All it took was thirty minutes of constant bombardment for the enemy forces to break.
Out of the fifty thousand men who were on their way to attack the eastern regions only close to six hundred men survived and out of those survivors, only about fifty were capable of escaping or rather were allowed to escape and no magic or anti magic rounds were used. The reason why they were not blasted away by the hovering airships was so that they could get a general location of their camp .
When the directions to their cams was discovered, the airship following them picked up the pace and left to find the camp. At about 1 o'clock the camp was spotted and finally it was time for phase 2 of the battle plan .
At about 10 o'clock that night, the airship positioned itself at about two hundred meters above the camp and then released their payload which was three tanks filled with two hundred and fifty liters of liquid hydrogen each. This tanks has a small explosive charge attached to it and were rigged to detonate on impact with any hard surfaces.
As the payload left the ship , they quickly turned around and rose to a higher altitude to escape the blast radius.
Soon , the camp which most were probably asleep was rocked by the explosion of high pressure hydrogen explosion. Those who were in close proximity to the explosion died immediately and with how densely packed the camp was , the number was staggeringly high. Those outside the immediate blast radius were hit with heat waves that caused third degree burns, ruptured ear drums and exploded or cooked lungs.
But that was not all , fifteen airships with their three 12mm machine guns each used the illumination from the flames to open fire on the camp sending not less than fifty thousand rounds down range claiming the lives of anyone who survived the blast.
The bullets whizzed out shredding human beings like hot knife through butter. One of the crew members aboard one of the airships had the the impulse of looking through a telescope at the camp, he ended up vomiting all over the cabin causing his crewmates to curse at him . For a very long time, this action of his would cause him to be the butt of every joke for a long time.
By morning, teams were sent to capture any survivors from the camp but were greatly disappointed as no one was left breathing. The only survivors were the fifty men who survived the first battle. The others who were presumed to have survived had fallen to their injuries.
Two hundred thousand men , dead within twenty four hours . Neither magical prowess or their physical strength was able to save them .
By ten o'clock that morning, two airships arrived in the city of Abegnog, Damon came out of one and from the other one, prisoners were being dragged out of the other one.
Jor seeing this scene from approached Damon.
"Lord Damon, you are back so soon . Is there any problem?".
" No problem Lord Jor,the battle is over, we have won" . Damon replied.
Soon he stood before the Duke and Prince Tiberius to answer questions about the battle.
" Your Majesty, your grace, I don't have the exact words to describe it ,they were once alive and now they are dead. Except you would like to see the battle, I promise it won't take long." Damon offered.
Just like that Damon, the Prince , the Duke and other lords were aboard an airship flying at low altitude of about one hundred and fifty meters above the ground. Soon they reached the first battle field and Landed, there they were hit with the stench of blood and gun powder. Bodies and body parts littered about everywhere , a truly brutal scene. More brutal than that was the enemy camp, charred remains , bodies with holes and scattered body parts lay throughout the camp giving it a ghoulish feeling as if the angel of death passed through the place.
Damon then cleared his throat and spoke up,
" Your Majesty, my lords , this overwhelming destruction you see here isn't withiout cost, this destruction is caused by a weapon that I created, this weapon cost me two million gold and I made three of them, because of this , I would be withdrawing from the war effort to focus on my territory ."
" What? , you can't do that . At least not now that we have dealt a considerable blow to Marcellus." Jor replied suddenly.
" I will not permit you to leave Damon, you will come back to Abegnog and think your decision over and then come up with a plan that doesn't involve abandoning our cause." Tiberius said and then continued, " at your age, the carnage may have caused a lapse in judgement, perhaps after todays celebration, you will have a change of mind".
Back at the castle, Tiberius was sitting while Duke Abegnog was pacing about in his chambers . Regardless of their demeanor on the outside, they were currently freaking out because regardless of how powerful they seemed to be , and even if Damon wasn't on par with them in physical strength, his tactics enabled him to be able to strike true at his enemies.
" Your Majesty, he is a dangerous mad man, did you hear him three of this so-called weapons obliterated an army of two hundred thousand men within a day."
" Lord Duke , if there is a weapon, we must try and get it from him immediately as soon as possible , quickly and by any means necessary ." Tiberius said and then continued " can you imagine that some of our men are getting enamored with him , they call him Damon the conqueror and the destroyer of legions. We have to stop his momentum or else we would be destroyed ".
Back in Damons chambers , he laid on the bed thinking about moves to make, scenarios and consequences for each action he was about to take. It was like a game of chess with over a hundred grand masters in his head and his only objective was not to win but to take out their key pieces whilst sacrificing little.
Just then Damon felt something, a familiar feeling that he had felt before, an incredible power. Then he heard a voice " stand up John and face me."
It had been awhile since Damon heard that name so he stood up with a start and laid his eyes on an angel but this was not the angel he knew , it was not Samandriel, it was another angel that he didn't know.