Shadow Slave

Chapter 1846 Ground Perspective The army assembled in a complicated battle formation. With so many soldiers, it was vast and unwieldy, and mostly useless... but not entirely so.

The Masters and the Saints were going to assault the vermilion jungle, but the Awakened were prepared to fight, as well.

Obviously, they had very little chance of killing Corrupted abominations, not to mention the Great horrors who dwelled in Godgrave. However, they did not necessarily need to.

The commanders of the Song Army were well aware of the limitations facing their troops, so they had come up with various chilling, but effective strategies. If it came to that, the task of the Awakened soldiers was not to kill the powerful abominations, but to immobilize them.

Although hard, that could be achieved with numbers alone. Even if an abomination had to be buried in human bodies, that was one way to deal with it.

Of course, Rain felt a bit horrified by the prospect, just like all the other Awakened warriors did. Still, it was not like the Nightmare Creatures would spare them otherwise - so, they were prepared to carry out their orders and do their best., no matter the cost.

Hopefully, that was not going to happen today.

If the Saints and their Ascended retinue succeeded in holding back the tide of Nightmare Creatures, it would not.

The Seventh Legion was positioned in the second line of the formation, so she could not even see the battle. All she could see were the tops of the strange and hideous plants swaying in the distance and the backs of her fellow soldiers. She could also hear the sounds that the wind carried from somewhere far ahead.

Next to her, Fleur trembled nervously and looked at Tamar.

"...It is starting, isn't it?"

The Legacy girl nodded somberly.

"It is."

A few moments later, the sound of a horn rolled above the army, and the ground under their feet trembled slightly.

Rain saw vague silhouettes moving forward from the front of the battle formation. The white surface of the ancient bone was still inclined, since they had not reached the collarbone yet, so she could not discern their shape clearly. But she knew that they were the Saints who had assumed their 'Transcendent forms, as well as the larger of the Nightmare Creatures enthralled by Beastmaster.

At the same time, the jungle came alive.

She saw the red trees sway, but mostly, she heard and felt it: a harrowing choir of bestial roars and sounds too alien to be described with human language washing over the massive army like a tide, the violent trembling of the ground as countless abominations rushed forward at the scent of human souls.

She glanced at Tamar.

Saints were people whom they admired, looked up to, and maybe even knew as

The Saint of Sorrow was among the warriors whose task it

thousand Masters in the Song

a lot, but at the same time...

world suddenly seemed to be

their Transcendent power at the same time was

blood drain from her face. Next to her, Fleur swayed and leaned heavily on Ray. All around them, the Awakened

standing

did, however, look at the

eyes widened,

between the champions of the Song Army and the creatures of the vermilion jungle terrible

did not seem

sounds of the battle grew much more loud, becoming almost deafening. Rain had to struggle not to

insane... this

her was almost too powerful to overcome. The inability to see what exactly was happening out there, ahead, only made it worse. After all, it was the unknown that was the

she could see were the backs of the Awakened soldiers that stood in

faring any better than

were shaking. Some had fallen to their knees. Some had dropped

helped their comrades to stand

one of those brave souls,

terrible cacophony of battle,

of it instilled

she raised a hand and patted Fleur on the shoulder. The delicate

"R-rani?"

Rain smiled.

worst

beautiful blue

did you say it out

and Ray glared at her