After looking through the army that was climbing the wall, Cyra focused her attention towards the army of the land, she couldn't yet see them with her eyes, but as using force control her vision drifted farther and farther away until she saw millions of skeletons they were like and endless sea of enemies just marching towards the cliff, as they were walking the land was trembling, their individual strength was rather low but their numbers were countless, this was one of the 5 armies that was meant to be siege the souls of the living, each of these armies were colossal existences.
[Analyzing…]
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[Analyzation complete]
[Samnite Skeleton Soldiers] [56% Matching]
[Side Note: They still have remaining fractions of their past selfs, they still wear clothing to some extent, these clothes are wrapped around their torso, and arms and legs, while they also carry around 1 giant sword in each hand]
[Origin: Samnites are weak souls of humanoid creatures, they creat their bodies from bone dust that could be found everywhere in the underworld, these bodies always resemble the skeleton structure of their previous bodies]
[Body Analysis: They all so have some differences from average skeletons, they have 2 to 3 times thicker skulls and 2 times stronger bones thanks to the endless amount of bone dust refining their bodies are a piece of cake. ]
[Estimated Stats: [Int: 3] [Str: 15] [E:5] ]
Wait, souls doesn't reincarnate as I did?
[They do]
Than why do they appear inside this underworld?
[Every world has underworld, but this is a much more closed system so Host is directly confronted by them]
What do you mean?
[When a soul dies, it's will be split into 2 half's, one that will enter reincarnation directly and the other goes to the underworld]
That's all?
[No]
Than?
[Host is old enough to know but way to weak, ask again in another time]
While they were talking Cyra vision drifted even farther away, as the wind was hitting the bodies and the earth trembled more and more soldiers came into her view, it took 10 minutes until she could see another type of skeletons they were actually easily the most eye catching units inside the skeleton army as they were riding their skeleton tigers.
[Analyzing…]
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[Analyzation complete]
[Epox Skeletons] [31% Matching] [There is a chance that they have additional properties that I'm unaware off]
[Side Note: Heavily armored they wield a giant royal shield and a black spear, they are the Elite among Elite, the best of the best]
[Origin: Stronger souls of humanoid creatures and wild beasts merged together they are incapable of being separated for a long time, but they can fight side by side each other if the situation requires]
[Body Analysis: They are faster and stronger than Samnites, they are also 3 times bigger, they are merged together with Epox Tigers, the Tigers whole body filled with bone spikes, these spikes can be used as legs for the Epox riders if the 2 were to fight separately]
[Estimated Stats: [Int: 9] [Str: 45] [E:15] ] [Epox Skeleton Rider]
[Estimated Stats: [Int: 3] [Str: 60] [E:10] ] [Epox Skeleton Tiger]
As Cyra was scanning through the whole army while constantly focusing on the smallest details, she also received 2 breathing taking reports from the system.
[Estimated numbers of Samnite Skeleton Soldiers are roughly 40 000 000]
[Estimated numbers of Epox Skeletons are roughly 1 000 000]
Back at the scouting Cyra once again focused her senses towards that 1 000 000 Epox Skeletons, she was missing the commanders she had to find them fast because later she wouldn't have the chance to reduce her strength to this degree during the battle, it was impossible for these dumb skeletons to March in such a perfect order without commanders controlling the whole army, the numbers were simply way to huge for it to be possible.
Eventually her eyes were caught by 10 oddly looking skeletons, they were climbing on the backs of the Epox Skeletons that's why it was hard for her to sense them, most of the wind was hitting the Epox Skeleton Rider and not these smaller skeletons that were riding behind their backs, also it was pure luck that she found one, yet even if she didn't found the commanders now she would eventually face than later into the fight.
[30 minutes until the contact between the 2 armies]
[I also detected a small magnetic field from the army of land]
[Analyzing…]
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[Analyzation complete]
[Epoxy Lords] [71% Matching]
[Side Note: They are the commanders of the army of land]
[Origin: Epoxy Lords are the older versions of the Epox Riders but they are much older with endless battle experience]
[Body Analysis: Their actual body size is half of a samnite but their strength isn't that much weaker because most of their body's strength used to hold their giant heads, they also have way higher magnetic field around them than the usual soldiers]
[Estimated Stats: [Int: 200] [Str: 9] [E:50] ] [Epox Skeleton Rider]
[20 minutes until the contact between the 2 armies]
She spent roughly 10 more minutes to look at both armies one more time before sitting down and relaxing, she needed to regain her mental energy so from this moment onwards every second counted.
