However, Alros knew the advantage will not rest on them alone. After all, the true powerhouse did not make a move just yet. His eyes fell on the stronger adventurers at the back, along with some of the more powerful leader of the soldiers, likely at the upper C-ranks or even B-ranks.
"What will you do now? After all, unlike mine, your soldiers are important to you, with the amount of training it took to have them reach this level. As for mine, I merely need to subdue them. Then just force them to undergo transmutation. And if I need more, I just clone them. They weak but they are good cannon fodder.
I have the advantage in term of force. As long as I remain, you will never stand a chance. But don't now, don't you. So keep on holding back. The soul of your fallen soldiers will be used for my own good,"
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"This has gone long enough," unable to watch her faithful soldiers slowly getting overwhelmed, Ruthanne decided to take action.
"Bronze Reaper! Remain there. We don't know if there are any powerful monsters in the midst of this group," she ordered, showing despite her desire to save her men, she still have a working brain.
Seeing as the Bronze Reaper obeyed her command, Ruthanne jumped into the midst of the battlefield. She quickly find herself being surrounded by the Swamp Goblins.
Normally, even B-rank adventurers will be overwhelmed if they are surrounded by numerous D-ranks, numbering in their hundreds, not to mention thousands. However, Commander Ruthanne is not one of the run-of-the-mill B-rankers. She is one of the strongest in the army of the Torim Kingdom, not to mention in the Telerim City.
With a single swing of her swords, the Swamp Goblins were cut in large swath, unable to even come close to the red-haired Reaper. She began her rampage, each swing at least took down 5 goblins, showing how strong she is.
Behind her, the soldiers get a boost of watching their leader getting to the frontline. With zero hesitation, they soon followed her, pushing deep into the monsters' ranks and killing swath of the weaker monsters.
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Thankfully, while she is a front line fighter, she also possess ability to become a support specialist. Her eyes glow, allowing her to see the mana around her. It is one of her greatest strength, the ability to perceive mana.
It allow her to use it, giving her the ability to coat her sword with mana, making it stronger. With this, she spot lithe rope-like creatures swimming in the water of swamp.
"Leeches! Those are goddamn leeches!" she yelled, the others' eyes brighten up as they began to exterminate the leeches.
Thankfully, they are prepare for such occasion, Jn case monstrous leeches decided to join in the fray. Throwing a special concoction called Salt Potion, it increase the salinity of the water or any liquid, a potion created to combat leech-type monsters.
While using it in normal environment will salt the area, doing it in Mana Zone will not do much as the mana will help cleanse the abnormalities that is out of the norm in the area.
With this, the leeches swam away, no longer heading towards the troops. As for the flying monsters, those are wasps, the large variant. They forced the archers to withdraw their supports, forcing them to pay more attention to the flying menace, as they will stung and cause the victim to be poison, rendering them unable to be off any help.
With the number of wasps flying around, mages soon are forced to withdraw their supports, focusing on the wasps. Thankfully, the mages knew fire magic, allowing them to burn the pest into cinder.
Yet, even as the two helpful part of the army divert their attention from the main battlefield, the presence of the commander, along with the rest of captains in the battlefield slowly turned the tide of battle into the human favor.
The two B-rankers smiled, if nothing goes wrong, victory will be theirs. Naturally, that's when things go wrong.
Bursting from the think treelines, monstrous Lizardmen, all of them wrought in black scales, giving them a demonic look. Along with them come the giant Lizardmen, towering above the soldiers, along with dark skinned Hobgoblins, the coloring similar to the goblins.
However, what cause the greatest despair among them are the flying creature who landed on the battlefield, his red eyes looking at them with contempt.
A demon had descended into the battlefield.