Published: July 4, 2025
As soon as Abel started running, the entire army of the kingdom also began to move.
Thanks to the long-distance dispersion divine mercy, their injuries were healed.
Of course, there were those who had perished in battle.
Since they clashed with the demon's physical soldiers, it was only natural.
However, considering the fierce battle they had fought against the demon's kin, it could be said that the number of deaths was surprisingly low.
But from here on, they were facing their crucial moment.
They had nearly annihilated the physical soldiers among the demon's kin.
And even if it was the demon Garwin, creating physical soldiers was not an easy task.
However, the demon could summon another great army.
And he could do so in an instant. In large numbers.
Across the battlefield, Phantom Soldiers were being created.
The monk unit was an unexpectedly effective fighting force against the Phantom Soldiers.
This had been proven.
But with so many appearing on the battlefield, even the ordinary knights had no choice but to confront them.
For knights without the holy blessed staff, even a single Phantom Soldier was quite a troublesome opponent.
They had a clear form, yet were somewhat vague when it came to being classified as spirits.
When they attacked the town or shortly after the battle began, they had been created as cavalry. This time, however, they appeared dismounted.
In their right hands, they wielded sword-like weapons, and in their left hands, they held small shields.
Both the sword and shield had substance and could deal damage to knights.
“Target the center! Strike at the throat area from the body’s center! That’s where the magical power is concentrated. Dispersing that will make them disappear!”
Such voices spread across the battlefield.
When the monk unit fought, they could make the Phantom Soldiers vanish just by touching them with the holy blessed staff.
Therefore, the clear weakness had not been discerned...
However, it didn’t take long for the experienced knights to figure out a countermeasure and disseminate it.
Of course, even so, there were numerous and troublesome enemies.
Before the long-distance dispersion divine mercy protected by the sanctuary array and the priests, the demon Garwin stood still, doing nothing.
With a faint smile.
“Even I can’t break through absolute magic defense. I’ll admit that. But the problem is how long it will last.”
Garwin was aware of the toughness of the absolute magic defense deployed by the light attribute mages.
At the same time, he knew that this magic could only be used by high-level light mages and required a significant amount of magical power.
Thus, he decided to wait until all the priests had run out of magical power and could no longer deploy the absolute magic defense.
Once the absolute magic defense was gone, that ridiculous device restoring the battlefield could be easily crushed.
After that, he could wipe out the knights with ultimate magic or whatever he liked.
But as long as that restoration device was in place, he couldn't let his guard down.
It would be nice if he could kill them all in one blow, but killing each of the tens of thousands of humans one by one was quite a hassle.
Even with ultimate magic, while death was likely near the center, many would survive with serious injuries but not die.
Humans were astonishingly tenacious.
Garwin knew this from experience.
As long as there was even a hint of breath, they would be healed... This was the nature of such a device.
That was why he had to prioritize killing the knights and collecting the fragments of god last.
First, he would crush the device.
This also meant crushing the priests.
Once their means of recovery was taken away, no matter how many there were, they would crumble.
Garwin remained astonishingly calm.
Clank.
However, there were those who sought to defeat Garwin.
They were not the knights who couldn't reach the main camp due to dealing with the Phantom Soldiers, but those who were originally at the main camp.
For instance, the king and former A-rank swordsman, Abel.