As she went back, I returned to watch Karoline using my hawk eye skill. She was acting all normal, as if she knew I was watching her moves.
“She… Is acting perfect to be suspicious,” I shook my head, cancelled my skill before starting to think about my next move.
Of course there were too many things to do here.
[What are you doing now? Is the battle going good or bad for your side?] I sent this to the two, waiting for their report on their current situation.
I gave them the order before to et up and work together. If they listened, then they would be in a much better situation.
[We retreated to the city of Columbus at Ohio] Fang sent this, [We are just north from you]
“That bastard… He intentionally did that!” I knew this wasn’t just a random coincidence. That dude must have retreated with Wryly and ca to the closest city to .
I was thinking of using them, but he also thought about the sa thing. Or perhaps he just read through my line of thoughts, and knew I’d do that.
[That arrogant dude asked to retreat] the words of Wryly confird my guesses, [We were doing fine but he insisted on retreating south and we are now stationed at a city without doing anything]
[There are no enemies there?] I asked before looking around. Of course aside from the Hectors, there wasn’t a single enemy here indeed.
That ant that Fang ca to a secure place, letting his forces recuperate while using the portals there to replenish his lost forces.
Smart, I had to give a thumb up to him.
He did the perfect move for his own sake, but that also ant we were all blind. The fight at the central zone was ragging hot without any eye for us there to tell us what was going on.
And with that unexpected move from him, I had to rethink all my plans once again.
I depended on these two to give intel about the situation of the fights in the central zone. I knew Fang must know a thing or two about the situation right now, but it was nearly enough.
In such a situation, I had to fasten up my plans here. I must push forward, move directly to the central zone and claim a territory there before thinking about anything else.
I looked up at my scattered forces here. I told them to have a long ti of rest. But it seed this was going to be sothing impossible right now.
“And I hoped to think about another technique… Sigh!” I shook my head in a helpless way. I had to give up on doing this for now.
My cultivation was now my biggest weapon, but it needed lots of work indeed. I had to work over expanding my spiritual energy, trying to upgrade its grade and quality. Besides, I needed to think about new techniques.
My recently developed technique was aweso and OP, but that didn’t an I couldn’t create versatile techniques to suit different situations.
All of this had to wait, at least until I got done from the great war here.
“And you…” I looked at Lily and others behind. I promised to fetch them back. And I had to do so.
After all, I still haven’t received my captured race batch from the green nymph yet. I sighed. It seed I had to dispatch soone to bring them to my capital.
Wait… If I had to do that then… A thought flashed in my mind.
[Have you done selecting your forces?] As I decided, I sent a ssage to Karoline.
Karoline had many question marks around her. So it was best to make her stay away from the upcoming fight.
Also when she would be alone, she might be able to expose sothing that might help in determining what went wrong with her.
Taking a direct hit from the star beam weapon and not teleporting and still alive? That was a big question mark indeed.
[I’ve just started]
I knew she wasn’t even one fifth of her army.
[That’s enough. You’ll have to go back to Boston]
[Boston? Right now?!!] I knew this ca as a surprise for her. Indeed it was against my plans.
Just her surprise here made more comfortable about my decision.
[I want you to escort the Hectors here to there] I sent, [Then you co back to act as our reinforcent]
[That… Will I make it?] she sent before adding, [Will my small forces here be enough to make any difference?]
She had a point, but I didn’t fall for that.
[You have to do it for now. As for your forces, I’ll make them join the jumper for now. Once you co back, you’ll gain them]
Of course this was a way to tie her up with the jumper. Also I preferred to leave most of her forces with the jumper.
[Are you sure about that?]
[It’s a must, and you are the only one that I can depend on for this]
[Are you sure?]
Yes, she was indeed different. The old Karoline would have simply agreed.
[It’s an order] as he left no other choice but to lean in such a way, I didn’t hesitate to show her my other side, [I’m sending Hector’s down. Don’t be late]
I first sent a ssage to the jumper, notifying him about this arrangent. Then I looked back at Lily and motioned for her to co.
“You are going to do this…”
I started to tell her what I was going to do here. I told her that I was sending them back to my capital as promised, and also added a few instructions for her to understand the current situation.
“I understand,” her face changed back to her normal serious self, “depend on on this.”
“Cool,” I nodded while watching her moving down with her elites. The next ten minutes the chariot got emptied from all the Hectors, who stood in a place not far from my chariot.
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