"Oh, so Valoran is the one attacking. The Bone Frames and Mushroom People are just helping out as friends. That's a relief!"
The Bone Spirits and Myconids were already troublesome enough. The key problem was that the two peoples had the Light Alliance and Hall Angels backing them.
The Abyssal Demons worried that the Light Alliance thought Iron Arm Abyss was too crowded and had sent the Bone Spirits and Myconid Tribe to carve out more territory.
Fortunately, their nightmare hadn't come true. The ones invading the Thirteenth Abyss World were from the Valoran Plane, not the Light Alliance.
Once they had identified the enemy, the Abyssal Demons lost their fear and immediately assembled a large army to counterattack.
The Valoran Plane wanted to colonize the Plane Graveyard. They couldn't do that without paying a price.
The Abyssal Overlords tacitly avoided the places where the Bone Frames and Mushroom People were active.
They sent only cannon fodder to delay the enemy, while their elite legions went to other fronts to reap souls.
It would be best if they could drive the Valoran Expeditionary Army away. If they couldn't, they still couldn't afford to lose out. They had to reap a good harvest of souls.
The Plane Graveyard war could be a win-win: you gained the foundation for ascending to godhood, and I reaped the soul resources needed to ascend.
Sacrifice some unimportant personnel, and we could both have a bright future.
The Valoran Alliance had launched an expedition, fully prepared for casualties.
Reinforcements kept arriving. The Valoran Expeditionary Army and the Abyssal Demons fought a bloody war of attrition around the planned site of Valorant.
"No wonder there are so few troops on our side. Being neighbors with the Wrynn Family really does take the pressure off."
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