Lord of the Truth

Chapter 418 Attrition

”Alexander, take with you half of the Sages who use the paths of Fire, Water, and Wind and get out of the dome, kill as you wish, but not madly, attack and defend wisely so as to reduce the number of casualties on our side to the least possible number, this is the most important task you should focus on,” Robin commanded firmly as he pointed at Alexander

Then he added as he looked around him, ”Listen carefully everyone, none of us wanted this all-out war to erupt like this, but there is no way around it now... We will battle. We will not be throwing away our lives however, we will fight to win! Yes, to win. So what if we have to take down the whole planet? we will do it while standing right here! But to do so we will have to make this a war of attrition, and we will fight to be the last party standing. And as we donʼt know how long we will have to stay in this area, we must preserve our forces to the best we can, your lives are much more precious than those damn creatures, you are not allowed to die, understood?”

Then he looked back at Alexander, ”Take half of the Sages as I pointed and leave the dome but donʼt go too far, stay close and just try to repel them back while taking down a few of them if you had the chance, donʼt let them pull you away from here. If one of the Sages with you outside got injured, the Life Forces will open a passage in the dome for him and allow him to enter to receive treatment. After only four hours, whether you made progress or not, you have to return with the rest of your forces inside the dome, Victoria will accompany the remaining half of the Sages and they will come out to replace you.”

”Yes.” Alexander furrowed his eyebrows and yelled, this time he didnʼt try to reply to Robin, he simply looked around and started yelling, ”Fourth, Fifth, Sixth squadrons. Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Seventeenth squadrons. Twenty-five, Twenty-seven, and Twenty-Nine squadrons. and forty-fourth, forty-fifth, and forty-ninth squadrons... all of you, follow me!”

”HOO!” The twelve squadron members whose names I mentioned shouted and rose from the ground, then started to fly behind Alexander, six thousand sages quickly approached the boundaries of the White Flame Dome!

The golden army was divided into 100 small squadrons to facilitate its administration, and each squadron had 500 soldiers, some squadrons contain only sages and a few contain only Fire Saints or Life Forces, etc...

This way he could easily move them around without having to memorize the names and jobs of everyone in the army.

At that moment a very small passage that opened in the White Flame Dome in front of Alexander could barely allow an adult man to pass vertically, this was to prevent those saints and sages from the humanoid white creatures from entering the dome

But as expected, Alexander and his men were severely attacked and resisted as they exited.

Almost every sage that came out of the aperture received at least one or two attacks, this was normal since they were coming out one by one which made it easier for the Saints and sages outside to target them, but this was unavoidable, if the passage was opened a little more, those creatures would have entered inside the dome and started Attacking from above again, this would have caused a huge number of casualties

But even though all twelve squadrons members received strong attacks as they exited, this did not affect the fighting spirit of the Sages who had not yet exited, as the rest continued to rush out, one of the reasons behind this was that they were sure that they would be fine!

A full divine armor gave them complete confidence in their own safety, even if the shockwaves damaged them a bit, it wouldnʼt affect their combat capabilities by too much

Indeed, after the first hundred sages had left the dome, they began to earn a place for themselves outside and guard the rest of the soldiers who had yet to come out...

After a Thousand Sages came out, the golden army outside gained enough momentum and began to counterattack...

After the six thousand sages left, there were no more attacks descending on the Flame Dome from above!

*BOOM BOOM*

”AAHHH!!”

”Hmph.” Robin blew out some cold air as he watched what was happening above.

In a blink of an eye, everything changed up there...

This was a direct battle between six thousand sages on one side and twenty thousand sages and saints on the other, this should have been a one-sided battle where the six thousand sages get bulled to death!

But... Those six thousand sages were wearing golden armor, some of the holding golden bows and some waving around fiery golden halberds... facing off against a little more than twenty thousand sages and saints that were almost naked.

The advantage of divine armaments was starting to be put on full display right now.

Not only were the six thousand sages not met with a bad situation, they even immediately turned the tables around, pushing back the enemy saints and sages and killing more than 50 in a matter of a few minutes, and they were not satisfied with attacking the saints and sages only...

In fact, Alexander assigned two out of every five attacks by the six thousand Sages to be directed towards the ground hordes surrounding the White Flame Dome!

Robin smiled slightly when he saw this... ʼIt looks like Alexander finally understood my vision for this warʼ

Although this strategy caused the Golden Army forces outside to be somewhat distracted, and their effectiveness in killing enemy Saints and Sages decreased, this was not the intention behind their mission in the first place.

Their mission was to relieve the pressure on the White Flame Dome and provide an opportunity to rest for those inside it, for as Robin said, who knows how long they will stay here...

This was the real start of an attrition war.

And indeed, the results began to appear for everyone inside the White Flame Dome... The Life and Flame forces in charge of setting up the Flame Dome finally began to catch their breath.

Although this white flame dome was hundreds of times more powerful than the one that had appeared on the central continent in the war against the Flame Empireʼs forces, as to the number of Saints and Sages participating in building it was tens of times larger, the pressure was also much greater than before.

Although the white flame dome had maintained its strength and hadnʼt had any holes in it from the beginning until now, the psychological pressure and energy drain on the soldiers participating in it was extremely intense!

But contrary to everyoneʼs expectations, the ones who looked the most exhausted were none other than the users of the Heavenly Major Law of Plants!

When they realized the pressure lessened by a great margin, half of them fell to the ground panting, and some of them has already fainted...