The settlement's outer barrier flickered as another wave of portal monsters hit it. Lyra'xis stood at the front line with 200 of her soldiers arranged in a defensive arc between the barrier's edge and the survivor shelters.
The monsters that they were fighting were level 460 at most. Some kind of six-legged creatures covered in bony plates that fought in packs.
Even one of them taken alone was strong enough to kill most of the survivors in the settlement, but they were not strong enough to kill her.
A pack of seven monsters broke through their defensive perimeter, and Lyra'xis moved to meet them before her soldiers could even react. Her upper right arm drew a curved blade from her back while she activated a skill that created a mana shield.
When the first creature reached her, trying to ram her, she sidestepped and brought the blade down across the base of its neck, cutting through the plates in a single strike.
The corpse slid forward across the ground, trailing blood.
