After a minor victory, all the beastmen corpses were buried, while their heads were chopped off and piled into a grim little mountain on the spot.
Several dozen court mages rushed in as reinforcements and joined forces to cast earth magic, restoring the cliffs destroyed by the Earth Titans. Enzo's three small castles were also reinforced by the mages, and the nearby trenches, traps, and other defenses were repaired as well.
Standing atop the castle, Enzo looked coldly down at the five or six successive rows of cliffs, each twenty meters high. These artificially created cliffs were the Black Crow Gorge defense line's greatest reliance. After being strengthened by earth mages, even a large force of Titans would have to expend far more effort and time to destroy them.
Just half an hour after this beastman force had been slaughtered to the last man, an elite beastman cavalry unit arrived at the scene.
The mottled bloodstains on the ground were glaringly vivid, while the small mountain of beastman heads drove this force of two thousand wolfman cavalry and five hundred bearfolk heavy cavalry into repeated roars of near-maddened fury. The beastmen set up camp on the spot and began digging out the corpses, arranging them in a neat line before Enzo's defensive line.
After that, another beastman force arrived every quarter of an hour. About six hours later, more than fifty thousand elite beastmen had gathered before Enzo's line. Over a hundred Titans arrived with the army, carrying heavy siege engines on their shoulders. Nearly a hundred temple shamans floated high in the air, while another group rode flying Magic Beasts and circled overhead. A chilling killing intent surged over them, blanketing heaven and earth.
Ten hours later, more than a hundred thousand beastman soldiers had assembled before Enzo's defensive