Before she died, Amankorza stared in disbelief at the elven officer, watching as her elf slaughtered her subordinates one by one!

He never imagined that the Elf of Afar, whom he saw as someone who could bring him power, was actually the one who would take his life!

A sword pierced Aman'korsar's forehead, killing him instantly. The elven officer then drew his sword and led his army up the fortress, intending to destroy a section of the wall.

However, just like the unfortunate Aman al-Khazar who died with his eyes wide open, they never imagined that this operation was a trap!

Shortly after ascending the stairs connecting the upper and lower levels, the elven soldiers and officers found themselves in another labyrinth, where numerous Miracathian knights and their magical beasts immediately sounded the alarm and attacked the elves upon discovering them.

It was three in the morning, a perfect time for the elven soldiers to launch a surprise attack. Little did they know that above the sweltering labyrinth below, so many Miracathians were still awake!

"Damn it! We've been tricked!" Upon seeing so many Miracathians on the floor above the basement, the elven officer immediately realized her elves had been fooled. However, her reaction was swift. Seeing the Miracathian knights charging towards them, she immediately commanded her soldiers to fight back against their attacks, pushing as far as possible towards the fortress walls!

Even when ambushed, the elven officer remained determined to complete her mission. While she showed no mercy to other races, her pride as an Elven of Afar prevented her from surrendering to the humans, beastmen, and murlocs of Mirakais.

With the help of Pokémon like Cthulhu, Nomchar, Milotic, and Chucky, the Miracaiser Knights quickly overwhelmed the Elf officer and her army of seven thousand elves.

Various skills, including rocks, ultrasonic waves, water cannons, and strange winds, along with ranged attacks such as lightning spears, fireballs, and arrows, were unleashed upon the elf's forces, causing them to retreat in disarray.

But soon, the elven reinforcements arrived.

The elven army of over 12,000 was not easy to deal with; their sheer numbers alone allowed them to hold their own against Miracaissa's knights. Moreover, unlike the initial 7,000 elven soldiers, the 5,000 who arrived later were equipped with superior weaponry, and several of them were high-ranking mages who could unleash powerful magic to cause trouble for Miracaissa's army even in the absence of the demon-devouring crystals.

However, this does not give the elven forces any chance of victory; at most, it can only allow them to kill as many humans and beastmen as possible before they are wiped out!

"Spear of Sunlight!!" Just as the elven troops were fighting bravely, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the dimly lit space, striking the elven officer's adjutant and killing him instantly!

The appearance of this Sun Spear, which was several times or even dozens of times more powerful than the Thunder Spear, instantly shattered the Elven race's confidence in their armor and shield.

The shields and armor of the Fireleaf Guard were powerful, forged by elven blacksmiths using secret techniques. The arrows, magic, and lightning spears of the Miracaiser Alliance knights struggled to penetrate their defenses. However, this spear of sunlight pierced through the shield and armor, instantly killing the elf behind it—a feat that far exceeded the expectations of the elven officers and soldiers!

The appearance of the Sun Spear dealt a heavy blow to the confidence of the elven forces. The elven officer knew that they had no chance of winning unless they killed the person who wielded the Sun Spear, so she immediately took her blade and charged toward the direction from which the Sun Spear had been fired.

Upon seeing this, several knights immediately rushed over to stop her, but she beheaded them one by one with her sword!

Relying on his own formidable strength, the elven officer imbued the blade in his hand with terrifying pure white aura. The aura rubbed against the lightning power that the blade was originally imbued with, emitting an ominous glow in the dim space.

Finally, the elven officer arrived in front of Lu Ming, who was directing the knights to ambush the elven forces and unleash the Sunlight Spear. He raised his blade high and swung it down heavily, striking Lu Ming.

clang!

A sound of swords clashing rang out as Lu Ming used his Irithyll Straight Sword to block the elven officer's attack. Pale lightning collided with pure white frost, and the resulting energy caused the surrounding knights to instinctively shiver and hastily move away to avoid being drawn into the battle between these two powerful figures.

While wielding the Irithyll Straight Sword and grappling with the elven officer, Lu Ming suddenly shook the Bell of Hope, unexpectedly slamming a bolt of lightning into the ground, unleashing terrifying golden lightning that injured the elven officer.

