Throughout the three days of fierce battle, Karya kept a close eye on the allied army's mental and physical condition.
Although fighting could numb people, in a sense, it also desensitized them.
In Karya's experience, when fighting the Void, the endless swarms of insects could gradually numb people or even drive them to the brink of collapse. But the most dangerous moment was the initial surge of Void energy. According to statistics from the Shuriman Empire era, casualties were heaviest during this stage—unless they had been prepared in advance and had specialized defenses.
Once they survived the most dangerous surge of Void energy and gradually grew accustomed to its corrosive effects, the long insect tide that followed could instead become a trial by fire.
Judging by the situation now, the allied army had passed that trial successfully.
Although everyone had inevitably grown somewhat numb, the results spoke for themselves: after wiping out a huge swarm of Voidlings, the soldiers could calmly turn around and go eat or sleep. Some even joked, "If we run short on supplies, maybe we'll get the chance to taste a Voidling or two."
It seemed the continuous fighting hadn't broken the allied army. Instead, it had tempered their resolve.
Of course, this was inseparable from the army's long expedition beforehand. Looking back over the journey, the Northern Expeditionary Army had started out marching, then forced-marching. They had rested and waited for the enemy in the Black Forest, joined forces with Avarosa, fought a great battle in Freljord, and then embarked on a long expedition across unfamiliar snowy plains before attacking Jotunheim from within and without.
The challenges the Northern Expeditionary Army had faced had grown steadily throughout the campaign. Just as Lux had crossed Twenty Thousand Li of Yellow Sand in Shurima, this expedition—one that