There was absolutely no way that they could sneak back into the Kitsune village, so this mean that they needed to implement a head on clash against them. but just going head on against them would not be wise, with the kitsunes being controlled by those NPCS, the more precise and surgical parts of their abilities like their Illusions were rendered useless as the NPCS use it to mostly hide themselves. So it would be a head on clash on the part of the Kitsunes, but just because they had to have a head on clash with them. didn't mean they couldn't find a way to circumvent and cause significant damage from the side.
Rezar was going to lead the head on strike, vampires were surgical and precise creatures, but even with that they were still weapons of mass destruction. Rezar would lead a head on strike along with Lenore, Priest and Gynaika would bring up the rear. Screet and Neema would be the ones in charge of attacking from the sides and completely unseen as they were currently tunneling under the ground with the lead of about a dozen Necrotic giant ants. Rezar patted Ant Tony on his head, the giant ant didn't respond to the touch since he was still just a brainless zombie ant and hasn't evolved yet.
But after this battle he should reach that gap. Rezar had grown fond of it, so much so that even with the dungeon spawning Necrotic fire ants that were more intelligent and have a bit of personality as you would expect from any animal, Rezar still chose his drone of a zombie ant as a mount. In any case, there was just something different about the ants he raised himself, than the ones the dungeon core spawned for the territory. Rezar shook his head and faced the wall of mist as Lenore came to his side, riding a Necrotic forest wolf, and right beside her was Kari in her full transformed Kitsune form.
Four meters tall, with a rustic red coat with very faint white stripes, the tips of her tails were still the same snow white color as when she was in a humanoid form. They both looked as ready as they could be, but Rezar could still the fain trembling from Kari's huge body. In the end he had a modicum of understanding about what she was going through, for all intents and purposes she was bringing back some people to attack her home, and because of it a lot of her people, some or most of them she personally knew, would die.
Rezar could not imagine himself being in such a position, because honestly he had no idea what to do. It was quite similar to how helpless he felt when he encountered the Order of the Innkeepers. Those people had power that he didn't and put him in a helpless position, in short, it made him desperate for power, or help in any form that could and would give him assurance that he could triumph over them, or at least resist them.
"do we just charge at the curtain of Mist?" Lenore asked as she looked from Rezar to the target in front of her.
"I wouldn't advice that, you have no idea what's waiting for you over there. It's like a one-way window, they can see us from the other side, but we can't see them from here. They could all be lined up with hundreds of [Fox Fire] at the ready for attack." Rezar nodded his head, he had already thought about it, but they couldn't exactly wait for the NPC controlled Kitsunes to make the first move, so he had a plan, he was just waiting to get confirmation from Neema before.
{Master! We're in the village.} Neema's voice came calling through the telepathic link Rezar shared with his undead. His scrunched his eyebrows surprised by how fast they were, it seemed it was more of a highlight about why the half dead Necrotic giant ants were better than their full undead counterparts. Seems they dug a lot faster than the undead ants.
"That's good, I take it most of the village are gathered in front of the [Mist Curtain]?" Rezar asked back, but using his mind to communicate back to her.
{Master it's not just the most of the village, it's the entire village! And they have all the young ones lined up front, so if you attack, they're the ones that will get hurt first. I think they intend to use them as bait, and when you're probably caught off guard by the act of killing the young ones, they cut you down... when will you attack?}
Rezar smiled ruefully at that; no one knew him better than his undead. Neema knew he wouldn't give a shit that there were kids in front of him, because the moment you were an enemy, the only thing that mattered to him was removing you out of the way. But Priest has been trying his possible best to teach Rezar about morality, not that Rezar wasn't Moral as he tried to avoid killing innocents as much as he could.
But he gave no mercy to his enemies, this was what 8 months stuck in a dungeon that was trying it's possible best to kill him had taught him. And that was more time spent learning hard lessons than Priest has had to teach him how to be a king. But in this case, it seems it would be better for Priest's Lessons to prevail. Rezar moved his head to the worried eyes of Kitsune who had no choice but to team up with him in order to save her people.
"Darn my Niceness!" Rezar silently cursed to himself, much to the shock of Lenore and Kari as he answered Neema.
"Destroy anything they have that's off value in the village, if you noticed anything weird or important destroy it or bring it back, and hurry it up. Then set the village on fire, we'll keep their attentions on us. Just focus on what you have to do, and get it done. And minimalize the casualties on both sides should it turn out you have to fight, this is not a full on fight but a hit and run tactic, get it done and get out. And Neema? Don't hurt the kids."
{Yes Master!}