Risen: Atlantis Rising Trilogy Conclusion by Evan Currie

Author:Evan Currie [Currie, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Avalon

Merlin paused from his examination of the latest readings as an automated alert caught his attention, showing him the events going on near the demon tower called the Citadel through the eyes of those he’d been able to equip from his stores.

Unfortunately, Avalon did not have unlimited supplies, nor even enough to make a significant dent in the needed supplies for even just the normal Atlantean reaction forces. Combined with the advanced training needed just to safely make use of many of them, and he’d been extraordinarily reluctant to hand off such weapons and armor.

Elan and Caleb, however, among a handful of others, had proven both to have a need for the equipment, and the capability to master it.

So now, as Caleb led his forces into the fight, Merlin observed from a distance.

There are far more demons there than expected, He noted absently, his mind already rerunning calculations.

That would be a major problem, at least in potential, since that many demons would be able to simply swarm the human fighters and run them into the ground with nothing but numbers and physical weight.

Merlin was too familiar with the varying strategies that demons were likely to employ, and this was the first of them. It was often underestimated too or had been in the past at least. The ancient peoples had considered a swarm attack to be tantamount to mass suicide when pitted against the lethal nature of their defenses.

They weren’t wrong, but somehow, they had not been right either.

The demons simply didn’t have the mental capacity to know when to stop. They just kept coming, over the bodies of their fallen, until you ran out of energy for your weapons, or you couldn’t even fire them for fear of killing more of your own side than the demons because they were already that close by the time they were through the shield of corpses you’d littered the battlespace with.

When your enemy had what was, essentially, an infinite force… it was all but impossible to counter a simple swarm attack.

Well, unless you were willing to call down fires that would destroy your own position as well.

By the time the human defenders had been willing to do that, however, the demons had shown that they were capable of more advanced strategy and tactics as well.

Merlin had since learned that the tactics employed would depend vastly on the type of demon in the field and, more generally, what circle they had… evolved to.

He was seeing shock troops in the field at the battle, but few if any of the commanders.

That’s unusual…

Normally the commanders were committed to such moves just as easily as the shock troops, at least in his experience.

Merlin began to scour over the intelligence from the scene with a deeper intent, trying to determine the reason for that change in the enemy’s tactics. He didn’t like seeing changes, especially not when they were on the cusp of a vital operation that simply could not go wrong.

Why are the commanders holding back? There’s one in the background, unless I’m greatly in error, Merlin noted, confused.

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