Second World-Novel

Chapter 1610 1610. A Disgraceful Loss

Most of the massive force within Master's newly formed zombie army had low levels. Still, their number was overpowering. Additionally, two eternal-grade dragons were leading this army. Master himself wasn't one to be looked down on.

There was no way they could win this.

Everyone knew that, but they stood fast out of sheer determination. Aldryth knew the fact too. Staying would just be delivering their lives to the enemies. With a heavy heart, she gave the order to retreat.

The Hydrurond army started moving away from the fight, but the Liguritudum army had expected this. They latched onto the enemies, striking them as they retreated. This caused even more casualties on Hydrurond's side.

Those who were too far ahead on the front line bravely sacrificed themselves to let their comrades flee. Even the outworlders did so, but many scattered with no sense of direction.

Arthur wanted to stay and fight, but Megan pulled him away. Their guild members sacrificed themselves to cover their escape. The sacrifices from guild players were less gallant and more practical. These were players who had been prepared for such a situation. All of them wore amulets of rebirth.

The zombie army couldn't move fast due to their low levels, but the two dragons could. They flew forward and rained their breaths on the enemy army, further reaping more deaths.

In the end, the battle ended with a massive loss on Aldryth's side. She lost half of her army. She continued to suffer losses as the Liguritudum army continued to dog them with the two dragons. She ended up having to divide her army into multiple smaller forces while she fled under cover.

It was a disgraceful loss. She almost resolved to sacrifice herself out of pride by facing the pursuing enemies, but Zoikod and Arthur talked her out of it.

The Liguritudum army spread and searched for the fleeing enemies, slaughtering every enemy they could catch.

Master stopped at the battleground and used his Necronomicon to resurrect the freshly fallen troops. Different from his current zombie army, these were proper troops with sufficient levels. Their number was not many, though, as both sides were comprised of more players than natives. Even so, additional troops meant additional battle power, no matter how little.

Linda came to Master who was still resurrecting the zombies. She gave the army free authority to pursue the enemies until a certain distance.

"I suggest we go deal with the Themisphere force next," Linda said. "It will be best if everything goes smoothly and we defeat their armies one by one before they gather."

"But you don't think it will go smoothly?" Master asked.

"My last intel from a few days ago told me Sangrod army had also passed the border and heading to assemble with the Themisphere army. Themisphere army might have rushed our way to save the Hydrurond queen. But after our victory here, I doubt he will be stupid enough to continue coming our way. The smarter move is to turn back and meet with the Sangrod army before facing us. This was even more so now that we have revealed our zombie army."

"Hmph! We will just crush them with our overwhelming force," Master uttered.

"Our number is indeed impressive, but a big portion is just low-level units. The best they can do is hinder the opponents while our heavy hitters do the actual work. But if the enemy had a sufficient number, our larger mass would still not provide a sure win."

"Now that they know about our zombie army, do you think the Themisphere army will dare come at us after meeting up with the Sangrod army?" Master asked.

"My prediction is they will avoid us until the other Themisphere army arrives. We have known for some time there is another army being prepared in Themisphere. We just don't know yet what this army movement is. Most probably they will come here. If they all gather, we will still have a problem because they will have many more high-level soldiers compared to us. It will be best if we defeat them before that."

Master contemplated Linda's words. "All right. It is pointless to chase after the Themisphere army that is already here. We won't be able to match their speed. Let them meet with the Sangrod army. We will move to near the border of the Khan region, which should be where the second Themisphere army is coming from. If we put ourselves in between them, they would have no choice but to come to us if they want to gather. Once they do, we just advance to whichever one is the closest and take them out before the other one arrives."

"My thought exactly," Linda said.

With that agreement, Linda sent the order to their troops to prepare for moving. Master went back to resurrecting the fallen soldiers. As he was doing that, he received a message from Gridhacker.

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Earlier when Aldryth's army first came into clash with the Liguritudum army, Jack received the news from Arthur. After checking the coordinates, he learned that his force was still around two days away. By the time he arrived, the battle would be long over.

"Should we rush over?" Grace asked. As promised, she had ridden her Unicorn to catch up with Jack's marching troop.

Jack shook his head.

"We still need to continue ahead to join the draconian queen, don't we?" Genesis asked.

As the number one guild in Palgrost, the Licth Squad had been appointed the leader of Palgrost players. The leader of the guild, Viking, followed President Thelgrun on Palgrost's armada, but the majority of his guild members followed Jack's army. His second-in-command, Genesis, took charge in his absence.

Jack looked to the West. Jack had been in contact with Arthur these past few days, so he knew Aldryth was heading to Messephyria. Their original plan was to attack the capital together. His force was closer to the capital. It was only half a day away.

Genesis was about to ask again when Jack spoke, "It's too late to go over to help Queen Aldryth. They will have to settle the battle themselves. We will instead head to Messephyria."

"Messephyria?" Genesis asked.

"We will take the capital while the enemy's force is dealing with Aldryth's," Jack declared.