However, as the spiritual race's army was retreating, a cloud of fire suddenly roared into the sky,
blocking their path.
"Don't stop! Keep running!" the commander of the spiritual race barked. Seized with panic, he gave the
order without thinking about it too much.
Just as they passed through the fire, a dense mass of black shadows suddenly appeared from all
directions, surrounding the soldiers of the spiritual race.
It was futile to retreat since all escape routes had been sealed off. They had no choice but to face
Rocky's army head on.
Dispirited, they charged at their enemy. The two sides fought until dawn.
In the end, more than two thirds of the spiritual race's soldiers were killed in battle. The rest
surrendered and begged for their lives to be spared.
Instead of killing them all, Rocky sent Kye to lead a troop of five thousand people to escort the captured
soldiers to a nearby valley to imprison them there.
But before they were sent off, Rocky had some of the members of his army peel off their armor. Then,
taking the spiritual race's armor, Rocky and his team disguised themselves as the enemy and they
quickly went to the nearest spiritual race's encampment.
When the commander of the spiritual race saw Rocky and his men, who were disguised as spiritual
race's soldiers, he immediately asked what had happened.
Rocky put on an act and told them what transpired the past few hours between the human race and the
spiritual race.
"Damn it! How dare the human race attack our troops under our nose! They are courting death!" the
commander of the spiritual race cursed. He seemed overconfident in his abilities, so Rocky used it to
his advantage.
"Sir, you must avenge our commander!" Rocky cried piteously.
"Regroup with our army. I will lead everyone to battle with the humans and destroy them once and for
all!" the commander barked indignantly.
As soon as his troops were mobilized, the commander of the spiritual race led them to the position of
Rocky's army.
Eunice, who was in charge of the rest of Rocky's army, immediately prepared them to fight back when
she saw the spiritual race's army on the horizon. Everything was going according to plan.
Soon, the two sides collided and began to fight fiercely.
Just as the battle was getting extremely intense, Rocky's disguised men, who had been lurking
amongst the soldiers of the spiritual race, suddenly started attacking them. The spiritual race's soldiers
were hopelessly confused as more and more of their comrades were slaughtered by those disguised
as their comrades. When they finally realized what was happening, it was already too late.
As a result, all the troops of the spiritual race that were lured here were annihilated.
Seeing how his plan was executed perfectly, Rocky continued to do the same thing to the other spiritual
race's encampments. Troop after troop, the spiritual race's soldiers were lured into the trap he had set
up. The spiritual race's numbers dwindled sharply over the course of the next few days. Now, the battle
was at a stalemate.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the human army, Marcia was also leading her troop into a lot of battles.
They annihilated several spiritual race's troops in succession, and also successfully killed a high-level
commander of the spiritual race's army.
Thanks to the Troy Plan, Rocky's and Marcia's combined wins gave the human race hope. Additionally,
Colton continued to send in reinforcements, like he had promised. It seemed the humans had a fighting
chance now!
Half a month later, the spiritual race's army found themselves unable to attack the front line anymore
due to the shortage of manpower. They no longer posed a threat to the human army's last line of
defense.
But by then, Alyssa had found out the pattern in the Troy Plan. She immediately changed strategy,
adjusting the distribution of troops at the front line and decisively giving up defending the front line.
Instead, she gathered all the troops to the middle battlefield of the human race. What was more, she
personally led an elite group to the front line to take command of the battle.
When Rocky and Marcia saw that the spiritual race's army had changed their tactics, they were
unsurprised. They knew that Alyssa had found out their plan, but this was to be expected.
Now that Alyssa had changed strategies, Rocky and Marcia also adjusted accordingly and prepared to
confront her and her army. However, they didn't fight against Alyssa face to face. Instead, they
gathered together and led the one hundred thousand soldiers to start a roundabout battle in the middle
battlefield. This made it impossible for Alyssa and her army to concentrate on attacking the last
defensive line of the human race's army.
At the same time, the Di Clan finally managed to convince the major forces in the Ethereal Region to
finally give up on their disjointed stances and got them to work together. Due to the gravity of the
situation, they all sent their spiritual warriors to the battlefield, including the students of several major
colleges.
When these spirit warriors reached the battlefield, they were distributed to each troop immediately. This
greatly improved their overall combat ability, which also made the human race's army even more
effective than before.
Just then, dozens of disciples of the Sword Spirit Sect arrived at the battlefield, led by Tessa and
Ramon. They too joined the human army's forces led by Bertram. They all headed to the position of
Rocky's army—right where they were confronting the enemy.
As soon as they arrived, Bertram took Tessa and Ramon into Rocky's tent.
Rocky, who was discussing the tactics with Eunice and Kye, looked up in surprise when he saw Tessa
and Ramon.
"What're you guys doing here?" Rocky smiled from ear to ear.
"Basil, is that really you? Or am I dreaming?" Tess looked at Rocky in awe. She still found it shocking to
know that the commander before her was really Rocky, who was once a nobody in the Sword Spirit
Sect back then.
"Commander, these two said they might know you when they arrived. It turns out they really do know
you! They are the spirit warriors that the Sword Spirit City sent to help us," Bertram reported.
"Yes, they are all my friends," Rocky replied frankly.
"I see. I'll head back now, since I've successfully finished my task. Please take care of the upcoming
arrangements," Bertram said curtly as he cupped his hands.
"Thank you." Rocky nodded.
Then, Bertram left hurriedly.
"You too can leave now to make relevant arrangements," Rocky ordered Eunice and Kye.
The two of them nodded and also left.
"Hey, look at you! Even the way you speak is different!" Although Rocky was already a commander of
the human race's army, in Tessa's eyes, he was still that quiet, mysterious guy.
"I didn't expect you would become the commander of the human race's army," Ramon also sighed.
"How many spirit warriors have the Sword Spirit Sect sent here this time?" Rocky asked, ignoring their
trivialities.
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