“Is this going to work?” I couldn’t tell. But after a few seconds, I got the answer to that.

The Hescos who got covered with these rays and ended up in fire started to stop running and fighting. Then without any warning, their bodies started to twitch as if they got seizures, and eventually they began to fall.

One by one they fell to the ground with shaking bodies. I felt if I heard that world’s noise, I’d be able to hear screams of agony and pain.

These fires… These hampies with modified cannons… They were deadly and lethal to Hescos.

But no matter how strong these rays were, each attack needed a couple of seconds to charge up and attack. This made their rate of attack slow, not enough to take down the incoming enemies.

But one thing they did brilliantly well, slowing down the speedy Hescos and forcing them to advance at a slower pace.

Even the flying Hescos weren’t pardoned from their fire. The range of these cannons wasn’t that big to begin with. And that was why they didn’t appear before in the previous fight.

But now, and with the closely approaching Hescos, they became in the effective range of these hampies.

Even the outer circular hole wasn’t in the range. So the appearance of these trucks loaded with deadly cannons came as a surprise for me and Hescos alike.

These hampies couldn’t stop the advance of the Hescos. But through the little time they bought and the disarray they enforced upon the Hescos growing army, the warriors I sent got the chance to join in a big bang.

The area surrounding the weapons was already filled to the brim with tons of my forces. The grand general there was smart enough to deduct the main aim of the enemy when the first hole appeared.

He seemed to give the order to the surrounding forces to retreat and stop the invading enemies. Even the ones in between the two circular holes started to pull back and put pressure over the incoming Hescos.

This forced the Hescos to divert part of their troops to stop the incoming reinforcements. I liked how this dude acted, using all the resources he had in such an effective way.

But this alone wasn’t enough to stop the Hescos. I knew that. He knew that. And the Hescos knew that.

All I needed was little time for my warriors to gather up in a sizable force, enough to make an impact over the incoming Hescos.

And that was done brilliantly and quite accidentally by the intervention from my far away forces and the brilliant performance of the hampies.

Other weapons might be much deadlier than the hampies, but it seemed they lacked the needed range to start raining the enemies down. Also they were already positioned to hit the far away Hescos.

To shift their aim and arrange them in positions suited to assault such close by enemies would take time. And I doubted they would be placed in the right positions before the enemies would reach them.

The grand general seemed to realise this too. So he didn’t give any order to reposition the weapons. He just gave orders for the weapons to retreat further closer to the portal.

When my warriors appeared, they were mixed in the middle of tons of my forces there. Normally, my forces wouldn’t carry a candle against these Hescos.

The Hescos moved uninterrupted and without any threat except for the hampies and their deadly cannons. But gradually they started to notice something weird.

In the middle of the enemies they took as weaklings, they started to meet strong foes who could wound and even kill them with ease.

This phenomenon started gradually and expanded, spreading all over the frontlines until each step taken by the Hescos was carved with many of their fallen comrades.

The grand general of my forces out there didn’t know about the arrival of these warriors. So when they came in, he simply didn’t count too much on these.

But when he noticed what the Hescos did, he was smart enough to relocate the order of the forces out there. He moved the normal forces back, while letting the front be taken care of by the incoming elite warriors.

The warriors took charge of the ground battles. But there was still a risk coming from the sky. So the hampies started to shift their cannons, firing up at the flying Hescos, bringing many down.

“They aren’t enough,” for a moment there I saw the little flaw of my plan that I overlooked. The warriors were strong and capable of taking down these Hescos, but they couldn’t deal with the flying ones.

The suit forces were still engaged in heated fights with the Hescos coming from the outer hole. So they couldn’t be pulled back anytime soon or else most of the army would be lost.

Seeing this made me expect the damage of many weapons on the hands of the flying Hescos. They were drawing near, and I knew they got mid range attacks that were enough to destroy many of my precious weapons.

It pained me a lot when I thought about it. But in return this was the true nature of war; a bottomless pit of resources.

These weapons cost too much to make. Even if I knew the research department was working like mad to make more weapons, losing too much here would still affect my campaign out there negatively.

I saw many trucks activate defensive shields all over the place. But for a reason, I doubted the ability of these shields to stop the incoming attacks from the hastily approaching Hescos.

I sighed when the Hescos drew nearer. With hampies help, these Hescos lost more than one third of their forces already. But the remaining ones were enough to take down at least half of my weapons in a few minutes.

If I was there, I wouldn’t let that happen. But I couldn’t consider this idea at all. Going there would bring me and my plans a great deal of harm.

While I was regretting not adding flying mounts to my warriors, or forming flying teams of warriors amidst the ones I sent, something unbelievable happened.