BXBX NOVEL Chapter 187 Battle Of Selangrad (7)
Still, it was a better quirk than just throwing away money and resources frivolously. Only Dharrzug was disappointed with how this situation developed because he hoped to remain in the Selangrad and fight in the next fight.
He was also aware of the fact that the Star-Moon Coalition forces were coming this way and because of that reason, he wanted to say here even more and fight in the glorious war between two hostile factions of demons, as that would be something for the ork.
All orks literarily lived for moments like that, where there existed only pure and unrestrained war and nothing else existed or was relevant. Though Dharzug didn't want to leave here, he had no option because even muscleheads like him realized that the moment when the Star-Moon Coalition arrived here this would be an absolute bloodbath and he would have a high risk of dying here.
"We should be going to some near hills that are somewhere around Selangrad to enjoy the show... I want to enjoy the moment when the Golden ones are attacked and massacred by the Star-Moon Coalition to the last person."
Samiel stated as he wanted to go to some quiet place where he would enjoy some good food accompanied by the screams of the demons of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and its allies, as they would be slaughtered and killed to the last one, that would be music comparable to Vivaldi or Mozart to his ears.
The Star-Moon Coalition was coming here with a much higher number of soldiers, more experienced commanders and surprisingly or not, even better equipment than what the Golden-Horned demon army and its vassals were armed with. Everything was only for the sole purpose of completely annihilating the forces of the Golden ones on the 8th Floor of the Tower once for all.
After that was said, the entire Khaos Mercenary Party plus the mascots turned around and left the Core Layer of the Selangrad after Samiel stored the corpse of the Gold-Tier Professional of the Human Brotherhood, as his corpse would find its usefulness in the creation of some nice Undead.
A fresh corpse of a Gold-Tier Professional was always welcomed for Samiel right now because with his current strength and capabilities, it was already very hard to obtain and he could make another Higher Undead out of such a corpse with some precious resources. Naturally, there was always a possibility of buying such corpses with money.
Naturally, he wasn't really fond of that opinion because a preserved corpse of a Gold-Tier Professional that could be sued for Necromantic purposes was pricy, that would cost at least several tens of thousands of Credits, far more than was the cost of an average Gold-Tier Mana Crystal.
That wasn't really the most profitable way to obtain corpses, as obtaining them through combat was more interesting. At least it was more fulfilling than just buying them with some Credits. Not to mention finding the right seller who was dealing with the fresh corpses of high-tiered Professionals was hard.
Normally people who were selling corpses were not the best bunch to be around as they were not to be trusted and typically, necromancers were not the pleasant people to be around and were weird... not that Samiel was different from stereotypes.
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Meanwhile, in the other Layers of the Selangrad fierce fights were happening all around the city, with all sights of the human resistance were being fiercely suppressed and put down, with each of the Professionals of the Human Brotherhood were killed in brutal fashion as the demons advanced and showed no mercy.
Naturally, this caused practically enormous collateral damage to the Selangrad as the heavy majority of the Outer Layer was now set on flames from some kind of magical napalm that the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe brought from some alchemists and thus the Outer Layer of the Selangrad was already technically destroyed.
Not like the demons cared about that; for them, the only important layer was the Heart of the City because that was the place where all the essential buildings and other things were located, together with the Headquarters of the Human Brotherhood. While the loss of lives on the human side was sad because all of them could be potential slaves that could be sold for a nice amount of money, alas, there was nothing they could do about that.
"Lord General, I bring you the news that the city has fallen... we could move in the support personnel in the city and start securing it. Resistance has been completely suppressed in the Outer Layar, Inner Layer and Heart of the City. The Core Layer of Selangrad still has some resistance, but not for long as the vanguard forces have already breached some of their defenses and within ten minutes, it should be cleared out."
Reported the scout who had just returned from the Selangrad, as Lord General Qais started barking one order after another because right now, the most essential thing was to secure the city, which would soon be done and afterward, the entire war on the 8th Floor would be finished.
"Secure the city and all exits. Send in the supportive corps to search through the city, start securing the local population and transport them to the concentration camps and contact the slavers so that they could start picking the products. Also, notify the people in the Heart of the City to erect the guarantee that nobody will enter the Heart of the City and start searching through that layer carefully so as not to miss anything. Also, send in the Arcanists to carry out the analysis on the Dimensional Paths that were used in the Heart of the City to see if we could trace some of the worlds where Avalonians are hiding up."
