Volume 3, Chapter 76 – I’m Really Desperate Too

According to the previous intelligence, the Beastman reinforcements for the Stronghold were actually divided into batches.

The first wave was a temporary force transferred over from other legions stationed at the stronghold before Grinrui had even died. Although the number was one hundred thousand, in terms of high-end combat power the commander leading this army was only at Epic-tier.

The other wave was the reinforcements that were sent directly over to take command of the troops at the stronghold near the Northern Fortress after they had just learned of Grinrui’s death.

Although the numbers were the same as the first wave of reinforcements, in terms of high-end combat power there were three Legendary Beastman generals among them.

From this it could be seen that the Beastmen were placing an extraordinary amount of importance on the Northern Fortress.

Of course, given how many troops they had already throw at the Northern Fortress, if they just gave up like this they might be able to bear the losses of defeat, but the rulers would definitely still feel unreconciled.

It was just like a gambler. Even after losing, they would still delude themselves that they would definitely succeed next time and win back their losses.

At this very moment, in order to act according to Sister Xiaomu’s request, Tianyin had not slaughtered the entire first wave of Beastman reinforcements.

Because she had considered that it would be impossible to kill one hundred thousand Half-beasts in just five minutes, when she used the Seven Deadly Sins, Tianyin had already started thinking about ways to hinder the advance of the Beastman reinforcements.

And then…

A so-called plan really did come to Tianyin.

『If we just take ‘stopping the enemy from advancing’ literally, we only need to put something in their way so they can’t move forward, right, Samael?』

After she came up with the plan, Tianyin happily shared it with Samael.

『So all we need to do is create obstacles, right?』

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「Hmm? Obstacles? That method is not impossible, but Xiaoyin, how exactly are we going to set up these obstacles?」

『Mm-mhm, that is actually very easy, right?』

Tianyin answered Samael in a tone that treated it as only natural.

『We… just sink the road. That does it, doesn’t it?』

「Hmm… sink the road? That method is also not a bad one…」

There were no roads in the world to begin with. But when many people walk the same way, then a road is formed.

If you directly collapse the road, then there is not even a place to walk. With no road, the only result left is being forced to stop.

So… what kind of violent declaration was this supposed to be!

It had to be admitted that Tianyin’s plan was good, but it was also a bit far too outrageous.

However, although this plan might be a bit too violent for others, in Tianyin and Samael’s minds this method was undoubtedly excellent.

If the way to cut off the enemy was just to leave them with no road to walk, then would that not be a perfect solution?

「It is doable, Xiaoyin.」

『Of course it is. I was the one who came up with this plan after all~』

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And so, a certain loli decided on the next course of action by talking to herself in the middle of the battlefield.

Then, from the point of view of the Beastman army, after the Half-beast forces that had suddenly launched a surprise attack had fought and stalemated with them for a while, they withdrew on their own.

From the ambush to the end of the battle had actually only taken several dozen minutes, and on the surface it looked as if the enemy’s ambush had failed.

But in reality…

“What… an army of one hundred thousand was directly reduced by half?”

The Beastman commander at Epic-tier who was in charge of this army could not help but feel as if he had misheard when he learned of the casualty ratio.

“You must be joking, right? This is absolutely, absolutely a lie, right?”

To cause fifty thousand casualties in just over ten minutes, even among all past war records, something like that was simply unheard of.

“Legendary? No, even a Legendary could not kill fifty thousand Beastmen in just over ten minutes. Could it be that a Throne-class has taken the field?”

What this Beastman commander never imagined was that not only was there an existence like Tianyin who was a “Throne-class” presence, there was also Xiaobingxue whose strength was on par with a Throne-class.

It was the combination of these two that had caused such heavy losses to this Beastman army.

It had to be said that a result like this was truly terrifying.

Even for fearless Beastmen, this Epic-tier commander could not help but feel intimidated.

The unknown was the most terrifying thing, and if the army that had ambushed them possessed a Throne-class existence, then his reinforcement army was undoubtedly being sent straight to the slaughter.

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“No, this has to be reported. There is a Throne-class existence at the Northern Fortress… and it seems some Half-beasts have betrayed the stronghold and even organized their own armed forces.”

As someone at Epic-tier, he did have at least this much judgment. Although his own carelessness had led to his army being ambushed, he had at least gained an understanding of some aspects of the strength of the enemies the stronghold was facing through this ambush.

“General, are we still advancing?”

“Advance? Of course we still have to advance. Lord Grinrui is near the Northern Fortress. Our mission from the beginning was to reinforce Lord Grinrui. If we don’t advance, are we supposed to run away?”

The words of the trusted aide beside him made this Beastman commander extremely irritable.

“Pass down my order. After we finish cleaning up the battlefield, the entire army moves out. This time we have to speed up our march and strive to reach Lord Grinrui in the shortest time possible.”

“Yes.”

Under the command of this Beastman commander, after cleaning up the battlefield, this Beastman army reorganized itself.

After they had recovered some of their morale, they once again set off on the road toward the Northern Fortress.

However…

Something unexpected occurred.

After marching for about an hour, what should have been a wide, flat road in front of this Beastman army had turned into something else entirely.

To be precise, it was a huge ravine so deep that its bottom could not be seen. The ravine suddenly cut across the road, and just like that, it brutally severed the road on this side.

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“…”

“Can someone tell me what happened? What is up with this road, why did it suddenly break off?”

Not only was the ravine lying across the road just long enough to cover any ground they could have used to go around it, its width was also just right so that even if the Beastmen tried to jump, they could not reach it.

“General… This road looks man-made. We should choose a detour, right?”

In fact, this ravine was created by Tianyin using Samael’s power.

With just a single strike, she had sunk one section of this road. Not only that, she had also created this seemingly bottomless “ravine” that was like an unscalable natural moat.

“At this point, all we can do is go around it…”

What could the Beastman commander do? He was really desperate too…

Now he had not only lost half his troops, but even the road he had chosen beforehand had been inexplicably cut off.

On top of that, the ones who had just ambushed him were actually a Half-beast army…

Just thinking about that made the Beastman commander’s feelings grow particularly complicated.

“So… is our enemy really the kingdom?”