The three human mages quickly retreated from the battlefield with the defeated soldiers. Once they were fifteen hundred yards away, they were out of reach of both the opposing mages and magical beasts.
The battlefield had returned to a state of eerie calm, with only the raging flames and occasional desperate screams echoing through the silence. The real excitement lay with the approximately twenty elite divine archers of Captain Gatuso's personal guard, the centaur archers, and the panda warriors.
These odd-looking divine archers were a sight to behold––towering, handsome figures at first glance, but oddly grotesque upon closer inspection. They were as if a clumsy craftsman had tried to recreate the David Statue, creating a strange fusion of beauty and ugliness that was quite unsettling.
These strapping divine archers were clearly not humans, for their long green hair framed a pair of prominent, pointed ears.
