After days of preparation, the army of slimes set foot once more onto the battlefield.
This time, the army that is being lead by the king, took over the fortress that used to belong to the Land of Damnation to prepare for a siege.
"For those who have deemed us the weakest, let us show them our might!"
With his speech,
"In the name of our Goddess, let us triumph and bring our first victory!"
the army's morale rose even further.
Click, clack.
A woman appeared and as she removed her thick veil, a wave of surprise befell on the army of slimes.
"I will watch over you all"
Mel said.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Energized, the army of slimes let out a war cry.
As it is common sense for a newly descended deity to stay in their sanctuary since the death of a deity is the same thing as their followers becoming monsters, the fact that Mel showed up in the front lines showed how much trust and faith she has on her subjects.
That her subjects will emerge victorious no matter what.
...
Days passed by and the army of the Land of Damnation, lead by the third King Emmeth, arrived within sight.
Now that both Murphy and Emmeth do not sense the presence of the dragon they were confident that they will win against the weakest race.
"Although the damned dragon is no longer here, we shall trample on those low lives who dared to direct their swords to us! We will show them what it means to mess with us who have nothing to lose!"
Their army yelled in excitement.
"Let us paint the rivers in red and fill the land with their corpses!"
They raised their weapons as they felt ecstatic to the thought of massacring an entire nation.
"FIRE THE CANNONS!!!"
On his signal, the CMC* loaded with dozens of magicians mana was fired.
Despite the whopping ten kilometer distance, the balls of dense mana were going straight to the fortress that Lagnos have taken over.
"Hmm~ I wonder what I should eat tonight! Fish? I'm already tired of that!"
A man levitated just a few hundred meters in front of the fortress.
"I know! I'll eat some bones today!"
With a demonic like smile, Finn used multiple skills in order to redirect the balls of mana fired by the CMC.
With his skill
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The nearby trees were destroyed.
Despite the shockwave, the fortress was not affected by it.
The army of slime were in awe to see hundreds of runes in the air.
Runes made by Zachary in advanced, after he was ordered by Elemenz as he have already foresaw the use of CMC.
Seeing this, Emmeth ordered once more, "FIRE!"
Another batch of several balls of mana were fired.
This time, the balls of mana were bigger and even more dense.
After seeing that someone was capable of redirecting the fired mana and that there was a rune master on the enemies side, a simple adjust in power would be enough in order to make all of that useless.
Is what he thought and is the definite answer in this situation.
They only needed to tire them out enough from long distance magic attacks, the most effective way to deal with slimes, then proceed to overpower them with numbers.
However,
"W-what is that?!"
Emmeth and Murphy were surprise as the balls of mana were concentrated into one.
Right before the second time they fired, Finn have already flew ahead, about two kilometers away from the fortress.
And from his position, he use everything he can use to forcefully gather all the balls of mana into one point.
"
As the huge lump of mana ball disappeared, a total of three events took place.
The first, the army slimes were amazed to see how powerful their extremely weakend Goddess were.
The second, the army of the Land of Damnation, especially the third king Emmeth, baffled by the fact that the Goddess of all Bitches is in the front lines of war.
The third, Murphy's sudden headache.
As he saw the huge lump of mana vanished, a memory surfaced from the deepest part of his mind.
A memory of how he felt when he saw the Goddess of all Bitches.
In impulse, Murphy run as fast as he could to go towards the enemy's fortress. Where the woman he wants to meet is.
"Loraine! You said that there won't be anyone capable of dealing with the CMC! How come their Goddess herself is here?!"
Loraine Green stared at the man in front of her.
As the nearby soldiers heard Emmeth talking about Mel, some were excited at the thought of killing a Goddess but some were afraid.
"I have no control over a Goddess' whims now, do I?"
After getting false information from Loraine, Emmeth did not took the possiblity of Mel appearing herself since the risks would be even greater as she only had descended just recently.
"....."
"I have brought information that I do know. Anything than that is a mystery and are variables. I am not omniscient, besides, isn't it the tactitian's job to take care of said variables?"
Emmeth who was staying composed in the war, even after knowing that Logan Asturias, the first king of their country is now dead, he could not help but panic on the inside now that the second king Murphy is doing as he wish as well as the presence of a Goddess who easily handled the concentrated of mana that was fired from multiple CMC.
"I shall do some reconnaissance then! Hope that would appease your anger"
"You sound awfully calm about this"
"You have always managed to find ways out of situations like this. Is that not the main reason why you became the third king? Because of that poisonous silver tongue of yours?"
"Get the hell out of here then!"
Insulted by her words, he ordered her to go away as he instructed the next move they will be taking.
TING!
A ray of hope showed in front of Emmeth.
[The Goddess of War said "Now that Logan is dead, you might as well inherit the power I gave him"]
Emmeth smiled with joy.
[You have obtained the skill
"I promise to win this battle for you, Goddess!"
...
Bam!
Murphy landed in front of a watch tower.
As he looked up he saw the woman in his memories.
All sorts of emotions flooded his mind at that moment.
"Hey, it is rude to stare at someone, you know. You're gonna make a hole on me if you stare at me so strongly like that"
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Note:
CMC = Is the weapon that Everbalck makes for battle and wars. Also known as Concentrated Magic Canon.