Chapter 50 Part 4) A Smart Enemy Part 4

 “How is it?” Desaray asked after she began hearing explosion sounds off in the distance. 

“It seems the Demon Queen of Darkness is much smarter than we could have ever imagined. She is using bombs from a military base she found. On top of that, she has two more forces flanking ours from the sides.” Juna replied after returning from her trip.

“Then I guess it is time to show some of our own cards. Juna, take the left flank. I will take the right flank. We will destroy both of their flanking forces before they make contact with our own. I have a feeling that Darkness will not show up during this battle. They might even start their retreat.” Desaray now understood that  The Demon Queen of Darkness was smarter than she had expected. If she was using the bombs as a distraction while the enemy flanked them, then she knew what she was doing.

“I will follow your commands, Your Holiness.”  Juna dropped to one knee, clasped her hands together, and lowered her head in prayer.

“Just get up and get moving.” Desaray hated it when Juna did that. She always did that in front of so many people. Now, the entire Kingdom of Serenity did it when seeing her. 

Juna stuck her tongue out at Desaray before wrapping herself up in a root and disappearing. Desaray sighed and flew off in another direction. It did not take her long to find the massive army of undead. Over fiver hundred million of them, moving forward, not letting anything block their path. 

“It looks like I will need to use that. There are just too many of them to try to take out with normal spells.” Desaray sighed as she suddenly sat down on an ice throne that had appeared: “Frozen Throne…. Absolute Zero….”

 On the other side, Juna rose high up into the air and let out a sly smile. “I need to show my goddess that as her Apostle, I can get the job done just as quickly. World Tree….”

As soon as Juna’s words fell, a massive tree taking up fifty miles of space in all directions rose up into the air, sucking in all the undead as it did. Those undead became food to allow the World Tree’s leaves to grow instantly. The lush greenery of the tree, casted a shadow on the land below. “Tree Summon.” 

Juna spoke again and the same massive tree suddenly turned into stream of green light and shot into Juna’s waiting open hand. It was not the size of her pinky finger sitting in the palm of her hand. “I will plant you in our kingdom, after all, your fruit can save many lives in the future.”

“How is it?” Desaray asked through Juna’s root.

“Mission accomplished. It also seems our enemy is retreating. Shall we give chase?” JUna asked.

“No. Pull back as well. This skirmish has allowed us to learn a lot about our enemy and the same for them. The Demon Queen of Darkness is not to be underestimated. Let’s group and count our losses.” Desaray knew many had died in this battle, but she did not know the body count just yet.

“Understood.” Juna relayed Desaray’s orders before disappearing.

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“You are retreating, right?” The Demon Queen of Darkness asked.

“Yes, the one billion undead had easily been defeated on both fronts at the same time. I never expected the Nymph Princess to be so powerful.” Death did not like the fact that her army was defeated just like that.

“I think if Cinder and that other elemental were to use their full strength, the rest would be wiped out as well. But something was keeping them from using it. We need to regroup and rebuild our forces. But we can not lose what we already gained, so if they are not following us, make a defensive line. Then, begin rebuilding our army. There are plenty of undead. One of my shadows also found some fun bombs as well. These ones are much bigger and seem to be the weapons that this world’s inhabitants feared the most.” The Demon Queen of Darkness seemed to be having quite a bit of fun.  

“What if we force some live humans from this world into the mix as well? If they are forced to fight, then they will have no choice but to, right? It could throw off the enemy.” Death did not know if her plan was good or not, but it was worth a try.

“Then let’s do it. We will promise them freedom if they fight for us and live. Our biggest problem is the ice girl and Nymph Princess… we need a way to defeat them. Or maybe we can try to find some more powerful people to side with us. It seems I have found an ancient Tribe of the Anostalic people.” The Demon Queen of Darkness smiled.

“The Anostalic people?” Death had never heard of them before.

“They are a race of ancient beings, but it seemed this tribe had been in hiding. I just found them by mistake. They are known for having such great magic technology that they made their flesh in blood into magic technology. With them, we might figure out a method of destroying the ice dragon.”