Chapter 423 A Dire Situation
As the yellow spiritual crystal was imnted into the center of its forehead, the flower-shaped Timber
spirit-manipted beast let out a strange hiss. Its razor-sharp tooth got exposed as the mouth opened
and closed like a fish gasping for air. The sixrge flower-shaped tentaclesid t with tension.
Suddenly, it stretched out in all directions and started swelling up, growing bigger and bigger.
Subsequently, in several blooming sounds the six tentacles exploded as an overblown balloon,
instantly transforming its appearance to a sharpened de edge. Then, its flower-shaped giant head
inted and exposed another identical flower-shaped head from the other side, almost as a clone head
of the original one.
Meanwhile, the other Timber spirit-manipted beast also began to mutate. The spines originally
covering all over the trunk came off instantly. Its gigantic trunk whopped down on the ground as if its
root was struck deep into the ground. Its upright body resembled a bare cactus.
At the region were the spines came off,rge pores opened up. Arge amount of sticky liquid was
secreted from those pores which flooded all over its body. Soon, like a drill, its body began to drill itself
directly into the underground. Instantly, its whole body was nted into the ground with only its three
heads remaining above the ground.
Shortly after, the ground cracked up, leaving a plethora of fissures and it seemed like something was
ready to pop up at any moment. With a thundering sound, the three heads pulled out its body. The
body lookedpletely transformed with rows of long and big iron prickles grown out of the pores from
where the spines hade off. The size of the body was significantly erged resembling a spiked
mace making it more aggressive.
Alyssa nodded in satisfaction as she witnessed the mutation of the two Timber spirit-manipted
beasts after their star upgrade.
"The aptitudes of these two Timber spirit-manipted beasts are excellent. The result of their mutation
after the elevation is evidently impressive. It is working quite well. In preparing them for a perfect
mutation, I have been racking up my brain for the best solution." Samson nodded proudly while
exining.
"Only a beast manipted expert like Master Sun could elerate their mutation in the star elevation."
The elevation of each star for a spirit-manipted beast would result in the vigorous progress of their
power. Both the Timber spirit-manipted beasts were at the third grade of four stars, which was a
cultivation base as strong as the spirit maniptor of the Heavenly Stage. That was indeed a
remarkable elevation! Alyssa had no hesitation inplimenting him.
"Thank you for yourpliment princess. I''m truly ttered," Samson replied pleasurably with a fist-
and-palm salute showing his modesty.
"When can youplete the elevation of the remaining beasts?" Alyssa continued the conversation.
"It can be finished within a few days," Samson replied while counting his fingers as a fortune teller.
"Good. I''m going in for a frontal confrontation with the Crimson Dragon Army in five days. The ten
Huge-horned Rhinoceroses that master Sun have fostered and the mutant Timber spirit-manipted
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beasts would definitelye handily for the battle by then…" Alyssa exined with a mysterious smile
on her face.
Five dayster, the war broke out between the Timber Deity Empire and the Holy Dragon Empire. It
certainly was the biggest confrontation by the scale in several months. Forty thousand armies of the
Timber Deity Empire confronted the seventy thousand strong Crimson Dragon Army of the Holy
Dragon Empire at the Gehenna Border war zones of both the countries.
Lance deployed his seventy thousand armies respectively at seven strategic strongholds. These seven
strategic strongholds were all fortified points serving as the foundation for stable resistance against the
army of the Timber Deity Empire. The fortified points were part of a strategy that would be used as a
directional deception that would make the enemy misinterpret their movements. The strategy would
make a feint to the east while attacking in the west. Thus, this would result in losing the force of the
army of the Timber Deity Empire before the Crimson Dragon Army struck a death blow and defeated
them.
Initially, the n worked well. The Crimson Dragon Army was not only sessful in guarding the
integrity of the territory with minimal mistakes but also made the Timber Deity Empire lose two strategic
strongholds. This loss had ced the army of the Timber Deity Empire into a passive disadvantage.
But five days into the battle, one of the seven strategic strongholds under their guard, the Deity Unicorn
Valley, was lost by the Crimson Dragon Army. In a sudden turn of events, the guerri squad of the
Deity Timber Empire ambushed the Deity Unicorn Valley swiftly. This resulted in the fall of the strategic
stronghold into the control of the guerri squad.
