At the appearance of the uninvited party, Ilya made decisive eye contact with an enemy vampire general. Then, they both called for a retreat. This battlefield had become the stage of another kind of show. It even seemed that the armies were assembled here just to pressure the Ashen Queen to fight, so they could make her show her crest for a closer look while in battle.
Moreover, Nicholai was not really hoping to fight the Ashen army—he assembled this army for the generals of the Abyssal King!
Cries and groans of pain echoed on the battlefield as the two armies separated and escaped the attacks of the generals. Even if the mirage wolves had also come to attack, the werewolves from the combined army clashed with them. After all, they were the real target of this campaign.
