Though array flags need to be repositioned in different directions for redirecting the troops, not all commands is controlled by it remotely.
The array master need to incorporate his will within these flags, for adding specific details to his commands.
This detailing could not be managed by noobs easily, considering their proficiency which may not have yet reached the threshold of grade one, in array mastery.
Despite her young age, Levi turned out to be a grade one genius, an exceptional prodigy of her generation.
But her mastery was currently at the initial stages of grade one, three stages below mark.
Letting Levi operate the array would seems foolish, when mark's proficiency was much higher than her's to begin with.
But practically speaking, mark only inherited some random and unknown memories from system, which actually was not his to brag about.
Even if he was actually given the lead, he was not much confident of matching the enemies equally, much less defeating them to clear the test.
But for Levi, it was entirely a different concept to begin with. She had a strong and profound background backing her, skilled mentor to correct her mistakes, and valuable resources to practice her attempts.
Which necessarily had increased her proficiency to grade one at such tender age. And she seems confident enough to face them without a worry in her clear face.
Thinking of this possibility, Mark let her take the lead without muttering a word, to operate the array of her own free will.
Levi placed her arms over the monument to activate the array to bring up the assisting reinforcements.
Shake!
The whole of the platform started shaking violently and two large towers started erupting from the floor below.
One was white while the other being black. The white came from the side of the red king, where as black from the side of mark.
They were few tens of meters high, capable enough to view the entire of the battle field from above.
These were the places from where the a strategical view of the war could be spotted, for easy tactical maneuvering.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several silhouettes started popping in air all of a sudden, and desending down to floor and arranged in a standard rectangular formation.
Thousand normal soldiers in black, similar to the white ones on the enemy side popped first, followed by hundred blue cavalry of high order aura lord cultivation.
Apart form them there were hundred elites of middle order aura lord cultivation, that were standing as vanguard to the main body.
Though they necessarily are aura lords to begin with, not one such soldier unit could use mana externally!
They could only fight this battle brutally using their physical bodies, as ordinary mortals use to do.
And an interesting thing about these units is that they could not be healed!
Once they are injured severely, they become crippled and aren't capable enough to fight the battle anymore.
Levi extended her arms forward, waving the flags in her fingers horizontally and inwards, sending the hundreds of troops under her arsenal forward.
The blue armored elite soldiers are positioned as vanguards, with heavy shields carried by them to resist enemies blows head on.
The cavalry, the ace of her army was positioned behind the main body by few meters, marching along with them as their rear guards to prevent the situation where outflanking might be possible by the enemy, considering their superiority of their numbers into account.
Looking at her whole formation, which could resist both outflanking and frontal assaults, it couldn't be said bad, considering the possibility of a long arduous battle where her troops might be at the disadvantage of being wiped out.
The troops had marched towards the enemy at a slow rate until they fastened up by receiving levi's command, when she lowered her flags down in unison to execute it.
Just before the interception of armies took place, she made the blue elites stick next to each other without creating gaps for enemies to exploit, and dash towards them with full might at a high speed.
The blue elites will try breaking through their vanguards and reduce the advantage in their numbers by spiting their front to sides, and get them munched by the heavy cavalry marching behind.
Bam!
The armies collided and the troops of levi managed to bypass through two line ups of the enemy, with their high momentum they carried earlier.
Several sounds of metals clashing against the others, and piercing noises had reverberated through out the fourth division, which could also be audible loud even to the audience outside.
Clang! Clang!
Pierce! pierce!
Tens of enemy soldiers were getting killed within seconds and despite her disadvantage in numbers, Levi wasn't affected by much as she could easily bypass her soldiers into enemy numbers, carefully, while deploying her cavalry to sides to prevent outflanking and at the same time, she decided to retreat her army's main body backwards to few meters once the impeding momentum of her troops had slowed down.
One minute later
The momentum these troops had gained earlier was decreased, she decided to make use of her vanguards to push the enemy soldiers backwards with a " bam! " to put up some distance before they could successfully retreat behind by few meters.
Whoosh! Whoosh! whoosh!
Like a wind which could be violent at times, the soldiers of levi had once again dashed towards the enemy, before the mechanical bodies of enemy soldiers could get a proper foot hold to kill them defencelessly.
It should be noted that the vanguards of levi were all elite blue soldiers of middle order aura lord, while the front of the enemies were plainly stationed with the common initial order white soldiers.
The enemy front simply weren't a match to blue elites in terms of strength, so the enemy front was bounced back by few meters, before they would be attacked shortly by these blue elites, after gaining a temporary momentum.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Instead of smashing the fallen white troops to dead with a single hit, which may decrease their temporary momentum.
