Eldritch Creature's Guide

Area of the Human Capital of Selangrad, Human Continent, 8th Floor of the Tower, several minutes earlier.

"My Prince, we are already near the city; we are waiting for your order."

Stated one of the Moon Demons, who was wearing the garb of the magician as he was in charge of the Magician Squad, which was maintaining large-scale stealth spells over the entire Star-Moon Coalition Army to prevent them from being seen by the forces of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and their vassals.

Crown Prince Thadon ordered this formation to be employed to carry out a successful ambush as he wanted to attack the army of the Golden-Hornned Demon Tribe and their vassals when they were already in the city. Due to the half-destroyed Black Walls, breached gate and city in ruins, they basically entrapped themselves in a place that was impossible to defend.

"Splendid... the news from the scout teams?"

Some time ago, Crown Prince Thadon sent down several teams of scouts with two specific orders that must be carried out at any price. The first one was a typical job for the scouts, which was getting information on the enemy.

But it was the second one which was the most important, that was to sneak into as many positions of the enemy as possible and blow up their siege equipment, namely their magetech artillery and the ammunition warehouses they constructed there.

"Everything ready, the scouts didn't manage to sneak everywhere, but they were able to over two-thirds of the siege positions of the Golden-Horned Demon army, which should be enough for the initial assault."

Reported the demon whom the Crown Prince Thadon was walking to as he nodded his head before proceeding to give out the orders to start the attack. Many of them were aware that this would be the historic moment for the existence of the demon species, as the battle on the 8th Floor of the Tower would be forever engraved into history itself.

"Blow them apart and instantly, after starting the bombardment, target the commanding center and places where they are storing ammunition and explosives, additionally concentrate firepower on the artillery canon that they used to breach the Gates of the Selangrad... it has firepower comparable to weaker Legendary Level Professional, if they use it against us even once, our losses would be extremely high."

The Star-Moon Coalition had an element of surprise on their side and it would soon be shown that the bad and uneasy feeling that the Lord General Qais of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe felt was right, as Crown Prince Thadon did everything in his power to ensure that the first wave of the attacks would hit their enemies as hard as possible, everything was coordinated with surgical precision.

Not even several seconds after he gave out the orders, a series of explosions could be seen from everything around the Selangrad as countless siege positions, especially those where the majority of the magetech artillery or ammunition was stored, were destroyed.

Not even one second later, after all, explosives had destroyed their target, highly intense bombardment started on the position of the enemy demon army under the banners of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe, as the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition showed themselves while they surrounded the entire perimeter of the Selangrad, thus cutting any kind of escape route from the Golden-Horned Demons and their army.

Every passing second, sounds of hundreds of cannon firing sounded across the entire area, as that sound was devastating to ears; one could easily become deaf if not careful enough. Just being in the proximity of the magetech artillery that was firing non-stop was relatively dangerous if one was not careful enough.

"Advance!"

The moment when the legions of the forces of Star-Moon Coalition heard the order, tens of thousands of soldiers all started advancing towards the positions of the enemy, or at least what had remained from them, because the losses on their end were really terrifying.

With the element of surprise on the side of the Star-Moon Coalition, they managed to inflict terrible losses on their enemies as they immediately started marching on the army of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe, which was now in a state o absolute chaos and disarray.

When they were attacked by the Star-Moon Coalition, it was at the worst time possible because they were already in the process of relocating to the Selangrad and most of their commander center was already in the process of moving towards the Selangrad. This causes chaos among the soldiers because, in the initial bombardment, many of the officers from the army were killed.

When the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition clashed with those of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and their vassals, slaughtering everything in their way. Soldiers of the Golden ones were already exhausted from marching for several weeks non-stop and fighting towards the Selangrad as Lord General Qais wanted to reach the Selangrad as fast as possible and catch the city.

Meanwhile, the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition were fresh and even though they marched for approximately one week or so, they were well-rested and could fight from the start. This proved immediately when they entered the battlefield as they advanced to the White-Blue Gate or rather, its remains.

Naturally, when other demons from the Golden-Horned forces noticed that they were being attacked by the Star-Moon Coalition after overcoming initial shock from being openly attacked as, the declaration of war was sent with this. The forces of the Golden ones close the gates that could be closed, whole hastily barricading the places that were already too damaged or the gates that couldn't be closed.

