With the war nearing faster than expected, everyone rushes desperately to their battle positions as the Swamp Witch's army gets closer to the camp. Nathan grabs his binoculars and took sight of the army, not far from their expected positions. Once everyone is ready, Airi comes near Nathan to ask how the progress is.

"How is everything going so far?"

"Their numbers are slightly higher than expected, but everything is going according to plan so far as they are slowly heading towards our trap filled areas. If the witch summons aerial creatures, make sure to have the spirits ready for battle."

"Understood."

Nathan turns to Airi. "Airi, if I were to die in this battle, I just wanted to say that I was glad to have met you. I was hoping that someday that I would take you to my world to let you experience the new sights and sounds. I just hope that we both can live to see it."

Airi kisses Nathan on the cheek. "Don't say it as if you can already see your death, we are all in this together Nathan. You, Nanael, Menace, Alleyne, many others, and me are all fighting by your side. I want to see them try to kill us."

Nathan smiles in response. "You sure have grown quite a bit Airi. You used to believe that the best for the Continent is for it to be what under the Swamp Witch's desire. Now you believe what the people believed in what is best."

Airi slightly blushes. "Well, you, along with Rana, were the ones who made me realize the wrongs I have committed with my actions. Well, I knew they were wrong, but I guess I never knew too much values before meeting you two."

"I'm just glad we were able to change you for the better."

Before their conversation could continue further, Setra interrupted them.

"I don't mean to interrupt your last conversation, but the army is getting really close to your traps."

Nathan uses his binoculars and saw that the enemy is coming closer as Setra said.

"Tell the archers in the forest to get ready to fire once the pitfall trap activates. We've got to make sure that our enemies stay on the fields."

"Yes sir." Setra flies off.

As Nathan looks closer at the Swamp Witch's army, he can see that her army has split into 4 separate divisions with each slightly outnumbering their entire force of now roughly 15,000.

With the Swamp Witch and Melona in the front, they become suspicious of seeing an empty battlefield in front of them, but decided that the fight has to begin now. The witch sends the first division ahead of the other three to make a charge while she, and Melona stay back with the last division.

The main forces, along with their leaders riding on the distribute horses, show signs of fear as they are gathered in front of the stone wall, with the exception of Menace, Echidna, and Claudette, but are determined to battle.

"Wow, their numbers do greatly exceed our own." Elina nervously remarked.

"Just because their numbers are greater doesn't mean that they will win." Said the more determined Leina.

"Agreed. It doesn't take numbers to win as much as skill and experience, which many of us have." Echidna takes out her sword in preparation.

"Everyone, prepare yourselves. Once all the traps die down, it will be our turn to make a charge." Risty arrives in the front with her cavalry

"Here they come." Nathan sees that the charge of the first division is slowly weakening the ground beneath them, which goes according to plan. Once the first division passes a certain distance, the ground beneath them is no longer able to hold, causing many soldiers of the first division to fall into many giant sinkholes built by the elves under Alleyne's command.

Alleyne is seen hiding on top of a tree with a few hundred elves on each side of the forest near the tree line to the field. Alleyne raises her hand up as the archers prepare themselves. Once all the sinkholes have been filled, Alleyne lowers her hand and the archers immediately fire a cloud of arrows, taking down many surviving soldiers of the first division.

The rest of the first division attempts to charge into each side of the forest, only to get cut down by unseen archers located deeper within the forest. Seeing the first division faring poorly, the Swamp Witch sends the second division into the forest to take care of the archers. Alleyne, having foreseen this, signal the gunners sent to the forest to assist the archers. Knowing that the second division will overwhelm them, they immediately started firing on sight as a barrage of bullets and arrows continuously striking enemy soldiers before they can even react in hopes of sending them into a retreat back to the fields. It was mostly successful, although a few stay in the forest to continue, but were easily cut off.

Despite the majority of both the first and second division still standing, it becomes clear that they are slowly being overwhelmed, but the Swamp Witch refuses to send the third division until the first two can fight back.

Unable to see their assailants, they decided to put most of their offensive towards the camp. Much to the surprise of the allied forces, the Swamp Witch's army have cannons of their own, although more primitive compared to their WWII-era howitzers, and start firing at the stonewall defending the camp.

In response, an artillery battery is formed with the howitzers behind the stone wall and begins firing at the enemy battery. Although the shells are heavy, weighing as much as 86 pounds, they were highly explosive and caused more damage to the enemy battery as a result, destroying more than a third of the cannons used and knocking down a huge majority of enemy soldiers surrounding it, while the allied battery and main forces only suffered light casualties and partial structural damage on the wall. The Swamp Witch was very impressed with the firepower of the howitzers.

"Such firepower is very rare in my army. I have to remember to add it to my list once this war is over."

