After Copper Tomb decided to leave and took Laya with him, all the Demons of Desire across the front collapsed.
Cocos also immediately ordered his troops to retreat.
Vast numbers of Radiant troops began fleeing frantically, using every means at their disposal.
To cover the main force's retreat, roughly a fifth of the Radiants detonated themselves.
Their explosions created a vast buffer zone between their main force and the pursuers led by Great Wu Territory.
The Radiants had come primarily to plunder and expand.
Now that they had finished plundering and expansion was no longer possible, there was no reason to keep fighting.
Cocos had already prepared to retreat after the Demons of Desire's previous defeat.
After all, unlike those crazed Orcs, they had a far grander plan for their resurgence.
They could not afford to suffer such a devastating setback here.
The Radiants fled, and the Desire Demons collapsed.
By the time the mass of Orcs realized enemies surrounded them, it was already too late!
Watching their soldiers and the many Human Alliance Pioneers swiftly encircle, destroy, and pursue the enemy units that had been completely cut off from one another, Malai and Nasr slumped into their chairs, utterly drained.
They knew victory was assured!
"Bless the Goddess!"
At that moment, everyone in the command center erupted in cheers.
But after that brief respite, all the commanders swiftly moved on to the next phase.
Now that the enemy had completely collapsed, they needed to capitalize on the battle's outcome to the fullest.
They had to do everything possible to surround and annihilate these enemies. They could not let them escape and stir up another wave of chaos later!
Planet 2.
The entire Desire Palace was visibly shrinking at a rapid pace.
The Void Abyss's influence over the planet was