Learning from defeats

Two weeks later, at the skeletons' temporary camp.

During the past two weeks, the skeletons had suffered dozens of attacks from hordes of monsters, but were able to withstand all of them with only a few thousand dead.

The skeletons had learned from all the previous battles and now left most of the fighting to the monster skeletons and using the mages and alchemical items as support. The alchemical items that Athos created were all of the earth element, generating earthquakes, pools of quicksand or earth spears that came out of the ground, depending on the ingredients used.

Despite losing a few thousand soldiers, their gains were even greater and the army finally began to increase its numbers. The biggest gains were the hordes of flying monsters that attacked them.

Flying monsters were rare in the desert, so having the aerial advantage was crucial. They managed to hunt approximately 500 flying monsters, more than doubling their air force.