The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 161: Strategy during the war

I easily dodge Aokitsu’s irritated attack, noticing that the place where I was standing is now frozen.

"Hmmm, so that’s what this element does visually," I say with a certain disdain, which clearly leaves Aokitsu even more irritated.

"You know, just because you look like an animal doesn’t mean you should act like one. Let’s make this more interesting," I say to her.

"You don’t need to look at me like that. Before I beat you up, I want to try to have a real intelligence competition. So, how about this we’ll both command the troops through a transmission."

"We’ll be side by side, and we’ll see each other’s moves," I say to her with an innocent smile, trying to make things more interesting.

"Why should I listen to the crap you say?" She speaks while the flames increase in size.

"Do you really think your army can fight without leadership? I’m giving you the opportunity to command without being attacked. I saw that you don’t have anyone trustworthy to command, but I have two who can command by my side."

"..."

"I accept," She reduces the flames on her body until they are completely extinguished.

"Perfect." I use earth magic to form a table and two seats, one in front of the other.

Soon, I throw two artifacts on the table one will create a replica of the battlefield, and the other will transmit our "moves" to everyone.

"Have a seat." I’m going to crush her both in intelligence and in power. I need to show these animals that there is no single aspect in which they can beat me.

The artifacts on the table were based on that game Akari made me play, where I had to use intelligence to command, which was quite fun.

This one is similar to that game, but the difference is that it’s with real troops.

Soon, we both look at the table where the battlefield with all the soldiers has been formed. For the soldiers, at the moment, two screens appear in the sky, both allowing them to see and hear what we are doing and saying.

The field is a plain, her army is in the middle, while on both ends, I have my soldiers.

Of course, neither of us knows where the other’s crystal is, as it is very well hidden.

"Troops, divide into 3 and surround the enemy in a triangular formation, with 30,000 soldiers at each corner." My troops hear my command, and the change occurs on the table as my troops change formation.

Aokitsu seems surprised by the numbers, as she now knows she is facing 90,000 enemies.

Aokitsu bites her thumb and starts thinking while looking at the table.

"You know, I’d be quick in your place. If you don’t move them well, this will end without me having to give any more orders," I say to destabilize both her and the enemies.

There is something that these animals will never have, and that is blind, absolute loyalty. My soldiers will die if I order them to kill themselves, precisely because a large part is blindly loyal.

However, other races do not have this blind loyalty, and therefore their morale can be damaged.

While my morale can be easily raised.

"Soldiers..." She breaks her head trying to find the best choice.

"Soldiers, reduce the area and focus on spear attacks while holding the enemy attack with shields," Aokitsu orders.

"Hehehe, are you sure that’s your choice? Hahaha, animals are so stupid," I mock this ridiculous choice.

"Q-Quiet," She easily loses her composure in the end, she has no talent for leading.

I decide to screw up her ridiculous choice.

"Troops, move away from the enemy and use magic in the center of their formation, crush these stupid animals and show them the folly of their actions." When I say this, my troops quickly move.

On the table, we see my troops move away and soon various spells begin to be fired in the center of the enemy formation, forcing them to separate.

"Troops, use the archers and shoot at anyone who comes out of the formation to take refuge from the attacks." Soon, a rain of arrows occurs in various areas.

And now, what was once a perfect circular formation has become a deformed circular formation with a huge hole in the middle, ruining her defenses.

"You know, girl, I’m going to love having your race in my kingdom," I say to her, catching her attention.

She seems nervous, not knowing what to do to deal with my troops.

"What do you mean?" She says with a serious expression.

"Demons like cute things, I bet they’ll love having girls of various types from your race, like catgirls or foxgirls, and I bet many here would love to kidnap a wolfgirl to make her an obedient wife."

"!!!" She looks at me with hatred.

"Y-You freak, don’t touch my people."

"Touch your people? Never, I didn’t try to do that. You’re the one who handed your people to me on a silver platter." I’m manipulating her and reducing the morale of her army.

"Soldiers, use [Bestialization]," Aokitsu orders angrily. Soon, on the table, I see several of them take on a more feral form, like true beasts.

"Is this your trump card? Minimally disappointing, you’re desperate."

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP!"

’It’s like a child throwing a tantrum, tsk, this is so tedious.’

