The first rankers could not face such high-ranked monsters as easily as the second rankers, and the most casualties were always them. They tried to give them accommodating roles, but it was a battlefield, and no role was safe enough. But they were soldiers, and they all had lost people—death was not a stranger to them.
The second the battle seemed to pass a point that made it clear they would survive, and even win.. Bloodedge moved forward. The giant flying monstrosity he was on top of shadowed the narrow valley, pigmen soldiers looked up to see what was going on.
Along with the enormous flying monster, Lucian suddenly felt something was wrong beneath her feet. Something that had just happened? No! Something that had just stopped?
The land had stopped shaking!
What even was that? She assumed it was the battle of thousands that left such effect but she was mistaked, fooled even. Lucian's senses flared as her gut told her something had gone amiss.
