Karl was about to speak when the panicked messages from the Drodh branch Guild Members began.
[We’re under attack. The Gargoyles will hold the yard, who is on the spells?]
[I’ll push mana to the barrier. Who knows where Sapphire went?]
[I’ve got Sapphire. She was at the wharf market, and it’s under attack as well. We can’t get back quickly.]
[Call the Alliance.]
[Aren’t Karl and Dana in the Tiny World? They should be able to come back.]
[Oh, Rae is here. Focus on the barrier on the yard.]
[Thor is here too. But no Tessa or the others. I think they’re in a dungeon.]
"There is an emergency in Drodh. You all stay here, and I’m going to seal the Tiny World when I leave." Karl explained hurriedly.
Dana left with him, arriving in the Alliance House, and then taking the basement portal to Drodh’s Guild House Library.
Karl left directly with a portal, then sealed the Tiny World. The exit was in the Zilaz Guild House, but it was safer to keep everything out until he knew what the threat was.
Moments after he arrived, another portal opened in the yard of the Guild House, and Deve led a large force of Myths from the Alliance out.
"What is happening? Oh hell." He shouted, his voice turning to a stammer as he saw the situation.
Hundreds of portals had opened all over the city, mostly in the air overhead. Supreme Lady Matilda was high overhead, engaged in combat with some sort of eldritch horror that looked like an octopus, and tens of thousands of Mythic Rank beasts had invaded the city.
Thinking fast, Karl sent out a bounty to the Zilaz mission boards.
[Mythic Rank beast invasion of Drodh ongoing. Nara Group offering cash for edible beast corpses. Buying at wholesale plus ten percent bounty, no purchase limit on beasts from the Drodh area invasion.]
He paid extra to have it ping all the registered Guild and Alliance leadership members in the entire Zilaz region.
It might cost them a fortune to buy up all the corpses, but Karl could sense Mythic presences everywhere, plus the Supreme Rank Octopus thing.
The financial cost would not be the worst part, though.
Those portals didn’t lead somewhere else in the world, they led to somewhere much more powerful, most likely a world in the Immortal Realm. That wasn’t something that they could easily compete with, and the Supreme Lady looked like she already had her hands full.
"Where is Azov?" Dana asked as she sent her Golems out to fight the amphibious monsters in the streets.
"He’s busy. This isn’t the only portal that made it through today." Someone shouted back.
Dana turned and saw Lord Drodh with a group of Totem Ranked guards fighting in their direction.
Karl focused his mana for a moment and grew a statue sized mana crystal that he placed at the door to the workshop area. It wasn’t linked to anything, but it was set to pull in mana as fast as possible, so others could use it.
Then, he added a [Mana Pylon] spell to keep the barriers and defenders full of energy.
The range was enough to reach Lord Drodh, who had joined forces with Dana’s team, while Karl’s had left the city walls.
[This calamari is too tough.] Cara complained.
She hadn’t expected it to be an immortal creature when she went to chop off some limbs to snack on. Just her and Hawk were not enough to defeat it.
Then, more portals opened outside the Guild House gate, where Karl’s golems were fighting.
Mythic Ranked warriors charged out in a wave of bodies, followed by a Totem Ranked mage from Deve’s Guild.
"Guild Master, what is the target?" He shouted.
"Everything Mythic Ranked and amphibious. It should all be edible enough to qualify. Send as many as you can find." Deve called back.
"I’ve got the portal open at the arena now. There was an announcement by the referees, and we’ve got more people coming once the spectators gather their teams." The mage explained.
Deve smiled. That arena was working out for them in more ways than one. They’d already gotten a hundred Mythic Warriors and a few other classes, and the alert had only been out for two minutes.

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