There are over two dozen undead creatures that almost reached the campgrounds.
Sivan let all of his late-stage cultivators go out to deal with them.
The battle started imdiately and he was relieved to find out that the undead creatures are overwheld easily by his subordinates.
Since that dust storm Sam has created with the Lava worms, this is the best news that he heard.
The only bad thing is that the undead creatures behaved like they have a brain of their own. They are not engaging directly and brainlessly. Rather they are cautiously fighting the opponents and most of the ti they are dodging all of the lethal attacks that could disable their joints and stop their movent.
They are playing too much defense and are dragging the battle into a long one.
Which he obviously didn't like.
But he can only do so much. He assud the command and started directing his soldiers, the puppets, and all the operators that are making sure that they don't lose this massive battle.
Because by the end of this clash with the undead, the winner will be able to take the first step forward and crash into the other party's territory.
It is one of the decisive battles that could turn the tide of the whole war.
Sam also assud the command on the other side while the operators are repairing the do barrier formation.
They started commanding their side of the troops and tools and now are directly involved in the battle.
Ti passed slowly, but the changes are also happening rapidly.
First, Sam decided to make the undead creatures go into a formation to deal with the elite troops. Since his main focus was to reduce the numbers of the other side he mostly played defensive with the elites and went past them to attack the rcenaries.
But this made the undead creatures suffer so attacks and lose their mobility advantage in the process.
Sivan thought won after that and let the rcenaries lure them deeper into the group before letting them attack.
Only to realize he made a big mistake.
As soon as the undead are surrounded by the soldiers who are attacking them constantly that too with a fair distance enough to not be affected by the curses and poisonous liquids coming off of their bodies, they suddenly started glowing.
"Idiot."
Sam muttered as he commanded the spirits he enchanted within the bodies of those undead creatures.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
Three explosions occurred one after another from three undead creatures. The soldiers in the surroundings were directly affected and got injured. Along with that, there are a bunch of small white crystal shards that were shot at another bunch of soldiers and made them go unconscious.
The crystals imdiately started consuming them at a visible pace.
Sivan was stunned and caught off guard. He really thought his team managed to score one on Sam's undead group, but he realized he was played off.
So, he beca cautious in other spaces.
The whole thing turned into a big chess match.
In one move, Sam managed to kill eight other rcenaries and one of the elites.
But Sivan managed to destroy a dozen undead creatures out of which four of them passed their curses to another elite.
Sam then brought down three gliders with the help of the undead and used them to crash so more rcenaries.
He was t with the destruction of another dozen undead creatures, but all of their curses and poisons are completely useless.
Sam destroyed the arrow towers by sacrificing two undead creatures. In the process he also made all of the operators turn into white crystals.
The best part is, that he made so strong undead creatures to pick the crystallized people and threw them at the late-stage cultivators to slow them down.
They were barely distracted, but the high-level undead managed to find a window to land so curses on those people.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Grivon who sat beside Sam on the wall of the city asked Giyon in a whisper.
"They are battling. The full-scale head-on battle. No sneak attacks, no heavy sches, and formations. They are trying to run down each other's forces."
"So, we are winning, right? I an, the forces are thinning down for the other side. We are only losing undead."
"Of course, you would think so, you idiot."
Giyon said as she playfully slapped him on the back of his head.
"What else? The battle is still taking place mostly near the camp, not the city. The undead creatures are being destroyed, but they are also taking down the puppets and rcenaries. I say we are at a pretty good advantage."
"Really? Look through the telescope and tell how many people are still there within the campgrounds?"
Grivon did as he was told and he looked through the telescope.
"They are still reorganizing and it seems like they are being prepared. But they are a few hundred?"
"Yes, then tell how many undead creatures do we have left?"
"Not that many. I think we sent all of them into the field. There are only so really special ones left."
"Of course, apart from that, how many people do we have left in terms of forces."
"Not that many."
Grivon finally understood.
"Why are you constantly being a kid? I thought you wanted to be the clan's leader. Start looking past the current situation and what is going to happen if things are going the sa way they are now.
You need to be able to estimate all the variables and in turn, estimate what is going to happen in the future too. Do you understand ?"
"Yes."
"You are a smart guy. You managed to estimate Sam's location and saved him before Sivan could touch him.
This ans you had the foresight to know that Sam is important enough for Sivan to go through so much trouble and he will be useful.
Try to use intuition more. Just don't look at the things that are right in front of your eyes. I am sure you will do great if you do that."
"So, why am I getting this lecture at this mont?"
"Because after the war, I will be spending little ti with you. I have sothings to do and I might not be able to et you like this."
"When did you make this decision?"
"A few days ago."
Grivon wanted to ask more questions but Giyon turned serious and looked at the battlefield.
Because as the ti is going on, the Mari clan's soldiers are getting an upper hand. The white crystals are consuming the rcenaries because of the attacks from the suicidal attacks from the undead creatures.
But that can only do so much for them.
The undead creatures are losing the lead they had until now and Sam suddenly stopped fighting with the rcenaries and the soldiers.
They started attacking the puppets, cannons, and machines to reduce their numbers.
As for the high-level undead creatures, they took down a few people, but in the process, a few of them beca immobile and fell right there in the middle of battle.
Sivan thought there would be so traps set up inside of them, so he made one of the subordinates inspect them carefully.
But still, he didn't bring them into the camp. He just left them in the field and took so videos to send to Cray.
It is almost dawn as the battle went on.
The undead creatures are reduced by half while the forces of Sivan were also the sa. But he lost so elites along with most of the rcenaries. So, he could say that his quantity might have reduced but the quality remained almost the sa.
At this mont, Sam suddenly got a call.
"Sir, the do formation is repaired. The barrier is going to work and we managed to make the tweaks you suggested. The hardness is going to be improved by a bit."
"Great. Keep inford of the changes and keep the puppets as I have told you before."
"Yes, Sir."
"Thank you for your efforts. Rest and change the shifts with another batch of operators."
"Alright, sir. Thank you so much."
Sam stood up from the wall and looked at the undead creatures.
The high-level undead creatures are still battling. But their energy is almost at the end. So, he made his final move with the current undead creatures.
All of a sudden, the undead creatures that were moving carefully until then ran to the troops and all of their bodies started glowing.
They didn't even bother to attack.
They just latched on to the soldiers and bit into them, before glowing brightly to explode.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
One explosion after another the undead creatures sprayed poisonous fus, black cursed gases, curses, and white crystals at the soldiers.
Even the high-level undead creatures are on the sa track. They jumped at the elites and started glowing.
But one of them is especially different as it latched on to the person who is the strongest of the bunch and started glowing with a different color.
*BOOOOM*
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