Chapter 112: art 7)
Over four hundred cavalry now had less than a third remaining, with the death toll rising as the riders scattered ireat.
Meanwhile, the shield-bearers suffered heavy casualties under repeated volleys from the hobgoblin musketeers. The oightly packed formation now had gaps, and the soldiers in the rear hesitated to move forward, seeing it as a death sentence.
Fortunately, after several volleys, the hobgoblins exhausted their ammunition and switched to swords and bdes.
Simultaneously, ogres and lizardmen charged forward, with the followers of Ember g head-on with the main coalition force, the "Talons of the Eagle."
This was the most intetle on the front lines.
"For Ember !"
"For the mighty red dragon master!"
Dolo led the charge, swinging his Bloodfire Axe with terrifying force, smashing several shield-bearers into pieces. Soldiers nearby withis horror and fled in fear.
The previously firm coalition formation was now breached by Dolo’s ferocious assault.
The monsters flooded through the breach, tearing into the formation with cws, teeth, and bdes, rapidly widening their advantage.
Hobgoblins sshed with swords, lizardmen hurled bone spears, ogres swung heavy clubs, and kobold shamans breathed fire.
"Enemy!"
The ogre "Big Head" roared as he smashed a heavily armored soldier, fttening him, armor and all.
He paused, surveying the battlefield, thely tore off a piece of flesh from the bloody remains and stuffed it into his mouth, a look of satisfa on his ugly face.
"ed little people, tasty."
"Just ’t let the boss find out; he’ll clobber me if I eat any more."
Big Head muttered to himself.
He didn’t know that Langpu was watg through a magical pendant the ogres carried, his face darkening at the sight.
"Big Head! Are you sneaking snacks again?"
Langpu’s irritated voice suddenly rang in Big Head’s ears.
Big Head jumped, instinctively c his head, fearing a blow from Langpu’s club.
But after looking around and not seeing Langpu’s t figure, he scratched his head in fusion. "Weird, I swear I heard the boss’s voice…”
“Maybe I imagi?”
But soon, the st of blood drew his simple mind back, and he shrugged it off.
"Whatever, back to bashing ed little people!"
With aed yell, Big Head charged bato the bloody fray.
For these dragon-blooded beasts, killing was as natural as eating or drinking, unlike humans.
"Help me——"
"Let me go, I ’t fight anymore!"
"They’re monsters!"
"Let me out of here…"
Many soldiers, witnessing their rades’ horrific deaths uhe monster onsught, broke down, desperately trying to escape the nightmarish battlefield.
"Deserters face execution!"
Enforcers behind the lines cut down fleeing soldiers with their justice bdes, f them back to face the enemy.
But this only slightly slowed the iable retreat.
"This ’t go on."
Robert watched the defense lines crumble uhe monster horde, his brow furrowing.
He summohe ander of the Northwind Eagle Guard.
"Aiden, it’s your turn. Stop them."
"Yes, sir."
Aiden accepted the and, mounted his giant eagle, and took to the air, raising his Eagle Call Silver Sword with a sharp whistle.
"Northwind Eagle Guard, prepare to charge!"
Over a hundred giant eagle riders asded, their cries pierg the air as they dove in formation.
"For the Duke!"
"Charge with me!"
Giant eagles skimmed low, casting shifting shadows and bringing nces and swords down upon the monsters below.
Uhe Eagle Guard’s trated charge, the monster horde suffered heavy losses; evehick-skinned ogres found some of their ranks pierced by aerial nces.
After several charges, the “Talons of the Eagle” forces mao hold their ground, even pushing the line baewhat.
However, the Northwind Eagle Guard seemed tet they weren’t alone in the skies. As they pleted another dive and began to asd—
"Roar—"
The roar of wyverns filled the air.
The Crimson Scaled querors desded with fiery rage.
They had been cirg above the clouds, waiting for the perfeent. Now, as the Eagle Guard shose in formation, Alger seized the opportunity.
"For Ember !"
"Charge!"
Alger raised his Everburn Sword.
With a collective battle cry, the wyverns unleashed Dragon Howl charges, breathing a wall of fire that spread before them like a fming tide.
The Northwind Eagle Guard, still in a tight formation as they climbed, had no ce to evade.
At the sound of the dragon roars, the giant eagles were paralyzed with fear, uo move. When the guards looked up in panic, all they could see was a wall of fme.
"Boom!"
Fire raged across the skies, and the giant eagles, engulfed in fmes, plummeted like fireballs.
Alger’s timing was nearly fwless; with this single Dragon Howl charge, half of the Eagle Guard’s hundred men were ied, wiping out aire battalion.
"Disperse! Scatter!"
"Retreat quickly!"
Aiden’s anguished shout echoed.
He finally uood why the Sixth Eagle Guard Battalion had vahey hadn’t expected the Ember o have such a formidable aerial force.
It wasn’t just mindless wyverns; there were flying knights among them!
"Roar—"
As the Crimson Scaled querors charged, wyvern leader "Smaug" let out a long howl, and wyverns scattered to hunt down any straggling Eagle Guards.
The three-headed chimera joined in as well, diving into the fray with two female kin by its side.
The aerial battle grew increasingly chaotic.
Fmes, arrows, and nces crossed paths in the sky.
Three chimeras, over a hundred wyvereen Crimson Scaled querors, and the remaining two hundred Northwind Eagle Guards cshed, each side fending off attacks from every angle.
Bodies—both human a—fell from the sky.
On the ground, the coalition forces, deprived of their aerial support, once again found their lines pushed back by the monsters, with screams and wails eg across the battlefield.
FAL
