Chapter 154: I’ll Do You One Better: Who are your Children?

The generals of the living city of Kamatayan immediately hurled orders the first instant they received the letters from Sipnayan. The distribution of the army is unbalanced. That is because Bulawan city is an economic city, and thus, its security relies mostly on the quality of the soldiers instead of quantity. They have just a total of 80,000 soldiers, goblins, and monkeys combined.

70,000 of which are in the front, because in the off chance that the Apolaki empire was able to get out of the entanglement the Mayari Empire made with them and also, again, if somehow they were able to successfully punch through the Queendom of Urduja, then they have to focus their forces in the front, if they focused in the back, the soldiers will need to rush back to the front, that will be too late no matter how strong individually the soldiers of the living city are, also the air force (manananggals) were already stationed for their role in the Elven-Undead war and the next war against Valentine.

Sophia made this arrangement according to the simulation of the whole time loop in her head, yes, for Sophia, all of her plans up until a certain point will need to follow how she was supposed to act in the time loop, roughly that is.

All of the 10,000 soldiers of Saru, Wukong, and Jin went to the formation, Ruphas was also present, but because for obvious reasons, he was not leading any kind of team, the cavalry of goats and wolves were in the front as the first line of attack while the infantry will act as the rear and in the walls are the marksmen with rifles already in hand, the giant goat of the Kamatayan Queendom sighed, as if to grimace the war he have to participate into if they could have just slept the whole day.

Yet, he still did not dare to be negligent, he immediately transformed, Ruphas' diamond horns transformed into a large clump of electricity and his whole body started to emit thunderous sounds, announcing that he, for a long time would once again (unwillingly) throw hands, and as if on cue, a band of approximately 5,000 knights marched in haste towards them, there is not a single general that is leading them, causing the generals of Bulawan to be perplexed.

They watched as the captains of the knight order of Sisa and some elves started to fix their formation and stare at them with intent, just when Wokung was about to ask what they should do and if they should be worried about a trap from the general that is leading this band of soldiers, all of the generals of Bulawan heard [Guide] speak in their minds.

"Generals of Bulawan, no need to reply, those elves at the back can punch a hole in a part of the barrier in your city and the only thing good about them is that they are not capable of counter-engineering the barrier, and the only elf capable of that is the one Lady Sophia is fighting against this whole time, you have to kill all those at the back, no exceptions, also, don't worry about you being ambushed or anything, that knight order is owned by Sisa, the strongest general of the Tydings Kingdom who is now fighting against Sipnayan in the front."

At this moment, Wokung's eyes twitched, he replied on his mind.

"Can Sipnayan handle her?"

The "call" was linked up, so the captains, despite their serious faces could not help but look at Wokung, who of course, ignored them with all his might.

"Oh yes, Sipnayan can handle the fight just fine, don't be bothered by her absence, by the time you made the enemy give up, she's already done with her one on one, or maybe she will be able to defeat her enemy before all of you also, don't kill them all, and instead make them a prisoner of war until the whole Second-Elven Undead war ended, who knows maybe they will be useful."

Wokung sighed and relief and once again looked at the enemies while the captains looked at them too, they were not nervous, but still did not dare to underestimate the opponent because one of their main orders was to put anyone in the side of Sophia in the same level as them and don't underestimate them just because they are undeads, or in this case, just because they are monsters.

No other words were spoken between the two sides, the knights were not even worried about their numerical disadvantage, they immediately charged toward the enemy, and so did the Bulawan city army, the elves immediately went towards the goat as they took it upon themselves to neutralize such an area of effect level threat, while the captain picked up the generals, two vs 1 like it was said earlier, they are confident, but not arrogant, and with the higher echelons of the two armies started to fight, the difference between two armies was immediately exposed.

The elves that were supposed to give support to the humans cannot make quick work of Ruphas, that is something that they wanted to do because of the languid and clumsy look of Ruphas, but instead, they needed to make every soldier retreat and encase the beast in a barrier to deal with him, which also did not worked because with three bashes using his head, Ruphas broke out of the barrier and started sprawling electricity everywhere while also chasing after the elves.

The elves are just alive because they are small and were then relatively faster than Ruphas.

_This is troublesome... why do they have to be so small... Rather why do I need to be called back from the main battlefield to here on such short notice? No, why do I have to be on that battlefield in the first place? I'm a living soldier... Mantis and Oni will be a better choice because they are dead... sight, the world won't just let me rest..._

While fighting, Ruphas sighed in his heart, he was considered a general, but he didn't consider himself as one, because it was troublesome.

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The captains also have the same problem, all of the generals in the Bulawan city camp are someone they can barely handle, they have to do their best to not be engulfed by the flames that spew out of the sword of Saru, or the long staff of Wokung or the burning fist of Jin, they would have already retreated if they were not given orders to stall for time for their general and attack the living army to make a proper entry point for them.

The meeting on how to find Sisa was filled with people who are jealous of her strength, thus they concluded that it's not a good idea to save her with one general who leads the rescue army because the enemy might take advantage of it and attack them, but the whole knight's order can translate it as the generals wishing for their General Sisa to die, and for them to die alongside her.