[5 minutes until the contact between the 2 armies]
[They are here]
Not long after the system massage appeared one of the giant Ape arms appeared on top of the wall, as it climbed up and saw Cyra it started directly targeting her, while the rest of the troops on its back jumped down one by one, it was clear that her first enemies in this fight will be the apes, so the same time the first ape started stampeding towards her by punching the ground she also started dashing towards the Samnites, even if there were more of them thanks to her strength she could freely move between them without any worries unlike the armies of depths that caused her a lot of headaches.
Much to her surprise what she expected didn't happen, the moment she was between the sea of skeletons none of them bothered to attack her, see was not their first priority, they just left her be for now. It seemed that unlike the armies of depths that first priority was Cyra the land viewed things differently, as long as they could buy time or even defeat the Messengers armies they would be the winners and could easily clam the soul.
But even with that Cyra couldn't stop running the Samnites were actually incapable of slowing the ape that was constantly knocking the ground, with each hit the closest skeletons were simple knocked into the air and the moment they landed they were shattered into dust, but there was actually one small change that happened the ape slowly became slower and slower, it wasn't that much but Cyra could see that the speed which the creature used to catch up to her was slowly decreasing.
[Str: 1500] -> [Str: 1498] it seemed like the Samnites purpose wasn't to slow it down but to slowly scrap it into pieces as it dived into the sea of razor sharp bone spikes, it seemed to be working pretty well because so far not even 1000 skeletons has died, by this math roughly 1m skeletons could take down an ape if they were managed to surround it it would be even less, but the army of depths wouldn't let that happen because Fiery Death Knights were following closely behind, but unlike the ape that was constantly loosing its strength for taking damage on its body, the Fiery Death Knights were much more intelligent and thanks to their organized groups they didn't take any damage what so ever, on one hand they were marching onwards together constantly breathing fire which melted away most of the Samnites but if one or to ever survived the melting they were easily cut down by their giant swords.
In the end everything came down to Cyra in a sense she was the one who was controlling the battlefield, so she decided to switch terrain, her main targets became the messengers if she could take out one of them that would be a great help, but it was more wise to wait for now, she could easily out run them, but for that to happen she had to get rid of the 3 apes, yes there was already another 2 apes were ramping in the front lines rushing towards Cyra as their lives were depended on it, they were behaving nothing like normal apes but more like gorillas that were unleashed their primal urges, they were literally tearing down the earth together with everything that was happened to be in their way.
Even if the souls were useful for her she wanted both side to suffer the most because once the skeletons of land died they experienced something like a sucking force, Cyra saw how the weak souls were sucking out of the shattered bodies and were flying towards the high lands with lightning speed.
With every passing minute Cyra moved further into the Sea of skeletons, the leading ape had to chance of catching up, seeing this cyra also slowed down, it was still not the time to anger the messengers, as she was thinking about these things her system detected another strange phenomenon related to the skeletons.
[The magnetic liquid is moving towards the back of the army]
This liquid could be found in every skeletons that were crushed so far and yet it didn't cause any big commotion, the armies of depths were directly ignoring it while the skeletons simply avoided it with great care, it was enjoying a treatment similar to Cyra.
Seeing the actions of Cyra stowing down Rax was leading the charge with his ape, since he was the first one to reach to the top of the wall, but because of this his ape was already in a very bad shape, just a few seconds ago it lost one of its smaller legs, this might risen its speed but it wasn't capable of balancing its movements anymore and it suddenly fallen, but as it was falling to the ground it received an order from Rax, so as it was landing it rolled forward and threw Rax towards Cyra.
Rax was feeling exited and proud at the same time as a overseer coming up a strategy like that was never heard of, when he carries the soul back home with such methods he was sure to get great rewards, maybe he even could creat another page to the book of how to use Magma Apes properly, it would be his highest achievement so far.
This action shocked both Cyra and the leaders of skeleton army, this type of thing has never happened before, life is full of surprises as some say, but the next moment the flying messenger was blasted into pieces by Cyra bow, Rax did see an Essence Arrow flying towards him, but he decided to ignore it since his Essence was higher he couldn't feel any threat from it, but against his expectations the arrow that came towards him disappeared just before it could hit him, but the tremendous force has still hit him, blasting of his torso, his body landed on the ground in shattered bits of remains of its former glorious body, his soul was sucked back into the depths within seconds Rax conquest ended there.
Right after Rax sudden defeat the fighting stopped, bot forces were rooted in their place not moving an inch, it was not that they were scared or anything like that but simply they were weighting their options because it seemed like Cyra was perfectly capable of fighting against them also could cause serious damages.
While Rex and Rix were whispering between each other, the 10 commanders also joined together into a war council to discuss the next steps, meanwhile the metallic liquid completely vanished from the battlefield with no traces that it was ever present, everything happened so fast that in the end Cyra was the one who were staring at the 2 armies with wide open eyes, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.