The trolls discarded their giant axes, opening their chests and clashing directly with the giant lesser demons using their sturdy arms. Two trolls forcibly pinned the charging giant lesser demon in place.
They even pushed its figure backward!
From their throats burst almost barbaric roars, like counterattack horns blooming across the battlefield!
The southern battlefield, being close to the abandoned mine pit, had especially many giant lesser demons.
“Southern wing knights, follow the northern wing knights’ actions.”
Knight captains personally led dozens of riders in flanking thrusts. This time the pocket was larger, so trolls needed to hold the front.
In Seraphina’s view, giant lesser demons were indeed powerful, but if segmented and encircled, preventing them from forming a battle line, they were not to be feared!
The northern wing’s strangulation was completed in a few minutes. Several knights lifted the giant lesser demons’ scales from behind. The last knight drove his magical horse like a meteor, ignoring harassment from other lesser demons, piercing through the giant lesser demon!
And why couldn’t these giant lesser demons turn to resist the knights’ sneak attacks? Because trolls were holding them in front!
“All shadow demons listen!”
Shadow demons watched their brothers achieve victories one after another while they themselves had yet to receive orders, already anxious, itching for action but helpless.
Seraphina’s voice undoubtedly ignited their inner battle enthusiasm, making every one of them tense, afraid to miss a single word she said!
“Your task is to leverage your advantages, intercept lesser demons trying to break through the defense line amid chaos. Also, shoulder the task of severing bridges between giant lesser demons.”
In simple terms, it was dividing fields—splitting one large field into several smaller ones.
“After northern wing operations end, leave necessary personnel; the rest all support the southern wing!”
Commands came one after another, precise like prophetic miracles. Demon soldiers might not understand the specific reasons for tasks.
But when each did their part, those seemingly individual actions together produced a chemical reaction more wondrous than anything in the world.
“Knights transferred from the north, disperse! Each knight followed by a certain number of shadow demons! Start herding the sheep!”
Here, knights were like sheepdogs. The most numerous shadow demons were like fences. As “sheepdogs” drove “sheep” to prepared spots, the “fences” behind rapidly closed in!
Of course, the foundation was shadow demons’ high mobility, able to keep up with magical horses at full speed.
Segment and encircle the massive number of lesser demons!
“Good…… good! Are all your ‘pockets’ tied tight?” Her excited voice transmitted to all soldiers’ minds, making them seem to see the dawn of victory!
They could clearly feel that as commands were executed, the suffocating pressure on the battlefield was being resolved, guided bit by bit, even…… turned into their advantage!
Seraphina stood on the watchtower; no one understood the battlefield situation better than her.
Gradually connecting torches segmented all lesser demons like livestock into dozens of large and small enclosures!
They wanted to break out but were forcibly pushed back by more shadow demons and trolls!
Even large-scale breakouts—if truly unbearable, retreat. Behind them, knights with teams of shadow demons would enclose a new “fence,” cutting the lesser demons’ formation again!
Like cell division, splitting into another new cell.
“All knights listen! No matter your direction, charge toward the opposite side of every encirclement! No need to care if you kill lesser demons; your task is like crossing a river—just reach the other shore!”
“Now…… grip your long spears tightly; that is the dawn of victory. Your high morale lets these damned lesser demons taste only death! Form array, break the enemy!”
The knights’ charges were like hundreds of knives cutting into butter. With troll assistance, giant lesser demons were rapidly sliced like tofu!
However, just as the battlefield situation was settled and Seraphina slightly relaxed, an extremely faint yet distinctly different aura suddenly burst from the mine pit, drilling into the edge of her perception like a venomous snake.
It was cryptic, cold, carrying a hunter’s patience and cunning.
Seraphina’s pupils contracted sharply. Her gaze shot toward the farther eastern mine pit.
Something…… seemed to be emerging……
A dark red tentacle, like a long-lurking scorpion tail stinger, suddenly whipped out from the mine pit!
It first pierced the clouds, rapidly approaching overhead under night’s cover.
Enveloped in thick ominous aura, Seraphina looked around; everyone’s attention was on the battlefield.
They…… couldn’t sense it?!
Meaning, this attack was targeted at her!
The opponent was like a malicious hunter, deliberately presenting danger blatantly before the prey, tasting the prey’s fear before success.
Seraphina could clearly foresee that if this attack truly struck her, survival was impossible!
She wanted to call for help from nearby knights, but her mouth, which had just clearly issued commands, could only open powerlessly.
Sound?!
Still in that moment—
Nothing happened.
No earth-shattering boom, no dazzling magic, not even air fluctuation.
That fatal dark red tentacle suddenly froze a mere hundred meters from Seraphina, as if hitting an absolute invisible wall.
Then…… abruptly, unreasonably…… it shattered inch by inch, annihilated into the finest dust, leaving not a trace!
Throughout the process, no one noticed anything unusual. Yet Seraphina’s back was already soaked with sweat.
Not just fear of the attack, but shock at the mysterious force protecting her!
She felt clearly that the power, on a level she couldn’t understand or even perceive, quietly dismembered the tentacle!
But who had such power?
She frantically scanned the battlefield, over blood-bathed soldiers, over knights standing solemnly beside her, over black mountains……
No one showed anything unusual, as if that perilous moment had never existed.
A chill, fiercer than the border wind, pierced from her soles through her body……
Was it…… her?
Seraphina’s mind flashed Movira’s lazy smile. Only she possessed such unfathomable power.
Only she would “help” in such a completely unnoticeable way……
This was not just protection but a superior reminder, a silent declaration:
See, the peril you thought was in my eyes mere trash I can erase at will. As for you, you’ve always been under my control!
***
After completing today’s task, let me ramble a bit.
This book was the result of a flash of inspiration one afternoon, yet now it has some small achievements.
For me, it has already exceeded expectations.
In joy, I also feel some pressure.
More people paying attention means my task becomes even more arduous.
Providing you with more, better, higher-quality content is my unshirkable responsibility.
But I also know my own limits; I can’t produce “delicacies” satisfying everyone.
For your questions about when the change happens, I can only say soon (within 100,000 words), and there will be very interesting content.
Finally, thank you all for your love, and for reading through this chatterbox’s nonsense.