Chapter 129: Plan changed?!

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What? The number of monsters increased to 50,000?!

That is an insane increment!

"When was this confirmed?" Duan Li asked as his countenance changed.

"It appears that the change was abrupt.. right after we finished our meeting too.. therefore it's safe to say that this change was due to.. Time!" Wang Guozhi replied.

Due to this, the academy had to overhaul their plan and included the Second and Third squad as part of the advance attacking force. This was because there was no way the academy could increase their manpower to more than 6,000..

If they did, that would just be sending the juniors to their deaths!

"What about the military?" Duan Li asked, turning his head towards the Principal.

The latter shook his head and sighed as he replied;

"According to the non-agression pact, the military are not allowed to do any activity outside the borders. As you know, the other seven Empires out there excluding our neigbour Liu Empire are all behemoth existences that we shouldn't provoke."

"It's thanks to this treaty that we are not dragged into their battlefield and wars.. if they ever found out that we did not honour the treaty, no matter for whatever reason it may be, they would use that as a cause for them to rally their forces and occupy our Empire!"

Hearing this, Duan Li couldn't help but to grit his teeth in frustration.

Damn it!

It's true that there were wide rivers and deserts surrounding their Empire that were filled with numerous creatures and other dangerous hazards, and these had played their part in keeping their Empire safe from the other outside forces for a very long time now, but actually, if they focused their effort, those obstacles would be nothing for them!

It was only because of them honoring the treaty that they did not did as so.

However, that does not meant that those outside forces were not looking for any opportunity to march into their Empire. In fact, the land where the Jiu and Liu Empire occupies now were sandwiched in-between the other four empires in the four cardinal directions.

Although their distances were vast and far apart, the land of Jiu and Liu Empire were still a strategic location that could be occupied to provide a two-front attack against any of the other three empires!

The only reason why they hadn't done that just yet was again, due to the non-agression pact. For some reason, no one wanted to be the first to earn the title of a dishonorable Emperor or Empire by breaking the treaty first.

This was why the Jiu Empire had to keep their hands clean at all cost!

Hais!

"The only thing that the Empire could do right now is to dispatch the military to guard the nearby villages in case of some rogue monsters were able to enter from our encirclement. Even as we are speaking at the moment, they were already on their way to the respective villages." said Ling Yu by the side.

"That's right, but the effectiveness would be quite limited because we had to spread our military forces thin due to the sheer number of villages on the north. All in all, there's got to be more than 50 villages out there alone!" Wang Guozhi added.

In perspectives, the majority of military personnel consisted mainly of cultivators lead by the Offcial Knights. Although their numbers were far more than the total number of students in the academy, these cultivators were uneven in their cultivation realm.

Furthermore, as they were not endowed with the same privileges as the student of the academy, where the Empire gave their resources to aid the students, these cultivator soldiers only had their numbers to make up for the lack of their quality.

Therefore, the majority of them has a very low cultivation realm, averaging at the middle stage of the Qi condensation realm and the highest around Early stage of the Foundation establishment realm.

However, they were not to be mistaken as weak and useless. In fact, even a Nascent Soul realm expert would find themselves to be in deep trouble against them in their proper formation and stratagem.

But since they had to guard all those villages, their only strength in numbers were diminished greatly and only the Official Knights would be reliable enough to fend off against any rogue monsters.

In addition, the Empire could not afford to go all out in sending their armies to these villages as there were also other influences within the Empire that they had to suppress, which if left unattended, might decide to cause some ruckus.

Some of the soldiers also had to be stationed near the mountain passes as well, where the border between the Jiu and Liu Empire met.

Since the Liu Empire was a neighbour, they should have already caught wind of the Jiu Empire's current predicament, and without these soldiers bolstering their border, the Liu Empire might start to get some fancy ideas of pushing the border further to enlarge their territories!

"The retaliation from 'Time' should definitely not be underestimated. Just this change alone had the Emperor fell into a headache and had to resort to these drastic means." the Principal sighed.

