Heavenly Beasts and Evil Creatures

The Tide Army naturally did not want to see its panicked soldiers fleeing back. This was their last stand; retreating would leave the Tide Army at a severe disadvantage in the strategies to come. Thus, they sent out officers to steady the troops.

At first, the results were minimal. The Collectors were real, tangible things, and the panic they inspired was overwhelming. It was not until one Tide Army officer added the newly landed Collectors to his speech that the situation improved, and the fleeing soldiers—

"Keep attacking! These are Heavenly Beasts descending upon us! Heaven is helping our Tide Army achieve victory! Let the Mang Army perish!"

Long before the Collectors landed, the Tide Army's pre-battle mobilization had claimed that the Mang Army had already lost the momentum of fate. The strange phenomena in the sky had vanished, and the Tide Army would defeat the Mang Army in the coming battle.

The so-called "defeat of the Mang Army" was a lie, meant to deceive the Tide Army's rank-and-file soldiers into believing it. Only then could they continue giving their all without wavering.

Whether the officers believed it or not, the Tide Army's common soldiers certainly did. They were poorly educated and more willing to accept illogical reasoning—these monsters had emerged from heavenly pearls that fell from the sky, so they were Heaven's messengers. And since the higher-ups had told them before the battle that the Mang Army had lost the momentum of fate, with the disappearance of the celestial phenomenon serving as proof, the Tide Army's common soldiers naturally accepted that even Heaven stood on their side.

Now, with the Tide Army's high-ranking officers shouting this and declaring that these were "Heavenly Beasts" sent by Heaven to aid them in battle—

The Tide Army's situation immediately stabilized. The soldiers