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82.05% Aries Chronicles / Chapter 32: War for Blueleaf - 2

Bab 32: War for Blueleaf - 2

When Hulann exited the Arena, the orcs charged. The scouts immediately used stealth and disappeared. The mele fighters advanced steadily.

Every single ranged fighter, archers and mages threw one spell after the other. The mana missiles exploded on their flesh, leaving burn scarrs or mana burnt. While they were about to jump on the warriors, the hoplites came through the middle and hold them off. They then thrusted their spears fiercely, killing 20 of them, the reach of the spears longer than the orcs's axes. Then, leaded by the 1 to 4th horn, 15 goblins spearmen attacked the left orc's side, with an equal numbsr of rank 1goblins. They were aided by formations of 3 or so goblin warriors that were trying to divert the attacks. Still, while they had a resemblance of close combat fighting sense, the 40 or so rank 1 goblins' shields and body's were crushed. From the 5 to 9th horn and aided by 4 rank vermilion scaled hydra goblin - rank 2 warriors - normal, 30 rank 1 goblin were likewise helping them before becoming trashed. The spearmen still succeeded in fighting the orcs warriors off and killed several of them. The tree trolls had monstrous regeneration and physical abilities. Still, facing rank 4 beings at rank 2 was simply impossible.

The individual nature of orcs and their proud nature make them formidable at developing their own skills but the downside that mercenary warriors were like clans and thus were led by one or several rank 5s. This particular faction was led by Garrek, the newer rank 5 orc battlemaniac. Him becoming rank 5 developlee a passive that greatly increased his damage output after each of his damages done to enemy. This with the fact that he became faster the longer he fought, it made him a fearsome force on the battlefield. He grew faster and stronger after each enemy killed on the battlefield. When fighting rank 4s or 3s, it usually allowed him to increase his fighting power fast enough, being nicknamed the mad butcher. After performing enough feats during the last war against the dragonborn, he was given his own people to manage. They were 180 rank 3 and 70 rank 4 orcs with mele classes that felt inspired by him and joined him. Some of them were strong 4th rank classes and fighters and could rival and kill many class 4s.

Garrek felt extremely confident and volunteered himself to Sauruüne, explaining that he would be able to make quick work of them, and even offered to make it 150 orcs vs 250, he really wanted to impress his leader.

Sauruüne paused and said.

"We can make a bet, then. If you defeat these newcomers, you will be able to fight how you wish and even direct the greenhorn mercenaries in battle during the incoming war boosting your forces ever so slightly. If, however, you lose, he would be given the same type of mission that you would have been given and the greenhorn instead lead you for the rest of the war! How is that? It will be all 250 of your clan under your orders even. Would you take this bet?

Yes, please, my lord.

Know that you have higher qualities in your ranks and they are under your command, Garrek. Do not ever go back on a bet with me with such numbers.

I know, I won't. Tank you for the opportunity my lord I will not disappoint you."

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The Aries joined the fray and attacked on the right side. These 20 or so warriors were lead by Medea, the late rank 4 Aries warrior - rare and rank 2 Aries Berserk - rare. Her dark hair were tided in a ponytail under her helmet and she slashed over and over with her longsword. She has been trained over and over and over again by Arthur. She did not necessarily have an amazing talent for wielding the sword, but she was a dedicated warrior, training her best to be better a better warrior.

The training regimen that Arthur imposed on the Aries specifically was to train a specific martial art movement heavily, or a step, exercing their mastery. After some time, they will fight in duels. After a very short rest, they were training another martial art's move before dueling again, and repeatig this cycle over again. The Aries martial arts were polished over and over by generations of Aries, for Aries warriors. Arthur knows the potential of a high mastery of this art. He was lucky to be able to have a growing force of dedicated warriors that could be trained over and over in polishing Aries royal Arts. They were usually reserved to the royal guards of Aries royalty and royalty itself during the time of the Empire. There, only the strongest with the most talent were given access to these Aries royal fighting arts. Generations of Royal guard captain, or high rank royal Aries knight that all reached rank 5 relatively quickly devoted these arts for their successors. While the current Aries were not these few geniuses that would have been train in Aries royal Arts, they had the same martial art than such geniuses created and polished over their whole lives and across generations.

They are a race that dive in deeply when they undertake something. Thus, they focused a lot in training these specific marial arts. The arena seemed to be place where they coukd face death and were not armed with wooden swords fighting each others. Relying purely on their skills and without the fear of death, they could practice to the limit and fight to the limit.