"Troops, advance against the enemy using earth magic to remove their terrain advantage, troop mages generate shockwaves to make the environment tremble, reducing mobility."

"Archers, start shooting at the weakened enemies and support the ground troops, troops who know debuff magic, use it now, air troops, start bombarding them with magic."

Soon, a frontal battle occurs, and obviously my troops have the advantage. When 1 demon is eliminated, 3 to 6 berserkers have already been knocked down.

"You know, girl, this isn’t so fun if you’re so bad at it." Even though she hears my orders, she doesn’t know how to counter them.

While whenever she gives an order, several counterattack plans form in my mind.

"Tell me, did you get the position for being the strongest, but did you need intelligence to win?"

She looks at me somewhat desperate.

"I bet you didn’t. You are literally the strongest of your race, but in intelligence, you’re as bad as a mere infantry soldier."

"You lack knowledge, leadership skills, and charisma."

"You’re beautiful, but you have no charisma that a leader should have. Your troops don’t even feel like you should be the leader. I bet all those soldiers are ashamed of an incompetent like you."

"They only obey you because you’re strong, nothing more. Your stupidity will make them all die. You killed them all with your stupid ideas."

I shift all the blame for the situation onto her.

"N-No, I know what I’m doing, I-I’m not wrong, stop lying and trying to deceive me."

"Hahaha, deceive you? I’m being honest, you have nothing a true leader needs."

"Whether a leader is gentle, charismatic, or tyrannical, there is something that makes all leaders effective it’s intelligence."

"A leader must guide their people to victory, a leader must be smart to think of the best and worst, the difference between the types of leaders is what they are willing to do and sacrifice for victory."

"But you, you have none of that. You have no gentleness, no charisma, and no intelligence all you have is strength."

"But individual strength does not give you the ability to command, and that’s what differentiates you, a mere animal, from me, the Demon King."

"You’re so stupid that you get desperate and can’t even think the minimum to maybe win. I could even cheat using magic to simulate your voice, but I don’t even need to try to cheat when you’re so bad."

"Troops, change the formation and surround them in a circular shape, reduce their terrain and crush them with numbers." I order my troops to change the formation.

She becomes even more desperate because she can’t think of how to change the situation.

"S-Soldiers... advance against them using as much magic as you can to reinforce your powers," She orders without confidence in her idea.

"Why?" She asks with doubt when her troops don’t advance.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I laugh at her, making her look at me with clear hopelessness in her eyes.

"Your troops don’t obey you because this idea of yours is stupid, and they know it. It’s obvious they won’t follow an order that will get them killed. You don’t have enough charisma for it to be worth risking their lives."

"You don’t have what it takes for them to risk their lives in a suicidal plan, after all, without mana, they’ll be defenseless if your idea goes wrong, and it obviously will."

I look at the table where her army is greatly reduced and getting smaller and smaller, although I had losses, it’s not a big deal.

This is war it’s impossible not to have casualties.

"Troops..." I call attention, saying something to further boost the morale of the troops and demoralize the enemy troops.

"As you, my dear demonic soldiers, can see, our enemy is just a bunch of mangy, incompetent animals who don’t know the basics of war."

"This is so easy it’s ridiculous... but the effort of you, my soldiers, is not useless. In fact, it is very important for me to see what you are capable of, and I am enjoying seeing what you can do, so I will reward you." frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

"I plan to take the beastfolk race under my care. Although their rights will be inferior to those of demons, I will still be fair to a certain extent... but now is just the beginning, which means..."

"After this war, all the soldiers who participated in this war will be able to choose any girl they want as a wife from the beastfolk race, in addition to other war spoils, of course."

"Imagine having a cute catgirl doing whatever you want, that sexy, cute body serving you while they obey with fervor."

"So, my soldiers, try to stay alive until the end to choose a really hot wife for yourselves."

Soon, on the table, the movements of my soldiers became more animated.

And the enemies began to lose even faster.

Many demons here obviously want a beastfolk girl as their wife. Normally, the option for them would be to kidnap the wife, but this option is difficult depending on the situation.

As they are currently busy training for the war, they cannot go and get a wife, so what I’m giving is something they will enjoy a lot.

"You see, girl, that’s how you motivate your troops. You’re so incompetent that you didn’t even give a single word of encouragement to your troops. What a shitty leader you are."