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Across the entire continent, ke was going to target and reconquer five important cities. ria, the closest to the port cities, was already taken care of, he left behind ten thousand units to protect it, and also an Umbral Crimson Portal to easily teleport there if necessary.
Then there was Evergrace, much more to the center of the continent, which was once surrounded by beautiful spiritual forests and protected by Ancient Treants and Lesser Dryads, thest surviving descendants of Nature Spirits of old, who had grown "lesser" in which they couldn''t speak anymore.
Because he knew everyone needed to rest, he decided to reach Fortress Evergreen, which protected the beautiful city of Evergrace, and destroy the generals there and camp for the rest of the night.
Then, after Evergrace, there would be three more cities to go, Emeraldinite, the City of Jewels to the northeast, Azurite Grove, the City of Poetry to the southwest, andstly, Alfheim, the Capital city, right next to the Yggdrasil tree, all the way to the south.
Behind that city, there were also a few others, mostly where it snowed all the time and where the legacies of the frost fairies were left behind, it was rumored that ice elves lived there, nomadic in nature, nobody had any idea what might have happened to them, as they weren''t as civilized as the other elves.
Although they descended from the Ice Fairies, Elfriedden''s family weren''t ice elves, as ice elves did not descend from ice fairies, but were elves that underwent a mutation thanks to their spiritual powers long ago, living alongside the fairies themselves.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
From what little he learned about them from the elven knights, ice elves were much stronger physically than the normal elves, tall and muscr, warriors and hunters that lived in below zero tundra''s, which the lizardmen had a very hard time living in due to their cold blood.
"I am not too fond of those nomads, they never had good rtionships with our kind," sighed Elfang. "However, they are still brothers, and if they managed to survive due to the unique condition of their Tundra''s… then they could be valuable allies.
I would suggest going around the tree and reach the Tundra, to rally for their help and bring them to confront thest army of Fafnir, which might be easily over a million. Their frost powers will be of great help against those cold-blooded monsters."
"Hmmm…" Although ke had his Ice Fairies, Skadi, and Elfriedden, there was a limit of their power. However, from what he had heard, there might be hundreds of thousands of Ice Elves, as there were over ten different tribes living in the vast Tundra. "It would be an insanely difficult thing to pull out, especially if they''re so dispersed… But I believe it could be worth the try.
Mostly because… I want to help them, more than anything."
"Heh, I knew you would agree, my liege," Elfang smiled confidently. "Indeed, most of our kind could have died, but the Ice Elves… if we can at least save them, it would be all worth it."
"For now, let us concentrate on what''s in front of us…" said ke. "And even then, we don''t necessarily need to go there first, we could always divide our forces. After all, Elfriedden might be able to convince them."
"Eh? Me?!" Elfriedden muttered. "T-That''s… you must be crazy to think that… I have not ever spoken with those nomads before! Why would I ever be able to convince them?!"
"You do carry the bloodline of ice fairies…" ke said. "Oh right, also Skadi can talk… She could convince them more easily as well."
"Wait, I could do it, why not?!" Elfriedden suddenly becamepetitive. "Why do you have to ask a familiar for it?"
"He''s way too easy to manipte…" ke thought, sighing. "Hm? Looks like we''re here."
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(ke''s POV)
After leaving behind ria well protected and secured, with no more monsters crawling around, nor even around their surroundings, we moved forwards.
After traveling for thousands of kilometers within a few minutes, we reached the Evergreen Fortress, an enormous fortress made up of emerald-colored bricks assembled together.
And greeting us was an army of at least a hundred thousand strong, led by several Draconic Generals.
A nice aperitive for what wasing in the future.
Luckily for them, my army has grown by the thousands as well, although I had to leave ten thousand behind, I have not only created more Abyssal Vampiric Undead, but I''ve also created more of the normal Familiars.
Which, to be honest, are worth several dozens of their own units, sometimes hundreds, depending in their strength. And these Elven Knights, were about to showcase their true power to me, as I activated several buffs to make them much stronger.
My Spirit Stat increased with each one of them, which as a result also made them stronger again, the same happened with my Vampire Spirits, which I quickly told to disperse, divide, and conquer.
"Move, attack as many foes as you can, divide and conquer. Use your powers to your limits, manipte the surroundings if necessary!"
After enchanting them with the element of ice, they rushed towards the armies of Draconic Monstrosities and Lizardmen, shing against them alone.
Eleanora rushed towards my left, her spear piercing the bodies of countless creatures at once, as she sent them flying and then froze them with her draconic freezing mes, proceeding to shatter them into pieces.
Saphira was also helping making the armyrge, her Undead Summon abilities had been improving greatly so far, her Underworld Gates Skill and simr ones, proved to be very useful as they leveled up.
The amount of Undead she could summon rapidly increased from only a couple hundred to thousands, and because I had copied that Skill too, I was able to divide her Undead Army to three thousand strong, allparable to A+++ Rank Familiars due to the buffs, umted with both mine and the ones Saphira gave to them.
Which even worked on my own Abyssal Vampiric Undead, yes, Saphira ended bing an amazing ally right now, her ability to strengthen Undead was out of this world.
CRAAASH!
Both armies shed against one another, creating a thunderous sound.
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