Karl opened the Tiny World and let the others out, which brought a startled noise from the Commander.
"So, you fly to the battle, then bring the others in with a portal. Very efficient for moving long distances. How long will you remain in the region?" He asked.
"As long as there are appropriate targets for us. If you are quiet in this zone for the day, we will likely move to an active battlefield so that we can make the most of our presence along the line while we are here.
You have a region to defend, but not every portion of the border will see action every day."
The Commander nodded. "Excellent news. The Lich Lords are behind their army, with ten kilometres distance between us. You said that you specialize in that sort of thing, so I will have you join Delta Force for the morning, and move with them when the enemy has engaged.
They are our Overlord Rank specialists, and I will be dealing with any unexpected Totems, as well as unit organization."
"Wonderful. I saw them from the sky on my way in, and I didn't sense any Totems with them, but you can never be too careful."
Lotus grabbed Dana and split off to join the healing group, a motley bunch of Trollish Shamans who were setting up cots and some sort of shrine that Karl couldn't identify. That was better than he had feared. Many demonic armies didn't have proper healers, but the Trolls were easy to get along with, and as soon as Lotus and Dana had arrived, they began adding their personal touch to the shrine, which turned out to be no shrine at all.
They were arranging skewers in advance so that they had fried fish to snack on during the battle.
Dana probably wouldn't stay with them for the whole battle, but she normally sent her Golems forward to fight, while she kept the Epic Guard near her toward the back of the battle, keeping the enemy from getting too close to the healers.
Thor and Tessa were with Ophelia, not far from where Lotus was setting up for her healing tree performance, so Karl left to go join the Delta Force team, as the Commander had named his elite unit.
"Greetings, gentlemen, and ladies. My name is Karl, and this is Cara. Oh, we have Remi with us as well. Are you sure you didn't want to go with the healers and mages this time?" Karl began.
Remi nodded. {I can fight and heal, so we will join your team this time.}
Karl smiled. "Alright, Remi here is a Shaman Queen, so she has some healing abilities
as well as her fighting skills and her bodyguards. The totems have a limited range, so if you're injured, retreat in her direction.
Cara is an anti-magic specialist, so she will be doing her best to stop the larger spells from the Lich Lord group."
The army today wasn't made up of all skeletons, there were ghouls, wights and zombies as well, representing the differing specialties of the various leaders present. Lich Lords were normally among the hardest undead to deal with, as unlike so many other species, they were the elites of their magical disciplines before their death. A vampire could have come from anyone, zombies and skeletons were morons, but a Lich Lord could only come from an incredibly powerful mage, and retained their intellect.
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