Such Aries were trained by Arthur, a class that was essentially being a teacher of warriors, wielding various blades: spears, swords, daggers and even armors. The perks of an unique rank class specialized in teaching arts, what that the learning spead was boosted by the system, forcefully increasing the learning curve of a student. For Aries martial arts designed for Aries warriors, they learnt extremely fast these specific martial arts. Practicioners could increase their level, of their mastery over the martial art. These ancestral martial arts require enormous time invested and a degree of comprehension to truly master the royal Aries martial arts. For Aries ordinary warriors, they never heard of an Aries specializing himself in raising particular martial arts. The boosts that gave such a teacher were however very consequent.

When a warrior increases his mastery over his martial art, especially a high ranked one, he usually knows how to be fiercer, move better and be overall stronger. In better words, martial arts allowed them to direct, and increase their strenght over the longer term. This made the bulk of the Aries elite classes that were many ranks below the ultimate legendary - rank, and didn't have monstrous traits, able to push their mastery of Aries martial arts to high levels. They were utilizing every ounce of their stenght in the best possible direction and could navigate their enemies and move with a very aggressive flow. These Aries fighters were thus elite individuals among regular rank 4s.

They were used and were design to work together while using their strenght in the best possible way. They managed to kill many of the strong warriors manipulating for higher leveled rank 4 to be fighting against several Aries rank 4s.

Meanwhile, the mages starting to wreak havoc among their ranks and the scouts attacked isolated warriors. Some were however killed when taking down injured orc warriors. Vermilion slimes slowly sneaked between orcs' feet and were attacking and exploding against them, damaging and poisoning them. They became sluggish and were killed more easily.

Seeing how is troops were being decimated, Garrek decided to change the tide of this battle and leaped high ftom the ground. Hoping to hit the rear troops and kill these classes unused to melee fight easily raising his personal strenght while killing some of the enemy troops.

He was very confident, a rank 5 legendary being that had a strong class and would be fighter the longer he fought, the lote enemies he damaged.

High in the air, he was met with a powerful middle kicks, hurting his ribs and sending him flying away. His strong body took in the hit and he landed standing.

Swoosh.

Zephyr zoomed in against Garrek and slashed him at various places. His body coated with wind armor and his blades coated with Warrior's aura and wind magic were extremely sharp, letting escape a screeching sound. Garrek has extremely fast reflexes, but didn't manage to get ahold of Zephyr, and when he started to overwhelm him, Rea delivered devastating kicks and attacks with her hands.

Meanwhile, Baal lighted the whole troop of packed orcs on hellfire. They were taking continuous damages and were steadily killed by Aries and Hoplites. Olivier was moving very fast and efficiently and smashed one orc after the other. His short white hammer with a big hammerhead could be used as a catalyst for light mana, and, brimming with energy unloaded all this mana when damaging the orcs, sending them flying or straight up killing them.

Arthur, with 3 or 4 Aura swords floating around him, attacked Garrek. His silverfish energy clashed with Garrek's red energy. Arthur's feet digged in the ground and he was pushed back.

Arthur used his skill gladiator charge, then to the frontlines, effectively taking in lots of speed and leaping high over the melee fight. He jumped over the orcs and goblins, and, when he was about to crash, delivered a heavy axe blow with all his energy.

Garrek was pushing Arthur back. All of a sudden, he only managed to react to an enemy over him and defended by raising his axe.

Boom!

Both axes clashed, the force of the impact maxing a crater at Garrek's feet. Arthur used this opportunity to deliver a thrust, that pierced his belly.

Garrek backpedaled, trying to dodge the attacks of the 2 enemies when Rea kicked him with all her might, crunching his left knee. Garrek stumbled and still managed to meet the attacks of both Arthur and Ezyze. Still, his ribs were pierced by Zephyr's sabers and his neck by Rea's aura hand blades.

Garrek was hurt. He was damaged beyond logic. He forgot his pride and felt the danger to lose his life. All his energy exploded. His wounds were bleeding severely.

Each of Garrek's strike was powerful. Arthur, Zephyr or Ezyze, when they blocked each strike, had their arms grow numb. His punches felt like being hit by a charging rhinoceros. Still they cooperated and manage to block most of his axe's blows, while increasing the damages that he took. Eventually, the bloodied Garrek was took down by one of Arthur's horizontal slash, that was brimming with Arthur's sword energy.

Ptui.

