Barrelling towards Michael was a tier 2 combination spell, [Water Shockwave Bomb], Michael immediately instinctively casted tier 2 defensive spell, [Giant tornado barrier], there was big explosion of water and high winds. Michael was still pushed back but using his high experience he immediately casted a response to the enemy that was targeting him. The enemy was a young beautiful women who looked to be in twenties wearing Ruhen's military uniform showing that she was a second lieutenant.
Michael wanted to quickly end the fight between them, he did not want to waste anytime time, thus he casted a tier 2 combination spell, [Multiple Plasma Balls]. The enemy mage seemed surprised that Michael could immediately cast a spell even after having received her spell using a normal tier 2 defensive spell whilst she attacked by a stronger combination spell.
Because of the lack of battle experience the women panicked and did not put up a proper response to the multiple plasma balls targeting the critical areas of her body, because of that she was immediately killed by the plasma ball that targeted her heard.
The other plasma balls destroyed her beautiful body leaving a burnt and scorched corpse in the battle field. Michael did not glance at her corpse as he was still berating himself for loosing focus in the heat of battle such that he almost got killed by a person who he believed lacked experience such that she was killed like that.
The battle against the two forces had been progressing for hours on end with bodies piling in the battle field, the two commanders were also still fighting as well with a clear winner. The place where the two commanders were fighting was a small distance from the main fight of the armies, the path that the two commanders had made was that of complete destruction.
There were great fires in the forests, there were great Ice sheets in the mountains and some places were totally reduced to nothing and there was complete void in those place. The power of tier 4 is not to be underestimated, if tier 4 mages are this powerful, what about those in the Arc Mage realm which is considered special.
The power show by the two commander can be highly attributed to their tier 3 and tier 4 magic rings. Commander Wells had tier 3 magic ring [Strengthen Water/Ice Magic], and she had tier 4 magic ring [Unstoppable Magic], this ring combined the effects of tier 2 magic rings [Increased Magic Damage] and [Increased Magic Penetration].
This magic ring was the magic ring that 1st Lt Finn Miller had taught Grey's class about all those years ago. Commander Wright had tier 3 magic ring [Strengthen Fire Magic] similar to commander Wells, the tier 4 magic ring that he had was tier 4 magic ring [Lava World]. This ring made all lava and similar spells to be highly strengthened, this type of magic ring required the recipient to have the elements of Fire, Wind and Earth which commander Wright had.
As the battle of the commanders was still ongoing without a clear winner, the main forces of Arin were starting to loose more ground. The fortifications around the mining camp were almost breached, when the fight started the forces of Arin had the upper hand because their forces were more experienced since they had been fighting for the last few months.
However as the fight dragged on for hours, the forces of Ruhen got more experience and started to push the Arin forces, this was because the forces of Ruhen were still fresh forces unlike Arin's forces who were tired and had not gotten any rest.
The Arin forces started to despair when multiple combination spells managed to destroy the wall that was part of the fortifications of the mining camp, creating a big breach in the defences.
"How!"
Michael shouted whilst he looked at the giant hole on the wall, he could only despair because there was nothing he could do, at that moment he was still regaining his mana using magic crystals. The combination spells had been casted by what was left of the special battalion, only 10 members.
Even though the forces of Arin in Edward's Crevasse never managed to understand how the special battalion works, many sacrifices were made to reduce their numbers, whether by mages or regular human troops.
Michael looked around the battle trying to find Joana because he could see the battle was going to be lost, he could see Joana and she was caring a man on her shoulder. The man looked very injured, he was missing both legs and one arm. Michael figured she had the same thoughts as him and she was caring one of her subordinates to the rear.
"Michael we have to go back to the rear!"
Joana shouted as she ran with the help of wind type spell, Michael took a last glance at those special battalion remnants as he started to retreat to the back. Joana and Michael were survivors and at that point, they were thinking of themselves.
The giant hole on the fortifications was really big such that when Captain Hans Ignocia saw it he knew what he had to do. The old man was missing an arm and his grey hair was all over his face and he was sweating heavily. The Captain had lost the arm when the tier 3 mages of Arin decided to get rid of the special battalion, the fight was very difficult such that some tier 3 mages lost their lives and this included Captain Salona Zivia.
Without hesitating and without thinking about the consequences that he might face, Captain Hans Ignocia ordered general retreat of all Arin's forces from Edward's Crevasse. The tier 3 mages that were left were all geniuses and they understood his decision and did not prevent the order from going through.
The tired and injured forces of Arin started to leave Edward's Crevasse through an emergency exist, the forces of Ruhen did not stop them, this is what they wanted, to push Arin out of Edward's Crevasse.
In the battle of the tier 4 commanders, both the commanders were tired and had haggard looks, the most interesting thing was that there was no clear winner.
"I must give you the credit Wells, you are very strong. Your Black Ice is really powerful, by the time this war is over you will be very famous."
Commander Wright started to conversation with a smile.
"You too Wright, your Lava is a really powerful."
Even though both commanders were complimenting each other, the fact of the matter was that both of them were very frustrated because their elements countered each other.
Thus in the few hours of fighting there was no obvious winner, only the Dralia mountain range that took the full brunt of their attacks. Several kilometres of the landscape of the mountain range was permanently changed by the two.
"But in this battle, I win Wells."