Still, the battle in the outskirts was an overwhelming victory for the Star-Moon Coalition as they managed to secure the outskirts of the Selangrad entirely. Their losses were almost zero due to the spectacularly carried-out ambush and superior firepower that destroyed much of the golden ones' resistance in the outskirts.

Then the only thing that remained was the battle for the city and that would be a bloody one, because anyone could see that the golden ones would fight to the last one, as they had no way out and death was the only choice.

***

On the nearby hills on the outskirts of the Selangrad, Samiel was having a nice snack time together with Yvraine, while Juulius was guarding his Lord and Dharzug was just eating food and watching the Waaaggghhh.

"That was a nice maneuver."

Samiel commented as he watched together with the rest of the Khaos Chapter how the Star-Moon Coalition carried out a successful ambush and massacred the majority of the forces that the army of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and right now were already advancing on the Selangrad.

"Naturally... they were in the best position to carry out such an ambush and if they failed in that, then I would have seriously doubted the competence of whoever was leading the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition."

Juulius commented from the side with his typical cold, logical approach. Star-Moon Coalition did a very good job with the ambush, and right now, they have already started laying down the siege on the Selangrad, which in truth, was a pretty easy job. Due to the already done damage by the forces of the Golden-Horned forces, the city itself was extremely hard to defend with all of those holes in the Black Walls and several gates that were destroyed.

Not talking about the devastating Outer Layer of the city, which was right now just a pile of rubbles. It would be very hard to defend the Outer Layer of the city; even fighting there would be a pain in the ass because much of the Outer Layer was still in flames.

"Look it is already starting."

Samiel remarked as they all turned their sight to the gate in the western part of the Selangrad, which was also breached like the rest of the gates, as that was the gate where the Star-Moon Coalition armies attacked at first and brutal fight started immediately after.

The charge against the forces of the Golden ones was led by demon ogres who tore through the defenses of the Golden-Horned Demon Army and their vassals like nothing. Demon Ogres were a peculiar type of demon. They were tall around 5 meters tall, very muscular and boasted of enormous physical strength and extremely high pain tolerance. They were noted to be able to shrug off even some grievous injuries like nothing and it was very high to take them down.

They were clad in some Rare-Grade armor from tips to toes as they were like moving fortresses in their armor. Typically they were employed in the demon armies as a vanguard that would be breaking up the stiffest kinds of resistance, like now and it proved to be extremely useful, as there was nothing that the demon army of Golden ones could do to stop their advances, as they lacked the heavy hitters for such action.

Just within ten minutes, the group of demon ogres was able to breach through the western gate like nothing and the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition started pouring into the city in tens of thousands.

"And that is one down... several more to go."

Samiel remarked from the side as he observed the battle, while suddenly, he heard the voice of his personal knight.

"Mistake... two down."

Then he turned his sight to another one of the gates, which was also breached by the forces of the Star-Moon Coalition and one by one, the streets started falling into the hands of the Star-Mooon while the ones of the Golden-Horned and their vassals were continuously retreating closer and closer to the Inner Layer.

If he had to guess, Samiel would say that they had already received the order to withdraw their forces to the Inner Layer as that one was in a much better state and thus was much more manageable to defend.

"Indeed... they are working rather fast... who would have said that?"

Samiel asked to nowhere; as he continued watching the battle for the Selangrad, suddenly his Holo-Brain received several messages from the Bishop who was observing the 8th Floor of the Tower together with the other Legendary Level Professionals from various demon races and tribes, and some of the hiding ones of the Avalon Kingdom and probably some other factions that were observing from the shadows.

"Oya?"

He questioned, surprised at the sight of what he was reading, the news from his Holo-Brain. This was indeed the most interesting development that surprised even him a bit; not like he awaited something like this to happen.

"What has happened?"

Yvraine asked curiously because she saw that Samiel was delighted when he started reading through the message on his Holo-Brain.

"Apparently, the second Star-Moon Coalition ambushed the Golden-Horned demons and their forces; the Legendary Level Professionals of the Star-Moon Coalition did the same thing and killed 8 Legendaries of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and other 20 Legendaries of their vassals and allies at the cost of only 3 of their owns as they too ambushed them."

Samiel said with a happy voice as he summarized the content of the message. Surprisingly or not, the Legendaries of the Star-Moon Coalition managed to sneak attack the ones of Golden ones together with some schemes from the Hall of Kadath because it was a collaborative effort.

Some members of the Inquisition masked themselves as Star Demons and Moon Demons and joined in the attack to ensure a safe ambush and the results of killing as many of them as possible.