Outside the walls of western warlord palace.
" This should be enough! "
Wendy summoned as large number of her undead, divided them to multiple units, and let them invade few of green rank bases as ordered!
A force of thousand initial order aura kings with hundreds of strong elites and dozens of half step aura emperor was an impressive unit, capable enough to deal with yellow rank base by themselves.
So letting them deal with green rank one... It was surely an overkill!
Though it might sound impressive, in the face of large number of Beastmen, the undead army of Wendy were still a far cry, not capably enough to fight them head on yet!
So Mark recollected the information he gained from his previous battles and devised a decisive battle which would follow after his initial preparations!
" Destroy chickens and lure the prey right? "
Wendy giggled mischievously and headed towards the first target, a bird tribe, which she had chosen currently!
After all bird race were best source for flying type undead right?
Currently Mark had a set of instructions for Wendy to complete and unless she was brain dead White had the confidence in her to execute the task without fail!
First, she have to personally battle the half mutants if they were deployed!
Second, as long as the base chief was not killed but merely knocked out, the half mutants would not be deployed passively, preventing the hassle!
In essence Wendy had to simply run her forces through green rank base and make sure to not accidentally kill the base Chief to force half mutants out!
After all they were pressed on time and half mutants were troublesome existences who were not supposed to be taken light of.
"Who knows how many hidden cards did that brainless brutes still have?"
Mark didn't want to believe that they would be the same everytime they meet and who knows what hidden elements might unveil which would delay her progress?
Finally, when the green rank bases are massacred, Wendy have to purposefully turn blind eye for remanent and flee.
It was mainly for the orange rank base to take notice!
Though the orange rank base wouldn't be foolish enough to send reinforcement to destroyed base, they would atleast send in few of their elite army for other bases and reinforce them.
"After all they still need to confine western warlords palace from all sides right?"
All their efforts would go for naught had Xena managed to escape because of their passiveness and hesitation!
So orange rank base would be forced to come to an outcome which was beneficial for Mark!
When the orange rank base sends in reinforcement to other green rank bases, she would have already need to ambush them decisively at one point, wipe them all at once without holding back!
Following which she was free to add in more or absorb their essence before shortly intercepting with him at the last yellow rank base where their further plans would be discussed.
Right now Mark need to create some tricks, and weaken the beastmen forces drastically.
Green rank bases were not much of a threat, but considering the threat of orange rank powerhouses he devised this strategy.
The reason Wendy was order to fight the bases was not just to halt their advance but it was plainly to annihilate them as fast as possible!
It takes great deal of effort to kill an undead than a living! So the undead could easily decimate beast men if they caught the latter unguarded!
Wendy didn't had a need to worry about half mutants, as they were still in infancy.
And by the instructions of Mark, all it need for her was to kill the base Chief and half-mutants would turn docile, like a simple muscle head beast which would be easy to kill once their heads and cores were obliterated.
Still it was better to avoid killing base chief than let those unexpected element hindering their work at last minute!
With the advantage of being an undead, the ability of devouring life essence of their target was fearsome which would make the undead a durable force which was hard to deal with.
So in a long battle of attrition, the ones who were actually at disadvantage were the living which would ultimately fell down to death in their struggle for life.
Mark didn't had any good impression on beastmen and feeling guilt in killing them was least of his worry.
So whether Wendy devour their soul or body was not his concern, as his only focus was to destroy the behemoth like existence of orange rank coalition behind them, which was hard to be dealt with!
Battles like today were sure to be erupted at many instances in future. Mark wanted to test few of his strategies, and at the same time strengthen his undead army as far as possible!
The world in near future was about to get much chaotic, and he needs a stronger organisation for his interests!
Though his strategy appears simpler, it was only possible if aura emperors from orange rank base were not added to reinforcement.
And for the strategy deviced by Mark was to run smooth, there should probably be a need for a trouble maker, who needs to wreak havoc in orange rank base to draw their entire worth of attention over without letting spare thoughts for other!
By making chaos in orange rank base, Mark could halt their aggressiveness and prolong the time before western warlords palace face it's crisis.
At the same time Wendy would find time to annihilate green rank bases without much resistance!
His intervening would made the orange rank base become more wary about the western warlords palace, as their target was an imperial descendent with rich back ground!
So a lot of preparations had to be met with before making their move, lest they fear hidden elements from causing more damage than already!
But once the real strength of warlords palace were to be discovered, it would simply be a full scale war to death without suspense!
So Mark needs to use all possibilities in his arsenal to weaken the orange ranks coalition base, before this possibility actually turns true.
It also would be the point where he needs to organise his thoughts and strike the beastmen for a decisive battle!
So there was no room for error, lest Mark wants to fail badly in his mission and face consequences!
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Main hall! Aaron mansion
At the same time in western warlords palace, many higher rank cultivators had entered the main hall of Aaron mansion after their generals' summon!
The huge build of general with broad sword struck to ground was scanning the group as they entered in.
Once all officers had arrived as ordered, he released a heavy presence and exclaimed with a deep voice, stating
" Good! Since all officers had arrived, this general has an important matter to announce! "
He took a deep breath, waited for a couple seconds before declaring.
" Intelligence stated that we are besiged by unknown group of Beastmen who demanded our princess!
" The enemy had outnumbered our army by several times and had surrounded us from all sides! "
" Even if we do escape, we'll do leave a trail behind... So there no escaping from them! "
The officers nodded in response as they were not strange to this Intel exclaimed by general!
Still looking at their faces there wasn't traces of unrest anymore as the meeting was specifically to deal with troublesome beastmen, who were an unexpected element added into their mission!
But looking at their old general who was specifically reminding them about this, they knew for sure that some thing major was about to announced, and they would for sure be burdened with heavy responsibility to bear!
Since the moment they have joined imperial army, they were prepared to fight for imperials.
And it was no suspense that their gathering here was concerns with the matters of Xena.
" Since the unknown beastmen army are demanding our princess... Why don't we just... give her away? "
He then took a deep breath in and exclaimed with a solemn face stating!
" We can sacrifice princess... let us assume that this western warlords palace was destroyed even before we originally were dispatched to escort! "
" This way the reputation of our army would not be tarnished, and we could join first princess to get ourselves a new backer! "
The proposal for betrayal was made and all it needs was for majority to support him.
After all first princess was really capable and it wouldn't be strange for her to place few hidden elements within his army!
All it needs was for first princess supporters to back him to let the matters finalize for a betrayal...
After all, years of his hard work in building the blood wigg army was not just easy, and the General wasn't content to fight a battle to death which was already predetermined without a suspense!
Since the flow was suggesting for a betrayal, general looked at the horrid faces of his subordinates before exclaiming.
" What would you suggest? Death or... Betrayal? "
Author's notes:
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Status:
# Mark - 6th stage of refinement! ( Mid order aura emperor equivalent )
# Wendy - High order aura emperor!
Wendy's undead forces
1. Initial order aura king - 20,000
2. Middle order aura king - 5,000
3. High order aura king - 1,000
4. Peak order aura king - 600
5. Half step aura emperor - 480 ( mostly from half mutants and green rank base leaders )