The soulers flashed and killed the ones in the air just like they did on the ground. Things seemed quite easy for my forces wherever a bunch of my deadly soulers existed.

However I didn’t hurry to take out more of them. I knew the enemy would be taken aback and by surprise by my soulers. However they would also have a counter for such unexpected foes.

And I planned to wait first and see what the enemy could do before deciding what to do next.

As the battle kept going on, my forces started to gain ground and secure a safe foothold around the eleven paths.

That was the first and foremost important part in the entire plan. Without securing enough space for each army to take as a base to launch further attacks, then things would be quite ugly for my forces even with the soulers.

The biggest help the soulers did here was to relieve me from doing anything for the early hours. They were brutal and deadly enough to take down all the fiends off the entire fighting spots here.

That gave me lots of time to watch and consider each single move from the enemy.

Things looked quite good so far. The enemy tried with all their might to stop my forces, and yet they failed. The soulers helped in relieving any stressful situations no matter how bad it was.

This kept going on until the eleven armies were this close from meeting each other. And by then, the next phase of the plan would start.

*Rumble!*

However just before the armies would meet up, the enemy used a fierce attack, the one I waited for.

It looked like a grand ball of light erupted, before I noticed in an instant what it was.

“Dammit! That dude is going to use his big moves from the start!”

The thing that was coming was nothing else but that damn fire. Just recalling how this fire dealt with my forces and brought lots of trouble before made me instantly act as a reflex.

I started using my shields, and at the same time I created them at the centre and left them face off the huge forces around.

It was lucky that my forces didn’t expand too much, or else I wouldn’t be able to cover up all of them with just one shield.

The shields spanned for miles, covered up my entire forces and lots of the enemies’ as well. I planned to wait for enough time before the span of this battle would expand and reach out for tens of miles.

By then, the use of my shields would be much more effective than using them right now. However, I got cornered and pushed to use them thanks to the impending death coming for my forces.

However it seemed that I underestimated the enemy’s plan!

The fire met up with my shields and the two didn’t back off against each other. The fire covered up an area of tens of miles in radius, but it couldn’t do anything against my shields.

When that happened, I felt really relieved. It was great to know that this fire didn’t do anything to my forces.

Yet the next moment my face instantly changed!

The fire could cover up a huge area, much more than what my shields could. And even if the shields managed to stop this fire, it was still unable to stop its advance to cover more areas.

And part of this lay in the eleven paths where many of my forces were still marching down below.

Taking down a few of my forces wouldn’t affect me at all. However this fire could cover a distance of tens of miles, and that meant all the warriors in the eleven paths inside that zone would be burnt to death.

And I would never stand idle and watch such a huge loss happen!

So I spurred into action without any delay or hesitation.

The first move I used was the offensive strike of my shields. Even if the shields didn’t have enough time to stack up strong damage, it was enough to create a shockwave and push that fire away.

At the same time, it was enough to kill lots of enemies in a radius of a few miles around the shields.

Just as the bright light came, I didn’t wait for things to calm down or clear up, and instantly moved towards the directions of the eleven paths which I saved in my mind before using that skill.

And there I started to randomly summon shields, and shouted using my horn: “Get inside the shields! Get inside to protect your lives!”

There was another way to solve this, and that by summoning all of the warriors back. However, to do so, I’d have to summon all the warriors in the entire battlefield, and that had a very negative effect on my armies as well.

Generals would need lots of time to arrange the armies again. And during this, the enemy would organise their lines and ranks, be more prepared for my brutal attacking armies.

I preferred to take such a risk of losing many of my warriors here than to disturb the entire rhythm of this battle. If I didn’t have the upper hand, then it’d be better for me to just throw in the towel and summon everyone back.

I left behind a few shields to cover up parts of the paths, almost ten shields at each path, before the light finally faded away.

It didn’t last longer than two minutes, and thanks to my good memory and the high speed of my chariot, I managed to cover up all the paths and leave the shields behind.

The moment the light vanished, the shockwave the blast created was gone. The fire appeared to be pushed for a mile away from the paths and my warriors. But the moment the shockwave vanished, the fire fell like doomsday.

During this, my warriors moved to execute my orders. Lot of them fell off the paths as they lacked any guidance or vision during the past two minutes, at least they knew where to exactly move.