Garrek was slashed. A yellow magic armor covered his body. He was transported inside the Arena.

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The fight was quickly over. In total, 8 goblin scouts were killed in the melee fight. The 86 rank 1 goblins were trashed. They tried their best to fight and make a difference but were mercilessly slashed by orcs' axes. 2 Aries warriors lost their lives. Only Vandal and Helios survived among the tree trolls. All the goblin samurais lived. Only the ranged fighters: mages and hunters, and the hoplites survived. In a war against many strong enemy, which is likely to be what they will face in the upcoming war, the Unshakables' numbers were decimated. Worse, they were facing enemies that had similar numbers and the forces of the Empire were almost 10 times more numerous. Ezyze and every single of the Unshakables realized the consequences of participating in a war, as well as a real need to improve.

Sauruüne stood up and clapped. The Arena was filled with applauds, ahouts and toars. Every single one spectating Behemoth enjoyed this fight. When the thunderous clamor died down, Sauruüne raised his right hand, thus ending the noise.

"That was quite a fight that you delivered there, greenhorn. 100 or so of your troops would have been dead, but you killed the 250 orcs led by a rank 5! This is not an easy feat as Garrek distinguished himself during numerous occasions! Come sit next to me, greenhorn, I will show you entertainment."

Behemoth units of 1000 to 2000 in numbers stood up and met in the Arena. They were often lead by 1 to 2 rank 5s.

"Us behemoth are an army. Those that you saw in the officer tent are high ranked officers. While they have their own personal unit, they usually direct several other units during wars. We also encourage competition between these various armies promising more rewards or positions of more importance. The fights that you will see below are fights between newly created or lower rank units. They fight to establish their ranking and might among us Behemoths. Now, you must listen carefully to what I am saying. The formation of hoplites that you have utilizes the strenght of every member correctly. While they would have been trashed by experienced orcs individuals, the strategy of fighting as a unit with support of ranged attackers made them able to kill stronger foes. I have been fighting wars and various conflicts for decades. My personal strenght and the behemoth's is something that we polished during countless battlefields. We came across various enemies, races and evolutions. The goblins samurai that you have are of the rare hydra race. 5 of the hoplites have taken essence of rare Ents. Every single of your warriors utilizes very strong martial arts. Do not think that you are deceiving me Ezyze, I truly understand the potential of your unit, and thus have a proposition to make. You will be, during this war, serving as a Behemoth officer and will be given Garrek as a subordinate. I expect you to fully use their strenght and show your might during the incoming war. What do you say?

I thank you, Sauruüne. My members are still weak individually and the Garrek's unit is made of only very strong fighters. While I don't know if I'm worthy of doing so, I will lead them to the utmost of my capabilities

Brilliant. Now, see the might of the Behemoths."

Fighting below were units after units of fearsome warriors. Vampire warriors and magicians fighting Yak beatmen, humans and Orcs. Some blood trolls were also present. Each fight was extremely savage. Each warrior kept fighting even when they were gravely injured. This competition ended with a 1000 people strong unit of Yak beastmen, led by a female Yak Shaman warrior wielding totems and a spear, as winners.

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When the fight died down, the Unshakables went back to their quarters. There, 250 orcs led by Garrek were waiting for them. These gray orcs were wearing leather pants and boots and their armors. Their buldging muscles were adorned with white tattoos and their upper bodies were proudly showcased. They didn't wear anything from the belly up. Even the female orcs did not wear tops and their medium and lower sized breast were displayed over their rows of muscles.

"My name is Garrek and they are the warriors serving me. I won't find any excuses for our defeat. I am sure that Sauruüne told you that you will be leading us.

Yes he did. First of all, I must congratulate you on your might. We won this battle solely because we had better cooperation. There is no doubt that we would have lost if you cooperated as much as we did. You are all splendid warriors and I thank you for joining our ranks. We may be a very young mercenary troop, but we take care of our own. Let me be clear now, I am asking you to survive and that go for you, Unshakables. In this war, we will fight countless battles and will have countless opportunities to grow. We can take them only if we survive. Surviving is the bare requirement for our unit. Now Garrek, what did you think are the strenght and weaknesses of your unit?

We are very strong individuals. Our battle power have been honed through wars and battles. Each warriors here is adept at killing. The problem is that we were too focused on our own fights and didn't act together, to crush you as a whole. I know that I am personally strong. I realize that my might can be displayed only if I manage to deal damages to enemies. If I am attacked by multiple enemies or a strong enemy, I am not able to make full use of my potential.