Standing about ten meters away from Lu Ming, the elven officer watched him cautiously, thinking to himself, "This guy is Lu Ming from the Yugsotus Cavalry? No wonder he's so strong. If I hadn't dodged quickly, that lightning bolt might have hit me."

The elven officer carefully examined Lu Ming, scrutinizing every part of his body. After regaining his combat abilities, he attacked Lu Ming once more, searching for any weaknesses in his defenses during the battle.

She quickly discovered Lu Ming's weakness: although he appeared to be a melee-type mage, he was actually more inclined towards magic, and his close-combat abilities were not particularly strong. In close combat, he did not rely on powerful swordsmanship, but rather on the magic and miracles cast with his other hand.

Lu Ming is a mage, so as long as you attack him quickly and fiercely, preventing him from using magic or miracles, he will no longer be such a powerful and difficult opponent!

Thus, the elven officer immediately launched a rapid attack on Lu Ming, and every time Lu Ming shook the Bell of Hope, her attack would strike the hand holding the Bell, forcing Lu Ming to stop casting the miracle to avoid having his hand cut off by the elven officer's sword.

As time passed, Lu Ming was gradually driven into a corner by the elven officer in front of him!

Suddenly, the elven officer seized an opportunity, knocking the Irithyll Straight Sword from Lu Ming's hand with a single strike. In that instant, the elven officer felt his chance had come and decisively rushed forward, ready to kill Lu Ming with a single blow!

However, as the elven officer charged forward, Lu Ming, retreating step by step, showed not a trace of panic in his eyes. As he retreated, Lu Ming deliberately moved closer to the wall with torches, casting his shadow on the ground in the torchlight.

He did this intentionally, because the closer he got to the firelight, the darker his shadow became.

Lu Ming pressed on relentlessly, forcing the elven officer to step into his shadow. But it was precisely this step that sealed the elven officer's fate, a life that was neither young nor old.

Because of her step, she stepped into a deep, dark mud, causing her feet to sink deep into it and quickly descend!

"The Deep?! This is impossible!!" Seeing her body sinking into the deep black mud, the elven officer was terrified and hurriedly struggled to climb out of the mud. Unfortunately, the mud was like quicksand; the more she struggled, the faster she sank!

Before long, the elven officer sank completely into the deep black mud and was devoured by a woman in black robes.

Step by step, Lu Ming approached the elven army. Along the way, he picked up his Irithyll Straight Sword and then ordered his knights, "Don't linger! Warriors, retreat! Mages, use magical walls to block the enemy! Prepare for the charge!!"

Upon hearing Lu Ming's command, Miracaisar's knights immediately launched a fierce attack to force their opponents back, and then quickly retreated, allowing the mages to use sturdy magical walls to block all the elven troops at the entrance to the basement.

Looking at the magical walls that had trapped them at the entrance to the basement, the elves, who didn't understand Miracaesar, had no idea what Lu Ming and the others were planning. After repeated unsuccessful attacks on the magical walls, they gave up on attacking these defensive spells, which their weapons simply couldn't break through.

On the ceiling of this level, the mages of Yogg-Sotus had drawn defensive magic amplification arrays using special beverages. Therefore, any magical wall cast by a mage of the third rank or higher would be strengthened to nearly the level of a fifth-rank archmage's. Even blasting it would only partially crack it; it was impossible to break through with weapons alone. Not to mention, the only fifth-rank dragon slayer among these elven soldiers had already been fed to the black-robed woman in the deep black mud by Lu Ming; they had even less hope of breaking through the magical wall!

As the mages stabilized the magic wall, Lu Ming slowly raised one hand, and several mages immediately knelt on the ground, pressing one hand to the ground and gathering magic power.

Then they saw Lu Ming forcefully wave his hand down.

Upon receiving the order, they immediately channeled their magic through the ground to a large number of magic bombs hidden in the underground labyrinth, detonating them!

The earth shook violently, and a terrifying purple flame burst forth from the basement, engulfing the entire elven army!

A terrifying shockwave, accompanied by purple flames, slammed viciously into the magic walls, instantly cracking them. However, the magic walls ultimately withstood the impact, successfully protecting Lu Ming and the others.

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Standing inside the military camp, Aragosana and Strylisa immediately understood what had happened after seeing the purple flames shooting into the sky near the Miracathian fortress.

Gazing in the direction of the fortress, Aragosa roared through gritted teeth, "Damn Miracathians!!"

