At the altar floor, Nein, Ava and Sylva were discussing about their strategy. After six hours of rest, Ava seems to be better now at how proactive she is.
Meanwhile, at Vastium. The armies arrived and greets by nothing but sand. Silos who leads the army can't help but wonder what happened.
"Search every corner of this place. And keep contacting Sinatra. She haven't called me since yesterday." His voice echoes through his armor.
His men begin their search around. The front gates flat against the sand.
"Lord Silos!" Shout someone with hurry.
"Did you find something?." He ask looking at the rushing man.
"Pant...lady...pant...lady Sinatra...is dead!" He inform.
He went immediately to check and saw the decaying head against the floor along with another around it. He grits his teeth and suddenly, the communication orb shining.
"You...are you the one doing all this?." His voice filled with fury toward the face showing inside the orb.
It was Ava. Sitting firmly with defiant look on her face.
"I am. And the same thing going to happen to you. Silos." She close the broadcast after taunting him.
"GRRR...all soldier. Advance to the last signal of the orb. There's definitely someone behind her." He command furiously.
Meanwhile, in the forest Nein sitting on the altar floor with a chessboard made from his smoke along with the pawn. The strategy is simple, Ava will lead her people to fight, Sylva will use her telepathy to communicate with them and stay beside Nein as he command everything behind the scenes.
"Are you okay with this Nein?." Her voice worried.
She's sitting next to him and looking intensionally to his face. Her finger intertwined with his finger in order to connect him with the telepathy.
"It's tough but necessary. It's their fight and they need to settle this on their own. I'm taking the command simply to take the blame of those who dies. So Ava don't need to carries it alone." He says with a smile.
Her eyes soften as she curl her tail behind him and have faith in his decision. Ava and the six's preparing for their battles. They're nervous, can be seen in their eyes and gesture. Not only them but a hundred of soldier feel the same.
Ava stand up and look at them. Her eyes clear as she begin to speak.
"It'll be our first battles against human. Some of us will die for sure. But...are we going to stay like this forever?. Shadowed by peace and refuse to change?. Is it... really death we're afraid of?. No... we've seen many people died to the beast before. We lost our family and friends even before this." Her voice catching their attention.
"Tell me. Is it death you afraid of or the scene where our people suffering from hunger?" Her voice calm.
"...yes"
"Is it death we're afraid of or the scene of kids losing their family?" She ask with more force to it.
"Yes..."
"Is it death we're afraid of or...the fact that we lost our home from our incompetence?". Her voice determined.
"Yes."
"Now tell me. Are you afraid?."
"Yes."
"Are you going to surrender?."
"No."
"Good..."
She begin to take a step forward, standing Infront of her people with head held high.
"ARE WE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR HOMELAND OR NOT?."
"YES!!!"
"ARE WE GOING TO DESTROY OUR ENEMIES OR NOT?"
"YES!!"
She raise her guns to the air and shouts. Her voice filled with determination and rage, giving power to everyone.
"RAISE YOUR GUNS AND SWORD THEN. WE'RE TAKING BACK OUR HOME!!"
"YEAHH!!!!"
Meanwhile, Nein who's been watching over them with Sylva were pleased and assured.
"See?. This is what they called a human spirit." He says proudly at Sylva.
She smiles and nods approvingly.
"It's beautiful."
In the distance, Silos armies starting to showed up. Marching with their numbers toward the forest. But everyone remain calm as they hides between the woods and use the terrains as their advantage. Nein's watching through his smoke, watching every corner of the battlefield as Sylva holding his hand to connect him to everyone
"Ava, enemies will arrived in fifteen minutes. Is everyone already on position?." His voice loud and clear in her head.
"They are. We're ready anytime now." She says confidently.
"Good. And to everyone. Please stay alive."
A lie as he begin to set the board and take the black piece. Solis take his first step inside the forest. Nein make his move immediately.
"Squad seven, pull the trap"
Suddenly, the ground collapse and caught the soldier off. Silos saw that and tell his men to retreat. Nein move his piece and a huge log begin to roll over the knights flattening them. He split the log with his sword and realized, this forest was a trap.
He stop making his move now and the war against two player begins. Nein make his move by telling the squad to retreat while exposing themselves to Silos. He raise his arm to stop his soldier and sent the monster first.
Just as he thought, the two huge monster immediately fall to a pit. Nein flick his tongue and make another move.
"Squad two, aim your guns."
Silos sent another monster, smaller this time and nothing happened to them. Making him sending his men without realizing that's the trap. In a blink of an eye, ten people along with the monster died. He heard a gunshots along with it.
He enter into the battlefield, making Nein confused.
"Squad two, retreat at once"
But alas, Silos swing his sword and killed one of Nein piece with unexpected move. He lost seven people now as Silos sent another monster to check for another trap.
"Squad three, take your position"
Silos went deeper inside the forest while telling his men to spread. A wise move as he stay in the middle. He lost another piece on the left wing before losing the one on his right. He then command the mages to burn the trees out of frustration.
"To everyone, keep a safe distance from the fire. Hide in the woods and take them down one by one."
The war continues, Silos losing most of his piece while Nein losing only a few pawn and some of his important piece. He remain calm as Sylva's grip tighten on his hand. The forest soil covered with corpse of both sides, trees burned into ash and the sign of their battles tainted the forest.
There's only a hundred men left of what Silos have, while Nein still got most of his number. Using hit and run strategy he manage to distract Silos. He begin to move the queen again and raise his sword. Nein do nothing since nothing there on where he's aiming at, until he suddenly use horizontal cut and execute the squad hiding nearby. He flinches and Lamina died along with her squad members.
Nein have lost Atranu, Faber and Lamina now along with another four squad. He's blundering slightly but remain focused on the game. He haven't move the important piece yet. He's lucky that there's only three hundreds of them so he can chipped them bit by bit.
The war intensified since both sides begin to use tricks. Unlike Silos however, Nein have advantage of view from using his smoke to watch everything from his seat. Both losing their piece but refuse to stop. Nein even intentionally sacrificing the people to bait Silos and manage to take his mages by crushing them with a boulder. Sylva who's been watching Nein this whole time can't help but worried and fascinated by him. At how cruel he is to ensure victory. But she say nothing and focused with her duty as their comms.