Saine and Lunna had temporarily entered a rather mysterious state in the Underground World due to the scouring magma and geological pressure, unaware of the passage of time outside or how the war had developed.
But the war on the Surface World had not ceased because of their absence.
With the successive deaths of the two native gods, the native creature legions of the Gumo Plane had erupted with an extraordinarily fierce will to resist for a time.
But that fearless fighting spirit had come quickly and gone just as quickly.
After all, the truly death-defying mad dogs of the Star Realm were few.
The overwhelming majority were merely ordinary, mediocre creatures.
After the most elite core forces of the native creature legions had been wiped out, and with upper-level command lacking, a sweeping collapse spread through the millions upon millions of native legions across the battlefield.
Had the Level-4 Golo Earthworm King not fled the battlefield so early, the morale of the Gumo Plane's native creature legions likely would not have collapsed so quickly.
But it was precisely the Golo Earthworm King's flight that drove the native earthworm legions, which accounted for more than half the forces on this battlefield, to flee as well.
Thus, this native legion, which had initially seemed to retain considerable combat strength, was reduced to scattered chickens and crumbling dogs beneath the Wizard Civilization army's sweeping pursuit.
The war on the Gumo Plane ended far faster than anyone had imagined.
After all, only a year had passed since Saine and his group arrived at this Low-Level Plane battlefield.
Of course, the great victory brought by the war's swift conclusion did not erase the grief of the Dark Flame Holy Tower's heavy losses.
In this battle, the number of registered magicians lost by the Dark