While the two leaders talked at the front the cohort began to mingle with Sera's team... or at least two members of said team. Hector just walked about a dozen meters behind everyone, watching Sera talk and occasionally laugh with David.
At this point his head took a permanent shade of red. Kathy constantly looked back at him waiting for the moment when the veins would finally explode from the high blood pressure.
He noticed these glances as well, and it quickly reminded him of yesterdays fight. Seeing him get even angrier brought a deep satisfaction to Kathy.
As she was about to laugh at his misery she heard something ahead. In the next second both Sera and David appeared next to the group.
"Heads up everyone! We have company!" Said David. The whole Cohort went into high alert within the next second, like a well oiled machine.
Kathy changed as well, this time into a large wolf-like beast with wings. This was purely something she had made. There were very few forms that she had personally thought out since it was nearly impossible to create new creatures from scratch, but she could still combine already existing appendages from many different beings.
She called this form, Wolfdragon. It was a fitting name since the wing designs were literally stolen from a dragon. Her size was also huge about 3 meter tall and 5 meter long, with a wingspan of 7 meters.
The cohort looked at her with a bit of surprise, but they quickly turned back to their deathly serious selves.
Percy changed into his energy form as well and Hector transformed into his fiend looking self.
Sera looked at all of them for a moment, then just leaned against a tree and watched the show. In her opinion this fight wouldn't last long enough, so she didn't need to involve herself.
For a moment David looked at her curiously, but then understood her intentions. By not doing anything she was hiding the fact that her essence count still wasn't full.
That was the only reason why she wouldn't fight. While walking Sera told him about the order from Harold, so it didn't make sense why she wouldn't take this opportunity to kill more monsters. But if her essence wasn't full it explained everything.
They were still about 200 kilometers away from the gathering point, Tekirdag. They will hundred percent need to fight a lot more and she had the biggest reserve count out of all of them. They needed her at full strength which meant she couldn't fight little skirmishes like this.
In front of the group about a kilometer away a small horde of monsters were closing in fast.
The twelve members of the Ouroboros Cohort summoned their weapons. Four people had towershields and spears, another four had swords of different kinds, one longsword, one katana, one rapier and one khopesh. The last four summoned different types of ranged weapons.
Their coordination was impeccable, within seconds they connected their shields protecting the ranged users behind. The four swordsman stayed at the sides of the small shieldwall, keeping the monsters from circling around.
Sera's team was much worse in this aspect. Kathy took to the skies and dropped behind the approaching horde, massacring them from the back. Percy just did his usual murder rain attack. Hector, the dumbest of them all, ran straight into the middle of the enemy formation.
For example he could freeze an evolved for probably months with his reserves, but an ascended would only get frozen for a dozen or maybe only a few minutes depending on their strength. A transcended would get frozen for probably a little over ten seconds, but could be less.
These monsters were at most corrupted, which meant their essence usage was quite small.
Sera looked as the giant snake's eyes glowed and swirled, they were mesmerizing to look at.
He froze another dozen monsters and with one tail swipe killed them all. His destruction capabilities weren't even near Sera's level, but he had one thing she didn't...
He could freeze even transcended, which would come really handy in the near future. One of the main reasons Sera had dared to involve him was his power, second only to his personality.
David was older than her, he was born right at the end of the Last War. He had been an evolved for far longer than her too and he had seen a lot more cruelty in this world than most.
The first time she had met him was about one and a half years ago. Back then she wasn't sure what to do. Her mind was still partially under Harold's control, so going against him seemed out of the question.
After the attack they had both contributed to, they had spent the rest of the day talking.
She had quickly realized how similar their worldviews were, but only after another half year did she send someone with an offer to join her in a revolution.
Watching him fight and kill now, only reinforced her notion of having him on her team.
After there were only about two dozen monsters left he froze all of them in time and let his cohort take them out. This was the real power of David, the Serpent of Time... His leadership ability and great understanding of battles.
If Sera was considered an amazing general with only victories, he was a perfect one with victories much greater than hers.
For a revolution she needed to account for a lot of things. First was the citizens, whos support she needed to be successful. Second was her army which needed to be strong and well supplied. The third was the actual battles and tactics, she needed the best general for that task.
Even David didn't know how big of a role he will play in the upcoming war.
People think that this war between the Federal Alliance and United Front is bad... They have no idea how worse it will be when her faction finally reveals itself.
These were only the Sparks of War, but she will make sure the Flames will soon ignite and burn all who stand against it!