Thus right now, despite the disadvantage, the knights fought bravely, with hope and confidence that their general would come back to their side, after all, she was not the strongest for nothing.

Right?

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It took just a split second for the vision of Sipnayan to be restored, and when it did, she woke up in the view of the one who made her go blind for a second, she had overgrown hair that covered the middle and side parts of her face, a tall body complimented by the tall mountains on her chest and childbearing hips.

_She will be a good offering to Lady Sophia._

Such was Sipnayan's observation as if she was not just kidnapped by the woman in front of her, the two of them are sitting in a see-saw of some sort that is in the middle of a clearing with swings, slides, and all the things that one could see on a playground, if not for the fact that the see-saw is hanging in perfect balance despite Sipnayan's weight being smaller than the woman in front of her, then she would feel like she went inside one of the playgrounds that are inside the Bulawan City.

_Where is this? Some sort of pocket dimension? Is this something that Lady Sophia can do? Why didn't I see her do this and only use the 4th dimension as some sort of transportation?_

Sipnayan continued to analyze, however, she did not know that the person she was facing right now was one of the few people who were given a natural understanding of space magic, she was also someone who was able to get it to level 5 by pure hard work alone, well, if Sophia is put her mind to it, she will certainly be able to make something like this, hell she will make a whole universe inside the 4th dimension, however, this is where the disadvantage of instantaneous learning comes into play.

Sophia has a very good grasp of the basics of quantum physics, which is, the 4th dimension, and thus she concluded that the best way to use this magic is for transpiration, she might have some ideas to experiment on it, but because of the risk of messing up her plans to destroy the time loop, she never did.

And it's not like she can't use it as it was seen in her [Night Prison] which has some space magic for the places generated to be realistic against Hebi Tsukaiza and Aerendil, it's just that she did not use it as a very integral part of her battle system and at most is something that can distract her opponent for at least a split second

But in any case, Sophia doesn't have the time, madness, and leeway of Sisa to learn and construct a very intricate domain, however, despite Sipnayan not knowing all of such things (not like it will be very useful to her if she did), Sipnayan prepared for her upcoming fight, a paper appeared on her hand, and slowly, without being noticed by the woman in front, it slipped down the seesaw and then landed on her feet, in that paper, a dot appeared that started to drag itself and draw a circle.

_Now, the time stalling starts._

As Sipnayan thought of that, the woman in front of her suddenly spoke.

"Where are my children?"

The eyebrows of Sipnayan constricted for a little.

_I'll do you one better, who are your children?_

Sipnayan could not help but think of that, but in fear of not being able to stall enough time, she restrained herself, also, she didn't have any time to make snarky remarks, for the moment the lady in front of her asked such a question, all of the matter in the pocket dimension they were in suddenly started to disintegrate, the swings, the slides, the earth, the sky, everything except the seesaw that just floated in the middle of the future barrage of projectiles started to detach themselves with each other, after which, they immediately formed into several swords that enveloped Sipnayan in 360 degrees.

Somehow however, Sisa made all of these swords position themselves in a way that would evade her and will only target her enemy, she was not afraid of her enemy being able to fight back, this is her domain after all, a domain that a lot of enemy soldiers have fallen victim too.

She might be a mad woman, but still, she is the strongest, thus her confidence in herself is on the level that she already won without even the fight starting yet, thus she waited for an answer impatiently with her whiteless eyes that as usual, filled with bottomless madness.

"Uhm... well, before that... can I know who you are?"

At that moment, it seemed like somehow, someway, Sipnayan's words offended Sisa, the madwoman gritted her teeth and then shouted, without even a single warning, all of her projectiles started to charge at Sipnayan, who started to "panic" immediately.

"Wait, wait! How would I know if I know your children if I don't know who their mother is!?"

Sipnayan shouted, and again, it was as if Sisa was animated by a puppeteer, all of her projectiles stopped, but she still gnashed her teeth and glared at Sipnayan, who was still so calm despite being a prisoner of hers.

_She... she definitely knows where my children are..._

Sisa somehow concluded, her insanity clouding her logical thinking, making her go along with the desire of the enemy, Sipnayan already noticed something strange about her enemy the moment she saw her crazy eyes, it was not a crazy that would trigger under extreme circumstances, it was the insanity that will never go away no matter how many children of hers hugged her as they come back to her.

Sipnayan's problem is, that she really didn't know who the hell are the children of this woman, and such a woman answered her question, albeit still on guard.

"... Sisa... give me back my children..."

Sipnayan cannot but give up retorting in her heart, no matter how many times she does, she is aware that this crazy woman will not be able to understand that her children are not with her, and well, it's not like she has to answer her questions, she just have to stall for time, until the dot finished drawing a circle, and thus, she replied.

"... Oh... Sisa... I see, well, the thing is, I have a loooot of children with me... so I may not be able to remember who is who... so, I would again, like to ask, can you tell me, in great detail of course, how does your children look?"