The Insider System

Chapter 280: Formation Fight

Staying in the same spot to watch the battle Lake saw a massive amount of formations start to show up in the air of all colors. He had expected the people that would be sent to drop the barrier to be tilted in magic but this light show was a lot more than he expected. There was a chance this was them holding back as well so he was starting to think he could leave them and they would be fine.

He had no way to know what the Demon Worshipers had brought though so it was still to be seen if he would need t o step in at any point in this fight. Having looked at all the formations that were on their side, Lake looked back to where the demon Worshipers had been to see they had prepared a few of their own.

There were less of them on the Demon Worshipers side but seeing the size of the formations they had made he didn't think it mattered too much. Seeing he was about to witness a new type of combat he hadn't really seen yet, Lake looked at the faces of the people closest to him to see how tense they looked.

He didn't get much from this because there was a mix with some people looking worried and others having a neutral face. Lake guessed this was caused by the fact that some of these people probably hadn't been in many fights while others like the people from the Light Temple being used to fighting Demon Worshipers.

Seeing the formation that the Demon Worshipers had made start to move towards them and a barrier activating to stop whatever the Demon Worshipers had been trying to do, Lake looked around and wondered why no one was talking. He guessed they had probably talked about who would be in charge of what before they had actually set out so he would know if the fight was getting out of hand when people started to say things.

That would be when he would get involved in the battle if he felt there was something he could do to help. By then he might be unable to act if he was still inside of the barrier that was protecting them since he would have to destroy what everyone was relying on to keep them safe.

Seeing the formation the Demon Worshipers had sent towards them start to blast a continuous beam of reddish brown mana towards their barrier, Lake once again looked to see what the faces of the people around looked like. Seeing no change to the neutral faces of the people he was sure were actually doing the fighting, Lake just turned back and watched the show.

After a while the formation that had been firing at them stopped and started to dissipate and was replaced by the smaller ones that the Demon Worshipers had left. Seeing the swarm of smaller formations start to hit the barrier with a barrage of small attacks, Lake wondered if this was a normal way you could look for the weak spot of the formation if you weren't able to get it down with your big attack.

Wondering if they would be successful, Lake Watched as every part of the barrier was hit with a spell. Seeing nothing happen the entire time Lake watched the formations go back to where the Demon Worshipers were and wondered if they had failed to find it. If whoever had made the barrier had placed the weakness underground the Demon Worshipers couldn't really do anything about it.

He didn't think the barrier would stay up forever though, it seemed they couldn't attack while it was up so if they actually wanted to end the fight it would at least open slightly for a while to let them fire back. After a while of nothing happening he guessed the Demon Worshipers had decided to save their next round of attacks.

"Now." Hearing the first word from their side since the beginning of the fight, Lake knew the real battle was about to start and saw the Barrier drop and five massive spells including a beam of their own fire towards the Demon Worshipers from some of the formations that had been formed in the air above them.

Seeing a dark barrier form around the Demon Worshipers Lake understood this was going to take a while and wondered how a fight like this would end. From what he understood about how magic worked they all had an infinite amount of mana to work with so they would be able to form formations and shoot spells until they fell asleep.

Seeing the Demon Worshipers barrier survive their attacks and their barrier come back up only for the Demon Worshipers' to drop and for them to fire at their barrier. Realizing he didn't have the patience for this, Lake got a Magic Arrow ready and as soon as it was his turn to fire he flew the arrow so it would be outside of the barrier once it came back up.

Once their barrier came back up and the Demon Worshipers went down he would fly the arrow through them and hope that they wouldn't see it coming. He hadn't set the arrow on fire though to hide it so he wasn't sure if it would actually be able to kill any of the Demon Worshipers since they might be undead.

Seeing their barrier come back up once their attacks were over he was going to start flying the arrow towards the Demon Worshipers when he realized his control of the arrow was being partially blocked. He was still able to move it around but he was having a hard time flying it in a straight line.

This would make landing any real attacks on heads or hearts really hard and he was sure the Demon Worshippers would notice an arrow flying zigzag towards them and destroy it. Looking at the barrier that he was sure was the reason his connection to the arrow was messed up, Lake wondered if all barriers messed up skills and mana vessels.

He had never tried to control something on the other side of a barrier before so he had never even thought about the fact barriers could do something like cut you off from the other side. It wasn't like there was a string of mana connecting him to the arrow or anything so he really had no idea what the barrier was doing to block him off from it.

Trying to think of a way to still use the arrow to help them in the fight, Lake figured he could use it to make them think there was another group of people here by flying it towards them from behind. He wasn't sure if one arrow would be enough of a threat to actually get some of them to go and check it out though.

Seeing that the Demon Worshipers had started to attack, Lake flew the arrow towards their backs. Like he expected before it was even close a spell flew and destroyed the arrow flying towards them. Seeing none of the Demon Worshipers even really look in the direction the arrow had come from he guessed he had failed in making a difference.

With this his only option was to leave the area that the barrier covered the next time it went down so he could attack the Demon Worshipers while it was their turn. There was a problem though, he was afraid that the attacks the Demon Worshipers were launching from their formations could kill him very easily by aiming at him for just a brief second.

That beam looked like it was something that could not only kill him but disintegrate his body. Thankfully he was extremely fast and he was pretty sure he could move faster than they could move the beam. It was a big risk to take just to speed this fight up a bit. Calming himself down, Lake decided it wasn't worth the risk before he saw how a fight like this would usually end.

There were more of them and the fight was going just fine so there was no reason he actually needed to get involved especially when he might just be getting in the way of what the original plan had been. Deciding to just look at the formations to see if he could start deciphering any of the commonalities they shared.

He was nowhere near skilled enough to even try to make anything at the scale of the formations he was seeing being unable to even really control a large amount of mana outside of his body but that wouldn't be true forever. Eventually he would need to start practice or at least what formations could do if he wanted to survive in the high levels.

Eventually he would get to the point where all the people he would be fighting would be demigods or even gods if he continued to get stronger and he was sure they would be able to play with him like a toy if he didn't understand magic at least a little.