Daimon quickly gazed at the battlefield just to make sure he wasn't missing anything, because his instincts told him there was more than what met the eye, but so far everything was going according to the plan.
Aisha and the two princesses were suppressing the Skelefiend leader, and the seven magic beasts were though were being ganged on almost in a 1:10 situation as there were sixty enemies going against them, were fairing pretty well.
The gap between middle and peak Lord ranks was big enough for the pirates and skelefiends to not be able to really wound the magic beasts whose carapaces or scales were part of their innate advantages, with their normal spells, they needed to use their best ones to actually made a significant amount of damage.
But Karmandi's subordinates though not fully rational, weren't stupid in any way, they knew that they needed time to cast such spells, and interrupted them in the middle.