"Because..." Bosacius said while panting: "Marshal, I have no way to let my brothers fight and kill on the front lines while I can only stay in the rear because of my body's condition!"
"Marshal, I know you have a way to let me temporarily regain combat strength. I beg you to help me!"
Jun Bai looked at Bosacius's determined gaze, sighed, took out a small jade bottle while also plucking another one of his own feathers:
"This pill combined with my feather can let you temporarily regain combat strength, but after the effect wears off..."
As Jun Bai spoke, he took out a pill from the jade bottle.
Before he could finish speaking, Bosacius did a carp leap, swallowing the pill from Jun Bai's hand.
"...You could at least let me finish talking about the side effects."
"I was worried that if you finished talking about the side effects, I wouldn't dare eat it." Bosacius said sincerely.
[Awake.]
[Very clear self-positioning.]
[Suddenly feel Bosacius has some guts.]
"...Since you already ate it, I won't tell you about this pill's side effects." Jun Bai put away the empty jade bottle.
Bosacius asked curiously: "So Marshal, what side effects does this pill have?"
"...It's better if you don't know."
"Marshal, just tell me, I can handle it."
Jun Bai silently looked at Bosacius and said: "This pill... can suppress your injuries and pain, but after the effect wears off, the accumulated pain will explode out twice as much."
Bosacius's expression froze.
[Jun Bai: I warned you not to know.]
[Oh~ Bosacius is afraid of pain?]
[With that body full of injuries, even a tough guy who isn't afraid of pain would find it hard to endure, right?]
"Get up, the effect has already taken hold." Jun Bai grabbed Bosacius by the shoulder and pulled him up from the ground.
Bosacius instinctively sucked in a breath of cold air, then suddenly realized that the wounds all over his body felt no pain at all—instead, there was a refreshing cool sensation.
"Let's go."
Seeing Bosacius standing dazed in place, Jun Bai unceremoniously slapped him on the forehead.
Bosacius came to his senses and followed behind Jun Bai as they rushed together to the Yunlai Sea battlefield.
...
Yunlai Sea.
A Red-Eyed Sea Dragon burst out from the sea, opening its abyss-like maw full of sharp teeth toward the exhausted Millelith squad.
The Millelith squad that had just slain one Red-Eyed Sea Dragon was now in a state where their old strength was exhausted and new strength had yet to rise.
Facing the second Red-Eyed Sea Dragon, they gripped their weapons tightly, ready to make one final stand.
Suddenly, the Red-Eyed Sea Dragon fell before the Millelith.
Two mangled, bloody wounds appeared on the back of the monster's neck. A yaksha wearing a mask emitting Geo energy stood on the Red-Eyed Sea Dragon's body.
Menogias strode forward, his Geo blade thrusting directly into the Red-Eyed Sea Dragon's brain along the wound.
The monster, with its abnormally strong vitality, churned the sea surface into chaos, but in the end, it could not escape death.
"Those who can still stand, go support the southeast battlefield; those with serious injuries, stay where you are—someone will take you to the rear to receive treatment from the Medicine Lord Adeptus."
After leaving those words, Menogias hurried without stopping to the next place needing support.
[The Millelith are pretty good— a ten-man squad killed one Red-Eyed Sea Dragon without any casualties.]
[Adeptuses who can fight solo are running around putting out fires everywhere. This monster army feels even larger in scale than the one before Mondstadt City.]
[Those up ahead, it feels like you can go now.]
[Anyone who's fought a Red-Eyed Sea Dragon knows that when half its body is in the sea, it's harder to kill than a Hilichurl King even if you evaporate it infinitely.]
[By the way, isn't anyone curious how Menogias knows which part of the battlefield needs support?]
The next moment, the barrage question was answered.
A mechanical sparrow arrived beside Menogias, and Guizhong's voice came from it:
"Menogias, eight hundred meters south, seven casualties."
"Understood!" Menogias headed south.
"Indarias, seven hundred eighty meters northwest, three sea dragons with no one engaging them."
"Leave it to me!" A fiery red figure rushed northwest.
"Sea battlefield, number 6, abandon ship. Cloud Retainer, same position, raise the wind!"
On the sea, aboard a warship resisting the monsters, the Millelith did not hesitate at all and directly jumped into the sea.
Cloud Retainer, having restored her crane form, flapped her wings to arrive before the empty ship, fanning gusts of wind that propelled the warship forward at high speed.
An even larger Red-Eyed Sea Dragon surfaced and was then rammed head-on by the oncoming warship.
The violent impact shattered the entire warship, creating an instant opening in the monster.
"Bonanus, Xiao, go!"
Bonanus came riding the waves, his crescent halberd slashing directly at the Red-Eyed Sea Dragon.
A flash of dark green light—Xiao appeared directly above the Red-Eyed Sea Dragon. The spear Primordial Jade Winged-Spear pointed downward as his body spun and fell, piercing straight through the monster's skull.
At the rear of the battlefield, countless heavily injured Millelith were enveloped in pale green light. A barefoot girl with white hair and red eyes moved back and forth through the wounded barracks.
When she encountered someone hanging by a thread, a small pale green snake would emerge on her arm.
The snake would bite down on the wounded, and the expression of the one who had nearly failed to make it through would instantly improve.
[So Guizhong saying she can command was real?]
[On this battlefield now, there is no useless person—everyone is going all out!]
[The Adeptuses' strength far exceeds humans, but the Millelith have absolutely no intention of leaving everything to the Adeptuses.]
[Starting to understand what Keqing meant by human governance.]
At the highest point of the rear battlefield, in a temporarily set-up command camp. Guizhong stood atop the command camp, her expression calm as she methodically issued one command after another.
Those mechanical creations scattered across the entire battlefield were all her eyes and ears.
This was the Dust God's, Guizhong's, way of commanding war.