My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 129: Desert Rush

Chapter 129: Desert Rush

As Vespera, Gina, and I were flying toward the battlefield in the south, I used my voice crystal to contact Reinar.

He was probably sick of me sending him messages in the middle of the night, but it wasn’t my fault that all emergencies happened around these hours.

I told him that I would be sending him the black pearl that we had gathered from the bandits at the Aridonia capital and asked him to study it, explaining that it was the item responsible for turning people into lesser demons.

Obviously, I urged him not to ingest it in any way. It’s not like Reinar was dumb enough to eat it, but I just wanted to make sure.

After I sent the message with the voice crystal and the pearl with the delivery tablet, we increased our flying speed toward the empress’ camp.

It was still the middle of the night, but the moons were shining bright, giving us just enough illumination for us to see what was up ahead.

After hours of flying at high speeds, we spotted torch lights not too far from us, which looked like tiny dots on the ground.

"There!" I exclaimed, increasing the speed of me and my companions even more.

The closer we got to the location of the torch lights, the more demonic energy we could feel. However, it wasn’t the same powerful energy that Armaros could produce.

Instead, it felt like the energy of lesser demons but multiplied by one hundred.

When we arrived, I noticed that it was a massive group of lesser demons that were surrounding and closing in on a squadron of soldiers from the Droman Empire.

They seemed to stand in a circle, protecting someone in the center, so we all quickly crashed down and used air magic to push back the lesser demons from the soldiers.

"Protect the empress at all costs!" yelled one of the soldiers.

I turned my gaze at the group momentarily, and I noticed that the empress was the one standing in the center of the soldiers, holding her bleeding arm.

"Lysandra!" I yelled as I took out a healing potion from my void pocket and threw it at her.

The empress smiled and caught the potion with her good hand before dousing her wounded arm with it.

There were ten soldiers facing off against at least five hundred lesser demons, counting the empress.

I mean, I didn’t count them, but it was a rough estimate that I came up with after seeing their large group.

The battlefield was filled with dead bodies of soldiers and the clothes that lesser demons left behind when they died, which made me kind of sad.

’Am I going to have to kill all these people?’ I thought, somewhat mortified at the idea.

The empress quickly mentioned that, during the day, the army of Kalusia also had beastkin soldiers, but they all retreated after nighttime arrived, leaving only the lesser demons on the battlefield.

It made sense. Even if Zagor was a devil exploiting the beastkins, he probably knew that sending a group of tired soldiers to battle was useless. But lesser demons didn’t get tired and didn’t sleep, making them the best unit to attack during the dark.

"We have to retreat..." I said, directing my words at the empress.

Honestly, I think we could have won. But that would mean that we needed to kill a bunch of people, and I didn’t want that to be the only option. At least not until Reinar told me that it was impossible to cure.

With the help of my companions, we grabbed the ten knights and the empress and quickly flew away from the battlefield towards their camp. Thankfully, Vespera could carry more than two people with her spider legs.

When we arrived at their camp, dozens of soldiers surrounded us as they were worried about the empress, but she reassured everyone, telling them that her injury had been healed.

Lysandra took me and my companions to the biggest tent in the camp, which had a table in the center with a map and some wooden pieces that I supposed they were using to strategize.

"So, I’m guessing you discovered something important, right? That’s the only reason I can think of why you came all the way here..." said the empress as she leaned on the war table.

"But before you speak... Thank you. If it wasn’t for you... Well..." Lysandra continued.

"It was no problem. I could tell something was wrong..." I replied as I started explaining everything that had happened at Aridonia.

I told her that the letters she sent to the sultan were never received by him, and the response she got wasn’t real either. It was all a plan to deprive Lysandra of backup and allies.

The empress clenched her teeth with anger as she recounted how they got surrounded on the battlefield.

They had been facing off against the Kalusia army since early in the morning, and when the sun started to set, the beastkins retreated, so the empress made some of her soldiers retreat too.

Nonetheless, the lesser demons’ forces weren’t allowing them to leave that easily, so Lysandra stayed back with a small group to hold them off while the rest of her soldiers returned to the camp.

"They knew you were the type of leader to do something like that..." I said, making the empress nod in agreement.

She told me it was the empress’ job to make sure that the people of her empire could live on, even if that meant that she had to lose her life.

While I thought that was courageous and all, I wasn’t planning on letting more people die. It wasn’t an easy thing to prevent, but I would try my best to save as many as possible.

A few minutes later, as we kept discussing our strategy for the next day, I received a message on the voice crystal from Reinar, which was just him confirming that he got the pearl and had woken up all the other alchemists to start their research.

The only reason why I didn’t feel terrible about the poor alchemists who had to work overnight was because I knew they enjoyed alchemy and research. Nonetheless, I still thought I should give them a reward for all their hard work whenever I saw them again.