At the edge of the Beastmen Tribe's city walls.
Dozens of beastmen were drawing their bows and nocking arrows, attempting to retaliate against the Wolf Hunters outside the city.
More than a hundred Wolf Hunters rode dire wolves and rapidly fired a volley of arrows.
They drove back the beastmen who had just climbed onto the city walls and were preparing to counterattack.
Meanwhile, not far from the city walls.
Christian was reporting to Lilith.
"Lady Lilith, we have eliminated the beastmen from the five guard camps outside the city."
"There were five hundred in total."
Christian's voice was steady, and his speech was measured.
He sounded as though he were recounting something utterly ordinary.
There was not the slightest hint of joy after the victory.
Because for a high-tier hero like her,
leading four hundred purple-tier, fourth-rank Wolf Hunters,
a battle record of eliminating a mere five hundred low-level beastmen was simply not worth mentioning.
"According to the Lord's intelligence, this Beastmen Tribe numbers around two thousand."
"So there are still fifteen hundred beastmen inside the city?"
"Lady Lilith, shall I lead the Wolf Hunters in protecting the Mage Legion?"
Upon hearing Christian's words,
Lilith glanced at the city walls covered in thorns.
Then she pursed her lips and chuckled.
"They're merely some low-level beastmen."
"Christian, are you still stuck in the era when the Holy Church ruled?"
"Since the beginning of the Glory Era, mages have no longer been weaklings reliant on Spell Slots."
"As long as we have enough magical energy, we can cast magic ten thousand times a day."
"Just honestly carry out the Lord's orders."
"Prepare to deal with the beastmen who escape."
"Oh, that is, assuming they can charge out intact."
Lilith blinked. Her beautiful eyes glittered as she released a bewitching charm.
But in Christian's eyes, as someone from the Holy Church,
this was heresy and provocation.
Yet Christian, known as the Holy Light Fox, naturally knew that he was no match for Lilith.
Besides, this was no longer the era when the Holy Church's Inquisition suppressed the world.
This was the Great Cataclysm Era after the Great Calamity.
They were all actually dead, merely dredged out of the River of Time by the Civilization Fire of another world.
They had returned to the battlefield once more.
Their current enemy was the heretical gods above the mist.
Lilith was an ally, not an enemy.
Therefore, in the face of Lilith's unfriendly provocation,
Christian bowed slightly.
"I will obey your orders, Lady Lilith."
"Everything I do is for the Wasteland Territory."
"I have no ulterior motives!"
Lilith twirled the staff in her hand.
"Of course. Then take your Wolf Hunters and carry out the Lord's orders."
"As for this place—"
"It can be left to the Flame Mages."
"Yes, Lady Lilith."
After Christian withdrew,
Lilith turned her gaze back toward the walls of the Beastmen Tribe.
After the Wolf Hunters shot dead some of the reinforcements that had climbed onto the walls,
the beastmen who came up afterward all carried enormous shields as they climbed the city walls.
Among them was Steel Fang, the chief of the Beastmen Tribe.
"Hm? He's actually an Orange Unit. It seems there should be another Orange Unit inside the city. What a pity—they only have first-rank strength."
The moment Lilith saw Chief Steel Fang, she immediately identified his strength.
At the same time, she deduced the strongest combat power among the troops remaining in the city.
"Besides, even if they are an Orange Quality Beastmen Legion,"
"they are ultimately still lower beings!"
"Deliver my orders!"
"All Flame Mages are to immediately divide into five teams."
"Take positions before the city walls and summon Fire Elementals."
"Four hundred Fire Elementals per team. Await my order to attack!"
As the order was issued,
the Flame Mages rapidly chanted their incantations.
In an instant, outside the beastmen's city walls,
a full two thousand Fire Elementals were summoned.
The rising flames instantly raised the temperature of the battlefield by several degrees.
This sight fell into the eyes of Chief Steel Fang on the city wall.
The four-meter-tall beastman revealed a trace of shock.
The beastman warrior beside him was even more pathetic.
He actually cried out in terror.
"The Mage Legion!"
"This is actually a human Mage Legion!"
"Why would they appear in the Northern Frontier?"
The moment the beastman warrior finished speaking,
Steel Fang kicked him aside.
"They're merely a beginner human Mage Legion."
"What is there to fear?"
"My Steel Fang Tribe has received the blessing of the God Above the Mist."
"We have five hundred Steel Fang Warriors who have all awakened Bloodthirsty Battle Qi."
"The beginner human Mage Legion is no match for beastman warriors."
"Come!"
"Deliver my order. Have the Steel Fang Warriors climb the walls and form up."
"Let these humans see the might of our beastman warriors."
Chief Steel Fang's voice rang across the city walls.
The beastmen who had been somewhat fearful moments earlier were all roused.
"That's right, we still have the Steel Fang Warriors!"
"The powerful Bloodthirsty Battle Qi will show the humans what true strength is."
"Lowly humans, they will regret attacking today."
"For the glory of the Steel Fang Tribe!"
Roars rose one after another from atop the city walls.
But very soon,
those frenzied shouts abruptly fell silent.
Because outside the city at that moment,
Lilith waved her staff and chanted an incantation.
She began summoning Advanced Fire Elementals.
Scorching fire spirits!
Heed your master's summons!
Elements of fire!
Under the command of the spirit, transform into unstoppable explosive flames!
