Chapter 157: Will You Still Love me if I was a Child?

The battle between two living armies of the elves, humans, and monsters of Kamatayan continued. Blood spilled, armors were broken, and limbs were strewn over as the two armies entangled against each other.

The knights of the elven-human alliance were already at a disadvantage, first the elves, despite their plethora of spells could not neutralize Ruphas, for the moment they tried to use magic spells to seal his movements, he would overcharge himself with electricity and would break out of it with sheer force, not only that, when they gave up to control the goat's movement and tried to bombard him with the earth element, the presumed weakness of electricity, Ruphas was just momentarily stunned, for he immediately changed the elements that are spurting out of his horns to that of the water element, his control of the element is not so good, considering that he had just learned to use all elements as a way to vent out his momentarily motivation before and did not actively entered fights after that.

Still, the spouting water in his horns was enough to shield him and whip around deadly, high-speed cannonballs made out of water that caused more damage to the knight order of Sisa, that is until now was unable to connect with their general or even see a glimpse of her, even when the elves were exhausted of their mana and was successfully killed by Ruphas that suddenly slept in the middle of the battlefield because he felt like it after he has just played around with the rather powerful elves, they failed to even hear the mad laughter or cry of Sisa.

They were getting worried, the captain that was confronting the humanoid generals was falling left and right, and yes, like the elves, they were being toyed around as they fell.

The human and elves' morale is at an all-time low, they have tried to overestimate their enemy, as commanded by the two commander-generals of their side while not forgetting why they are confident of their victory, but now, they are here, with nothing but slowly waning pride and a growing silent prayer that their general will come back as soon as possible.

This is not only for them, but for the whole army in general, if the general and the elite chunk of her knight order were to be annihilated, the morale of the whole army would plummet, barring the other generals who are happy with the peril of Sisa, the normal soldiers, who were not made aware of this little feud of the generals will question the decision of their king to collude with a country that challenges a queendom with a random, outskirt general that can fight against the strongest general of their kingdom.

Not only the elite numbers will decrease, but the morale and trust of the soldiers will receive a huge blow each, which will make the whole army on the verge of collapse, that is of course can normally be mitigated by the two kings by their side, unfortunately, they are also busy fighting without even a microsecond of rest.

The fear of all this happening made the knights work hard despite their plummeting numbers and the nervousness about their general's status.

Unfortunately, all of these knights are not even aware that their fears have already come true this very night, specifically the one about Sisa.

The only thing they have never guessed is that she was defeated by a cook.

And as the human-elven army continued to fight an increasingly futile struggle, a light suddenly emerged in the pockets of all the generals of the living monsters, Wokung and co. were all perplexed, they retreated for a while and opened their pockets, in there was a letter that read:

"The general of the knight order that attacked us has been dealt with, her body will be dropped there any moment now."

All of the letters have such a notice, however, Wokung cannot help but be perplexed, he frowned which causes some worry to the soldiers, though he tells them not to worry.

"Will you still love me if I was a child?"

The monkey leader cannot understand, what is this teenage girl bullshit question have to do with the war? Wokung had never seen Sipnayan take the debuff of her unique skill before, thus he wondered if he had to answer it or not.

"Father! What are you doing!? Charge forward!"

Wokung was brought back to reality by this shout from Jin and Saru, he apologized, clenched the paper, and just decided to talk with his lover about the question after the war.

_I wonder how she defeated the general._

Wokung thought so as he once again charged and waved his staff around, causing the temporary relief of the human-elven soldiers to disappear again, and at the same time, the commander of the second elven undead war. [Guide] gave a single command to all the soldiers of his side.

"Surround them, demand their surrender."

And thus they did, they stopped pressing from the front and started to make the cavalry move to the side and into the back in one swift motion, Wokung, Saru, and Jin then shouted.

"Surrender and retain your lives!"

They continued to press further, causing the pressure being felt by the human and elves to increase to levels they did not know existed, this was the first time they were so outclassed in one one-on-one fighting power so bad, maybe because they never go to war against a kingdom and just quells some rebellion or cults, yet they did not give up, for they know that Sisa, their general can turn around the situation.

That's maybe why it was so much to their shock to see, in the middle of their increasingly shrinking defensive formation, a long-haired woman fall from a paper that was tossed by a general from their opponent.

"Gene... general...?"

All of the knights of the elves and humans, as well as the monsters, stopped fighting, the elven-human army had their weapon pointed at the ground in increasing dread while their enemy as ever, had their swords and spears pointed in their heads.

"No... no way... what are you talking about?"

Another knight chimed in, he shoved the first one to speak away, and indeed, in there they saw a woman, her skin have some bones poking out of it, and her chest is kind of caved-in, however, he, or perhaps all of them are sure. General Sisa has been defeated.

"Give up and throw your weapons to the ground."

Once again, the monster generals demanded, this time, the loud silence made it so that even though they did not shout, they were still heard as if a gong from a mile away, the soldiers of the elven-human alliance finally had their morale crushed as they saw their greatest bet in winning their battle and also the person they wanted to rescue be defeated, the person who defeated her even have the luxury to keep her alive and seal her mana pool.