Levi decided to let the heavy shields of blue elites act as a giant plough, to plough back the fallen white troops backwards, which would be killed shortly by the common black troops of her, which were positioned behind the blue elites that doesn't play a major role with the momentum thingy.
Plough! Plough! Plough!
Jumping above the fallen down white troops of the enemy, the blue elites lifted their heavy Shields with their large build, before ploughing them inside for the black troops to deal with.
Pierce! Pierce! Pierce!
Since these puppets weren't an immortal like existences which could be healed at a faster rate. A blunt attack to their central core will cause their immediate death, after it had been shattered to pieces.
So the blades and spears of black troops were sufficient enough to pierce the white platted armour of them, and then shatter the core in a single clean strike.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Just when the blue elites were about to land down, they attested their shields close to their chests, before bamming their bodies on the next row of white soldier, pushing them backwards by few meters like they done before to gain the tactical advantage of momentum again to plough them back the next time they dash forward.
The same maneuvering of troops had been rerun by Levi few more times, killing a large portion of white troops which could not be left ignored by the enemy king.
The red armoured king had commanded his soldiers to make a retreat, to stop the blue troops from exploiting further with the same maneuver.
The proud looking red king had to retreat his army temporarily to preserve his numbers as the numbers he lost were not a small thing to be ignored.
More than a couple hundred soldiers of the enemies had fallen under her formation in the first clash, followed by elimination of few tens of white's each time the blue elites ploughed them inside.
Many casualties had arisen in the enemy part compared to her's which hadn't even exceeded twenty.
All in all a few lesser than thousand had been killed by her maneuverings, and the tactic made by Levi appeared so excellent that the spectators from the flying ship were startled thoroughly and deemed her to be a rising star which could one day top the chosen twenty, if she managed to exit the trap of this test track to begin with.
" So this girl is also an absolute black horse revealed out her talents in this masters test! " The spectators from the flying ship agaped in surprise.
At the same time they muttered. " Looking at her shabby cloths from before, she looked no worse than a regular commoner, seems like it was all a disguise she was told to put by her family behind.
Flame glory, they had deeply concealed their talents, seems like they had to dispatch a talent of her caliber just for the sake of protecting Mark! " They were terrified about thinking the possibility where others talents from this succubus race could pop out, who were still pretending to be pigs to eat the tiger.
" Good to be a member of flame glory, we wouldn't at least have a need to fight alongside these cavalry as their fake generals! " Sidmon who was sitting on top the mechanical horse had exclaimed to Clain, who was stationed along side him to lead the fifty blue cavalry.
Though the fifty blue cavalry was led by them, it was just in name to begin with, as they were directly controlled by Levi from the black tower.
" Yeah, it seems true! We wouldn't have a need to fight these white troops head on, risking out our lives every second we are on this damn battlefield to begin with! " Clain replied back to sidmon in anger, helplessly, thinking about the partiality levi's showing to one single individual, who doesn't had a need to fight in this battle field.
Yes! It was mark who hadn't yet left the black tower staying besides levi, while his body was itching to fight for experience.
Levi had a face full of self confidence, she was extremely excited about her victory from the first exchange.
When the flow of the battle was going in the way she wants to, how could she let these enemy retreat, to stop their advantage.
She commanded the troops of her to advance all of a sudden, to catch up to the speed of the fleeing enemy, with the cavalry following them from behind.
" How! Just how did the line up got disrupted! And why are the enemy troops way weaker than expected, are they really holding proper resistance against levi, some thing definitely had to be wrong with the ways things are going now! " Mark intuition was telling him that something's wrong with the enemy line ups.
With a massive advantage in numbers by four times, how could their initial line ups be disrupted easily, and levi could make use of that chance to let her soldiers kill their way in to their numbers.
If not for the enemy king, who wantedly led them in, to let troops kill their way in through their numbers, how else was this possible?
Mark was banging his head with questions, what exactly was enemy king thinking about?
What could the red king gain by doing this? Isn't it obviously to make a surprise comeback when the guard of Levi was lowered down. Mark was suddenly sparked with the answer which seemed to hold true.
" Levi! Pull your troops back! Some things wrong with the way the battles going on! "
Mark bellowed out loud, warning her that some thing major was planned by the enemy supreme commander, the king, which could turn deadly the second she stepped into his trap.
But contrary to his expectations, Mark got scolded by her, aggressively, which made him pissed off a little.
" What's wrong with their stupid line ups? I find noting wrong with them, every thing is under my con... it's just that they have superior numbers with no brain, not enough commanding control, which is making them prone to my maneuverings.
And if you have nothing better to do, just f**kin stand there like you have been ordered to! Am i the one in command or you lecher mark?
