Again and again, the Starspawn came only to die and be pushed back into the fields around the town, where the defenders foolishly tried to take over and was crushed back into the town, only for the cycle to repeat itself.

  This cycle was only broken when the moon came to itself zenith and flared brilliantly.

  The silver light rays of the moon streaked down onto the Starspawn and interweaved with their flesh.

  The Boars’ tusks grew shiny as the moonlight rose from their bodies and coated the tusks with pure silver energy. The energy grew from the tusks and temporarily increased the size of the tusks.

  The tusks shivered as they resonated with the Boars’ dire sounds, and the radius of the defenders puking blood as they were liquidified from the inside out had tripled in size and strength.

  The moonlight had sprouted more tendrils for the bovine and for the fire-breathing dogs had allowed them to generate a coat of flame.

  The chickens had a strange shadow effect, like they had a duplicate of themselves just lingering a second behind them.

  A brief silence had passed before the monsters returned to their dire task and met with Qi, Weapons, and profanity.

  The defenders had organized themselves into a collection of squads of ten Cultivators, each of whom rotated around so that they could experience combat roughly every half hour.

  Mundanes were drafted into service as the logistics corps, and a few of them had made more instruments to combat the Boars' main method of attack.

  These new instruments had melded with the others to form a beautiful symphony that would have sold out tickets to the Bana Theater in Raoul if they had been heard in better conditions.

  The orchestra clashed with the crowd of Boars as they vied for dominance of sound in the area.

  Strong winds laced with Qi blew from the defenders, ensuring the canines couldn’t let loose unless they wanted to burn their allies.

  Some ambitious defenders had laced their spells with vicious invisible blades that lobbed off some of the canines' heads and limbs.

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  The invisible blades shattered against the hide of the Boars after only successfully culling the weakest variants of the enemy.

  Anthony pulled more of his Qi into an orb above his hands.

  The orb quivered as he fed more and more Qi into it as it rose above him. It rippled out into an ovaloid that darted over the heads of the defenders and streaked towards the nearest Boar.

  The Boar tried to vibrate the air around itself to block the attack, but the Qi smashed through the semi-solid air.

  A loud bang followed from the impact of the Qi as it hit the actual hide of the Boar. The Boar roared in pain as the hide was seared with flames that burned through to the muscles below.

  Before the Boar could react, another blast of Qi smashed into the wound. This time, the Qi blast had ridges across the surface of itself, making the attack act like a drill instead of a water balloon. The monster made a horrendous sound as its flesh was torn from its bones and gallons of blood spilled on the ground, mixing with the prior blood of both human and star spawn.

  The remaining Boars saw the corpse of their comrade and roared to the moon above, sending a semi-solid wall at Anthony, preventing him from forming more of the Qi Blasts. Several Cultivators had to dive out of the way of the attack and had to leap upwards to avoid getting trampled by these new starspawn who tried to get into the new opening in the defensive lines.

  The now airborne cultivators breathed in and exhaled a tidal wave of elemental forces, primarily targeted at the bovines and messed with the air quality reducing the effectiveness of the Baor’s new attack.

  Meanwhile Anthony converted his aborted attack into an advancing wall of Qi and the two attacks exploded and carved a ditch between the two lines.

  A trio of Cultivators stood between him and the Boar as a cyan brick wall grew in front of them. The miniature barrier shifted as it was impacted by the Boar’s projectiles and held firm, though the casters did grunt in pain.

  Behind the wall, several more Cultivators grouped up with Anthony and slowly replicated his Qi Drill Blast. For those without a Golden Core of their own, it took minutes and the efforts of multiple people to form a single attack. Eventually more drill blasts were launched over the defensive walls in front of them, and arced towards the Boars with lethal intent.

  Several of the Bovines leapt up and sacrificed themselves as ablvative armor as the Boars desperately tried to get out of the way, trampling their lesser kin under hoof. Barks and chirps echoed across the field as the lesser kin tried to dodge their superiors’ hooves and throw themselves into the Qi Blast’s path. With the sacrifice of dozens of their lesser kin, the Boars were able to successfully dodge the Drill Blasts from the defenders.

  However, before the Boars could retaliate, the sound of a chime rang out and drew all attention to the moonlight that clad the Starspawn. All of the moonlight shattered into thousands of snow like flakes and brought the Star Spawn back to whatever they considered as normal.

  Thus the defenders were able to push the Star Spawn back out of the town.

  Again and again, the Starspawn came only to die and be pushed back into the fields around the town, where the defenders foolishly tried to take over and was crushed back into the town, only for the cycle to repeat itself.