As Hadia fell toward the ground, she had already devised a way to deal with these wyverns.
It was to rely on herself, leaping and killing them one by one.
Hadia believed that with her speed, eliminating these hundred-plus wyverns within an hour wouldn’t be too big a problem.
This wyvern force was indeed overwhelming against normal human troops.
Humans had no other way to deal with them aside from deploying their griffin units for aerial combat.
But how could griffins possibly defeat such giant wyverns?
So, as of now, humans truly had no way to handle the wyvern force and could only let them reap lives.
But for Hadia, they were just monsters that were a bit troublesome to deal with.
Just as Hadia was thinking that, a flash of light appeared in her vision.
A laser-like magic shot out from one of the wyverns.
“!”
Noticing this, Hadia hurriedly used her holy sword to block, deflecting the magic.
However, due to the impact of the laser magic, Hadia’s landing trajectory was altered, sending her plummeting straight toward the human troops outside the fortress.
Hadia’s gaze immediately shifted to the source of the magic.
After all, the power of this magic was on a completely different level from the soldiers’; it was clearly the work of a Demon King cadre.
Following Hadia’s line of sight, Daphiel, standing atop a carriage roof, finally appeared in her view.
And below her, in the open carriage door, Natalie stood watching Hadia.
Beside her, naturally, stood Emily, her face full of worry.
After noticing Hadia’s gaze, Natalie forcefully grabbed Emily’s hand.
Then, she put on a mocking expression that, in Hadia’s eyes, looked utterly infuriating.
It was as if she was telling Hadia that Emily was now completely her possession!
Why don’t you, the loser, just leave obediently!
“Lady Emily!”
With Hadia’s unwilling cry, she plummeted straight toward the ground.
Of course, although Natalie’s actions were extremely provoking, from her perspective, not taking action to kill Hadia and just mocking her with an expression was already quite merciful.
If Natalie really wanted to kill her, a single glance would suffice.
Hadia crashed onto the ground, her face still etched with frustration.
Naturally, after Hadia landed, the nearby human commanders rushed over to check on her.
“Brave One, are you alright!”
“I’m fine… You all need to retreat, quickly.”
After all, the Demon King had appeared, and Hadia’s original plan to annihilate the wyvern force was naturally no longer feasible.
With the Demon King present, if Hadia dared to try, she’d be killed in an instant.
Moreover, Hadia truly hadn’t expected that Natalie would bring Emily to this dangerous battlefield.
“But, without the joint orders from the generals, we…”
The commander seemed rather hesitant in response to Hadia’s words.
Seeing the commander still hemming and hawing, Hadia, unable to control her emotions, shouted at him, “If you don’t want to be wiped out, retreat now!”
“Yes, ma’am!”
Under Hadia’s roar, the commander frantically ordered the soldiers to beat the retreat drums.
After all, the commander was well aware of the threat posed by the wyvern force.
The wyvern force had already killed thousands of imperial soldiers in their initial attack.
A few more waves, and even with an army of over a hundred thousand, the empire wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
After ordering the soldiers to retreat, Hadia continued to gaze with unwilling eyes at the wyvern where Natalie and Emily were.
‘Lady Emily, wait for me! I will definitely rescue you from the Demon King’s clutches!’
*
While Hadia was directing the retreat of the troops, the wyvern force successfully landed at the fortress’s “airfield.”
The oppressive presence of over a hundred wyverns made the soldiers inside the fortress quite tense.
If they didn’t know these wyverns were allies, these soldiers would likely have been scared off already.
Natalie was the first to step out of the carriage.
Daphiel and Emily followed closely behind.
Emily right now truly resembled a frightened little animal, cautiously observing the situation inside the fortress.
Of course, the moment the demon race soldiers saw Emily, the Saintess, appear, they all cast hostile glances her way.
After all, the demon race soldiers willing to risk their lives garrisoning this most dangerous fortress were those who had lost their homes and families.
And the ones responsible for their losses were naturally humans and the Church.
Wanted posters for Emily, the Saintess, were truly everywhere in the demon realm.
So, hardly any demon race member didn’t recognize Emily.
Faced with these stares, how could the timid Emily not be afraid?
Natalie, on the other hand, couldn’t openly protect Emily either.
After all, these demons had legitimate reasons to hate Emily, the Saintess.
And since those soldiers hadn’t directly attacked Emily, it was still within the range Natalie could tolerate.
Of course, the most crucial reason was that Natalie found the frightened and anxious Emily utterly adorable.
Nowadays, Natalie was really growing more and more eager to have someone create a magic tool that could capture images.
That way, she could take pictures of the adorable Emily and look at them whenever she wanted.
However, if she asked Daphiel, it felt like she’d probably refuse.
Normally, if Natalie wanted a magic tool custom-made, she’d just order Daphiel to find someone to do it.
But Natalie also understood that if she had Daphiel use treasury funds to commission such a magic tool, she’d definitely have a lot of complaints.
Forget it, the matter of commissioning a magic tool could wait.
For now, she needed to quickly deal with the human side and then take Emily back to the Demon King’s castle to continue their alone time.
As Natalie was thinking this, the loli catgirl who had just been fighting Hadia arrived in front of the three to greet them.
She was kneeling on one knee, appearing very respectful.
After all, with the Demon King personally coming to support the front lines, as one of the fortress’s responsible personnel, how could she not come to greet her in person?
As for the bespectacled demon race member, she had gone to handle the aftermath.
Although the humans had retreated, the breached wall needed repairs quickly, and there were other tasks to manage, so she could only meet Natalie a bit later.
Looking at the respectfully kneeling loli catgirl, Natalie immediately spoke, “Karina, it’s been a long time. I grant you permission to rise.”
“Thank you, Demon King-sama, meow!”
Only after receiving Natalie’s permission did the loli catgirl named Karina dare to stand up.
Of course, looking at Karina, Emily was also somewhat surprised.
After all, such an adorable golden-haired bob-cut loli was actually one of the Demon King’s cadres.
She looked every bit like a very young little girl.
Emily certainly knew that the Karina before her was a member of the cat beastkin.
But cat beastkin didn’t have a setting where they stopped growing.
So Karina’s age definitely wasn’t large.
Noticing Emily staring at her, Karina didn’t hesitate to respond with a gaze full of hostility.
Of course, being stared at by a cute loli catgirl with such a look, Emily just found it very cute.