Very well. And what about us? What are our strenght and weaknesses?"

Garrek paused. He thought hard. He just lost this battle but many flaws were apparent. Would he tell his mind and risk antagonizing his future leader, or downsize the truth and not say hurtful things about his unit? He chose the former.

"You are weak. You have many classes that are rank 1 and 2. Also, the strenght of monsters is their evolution. You are underevolved. Also, your hoplites are strong, but they have less mobility than your others warriors. You seem to be using them as moving barricades, but they are not fast enough to go where they should be in real time. I mean that if you don't have them fighting the enemy where you want to fight it, you may lose some of their power. The strategy of having weaker warriors helping your spearmen is quite clever, however they face much higher risks of being killed or injured. It can be better to have stronger forces cooperate to take down the enemies, while the weaker ones handle weakened enemies and thus grow stronger relatively more safely. Your cooperation is extremely good, but that also mean that your units would be much less powerful if isolated. Maintaining the lifeline for your troop is being able to keep them fighting as one. It can be a weakness if your ranks are breached, confusing your troops. This is something that we trained as individual warriors. If we are breached, we just keep on fighting.

Thank you for the insight, it is valuable. Why are all of you half naked?

Because we are strong! For orcs, our muscles are plenty.

So nothing to keep on being mobile or honing your instincts?

No, we hone our instincts through battles and we can even fight with allies strapped on our back. Us orcs are very strong!

And you orcs are under my command, right?

Yes.

Then you will have our 3 blacksmith take your measurements. You will wear heavy armor... And if you want to show insubordination, I can always have a word with the other officers."

For the rest of the day, they strategized and trained. Every mercenary, soldier, officer and subordinate did whatever they could to boost their fighting power, even for the slightest.


PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA
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Bab 33: Start of Battle - War of Blueleaf - 3

The morning of the 8th day since entering Everain, the huge Imperial army came from the horizon.

The soldiers glistening white armors, the ranks upon ranks of legionnaires, the cavalry and magicians. They were an army capable of laying waste to regions and kingdom. They were at least 3 millions strong, maybe more. After coming through between the mountain range, they reorganized their ranks.

A lone soldier which was wearing a golden cape attached to his white and silver armor separated from the rest. He was minuscule individual, riding atop a white horse. The clip clop of the horse's steps was drowned by the noise of the falling rain. It seemed that time was frozen, two forces capable of killing people and destroying landscapes were standing in front of each others. A side was on the ground and still partly on the mountains. The other side was atop humongous walls, in a very big fortress.

The lone soldier had a shield and a lance strapped to his back. He dismounted his horse and walked slowly on the central bridge and stopped just meters before the magic shield.

"I AM GILAIN DAVOS, KNIGHT IN THE SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY IVAN GOODHEART! WE HAVE COME TO EXERCE OUR RIGHT IN SEEKING FOR RIGHTFUL COMPENSATIONS THAT YOU DENIED US. THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING BEFORE WE START A WAR AND REDUCE YOUR KINGDOM TO ASHES!"

His strong voice, amplified with mana, could be heard in every single corner of Everain.Argia Blueleaf looked at Oturn, a female dark elf archer. Oturn knocked an arrow on her bow and released it.

Twack!

It crashed perfectly between Gilain's feet. Who mumbled "very well" before going back to his troops. He mounted his horse again, before returning to his camp.

After a few minutes, 250 000 imperial legionnaires departed. Each soldier had a tower shield, a spear and a glaive. They were all rank 2 to 4. They formed ranks, creating shield walls and shield roots, protecting them effectively from various attacks. 50 or so groups approached the 3 bridges and slowly crept towards the fortress.

Archers released a shower of arrow. While they advanced, many legionnaires fell on the ground, dead. The legions didn't break formation and advanced, sometimes even trampling on the dead. By the time they reached half the bridge, 170 000 or so troops remained.

From there, earth mages sent bolts and boulders to crash on these enemies. The legionnaires never stopped their advance, even if they were killed one after the other. Only 50 000 or so of them managed to be 3000 meters from the walls. Water trolls sent spears and having. These creatures have blue skin and tusks coming out of their lower mouth. They are quite leaned and yet hunched, standing north of 2 meters. While they are skinny, they are adorned with muscles. They wear light blue leather armors and are logical beings, that do not get carried away easily. The remaining legionnaires were killed.

