How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 194 : No Hope

"Kill!"

A blood-soaked knight with red eyes charged toward the giant magical beast that had already broken through the city wall.

Having exhausted all the [Qi] in his body, he could only use his flesh and blood to fight desperately against the massive magical beast...

"Whoosh!"

However, just as he was about to make contact with the magical beast, an arrow flashing with white light descended from the sky, piercing straight through the beast.

A gentle female voice that finally cald him down rang out.

"Go rest well behind the battlefield first. Return to combat when your [Qi] has mostly recovered."

The knight who had been killing in a frenzy cald down, nodded to the pink-haired girl, and turned to charge toward the rear of the battlefield...

Seeing that knight finally calm down, Elashia also let out a long breath.

Unlike militia who could be replaced as needed, each knight lost was one less available—she couldn't accept knights dying before her eyes.

According to regulations, knights had to stop fighting once the [Qi] in their bodies was exhausted.

Because for Elasia, losing a knight was too great a loss.

However, in real combat there were always situations where knights beca bloodthirsty or couldn't retreat...

So so combat units in the air were needed to provide reminders and assist with retreats.

Flying back into the air to observe below, Elashia's expression beca extrely grim.

Northern Elasia had now almost beco a living hell...

Severed limbs of magical beasts and soldiers were everywhere...

Crimson blood soaked the earth—no one could tell whether the blood was human or beast...

After expending all their Magic Crossbows, the knights dismantled all the crossbows and brought them to the rear.

After several rounds of shooting, these magical beasts had charged to the base of the city walls.

Thus, close combat began...

Facing powerful magical beasts, human flesh and blood seed extrely fragile...

This high-intensity battle had continued for a full three hours.

Imperial Guards and militia basically fought in groups of ten, specifically targeting ordinary small magical beasts.

Low-level and interdiate knights specialized in dealing with [Crushing]-level magical beasts.

[Calamity]-level magical beasts could only be handled by high-level knights and the highest-level combatants like Cecilia...

After a full three hours of battle, this beast tide finally ca to a basic conclusion.

This wave of magical beasts had been basically exterminated, while the knights and mages had exhausted their qi and energy.

Now only two [Calamity]-level magical beasts remained, stubbornly resisting under Dorothy and Cecilia's attacks.

Seeing this scene, Elashia imdiately chose to fly over and help.

"Big Sister Dorothy! Lord Cecilia! Only these two remain now! No need to conserve qi anymore!"

After hearing Elashia's words, Dorothy stopped conserving energy and shouted:

"Qi-Transford Sword!"

The long sword in her hand, less than a ter long, was imdiately wrapped in golden light, extending the golden glow a full ten ters!

"Roar!!!"

The primordial giant elephant facing her also let out a great roar upon seeing such a terrifying long sword, charging toward her desperately.

Watching the magical beast charging toward her, Dorothy slowly raised her long sword.

Then struck down heavily!

"Hum!"

The long sword split the air, producing a terrifying humming sound!

The giant elephant was instantly cleaved in two!

"Hah... hah..."

"Clang!"

After a full three hours of ultra-high-intensity combat, having exhausted her last strength and qi in this final move, Dorothy threw her long sword to the ground and unceremoniously lay down directly on the blood-soaked earth.

On the other side, Cecilia had already eliminated the primordial giant ape before her.

"Phew..."

Compared to Dorothy, Cecilia's condition looked much better.

Unlike Dorothy, who only had to manage her own combat and that of dozens of subordinates, Cecilia, who needed to command the entire battle, had only personally joined the fight recently after noticing the battle situation had basically stabilized.

Without ti to rest, Cecilia imdiately used her voice amplified by [Qi] to be heard across the entire battlefield:

"All combat units begin casualty assessnt!"

...

"The casualty situation for this battle is roughly as follows."

"Knight Order death list—one high-level knight, fifteen interdiate knights, thirty low-level knights."

"Mage corps deaths total twelve people."

"Imperial Guard deaths number one thousand three hundred fifty-one."

"Militia deaths total three thousand twelve."

"Report complete."

