On Azuria's side, the Field General is Minerva, a mist Azurian.
NOTICE: PERSPECTIVE SWITCH TO MINERVA
Minerva is under a canopy with the other Azurians with her, they're playing card games. Minerva has already arranged the constructs in battle formation. She's by a cliff overlooking the battlefield between her army and the attackers. Minerva takes a snack which is like a tube and starts eating it.
An Azurian walks to Minerva, "Hey, Sis." Minerva glances at him and he continues speaking, "So, how do you want to deal with this?"
Minerva looks at the army, "Honestly…..it's a waste of time being here, even if Paxi says otherwise." Minerva turns to the Azurians playing games, "Everyone here is either a god with only 3 of us being Calamities, this is going to be a one-sided practice shot."
The Azurian chuckles, "At least they're moving targets. Paxi did say to not leave a single one of them alive, it's a damn shame." They notice the attackers' movements, "Looks like they're ready to fight." He places his hand on her shoulders, "It's all up to you, general." He leaves her and stands behind her, the others join forming a line.
Minerva looks at the 49 Azurians with a face that says 'What a pain' and chuckles. Minerva looks at the enemies sending a portion of their forces, "Send the constructs to intercept and command a unit. Leave the Spider Fortress behind for now, I'll send it behind them above their heads."
The Azurians nod and split up to the sides of the cliff, they command 10 constructs each ready to attack.
A FEW MOMENTS EARLIER
On the enemy side. A king, prince and some nobles have just arrived at the battlefield, they saw the Azuria forces on the other side and decided to make camp. The field is a vast land with not a single tree in sights, they army of 700,000 set themselves up under commanders of 100,000s down to captains of 1,000s.
The leaders gather in their war tents to discuss a strategy, in the room is over 15 people all serving as leaders or just nobles who thing they deserve to be there. They gather around a round table…..It's surprising how they brought it for a way. OH, it's Azuria foldable table.
Commander of the army and king of Falshurx stands before them, "Only 500 of them?!" he looks at another commander-like, "What about reinforcements? Of they could be hiding around us?"
The commander-like speaks, "No your majesty, our magic squad did not detect anything around us and our scouts have not seen signs of reinforcements from behind them. We checked the battlefield also and there are no traps."
King rubs his chin, "This is odd, I expected them to at least mount a larger force."
A noble laugh, "Hahahaha, what is there to expect? It was just a backward country after all. They didn't even know common courtesy."
A priest speaks, "Such disrespect. If they didn't have the means to defend themselves then they should just surrender." The priest in white robs snorts with a fan in hand, apparently, he's a healer.
The prince, son of King Falshurx turns to the table, "Father, we must teach them a lesson. Let me lead the charge and show them just how wrong they are."
As they were strategizing, the homes of these people were facing a silent crisis. The gods living with these people often live in bi~g buildings and people come there to worship and bring tribute. Anyway, a boy is bringing a tribute, he bowed down to pray for his father's safety. He turned around and left, normally, a priest will come for the tribute and send it to the gods into the building after taking their part.
This time, the gates of the building opened and a bloody figure is crawling out of the building with missing legs. This figure is actually a god of the enemy ally and... A figure walks out of the building with a smile, "Where do you think you're going?" The second figure is an Azurian, "We've only started on discussing the terms of your peaceful surrender." He grabs the knee of the god and starts dragging him into the building, "The others are waiting for us." The god uses the bony hands to grab the floor but they wanted it to be too smooth. The huge gate closes behind them and serenity returns.
Some lucky gods managed to piece things together and realized, Azuria destroyed more than half of the divine realm….They fled for their lives.
Back to the battlefield, the two armies were about to clash. The king sent a messenger to Azuria to ask them to surrender, the messenger moves past the constructs which are like poles and reaches Minerva. The messenger is surprised to see only 50 people present.
The messenger walks towards Minerva, "I am a messenger of the holy kingdo-"
Minerva looks ahead at the enemy army, "What do you want spit it out already."
The messenger gets annoyed, "Tch, your arrogance will get you killed, my king says surrender now or suffer. At least we will let you live as slaves, you cou-"
Minerva raised her hand to stop him, "To think insects could make such a demand, get out of my sights before I squash you." The messenger is enraged, he opens his mouth to speak and Minerva looks into his eyes. The messenger saw a giant monster with eyes from the eye level to the sides of its face to the back of the head, the monster had no teeth but a whirlpool for a mouth. Its arms were so long it could cover the entire battlefield, and it's body is like a mist with more solid. This monster is Minerva's Variant Form.
The messenger snaps out of it, "Was it my imagination?" He looks at Minerva uncertain of what to make of it, he walks away and returns to the enemy. Laughter comes from the enemy war tent and strangely, every Azurian present can clearly hear them.
The messenger reports, "My king, when I arrived, they seem to be playing card games in the air and some even made bets on how long our soldiers would last." The messenger also acted as a spy hoping to measure the strength of Azuria but he couldn't.
A general speaks, "Do they have a secret weapon?" he looks at the table before them that has their army arranged on it.
A platinum adventurer chuckles, "The golem, hahaha we can destroy them with our eyes closed." He seems too confident.
A noble speaks grinning, "They are delusional if they think they can win."
Priest waves his hand, "Enough let's make them pay already for their arrogance. I have to return to the temple soon."
The enemy sounded the alarm to charge and the soldiers charged.
A soldier at the front, "After this am getting married. Yaaaagggghhhh." He charged with his sword in hand.
Another soldier, "Am going to make their women mine. Aaarrrgghh." He also charged. The rest set red flag all over the place...…well, their bodies will be all over the place.
The constructs being like walking poles with heads and 4 legs are moving. The sides start to move with space opening then razor-sharp claws 4 on each side come out. What happened next, limbs and parts were flying and it wasn't metal. The dry land beneath their feet slowly turns moist red and a flow is forming on the ground.
The arrogant smiles and laughs of victory slowly faded and sounds of mourns and wails fills the land. The sight is too much that even the people watching far away from the war avert their gazes. They started to think, 'Maybe war wasn't such a bright idea.'
The enemy magic squad fire every kind of magic they knew but the constructs either deflected it or outright dodged it. They continued until the number of 700,000 reduced to about 400,000. They tried every strategy, surrounding the constructs, attacking from its blind spot (The blades on the constructs were cutting 360 degrees around them), anything they could think of. Even high-ranking adventurer volunteers didn't stand a chance. Even if they could stop a blade, the construct has 7 other blades.
Soon, a cry came from the enemy. "RETREAT! RETREAT!!" they start to fall back *HMMMM WWHIIIGGG* The sound of the constructs sound behind them and the sound of flesh being grinded fills their ears, they ran for their lives not daring to look back.
[AU:INFO
- Minerva Alcore: Appearance, 2.0 meters with black hair. Mist Azurian but elemental-ist, she can turn into water, air, fire, earth, metal, acid, basically any element even space but she uhh… became a blackhole humanoid. Often isolates herself to be with nature but easily found by her family. She never attacks first unless told to do so making her completely harmless.
- Paxi: Nickname for Paxius that kids call him.
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