The giant acid ants easily press down the number of undead, even the powerful undead beasts in the mystic realm have enormous difficulties to face them, making them decrease in numbers quite large at an unprecedented speed.
But the Lich is not an idiot, she quickly notices the danger of those insects and directly sends her three undead amalgamations and the four undead monstrosities to fight, same as the undead beasts they turn and direct their attacks to them.
The three giant amalgamations grab their mortal quality grade 5 artifacts and begin to attack, the first of them being one that has a lizard beast as legs and the torso of a beastman elder bear, who carries a great hammer, which once charged with energy strikes at a terrible speed and force, destroying trees and killing dozens of ants in one blow.
Each attack of the amalgamations is terrible, several ants die, but these ants are not to be underestimated either, they do not reign over a small area of this forest for nothing, some soldier ants different from the previous ones stand out among the various smaller workers.
Just like the other soldiers these measure the same as a large dog, but their gaster is much larger and at the end of it can be seen the acid expeller, which seems almost as if it had been designed in a weapon laboratory, since at a glance it is clear that it is designed to expel acid at great pressure and speed.
And these soldiers do not disappoint at more than 500 meters from the amalgamations they fire a round of acid, much larger and faster than that of their worker companions, the Lich immediately orders the amalgamations to defend themselves, to which they respond using their artifacts, the problem is that…
When the acid comes into contact with those artifacts a screeching sound can be heard and although it does not manage to destroy the artifacts it can be seen at plain sight that the inscription lines have become thinner and that even things like that enormous and imposing hammer have lost part of that threatening shine.
Then the undead energetic beasts of the flying type in the sky throw themselves to destroy those soldier ants, but the ants are not stupid, several shots are directed and manage to bring down many undead birds, but those that are not shot down immediately kill two or three soldier ants.
Same as the four undead monstrosities with their gigantic bodies exactly the same as the ones Feicui Long saw, they head at enormous speed to the battlefield with their enormous bodies, opening holes in the ant ranks, who although they damage them enormously, they ignore them since they constantly recover, maybe not as fast as a golem and with the acid weakening that recovery, but still quite fast.
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While this battle is taking place Isabella recovers her breath inside the last two layers of formations, if it had not been because it occurred to her to place the 15 formations of the left flank in 5 layers of 3 formations, perhaps all would be dead before she returned.
Even so Isabella is worried, she looks for the twins and until she can see them intact she cannot avoid letting out a sigh and says: "Good thing nothing more serious happened, where the hell did those undead come from?"
Her ancestress from the sword responds to her and says: "I do not know what has happened in the present, but for some reason the aura of that inferior lich feels very familiar to me, if you can capture her phylactery or something she leaves, perhaps I could find out."
Isabella smiles bitterly while looking at the battle, she doubts that anything of that Lich will even remain, shaking her head she looks at the twins and says with an annoyed face: "So, can I know why you were in the third layer?"
The twins knowing they had done wrong by disobeying Isabella quickly speak one after the other: "I-it's aunt, please calm down, w-we just wanted to help."
The two twins put on very cute scolded puppy faces and even Isabella finds it difficult to continue with her scolding and sighing again she says to them: "Alright, alright, but do not do it again, you have to listen to your aunt, when your uncle is not with us, do you understand that?"
Then she looks towards the battle and adds: "I know you have advanced realms for your age and that you possess a powerful lineage, but even so you are too young, I cannot let you put yourselves in danger voluntarily, that is my responsibility as your elder towards you and as the woman of your uncle."
Afterwards she says to Ada: "Ada prepare to kill that Lich."
Ada looks at her and nods, she climbs the tallest tree and aims in the direction of the Lich, waiting for an opportunity.
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The Lich in the center of the formation for a long time has forgotten her own real name, that is why she begins to call herself Aleida, but Aleida has not only forgotten that, she has forgotten many things, one of them includes anger, what it is to feel angry at something…
Today she has felt it too many times, so many that she feels her non-existent brain almost about to explode, not only has she not managed to kill these flies, but in the previous confrontation she has lost much, including her precious body of mages that she had accumulated through the years.
Now some damn insects are cornering her, insects that she purposely avoided for this very reason, what the hell are they doing here!?
Frustrated she has no choice but to start using her support magic again and it is that unlike other frozen inferior Liches, she since she was alive always specialized in support and assistance magic, that is why her elite force are all undead energetic beasts.
Then she begins to gather energy with her amplification artifact, much more than before, she is casting multiple support spells such as ice armor, frozen thorns, freezing strength and more, she cannot lose… she cannot lose…
While she is in a desperate fight the remaining ants not only do not flee but become wilder, two of the amalgamations are destroyed and three of the monstrosities are reduced to puddles of foul smelling acid, the previous large groups of beasts are now less than 10 percent.
The Lich now only has her complete elite guard and they are facing precisely the largest soldier ants, reaching the size of a Great Dane, their large mandibles keep the elite guard busy, who are all of the civilized type.
Soon a pressurized jet is sprayed on the shield of one of the lower skeleton knights and his shield which has already taken much acid damage begins to dissolve in his hand, an extra large soldier ant takes advantage of this to grab him with its mandibles and pin him to the ground.
From its own mouth it then expels a great amount of acid, that is when the Lich's support spell takes effect and this helps her forces push and drive the ants back… a grave mistake.
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The next moment when Ada sees that the knights move away from the ants leaving a gap with her sight set her rifle scope can see the frozen core of the inferior frozen Lich and with that a single shot at terrible speed filled with sky attribute energy is fired.
When the Lich realizes the danger and great mistake coming out of her anger it is already too late, the shot pierces her core burning and purifying her sinful bones, with that the undead lose a great momentum and are destroyed by the ants…
But not everything is calm, soon the ants head to the other group that is here, after several ants die from jumping at the fourth layer of formations, they soon realize that jumping is certain death…
So they adopt their favorite tactic, overwhelming their opponent with acid shots, one by one the surviving ants, less than half, begin to fire their acids and the formation shines, shines, in the end it cannot withstand so many attacks and with a final sound it bursts.
Now Isabella and the others are left alone at one layer of formation from this voracious swarm, when they are about to continue with this tactic, in the sky the image of a colossal dragon appears in the distance and with it then follows a monumental roar.
So strong, so powerful and so imposing that all freeze for a moment, after 30 seconds everything resumes normally, only that the ants soon begin to run at incredible speed back to their nest, they can almost be seen trembling.
Isabella who can see that enormous dragon together with the twins immediately knows who it is… it is her darling, she does not know who he has encountered to be forced to use his soul, now she is more worried about him than about herself.
Even so she does not remain still, she gathers everything and forces a march, to get as far away as possible, she does not want to run into another surprise along the way…