Chapter 448: As Long as Victory is Possible!
Zi Di pondered quickly.
After a few brief minutes, her head was full of sweat.
Zi Di wanted to avoid battle as much as possible, but Zong Ge’s words made sense; if they didn’t take up this challenge now, next time, they would be worse off and in a more passive state.
Zong Ge was also taking responsibility; he wanted to fight alone and give Zi Di and the others a better chance of escaping.
“I…agree!” After Zi Di made her decision, her entire body seemed to be relieved from a burden.
At once, Zi Di and Zong Ge walked to the other side of the sloped mount, and after deploying temporary arrangements, they took out formation slabs from storage equipment.
Zi Di was skilled at installing these slabs and quickly activated the Deceptive Disguise formation.
She had privately trained doing this, to prevent accidents from occurring.
Zong Ge walked into the middle of the formation, then Zi Di took out a Pearl Bubble, fusing it slowly into the activating Deceptive Disguise formation.
The magic formation sparkled, and erupted with a fierce magic aura, but Zi Di and Zong Ge weren’t worried about it being exposed.
Because this formation had also been imbued with Deceptive Disguise, and gold level investigation magic would be hard pressed to see through it.
Zong Ge personally determined the camouflage settings this time.
The effect was very simple, and also very direct, it was total invisibility!
Zong Ge first used it on his equipment. The Gold Flower Hacksaw used 2 Pearl Bubbles, and the rest of his equipment, along with himself used 9 more.
Even though Zi Di knew the truth, when she looked at Zong Ge, she only saw indistinct shadows.
“I also want to take some Pearl Bubbles along. I want 20! When crushed during combat, perhaps it will have a wonderous effect.” Zong Ge requested upon leaving the formation.
Zi Di shook her head, “To be safe, take 30.”
She only had 60 Pearl Bubbles on hand, and for this battle, she invested over 40 of them.
When Zong Ge took the Pearl Bubbles, his eyes betrayed his astonishment.
At this moment, he had a whole new level of respect for Zi Di.
Zi Di reluctantly said, “I am a great merchant, and at this crucial juncture, a great merchant is willing to part with her investment.”
“Follow my ghosts, they can lead you to the enemy’s tent.”
The squalls screamed and great snow wafted through the air.
Zong Ge, a one man army, departed. He followed a snake ghost through the wind and snow, heading towards the enemy’s location.
His entire being and equipment was blessed by Deceptive Disguise, to those unaware, he looked transparent. In this kind of blizzard filling the sky, there were nearly no flaws in his camouflage.
Battle was imminent, and Zong Ge grew calmer, he even recalled some memories.
The wind and snow as far as the eye could see in his eyes gradually turned into a sandstorm.
When Zong Ge was still an iron level, he had been following a swordsmanship military instructor that was leading a group of cavalry in a desert battle.
Desert bandits united together to elect a sand bandit king, they had already destroyed a good few towns and plundered and massacred five oases.
The nobles had also united and established an allied army.
The decisive battle was here, and both armies were visible to each other in the distance, however, a sudden sandstorm swept in.
This was abnormal weather stirred up by the Sand God the desert bandits believed in/
The noble collation hurried to use large scale magic battle formations but found it hard to change the situation. The noble collation was gravely perplexed and its tight battle formations were thrown into disorder.
The desert bandits seized the opportunity to launch their attack, and the superior noble collation sank into a bitter struggle, many nobles saw things were far from good and were already beginning to retreat.
The cavalry group Zong Ge was with had lost contact with the main army and had been trudging through the sandstorm for a good while.
Visibility in the sandstorm was very low, and Zong Ge’s eyes could only see a hundred meters around him.
“It’s like that now.” Zong Ge’s eyes cleared as the yellow sand changed back to the snow of reality,
He stopped walking and looked into the distance.
In the snow and wind everywhere, he saw the faint outline of a dark green magic tent.
It was like that sandstorm, when he saw the desert bandits’ great tents.
“Found the enemy!”
“It’s the desert bandit king’s camp!!”
The cavalry hastily reported.
The swordsmanship military instruct burst into laughter, “It seems the sandstorm is also disturbing the desert bandit king, I heard that his conviction isn’t pious, our opportunity has come!”
The still iron level Zong Ge looked worried, “But instructor, only a third of us remain.”
Most of the cavalry had been lost in the sandstorm or perhaps became deserters.
“With our current troops, can we charge into the enemy’s main camp? If we get stuck here, and enemy gets reinforcements, we will all die tragically.” Zong Ge expressed his concerns.
The swordsmanship instructor replied, “The enemy is obviously not on their guard, when we raid them, they will be caught off guard and will likely sink into chaos. Most wonderful of all, they won’t know how many people we have. The sandstorm filling the entire sky is also a hindrance to our enemies!”
Zong Ge grinded his teeth, “But can we win…”
The swordsmanship instructor suddenly interrupted him, “Don’t hesitate Zong Ge, this is war!”
“Look for every chance of victory, even if it puts yon into danger.”
“We have the initiative, so long as there is a chance of victory, we should bet it all.”
“Troops, here my order, prepare to charge!”
The bugle horns of that charge from times past seemed to echo in Zong Ge’s ears.
