174 Chapter 173 (1/2)

Leon spent more mana to reach Fortaleza faster, and thanks to it, he now had thirty-six hours to prepare for the battle. The monsters would come from the West, so all survivors in the city, being soldiers or citizens, were helping on the preparations for the battle, mostly erecting barriers and traps to stop the monsters' advance. Just like Las Vegas, a big part of the city was still destroyed, but the number of houses and other buildings that had been built over the last four years wasn't small either.

Most of the survivors frowned when they saw a piece of earth approach, but thankfully a few soldiers had heard that the Allied Forces of North-America had sent reinforcements, but even those frowned when they saw only three people and one of them didn't have an arm and a leg.

”Betty, keep an eye on things around me,” Leon said and then started to summon skeletons. ”Sasha, go find the leader of this city and ask him to bring as many mana potions as he can and equipment that raises recovery.”

”Got it,” Betty said.

”Yes.” Sasha nodded.

Every second mattered, so Leon didn't waste time giving answers or asking questions to the people nearby. Fortunately, everyone who wanted to make a fuss or ask anything shut up as soon as the skeleton wizards and archers appeared. The number of trees around was surprisingly high, so Leon used that to his advantage. He cut their tops and placed steel platforms over them and summoned ten skeletons in each of those platforms. Things would be better for him if he had the chance to concentrate his forces in a single place, but he couldn't. The number of enemies was too big to march and attack a single point of the boundaries of Fortaleza.

With Betty's help, Leon used potions like there was no tomorrow. Still, in no time, he used the five thousand potions he had prepared over the last weeks, but at least things were going well in terms of preparations. Survivors didn't try to stop him, and Sasha was finally back with several survivors who were carrying carts filled with potions.

”Leon, this is Pedro da Silva,” Sasha said. ”He is the leader of the survivors here.”

”Hi, Pedro, I would greet you if I weren't busy, but I am,” Leon said.

”No problem,” Pedro smiled. ”Is there something we can do to help you?”

”Yes, use those potions on me, fast,” Leon said.

With several hands to drop the mana potions on him, Leon managed to speed up the process of creating skeletons and those platforms quite a bit. In five hours, he managed to create ten thousand skeletons but still wasn't enough.

”We need more potions,” Leon said. ”I think at least three million monsters will attack this place, my skeletons can kill, but they won't be able to do much if the monsters outnumber them in 300 to 1.”