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Chapter 89: Sitting Ducks! Twelve Bloodcrystal Bats Take Flight · Oct 17, 2026

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51 Chapter 51: After Two First Places, the Regional Warden Seat Has to Be Fought For 2026-10-17
52 Chapter 52: This Fight Gives No Points—and I’m Taking It Anyway 2026-10-17
53 Chapter 53: A Legendary Shows Up—and Tries to Run 2026-10-17
54 Chapter 54: This Core Trait, I’ll Take It Myself 2026-10-17
55 Chapter 55: My First Wave Is Already Over—You Haven’t Even Started? 2026-10-17
56 Chapter 56: I Won’t Wait for the First Ten Waves—After That, I’ll Take It Slow 2026-10-17
57 Chapter 57: The Region Won. I Haven’t Yet 2026-10-17
58 Chapter 58: Ten Million Arrives—and the Regional Warden Seat Is Mine 2026-10-17
59 Chapter 59: The Fountain of Life Is Built—and the First Life Essence 2026-10-17
60 Chapter 60: C-Grade Aptitude—and One Rocketier Volley Wipes Out Half the Canyon 2026-10-17
61 Chapter 61: Legendary Hero to Level 20—and This Sword Cuts Through High-Grade Recovery 2026-10-17
62 Chapter 62: Meteor Hell Descends—and an A-Grade Environment Seal Drops 2026-10-17
63 Chapter 63: An A-Grade Environment—and Forgotten Shrine Gains Another Layer 2026-10-17
64 Chapter 64: If You Want Out, Leave Today. Those Who Stay Name the Region. 2026-10-17
65 Chapter 65: Black Banner Opens the Pool—Riftward at 8.0 Odds 2026-10-17
66 Chapter 66: Ninety Points Unlock the Warbody Route—and the Warden Gate Opens to the Outer March 2026-10-17
67 Chapter 67: Elara Runs Into a Level 30 Epic—So I Send Her a Level 20 Stormlance 2026-10-17
68 Chapter 68: Rank IV—and Black Banner Is Already at the Door 2026-10-17
69 Chapter 69: Twenty Rockets Clear the Field—and the One Who Opened the Gate Exposes Himself 2026-10-17
70 Chapter 70: Three Seconds Before Lock—I Put 250,000 on Riftward 2026-10-17
71 Chapter 71: Sable March Takes Fourth—Stoneward Takes Third 2026-10-17
72 Chapter 72: I Said Riftward Was First—They Said It Was Impossible 2026-10-17
73 Chapter 73: Region Fortune Lands—and the Aether Vein Evolves With It 2026-10-17
74 Chapter 74: Who Said Ironwake Was Most Likely First? 2026-10-17
75 Chapter 75: All Twelve Stormlance Reach Legendary—Crystal Bastion! 2026-10-17
76 Chapter 76: Ten Thousand Renown Finally Put to Use—Black Banner Changes Tactics 2026-10-17
77 Chapter 77: Agriculture! Three Points of Fortune on the Line 2026-10-17
78 Chapter 78: Ten Epic Fields Go Into Production—The Crystal Mother Really Is Inside 2026-10-17
79 Chapter 79: Black Banner Keeps Adding to the Wager 2026-10-17
80 Chapter 80: Kill Points! Rank V! Mistveil March! 2026-10-17
81 Chapter 81: Now This Is How You Farm Points—Three Fortune Secured 2026-10-17
82 Chapter 82: Sable Falls to Negative Two—Time to Bargain with the Crystal Mother 2026-10-17
83 Chapter 83: Twelve Crystal Maiden Embryos—and Editable Attributes 2026-10-17
84 Chapter 84: Crystal One’s First Fight—Now This Is the Troop I Wanted 2026-10-17
85 Chapter 85: Riftward Breaks Into the Top Ten—and the Truth Slips Out 2026-10-17
86 Chapter 86: The Enemy’s Eyes Are Mine—and the First Real Region War Begins 2026-10-17
87 Chapter 87: Tenfold Kill Points Delivered to My Door—Rank VI, Right Now 2026-10-17
88 Chapter 88: They Think Riftward Hasn’t Moved—My People Are Already Here 2026-10-17
89 Chapter 89: Sitting Ducks! Twelve Bloodcrystal Bats Take Flight 2026-10-17
90 Chapter 90: The Twelve Were Only the First Layer—No One Gets Out 2026-10-17
91 Chapter 91: Rank 2? You Invaded Northwatch, So I’ll Slaughter Duskmoor 2026-10-17
92 Chapter 92: Duskmoor Goes Gray—Riftward Takes First 2026-10-17
93 Chapter 93: They’re Sending Me Money Again—and a Legendary Blood Chalice 2026-10-17
94 Chapter 94: A Legendary Troop Building—and First Place Revealed 2026-10-17
95 Chapter 95: Sixty Points of Strength—and a Larger Riftward 2026-10-17
96 Chapter 96: Trust the Warden—and a Resource Instance Appears 2026-10-17
97 Chapter 97: They Chose the Category Themselves 2026-10-17
98 Chapter 98: Let Them Feel Despair—and Recruit the Dawnwings 2026-10-17
99 Chapter 99: Another Wild Domain—and Another Fortune Duel Won 2026-10-17
100 Chapter 100: Wipe Them Out—and a Technology Crystal 2026-10-17

