CHAPTER 374 REPEATED A STOCK TRICK

Ever since the Rough Slope was hemmed in, the transportation squad of the logistics camp was put on

a back burner incessantly by the guerrilla squad from the Timber Deity Empire. The guerrilla squad

attacked from nowhere and ceased to be visible soon enough without any inkling to trace them. The

transportation of the provisions and other supplies to the front line was thus stranded from time to time.

Typically, the fighting capacity of the force, which was in charge of interception, would not be that

dynamic as the spirit of the storm. The number of its members was also insignificant. But their ability of

movement was mind-blowing. The small team could withdraw themselves as swift as a streak of

lightning after the attack.

'Hmm... Let's get a glimpse of how you are going to show a clean pair of heels again this time.' Rocky

curved his lips for an evil smile as his eyes gleamed with an excellent plan to deal with this traceless

small team. He grinned viciously, but it refused to reach his flickering eyes. Rocky got wind that the

transportation squad of the logistics camp was beleaguered by the interception from a traceless

guerrilla team of the Timber Deity Empire. The small team often showed up without warning and

exchanged blows before they vanished from sight at a breakneck speed. He asked Louis to transmit a

message to Isis, in which he pled with her to dispatch a reconnaissance squad to the sections where

the interception used to take place. The reconnaissance squad would assemble every bit of information

left by the guerrilla team of the Timber Deity Empire from those spots. Then, they had to evaluate the

information thoroughly before they predicted the possible spectrum of active venues based on the

information they compiled and scrutinized.

Last night, Rocky dispatched the Carrier Beast to the logistics camp to inquire Louis about the progress

of the surveillance. The reconnaissance squad was more labor-saving than his prediction. They had

already arrived to a conclusion about the active venues of the guerrilla squad of the Timber Deity

Empire for the past ten days. So Louis sent the result of their analysis to Rocky through the Carrier

Beast. It did not take long for him to dope out the possible hidden location of the guerrilla squad based

on the information he received. It was the secluded basin land in front of him.

After all, he was filled with aplomb as a bird committing itself to the air or a great fish to the deep. That

no one perceived the topography of this region could outplay him!

After the hideout of the guerrilla squad was smoked out, Rocky arranged the Carrier Beast in a dash to

dispatch a message to Isis in the main camp in the frontline. Then, he lavished no time to open the

Magic Spiritual Space to release a gigantic Dark Heaven Insect Queen.

As the Dark Heaven Insect Queen trundled on the ground, many beast figures showed up on the spot

from all directions. More and more beasts kept coming into view from far and near. In the flicker of an

eye, there were thirty to forty wild spirit-manipulated beasts clustered around the Dark Heaven Insect

Queen. Most of the wild spirit-manipulated beasts were of one to two stars, some of them were of three

stars. They gave out a death stare fiercely and continued growling at Rocky and everything around him

as they trotted out their claws.

At that juncture, the Dark Heaven Insect Queen hissed suddenly as if a queen instructed the ministers

on the royal court. All the wild spirit-manipulated beasts submitted themselves to the Dark Heaven

Insect Queen and prostrated in front of it.

"That was a legitimate queen of the insect. Its drawing power was overpowering and in a class of its

own!" Although Rocky had witnessed the same phenomenon when he captured the Dark Heaven

Insect Queen, he could not help but be flabbergasted at sight of it for a second time.

The Dark Heaven Insect Queen was born with the predilection to titillate the lower grade of wild spirit-

manipulated beasts fancy to its side. All those which were made their mouths water by it were bowed to

its power.

"Uriah, I will require you to run the errand for me again." Rocky took out a bottle that contained one

drop of the magical saliva in a couple of seconds. He asked Uriah to hold it in its mouth and then

pointed to the direction of the basin land in which the guerrilla squad of the Timber Deity Empire

encamped on site.

Uriah understood without being tentative about what Rocky wanted it to do. It ran as fast as a gust of

wind towards the camp of the guerrilla squad. Its hard crimson scales stood up as small flames

flickered and intersected with each other, which resembled a pair of wings flapping all the way long.

The wild spirit-manipulated beasts which clustered around the Dark Heaven Insect Queen could not

help but run fast like a bat out of hell after Uriah as they had a bee in their bonnet by the unique

fragrance of the magical saliva.

The next moment, a dense mass of wild spirit-manipulated beasts went hell for leather in formidable

array to the campsite of the guerrilla squad in the lead of Uriah.

