The Harvey Plains was the largest plain in the Beastmen continent. It covered a large area that looked like a vast expanse of green grass. The biggest battle in the plains in the history of the Priestly Continent was about to begin.
According to the information Bella got when she was acting Demon King, the Dark Humans had more than one million troops to support the Beastmen. Accounting the skeleton soldiers they had arranged, the reinforcements would amount to about two million. Including the dead Beastmen soldiers that would probably be reawakened by the enemy’s necromancers for a second battle, their exact numbers were uncertain.
It was a head-on battle. There was no need for intrigues or anything of the kind. Bella had even arranged for the three million demon troops who were in charge of logistics in the rear to join the battle. The demon soldiers had very few requirements, so Bella’s army carried only a small amount of supplies on this expedition.
The armies from both sides met by chance on the Harvey Plains. Until now, the Chief Commander of the Beastmen allied forces hadn’t decided yet. The three Beastmen Kings – Wolf King Springhall, Tiger King Titus, and Leopard King Crofts, simply commanded their own armies.
The Wolfman cavalry was located in front of the Beastmen Army and was followed by the Wereleopard light infantry. Behind the Wereleopard infantry was the base camp of the Beastmen coalition. The Weretiger and Werelion soldiers were on standby there.
The Dark Human allied forces were deployed on the right-wing of the Beastmen allied forces. The commanders of the Dark Human allied forces were Princess Erica and Princess Elsa of the Venifreza Empire. The number of allied troops was estimated to be over three million, so the intelligence that Bella had obtained was correct.
In front of the Dark Human forces were almost ten thousand skeleton soldiers who had formed a phalanx with spears. The edges of the phalanx were the white boned skeleton soldiers with spears; behind them were soldiers with shields, and at the center were skeleton archers. These phalanxes that imitated the ancient Roman infantry’s phalanx should have good combat effectiveness.
Each phalanx was separated by a distance, which was made a convenient passage for the skeleton cavalry behind the infantry regiment. Behind the phalanx of the skeleton infantry were skeleton cavalry units on White Bone Steeds and giant Ogre warriors.
Erica and Elsa were located further in the back of the base camp of the Dark Humans. The army in the base camp belonged to the Venifreza Empire and consisted of Black Knights and Black-Robed Wizards.
The skeletons and scavenger ghouls in the front were cannon fodders summoned by these Black-Robed Wizards. Here in the Dark Human base camp, there were many Dark Guards who had been called to act as shields. These Dark Guards and the Demon Guards on Bella’s side were both demonic, but the Dark Guards weren’t as effective as the Demon Guards.
Above the Dark Human allied forces, a large group of Black Dragon Knights was hovering on standby. It was the second time Bella had seen the Dragon Knights of the Dark Humans. Different from the Zombie Dragon Knight she saw last time, the Black Dragon Knight’s mount was a real dragon, while the Zombie Dragon Knight’s mount was just a zombie dragon with very low combat effectiveness.
The Black Dragon Knight’s mount, the black dragon, was quite different from the black dragons on the Human continent and was much smaller. It looked like it was explicitly trained in speed for sneak attacks. Its size was about three times the size of the human Griffin Knight’s mount. When compared with regular human Dragon Knights, it was a little too small.
Elsa and Erica changed into the Soul Eater and Blood Mage’s garments, respectively. They were long-range mages, so it wasn’t a problem standing in this position. The Dark Human Army wasn’t mixed with the Beastmen Army. They regarded these Beastmen troops as cannon fodder and not friendly forces.
“Older sister, it was such a pity those demon kings from last night had no way of helping us solve our difficulties! Otherwise, we…”
“Sister, forget about that. The Honorable Demon Kings are free to do as they please, we can’t insist on anything. Look, the demons from the other side are coming. Look lively.”
“Older sister … the demons from the other side are so…”
Erica and Elsa looked at the horde of demons coming from the other side of the plains; their faces turned ugly instantly. There were so many demons on the other side that it was like a massive piece of black chunk spreading gradually from the other side of the horizon, dyeing the whole world black.