One by one, the elves and humans threw their weapons to the ground, put their hands in the air, and knelt in resignation to their fate.

Just like that, the invasion of Bulawan City and the rescue of General Sisa failed spectacularly as how it started.

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After the battle, the captains of the monster living army took over the imprisonment of the invaders and cleaning up the battlefield, they used moving cells to properly transport the prisoners of war, not only that, the chains used to tie the soldiers were equipped with the magic circle used by Sophia in her handcuff toy (the one used by Bakunawa), without the decrease increase in sensitivity, thus all of the knights and mages are unable to strategize on a desperate attack, if they ever do, the soldiers also injected them with a tranquilizing medicine created by [Guide] in the pharmaceutical lab given to him by Sophia.

It will activate only if the medicine detects a forceful stimulation of muscles, blood, or mana, it will also turn to poison if it is forcefully deactivated by any kind of external interference or even the natural healing factor of the body, it will again turn into a more lethal poison when it was successfully negated, and those who survived all of this will be normally too weak to resist. With some exemptions of course.

As the soldiers cleaned up the battlefields, the generals and Sipnayan in her child form were in a single tent, all of them were looking at Sipnayan.

"Why are you a child?"

Some veins can be seen appearing on the forehead of Sipnayan, and one can say that it was a good thing that [Guide] was suddenly spat out by a spider in the ceiling of the tent, defusing the situation.

"Good job living soldiers, especially you Sipnayan."

He greeted, which the living soldiers acknowledged by reinforcing their oath of loyalty to their lady, after that, the tent went silent once more, and [Guide] could not help but grimace in his mind.

_Here it comes._

Besides congratulating the living army, the spider commander of the whole second elven undead war also has a command he has to fulfill that comes directly from Sophia.

"So... commander... do we... have any more... you know, active participation in the second elven undead war or the war against Valentine?"

[Guide] sighed, bracing himself to escape as what he was about to say might touch some nerves.

"Hmm... yes, the queen plans to station you as a support army to Mayari as they block the flow of soldiers and invade the strategic cities of Apolaki to prevent them from supplying Valentine's backup manpower..."

[Guide] paused, which made the generals who were grimacing because of another minor role given to them more nervous.

"Urduja will also probably join in the invasion, and... I am not allowed to say this consideration, but, as Sophia said, my words are her words, so she can't do anything if I did."

What [Guide] was about to say is the root of his visit, but he has to make it seem like a farewell speech, that is because it is a command of Sophia, who, in her plans needs the time loop to be followed roughly the same as it was intended until she said so otherwise, one deviation from a major event will cause a great ripple that will be too grand for the undistracted Eris and Loki not to notice, thus despite her almost perfect simulation and Sophia having the strength to get out of the time loop alone, she still have to follow how Pentateuch will play out.

As [Guide] thought of this, he sighed and said his truth bomb.

"It is just a very rough idea and the lady is still grimacing about whether to make a meeting with you about this, but, after the Kamatayan-Valentine war, she wants the queendom to go full undead and sell the citizens of Bulawan to Urduja."

Wokung and the other generals, even Sipnayan who had a rather bratty look as she have to be disturbed by her nap because of this were shocked, and after a moment of shock, all of the living generals slowly lowered their heads.

"Is it... is it because of our stubbornness... is it because we wanted to stay as living soldiers ?"

It is one of the agreements of the soldiers in Bulawan, that was of course given free will by their Lady to organize themselves as long as she was not betrayed, they agreed that they shall remain living soldiers and become the last breathing bastion in the queendom of death as a representative of the other side of the cycle of life and death.

"No, it was probably because I don't want to fight, I honestly think my wish is selfish."

[Guide] sighed at this, and as he did, the other two monkeys made their own opinions like Saru not being able to tie the knot with Kabuto that Sophia anticipated at the first instant their personalities aligned while Jin said it was his fault too, [Guide] cannot just bear to see the most underutilized people in the whole Queendom blame themselves like this.

"You know, the queen thinks the opposite, to be honest, she just used the living for the enigma of the world against the undead to disappear by seeing them and living people coexist properly, after that, her plans for all of you are all a blur, she was afraid that all of you will be disappointed in her, as all of you are never utilized on her plans as the army's mainstream became undeads, this action is in no way because she is disappointed but because she wants the best in you, I hope you understand."

The living generals frowned at this.

"Disappointed with her? No, she gave us new life and gave us a city and a place in her queendom that is named death, we can never be disappointed with how she utilizes us."

Wokung said passion could be seen in her eyes whilst the other fighters nodded.

"Well, I know that, but let me tell you something, in that meeting, Lady Sophia will listen to what you want and will not agree to a passionate speech like 'If you ordered so, we shall kill ourselves to become undead' because deep down, she knew that all of you wanted to keep your heart beating as the last piece of your pride."

[Guide] looked at the spider that spat her out, the spider knew the signal, so it went down with its web and started devouring him again.

"In any case, consider what you really like besides your loyalty, also keep this a secret... And free a soldier and make him go back to tell the news of Sisa's defeat."