From there, the trumpets of war sounded in the whole valley. Around 1 million imperial forces advanced towards the fortress. They were units of various occupations and they had rams and other weapons capable of breaching the wall. If they manage to reach the wall, they would be destroyed.

For Ezyze, it was madness. A. Million. People. 1 million people advancing to kill them. They were rank 2s and 3s. He saw from atop the wall, a force that any army on earth would lose against.

The gate opened and various forces of the Blueleaf kingdom excited the fortress. River ogres, giant deer cavalry, iron dwarves warriors, nymphs and dog beastmen warriors excited the castle. They were around 500 000 and amounted to half of the kingdom's forces in Everain. Dizio Blueleaf was leading an army of 5000 or so warriors riding atop royal blue crostrich. These beings were birds, that a build a bit similar to ostriches. They had long black and royal blue feathers covering their bodies. Their crow like face was big and their crow like tail large. Even their powerful legs had long feathers that were almost covering their deadly talons. They could flap their big wings and glide or hover briefly over the ground.

The 2 sides stopped and then charged against each others. The various watchtower and cannons were lit and blaster magic projectiles after magic projectiles, killing thousands of thousands of imperial troops.

Despite this huge advantage, the two armies were killing each others in a ferocious battle for death. While the Blueleaf army was assisted by archers from the top of the wall, the Empire have a strong army.

Another trumpet sounded and another 1.5 millions of imperial troops advanced towards the fortress. Meanwhile, imperial troops started to construct weapons in their backline. Ezyze now understood that they were constructing siege weapons.

The gates opened once again and Nefrus and Death Awoken exited the fortress. Riding a wyvern that was throwing out flames, Nebrus attacked the middle of the enemy formation, of the middle bridge, casting one deadly magic after the other. His troops were 250 000 strong of undead. Among his undead were a troop of 30 rank 5 deathkinghts. These warriors were wielding various type of different weapons and were former living knights of renown. These monsters mastered also the former classes that they were wielding, corrupted by dead mana. They had classes like the legendaries paladin of the dark church, knight of doom, warrior of darkness, steel knight, battleaxe master. These 30 rank 5 monsters had for some of them rank 5 classes, or otherwise rank 3 or 4. They were surrounding an archlich - rank 5 and 2 former mercenary leaders that were particularly strong.

One was a skeleton king, a legendary monster at rank 5, that had a rank 5 class - dark crusader. He was wearing a long black mace and crushed many enemies. The other one was a legendary assassin that used to roam the battlefield, killing his enemies using tonfas like swords. His movements necessitated one to continuously make bursts, while being agile enough to dodge the enemy attacks, he was strong enough to block, or pierce through enemy defenses. His body was resurrected and, fights after fights, he became a zombie of carnage, he was a rank 5 monster that now was brimming with power. Zombies, that usually are slow, can slowly reinforce themselves. They also usually have muscles. The corpses of the assassin being particularly agile, made for a warrior with quite some speed initially. He however was not affected by slashes and had to be hacked and slashed and reduces to paste again and again to kill him, for how strong his resistance was. His race is the legendary zombie of carnage, a monster that evolved to maximize the already strong physique of zombies and reinforce itself to be tougher and faster. He was a rank 2 assassin of the battlefield - legendary.

This unite was the most deadly in dead awoken. 33 rank 5s. The skeleton king has a strong body, and most his strenght was to provide various buffs to other dead ones, especially to the skeleton subrace. The Archlich is a monster that masters magic knowledge and is a powerful rank 5 monster. The body of a class 5 ice elementalist was used as the basis for the boy of the archlich. It possessed deep knowledge of ice magic, could wield ice magic that were especially harmful to warm, living chair, as neither the skeletons nor himself feared the cold. His nature as a lich made him pursuing the nature of death magic and he now wields death magic to awoken the dead and provide them magic buffs. His army growing with each death was something not to underestimate, and he was heavily protected. The combination of a buffed army, that grows with each death and have a powerful unit protecting its core worked well against the legions. They crumbled from the inside. The legionaties still reacted quite quickly and are now also wary of the corpses.

