Four Split Personalities

Despite the slightly inflated reputation of the "Unique Epic" quality, this piece of equipment still overwhelmingly surpassed Motan’s "Singing Bible" by an unimaginable margin. For Yu Chen, who had just surpassed level twenty, it was more than sufficient. Incidentally, the Saintess suit she wore today was also of Epic quality, and it didn’t have any additional requirements—only the traits "God’s Chosen" and "Gender: Female" were needed to wear this Epic gear!

This goes to show how critical a good start is.

Having Xia Lian as a mentor, along with the full support of the Church of the Dawn, there was a reason why Yu Chen was ranked fifth on the overall strength leaderboard.

"Thank you, Your Highness the Saintess," said a Lizardman Knight who had arrived from the eastern blockade just two days ago, as he respectfully clutched his chest in gratitude to Yu Chen and then continued to hurriedly administer potions to his mount. Given a certain apprentice Alchemist’s style of not sweating the small stuff but focusing on results, the giant black ostrich felt a surge of strength, but smoke was already beginning to emerge from its beak.

Meanwhile, several Knights who had already replenished their mounts were lying on the ground with their eyes closed, resting. They were Intermediate Professionals who had volunteered for this escort mission. Although they had not encountered any enemies along the way, the relentless high-intensity mobility and the extreme tension of playing hide-and-seek with thousands of Mutants had tired everyone out. Apart from Snow Mane and the other two Advanced Stage Holy Knights, even Tero, a Dawn Sect Holy Knight known for his stamina, felt weary.

But the rest period was ultimately limited...

Almost simultaneously as Motan sent a message, Snow Mane was already urging everyone back onto their mounts, ready for action half a minute ahead of schedule.

’The final rest time before the second phase has ended. Everyone must sharpen their spirits. Your next task is to lure the enemy continuously while being chased by nearly ten thousand Mutants. You must not relax even a little.’

’Got it, Commander (•̀ω•́)!’

...

’Good to know...’

Motan stared at the emoji in the message bar for half a second, then redirected his gaze back to that initial Southern Region Map, cluttered with various chess pieces and densely marked.

The white chess piece carved with a mini Angel was now very close to the long bridge where Xia Lian was located. If it weren’t for the Undying Monsters that nearly covered every inch of land in between, the two could have joined forces in less than an hour.

However, the Mutants would not make way for the Saintess, and the word ’converge’ was never part of the plan for the second phase. Yu Chen’s only purpose here was to lead away a third of the approximately eighteen thousand Mutants fiercely resisting Cordova, then rush back to the headquarters of the joint forces stationed at Hodir Pass!

Using the wide-reaching extreme hatred generated by Yu Chen alone, to gather all the scattered Mutants in the Southern Territory and pull away some of those enemies previously lured by Cordova and Xia Lian along the Golden Glow Riverside, splitting the region’s Mutants in half and taking one half to the comrades at Hodir Pass—this was the entire content of the second phase of the Requiem Plan.

At first glance, it seemed simple, but for the plan summary of just over 150 words mentioned above, Motan had already sent nearly ten thousand words to Yu Chen and various teams in nearly two hours.

So far, the completion of the second phase was already over half. The Princess Guard had successfully attracted all Monsters except those from the Golden Glow Riverside tributaries. Adding those newly lured from near the city bridge of Ebbi, the total number had reached a staggering seven thousand. In the coming time, they still needed to continue roaming this high-danger area under Motan’s guidance to ’scrape’ another four thousand Monsters off from the main force.

For Motan, the upcoming ’onion peeling’ was a bit easier in terms of raw difficulty compared to the previous hour. After all, compared to summarizing all surveillance squads’ intelligence and continuously creating pathways, adjusting plans, and fabricating opportunities amidst numerous foes, luring enemies from the outskirts of Mutants continuously trying to cross to the other side of two long bridges was indeed much simpler.

On the other hand, starting now, the margin for error in this plan had become zero.

Motan, Yu Chen, and the entire Princess Guard absolutely could not afford a mistake; otherwise, the twenty or so people who had struggled to rush here would all be doomed!

They were alarmingly close to those rampaging Mutants, so close that there was no room for any maneuvering.

In the previous hour, even if something had inadvertently gone wrong somewhere, Motan could have guided Yu Chen and the others to leverage their speed advantage and shake off the ’accidents’ behind them, slightly changing direction to gain enough time to re-strategize and create opportunities. However, the same methods now were no longer applicable.

Not to mention that before removing the remaining four thousand Mutants, Yu Chen and others, in principle, could not leave the scope of the Golden Glow Riverside. Even if they wanted to leave, the small tails chasing them posed a major problem. To maintain the intensity of the hatred, preventing any Mutant from escaping control, Motan had always been controlling the speed of the Princess Guard, never letting the thousands of Monsters get too far away, so...

The position of the princess’ guard had become extremely awkward, like ham sandwiched between two slices of bread.

The only way to safely leave was if they could successfully and rigorously engage the remaining mutants, then make their way through the dozens of miles fraught with potential mishaps to eventually succeed in a major detour to the northeast of Shawa City—there were no other options.

As for what the original plans, intentions, or arrangements were...

Sorry, there was nothing of that sort. Other than the overall strategic goal, the second phase of the Soul Captivation plan was completely a blank slate, and if you really had to say there was a plan, then "improvise on the spot" was all there was to it.

...

Game time AM10:34

On the long table in front of Motan, the Angel chess piece had moved close to the Shawa City bridge, indicating that Yu Chen and the others had completed 90% of their mission to lure the enemy, and the second phase of the Soul Captivation plan was just a step away from success!

As long as they could smoothly reach the plains tens of miles away, everything afterward would pose no difficulty. After all, the speed of Yu Chen and his companions was sufficient to ensure that none of the mutants could catch up with them after a successful detour, unless they could fly!

But the prerequisite was that they could reach there smoothly!

[To go through a journey of a hundred miles, one must endure the toughest part in the last ninety...]

Motan sighed lightly, forcing himself to remain in a highly concentrated state and focusing his attention entirely on the current route of the princess guard, daring not to be the slightest bit lax.

Even knowing he might reach his goal in the next second, he needed to do his best in this second!

’In ten seconds, you will encounter a group of no more than three hundred mutants. Break through forcefully.’

’You’re veering too much to the right, immediately adjust the angle and let Snow Mane lead you on the left side of the team!’

’Cordova is retreating as much as possible, but the space left for you is still not enough. Continue to move at a constant speed now.’

’No, go slower, Eagle Eye Seven team has been left behind by you!’

’Good, they have you in their sights again, now we need to make a high-speed reverse crossover. I’ll give you the details.’

Bang!!

Beads of sweat covered Motan’s head, and before he could finish composing a message, he felt his legs give way, uncontrollably smashing against the edge of the table, then he heavily fell to the floor...

[Precognition triggered, 27 seconds to forced logoff]

The moment the system alert sounded, Motan’s face lost all its color.

Forced logoff?!

Now?!

Chapter 426: The End