And don't bother disturbing my concentration, your interference is making me loose my concentration!
You little bastard will be guilty of deaths to those four, if I made a mistake by your intervening! "
" Argh! " The troops started marching randomly at different directions, when she was suddenly called by mark from behind.
She made abrupt flag movements which were different from one another in haste, and brought the formation back to normal.
" Trouble! You are just a trouble to begin with! " She cused him openly, which had touched his bottom limit.
Mark clenched his fists rock hard, controlling his anger. She was simply humiliating him, good thing that others weren't around to hear their conversation, if not he wouldn't have a face to lift his head again.
By this time, levi caught up with the fleeing troops and started attacking them from behind.
She forced the red king to deploy his black cavalry, along with his personal guards to the field, just to stop the advancing levi's troops.
She made a gap through her line ups, and split her army wide apart, to let the enemy in while deploying half her cavalry to kill them as they entered.
The sharp edge of the wedge formation was cleaved into two segments, forming two new units of triangles, which made a large portion of the enemy troops fall in at that desperate struggle, only to be wiped out by the cavalry from behind.
This scenario was similar to the case where both the sides of an escapee were blocked thoroughly by heavy shields, like a rigid walls by blue elites and the escapee was left with a single direction to flee which was forwards as terrifying cavalry of high order aura lords were comming from behind on back of the horses just to kill them who were of a meager cultivation of initial order aura lord.
The numbers of retreating army were decreasing rapidly by the heavy blue cavalry with their long flexible spears, which were killing the enemies with a single clean strike to the central core, in the regions of heart.
If it was under normal conditions this feat could not be made possible. But while fleeing, the enemy numbers wouldn't be as crowded as before, and they would be slaughtered by the cavalry as easy as chickens with their low cultivation.
She carried out this plan for a while, before deciding to close the gap she made, to prevent the enemy commander from exploiting it with their dispatched cavalry, who would not be easily die under simple tactics.
Still see wasn't willing to pull her troops back, and preparing to head straight into the enemy numbers.
" Pull! Your! Troops! back! " Mark bellowed out loudly, blasting off his clenched fist against the walls of the black tower from inside.
Looking at the weird formation, the enemy troops were battling since the beginning, he figured out an reason which would perfectly depict the case the battle was going through. " Feigning weak! "
Yet levi wasn't willing to consider his decision and think properly about the event she may have to face from her recklessness.
" Feigning weak! " This was a strategy used by militants to lure their enemy in by showing themselves weak, only to wait for a chance where they could engulf the whole of the enemies as a whole.
But levi was not in a mood to listen to his suggestion, and turned a blind eye to it, before commanding her cavalry to move to sides and sweep the troops which were trying to flee.
" Run! " Mark bellowed from the top of the tower, and alerted the four followers of his.
Without a minute pause the four controlled their horses and ran back without a moment delay.
" Che! This disobedience, I will get you a later! " levi bellowed in, and continued her attacks.
But the time she refused to listen to marks suggestions was the point she lost the battle.
Screech!
The red king made an ear piercing screech, which caused a sudden change to the white soldiers.
The solders which were originally lying from their cores being shatterd rose abruptly, one by one, and a small unit of two hundred started attacking the main body from behind.
" Wait! How are they standing? Weren't they dead before? " Levi bellowed in, being startled by this sudden development and immediately ordered her cavalry to kill the ones that rose all of a sudden.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The small resistance which was easily quelled had caused her to be at ease and she managed to get off being pincered from both the sides.
But before she could take a breath of relief, the troops which initially were planing to flee had reached the sides of her main body before shortly pushing the cavalry back and encircling the whole of her black troops, to slaughter them in a clean sweep.
" How could it happen? Weren't my plan perfect, just how did those things rose back alive after being killed? " Levi bellowed internally with anger.
" If not for them, my troops wouldn't necessarily have to be pincered from all sides.
How to save them? If I loose the entire body of these thousand infantry wouldn't our chances to clear this year track becomes nil! " she started regretting, not just because of her falling into enemy's trap, but also for her arrogance to ignore marks suggestions.
" Should we thank boss for his farsight vision l, or curse at miss levi for falling into the red Kings trap! " the four who had listened to their boss command at the last second had managed to save their lives, of not a while encompassment of white army could had killed them earlier.
Gregor bellowed internally " I knew it this Levi was not a good choice, boss what are you going to do now? " looking at the peak of the black tower from where mark bellowed earlier, Gregor was waiting for his commands to deal with the situations they were going to face in the fourth division.
Author notes:
The original chapter was 6400+ words, so this author split it into two smaller ones of 3200+ ones.
One released now while the other 12-16 hrs later.