"But an increase of 20,000 monsters.. would deploying the Second and Third squad be enough?" Duan Li asked.

"Definitely not. The Second and Third Squad consisted of Core formation realm experts and even before the increase, despite being officially stated to be put on standby, these two squads were actually planned to be immediately deployed before the monsters could even arrive at the First-front in order to reduce the overall student casualties on the battlefield." Ling Yu said.

Hearing this, Duan Li frowned as it was different than what he was informed with at first.

"Why is that?" he asked.

"The actual plan was like this; the Second and Third squad needed to be grinded so that they could advance to the Fifth squad, and this monster stampede would be the perfect place for them to temper themselves. They have the objective to slaughter at least 3,000 of the monsters before retreating." Ling Yu answered.

"Then the Fourth squad, being a medical team, would help the Second and Third squad to recover back their peak conditions so that these two squads could reposition themselves and put on standby behind each of the three fronts."

"After which, the Fifth and Sixth squad, consisting of Golden Core realm experts, would jump in together to whittle down another 7,000 of the monsters before retreating along with the Fourth squad, leaving only 20,000 for the First squad and the rest of you to handle."

The Vice-Principal nodded as he sipped down his tea.

"That's right, according to my best estimates and calculations, with only 20,000 monsters of 1 Star rank to handle, only around 500 of the students would be severely injured but could be nursed back to full health with the help of the Fourth squad."

"But in consideration to being realistic, there would be casualties as well.. around a few dozens or so. But in return, the rest would receive an invaluable experiences that could bolster our Empire's overall might in the future!" he said.

Duan Li fell into a contemplative silent as he listened to them.

No wonder the academy wasn't as concerned in deploying 6,000 of the student populace into the battlefield..

They really did have some plans in their mind!

But as for those casualties, it would be inevitable, they were cultivators after all.

The Principal sighed.

"Since it had come to this.. the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh squad were already being deployed to the Blastwinter desert to whittle down the enemy numbers. They have the objective to slaughter at least 15,000 of the monsters before retreating."

"The Second and Third squad's slaughter quota was increased from 3,000 to 5,000 and they should be able to achieve it, albeit at a slight cost.."

"But still in the end, around 30,000 monsters would rush towards the three fronts.. and that is 10,000 more than what we initially planned for.. we fear that with these numbers.. even ignoring the injured ones, the casualties alone would be in three digits.."

All of them had downcasted looks on their face, even the Vice-Principal whom appeared calm drinking his tea slowly, had an obvious discontent to his face of the entire situation that was unfolding before them.

"If you're thinking that we should deploy our strongest Subjugation squads, the Eight and Ninth Squad, Liu Sheng Juan had opposed vehemently on such an idea." the Principal said.

"He feared that there would be unaccounted variables from behind the scene that would add to the chaos.. such as the appearance of 2 Star or 3 Star monsters from another direction, in which case, would be their job to handle." he added.

Thinking up to here, Duan Li nodded as a struck of idea appeared in his mind.

Turning his head towards Wang Guozhi, Duan Li asked;

"According to the scouts, what are the cultivation realms of these 1 Star monsters?"

"Hm? They are mostly Middle stage Foundation establishment realm monsters.. why? Did you figure something out?" Wang Guozhi answered as he looked at the latter's expression.

Hearing Wang Guozhi putting it out like that, the rest of them had their attention piqued as well.

Could this fella had possibly figured something out to escape this current predicament?

Duan Li was in a daze when he heard that.

That's like Komodo back then!

If memory serves him right, back when he was just at the Early stage of the Foundation establishment realm, he could already went toe to toe with Komodo, and that was when the Spiritual Qi in the surroundings were limited in that final fight!

Heck, he could even beat the Supreme Salamander in that condition, a Two star rank greater species monster!

So.. Middle Stage Foundation establishment realm monsters?

Duan Li grinned.

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