Bella’s army was divided into three parts and arranged in a triangular layout with three square formations. The original six-part army would combine into three parts to carry out group combat. Bella and Lisha’s “Darkness Knight” legion, Kriss’s “Phantom’s Sword,” and Ariel’s “Nights of Magic” formed a coalition.
Bella’s legions were leading because most of the combatants of the Dark Knight regiment were Death Knights, and they were best to charge first into the war. Kriss and Ariel’s troops served as infantry support units on the left and right behind Bella’s troops.
Next to Bella was Eleanor’s “Blood Rose,” Noreya’s “Death Thorn,” and Elaine’s “Thousand Broken Silk.” Just like Bella’s layout, they were led by the Blood Demon King Eleanor’s Blood Knight regiment while Noreya and Elaine’s legions formed square formations on the left and right flanks behind the Blood Knight regiment.
The two battalions, led by cavalry with infantry on the left and right acting as shields, appeared triangular. According to this arrangement, Bella led the three million allied troops on this side to attack the five million allied forces of the Beastmen. Blood Demon King Eleanor led another three million allied troops on the other side and was responsible for attacking the Dark Human allied forces of similar numbers.
At the back of the Demon King allied troops was a third triangular formation made out of smaller square formations. It was the three million-odd logistics army led by Sky Demon King Dolores and the newly promoted Underworld Demon King Cornice. They were mainly responsible for battle support and were supposed to act as reinforcements to the battalions that could no longer hold up.
From the looks of it, the Demon King coalition had at least nine million troops. Taking into account the private reinforcement army recruited by Kriss and these Dark Warriors, the total number of troops was close to ten million. On the side of the Beastmen coalition, the Beastmen participating in the war amounted to around five million soldiers, and the Dark Humans had about three million – a total of about eight million troops, which was two million less than Bella’s side.
Leopard King Crofts didn’t bring the other two million troops for selfish reasons, which led to their disadvantage in numbers. Before the war had even started, the final result of victory already begun to tilt in favor of Bella.
As a Demon King, Bella felt for the demons and was unwilling to kill the skeleton soldiers for the time being, so she chose to attack the Beastmen allied forces. Blood Demon King Eleanor had been human before and didn’t feel as much for demons. She could afford to be ruthless. Therefore, Bella entrusted her with the responsibility of attacking the Dark Human allied forces.
In all honesty, Bella wanted to be the one to attack the Dark Human allied forces because there were a large number of Black-Robed Witches whom she could capture as prisoners. There were also the two Dark Princesses, Erica and Elsa, who were much more fun than the Beastmen allied forces. They were filled with Beastmen and had no girls. It was so uninteresting.
“My honorable older sister, why do you look so disappointed? You are a Demon King, but you don’t even feel anything during the war. I think you need another class.”
“Alisha… why are you out again? Why is Lisha resting at this time?”
Bella looked at Demonic Dragon Emperor Alisha, who was beside her and was a little down. Compared to Lisha, Demonic Dragon Alisha also called herself Bella’s younger sister, but Alisha’s character was much more domineering than Lisha’s. It wasn’t easy for Bella to fool her.
“Hmph, didn’t you ask me to play the Chief Commander?! With Lisha’s temperament, that would be strange. Besides, Kriss and the others are also in their semi-dark transformation states now. If I don’t come out, wouldn’t that make them look down on me?”
Bella couldn’t say anything to refute her. Lisha’s temperament was unsuited to play the Demon King’s Chief Commander. Alisha was now dressed in dark gold heavy armor and had a pair of dark gold metal dragon wings on the back of her armor.
Alisha carried an enormous sword on her back, and her hands had turned into dark-golden dragon’s claws. She did have the aura of a demon commander. The horse she rode on had been replaced by a dark horned beast that resembled a rhinoceros. The horned beast’s body was covered with black heavy mount armor, and a long sword-like horn grew on its head.
When compared with Alisha, what Bella was wearing seemed quite normal. Wearing an ordinary Death Knight’s armor and riding a Demonic Dream Horse made Bella look like an average Death Knight. Bella planned to fight among the horde of demon soldiers. Demonic Dragon Emperor Alisha would be the commanding general.
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