[You hoist up the ’Command Flag of the Ogiwara Family’ as a sudden roar echoed from the quiet formation, reverberating across the skies, as drums thunder and war clouds thicken!]

[Battle chariots laden with blades and heavily armed cavalry guarded by samurais rush to the front!]

[Like a red-blooded waterfall, the onslaught of crimson floods into the hold, towards the enemy stationed in the capital, towards the entirety of the most skilled and courageous warriors of Sakura fall - the ’Dark Fasting Army’.]

[At the forefront of the dark-armored troops is a sturdy military officer covered entirely in pitch-black armor, bearing a flag that leads the entire army.]

[An ’Extreme Evil Samurai Bannerman’ roars and charges fearlessly, lifting his spear high. All the warriors behind him shriek insanely, unafraid of death, their eyes filled with malicious intent as they follow the flag-bearing warrior to face the enemy.]

[Red waves crash against the black rocks, spraying a mist of blood!]

[Monstrous sea creatures slam their colossal limbs down like collapsing pillars, crushing dozens of dark-armored cavalry and horses into a bloody pulp, the continuous sounds of smashing bones and flesh are like a bugle call for charging.]

[Suddenly, all enemy corpses morph into icy blue sculptures, the nearby temperature plummets, and instantly, feather-like snow begins to fall as an ice tornado rises from the ground, pulling numerous enemies into the storm...]

[On the charging chariot of blades, the burly warlord ’Great Service’, wielding two giant tachi, becomes a whirlwind of crimson with the rotating blades on the chariot’s tracks, charging into the formation of the ’Dark Fasting Army’!]

[Wherever the chariot goes, flesh and blood fly randomly, and the eerie howling never stops echoing. The thing that broke into the formation is not a chariot but a heartlessly bloody meat grinder!]

[Following the chariot are many spear-wielding cavalry warriors, under the leadership of several brave warlords, they penetrate the enemy’s heart like a sharp dagger...]

[Among the 1,500-strong corps, the foot soldiers are the largest in number and they take advantage of the momentum of the cavalry’s charge to rush in!]

[Arrows fly as thick as rain, mixed in are terrifyingly destructive stones and crossbows, heartlessly reaping the enemy’s lives...]

[Every beat of the battle drum marks the splash of countless drops of scorching blood, symbolizing the sacrifice of fanatical lives.]

[The ’Dark Fasting Army’ is the elite unit personally trained by the commander-in-chief, the best of the best, each warrior is an extremely evil monster, who has extinguished their humanity and does not know what fear or pain is.]

[Even for an iron-blooded corps as courageous as the ’Crimson Army’, even with the added power of the ’Divine Domain of the God of Death’, after a successful first ferocious charge, the ’Crimson Army’ gradually get into a hard fight, with increasing casualties...]

[Facing the continuously flooding ’Dark Fasting Army’ onto the battlefield, your ’Crimson Army’ eventually becomes outnumbered.]

[The speed at which the ’Crimson Army’ can kill the enemy is far from keeping up with the speed at which the enemy floods onto the battlefield.]

[Even the monstrous sea creatures and shikigami Snow Woman are blocked by the ’Extreme Evil Bannerman’, and they can no longer massacre the enemy at will.]

[If the battle continues like this, the dissolution of the ’Crimson Army’ is just a matter of time.]

[When the ’Crimson Army’ has been decimated, without needing the commander-in-chief to take action, endless black-armored warriors will drown you...]

Lin Xun was not able to give commands to the Crimson Army at all due to lack of capacity.

He thought that having the ’Chassis’ of the ’Childlike Empress’ would suffice to wear down the grand general continuously.

But even if gathered shikigamis and summoned creatures have the bonus power from ’Divine Domain of the God of Death’, and even if he could use the ’Childlike Empress’ chassis to heal his allies, facing the grand general was still extremely hard...

If it wasn’t for the ’Nine-tailed Fox’ releasing ’Soul Taking and Spirit Seizing’ in time, the summoned creatures would have been sacrificed under the concentrated attack of the grand general.

But like all other control skills, ’Soul Taking and Spirit Seizing’ also has an enormous weakness, that is its tremendous consumption. After using control skills consecutively, even an elite monster like the ’Nine-tailed Fox’ feels strained.

[...]

[The tyrannical black blade light radiates in all directions, not only dissipating the incoming attacks but also knocking back ’Dayue circle’ - who was close at hand - with one strike.]

[You scan your surroundings, seeing ’Shuten-doji’ holding onto his heavily injured chest, with hot, fresh blood soaking the ground, ’Dayue circle’ coughing up blood repeatedly and his soul becoming hazy.]

[Only the distant ’Valkyrie’ and ’Nine-tailed Fox’ have not been injured, they have always kept a distance from the grand general for their attacks, not daring to get closer.]

The ’Valkyrie’ and ’Nine-tailed Fox’, one is a brittle-bodied archer, the other a delicate arcane monster, they definitely can’t withstand a full strike from the grand general.

Only ’Dayue circle’ is in the front row, while ’Shuten-doji’ is a sorcerer-tank at most, barely able to defend with ’Dayue circle’.

Lin Xun was feeling the most pressure and couldn’t spare any attention to command the Crimson Army’s operations.

He needed to switch bodies constantly, needing to use ’Star Lord Canis’ for attacks, and transform into an Earth Giant to take damage with Dayue circle and Shuten-doji when the grand general unleashed his deadly skills.

Not only that, but he also had to take on the role of support and logistics, healing and replenishing the health of frontline soldiers who just took a blow.

[Suddenly, a few dark-armored cavalry broke through the ’Crimson Army’ defense line, charging towards you...]

[A few sharp arrows queued in succession and accurately hit the cavalry on the head, shooting them off their horses...] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[You are taken aback and quickly look towards the battlefield.]

[All you see is the dense flow of black-armored soldiers overwhelming your ’Crimson Army’, the crimson warriors are fighting back with everything they have, their best efforts failing to hinder the advancing ’Dark Fasting Army’...]