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Two more hours had passed, and even the Black Phoenix couldn't help becoming impatient. No wonder she was restless. In the two hours that followed their encounter with the Giant Bear, they had consecutively come across Giant Bears, Weird Birds, and swift deer-like creatures that could shoot poisonous arrows. Particularly those Weird Birds—when they encountered ones twice as usual in size, these birds could instantly generate small Tornadoes. The heavy armor warriors weren't greatly harmed, but for the agile assassins, it was a nightmare. In just those two short hours, the number of the Landias Army had sharply fallen to below two hundred, and among the twenty Black Lily Assassins, six had already died.
Samoye, who had been coldly observing everything with disdain, suddenly spoke up, "From now on, I, as the Prince of the Landias Empire, will take command of the entire army. Everyone follow my orders."