Lance was left with utmost astonishment when he learned about the fall of the Deity Unicorn Valley. He
of rare species charged in, breaking their defenses,nding the Crimson Dragon Army in great trouble.
Moreover, the guerri squad was armed with a mighty team led by a Timber spirit maniptor who
had reached a cultivation base of the Heavenly Stage. He led four Timber spirit-manipted beasts to
storm the fortified point. Since those four beasts were four-starred Timber spirit-manipted beasts,
they were sessful in defeating thousands of ordinary soldiers with ease.
In the battle of the Deity Unicorn Valley, while the Crimson Dragon Army lost more than ten thousand of
their forces, the loss suffered by the army of the Timber Deity Empire was less than three thousand.
Yet, with the Deity Unicorn Valley as their stronghold, the army of the Timber Deity Empire mobilized
and encouraged the whole army to attack the Dead Silence Mount and the Hippo Land, the control
center of the seven strategic strongholds. Both strongholds fell in session unexpectedly. The fall of
the Hippo Land had cut the supports and coborations between the remaining four strategic
strongholds of the Crimson Dragon Armypelling them to fight in istion.
As the seventy thousand armies that Lancemanded were divided to guard different strongholds,
far away from each other, and the three strategic strongholds that fell into the upation of the army of
the Timber Deity Empire could serve as the stranglehold to the Crimson Dragon Army, who could not
convene the troops in time to resist the attack, they were ultimately defeated separately one after
another by the army of the Timber Deity Empire.
Two months after the beginning of the war, the Crimson Dragon Army lost more than twenty thousand
of its forces, meanwhile, the loss was less than ten thousand for the Timber Deity Empire. Even worse,
since the Crimson Dragon Army could not concentrate its troops, they could not go all out to confront
the army of the Timber Deity Empire.
It was Lance''s strategy of safety battle. But he did not expect the army of the Timber Deity Empire to
discover the loophole and use it against them to win the battle eventually. On the other hand, the army
of the Timber Deity Empire was able to turn the tables once they assumed control of the three strategic
strongholds of the Crimson Dragon Army. Although they were still a little outnumbered by the Crimson
Dragon Army, it could not be a deadly threat since the remaining forces of the Crimson Dragon Army
were divided in for different strategic strongholds. On top of that, the loss of the control center, the
Hippo Land would disable the Crimson Dragon Army to coborate and reinforce each other. They
remained nothing more than isted small groups who fought desperately to secure their fortified
points.
On the contrary, by upying the control center of the Hippo Land, the army of the Timber Deity
Empire could maneuver its forces who were catered with needs to frustrate the Crimson Dragon Army.
To recapture the lost control center, Lance made three attempts toy siege to the Hippo Land but
failed every time. Worse enough, he lost an Elite Commander and a Frontline Commander during the
three attacks.
Out of his wits, Lance gave an order to send a message to Rocky hoping that he would offer help to
relieve the dreadful situation.
On the other hand, Rocky had finalized the ns for the construction of an integratedboratory in the
Magic Spiritual Space. While he was working on his ns, he received a message from a Carrier
Beast. The message was a summons from Lance.
"Is Lance capable of being the Commander in Chief? He was badly defeated despite leading an army
almost twice the number of that of the Timber Deity Empire!" Rocky could not help but force a smile as
he finished reading the message from Lance.
But since he had an agreement with Lance earlier, he had to suspend his ns for building the new
Two dayster, Rocky came back to the main camp at the front line. As soon as he entered, he sensed
therge crowd. Among them were spirit maniptors who were unknown to him. But he sensed their
cultivation base to be above Heavenly Stage. Everyone was gravely serious as if they were attending
someone''s funeral. Silence blended with air which became the sole thing they could breathe in.
Rocky saw a sour face with a heavily furrowed forehead as his eyes settled on Lance.
But as soon as he walked in, Rocky was ced under a spotlightpelling everyone to look at him.
Isis, who was present at the camp of the Commander in Chief stared at Rocky immediately as she
seemed to work herself through a puzzle.
Marin was also among the crowd staring at Rocky.
Lance was relieved at the moment he saw Rocky. He slightly unfurled his thick eyebrows as he
directed his hand to order, "Rocky, approach to take your mission!"
Rocky had a bad vibe as Lance did not say anything else other than giving out his direct order. Even
though hesitant, he stepped forward for responding to the mission.