The allies had killed more of the enemy heroes, but the watchtower situation favored the enemy team. After some thought, Junhyuk said, “Let’s keep pushing and see what happens.”

He wanted to take the enemy’s second tower down the middle path. While running toward it, he thought about the battle he had just fought, about the imprisoning power with the crazy range and the attacks that followed it.

Kraken had used his ultimate, allowing the others to combo him. If Adolphe had been there, Junhyuk would’ve died. If he had died, the allies would’ve lost the exchange.

This round was extremely dangerous, and Junhyuk wasn’t sure if the allies could win in a full team battle.

While climbing down the mountain, the allies lost their buff. But, they reached the tower before the enemy team did. When the enemy heroes saw the allies approaching, they stopped. Adolphe wasn’t there, so they did not try to start a fight. That group had already been defeated once, so they stayed where they were.

Junhyuk smiled at them and decided to keep pushing with his group. Suddenly, however, he heard something unexpected.

[Your gate is under attack.]

Fighter heard a warning when their castle came under attack. Adolphe had destroyed the watchtower and attacked the castle by himself.

Junhyuk decided to return alone. He thought he could deal with Adolphe by himself. When he returned, he walked out of the sp.a.w.n room and headed for the wall, but the gate had already been destroyed.

Adolphe had to have brought minions with him, which would’ve made it easy to bring the gate down. The allied archers had all been killed.

Junhyuk scowled and started running around. Heroes were the only ones who could return, so the enemy minions had to be hiding somewhere, ready to attack.

He couldn’t allow them to stay alive.

It was possible that Adolphe was nearby as well. He could try to get back to Junhyuk’s castle to destroy the golems.

Junhyuk left the castle quickly and ran down the road. He used his teleportation to move around even quicker, but he couldn’t find Adolphe. He headed for the reed fields. There, he couldn’t use his spatial sense to sense his enemies. He would have to search for them normally.

Junhyuk found the minions, and he saw Adolphe as well. Adolphe had triggered the return.

“Adolphe!”

The enemy hero smirked, and the minions rushed toward him. Junhyuk had teleported and tried to cut Adolphe, but the enemy hero had prepared to return before Junhyuk even got there. Adolphe was gone, so Junhyuk slashed the empty air. Looking back, he saw the enemy minions running away. He couldn’t allow that, so he chased after them, cutting all forty-five of them down.

Adolphe had had enough minions with him to destroy the allied castle. After killing all of them, Junhyuk contacted the allies. They were advancing toward the enemy formation.

“Can you win without me?”

“You should come, and fast.”

“Yes!”

The fastest way to get there was to use the portal. On the way, Junhyuk would stop by the buff tower and trigger the buff for his team again. He took the right path, running to find the portal.

So far, the allies had done fine, but the enemy team was moving with just four heroes. He felt uncomfortable with the situation. Gongon had upgraded his weapon, so should Junhyuk trust Gongon to take care of things?

He was pondering his options as he ran. Suddenly, Sarang contacted him.

“Big brother, Adolphe is back, so we are running away.”

“Can you all escape?”

“We are far from him and retreating now. There are only four of us, so we would have a tough time trying to take them on.”

THere were five enemy heroes, and even with Gongon on their side, the enemy team had a powerful champion with them. A champion with an imprisoning power with the longest range, an imprisoning power that also had a nullification field.

The enemy could rush at them, imprison Gongon and burn him down first. The allies had to retreat immediately.

“I’m heading to the buff tower. Meet me there and don’t get bogged down fighting.”

“Sure.”

Junhyuk teleported and saw the portal in front of him. He took the portal back to the buff tower and moved in to take it. It was important that he occupy the tower. The buff would help the allies retreat.

Patiently, he sat there and waited for the buff’s activation. Once it triggered, he took off.

He followed down the middle path and looked down the mountain. He could see some people climbing up. He teleported and ran and, once he got closer to the allies, he stopped teleporting. When he joined the others, Gongon started laughing and said, “OK. We’ll stopped running now.”

Junhyuk smiled at the hatchling and looked at the enemies coming up behind them. They were about three hundred meters away. The champion could trigger her prison from a hundred meters away. Without her, things would be much easier.

Junhyuk turned to the allies and said, “Let’s kill that champion first.”

“Can we kill her?”

“If we really try, we can.”

Junhyuk waited for the enemies, and when they were about 120 meters apart, he teleported. He closed in immediately and used his Dimensional Slash against the enemy champion.

From the longest range he could strike, the Dimensional Slash killed the champion. After that, he turned to the heroes coming for him.

The range of Junhyuk’s Spatial Collapse was also great. Planning to use it next, he waited for them to come closer.

The enemy heroes stayed away from him. Junhyuk wanted to wait until they were ten meters away from him to use the Spatial Collapse on one of them.

Embla buffed the enemy heroes one by way. Now that he was buffed, Kraken ran out first. He rushed toward Junhyuk and spit out black ink at him.

Junhyuk knew the Spatial Collapse would really damage Kraken, so he teleported. He reappeared above Kraken’s head and looked at the other enemies while he stood there.

Potra had the most burst damage out of the enemy heroes, so targeting her, he triggered his Spatial Collapse.

Potra had been preparing to shoot him with her two cannons, but his attack was faster.

She was sucked into the void, and Junhyuk teleported one last time to get away. Potra lost 65 percent of her health, but Junhyuk failed to finish her off.

Elise ran toward him and buffed him. He would have the buff for the rest of the fight.

Junhyuk had used all of his power except for the force field, so he turned back to the enemy heroes.

Gongon smiled at him and said, “Well done.”

The hatchling took off with Layla. They were both heading for Potra, who was readying her ultimate. Potra’s ultimate had a very long range.

Right as Junhyuk was about to raise his force field, Elise said, “I’ll kill her.”

She had already summoned her Moon Cores. Elise’s ultimate was faster to trigger than Potra’s. It slammed against the enemy hero. With Embla’s buff, Potra’s health had been regenerating, but it wasn’t enough. Potra died.

Kraken used his ultimate then, but Junhyuk immediately triggered his force field.

The octopus became bloodshot eyed, shaking with anger, and the enemies quickly retreated.

Layla made contact. Kraken was trying to run away, but Layla sent him up into the sky. She launched her katana at the enemy hero, but Kraken’s defense was outstanding.

Her attacks only took 22 percent of his health, and that was because they were powers. Junhyuk realized that Gongon’s attack stat was double of Layla’s. Junhyuk started running. He had the force field around him, but something happened then.

Layla had left the force field to attack Kraken, so the enemy heroes focused on her now.

Adolphe attacked her fast, rushing and slashing her. Kilraden teleported and stabbed through her neck with his dagger. When Kraken landed, he grabbed Layla and twisted her like a wet rag with his tentacles.

“Aaargh!”

That power made everyone feel uncomfortable and dirty. Even though Layla’s defense was good, she was being relentlessly comboed.

On top of that, the enemy heroes were buffed. Layla was left with only 30 percent of her health. Junhyuk scowled at that. He tried getting her in his force field, but the Kraken threw her behind the enemy formation.

The allies couldn’t afford to lose a hero.

Sarang triggered her healing power, healing Layla, and Gongon attempted to headb.u.t.t Kilraden.

Kilraden dodged however. The enemy hero turned translucent and stabbed Gongon’s side. That was his counterattack power.

Suddenly, thunderbolts crashed on Kilraden.

Craaaack, boom!

That was the beginning of a ferocious battle.