50 Battle at nigh

I quickly went to tell Völsung about my rising suspicion. He didn't look like he believed it but said he would relay my suspicion to Sigmund.

I had done what I could to warn the humans. If they ignored my advice, there was nothing I could or wanted to do. A night battle was the most detrimental for the humans as beasts could see very well in the dark and I could use magic perception. The Aesir probably had their own arrangements.

According to my expectations, the Aesir retired to their tents very early. Lulled by this sign of hesitation the enemy had shown, the humans rested early too, believing that the Aesir wouldn't attack. Myself, I didn't need sleep. The concept had even become somewhat foreign to me.

Thus, I noticed right away when there was movement in the Aesir camp. Silently the soldiers creeped out of their tents and sneaked across the battlefield.

The only wore leather armor, evidently, they planned on using the element of surprise to their advantage. This, however, made them much more vulnerable themselves.

To get past the watchmen they even had to crawl past the lit spaces. They were now steadily approaching the giant mantises. I had ordered all the beasts to lay down and pretend to be asleep, making the Aesir drop their guard even further.

Once they reached the mantises the Aesir split up, circling around the giant bugs as quiet as possible. They probably thought that the beasts were all controlled by tamers and killing the masters would be more efficient. As the two currents of sneaking troops were passing the mantises I waited until half had passed.

Out of nowhere, all the mantises heads shot up, their insect eyes filled with the intent to murder. Without giving off even the slightest bit of sound those humongous scythe-like forearms cut through the air.

The passing troops were caught by surprise and received heavy injuries due to their light armor. As they were slashed by my beasts, some couldn't keep down their voices and cried out in agony. This immediately alarmed the human watchmen and by extension the human camp.

Now the first half of the Aesir didn't hide any longer, they were already past the mantises and directly in front of the human camp.

The battle there was bloody. The Aesir had the element of surprise and most humans were still a little groggy from sleep. The humans, on the other hand, had an overwhelming advantage in numbers.

Doing some rough calculations there were around 500 Aesir fighting more than 10000 humans.

The other 500 Aesir were facing the giant mantises slashes. Most of them had been heavily wounded during the surprise attack and so they were struggling to fight the equal number of insects despite the Aesir's strength being higher.

Now all 1000 Aesir were locked in battle. Though I felt like this was all a little too easy...

Wait!... 1000... That was only half of how many there should be!

I spun on my heel, finding the missing 1000 at the other side of the human camp, sneakily thinning out the human armies rear. They had probably adjusted to this style of attack after the planned pincer attack failed. Covered by the commotion made by the open fight upfront they had remained undiscovered.

This didn't go as planned. Time to improvise!

'Shining lunaries first form, astral bodies suspended in the sky!'

Brought to life by my spell, around a dozen miniature moons began circling above the human camp. The nightly camp was brightened up by strong moonlight rays.

The hidden Aesir troops were immediately discovered and attempts were made to stop them. Still, the Aesir had managed to advance too deep into the human camp and could not be stopped by the few soldiers who weren't fighting at the front. Völsung was amongst them but even he could do little more than tie down a few captains of the opposing side.

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'Völsung, can you hear me?'

"I'm busy. We need to stop these Aesir. Their commander is somewhere amongst them!"

'That's exactly what I am trying to do! However, the aftereffects will keep me from communicating with you for some time. I can still roughly direct the beasts but you will be on your own.'

"What can you do? I don't feel threatened in the slightest by this body of yours, you can't be that strong."

'There is one important thing you don't seem to know about mages. Give us enough time to prepare our spells and we can take down almost anyone. Shining lunaries second form, astral rain from the heavens!'

The miniature moons circling above descended right where the most Aesir were gathered. The spheres with a radius of one meter had little impact on the army as a whole but the moonlight suffused in the spheres was like poison to them.

This moonlight was created, using a basic understanding of time. Touching it made the Aesir age uncontrollably, sapping away their youthful strength.

'Shining luminaries third form, starburst, a new beginning!'