The rout came with extreme suddenness—so sudden that even Miska himself failed to react.
What happened was really very simple. The demons had held a huge advantage. The demons charged in. The devils counterattacked. The devils rushed forward. The demons collapsed. The demons typed GG. The entire process was swift and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.
Queen of Chaos and Miska had originally intended to join forces and turn the tide, but the moment they flew out from the formation, they were surrounded by a large group of Pit Fiends, while Baalzebul cunningly hid among them.
Judging by their apparent strength, those Pit Fiends should never have been a match for Queen of Chaos and Miska. But instead of fighting them one-on-one, the Pit Fiends cooperated with remarkable coordination to besiege the two of them. On top of that, one of the Dark Eight hid among them, always looking for chances to ambush them. There was even a high-ranking devil formation in the devil army providing dedicated support. In the end, after fighting themselves to exhaustion and killing only a third of the Pit Fiends, Queen of Chaos and Miska could no longer hold on and had no choice but to retreat.
With Queen of Chaos and Miska withdrawing, the battle finally came to a complete end.
The demons were slaughtered into a panicked rout. If Baalzebul had not still needed to deal with Graz'zt behind him and had not wanted to waste more time on Miska and the others, he would not have stopped after pursuing them for only a short while. Otherwise, Miska's army might well have been annihilated. Even so, the army Miska and Queen of Chaos had painstakingly assembled suffered losses of more than seventy percent!
With losses on that scale, Miska and the others had