Supreme Magus novel Chapter 848

Chapter 848 Dograth Part 2

"It seems that the humans are losing hope. Today they are sloppier than usual, spreading their forces too much to be effective." Sukhet the Banshee said on his communication amulet.

"Agreed. This way they’ll accomplish nothing but being swept away as soon as our main force wakes up." Angorn the Lamia replied.

As time went by, the conceit disappeared from their voices, replaced by genuine worry. The humans were just pretending to attack the twin fortresses, using that time to set up something.

The undead generals’ problem was that they had no way to stop them. The humans were employing just enough manpower to force them on the defensive, but nothing more.

If the undead deactivated the dimensional arrays sealing the cities to move their troops, they would also open themselves to an invasion. The same would happen if they sent part of their main force outside.

The few elite undead able to stay awake despite the sunlight would be slaughtered simply due to the enemy’s numerical advantage. Undead grew more powerful with age, so even though they could increase their numbers quickly, the loss of a single elder was more severe than losing a thousand newborns.

To make matters worse, undead capable of moving during the day were rare, and those who had developed their skills to the point of not being too severely hampered by sunlight were even rarer.

The humans worked relentlessly, completely surrounding the twin fortresses from all sides, building some sort of device too far away for any kind of spell to reach them.

When night came, the Empire’s army had completely retreated behind their border without even trying to hold the land reconquered by day. The generals had already reported everything to Veeza, who easily understood what was going on.

"It’s just as you suspect. The humans have laid a trap that’s as obvious as it is ingenious." She said. Veeza had left plenty of surveillance devices near all the nerve centers of her just founded empire.

She was younger than her generals, but compared to them, her knowledge of the mystical arts was boundless.

While most undead had spent half their existence asleep and the other half searching for a meal or in pursuit of personal glory, she had devoted the last few centuries to the study of magic, without taking a single hour of rest.

"My surveillance devices allowed me to spy on the human’s workings. They have built several long-distance Warping arrays." Veeza’s finger pointed at the four corners around each fortress.

They were far away enough to not be affected by the city’s arrays but close enough to allow the reinforcements troops to coordinate with the Empire’s army and perform a multi pincered attack on Dograth.

"If we ignore the Gates and fight as usual, the armies coming out of the dimensional tunnels will conquer the city and our army will end up slaughtered. If we try to attack the arrays, instead, we’ll offer our back to the enemy and split our forces too much for them to be effective."

"Have we lost months’ worth of war in a single day?" Angorn the Lamia asked. The old general clenched his fist in disbelief.

"Of course not." Veeza sneered. "This is a good trap, but there’s a reason why no one uses this strategy anymore. First, to succeed the Empress has to mobilize at least two army’s worth of troops, which means leaving her own castles unprotected.