The drones went into full broadcast mode, letting the two royals see what he was getting from the front. The news that the elves were fine was a minor consolation as he watched the Crawlers ignore the flames that had even Lurkers frantically trying to get away from. Apparently the source of the creatures had finally noticed it, and done something about it.<br/><br/>Barid's forces got an image of what the Crawlers were doing to infantry, as well as how fast the damned things were and how they shrugged off laser and ballistic weapons like water to a duck, and simply requested that they move into assist in sweeps and nest hunting. They would be able to deal with these, but the sheer size of the area that had to be cleared now was going to take time. Though if he could get his sensor frigate under the shield...<br/><br/>More Death Guard were moving up, all of them ordering the humans away from the flames, and finally getting enough around the flames to make it a skeet shoot when they leaped over the flames. Their speed actually hurt them off the ground, giving them a nice, long arc that any of the Death Guards could peg. And once the sensor drones got into overhead position, they could predict their movements, as they mindless moved to attack the nearest human. Also helping the extermination was that the Crawlers would stop to attack the nearest human, and as slow as the humans were, it was limiting the spread of the Crawlers.<br/><br/>It was a two minute fight until the last of the Crawlers went down, a total of twenty eight Crawler corpses were found, two of the initial ones having survived the first hits and fled, severing their damaged segments. The humans lost more than seven hundred soldiers despite the Death Guards, but all of the Death Guard agreed that the humans would have been wiped out. The combat logs were pushed to command for analysis, as well as Barid's forces, so they could at least be ready for what would be hunting them when they arrived.<br/><br/>Back in the palace, Ranarc sighed, and shut down the command drones, before pulling another eight Death Guard from human escorting to begin sweeping the forests for more Harvesters. "And now my job gets interesting. Sorry about that ladies. Where were we?"