Afterward, Lord General Qais personally went to enter the Selangrad as he would personally oversee the search through the Heart of the City, as this looked like a significant victory for the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe as they took down the Selangrad and won the war on the 8th Floor, with the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe becoming a Floor Ruler of this particular Floor.
While to many, the position of the Floor Ruler on Lower Floors would be useless because they were the Lower Floors, but there was one important factor in all of this... demons have a significant populace that was living outside of the Tower and countless demons entered the Tower and started from the LOwer Floors every day, so control over the Lower Floors would secure them steadier flow of demons.
If, for example, Human Brotherhood won the position of the Floor Ruler, they would have complicated things for the demon species as a whole. And while they wouldn't be able to kill every demon who entered the Tower, they would be able to make sure that only 20% of those who entered their Floor would also leave it in one piece.
The Tower's Sysmte wouldn't allow them to annihilate all demons who were climbing through the Tower because such action was against the purpose of the Tower, and thus was against the will of 'Them', but it would put some restrictions and other things, so the other outcomes cames into the fruition.
When Lord General Qais gave out the orders for the demon army, all of the demons started running here and there, many of them advancing toward the Selangrad. Most of the ones who were right now entering the city were so-called supportive troops, they were not combatants in the meaning of soldiers, but they were rather here for the securement of the city.
Their tasks often ranged from repairing the gates and cleaning the city to catching the humans and branding them as slaves, transporting them to the concentration camps, where they would wait for their buyers to arrive and overall refitting the city to the needs of the demon species.
Lord General Qais was completely unaware of the situation that was coming at them from all sides, as some of the familiars of the members of the Star-Moon Coalition were already circling high in the air, while scouting the area around the Selangrad as they passed the information to their masters who were with the main army.
After the city basically fell to the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and their vassals, they grew lax, not like they weren't like that even before, because they had almost zero protections and defenses against potential attacks form the outside.
They probably didn't think that somebody would be bold enough to attack them and had severely underestimated the confidence and resolve of the Star-Moon Coalition. From the distant hills of the Selangrad's outskirts, several riders of something that looked like wargs were already watching the situation and after talking between themselves a bit, all of them started descending towards the siege positions of the Golden-Horned Army with the intention of sabotage.
Contrary to the Golden-Horned Demons, that were always too arrogant for their own good, Star Demons and Moon Demons had totally different tempers. The Moon Demons were the most logical out of all demon species because almost all of them were inborn Arcanists and the study of Magic and mysteries of the Arcane was prevalent among them; they also took most of the habits of Arcanists.
Meanwhile, the Star Demons were a rather tranquil race for demons. They were always calm, wise and intelligent; many people and scholars who studied the Star Demon Race extensively often attributed that to their innate divination abilities. Probably something in that ability and the entire Lineage of 3rd Pillar Vassago was making them this way. Thanks to their demeanor, they were one of the very few demon races that had very good foreign relationships with other factions, something that was very uncommon among the demon species.
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On the other side of the Selangrad, some time later
"I have told you that sneaking from the city would be a pain in the ass...especially now when it is swarming with demons. If we waited for a little bit longer, then we would already be under the lockdown because they would for sure block all entrances and everything that is leading to the Core Layer of the city."
Samiel stated as they finally left the outer perimeters of the Selangrad and also the one of the demon army, and right now, the entire Khaos Chapter was located on the nearby hills that were in the outskirts of the Selangrad, as Samiel and co started building their viewing place there.
Surprisingly or not, Samiel had an entire set for outdoor tea party inside his Dimensional Ring in case there was a need for it... and right now, it had finally shown its purpose and usefulness. He took out everything, including a tea seat and even some snacks, while Yvraine immediately sat down and started munching on some tasty treats that Samiel had made, while Juulius stood behind Samiel like always.
Even Dharzug sat down and was going to watch the show... if he couldn't fight, then at least he would watch the slaughter unfold, if nothing else. Samiel, too sat down at one of the chairs and poured himself a cup of tea after he poured one Yvraine.
"Ohhh... it is already starting."
Samiel stated when he saw the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition incoming at the Selangrad. Just from the sheer presence of them, there were several hundred thousand of them. Samiel was able to sense them very clearly as day; on top of their overwhelming numbers, they also had a whole bunch of Gold-Tier Professionals coming with them.
Samiel even sensed some of the Gold-Tier Professionals that came with the Star-Moon Coalition were pretty powerful, more powerful than the ones he sensed at the army of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe.