Chapter 58: Bitter Escape

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Meanwhile, in the border between the second and third layer, grenade-like explosions can be heard left and right as two entities of immense speed and power are entangled in a fight, fireballs were strewn all over the place whilst a frozen shield was used to block them, after which a gigantic lance came out of the serpent's hands to counterattack, but a single water bullet shattered the thick pointed ice.

The once grinning faces of Bakunawa and Sophia that reflect their oozing self-confidence were now replaced by teeth-gritting, crumpled faces that announce their hardships just to keep up with one another's attacks, but in the middle of the seemingly life and death fight between the two hero prospects, Sophia is doing something no one entangled in a fight of such caliber will ever dare to do.

[Are you sure the monkeys will be a fit in this war? I mean, they have battered pride because of you after all.]

_Their loyalty? I am sure, they are monsters I named, so I essentially made all of them stronger... Confidence? Well, I am also sure, that they will not do well without a commander, just look at their demeanor earlier, they were so raring to go into a fight that they questioned my orders._

[So they want to restore their pride as quickly as possible.]

_Yup._

[Will they not be counterproductive?]

_Under normal circumstances, yes they will, but Eleanor is there, so it should be fine._

[Why ar-]

Sophia already knew what [Guide] was about to ask, "Why are you so confident of her?" Thus she replied before the unique skill even finished its sentence.

_Don't worry, it should be fine... I want the monkeys who only get satisfaction from hard-fought battles to know the pleasure of overwhelming victory._

[But you will not have one at this point-]

_[Guide] suddenly, stopped talking as Sophia dodged a giant two-edged blade made of ice that was hurled by Bakunawa using her two small hands, the disproportionate size of the object and the wielder is quite amazing._

"Urgh..."

Sophia looked at her hair that was nicked by the giant blade, and strands of her already short white hair flew about in the air, she then turned her attention to [Guide] one last time.

_Shut up now, I'm fighting._

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Back to Wokung and Saru, the two of them are watching their soldiers prepare, their formation is still that of squares in order not to create a line, of course, it will not be square anymore the moment they start traveling in the thick sea of trees, the only point is that they put appropriate distance between themselves.

However, that is not what the father and daughter combo is thinking right now, because even at this moment, they still have questions about the order of their temporary commander. The statement given by Eleanor to the two of them about what will be the probable move of the enemy's remaining army now that their defeat is certain is quite simple.

The two armies will join forces, as simple as that.

Of course, this is not to say that the mantises and the ogres have a good relationship that they will immediately pair up if wars like these happened, if anything all of the community-type monsters of this place is plotting against each other, they just formed an alliance that is not even completely intact from the start because of Sophia.

They just join together because the situation demands it, the fusion of the two races' forces is also the reason why Eleanor did not hesitate to order the temporary abolishment of the light cavalry to be used by the monkeys. She was appointed as a commander and she obviously can do that much.

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