Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 414: Strategy

Rain thought that he would feel something about helping killing humans, but he didn't feel anything… in the end, he had killed beastmen, demi humans, dragons… they were all the same to him, if they tried to kill him, they were his enemies.

Without any other choice, the human army was forced to retreat… keep attacking when they didn't know the conditions of the terrain that would be too dangerous for them. Thanks to that, Rain didn't know what Joanis had prepared for him… but he would learn eventually.

"You are pretty good at thinking of what others would do," Terra said. "While they didn't use their special soldiers, we defeated a bunch of them without losing a single person."

"That is something you eventually learn if you try for long enough," Rain said. "Consider what the enemy wants, the best ways for them to achieve that and then you will learn how they operate… anyway, we should retreat, they will try to find the holes during the day without sacrificing many soldiers."

Rain also used a bunch of mana to confuse the enemies and make them act the way he wanted, so not everything had been perfect… so, he had to recover naturally.

Most of the magic people stayed behind. The Frontline soldiers were camping in the border of the capital where a bunch of temporary houses had been made using the magic of the golem masters… that was what Rain told them to do.

The situation was worse than Rain had imagined… the invasion started one month ago, but the magic people still didn't know what they had to do or how to use their abilities properly.

While it couldn't be helped since they were being attacked from two directions, the real issue was the fact that they didn't lose territory in hundreds of years, so they didn't know how to fight while defending only. As such, Rain had to give some orders, and they didn't like that.

Rain and Terra were taking shelter in one of the houses very close to the long stairway, but they didn't sleep at all, they kept using the level of meditation. Rain wanted more mana, while Terra wanted to level up her Magic Boost, even though he told her not to even think of attacking.

"Your guesses have been correct until now, thanks to it, the people complaining can't do anything, but that won't last forever, right?" Josar asked when Rain left the house, it seemed that he was camping nearby as well.

"Right, when that happens, both sides will lose a lot of soldiers, so that should satisfy their bloodthirsty needs," Rain nodded. "What are you going to do once that happens?"

"The tribe leaders are planning to join the fight to rally their brothers," Josar explained. "That should boost our attack power more than a little bit."

"It will also make them easy targets," Rain said.

Josar could only shrug… he warned them about that, but it didn't work, if they were going to die, there was nothing that could be helped. After a quick breakfast, they headed toward the area where the magic people were having their breakfast… Once again, Rain found some people glaring at them. He smiled at them with a large grin and waved his hands, making their veins in their forehead bulge…

"Stop that… we can change their attitude by working with them and helping each other, but things won't improve if you keep taunting them," Terra said.

"They have to be annoyed as well if they keep trying to annoy me," Rain said.

After walking for a while, the group found that the long holes had become even longer… at least the parts exposed. It seemed that overnight, some earth mages on the human side tested the ground and confirmed their length.

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They were five hundred meters long and had the shape of diagonal corridors… all for the sake of making the enemies take the long path if they tried to change directions after getting too close.

During the whole morning, Rain relaxed while the soldiers waited for battle… he told them that the enemies wouldn't attack in the morning, only in the afternoon, but that was supposed to be stupid… Rain thought that he should have told them, but he decided not to.

The reason why was the sun… the morning sun would be against the human army, but the afternoon sun would be agaisnt the magic people. now, thanks to their stupid pride, they were going to fight a bit more tired, and Rain didn't care if they die… he only cared if they would die before making themselves useful at least once.

"I guess you guys have been suffering from success for the last decades," Rain said when noon arrived, and the human army began to move.

"... You are right once again, but your attitude doesn't make people feel like they should listen to you," Josar said while looking around at the soldiers.

"Not really my problem," Rain said.

Even the officers in the magic people's army were a problem… Josar was also among them. Rain asked what the Gemini tribe could do, but he said that he couldn't reveal that kind of secret and other tribes. He was fine losing, apparently, and taking the secrets to the grave.

The daylight couldn't conceal the numbers of soldiers that Joanis and the king were employing now, so they didn't hesitate in. sending ten thousand soldiers to attack the northern side of the city, ten more thousand soldiers to attack the southern side, and five thousand to attack the western side… that was quite the suspicion division and that wasn't something that Rain expected…

"Do you understand why they are doing this?" Terra asked.

"They are probably trying to make us drop our guard or split up…" Rain said while rubbing his chin thoughtfully and then looked at Josar. "We are going to stay here, so you should do your best to hold the other armies with your secret techniques."