"Nookie, let's regroup! The Fire Dragon Emperor is about to kill the manticore!" Shirley ordered.
Shye instructed Nookie to obey Shirley if he wasn't present at the scene.
Hence, the little necrollin immediately complied, momentarily recalling his remaining thirty-nine corpse puppets, having already lost six in the battle.
However, the fire dragon army suffered even greater losses, as only seven of them were left after battling the corpse army.
Moreover, there were two more on the verge of being incapacitated.
It was a decisive victory for Nookie, Shirley, and the Doppelganger.
Shirley's orders turned out to be correct, as the next moment, a roar of anguish, resentment, and defiance, echoed just a few hundred meters away from them.
A Throgon Overlord has fallen, slain by another.