Lu Cang had taken in the battle in the distance.
The War Elephant had had its limbs severed. Its body toppled toward the ground as a beam of intensely dazzling light pierced through it.
It looked like an arrow...
But it had gone straight through the War Elephant's belly, leaving a huge hole.
It seemed they had won.
But...
The Demonic Tide didn't seem to be thinning at all.
The next question that came to mind was... how long would they have to hold out?
So far, their results had been fairly good.
With everyone covering and helping one another, there had been almost no casualties.
But the problem was...
Mages would run out of mana, and Warriors would be exhausted.
Healers would run out of spells.
Not every mage could cast spells with unlimited mana like Lu Cang.
"How long do Demonic Tides usually last?"
Lu Cang turned to ask the Level 4 mage beside him.
Only then did Lu Cang notice how unusually grave his expression was.
"I don't know..."
"Some are just small waves of beasts that stop after ten minutes or so."
"But some prolonged Demonic Tides can even last for months."
"They can drain an entire kingdom until it runs out of supplies and ammunition."
Lu Cang: "Huh?"
"Doesn't a Demonic Tide have some kind of source?"
The Level 4 mage shook his head. "If we knew where it came from, we'd have dealt with it right away."
"Monsters are formed by the invisible Demonic Tide. They appear out of thin air where people can't see them."
"They're forming out of nowhere in gaps in the forest, and in the places obscured by the monsters themselves."
"So you're saying they can't all be killed?"
"They can..."
"If we hold out until the Demonic Tide thins,