Once the Communication Seal took effect, the Northwatch battlefield vanished from the Shattered Marches Channel.

Garrick’s latest public battle update froze halfway through and faded gray.

Inside the sealed area, neither Northwatch nor Black Banner could send Public Channel updates outside anymore.

The Lords who had been waiting for news were confused at first.

Then they began assuming the worst.

[Anonymous Lord: Northwatch is completely cut off now?]

[Anonymous Lord: Garrick was posting a second ago. Why did his message die halfway through?]

No one answered.

People outside could still see public Lord status.

They could still wait for the next Second Regional Ranking refresh.

But they could no longer get a direct report of what was happening inside the battlefield.

A little while later, someone noticed something stranger.

Several Black Banner Lords who had appeared earlier in Garrick Thorne’s public battle line now had gray status markers.

One.

Three.

Seven.

And still climbing.

[Anonymous Lord: Wait.]

[Anonymous Lord: Are these people dead?]

[Anonymous Lord: Wasn’t Northwatch the side that got sealed in?]

[Anonymous Lord: Then who’s killing Black Banner?]

Still no answer.

It was not that Northwatch did not want to speak.

It was not that Black Banner had suddenly decided to go silent together.

The Communication Seal had trapped the public battle information inside Northwatch.

People outside could only watch Lord status markers turn gray one after another.

As for who was chasing whom inside?

They could not see it.

Northern Stone Ridge, Northwatch.

The answer was still buried in fire.

BOOM—!

The first Overload volley ripped open Black Banner’s entire middle-rear formation.

The twenty Rockets never touched the front line already locked in melee with Northwatch.

Mental Guidance drove every impact into the densest rear positions.

Command flags.

Ranged formations.

The second wave preparing to push forward.

Fire swallowed all of them together.

The first layer of explosions had barely torn open the rocky ground when the next wave of shock rolled in from the sides.

The formation packed into the mountain road broke into several pieces at once.

Even Northwatch’s shield soldiers at the front stopped for half a beat.

Not because they had forgotten to fight.

Because they could no longer hear anything else.

A few breaths later, Cassian’s battle reports began collapsing into stacked summaries.

Black Banner Lords.

Heroes.

Troops.

The death records came so fast that the ordinary notifications compressed themselves into a single overview.

When the flood finally folded down, one number mattered most.

That volley had added a little over 2.10 million Kill Points.

The tenfold gains climbed with it.

Cassian glanced at the number once.

For days, the entire Shattered Marches had been arguing over whether the tenfold rule would push every Region into hunting other Lords.

Cassian had never moved for it.

Crystal Bastion was steadier.

More controllable.

This was different.

Black Banner had sealed Northwatch’s roads themselves.

Brought their army inside themselves.

And now they were feeding batches of tenfold Kill Points straight into his firing zone.

A faint smile touched Cassian’s mouth.

”Now that’s tenfold.”

As he spoke, all twenty Dwarf Rocketiers behind the side peak sat down.

The first volley had not been a probe.

It had been Overload.

[Dwarf Rocketier ×20]

[Temporarily Combat-Incapacitated]

All twenty launchers went dark.

The Rocketier captain had barely loosened the securing strap on his shoulder when Cassian pushed over the crate they had carried from Forgotten Shrine.

”Drink.”

The lid came off.

Twenty bottles of Life Water.

One per Dwarf.

Not one left over.

The pale-green liquid went down, and familiar Life Energy spread through their chests and arms.

[Fountain Recovery Effect: 100 seconds]

It could not erase Overload instantly.

But it could bring the Fountain’s recovery effect to this side peak.

Northwatch’s front line.

”They’re spent?”

”Overload.”

The Lord beside Mira had barely finished speaking when he saw all twenty bottles of Life Water distributed without a single one being saved.

The Dwarves who had been unable to lift their launchers were already beginning to show Aether fluctuations again.

He stared for two breaths.

”Something that can pull troops back from Overload on the battlefield...”

”How expensive is recovery like that now?”

Mira did not answer the price question.

She only raised her sword.

