Apocalypse: Transmigrated with an Overlord System
Chapter 221: The North Wall

Chapter 221: Chapter 221: The North Wall

The beasts were getting closer.

From the top of the northern wall, Yan Lin could see them clearly now—hundreds of them, packed together so tightly that they were stepping over each other. Their claws dug deep into the ground, kicking up dirt and dust as they ran. Their thick fur bristled as they moved, wild and twisted, and their eyes burned with madness.

They didn’t stop or slow down at all, the worst thing as they got closer to the wall, there eyes become more frenzy.

They were literally coming to tear everything apart.

Yan Lin took a deep breath and raised her hands. She didn’t need to see what was under the earth. She already knew—there was water trapped deep in the soil. With a sharp motion, she called it up. Thick vines shot out of the ground, crashing into the front line of beasts and dragging them down. The creatures slammed into the dirt, their bodies twisting and growling as they struggled to get free.

"Hold the left side! Don’t let them climb!" someone shouted.

"I see them!" Chen Wei’s voice came from a few steps away. He was already moving.

One moment he was standing near her, and the next, he was gone—just a blur of speed. He rushed along the top of the wall, blades in hand. Every time a beast tried to leap up, Chen Wei was there first—cutting their throat, stabbing through their skull, or kicking them off with a burst of speed.

Even so, one of the larger ones managed to scratch his arm. Blood trickled down, but he didn’t stop.

"Damn things are getting smarter," he muttered, backing off for just a second to catch his breath.

Near the center of the wall, Yun Shou stood with his arms raised, electricity building around him. Sparks danced across his fingers, and his twin daggers floated beside him, crackling with blue light.

A group of beasts had broken past the vines and were halfway up the wall.

"Get ready," he said calmly.

The moment they reached the edge, Yun Shou struck. A bolt of lightning shot down from above and hit the daggers. The electric current spread like a net, frying the beasts in an instant. They dropped, their bodies twitching and smoking.

Yun Shou let out a slow breath. "Yan Lin, slow the next group. I’ll handle the rest when they’re grouped."

"I’m already on it," she said, sweat on her forehead. She raised her hand again and sent a wave of water flooding over the path ahead. The beasts slipped and fell. Then roots burst from the wet soil and wrapped around their legs, slamming them into the ground.

Behind them, the guards shouted and moved into position.

They weren’t the best fighters. Some still hesitated before throwing a punch or using their abilities. But they had trained hard this past week, and it showed.

One guard raised his shield just in time to block a beast’s claws, then stabbed it in the side. Another used a fire ability to blast the creature climbing beside it. Even the newer awakened fighters were holding their ground, using teamwork and sticking to formation.

"Left tower needs backup!" a voice yelled.

"I’ll go!" Chen Wei called and shot off again, moving like a shadow.

Yun Shou’s eyes never stopped scanning the field. He was watching everything—how the beasts moved, where the wall was weak, and when to strike next. "We can’t waste energy. Focus on keeping them off the wall. Use traps if they group up again."

Yan Lin nodded, already calling vines to block another charge.

They were tired. The beast weren’t slowing down. But no one here was giving up.

After a hour, The fight on the North Wall was getting worse by the minute.

Yan Lin’s hands were shaking. Her body swayed slightly as she stood. She had been forcing her water and plant abilities nonstop, holding back wave after wave of beasts—but her energy was running dry. Every time she called up vines, they came slower. Every time she summoned ice, it turned into a puddle of water.

She glanced at the approaching beasts...they were dozens, no, hundreds of them, some with bone plating down their spines, some leaping with unnatural speed. They weren’t giving her a moment to breathe.

And then—pain.

A beast with jagged claws had gotten closer than expected. Its swipe caught her arm, ripping through her sleeve and leaving a deep gash. Blood spilled quickly down to her fingers.

Yan Lin gasped, staggering back.

"Yan Lin!" a guard shouted.

Yun Shou turned instantly. "Pull her back! Get a runner with a potion—now!"

But it was already too late. The line had broken.

The mutated beasts had found the opening.

Three of them leapt onto the top of the wall, landing hard. One swung toward a younger guard. Another snapped its jaws toward Yan Lin as she fell back. Her eyes widened. She tried to lift her other hand, but it was too slow.

And then—

The beast stopped mid-air.

A huge spike of stone burst from the ground beneath it, impaling the creature straight through the chest. Blood sprayed across the wall.

The second beast lunged forward—and was instantly crushed by a wall of rock that slammed into it from the side like a hammer.

The third turned to run—only to be caught in a cage of stone pillars that rose around it, trapping it like a prison. Then the cage shrank inward, fast and sharp, until nothing was left inside but silence.

For a moment, no one knew what had just happened.

Then they saw him.

A tall, lean man stepped past the other guards with quiet, heavy steps. He wore a simple dark coat. His face was calm, but his eyes—his eyes looked like they belonged to someone who had seen too many wars.

No one even remembered his name.

He had been part of the background since the day he joined. Always there during training, always quiet, never standing out.

But now?

He didn’t look ordinary at all.

"Who—what are you doing?!" one of the guards asked as the man walked right past him.

He didn’t respond.

"Hey—wait, what are you—"