Chapter 74: Surprise Attack!
The two battalions charged at their
fastest speed toward the main battle by supplementing their running speed with bursts
of power from their Songs.
But suddenly, they felt tremors
coming from the ground. A second later, rocks flew up from underneath them,
along with giant spouts of water and blades of ice!
Jia Yuan instantly realized
what was going on. The special forces of the Earth and Water Kingdoms hadn’t hidden
themselves amongst the other soldiers. They had actually hidden themselves in
the earth!
Jia Yuan immediately released
his Song and flew up into the air, and the troops behind him reacted in a
similar way as well.
Unfortunately, there were still
some troops who were caught unawares by the surprise attack and instantly
perished.
Jia Yuan shouted. “Quan Zen,
your command!”
Quan relayed his commands to
the troops behind him. “Keep in the air and they’ll have to show themselves!
They were probably sensing tremors from the earth to determine our location. If
they show, we’ll fight! If they don’t show, we’ll massacre their soldiers!”
The two battalions sounded
their acknowledgement of this through a variety of shouts. Upon hearing this
command, Jia Yuan and Fan Meng glanced at each other. Wasn’t this too straightforward?
If the enemy cared enough to set up such a trap… there should be more waiting!
Just as they thought this, a
flurry of arrows came flying in from the back end of the main battlefield! The
arrows were accurately heading towards the soldiers flying through the air.
Jia Yuan cursed. It was
possible to fly and fight at the same time, but how many people have the
control needed to do that? Even Guo Huo found it hard to concentrate on other
tasks while flying.
Jia Yuan quickly flew toward
the arrows, shouting to Quan Zen along the way. “I’ll take care of the arrows!
Keep moving!”
When he reached the front of the
troops, Jia Yuan briefly diverted his attention away from flying and tapped his
ring, drawing out the pots he had bought years ago from that shop in RockFire
City.
Seconds later, Jia Yuan heard
hundreds of clangs as the arrows flew into the pots that had suddenly appeared
in the air.
Clearly, it wasn’t possible for
such a haphazard technique to block all of the arrows, but given that Jia Yuan
was able to cover most of the immediate area of sky with pots, the arrows that
made it past were easily dodged. After all, only a few thousand arrows were shot.
Most of the focus was still on the main battlefield, which at this point was
starting to resemble a slightly organized mosh pit.
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All the while, the two
battalions moved forward. However, after a few more seconds, they abruptly
stopped, because the ground in front of them began to shake and crack, and
eventually a hole formed in the ground, from which thousands of soldiers jumped
out.
Quan Zen raised his voice. “Hmph,
so you finally show yourselves. What were you doing, hiding like cowards? A man
should be free, a man should be able to see the sky in all its glory. But it
appears the Water and Earth Kingdom’s cultivators were too afraid, haha.”
The Earth and Water Kingdom
special forces soldiers were rather incensed. “Hmph, haven’t you ever heard of
tactics? Tactics. Of course, I wouldn’t expect much from a measly Air Kingdom
Commander.” The seeing that the immediate danger of being assaulted from below
the ground was over, and that a fight was about to erupt, the Fire and Air
Kingdom troops descended to the ground and drew their weapons.
Quan Zen stated his orders. “Air
Kingdom troops in front. Fire Kingdom soldiers will flank around from the left.
Jia Yuan, given your unusual aura, they don’t seem to realize you’re a
commander, so see if you can surprise one of them. You can sense theirs right?
Those two at the 2nd level of Manipulation should be the commanders.”
Jia Yuan nodded. “I’ll take
care of them. Grab their attention for me.”
The two sides stared at each
other, waiting for the other side to make a move first.
After neither side had moved
for about 20 seconds, Quan Zen whispered to Jia Yuan. “If this continues, just
lead your troops to attack their main army’s flank. We’ll be able to hold them
off.”
Twenty seconds after, Jia Yuan
and the Burning Legion soldiers began to sprint towards the main battlefield,
and the Water Kingdom’s troops attempted to follow, but were cut off by the
Spectres of Wind.
Quan Zen had a crazed look of
determination in his eyes. “Those who want to make it past us will have to kill
us first!”
And so, the 1,700 Spectres of
Wind stood proudly in front of 2,500 combined Earth and Water Kingdom
cultivators.
Seeing this, Jia Yuan ordered
his soldiers. “All of you continue toward the main battlefield. Slaughter all!
But do not dare to perish yourselves, or I’ll find you in hell.”
Upon saying this, Jia Yuan
headed back toward the Spectres of Wind. His troops would be more than enough
to change the course of the main battle. Now it was his chance to change the course
of this numerically smaller but just as strategically important spat between
each Kingdom’s special forces.