"What are those monsters? Where did they come from?"
"Are we going to kill our way through them?"
"Of course we are! If we let them come over here, this city will be finished. Who knows how long it would take to rebuild it! The city lord summoned all of us to the walls because he must be thinking the same thing."
"But aren't those monsters over there too huge? They're all as big as our blood kin. There are so many of them—can we win?"
"We have to fight even if we can't win! We of the Five Races have never fled before battle out of fear! Besides, so what if they're big? For all we know, they may just be ordinary Giant Beasts. If so, we might gain another batch of livestock."
"And I just saw Children of Wind with Divine Marks flying toward Gateya City. Reinforcements should arrive soon."
"So that's how it is. But isn't that wrong? Death isn't the end; it's merely a new beginning. What are we afraid of? Battle is a good thing! Isn't this our chance to become warriors?"
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At that moment, a large number of adult Order Populace had already gathered atop Ice City's walls.
Many of these people were not standard warriors. However, Ice City was currently understaffed, and rows of frightening monsters had suddenly appeared across from them, so they had no choice but to summon ordinary adult clansmen for an emergency response.
Besides, even the ordinary members of the Five Races were far from ordinary. In this barbaric world, the Five Races were highly martial, and almost everyone knew combat techniques.
There were currently more than six thousand Order Populace on the walls. As they pointed at the rows of Frost Giants in the distance, most of