The Swamp Witch summons several dozen resurrected soldiers on flying creatures (birds, dragons, etc) in an attempt to stop the allied battery from firing.

"It appears that the Swamp Witch is going aerial, summon the spirits now Airi."

Having already anticipated that move, Airi gathers all of her energy in her body and releases it to summon a mass of several hundred spirits.

"Lesser spirits, I command you stop the enemy from advancing and kill them."

The spirits obey, but Airi, having already realized that her clothes are vanishing, retreats from battle to find and absorb more life energy.

"Just hang on until I come back Nathan." Airi said as she flies off, although Nathan did not hear her.

As the spirits fly towards the enemies' aerial offense, they aim towards the creatures the enemy troopers were riding on. They used their bodies to forcefully wrap their wings, preventing the creatures from flying, causing both the creature and the enemy trooper to fall from high altitude, permanently taking them out of battle.

Despite some of the enemy soldiers being undead, they became just as desperate as the rest as the two divisions slowly start scrambling each other. The Swamp Witch was not surprised of her failed aerial attack.

"I knew that my former servant would turn against me and this proves it."

Melona continues to stare at the battle concerned, knowing that Airi and Menace are fighting on their enemies' side.

Not wanting to lose the two divisions, the Swamp Witch orders a full charge to the camp. Despite being disorganized, her forces obeyed and began running towards the their defensive stone wall. As some passed the first oil line, an undead skeleton soon steps near the claymore set up in the middle, causing it to explode, enflaming the oil line and those on it and near it, cutting off part of the infantry from the rest, making them vulnerable to machine gun fire from the M2 Browning. Despite cutting down many of the scrambled forces, the scrambled forces continue to charge after the fire lowers, causing them to pass the next oil line and trigger another explosion from the claymore, further dividing the infantry.

It doesn't take long for Melona to become impressed with the enemies' battle strategies.

"It appears that they are fighting quite well aren't they?" Melona turns to the Swamp Witch.

The Swamp Witch smirked in response. "Indeed, but that is what makes the battle so much fun to watch. It will be too boring just to take over the Continent with no resistance."

After the third oil line is set ablaze, Menace flies up as the rest prepare to make a charge. The machine gunners fire again to prevent enemy forces from fully recovering from their traps.

With all of the traps used, Risty begins charging forwards as the rest of her cavalry follows. Claudette was the next to charge with their army, following behind Risty and followed by Leina and Elina. Menace, while floating in the air, points to the enemies and ordered her own resurrected forces to charge, which they did. Alleyne and Nowa wait in the forest with the elves as they were ordered to charge only if the third division charges as well.

Nanael takes matters to her own hands as she helps Airi's spirits take care of the enemies' aerial offense. Tomoe and Echidna were the last to charge with their forces following behind. As they charge, the cavalry soon forms a flying wedge formation, making it easier to smash through enemy lines. Once the allied forces finally clash, this war later turns to an all out battle.

With the allies and enemies mixed up in the battlefield, the gunners and archers were ordered to stop their firing in fear of striking the allies instead of the enemies.

Nathan stays behind and watches the battle with the gunners in case a signal is made that the army has to fall back, although this causes him frustration, as he wanted to get more involved in battle.

Despite being able to weaken and keep the first two divisions away from the camp, the battle becomes a stalemate, as neither side was able to push the other, but the battle remains vicious as more casualties mounted.

Annoyed by the stalemate, the Swamp Witch decides to send the third division to the battlefield in hopes to turn the tide. Knowing that the involvement of the third division was the signal, Alleyne had the archers ambushed them with arrows, catching them off guard. The allied battery also begin to fire at the division after seeing that they are still separated from the allied forces, adding to the casualties.

Despite the surprise attack, their superior numbers made the casualties seem light as many keep charging forward unfazed. Although not causing as much damage as expected, Alleyne and Nowa stick to the plan and had the elven army charge against the third division.

Once the elves clash with the third division, they were able to hold them long enough for some of the other main forces to prepare themselves to battle against the division. Although Nathan and his forces have yet to enter the main battle, it already became a full-scale war.

Despite starting out successful, the enemies' superior numbers soon are slowly overwhelming the main forces and even though the battle is quite a distance away, Nathan could see more casualties mounting up. Knowing that the battle will soon turn to the Swamp Witch's favor, Nathan calls Nanael, who was just finishing a simple battle against a dragon carrying an enemy trooper.

Nanael comes down. "What is going on now?"

"The Swamp Witch has already sent three divisions to the battle and they are already killing of many of our soldiers. Tell everyone to fall back to the camp and form a barrier while the gunners prepare."

"Yes sir?" Nanael then flies off to the battlefield with the remaining enemy aerial offense being handled by Airi's lesser spirits.

