There was little to say about the warm-up battle. Once Li Wei drove onto the battlefield with the Silver-armored Cavalry charging behind him, the monsters, already losing ground, were slaughtered and scattered in every direction. Seeing Li Wei and the others arrive, the Neverwinter Guard, who had been fighting all this time, breathed a sigh of relief. They immediately switched from defense to offense and killed every remaining monster.
Afterward, Emily found the commander of the Neverwinter Guard and asked what had happened, finally learning the full story.
They had indeed been ambushed, but at night. The Neverwinter Guard had been setting up camp when the Dragon suddenly appeared in the dead of night and attacked.
However, the Neverwinter Guard were no pushovers. They had camped deep in the woods, and a Blue Dragon was neither a Red Dragon nor a Black Dragon; its ability to inflict widespread destruction was limited. It merely destroyed their camp, then remained nearby to support its forces. Next came the monster army, which clashed with the Neverwinter Guard.
Simply put, it was the same routine used in the raid on Green Shade Town: the Blue Dragon controlled the battlefield with its dragon might, while the monsters did the killing.
But the Neverwinter Guard were certainly more resistant than Green Shade Town's militia. Though the dragon might affected them, it was nowhere near enough to make them abandon their armor and flee for their lives. The monsters had the terrain advantage, but little organization. Although the Neverwinter Guard suffered some losses in the initial ambush, they quickly recovered and engaged the enemy.
It had to be said that the armor and weapons supplied by the Empire had considerably strengthened the Neverwinter Guard. After such a fierce battle, they had lost only a few dozen men,