Then the Fire Leaf Guards soldiers heard the same roar coming from Strylisa's side.

Just as they were wondering what had happened, the two suddenly appeared on the playground and ordered them, "All Pokémon, assemble!!"

Immediately, all the elven soldiers were startled and hurriedly ran over, standing in rows.

Then, the two women said, "Our brothers and sisters were killed by the Miracaesars, and now we are going to avenge them!!"

"Yes!!"

"Bring all the slaves and cannons, we must take down the Miracathian fortress today!!"

"Yes!!"

Chapter Sixty-Five - Feint Attack and Ambush

Before dawn, the roar of cannons echoed across the plains of Azertus. The elven soldiers of the Fireleaf Guard, under the command of their commander-in-chief, Duke Alagosana, began their attack on the Miracathian fortress.

A full 100,000 elven soldiers charged madly toward the fortress as if they didn't care about their lives. They ignored the arrows, auras, miracles, and magic attacks from the knights of the Kingdom of Miracaissa on the fortress and forcibly fought back with their bows and arrows, moving siege ladders to the foot of the fortress walls.

Looking at the elven soldiers below the city walls, who seemed to have gone mad, Ramanlas kept directing the knights of the Yogg-Sotus Cavalry to attack the Fireleaf Guard's siege ladders with lightning spears, lest they set up the ladders and make the situation worse.

"Are these bastards going crazy because they can't accept the fact that they've been taken advantage of? They're acting like they don't care about their lives!" Not far from Ramanlas, Tures couldn't help but ask Ramanlas, who was standing next to him, because of the elven soldiers' reckless and fearless attitude.

However, Ramanlas did not answer; instead, the person who answered was Winsland on the other side.

After she shot an arrow into the head of a Fireleaf soldier, she said to Tures, "It must be that their commander couldn't accept the fact that he had been deceived, which is why he launched this siege. However, their madness is a bit strange; it's almost like they're possessed, which is abnormal."

Upon hearing this, Tures and Ramanlas carefully observed the Fireleaf Guard soldiers and found that it was just as Winslant had said. These elven soldiers really seemed to be possessed; several of them had multiple arrows stuck in their bodies, yet they still charged towards the fortress recklessly, which seemed extremely abnormal.

"It seems the commander of the Fire Leaf Guard has used some damned secret technique on them again, driving them insane." Because of her insectoid bloodline, Ramanlas was sensitive to certain secret techniques, so when she noticed something was wrong with the Fire Leaf Guard soldiers, she immediately thought of some kind of mind-controlling secret technique or drug.

However, whether the thing that drove the Fireleaf Guard soldiers mad was a secret technique or some kind of potion, they had no way to undo its effects, so they could only command their troops to kill as many of these crazed elves as possible.

Suddenly, a piercing sound rang out on the battlefield, causing soldiers from both the Fire Leaf Guard and the Miracaesar Alliance to stop what they were doing and cover their ears in pain.

The piercing high note came and went quickly, disappearing without a trace in just one second.

But it was precisely because of this piercing sound that the soldiers of the Fire Leaf Guard became even more frenzied!

The Fire Leaf Guard soldiers, who were already somewhat agitated, had previously maintained some rationality and knew to use siege ladders to attack. Now, having become even more frenzied, they simply abandoned the siege ladders and climbed the fortress walls with their bare hands, like monsters.

Upon seeing this, the commanders of the Miracaesar alliance were all shocked. They hurriedly ordered their mages to use magic to gather water molecules in the air, creating a large mass of floating water. They then used fire magic to heat the water to a high temperature and poured it onto the crazed elven soldiers, severely burning them and causing them to fall off the fortress walls.

The mad elf, scalded and unable to hold onto the gaps in the fortress wall, fell onto the other elves still on the ground along with the boiling water, scalding them as well.

For a moment, screams and wails filled the air. Many knights felt uncomfortable and couldn't bear to look at the elves' miserable state.

Unlike Miracath's knights, the elves' own comrades showed no pity for their companions, who were severely scalded by the boiling water. Driven mad, they ignored their fellow elves' screams and cries, their only thought being to charge up the fortress walls and capture it. So, one after another, they trampled their wounded comrades, using them as stepping stones, frantically scaling the fortress walls.

In this way, the elves who had been scalded by boiling water soon died under the trampling of their own kind.

