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Night quietly fell...
But the war continued...
Magical beasts were not tireless.
Even to magical beasts, the Beast King's orders were absolute, but physical stamina was not something they could force themselves to maintain.
Although magical beasts possessed far greater physical abilities than humans, by the time night fell, the magical beasts that had been relentlessly attacking the Royal City were exhausted as well. Furthermore, many of their factors, such as magic power and vision, were affected by the darkness. The magical beasts that had been charging like a tide finally halted their offensive at a certain moment. As though someone had given them an order, they withdrew in an orderly fashion amid continuous roars.
But as had just been said, even with nightfall, the war continued.
There were all kinds of magical beasts. Since there were magical beasts that acted during the day and were affected by the night, there were naturally nocturnal magical beasts that acted at night and were even more formidable now than during the day.
The people who had struggled to defend the Royal City's walls for an entire day and were already nearly exhausted knew this as well.
Before long, the nocturnal magical beasts would take over the retreating beasts' task and continue the siege!
Therefore, for both humans and magical beasts, the war would continue!
It was merely that the magical beasts would be replaced by another batch, while the defenders would change shifts as well.
Thus, as the magical beasts collectively took advantage of the night to conceal themselves and gradually retreat into the surrounding mountains, the defenders who had spent the entire day guarding the city in exhaustion began to slowly let down their guard and hand