The 15 000 living mercenaries are the original troop that support Nefrus. Among them are barbarians. Humans that live in tribes and this group lived in the cold Eternal Mountain range, that have enormous bodies that are around 3 meters tall. They are used to hunting strong preys and is the first clan that joined under Nefrus. They are around 1800 in total and are strong shock troops. Various different human clans also joined him, some were riding wolves and had long lances, others battle mages and magic swordmen, archers atop 7 or 8 large ice mammoth, big rank 4 creature, gladiator and even some magicians made the ranks of death awoken. These mercenaries were usually acting more or less independently from one another, and used the large number of skeletons and zombies to win battles. While the barbarians were very actives in the frontlines, sand swords were acting more as assassins, killing powerful individuals and the magicians either worker independently, or as a unit. The dead offered to the living a buffer zone, where they coukd quickly dispose of their enemies, they would then be less numerrous and fighting units that were reinforced by their dead comrades.

A huge mana wave escaped Neftus, and the dead imperial troops stood up, once again, and attacked their former colleagues. The middle bridge was reinforced by 350 000 or so dead imperial legionaries that attacked their former colleagues. The imperial soldiers, while confused at first, adapted themselves once again.

Seeing this change, elite imperial units were sent forwards. Many of these units had members that had classes that allowed them to wield light magic.

A fight continued and these forces stabilized the frontlines and stopped the advance of death awoken. Dizio and his unit were picking up the pace, and piercing through enemy ranks. Those that were attacked by their spears and swords , those that were cut, became poisoned and many died from either the poison, or the injury itself. The Empire sent a 10 000 strong unit, manned with phantom riders, people wearing lances and that were riding battle horses. Some were riding phantom battlehorses, from the time where their battle horse died and became a phantom horse, to keep roaming the batefielf. This elite unite quickly fought Dizio's riders and attained a balance.

Imperial soldiers and everain doldiers lost their lives. In the central bridge, Nefrus' forces couldn't grow so much. He decided to periodically awaken dead imperial soldiers in other battlefield to raise more chaos and divert further the attention of these special imperial troops. Atop his wyvern was Nefrus, and behind him was a 3.5 meters being, that was wearing heavy armor. He was a barbarian and a rank 5 knight of the death, that had a bonus in mastering various weapons and when fighting in mana filed environments. His sole role was to protect Nefrus from harm. He had a greatsword on his Bach and was firing arrows after arrows of magic reinforced with his aura of death, to have some form of occupation while flying. The wyvern was a rank 3 monster that did not yet develop its mana heart. It was looking like a dragon, but its front limbs had its wings attached to them, its body was smaller and his many yet developed. It was covered with a black enchanted armor, that negated many spells and physical attacks. His breath was quite something and Nefrus was otherwise a strong mage .

Like this, for the next 10 days, the Bluraf army of 500 000 became 380 000 strong, and the 4 million imperial troops were now 3.4 millions strong. They fought from morning to evening. The bulk of the blueleaf forces were fighting from day one and the imperial army had more or less figured out which forces to send and which strategy they would follow.

Sauruüne told Ezyze that he will have at least a week to figure out how to use his troop and implement Garrek unit to his forces. He trained them for various formations and they were using the Arena to battle lower and middle ranked behemoth units that had 1000 or 2000 members and only up to 3 rank 5s. They ended up challenging stronger units and figuring out to use their lower numbers against enemies that had classes of higher rank and more enemies. After a week, Hulann told him that the noise of artillery would start a change in the battlefield.

After 10 days, huge catapults and siege weapons were finally installed on the battlefield. Their range was fantastic and they were all loaded with various projectiles.

BOOM!

The troops that were fighting under the mana shield saw it being attacked by waves after waves of projectiles. While the shield stood strong, it would eventually run out of power.

Those of Everain suddenly had the incentive to go out of the fortress and breach the enemy lines. The Imperial troops were used to defend these weapons against these Blueleaf soldiers.

They had to destroy those siege weapons before the shield runs out of power.

It was time for the different mercenary troops to start be more active and influence positively the battlefield. The huge bridges were not yet filled to the brim with people and numbers because of how large they are. Still, they were filled with hundreds of thousands of people fighting there.

The gates opened. A gigantic 20 meters tall creature went out of it and tens of thousands of mercenaries followed. Ezyze was among them. While they didn't have time to create armors fore everyone, the 70 rank 4 orc warriors had armored plastrons. It was time for war.