"Damn elves! What do you take life for?!" Many knights of the Kingdom of Miracaisar roared angrily after seeing what the crazed elves had done to their wounded comrades.

They could accept death, they could accept slaughter, but they could not accept the elves' methods. This treatment of soldiers as mere tools offered no honor whatsoever. There were neither valiant warriors nor wise strategists; the elves were nothing but a pack of beasts! A pack of beasts that knew only how to attack relentlessly! To lose to such beasts was a profound disgrace for a knight!

Immediately, most of the knights spontaneously launched an even fiercer attack on these crazed elves, knocking them off the outer walls of the city one by one, giving them no chance to climb back up.

At this moment, some of the Fire Leaf Guard soldiers who had not yet gone mad also deployed artillery to the battlefield and began bombarding the fortress.

However, all of these shells were blocked by the magical shields generated by the magic array inside the fortress. This meant that the Fire Leaf Guard's bombardment could not change the situation in the short term; they could only try to shatter the fortress's defensive shields with a large number of shells before making any further plans.

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Just as the soldiers were bravely attacking the fortress, Aragosana and Strylisa led an elite force of two thousand elves to dig through a tunnel that had been dug by the cavemen slaves but collapsed due to the explosion of a magic bomb, preparing to storm into the fortress from there.

At this very moment, Fireleaf's main force is fiercely attacking the fortress. Miracaiser's main force is defending against Fireleaf's attack. Even if there are some defenders in the underground space, there can't be many. So if we break in from here at this time, we will definitely catch Miracaiser off guard!

With this in mind, Aragosa and Strylisa led this elite force into the tunnel.

Even though some time has passed, a large amount of unstable magic still remains in the space beneath the tunnel and fortress, making the mages in the group very uneasy.

Walking through the tunnel filled with unstable magic, they soon found themselves in the space beneath the fortress, filled with unease.

As soon as they arrived here, they were hit by a wave of scorching heat, along with a nauseating burnt smell.

The elves, including Aragosana, knew that the acrid smell that made them so uncomfortable was coming from the corpses of their fellow elves who had been killed in the explosion. So, while they felt nauseous, they also felt a pang of sorrow.

But grief was only a small part of their feelings for these elves; much of their feelings were disgust!

They loathe these losers, and they loathe the Miracathians of the Underworld, these losers. They might avenge the elves who were blown up, but they would never consider these elves to be martyrs who died in battle. Because they are losers.

Like the previous wave of elves, Aragosa and the other elves also got lost when they first entered the underground labyrinth beneath the fortress.

However, with the help of a special magical device from Strylisa, Aragosana and the other elves quickly found the right way and arrived at the staircase leading to the upper level.

Looking at the large amount of grayish-white powder piled on the ground, Aragosana and the other elves frowned. Needless to say, this powder was naturally from the elves from before.

The ashes of their kin were haphazardly piled up in various corners of this sweltering underground labyrinth, infuriating both Aragosa and Strylisa.

They elves may despise those guys, but how could mere humans and beastmen be so disrespectful to their race!

"Charge!" The ashes of the dead elves were like raging oil, igniting the fury of Aragosa and Strysa, prompting them to immediately order the most elite elves of the Fireleaf Guard to storm the upper levels.

Upon hearing the order, the elves immediately grabbed their blades and charged up the stairs to the upper level, preparing to give the Miracathians a fatal surprise.

But at that very moment, a thunderous roar suddenly came from above, and then Aragosa and Strysa heard the sounds of their soldiers fighting against the Miracaesars.

Because of their misjudgment of the number of soldiers who might be guarding the upper levels, the two of them did not hesitate to lead the remaining soldiers who had not yet reached the upper levels to charge up as well.

Soon, the two women discovered that the Miracaesars waiting for them on the upper level were not a small force, but an army of at least five thousand! Moreover, this army stationed at the entrance to the scorching underground labyrinth was no ordinary force, but rather a highly elite army! At least their weapons and armor were of very high quality, unlikely to be possessed by a ragtag troop!

"Damn it!" Upon seeing the well-organized and nearly as elite Miracaissa army as their own, Aragosa and Strisa knew their intentions had been anticipated. Moreover, the enemy had laid an ambush, waiting for them to come to them. They cursed under their breath, drew their weapons, and joined their soldiers in charging towards the Miracaissa army.

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