He softly took out the Gold Flower Hacksaw and strode towards the magic tent.
Inside the tent, the magician Jia Bing was in the middle of casting.
His casting target was Axe Gang Leader.
“Endure it, it might be a little painful.” Jia Bing reminded him.
He was in the process of removing a magic contract that bound the Axe Gang Leader.
The Axe Gang Leader laughed heartily, “Do not hesitate.”
A moment later, a magic radiance filled the entire tent with a tempestuous transcendent aura.
“I will stand guard.” Lin maintained his coordination from the army, so he alone lifted the tent flap and walked into the blizzard.
He walked a circle around the tent; the detection battle skill didn’t notice any tracks.
He walked to the side of the tent, his back to the wind, then untied his underpants, fished out his appendage, and began to urinate.
“Hm?” While urinating, he slightly wrinkled his eyebrows, subconsciously turning around.
There was only the wind and the snow.
He kept turning around as liquid poured down, then he suddenly felt a trace of pace in his abdomen.
The pain wasn’t big, and Lin muttered, “Have I found too many women recently?”
“I am a gold level, how can I suddenly feel a little empty?”
A moment later, he sank into darkness.
The hacksaw severed his upper body, casting it into the snow.
Whoosh!
The tent flap lifted up.
The Axe Gang Leader and Jian Bing turned around at the same time, only seeing the wind and snow blowing past the tent flap and into the tent itself.
Jai Bing had a flash of unease but soon thought of the continued snow outside the tent, he was a gold level and had detection type battle skills, once the strongest in the army.
Jia Bing relinquished his worry and continued to focus his spirit on casting.
“The now is getting heavier, are those people still out there?” The Axe Gang Leader was also a bit uneasy.
Jai Bing put some energy into a magic map on the table, “Don’t worry, those people are still headed towards Rabbit Fur Town, according to their speed, they will get there by evening.”
A moment later, Jia Bing’s head flew into the air, his nape spraying blood all over the Axe Gang Leader’s face.
From the Axe Gang Leader’s perspective, the wind and snow was strongly fluttering across his face, “The snow is a little odd…”
He muttered, then his expression slightly changed, “Hey! Don’t tell me you finished? I still feel the magic contract on me.”
He was completely unaware of Jia Bing’s tragic end.
“Lin, Jia Bing, what is our countersign?!” The Axe Gang Leader shouted, his brows greatly wrinkling.
Zong Ge walked slowly to his side, then upon hearing what was said, quickly crushed a Pearl Bubble in his palm.
The Axe Gang Leader’s brows slowly smoothed out, “That’s the right countersign, but what’s going on? I feel…”
He unconsciously used a defensive battle skill.
The Gold Flower Hacksaw was raised up, then stabbed straight down.
A moment later, the Axe Gang Leader’s chest was impaled through the chest. His heart was fragmented into flecks in an instant.
Berserk battle qi corroded him from the inside, rapidly bursting all of the Axe Gang Leader’s internal organs.
The Axe Gang Leader’s eyes widened, and before he arrived at death’s door, he saw through the illusion and grabbed hold of the hem of Zong Ge’s clothes.
Blood splattered, causing a Blood Enmity Axe to burst forth in a flash of light.
The strange light squarely hit Zong Ge.
This was the Axe Gang Leader’s final struggle.
A second later, his blood dyed hand went limp.
It was silent inside the magic tent as the odor of blood spread out, only Zong Ge was left standing there, expressionless.
A dozen minutes later.
Zi Di obtained the news and decided to break away from the main group to greet the returning Zong Ge.
In the sky covering wind and snow, Zong Ge was carrying three gold level corpses towards Zi Di.
Shock flashed through Zi Di’s face, then soon after it was replaced by more complex emotions.
Zi DI deeply gazed at the half beastman, “So, you were already a gold level. When did it happen?”
Zong Ge calmly glanced at her, “At Snow Birg Harbor, after the battle with Li Jian Clan’s Yue Qian.”
On Mystifying Monster Island, Zong Ge’s battle qi had a golden luster, he was only a step away from the gold level.
On Mystifying Monster Island, his arm had been maimed, causing him to not have a speedy promotion.
After his injury had been healed, and with the help of the battle with Yue Qian, he finally broke through into the gold level. However, he didn’t leak this information out and even Tripleblade was kept in the dark about it.
Zi Di took inn a soft breath, then showed her understanding, “No wonder you decided to spar with Yue Qian.”
“Also at Cold Wind Valley, when you and that gold level fighter did battle, you didn’t get suppressed at all.”
“When faced with three gold levels, you chose to attack, because you were completely confident in yourself.”
“You…” When Zi Di said that she hesitated.
Her mood was very complicated.
On the one hand, she was happy the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps finally had a gold level. On the other hand, she was also worried that after Zong Ge was promoted to the gold level, it would gravely batter the dragonman youngster’s position of leadership.
Zong Ge explained, “Promoting to the gold level is not something worth flaunting to me. What is more crucial is to deceive the enemy, and to do that, I needed to start with deceiving our people. The facts prove that keeping this important information is very favorable for us!”
After saying this, his body glinted with a blood light, and soon after, the corner of his mouth leaked with a trace of blood.