Once Nanael is right below the army, she begins to yell out loud to make sure everyone could here.

"EVERYONE, NATHAN ORDERED ALL TROOPS TO FALL BACK! I WILL CREATE A BARRIER TO PREVENT ANYONE FROM ADVANCING AS LONG AS I CAN!"

"Just do it!" Elina yelled.

"Fine, but you don't have to be rude you know."

Nanael immediately lands in crossfire between the allied forces and the Swamp Witch's forces. After dispatching a few undead skeletons, Nanael puts both hands in front of her and begins to concentrate. A barrier soon emerges from Nanael's hand and starts growing wider until both the main forces and enemy forces are completely divided, giving the allied forces some time to retreat.

This did not last long, however. After the barrier has been fully placed, the Swamp Witch and Melona finally march forward with the fourth division following behind. The witch then summons some of the Dark Warriors to break down the barrier. They were successful with their abnormal strength as they broke through after piercing it with their swords. Nanael was knocked down, but easily gets up to attack one of the warriors using her Celestial Sabre and kills one of them, but one of the Dark Warriors immediately takes out her bow and arrow and strikes Nanael before she can react, injuring her arm and forcing her into a retreat with the rest.

Nathan, displeased with the barrier taken down so quickly, begins to get desperate. He ordered the troops to fire the howitzers in an attempt to delay them, but the tactic was only partially successful. While it did somewhat slow down the enemy forces, their numbers allow them to continue charging and none were able to hit the Swamp Witch and the rest of the fourth division. In response, he had the gunners of the M2 Browning and the M1 Garand take position on the wall to fire once they are close enough.

Once the firing began, despite taking out many enemy troops, the Swamp Witch begins to fight back by taking out some of their howitzers with the few surviving cannons that were undamaged, as well as aiming for the wall that blocks their path to the camp. A few of the Dark Warriors were revealed to be archers as well as swordsmen as they were able to take out some of the gunners using their arrows.

Knowing the wall isn't going to hold, he had the rest of the gunners fall back and take a stance. Once another cannon fires, the wall finally came down, only for Nathan to take out his own gun and aims towards the enemy forces.

"Fire!" Nathan ordered.

The gunners were able to take out the front row with Nathan killing another member of the Dark Warriors by shooting him in the head. With guns no longer able to be used to their advantage, Nathan takes out his sword and charges as his troops do the same thing, finally getting into the battle.

Airi, however, did not have much luck finding life force after seeing that she already sucked what is available to her in nearby areas. Though she was able to suck some from living plants, it was not enough for her maid outfit to retain form as it soon starts to vanish. She then remembers that there is a prisoner of war in the camp and plans to suck some of the life force from her.

Once she arrived to the tent were the POW is being locked up, she begins to interrogate her, but not before dismissing the guards who are with her to prevent possible escape.

"Remember me?"

"How could I forget the person who found me out? I am guessing that the battle is no longer to your advantage am I right? The way you are dressed makes you seem unsuited for battle."

"I don't know, but in case we are, I am going to have you help us."

The POW becomes confused and turns to Airi. "And why would I do that?"

"I am a wraith and if you don't do as I saw, I will take all of your life energy until you die."

"So you are threatening to kill me if I don't help?"

"You don't believe me? Then I guess I will have to demonstrate."

As Airi's face gets closer to hers the POW becomes fearful and finally breaks down.

"OKAY! OKAY! I will give you a vital information I know, but only if you let me live."

"That is the deal so tell me."

"The Swamp Witch maybe powerful in magic, but she is not invincible. If you are able to damage her body and defeat her, you will also kill of her main forces, because unlike yours, the Swamp Witch makes a more direct connection to all of them to make the resurrection process faster."

"And how do you know this when I was formerly her servant?"

"She started doing that and when I was revived, I was the only one she did not have a connection with, because according to Melona, I am too weak. That is why I tried to prove myself by infiltrating you camp to steal an important weapon."

"You are weak, but I will keep my end of the bargain by letting you live. However, I still need to consume life force so I will only take some from you."

"No, wait…" Airi kisses the POW before she can say anymore and soon begins sucking her life force until she was left half-exhausted.

"Thanks for the meal. Now it is time for me to help my friends." With her clothing restored, Airi flies off to the battlefield.

Not far from the camp, Aldra and her army of 20,000 are traveling through the mountains as they prepare to make a surprise attack in the battle, but stopped briefly as Aldra looks at the tip of the mountain.

"Is there something wrong your majesty?" Her lieutenant asked.

"I just hope that the army that is fighting right now can last until our arrival. If they lost, there will be no Queen's Blade."

"Then let's hurry before it's too late."

"Understood." Aldra and her army then proceeds to the top in hopes that they themselves can turn the battle around.