Come forth!
Second-rank Flame Spirit!
"Roar~"
On the battlefield,
a blaze suddenly came into being in the void.
It then split into more than twenty roaring flames.
As the incantation ended,
a terrifying roar rang across the battlefield.
In an instant,
twenty Advanced Fire Elementals, each a full twenty meters tall, appeared on the battlefield.
The moment they appeared, raging flames surged across their bodies.
Looking up, they resembled twenty flame demons looking down upon the battlefield.
At this moment,
the beastmen who had been shouting moments ago were completely silenced.
They stared blankly at the twenty Advanced Fire Elementals.
Their mouths hung open, yet not a sound came out.
Only their trembling legs reminded them that they were still alive.
However, not all the beastmen were so useless.
The Orange Unit beastman warriors led by Steel Fang were unaffected.
"Advanced Fire Elementals!"
"There is an advanced human archmage below!"
"Kill him!"
"If we don't kill the human advanced archmage, we will all die beneath the flames."
A vicious killing intent ignited in Steel Fang's eyes.
He looked down from the city wall, trying to find the human archmage.
Very soon,
the completely unhidden Lilith was identified.
"It's her!"
But the moment Steel Fang saw Lilith,
Lilith saw him as well.
"Oh, the big boar noticed me?"
"I hear roasted boar tastes pretty good!"
"Attack!"
"Char it a little. The skin will be crispier!"
Upon receiving the order, the Advanced Fire Elementals immediately walked toward the city walls.
The poisonous vines gathered by the beastmen were utterly useless before the Fire Elementals.
Before they could even approach, they were roasted into blackened charcoal.
Seeing this, Steel Fang roared.
"Warriors!"
"Bloodthirsty Battle Qi!"
"Kill these elemental spirits!"
The beastman warriors on the city walls began condensing their battle qi and attacked the Advanced Fire Elementals.
But against the high-tier units summoned by Lilith,
their attacks were nothing more than a massage.
Left with no choice, Chief Steel Fang could only gather all the beastman warriors.
"Listen to my command."
"Form up!"
"Blood Burn!"
Steel Fang directly unleashed his secret technique.
In an instant, Steel Fang's body swelled dramatically.
"Blood Spear!"
"Die!"
A blood-red spear thrust toward the Fire Elemental.
The high-tier Fire Elemental charged forward, colliding with the blood-red spear.
Above the battlefield, flames and blood-colored battle qi danced through the air in an instant.
At this moment, Lilith saw what had happened.
A hint of smugness appeared in her eyes.
"You fell for it."
"Relay my order!"
"Flame Mages, attack the city!"
The Flame Mages, who had been waiting for this moment, immediately commanded two thousand low-tier Fire Elementals to attack.
Meanwhile, atop the city wall,
the half-orc warriors serving as the main force were fighting against the high-tier Fire Elementals.
The remaining thousand half-orcs were all ordinary units.
Faced with the two thousand Fire Elementals surging toward them,
they had no power to resist at all.
In merely a few moments,
they were killed by the Fire Elementals' Chain Fireballs.
The Fire Elementals then began launching a fierce assault on the city gate.
In the blink of an eye, the city gate, which had lost the defenders' protection, was breached.
The gates were thrown open at once.
The Fire Elementals surged into the half-orc tribe.
Without the protection of the city walls, the remaining low-tier half-orcs were no match for the Fire Elementals.
Before long, they had all been slaughtered.
In the end!
The warriors of the Steel Fang Tribe and the Steel Fang Chieftain were surrounded by the Fire Elementals.
After being beaten by twenty high-tier Fire Elementals for a while,
the half-orcs who had awakened Bloodthirsty Battle Qi had dwindled from five hundred to only one hundred.
Every one of them was injured.
Even Steel Fang, the chieftain, had lost his former might.
His body was covered in scorch marks.
Clearly, even he found it difficult to withstand the heat produced by the high-tier Fire Elementals.
Now, seeing that the tribe had been breached, all the half-orc civilians slaughtered, and his defeat a settled fact,
the furious Steel Fang let out a roar.
"Despicable human mage!"
"All you know is using numbers to bully the few!"
"If you have the guts, fight me one-on-one and settle this to the death!"
These words fell upon Lilith's ears.
Yet she found them unbearably irritating.
"Half-orcs are always this foolish."
"When they can't win, they demand a duel."
"Fine!"
"We'll all fight you alone."
"Get him!"
"This time, I want him roasted a little more thoroughly!"
At once, all the Fire Elementals swarmed forward.
"Ah, despicable human mage!"
"Upon the Mist God!"
"I curse you all to never—"
Before the Steel Fang Chieftain could finish shouting his curse,
the Steel Fang Chieftain was forcibly burned by the Fire Elementals into a crispy roast pig.
Accompanied by the Steel Fang Chieftain's screams,
Lilith stood on the outstretched palm of a Fire Elemental and stepped onto the walls of the Steel Fang Tribe.
Upon the city wall,
Lilith cast a disdainful glance at the Steel Fang Chieftain, who had been burned into charcoal.
With one kick, she sent the crispy roast pig tumbling from the wall.
"In the end, you're only a lowly life-form."
"Someone!"
"Quickly go and inform the lord!"
"The half-orc tribe has been completely annihilated!"
"I've taken the military station he wanted!"
"Yes, Lady Lilith!"
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