Change of Plan

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Upon turning his head to the direction of the scream, he sighed in relief as it was just the soldiers that are still hallucinations that are seeing the skeletons and zombie. He was almost shocked to death to get to know that such a demon might have been able to pass through the basic holy barrier.

Even though he called it basic, any demon or spirit that touches would disintegrate. He had seen so many times that he is confident that only great demon could force themselves inside the barrier.

But those soldiers can't be help anymore, there's no one to cure their hallucinations. He shook his head and told the commander to march on. The rest of the soldiers did not oppose the idea while praying hard to their god so that they won't be the next soldiers that got hit by the mind magic.

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"Sara are you done playing with the enemy?"

"I am lowering our risk don't you see? Sigh, I don't want them to escape and force us to be redeployed again without able to have my delicious food!"

"I-I get it, is the food that delicious?"

"You will never know till you have a taste of it Tayuki. Now stop wasting time by talking to me. Continue making those water puddles of yours."

"....It's not WATER PUDDLES!"

"Shhhh...Ksss... Tayuki, you can take over my job by killing those that have gone astray."

"It's alright, I continue making my puddles… These insensitive demons. Sigh."

The three great demons continue to harass the initial five thousand troops from the holy alliance. Even though Tayuki complains about how slow their progress is, he is happy as they do not have to engage in a one to one combat with the old man that is within the enemy. He knows of a fact that is they had gone aggressively at the start, one of them might even get killed.

As for how Sara manage to use her mind power on the enemy, is from the fact that the holy barrier mostly protects the user from external magic and not from the inside itself. True at the start the barrier would cure everyone but if at that point in time, Tayuki manages to drown one of the soldiers inside the barrier, allow the manipulated soldiers to be able to escape from the barrier itself.

As for who killed those priests, it was Kraunt with his new favourite sword to assassinate the people from the holy alliance. Yes, it is the sword made by Raul Evergreen, their new demon king. Which he hasn't yet met him but he had already made up his mind not to anger the demon king as he is afraid that his new sword would be taken away from him.

Back to the initial reason why they are here is that Aria suddenly sent a message through the use of the spirits patrolling the forest of death. It is exactly the day they found out that there are people within their forest of death.

Aria commands were to eliminate the rest of the people in the Henson Kingdom and any witnesses. The three of them were late because they have to wait for Sara. After knowing that the nobles had been eliminated, Kraunt were truly disappointed.

Meanwhile Tayuki sigh in relief but not after Sara continued on how they need to anyone that witnessed it. Kraunt didn't even retort at how Sara mind works, Aria command is to eliminate anyone that witness them killing the nobles.

Back to the present~

Sara continues to manipulate the main culprit that is making anyone that made eye contact with it hallucinate. That way she could deplete the amount of enemy that they had to fight. Everything happens with the way she had planned out and couldn't wait for the last phrase where they are able to kill off everyone including the dangerous foe.

She needed to be fast though, previously the old man has to concentrate on maintaining the holy barrier thus he didn't found out about the soldier that is going around manipulating the rest of the people. Now that he is resting she needs to be more discreet in moving her pawn. One wrong step, those soldiers would realize that they could survive if the one and only soldier are found out.

Tayuki is the backup as his duty to create more water puddles and if everything is done properly they could sneak in more manipulated soldiers by allowing these soldiers to pass through the holy barrier from underwater where the barrier unable to pass through.

Unfortunately, it isn't working well as the commander of the troops kept avoiding the puddles but she knows that it is not because they found out about the loopholes but possibly other reasons.

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"Avoid passing through the water! If you see any that is about to pass through the barrier immediately vapourize them."

'The water might be the reason why my men are being affected by the mind magic. These demons might have put some kind evil spell on the water that will give off a vapour that could affect the minds'

Tayuki would have cried if he heard that the work that he had done is being easily avoided because of different reason, either way, he still is a force to slow the enemy down by making a zig-zag pattern. Lastly, he has gathered a considerable amount of lizardman to create a huge river upfront he hopes that the enemy would be a force to stop their march or allow them to pass through the river which Sara could then manipulate more soldiers.

"Kraunt stop what you are doing!"

"Hmm? What happen Sara?"

As Tayuki turn his head to the direction that Sara is facing, he saw Kraunt with an irritated expression and while he draws the sword, he licks his lips.

Scrreeeekkkkk*

Sounds of the body being sliced off are heard from the distance.

"NOO!!!"

At the same time, the sword had accidentally hit the manipulated soldiers, it's partly her fault that she is too caught up with trying to stop Kraunt and forgot about the primary objective that is to kill off everyone slowly but without any risk.

Sara facepalmed herself as she forgotten about Kraunt character as he is easily provoked and at the same time impatient. Truly someone that would ruin most if not every strategizes out there. She should have told Kraunt to go back while acting to scout for any resources ahead.

Tayuki on the other hand, aren't really sure what's happening as he felt that going for the offensive is the right thing. As the old man is currently resting and if Kraunt is able to eliminate all of the priests successfully, the enemy morale would drop to the bottom. No matter how strong a person is if he has gained enough fatigue it would be considerably easy to take them down.

Without hesitation, Tayuki knew that it is time to change plan, as a tanker he needs to back Kraunt up as, without his stealth and agility, Kraunt might die if he got caught.

The sword hit a few of the priest that is maintaining the barrier when Kraunt sees that the barrier was down he immediately leap towards the middle of the enemy formations. It seems the enemy has learned their lessons as the priest are placed far apart from each other but still allow them to be able to communicate with each other.

Kraunt is forced to manually find every priest by looking around but by the time he saw one, the enemy has created multiple barriers. Kraunt knew that if the trap within the barrier his strength would decrease by almost fifty per cent and by then he can say goodbye to his life.

Kraunt tried his best and grab hold of the sword that he had thrown earlier. The sword could be his last chance to break the barrier from the inside. He believes in the sword but he doubts he could be able to throw strong enough for the sword to reach the holy barrier. At the same time, he heard a strong offensive light spell coming his way.

The old man is smiling at the fact that a demon was stupid enough to leap into the middle of the troops without any backup.

"Sukushi!"

In desperate times, Kraunt immediately uses his most powerful skill that will triple his speed but despite that, there were countless soldiers blocking his way. He could easily kill everyone in front of him but it would delay his escape. Kraunt is still ten steps away when he saw that the holy barrier has fully close him in.

He almost gave up but a scream coming from afar disrupt his thoughts.

Bussssssshhhh*

It was Tayuki, he manages to save Kraunt in time by attacking one of the priests that is part of the group that maintains the barrier he was lucky in choosing the correct person and because of that, the barrier is weakened.

In a split of a second, Kraunt continues dashing across and because of the attack, the soldiers got distracted thus allowing Kraunt managing to escape from the barrier just in time.

"F*ck! Men what are you doing!"

The commander was furious as he saw that the demon is allowed to escape even though they finally have a chance to defeat the culprit that put them in this state. He swears that if he manages to escape from this predicament, he will kill those soldiers that allowed the demon to escape.