777 Final Battle Part 2 (1/2)

Leona was a Chaos Girl whose identity was already exposed. She was also one of the rare weaklings among the Chaos Girls… Actually, her power level wasn't that bad, but when compared to her seniors who were several centuries old, along with the Chaos Girls who had survived the previous, two previous, or countless previous Holy Wars, Leona was indeed far too weak.

It was likely that even her ancestor who was a God wouldn't be able to protect her from Karwenz. The God of Sword and Thunder was just a newborn Low God, after all. He was far weaker than a Main God. Thus, I had scammed and kidnapped Leona to Bardi also as a way of protecting her.

Since Leona was a critical chess piece who could influence the fate of the world itself, other higher-ups and factions wouldn't be as ”kind” as I was. Once Leona was in Bardi's hands, even though Bardi didn't imprison her out of respect for me, their protection and restrictions on Leona had far exceeded those for the ruler of any country.

No ordinary king would have five Level 4 individuals as his bodyguards. There were also more than a dozen ”volunteers” hidden in the shadows.

In a way, this was something that I tacitly accepted and even expected. I had indeed scammed Leona since I had promised to take her to find Karwenz, and then ran into him on that floating airship afterwards, but never told her about the truth.

Everyone knew that Leona wanted revenge on Karwenz, but when considering the power level difference between them, it would be nothing more than suicide.

Still, Leona would see me as nothing more than a shameless person who betrayed her.

Yet, would anyone really think that I cared about what she thought?

I glanced outside my room. I didn't have the free time to care about such matters right now.

The fires of war would only keep burning ever fiercer until the final piece of grass fuel was used up. Both sides of the war would also serve as more fuel for the fire.

Even though it was now dawn, the western battle showed no signs of ending. Instead, as the mages successfully landed, they activated more and more war puppets as the mages entered the battle, making the fighting even fiercer than before.

At such a time, talking about something like love and peace would be nothing more than a joke. Our human alliance had invested so much all for the sake of completely eliminating the devils and undead here, along with destroying the Dimensional Doors and completely reclaiming this area of land.

Once this area of land was reclaimed, then the Forest of Dreams, Mage Country, and Bardi would all become interconnected with no internal obstacles. This three-way alliance would perhaps then become the strongest faction in the mortal plane due to the momentum from such a major victory.

This land reclamation battle was the first major action taken by the entire Hell Faction and mortal plane's allied countries. This was the most important thing for us right now, so we wouldn't possibly allow this to fail.

As for me, even though nobody could force me to do anything, just the requests from the others ”above me” meant that I couldn't possibly leave right now.

Even though the battles were quite vicious already on both the western and eastern battlefronts, the biggest obstacles had yet to appear. The Devil Lords, powerful Devil Nobles, Undead Emperors, and ancient Undead Lords were all individually powerful enough to influence the entire course of battle.

Ordinary people would only be slaughtered by them. That obviously wouldn't do, so our own top-level individuals would likely end up fighting against the enemy's top-level individuals.

In the past, human top-level individuals had always been weaker compared to those from other species, but this might not be the case anymore.

Many of my old acquaintances were lying in wait on the western battlefront with me. They were mostly Truth-level archmages. Meanwhile, things on the eastern battlefront were left to the Immemorial and Supreme Immemorial Dragons from Dragon City.

Dragons and mages. These were probably some of the strongest fighting forces in the mortal plane, and they were on our side. They wouldn't be any weaker than the high-level devils and undead.

Now, it was a contest of who would be unable to take things anymore and act first. Anyone who acted first would expose their own position and abilities, naturally putting them into a more dangerous position.