The demons that were outside were all asleep, so it was easy for the elves and the humans to get into position.
Once they were in position, they were just waiting for our group to finish what we had to do.
Before we started attacking the demons, we had to rescue the other elves first.
Otherwise, if the demons woke up and realized that they were being attacked, they would immediately think to use these elves in the cage as hostages. Once that happened, it would be hard for us to save them.
So the group that was heading over included me, Cecilia, and Moon, as well as some of their strongest subordinates.
These two were the strongest fighters and the others were among the strongest out of all our groups, this could be considered the strongest team that we had.
As for why we were sending all of our strongest fighters over, it was because once the demons woke up, they would still send people after the hostages. We needed a strong line to stop them when they did this.
After all, it was impossible to expect these elves to be ready to fight right away.
The elves in the cave had been preparing all afternoon and had regained the strength to fight, but the elves in the cage had been suffering from the poison still, so they would still be groggy after waking up.
They would be in no condition to fight like this.
After making our way over, I didn't wake up the elves right away since that would just make a commotion.
However, we did open up the cage and start untying all of the elves.
During this, Apollo suddenly woke up and was about to create a commotion before Moon stopped him.
I had already seen Apollo waking up earlier, so I knew that the demons must have cured him of his poison. I knew that if we tried to free the elves, he would wake up, so I had given Moon the duty of taking care of him.
When he saw me though, it looked like he really wanted to kill me.
But he held himself back since he knew that this was a dangerous situation and that Moon was beside him.
He reached his hand out as if he was asking for his Storage Ring, but Moon shook her head which surprised him. He looked at her like he was asking her how he should fight without any weapons, so in the end, Moon gave him one of her backup swords.
Apollo had a disappointed look, but he still took it since it was better than nothing.
Since we were all prepared, I gave a nod to Cecilia and Moon.
When they received this nod, they turned back to the elves and humans that were waiting and they gave the signal.
Once this signal was given, the battle began.
The demons were completely caught off guard, so before the battle even fully started, half of them had been wiped out.
The humans used their swords to cut the demons down while the elves rained arrows on the demons.
It was impossible to stop the demons from making noises as they were being killed, so the other demons were woken up by this.
That included the demon commander.
When he woke up, he just gave a simple glance around before shouting, "The prisoners have escaped!"
As soon as he said this, all of the demons entered combat mode, pulling out various weapons and such.
However, their numbers had been cut down by quite a bit. A quarter of them had been killed from the ambush and another quarter of them had been injured to varying degrees.
The demons had outnumbered the elves and humans in the first place, but now…the numbers had been cut down enough that they were about even.
But even then…
The demon commander recognized what the situation was with a single glance, so he shouted, "The elves in the cage! Take them as hostages and force them to back down!"
The demons that heard this hesitated for a second before immediately turning in the direction of the cage.
As we had expected, the demons immediately turned to using the elves that had been captured as hostages.
It was just too bad that we had already expected this and had sent people to guard the cage.
When the demons came charging, Cecilia stood in the front with her knights while Moon and the other elves stood in the back with their bows raised.
When she faced the demons, Cecilia didn't back down at all as she slashed her sword at them.
The demons might have had a magic barrier around them, but that wasn't enough to protect them against the might of Cecilia's sword.
If it was before, perhaps she might have struggled against these demons.
But after fighting and defeating the Goblin General, as well as fighting all those monsters, Cecilia and her knights had leveled up. They were much stronger and faster than before, so they were able to easily sweep through these demon foot soldiers.
The demons weren't able to take a single attack from Cecilia, falling from slashes of her sword.
Behind them, the elves weren't idle.
Led by Moon, the elves started shooting their arrows at the demons in the back rows of the charge.
These arrows were sharp and accurate, landing on the vital spots of these demons.
While not every arrow from the elves killed a demon, every arrow from Moon did.
Her accuracy and power was far above the other elves, putting her in a class of her own.
With these abilities, she was like a reaper swinging her scythe as she cut down the demons.
The only one who was really struggling in this fight was Apollo.
After all, the sword that Moon had given him was a poor quality sword, so it had snapped in the first collision with the demons.
While he was a warrior, so he was skilled at magic as well, that didn't matter as much against the demons. The demons were also skilled at magic and had large mana stores, so the magic barrier they used easily blocked Apollo's spells.
So in the end, he had no choice but to pick up sticks from the ground to fight with.
However, sticks were sticks in the end and every stick that he used snapped with just a single swing.
Just like this, he was put in a very embarrassing position, but he had no choice but to fight.
Even then, the elves and humans were able to push back to the demons that charged at them.
These demons were just no match for the combined forces of Cecilia and Moon, so they were pushed back under their sword and bow respectively.
But before the demons could retreat, there was a sword that was swung down to cut the demon at the very back.
When they turned around, they found that it was the demon commander.
Seeing this, all of them steeled themselves again to face the elves and the humans.
That was because comparing the two, they were more scared of the demon commander than the elves and humans.
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