Airships trailing thick smoke kept crashing down onto the battlefield below, causing even greater chaos and casualties.
Flying magical creatures were also constantly blasted into chunks of flesh by precise shots, or reduced to charred corpses by powerful area spells.
The entire Weeping Blood Plain, from sky to earth, had completely erupted. The sounds of slaughter rose and fell like a tsunami, deafeningly loud.
Along the vast front line, every inch of ground was burning, and every breath carried the stench of blood.
From the very beginning, this war had entered its cruelest and bloodiest phase of total attrition.
Duke and Vivian remained at the edge of the battlefield, keeping watch along the boundary of the plain as they observed countless lives fighting and killing in the grand battlefield ahead.
Even this far out on the battlefield's fringes, they still faced some danger.
Most of that danger came from indiscriminate fire from unknown sources. The aftershocks of energy attacks would occasionally sweep over them.
Duke's Sand Guardian once again played a tremendous role. This automatic defensive counterattack ability was exceptionally suited to the battlefield environment.
The situation on the battlefield changed by the instant, with all kinds of attacks filling every direction. Simply dividing one's attention to watch the surroundings and defend oneself consumed a great deal of focus.
Duke had it much easier. Not only could he protect himself without difficulty, but he also had enough energy left to look after Vivian.
They focused on protecting themselves and stayed as far from the high-intensity center of the battlefield as possible.
There was nothing for them to do yet. No enemies had charged as far as their position, and the war had only just begun.
Since defending himself was relatively easy, Duke had spare attention to use this opportunity to