When the Taoist priest returned, he immediately reported about the breach, then led thirty orc soldiers to a unified square formation.
Ranulfo, who was in charge of the frontlines, only received news that gap had appeared in the barrier, he did not notice that Sylvia had not returned. There were too many people on the battlefield, nobody could pay attention to every single person.
"Brace yourselves!" Ranulfo said, "Tell Branley to take a break. We're up next."
Branley was already at his limits at that moment. He was relying solely on his willpower to keep going.
The square formation of the humans was in order, all of them were ready to engage in battle any time.
Behind the formation, the Taoist priest had already sneaked the thirty orcs in human armour into the formation.
There was no chit-chat on the battlefield, and no one noticed the anything strange about those 30 soldiers.
A loud boom sounded, and the barrier that blocked out the orcs shrunk at a visible rate.
Since there had already been a breach at the barrier, it was decided to remove it completely and fight the enemy head- on. It was better than constantly being on guard against being ambushed by the orcs. If that went on, one would be completely worn out before the battle could even begin.
Seeing that the height of the barrier was lowering little by little, all of the men clenched their weapons tightly. It was in the weapons where the found the greatest sense of security.
When the barrier had been completely lowered, the vast army of orcs could be seen standing before the human army.
The fog on the battlefield faded away gradually.
Gardiner, who had been away for quite a while, returned to the front of the battlefield, rearranging his armour as he walked.
The two armies faced each other in silence.
Gardiner looked at the orc army before his eyes. They were all hulking figures with sinister appearances, all very intimidating to look at.
Gardiner turned around with a frown on his face and asked, "Where is General Lin?"
It was only at that moment Ranulfo realised that Sylvia had disappeared. He whispered to Gardiner,
"The people from the Taoist Jade Virtual brought some men for some reconnaissance work and also asked for General Lin to join them. The Taoist priest has returned, General Lin should also be returning soon. Don’t worry, Raniero has gone to check on the matter."
Gardiner suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. The people from the Taoist Jade Virtual were acting too strangely.
"You stay here and watch over the situation. I'm going to take..."
Gardiner was interrupted by an earth-shaking roar from the orc army, followed by the rumble of the ground as the massive army of orcs charged at them.
Gardiner inhaled deeply, forgetting what he was just about to say, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "Charge!"
"Charge!"
The human army roared out a battle cry that shook the heavens. All of them pulled out their weapons and charged at the army of orcs.
As Gardiner charged forward, he turned to look at the dozen or so Taoist priests. They stood behind the human army, with smiles written all across their faces. It was a very suspicious sight.
"I hope you haven't done anything stupid. No one wants to see the consequences of that."
Meanwhile, far away from the battlefield.
Adonias still held the black sabre, which was now stained with blood.
"You think you can run?" Adonias was like a hunter, he had a black tiger following beside him. The size of the black tiger was about the same as a regular tiger, but it was much more ferocious. Countless creatures had lost their lives in its jaws.
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