"Looks like they are mobilizing the forces," Alros exclaimed, watching as a large number of troops formed in front of the city. He could easily guess where they are planning.
"Looks like I have to go ba-" he stopped his sentence as he lie his eyes on a group of individuals, not far from the larger group of soldiers, but still not with the group.
"Looks like adventurers will join in the fun. I should get say before they decide to restrict entrance into the city," however, just to be safe, he left a single clone to be his double before making his way out of the city. After all, he has a battle to watch and command.
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Instead of heading to the death spot as quickly as possible, he plan on watching them. After all, he need to know where they are going if he wanted to react to the attack.
So, he took a seat at one of the tallest tree in the area and observe them carefully. He spend nearly 20 minutes watching before the group split up, their destination prevalent. He ponder which group should he prepared for first when his eyes landed on one of the group, namely, the eye candles aka the women in it.
"Looks like I am lucky today. There seem to be 2 B-rank women in that group. Looks like I find out which one I am going to attack," he giggled before heading towards the direction of the other group.
After all, they might not be able to handle the group, especially with the number of B-rankers, on their own. Instead, he will put his scapegoats and have them battle the other group, stalling for time as long as possible.
Aside from the scapegoats, the rest will enter the system space and go to the other death spot. After all, there still 2 B-rankers, and while he should be at the top of the B-ranks, he lacked experience against them.
So, he plan on getting as much experience as possible, and maybe get some more women while at it.
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"Get ready," she decided to push it, "we are going to get deeper before we go back to the other group," with the decision made by her, the others agreed and slowly descended, ready to face any monster that will be thrown at them.
No sooner when they get at the center of death spots, monster come out of everywhere, surrounding the group of troopers, officers and adventurers.
"Defensive wall," Ruthanne exclaimed calmly as she ready to face the large group of monsters coming, ready to lose a lot of her men in the fight. After all, the number of monsters are large, more than enough to kill half of her men if they are not careful.
With the defense at the ready, Ruthanne along with her subordinates ready to make a run for it. She prepared herself, the fight will be the fiercest one she would face so far.
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"How interesting," Alros exclaimed as his force only send weak soldiers against them, the expandable and cannon fodder. Only some Swamp Goblins along with several Lizardmen, all clones were send at the front line while the stronger one waited.
With more than 1000 soldiers with nearly one hundred adventurers, it will cost him a lot of his force, so he will save them for later, when the enemy are weaken somewhat.
Still, he could not just hope to weaken them with the cannon folders, that is just unrealistic. Soon, he will need to send in his stronger fighters.
"Send in the Demonic Goblins, along with some Demonic Slimes to push them," Demonic Goblins are upper D-rank monsters, but with the use of attributes stones, they are now bonafide C-rank monsters. As for Demonic Slimes, no matter the enhancement, they are still just D-ranks.
However, they are one of the more versatile monsters, namely due to him giving them different elemental stones, turning them into varients that not only inconvenience the foes, but also forced them to be wary of Slimes, one of the weakest monsters in the world.
With this, their advantage in terms of stronger combatants are nullfied, as the stronger soldiers and adventurers need to deal with the Demonic Goblins, while the weaker ones are forced to pay attention to the Demonic Slimes.
Add the fact there still some Swamp Goblins and Lizardmen clones in the battlefield, and they find themselves overwhelmed. With him grabbing as much genetic materials as possible, namely their remains, he was able to clones about 2 000 Swamp Goblins. As for the Lizardmen, through their blood donations, he was able to clone about 500 Lizardmen, giving the advantage to his force.