"What's happening?" the barbarian commando asked, his voice tinged with confusion as he discovered that his body was completely immobilized.
Likewise, the other troops were grappling with the same inexplicable predicament.
As bewilderment began to take hold, a sudden wave of panic and despair reverberated through the air, its source indiscernible.
"Look upward!" the voice exclaimed urgently, prompting everyone to direct their gaze to the sky.
Instantly, their countenances underwent a profound transformation, as a stark sense of hopelessness etched itself unmistakably onto the faces of all the barbarian warriors.
The half a million barbarian soldiers descended into a heavy silence, their attention captured by the sky that had transformed from its pitch-black, ominous appearance to an unsettlingly vibrant shade of red.
This eerie crimson hue cast an unnatural brilliance across the battlefield, akin to an unusually radiant sun.