While the shadowy minions were busy keeping the heroes all across town busy. The mastermind behind all this did nothing.
Leaving everything to its minions wasn't exactly the plan, the THINK that summoned it here demanded results, retreat was not a option, still destroying buildings was not its specialization. Especially one as mighty as this one so it guided its minions in every possible floor its summoning could reach. Betting on the chance for an explosion or to find some ancient monster even a strong person lozing their cool and using a catastrophic spell.
Still even though it could feel that its minions evolved at a appealing rate, it still felt that this battle was already lost.
Summoning infinite minions and having infinite energy were different things yes the was no limit on how many shadowy minions it could summon but it needed time since it expended energy to do so.
Not only that but no matter what it summoned it was newborn not knowing how to use its power.So losing the element of suprise and with the humans adapting it was a matter of time before it died. As for the building it wasn't even halfway damaged. Destroying a 12 meters building while its tallest minion was 1 meter was the reason it wasn't the right monster for the job.
The humans inside the building had a different opinion.
When the first minions appeared inside the offices, toilets, restrictive barriers. even places where the most secret documents were beholden, needless to say the executives panicked. Still even though that happened it didn't long for the experienced andventurers to realise that the summoning happen to said secret offices and barriers only when a powerful individual occupied them.
So even though the realization that their protective protocols where useless weighted heavely on them the fact that not everything was lost was a breath for relief. After all anyone here who holds power is a force to be reckoned with, so the primitive attacks of the newfound monsters were met with chilling killing intent.
Still not everything went perfectly after all not everyone here was a adventurer and the fact that monsters appeared on the most secret and save place on town maked them loze their cool, that and the fact that the space here was extremely limited making the use of flashy or ground breaking spells impossible that and ussing their real speed to kill 100 monsters in one go.
Needless to say the monsters didn't have to play with the rules and maked good use of them in fact some maked to good of use of them making everyone realize that they had intelligence but thats not all because of their intelligence some knew they lost the fight before it even began and runned for their lives normally such thing would be fine. If not for the fact the could literally travel trough walls.
That forced the adventure's to chose a defensive stance, besides the ones who were lucky enough to be alone. After all the lives of the non combatants were in their hands. Not that this meant noone died the monsters were to smart for that as soon as they materialized they attacked something. After the suprise ended they runned across the walls and hallways eating whatever they could.
In such cases more often than not the brightest minds make the difference instead of the most powerful. And amongst the brightest was the leader of the guild Alosious the Evergiving.
Alosious was a man in his 40's that due to his extensive training and experience looked like a man younger then 30. He was the one who invented and started this guild 23 years before 20 years old with a dream to make his home village a blooming town. He succeeded in fact so much that the Empire recognising his efforts and chose his town as one of the towns to receive the first batch of schools officially transforming the village to a actual town.He even had the privilege to name it and so he chose the name of the most important person in his life the name of his mother. Alice. So the town was named Alicia.
Immediately after the initial suprise and after realising the problem with the creature's he casted light shields to any non combatants on the area and to whatever creature he could grab. Logic dictated that since the creatures passed all other safety methods they could phase trough the light shields too.
But they couldn't after all it was a know fact that light and shadow countered each other in prefect balance and since the creatures had the propertys of shadows they had and their weaknesses.
The traped monsters died eazly trying to kill the humans in vain as for the ones that runned everyone now knew the solution. Will go and make an announcement that light traps them in place. Everyone who can fight go and kill em all. Nolia go and deal with the pest that keeps summoning the monsters im certain its outside.
Nolia was a thin structured woman short on height barely 1,10 meters tall, she had very bland blonde hair and a very normal and forgetable face, always wearing clothes that where just out of fashion seemingly unable or unwanting to keep up.She was a somewhat resent member of the guild and by resent it meant she joined them 5 years ago. When in order to expand the guild started looking in neighbouring towns with offers to join them. She was one of the many that did and so like the others her achievements where overlooked. Still he admired her resolve to see things done going as far as mendling on other people's businesses.
As for me i will see to it that no documents and bureaucrats have an unfortunate end we lost to many brilliant minds already.
Nolia went outside and found the monster responsible for all of this. The fight was to short to eazy so unsatisfactory. They clashed for just a second it was apparent that it was young and wasn't strong, like someone sent a message this is nothing but a minion and you already have so much trouble.
A drop of sweat fallen from her face.
In fact this was much worse then it being strong after all a know foe was always better then an unknown. Still that was for another day after all there was still a big problem.
Because the minions didn't die when their summoner died.