CHAPTER 692 HAD ANOTHER PLAN

Another day passed in Heaven Unicorn City. In the temporary camp of the Crimson Dragon Army

located inside the city, Rocky was occupied with studying the terrain map of Yu City.

"Senior Commander Rocky." He looked up, as Fleming walked in with a somber expression on his

face.

"Do you have any information?" Rocky asked immediately, to which Fleming nodded enthusiastically.

"Yes, sir. It's from Mont City." "Mont City?" Rocky remarked with an eyebrow quirked up in interest.

"What's it about?" He probed further when Fleming didn't speak at once. "According to our intelligence

officers, more than two thousand soldiers of Crimson Dragon Army and three thousand common

people were captured when the Holy Sea Empire occupied Mont City."

Fleming paused, breathed deeply, and then continued, "There are some survivors. It appears that the

Holy Sea Empire has shown them mercy and didn't kill them all."

Rocky nodded with an impassive expression. He was relieved that there were survivors, but it was too

early to celebrate. More than that, he needed to make sure that the information was reliable, so he

asked, "Where did they get this information?" holds © this.

"It came from a deputy commander who has been captured. He learned that we withdrew the army to

Heaven Unicorn City, so he secretly sent us this information," Fleming readily replied. "That's good."

Rocky nodded, as some tension drained from his stiff posture. "Try to keep in touch with him so that we

can get more information about Mont City and the Holy Sea Empire's army," he added.

"Yes, sir!" Fleming saluted before he bowed and left the room to do as he was bid.

As soon as Fleming stepped outside, Isis rushed in with a panicked expression on her ashen face.

"What's wrong?" Rocky asked, immediately alarmed. After all, Isis wasn't someone who was easily

shaken, so to see her in such a state was disquieting.

She had a letter clutched to her hand so tightly that Rocky was afraid it would be torn to pieces. He

reached out and gently took it from her.

His face darkened, as he read further into the letter. It informed them that the Crimson Dragon Army

couldn't send them reinforcements, and Rocky was ordered to buy time and defend Heaven Unicorn

City. A quick look at the bottom told him that it was Alston who gave the order.

"What the hell is the crown prince doing? The right-wing defensive line has ten thousand soldiers

available. How could he say that he couldn't send reinforcements?" Isis blurted in outrage. She looked

so angry that Rocky was afraid she would burst into flames at any second.

"Calm down. I can't say I'm surprised he did something like this, but I didn't think he was this cruel

either. He would risk the lives of people in three cities just for his interests?" Rocky muttered while

shaking his head. Alston wasn't a good person, but he didn't realize that he was this despicable. If they

didn't have reinforcements, three small cities would surely be occupied, and the people in the cities

would suffer. If they lost all three cities, many people would be killed.

"I have to inform my father right away. He can stop the crown prince," Isis suggested quietly, although it

was clear that she was just grasping at straws. She couldn't believe how vile Alston was!

"Don't bother. Now that Alston has a high position within the Crimson Dragon Group, the Commander

in Chief won't be able to do anything. I'm afraid that the Commander in Chief is in a tight place right

now as well. After all, Alston is the crown prince of the Holy Dragon Empire." The truth was Lance was

in a grave situation himself, now that Alston was overtly moving to take over the Crimson Dragon

Group and exclude him. And he had to restrain himself too because he couldn't afford to outright offend

Alston.

"What should we do if we don't receive reinforcements?" Isis asked, her voice quivering. She knew that

if there were no reinforcements, there would be nothing but death for them. The remaining troops of the

Crimson Dragon Army and the soldiers in Heaven Unicorn City only totaled to several thousand. They

were no match for the whole army of the Holy Sea Empire.

"We have to find another way to increase our military forces," said Rocky thoughtfully.

"What else can we do? Recruit soldiers in Heaven Unicorn City?" Isis asked with a trace of sarcasm,

after all, who would do something so ridiculous?

"That's a good idea!" Isis' eyes narrowed at Rocky, as she wondered if he was making fun of her. When

she realized that he was serious, she couldn't help but blurt out, "Do you think it's that easy?" She

threw a disapproving glance at him and continued, "You were able to persuade the common people to

fight with the army before, but recruiting soldiers is more difficult. To recruit soldiers, we need a large

amount of money and additional weapons and armors. But we aren't in Evian City. We don't have

those."

"If that's all we need, then it will be easy," Rocky said confidently, which just annoyed Isis even more.

She wondered if he grasped the severity of their situation.

"Easy? It takes at least fifty taels of silver coins to recruit one soldier. To recruit three thousand soldiers,

we need one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver coins. If we buy weapons and armors, we will

need three hundred thousand taels of silver coins in total, which is equal to thirty thousand taels of

gold. Do you have thirty thousand taels of gold with you?" Isis asked as she stared at him expectantly.

Although Rocky gave her a dowry of over ten thousand taels of gold, she knew that it was all he had.

"Well, I do not have that much cash, but I still have golden bills worth thirty thousand taels of gold." To

Isis' amazement, Rocky suddenly presented her with three golden bills.

"You took the golden bills with you?" Isis couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"I don't have a safe, so I have to take them everywhere I go," Rocky explained as if it was the most

natural thing to do.

"Fine, you win. But Heaven Unicorn City is just a small city. It won't be easy to exchange the three

golden bills. Besides, we can only recruit three thousand soldiers with thirty thousand taels of gold. We

need more money to buy weapons, armors, food, and other necessary materials," said Isis with her

hands folded sternly over her chest.

"Well, I have some more valuable things in my Magic Spiritual Space. We can sell them for more than

ten thousand taels of gold," said Rocky casually.

"Really?" Isis exclaimed in surprise. She was starting to realize that maybe there was hope after all.

"They are all collected from the Myriad Beasts Ground..." A smirk started to form at the corners of

Rocky's mouth, as he waited amusedly for Isis' reaction.

"Myriad... Myriad Beasts Ground! When did you go there?" Isis asked in surprise. Even the spirit

manipulators of the Supernal Stage feared to set foot in the Myriad Beasts Ground. But now, it seemed

that Rocky went there and survived.

"I have been there several times, although I almost died as many times too," Rocky said with

amusement but in a self-deprecating way.

"That's not funny." Isis stared at him with a mixture of anger, worry, and fondness. She had always

hated it when Rocky needlessly put his life in danger.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm fine now," Rocky immediately reassured her, although, from her

expression, he could tell that she wasn't happy with him.

"Stop risking your life so needlessly. Promise me! Don't forget that you're not alone anymore," Isis said

so seriously that Rocky couldn't say anything more.

He just nodded awkwardly, so Isis followed up with a light smile, "And if you don't have a place to keep

your money, I can keep it for you."

Rocky burst into laughter at this and shook his head. "Can I say no?"

he asked with a bitter-sweet smile. There was no way that he would be a hen-pecked husband after all.

"Are you worried that I'll appropriate your money? I resent that," Isis protested with a slight frown,

although her lips were being pulled into a smile.