That night, in the operations eting room, everyone's faces were grave to the extre.

The statistician's voice made everyone present feel as heavy as if lead balls hung from their hearts.

This was just one beast tide... yet it caused such severe casualties...

There was still about a month's ti ahead...

And there were still two waves of super-strong beast tides that would feature [Natural Disaster]-level magical beasts...

Whether they could even survive the next month had beco questionable...

Hearing such casualty reports, Elashia also felt terrible.

Especially the loss of high-level combat power... this was truly fatal for Elasia...

Now she finally understood why people said war was about money.

Training one knight or mage cost Elasia at least hundreds of gold coins, and arming and training one Imperial Guard soldier cost at least several gold coins.

One gold coin was enough for an ordinary family of three to live comfortably for a year...

This battle's damage to Elasia was truly enormous...

This single battle caused direct economic losses of tens of thousands!

Not to ntion that human lives couldn't be asured in money...

"Sir! We definitely won't be able to hold out if this continues..."

After hearing the casualty report, an Imperial Guard Legion Commander looked at Cecilia with an extrely grim expression.

What he said was what everyone wanted to say.

No one knew how much longer such days would continue.

Maybe today was the last wave, maybe it wouldn't end even if all soldiers and knights died.

No one knew when the next beast tide would co.

Maybe tomorrow, maybe right now.

As the commander, Cecilia's heart was actually even more uncertain.

Because she, who understood the battle situation better than those below, knew—such beast tides would continue for a month, with magical beast attacks almost daily.

She looked deeply at that legion commander and said:

"Don't be overly pessimistic. Iron Empire forces will co to support us later."

However, Cecilia's words didn't have much effect.

After all, everyone knew—the Iron Empire couldn't repel the demons in a short ti.

So after Cecilia finished speaking, the entire temporary operations eting room fell into silence...

Everyone's gaze turned to Elashia.

Elashia wanted to say sothing, but ultimately couldn't think of what she could say.

Her speech skills were indeed very useful.

But... if there was nothing to talk about, what use were they?

She had brought these people here basically to die...

She clearly understood—this battle would cause unimaginable casualties.

But she had no choice.

If she let the beast tide charge directly into Elasia, then she and the people would definitely die together next.

The Iron Empire, having deployed all armies to the north, would also be severely damaged by beast tides suddenly crossing Elasia's western mountains...

Being stared at by countless gazes in the eting room, Elashia's heart was extrely nervous.

She didn't know what she should say...

Just as Elashia's heart reached maximum tension, a spirited voice broke the silence.

It was Dorothy.

"What are you all being dejected about!"

She stood up and walked to the center of the eting room.

"So what if we can win? So what if we can't?"

"If we can't beat the magical beasts, can we pack up and run away?"

Dorothy's questioning silenced all the officers present.

Indeed, this was Elasia's life-or-death battle.

Losing ant only death—no path to survival.

Dorothy's questioning continued.

"What did you swear when you entered the army?"

"Loyalty to your lord? Protect the people?"

"If we run, who will protect the people behind us!"

"And where could we run to? Escape to the Iron Empire?"

"When the defense line falls, the Iron Empire will be finished along with us!"

Chris's resounding words made the officers realize—this wasn't a question of whether they could win.

But a question of victory or death.

"If you can't see hope, then fight to create hope!"

"We kill our own hope—magical beasts don't grant it!"

...

The officers in the eting room dispersed.

Their steps were heavy but determined.

After Dorothy's reminder, they hadn't reignited any fighting spirit.

But they completely understood—there was no retreat.

Without victory, there was only death.

Only Elashia and Dorothy remained in the eting room.

Plus Cecilia, standing at the podium looking at Elashia and Dorothy, unsure what she should do.

Elashia looked at Dorothy, who had just helped her out of trouble.

"Big Sister Dorothy... thank you..."

Elashia knew why Dorothy had suddenly spoken up.

Dorothy also knew that Elashia understood her reason for speaking.

She just smiled slightly at Elashia.

"I said seven years ago."

"No matter when, as long as I see you in trouble, I'll help you~"