”Hold the front.”

Below the mountain.

Garrick Thorne had recognized Overload too.

Outside Forgotten Shrine, Black Banner had already paid hundreds of lives to learn what that firepower cost.

So once the first volley ended, he actually steadied.

”Don’t break!”

”They’re spent!”

”Keep pressing Northwatch!”

The Black Banner line, torn apart by the explosions, pushed forward again.

Over the next several minutes, Northwatch was forced back toward the stone ridge.

Black Banner’s second wave filled the center once more.

And behind the side peak—

the first Dwarf stood up.

Then the second.

The fifth.

One by one, the twenty Rocketiers tightened their launcher straps again and began reloading.

Then all twenty launchers rose over the reverse slope.

The first person to notice stopped dead.

”Garrick—”

His voice cracked.

Garrick whipped around.

Twenty new Rockets were already taking shape.

Only then did he understand what that crate of recovery supplies had meant.

Not post-battle treatment.

A second volley.

”How are they back this fast?”

All the color left Garrick’s face.

”Retreat!”

”Get out of the mountains!”

The order had barely left his mouth when Cassian raised his hand for the second time.

”Overload.”

BOOM—!

The second wave of fire climbed into the sky.

This time, no one could dismiss it as a one-shot ambush.

Twenty Rockets passed over Northwatch’s front line again and drove toward the thickest surviving Black Banner positions in the middle and rear.

Mental Guidance corrected the impacts at the same time.

BOOM!

BOOM—!

The command line they had barely stitched back together disappeared into fire for the second time.

Ranged positions.

The second wave.

High-grade Troops that still had not fully dispersed.

All of them vanished into the blasts.

After the first volley, people could still tell themselves one thing—

the Rocketiers were spent.

Once the second volley appeared, that belief was gone.

No one knew how much recovery resource Cassian had brought.

No one knew whether there would be a third volley.

That uncertainty was worse than the explosions themselves.

Garrick did not need to give the retreat order a second time.

The people closest to the blast zone were already running downhill.

Left.

Right.

Some were still searching for command flags.

There was only fire where the flags had been.

At Northwatch’s front, one Lord finally shouted:

”They’re retreating!”

”Chase them!”

Several people who had been holding themselves back for far too long surged forward.

Mira raised her sword too.

Then Cassian’s Private Channel lit up.

[Cassian Vale: Northwatch doesn’t pursue.]

Mira stopped.

[Mira Calder: They’re scattered.]

[Cassian Vale: I can see that.]

[Mira Calder: If we don’t chase now, we let them regroup.]

Cassian did not answer immediately.

The second volley had already shattered Black Banner’s formation.

If Northwatch chased into it, they would only mix themselves into the path of the high-mobility forces coming next.

Mira opened the Private Channel again.

[Mira Calder: Northwatch owes you for this.]

[Cassian Vale: Keep your people back first.]

Mira looked down the retreat line.

[Mira Calder: Then who chases?]

Cassian answered immediately this time.

[Cassian Vale: I do.]

Below the mountain.

Once Garrick got out of the Rocketiers’ best firing arc, his first instinct was to look up for an organized aerial pursuit line.

There was only one Aurelia.

As long as Riftward did not have another organized airborne force fast enough to catch them—

”Crystal One.”

Cassian looked up.

A dark-gold silhouette rolled out beneath the clouds.

The first Bloodcrystal Bat spread its wings.

Then the second rose from behind the eastern ridge.

The third.

The fourth.

The Crystal Maidens left at the four outer nodes had already begun converging back.

Behind the nearer ridges, more winged shadows climbed at the same time.

Five.

Eight.

Twelve.

The same Bloodcrystal Bat form.

The same Flight capability belonging to Legendary Crystal Maidens.

The Northwatch Lords who had been ready to pursue slowly stopped.

Several simply stared upward.

For a long moment, no one spoke.

”Twelve?”

Another finally managed:

”They’re all Legendary?”

Mira did not answer at once either.

A few days ago, Northwatch had seen only one.

She had chosen not to send anyone after it.

At the time, that had been nothing more than a correct, ordinary boundary decision.

Now twelve winged shadows were rising from different ridges at once.

And higher still—

Aurelia’s lightning was already moving out in front.

Only then did the Black Banner Troops who had escaped the second Rocket volley realize something else.

The twenty launchers that had pinned them down?

They were not even everything this reinforcement force had brought.

Cassian watched the twelve winged silhouettes spread across the retreat routes.

This time, he did not check how far the Second Regional Ranking had climbed.

He did not start sorting through the battle reports either.

He only smiled briefly.

”Forget the combat power for a second.”

”Just looking at them...”

”That’s intimidating enough.”

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