On the right side, Kleops and the pharaoh legion exited the gate, followed by various smaller mercenary troops. They had strong shields and swords warriors manning the frontline, while various mages: sand mages, earth mages, mages of arcane arts, fire mages... the list was unending. While he, himself had a rank 5 legendary class called mirror battle archmage, the 29 other rank 5s were very talented. Many koplesh wielders were about to attain rank 5s and the higher number of rank 5s took disciples, that were also battling in the frontlines. Klepos himself was a master in wielding his curved a longsword and had destructive arts that allowed him first to make a name as a fierce mercenary. His mirror magic could create various mirrors that could reflect magic attacks, spawn the mirror image of someone. When broken, mirrors have shards that can be manipulated to deal damages and make someone bleed. Kleops himself was jumping from mirror to mirror and influence the battle around him. Various rank 5 leaders of smaller clans fought together with other clans or with blueleaf soldiers, thus positively impacting the battlefield on the right.

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The 113 000 mercenaries that joined the left battlefield cooperated with the 120 000 or so Blueleaf soldiers. Sauruüne was leading his own mercenary troop, while Vormverr, a rank 5 Frost battle ogre led the various Blueleaf troops.

They have strong frontliners and decent ranged fighters. 14 000 various dryads support the frontliners with potent nature magic, healing them. The ranged fighters are for the most archers and few of them are mages.

The behemoths are mercenary filled with different warriors. Trap, Hulnel and Jarral were leading the frontlines, while the various units that they commanded fought around them.

Varna and Trop had long ranged units with them. Varna had various mages that dealt spells with a large surface of impact, while she was mainly proficient in debuffing enemies and using their strenght to strengthen front liners. She used to cooperate with Hulnel's army and still is, fighting on right side of the Western bridge, behind his army. Trop and Trap are actually brothers and sisters and cooperate really well together to kill the enemies. They are on the left side of the bridge.

The central area is led by Jarral acting as the vanguard commander and is directly before Sauruüne's personal army.

The vampires led by Ariel and Nebrus act as shock troops.

The Unshakables are at the rear of the vanguard army. While the orcs are very dynamic fighters that count for most of those present in Jarrel's army, healers, bards and shaman can also be found among orcs, as well as archers and elementalists that were supporting the front.

The Jarral's army that always take the front of fights where Behemoth is active is a very strong army. The orc are individually strong warriors and when buffed, they are killing a great number of imperial forces.

Wanting to change the flow of the battle once again, the Empire sent various forces. Another million troops advances and separated to go in the Western and Eastern bridge.

Jatral committed the bulk of his army to the fight. Ezyze and his unit were about to clash with the Empire's troops.

The Unshakable during these 9 days, learnt how to work together and with the orcs. The orcs were separated into groups of 50s. 3 took the front. Those in the middle had a line of hoplites fighting with them. These 70 warriors were all rank 4 and Garrek was fighting among them. The 12 goblin samurais were fiercely attacking with them.

With the group of 50 warriors on the left were the 30 spearmen, Ezyze, Zephyr and Rea.

Aries warriors, Baal and Arthur were leading the 50 orc warriors on the right.

They were aided by the rank 1 goblin warriors and the 4 rank 2 hydra warriors, as well as the trolls and were led by Vandal. The Tree trolls were all wearing heavy armors and battle axes. Their armor was top notch

Behind them, the archgoblins, hunters and all ranged asses raised hell on the enemy troops and buffed allies. 100 orcs were acting as bodyguards.

Ezyze was slashing and cutting in wild abandon, and cooperating mainly with Zephyr and Rea. Lampor sent pure mana arcane arts one after the other and buffed the Orc presents. The orc warriors were the main force of the group and the Goblin spearmen were killing tired warriors.

The group led by Garrek was killing enemies after enemies. Garek himself was a unstoppable.

When the Empire sent their forces, various swordmen, spearmen and knights were deployed one after the other.

An elite imperial force was dispatched to kill Jarral's vanguard. They were human swordmasters, of rank 4s and 5h, knights and spearmen of the same rank. Clerics mages that wielded holy magic, born for the Human's belief in the Empire of Luxos, the God of light, were healing and buffing these troops. Paladins, crusaders and some holy and light warriors joined the fray.

Jarral himself and 20 orc blademasters, rank 5 orcs, fought against these newcomers. They were very effective and killed many, until they reached a unit of 40 rank 5s imperial swordmasters. Many were wielding a saber and they were fiercely opposing Jarrul.

Of these newcomers, the Unshakables fought against 3 rank 5s imperial swordmasters and 300 rank 3 legionnaires, 500 rank 4 swordmen aided by 250 crossbow archers and 50 or so mages. They were fighting 500 vs 1000. To their immediate right were other of such units fighting against each others.

