The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 906: Strategies of the Red

The portals faded with the death of the Bone Dragon, and a huge cheer went up from the villagers. Today was a resounding victory, not a single Orc had been lost, and the village walls hadnʼt been breached.

The Red Dragon flew back to land in the village, then transformed back into her human form.

Tessa came down from Thorʼs back, still wearing her [Dragon Armour] skill, and in Dragonkin form, fully scaled with a long red tail.

She clasped her hands in a formal military greeting and bowed to the dragon. ”Avatar. It is an honour to meet you.”

The dragon smiled at her. ”You may all call me Priestess Delilah. I was never one for formality outside of combat. Overlord Karl, thank you for that defensive skill. It made todayʼs work a particular joy.

Sister Tessa, you have the most wonderful mount as a companion. Donʼt let him escape you.

Now that I have everyoneʼs attention, I will brief you all on the situation.

Lord Bomgon recently suffered a defeat at the hands of the Lord of Drodh, which cost a huge portion of their fleetʼs wealth, as well as the permanent death of more than one of the senior Lieutenants under him.

Following that, there was an incident where a Totem Ranked Lich Lord was defeated and his Phylactery destroyed.

Now, with repeated defeats along the border, the intensity of the battles has been increasing by the day, and it is suspected that the Bomgon nation is gearing up for a full invasion.

Your strategy of having them sacrifice as many of the lower undead as possible was a brilliant strategic move, as without the bodies, it will be difficult for the Bomgon Army to replace their losses, but the size of their amassed hordes is still staggering.”

Dana smirked at Karl, and Ophelia rumbled with laughter as Tessa cleared her throat.

”Priestess Delilah, I believe we might be somewhat responsible for this situation. We were at the defeat of the Bomgon fleets in Drodh. The Lich Lord whose phylactery was lost was also us. Now, I canʼt claim that we were more than a drop in the bucket of the undead lost along the border, but we are still here.” Tessa explained.

The ancient red dragon let out a very undignified giggle. ”No wonder the Goddess favours you. Your companions have the Laughing Godʼs own luck when it comes to being in the right place at the wrong time.

But, it is good that I found you now.

There will be a massive increase in attacks beginning later today, driven partially by the loss of the Bone Dragon and his armies.

What many donʼt know about the undead nation is that while their numbers seem limitless, with the ability to keep creating more undead, that is only true for the hordes. The zombies, the skeletons, the wights, and the ghouls.

For the stronger creatures, and the spiritual undead, the numbers are much more limited.

So, every loss of a powerful Necromancer, or greater Undead with the ability to summon or create an undying plague, is a great blow to their ability to sustain their numbers during a prolonged conflict.

They lost at least a few Overlord Ranked Necromancers here today, I saw the bodies. That means theyʼre going to be out for revenge, and theyʼve got a whole army staged nearby where they can open portals with minimal effort.”

Karl had forgotten about that little detail. Sure, you could open a portal to anywhere that you knew, but the amount of mana increased with the size and the distance. So, it was more efficient to keep the army near the border that you were attacking, and then only send them fifty or a hundred kilometres to attack.

”So, what do you want us to do? Iʼm hoping that you have some sort of plan because ours was just ʼfly to wherever there are undeadʼ, and I am beginning to suspect that isnʼt going to cut it.” Karl asked.

The dragon gave him an indulgent smile, which only enhanced her motherly appearance, but something behind the smile triggered all the warning bells in Karlʼs head that said this was an intrigued predator.

That was a new experience for him. Normally, there wasnʼt much in the world that would give him a sense of threat, and certainly not such a motherly smile. However, her next words reminded Karl that this was a red dragon, a Totem Ranked follower of the Dragon God of War.

”You know, thatʼs not a bad plan either. We could just fly over to them and start a fight instead of waiting to see where they show up. With those combat buffs that you have, we could probably hold out for at least two hours.

It would be glorious.” She agreed.

Cara landed beside Karl and stood up on her back legs to assume a boxing stance, which made the dragon priestess laugh.

Her tone was as amused as the smile on her face as the dragon continued. ”Well, thatʼs another vote for just going over and punching them in the face. However, that could just make things worse for everyone else. The Undead arenʼt all centralized in one location.

They have been found stocking hordes of lesser undead in four different locations, one of which suffered heavy damage during the battle tonight, as someone from this battle repeatedly cast some sort of flaming tornado and a meteor swarm spell on the other side of the portals.

The undead were not expecting an attack on their own base, and they were tightly packed when the counterattack started. By the time that they organized defences, they had already taken heavy casualties, according to our scouts.”

Lotus shook her branches in celebration, causing a shower of golden dust to fall from her canopy.

Priestess Delilah chuckled and looked past Karl out into the night.

”If my estimation is right, we donʼt need to go anywhere. They are about to come to us, under the impression that we are gathering a strike force to go after one of their warehousing locations. Once the reinforcement military units arrive, I give it two hours before the next attack.”