With the arrival of three more legions, the entire situation changed abruptly.
They had not come from the same direction. One cut in from the Alchemy Legion's left rear, another swept around its right rear, and the third pressed in from the front.
The three legions marched at different speeds, but they reached the battlefield in quick succession, no more than half an hour apart.
They converged from three directions at once, sealing off every route of retreat for the Alchemy Legion.
Together with the army led by the Godspawn, they completed the encirclement.
The alchemists maintaining the Unified Alchemy Array sensed the movement behind them.
Everyone's expression changed sharply at the sight of the endless enemy ranks.
Wasn't this... far too many?
Someone glanced back and saw the gray-white tide surging over the horizon toward them. Their hands began to tremble involuntarily, and their energy supply grew unsteady.
Faint fluctuations had already appeared in the array patterns beneath their feet, spreading along the lines.
Casper saw it too. Standing at the heart of the array, he swept his gaze across those three directions and reached a conclusion after calculating their distances and speeds.
With the fighting this deeply entangled, it was already too late to retreat. The entire Alchemy Legion had been completely surrounded.
The alchemists could not break away to intercept the three newly arrived forces.
The Unified Alchemy Array required a continuous supply of energy from them to keep its patterns intact. If that supply was interrupted, the pattern structure they had built up would collapse immediately.
If they lost the ability to maintain the array, the situation would spiral completely out of control.
They could only send their limited mobile forces to the rear, leaving the Constructs and soldiers to hold off the converging allied troops.