Blood and death are strewn along the edge of the forest, luckily my unit doesn't hear a single death the closest would be the minor injuries that accumulated on Sara and Taric who were the 'weakest' fighters of the unit they were fighting. Even though Taric and Sara don't neglect their defensive capabilities as they both use shield types emphasizing the importance of defense to both, they still suffer a lot because their strength is based on their green core.
But this is an analysis based on the sternum injuries they suffered during the battle, it is easy to detect this type of injury, but as this combat had a plague mage in my battlefield the greatest danger is hidden in the body of everyone involved.
Ana who has the highest defense among all green core warriors to the point that her defensive capabilities can even be able to hold an orange core warrior for quite a while, doesn't even have a visible wound or hole in her defense, but I feel like she is the person with the worst injuries from the battle.
And by the goat's relationship who is now running like a desperate one to try to treat Ana who ended up 'securing' the plague mage's surrender, she could be in real danger. The battlefield ended with the trump card on our side, but death wasn't just among the cultists who resisted or had the misfortune of the battle going on too long and being poisoned by the mage on their side.
The smugglers and the two support units had members killed and several wounded, mainly the smugglers more than eight deaths on their side they were really fighting an enemy too dangerous for them. But their sacrifice has allowed fewer important people to be hurt, ultimately these smugglers will end up imprisoned for several decades. Death is a worthy use of their lives.
I'm obviously not going to get off this tree for quite some time, the emerald fog may be gone, but the danger of it is still very much present on the battlefield. The air of the battlefield always has various types of elemental energy, mana and different auras in the air after battle.
Usually this isn't a problem and to be honest it's quite beautiful to see so many colored energies intertwining through the environment, but now the problem is in the emerald energy left over from the plague mage's attacks. I'm absolutely sure that if I get in touch with this energy I'll contract or be poisoned by something unpleasant, so I'll stay up here until this energy disappears even if Raven calls me, I'll stay here on top of the tree enjoying the wind that is blowing all the dirt in the air away.
Lucky for me I won't have to stay up here for long, it seems that the lifespan of the plague mage's spells is very short, much of the emerald energy is disappearing into the air or to be more precise it's entering the earth. The plague magic seems to want to penetrate any target not even the ground seems to be able to stop it, if the wind wasn't pushing this energy away, I'm sure the trees in this forest would be contaminated by this energy.
When walking on poisoned soil will I be contaminated? I better protect myself well with my aura and elemental energy.
The goat was treating Ana as if she were bleeding from every pore in her body, but at the present moment she is sitting on the dead grass and looking at the goat as if he has gone mad. It's a very comical sight but also very worrying, the goat's panic could be caused because he is scared because he doesn't know how to treat Ana or he knows the plague magic and is panicked because he can't do anything to save her.
I hope his panic is just because he's nervous, it would really suck if she died right now. Big loss for everyone, she really fought like a champion today.
The death mage was dragged by Raven towards the plague mage, one of the healers of the support unit even went to her to offer treatment to her or death mage, but because the girl ran out to the warriors she had abandoned before tells me that Raven is fine and the death mage is not in danger of dying.
Apart from me being far away from all the poison that spread across the battlefield, there was one more person who managed to avoid the plague mage's magic. Akin who is still suffering from the energy of death but he stayed well away from the battlefield, the smart coward managed to retreat while giving orders to his men without anyone noticing.
But it seems that the death energy that penetrated his body is really complicated, he is suffering a lot to be able to clean a part of it but this is going to be a long process and he cannot do it alone, he has already spent a good amount of aura and your body is accumulating stress while your stamina is drained.
Without someone to take care of preventing the death energy from running through his body loose or removing it soon, Akin will die from being hit by just one of the death mage's strong spells. This is very ironic when you think of the sheer amount of people who have died by his hand in a similar way, the poisonous county by the energy of the death element that is killing him from the inside out.
As he crawled across the lawn and the life mage who worked for him came to his aid after seeing that his boss had fallen to the ground, Akin ran so far from the battlefield that his group's healer didn't realize he was in trouble. It would be troublesome for him to die now, but I wouldn't be sad about his death either, and the way his healer's life element is taking a beating from the death element, I don't have much faith that Akin will make it out alive if he's some healer of some unit. of the kingdom not to intervene.
As time passes the healers have finished treating most of the wounded, the number of cultists alive is slightly less than half what it was when the ambush began, many of them ended up dying because they weren't treated in time.
Plague magic really is deadly to allies and foes alike, most of the dead in the battle were caused by the plague mage only one of the cult warriors who had kept him alive for a long period of time after losing a leg, an arm, and a few ribs during battle, this was a warrior too stubborn to stay alive for so long after losing so much blood.
When Raven dragged the two mages leading the cultists away from the battlefield, I got a good look at their state. They both look like they've just been brutally tortured by Raven, the chains piercing through her flesh is really an aggressive look.
Raven brought them to the forest and as most of the plague magic was already blown away by the wind to the opposite direction of the forest and the rest of the magic was absorbed by the ground, the environment was safe for me. Coming down from the tree I approached Raven who was holding the mages' chains in different trees, when I got closer, I could see that both the death mage and the plague mage are awake.
"Finally come down from your tree? I thought you already slept up there."
"I didn't want to be exposed to the plague mage's magic, that thing is pretty dangerous for someone of my level. Her weak venom must be capable of killing me quickly."
"She's still alive so you better not get too close, that kind of enemy can usually have some trump cards."
"And I know and that's why I'm here, the death mage has a magic tool hidden in one of his teeth. And on the lower right side of his mouth, you better pull those teeth out of him."
Raven was momentarily startled by my comment, but that didn't stop her from punching the mage in the face. It was really violent to see her pulling out her teeth on the right side of his mouth, but when they fell to the ground one of them turned black and started releasing death energy on the ground killing all the grass and going to the tree where the death mage is trapped.
"Anything else hidden?"
So, I started pointing out all the places where mana or energy accumulated in the death mage and plague mage. When Raven finished neutralizing whatever trick the two mages might have been relying on to try and get away, the two mages appeared to be wearing old rags Raven really didn't hold back.
If the atmosphere hadn't been so tense, the plague mage's sudden nudity would have earned some jokes, but when Raven appears more focused on starting the interrogation of the two, I wouldn't even comment on that.