This was the strength of two legions. Meanwhile, a series of merchant attacks occurred along the eastern border of the Keren Kingdom, and every merchant attacked was from the eastern Nicia Kingdom!
With international relations already tense, the Nicia Kingdom immediately took this as a provocation by the Keren Kingdom and gathered the strength of two legions along Keren's eastern border!
The Second and Third Legions held the eastern border to guard against a sudden Nicia attack, while the First Legion was ordered into crisis. With just one legion—over sixty thousand troops—it marched south and, in less than two weeks, forcibly defeated the 130,000 troops under Balankilo!
The territories of the Six Kingdoms were roughly equal in size, so each could generally support only around three legions. Yet the First Legion had crushed an enemy twice its size in such a short time. Such combat strength forced Nicia to reassess the relationship between the two nations!
The First Legion had turned the Keren Kingdom's crisis around through sheer strength, and proved with its fists that it deserved to be called the First Legion!
But today, in the span of a single night...
The First Legion was gone...
Even with the assistance of mages from the Six Kingdoms, it had vanished into nothingness...
Casey, vice president of the Nicia Magic Guild, looked at the corpses strewn across the ground and the Demon Beasts eyeing them greedily from all around. It all felt like a dream.
The remaining seven hundred mages formed a huge circle. The Demon Beasts had stopped attacking them, and the mages were not foolish enough to provoke the Demon Beasts on their own. Thus, the two sides remained locked in a standoff.
Suddenly, the Demon Beasts surrounding them three layers deep inside and out respectfully parted to form