Arthur and the Aries Spearman were fighting against one imperial legend. The 2 Aries Spearman had tremendous talent in wielding spears and are unique rank 4 classes called Aries' left horn and Aries' right horn. Together, they could fight rank 5s on their own. Arthur was himself very strong and versed in various forms of swordmanship. Going against saber wielders was natural for him.

Ezyze and Zephyr, as well as Baal went against another swordmaster.

Garrek went against the last one.

Rea was leading the unit on the left, Broblin the one in the middle and Medea the one on the right.

Garrek did manage to kill many imperial troops during the start of the war. When the imperial swordmaster attacked him, he was already stronger thanks to the special trait that he received at rank 5. The swordmaster was very strong, having reached rank 5, however his basic stats and damages were far from Garrek having killed hundreds of enemies. The sword master was on the defensive and was overpowered by the orc legend.

Ezyze was delivering powerful blows after powerful blows. His technique impeccable. Yet, he was far from being equal in power to the swordmaster. Baal had his horns alight with hellfire. His skin cracked and eyes burnt. Black with fire that almost looked like it was leaking, his skin could burn people. He has a devil like tail, ending with an arrowhead like shape and the whole thing was bright orange. Like the lave in a forge. His longsword under a huge amount of flames, Baal showed literary incredible firepower. Zephyr was so fast that he could avoid slashes made by a rank 5 swordmaster and he boosted the fire with wind magic. Like that, they were barely holding on.

The Aries trio was stronger than a single rank 5. The Aries' horns, when they fought together, show firepower of a rank above them. They could fight equally against a rank 5. Arthur was a master of Aries blade arts and knew Aries spearmanship. He showed excellent timing and cooperation and they managed to defeat the rank 5.

Garrek, having disposed of a rank 5, ambushed the rank 5 that was slashing at Exyze, to kill him. Rejoining their troops, the Unshakables were slowly getting the best of the Imperial forces and helped Jarral's neighboring troops to overwhelm the swordmasters. By the end of the day, Garrek, and those that fought rank 5 swordmasters were joined by 5 other rank 5 orc axemasters. By the end of the day, this group killed 12 imperial rank 5s.

The Unshakables managed to end the day without any death. Their superior teamwork early on boosted their confidence and early synergy. They ranked in many experience points and killed many troops.

The horned samurai gained experience points and a great insight on swordmanship by swordmasters. They were using their monstrous energy to reinforce each of their steps and each of their strikes. They were flowing in the wind, yet sharp and precise. This combination made them strong and able to fight against various other legends. It took Garrek 1 hour 42 to kill the first rank 5 and he was boosted by his legendary trait. This sparked something in them and they wanted to direct their monstrous mana to follow each and every of their movements. The very nature of their poisonous mana was hard to incorporate in fights.

The following 10 or so days were happening in the same manner. The shield was holding on despite the unending barrage of artillery.

The Unshakables lost 8 rank 1 goblins. They now all had at least rank 2 classes. Still, the survivors grew stronger. Medea is becoming a force to reckon. She is leading troops fiercely. And Rea and Broblin show great qualities in leadership. Rimuru lead the mages that fight fairly safely, protected by orc warriors and scoots. These orc warriors became stronger. In 10 days, the Unshakables managed to kill 12 rank 5s on their own, without the help of additional rank 5s. It was excellent.

All of a sudden, Everain's central gate opened. Thousands of Shurissi golems excited. Spearmen, swordmen and archers. Andros Shurissi is a very dear lieutenant of Shakur Shuris and the son of a former Duke of the Shurissi kingdom. He was leading 15 000 thousand of Shurissi Sphinx. Various humans were among these ranks: curved shortsword dancers, mages of various elements, duelist, swordmasters, knights, warriors, sand crossbow men. While the sphinx and golems were fighting in an ordonned manner, the humans were making for the chaotic link between the two forces. They collaborated closely with Death Awoken and changed the dynamics in the central bridge.

Andros and his lieutenants killed many imperial soldiers, that were eventually awoken by Nefrus. Andros was one that enjoyed fighting in the Frontline, his Thunder spear was an ego weapon that an election eye of pure energy pulsating between 3 blades. Each of his attacks sent vast lighting strikes. He felt the flesh ripping under his claws and bones breaking by his thrusts. The Empire sent elite troops in the middle of the central bridge. These holy warriors were wearing white plate armor. They were wielding holy magic and different weapons. Their leader, Renault was facing Andros.


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