Seeing that Elashia still didn't seem to understand the meaning in her words, Candice continued with a serious expression:
"Empress Elashia... what I mean is... the upcoming battle will be very severe for you."
"After I finish speaking, I think you should understand."
Moving her gaze again to Ileina, who was equally serious, Candice continued:
"Then... besides the newly invented [Blood Bow], the Blood Clan will also use a weapon extremely threatening to you in this battle—[Blood Bat Carriers]... I think you Holy Kingdom people should not be unfamiliar with this weapon?"
"Blood Bat Carriers?!"
Unlike Ileina, who had left the Holy Kingdom when young and had never seen large-scale wars between humans and Blood Clan in the Holy Kingdom, Caroline and Adeline, who immediately realized what the Blood Bat Carriers Candice mentioned were, both cried out in alarm.
Candice nodded and continued with a grave tone:
"Moreover... there may be close to ten Blood Bat Carriers appearing in the sky on the battlefield... your situation then may be extremely dangerous."
"Blood Bat Carriers... what are those?"
Ileina, who wasn't very clear about this Blood Clan weapon, questioned Caroline beside her.
"Blood Bat Carriers... mm... are an extremely disgusting Blood Clan aerial unit..."
Caroline recalled her memories from ten years ago and said to Ileina:
"They can fly in the sky, and each one is extremely large in size..."
"If I remember correctly... their attack method is releasing large numbers of vampire bats."
"Although these bats have no intelligence and won't target human vital points precisely, what's deadly is—their attacks are almost endless. Before you kill the bats, those bats will keep biting you, and no matter how much damage they take, they won't let go."
"Moreover, on a battlefield where life and death are decided in an instant, being attacked by vampire bats will cause great trouble for our warriors."
"And that's not even the most deadly part."
Caroline said seriously:
"Because we can't damage the carriers flying in the air, we can only attack the vampire bats they release."
"But... even if we clear out all the bats, in just a few hours, the bat nests in the Blood Bat Carriers can generate another large batch of bats..."
"My god... we still have to face this kind of thing..."
Ileina, having heard Caroline's report, was stunned in place.
"Sorry... Your Highness, we should have thought of this matter early... not reporting this to Your Highness in advance was our negligence."
Adeline, who only now remembered this matter, lowered her head somewhat guiltily.
Caroline said to Ileina with a somewhat heavy expression:
"Uh... but actually we really didn't expect the Blood Clan to have so many Blood Bat Carriers..."
"Before the great catastrophe, we had only seen one Blood Bat Carrier in total."
"And later it was destroyed under fire from Magic Crossbows we purchased from Elasia at great expense... after that until the great catastrophe, we never saw this weapon again... never thought the Blood Clan had built so many over these years..."
"Oh? Using Magic Crossbows can shoot down this type of aerial unit?"
Ileina's eyes lit up, noticing the information in Caroline's earlier words.
"Uh... it was possible then, probably not now."
Caroline shook her head:
"Blood Bat Carriers generally try to get as close to us as possible, because the blood bats they cultivate are all disposable. If the flight distance is too long, they won't have much strength left, and may also be unable to target enemies."
"So that time we shot down the Blood Bat Carrier with Magic Crossbows was purely taking advantage of intelligence... but now the Blood Clan knows we have Magic Crossbows, so they naturally won't get that close to us anymore..."
"Oh... alright then..."
Ileina, discovering her idea couldn't be realized, lowered her head somewhat disappointedly.
"Then... don't we have no means to deal with Blood Bat Carriers now..."
Forget about damaging Blood Bat Carriers, current Northern Fire didn't even have any aerial units...
"That... I think I might be able to..."
Elashia weakly raised her jade hand.
"Because... I can fly... and can use some basic explosive magic..."
"No!" x5
"Ah!"
Elashia, sternly refused by everyone on both sides of the communication, let out a small beast-like whimper.
Alexandra slightly furrowed her brow.
"Little Shia... from humanity's overall perspective, your importance is even greater than the Holy Kingdom's. I cannot possibly allow you to take risks."
Candice rarely stood on the same side as her imperial sister this time.
"Your Majesty... if something happened to you in the Holy Kingdom... then Elasia would be finished... humanity would be finished."
Adeline said seriously to Elashia:
"Empress Elashia, how could we possibly let you take risks for us? If something happened to you on the battlefield, how would we explain to Elasia and the Iron Empire?"
Caroline, who usually seemed easygoing and humorous, also showed a serious expression rarely seen before as she said to Elashia:
"Empress Elashia, without you, we might not even last a day against Blood Clan armies... only with you present can our warriors have confidence..."
"Uh..."
Elashia, suddenly scolded by everyone, lowered her head, somewhat afraid to look at the people around her.
She really hadn't expected her single statement to provoke such a strong reaction from everyone...
"Little Shia, I just promised Iron Empress and Aunt Candice that I would definitely protect you..."
Ileina, sitting beside Elashia, gently grasped Elashia's small hand, her voice trembling slightly.
"Forget about actually letting you attack Blood Clan aerial beasts alone... even just imagining you appearing on that kind of battlefield... terrifies me..."
"Alright... can't I just not go..."
Red-faced, Elashia said in a low voice to Ileina beside her:
"It really was me speaking without thinking just now... now I know I was wrong..."
"I was just thinking out loud, I didn't really want to do that..."
Elashia really hadn't expected that just expressing one of her tactical ideas would provoke such a strong reaction from everyone...
Really... why did everyone treat her like a fragile item...
Elashia raised her head, meeting the concerned gazes focused on her.
Looking at everyone's worried expressions, Elashia finally showed a cute smile.
Although everyone treated her like a fragile item, this feeling... wasn't actually bad...