The guerrilla squad was reposed themselves in the camp in the basin valley who did not gear

themselves up for such a crowd of saber-rattling wild spirit-manipulated beasts. They were taken by

astonishment as the cluster of ferocious wild spirit-manipulated beasts inundated their camp. The

number of wild beasts was as much as thirty to forty! What's more, each of them was hard-hearted

ferocious. They attacked anyone they met as rabid dogs. Although there were three thousand soldiers

and two squads of spirit manipulators in their camp, it was hell on earth beyond their ability to hold

sway over.

In a split of a second, many soldiers became the sitting target of the iron claws and violent fangs of the

horde of the wild beasts. Broken bodies were scattered here and there on the ground. The campsite

flowed with rivers of blood. It flowed like so much red gravy across the slaughterhouse floor. A squawk

of pains and howling of help rang in the air from all directions. It was as if every sound that escaped

their mouth was set to the frequency that would shatter one's ability to hear.

Uriah was brisk on the uptake enough to induce the herd of the wild beasts into the camps to continue

the battle. Then, it surged to the location where all the tents were concentrated and scorched them all

by the flames flared up from its body. The flames flared high up to the sky. The entire site was soon

enveloped by black smoke, which boiled up from the burnt tents. The place became illuminated by the

fire. In the distance, one could see thick gray smoke billowing into the sky. A veil of darkness now

shielded the once pale blue sky as the smoke swallowed up the whole air. Raging over the area, the

site was swallowed entirely by fire. Their provisions and supplies and any other things were all blazed

into ashes. The fire left only ashes in its wake, grey and empty, to be blown away on the wind.

Many soldiers' knees were shaking, scared stiff as they saw the stunning-inspiring Uriah. It kept

erupting fire as an active volcano. Those who could not make their gateway fast enough were

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"What the hell is going on here? Where are all these wild beasts coming from? Why do they just come

into view all of a sudden?" Commander Sun of the Timber Deity Empire, who headed the troop, uttered

profanities in utter outrage as he saw the unexpected assault unfurling before him. He could not put his

finger on the sudden crisis they had to encounter.

"Move quickly! Tell all the spirit manipulators to handle with the beasts!" The soldiers were feebly

brought on to their knees one after another. The situation stupefied Commander Sun of the Timber

Deity Empire as he gave his orders like an arrow from a bow.

With their own spirit-manipulated beasts, all the spirit manipulators of the guerrilla squad went all out to

partake in the herd of extremely bloodthirsty wild spirit-manipulated beasts.

In the glinting of an eye, miscellaneous spiritual power from each party intertwined like the dancing

lightning. Booming sounds from the hot-headed melee fight rang through the atmosphere.

However, the cultivation base of all the spirit manipulators of the guerrilla squad was very low. Most of

them were at the lower grade of the Mortal Stage. The highest cultivation base of the spirit

manipulators did not outpace the second or third grade of the Earthly Stage. Even their spirit-

manipulated beasts also took part in the battle, the maximum quantity of the wild spirit-manipulated

beasts they could handle would only be around twenty. The remaining wild spirit-manipulated beasts

still rampaged around to assault the panicky soldiers who fled in all directions.

Even it was the lowest grade of the wild spirit-manipulated beast, it would knock the stuffing out for a

common soldier. The outcome was not optimistic even in the situation of a hundred ordinary soldiers

versus just one single wild spirit-manipulated beast. It would be very back-breaking to succeed in

combat under this situation since there were less than a score of spirit manipulators in the guerrilla

squad. The price would be too painful even if they struggled to deal with the horde of the wild spirit-

manipulated beasts.

The death toll of the soldiers had escalated to one to two hundred until now. And the number was

advancing...

"Commander Sun, I guess we'd better withdraw from this valley. We would not be able to put a

conclusion or be invulnerable to the fatally attack even if we hung on. We cannot manage to lose more

soldiers. Our camps, together with our provisions and other supplies, were all reduced to ashes. It

won't do us any good if we struggle on..." One of the Deputy Commander retreated himself in thrown

off balance to the side of the Commander Sun.

"Damn it!" Commander Sun grit his teeth wrathfully as he could not reconcile himself to the

browbeating of a horde of wild spirit-manipulated beasts. But he did not seem to have other possible

courses of action at the moment. He required to get rid of the herd. So he waved his hand as he

commanded, "Everybody, fall back! We don't have to belittle ourselves to overcome the contending with

these herd of wild beasts..."

Soon enough, the guerrilla squad was constrained to retreat from the basin valley towards the

southwest direction. They put on their best leg to get rid of the bunch of the crazy wild beasts that still

remained there abusing the corpse at the campsite.

Rocky had sent the Dark Heaven Insect Queen back to the Magic Spiritual Space. He summoned

Uriah back right away. He and the four beasts trod on the heels the guerrilla squad of the Timber Deity

Empire who just evacuated from the basin valley.