged aerial position, he could see exactly how the situation was developing. About 100 Yino ground soldiers had crossed, sufficient numbers to establish their own defensive formations, and now they were pressing toward the city.

The sight was troubling. These werenʼt desperate raiders or undisciplined militia. These were trained soldiers executing a coordinated assault with the kind of precision that came from extensive planning and practice.

ʼIf this continues like this, I wonʼt be able to hold the bridge for all the time I promised.ʼ

But not everything was lost. In fact, this was just the beginning...

Victor saw how the last troops from the rear guard arrived to close the half-moon formation.

When he realized that most of the soldiers from the earth elementals squadron had already gone underground, he gave the order, his voice cutting through the chaos of combat with the authority of someone accustomed to being obeyed in life-or-death situations.

”Sector commanders! Implement Earth Containment ”Silver Platter” Protocol, now!”

The response was immediate and coordinated. There was a reason why Victor had maintained calm…

He had his Gold 3 Qilin (the strongest besides his fatherʼs) to control the ground, but he ended up just containing the flying tamers with his elite squadron, and the reason was about to manifest.

The Yano soldiers had managed to create a perimeter just outside the bridge support. It was a solid defensive position that allowed them to control the flow of enemy combatants, preventing the few who arrived from being able to completely cross into the territory.

But what the enemy didnʼt know was that this position had been deliberately allowed. Victor had been drawing them into exactly the position he wanted them to occupy.

”Underground units, proceed with Visible Excavation!” Victor ordered, observing how specialists in underground combat emerged from hidden positions beneath the earth...

No, they werenʼt emerging...

The earth was sinking.

What followed was a demonstration of military-grade elemental control from Yano that would have been pleasant to witness if it hadnʼt been taking place in the middle of a deadly battle.

The tamers with beasts specialized in earth elemental control began generating an enormous hole just after the bridge support anchor. The weirdly geometrically perfect white support seemed to surface just like Yano soldiers.

It wasnʼt a random excavation, it was a perfectly circular crater on a massive scale.

The pit began to expand, gradually becoming a bowl with edges that grew upward. What had been flat terrain minutes before now transformed into a defensive amphitheater, with enormous walls rising around the entrance to the city from the bridge.

The only part that hadnʼt sunk was the one belonging to the bridge anchor, which was so rooted hundreds of meters below that this was barely a small notch in its support. But what that small difference generated was the ”amphitheaterʼs scenario” where the Yino soldiers would dance for those of Yano.

Victor smiled with fierce satisfaction while observing how the very topography of the battlefield changed under his direction. This was why he had waited, why he had allowed the enemy to cross in significant numbers… to trap them in a killing ground of his own making.

”Earth and Water units, reinforce the perimeter walls!” he shouted, his voice carrying clearly across the battlefield. ”Wood units, stabilize the foundations!”

The Yino attackers, who had been advancing with constant momentum, suddenly found themselves in a completely different tactical situation.

What had been a direct advance toward the city had now become a fairly deep jump from the bridge support to the bottom of the bowl and then an uphill advance against improvised but formidable fortifications for all those who couldnʼt fly.

Chaos spread through Yinoʼs frontal formations as they realized what was happening and soldiers behind pushed them into the hole without stopping the advance. The physics of the situation were brutally simple, soldiers compressed into a smaller space became easier targets for concentrated attacks from above.

The soldiers who had been pressing forward now had to reorganize to defend against attacks from 180 degrees instead of 120 degrees.

”We all must release the defense at the same time to support the excavators, itʼs the only way to advance!” someone shouted from the enemy front lines, but it was already too late to stop the enemy tactic.

The few Yino excavators who had jumped first to escape into the city and create chaos before being intercepted had realized that the underground formation was already closed.

Yano had arrived a bit late, but their earth soldiers had formed a very wide circle and closed it little by little. By the time Yinoʼs infiltrators managed to dig enough... they had already been intercepted and outnumbered.

Victor smiled thinking it had been a good idea to close containment from behind and below before reaching position with most of the earth soldiers from the beginning. That way they ensured that Yino wouldnʼt be too defensive and would instead try to advance faster.

Since creating a wall from behind had almost no utility…

He didnʼt plan to defend but to attack, and his wall was his high-quality soldiers, whether underground, above it, or in the sky... They wouldnʼt let these bastards pass to infect their home.

With Yino stopped, Yanoʼs attackers redoubled their efforts.

An especially large fireball impacted the middle of the bridge, sending crystallized fragments flying in all directions.

ʼPerfect,ʼ he thought with satisfaction. ʼTheyʼre starting to take damage again and panic.ʼ

It had been somewhat frustrating to allow Yino to advance so much with the surprise factor. They had arrived a bit late to the initial defensive positions, and that had made the attackers think they could maintain constant advance, that they were gaining momentum.

But now Victor would show them that just that dirty abyssal energy wouldnʼt be enough to match the quality of Gold beasts against Silver ones, especially when the terrain favored the defenders.