Ultragene Warlord

ong as our opponent doesn ’t use its trump card, neither will we. ”

”I wonder if that ’s good or bad… ” the monarch of the sun mused.

The monarch of the moon: ”Regardless, let ’s try to apply pressure to Renhuang.
I ’d like to see whether or not the governor of Renhuang is indeed present.
If he isn ’t— ”

The monarch of the sky cut in, rubbing his palms.
”If he isn ’t, it ’s time to rid ourselves of Renhuang ’s damnable army. ”

Zhang Lie hadn ’t appeared on the battlefield at all, but his presence was keenly felt.
Without the threat of Zhang Lie, the sura monarchs would have leveled the Renhuang army long ago.

The monarch of the sea asked, ”Is it time to enact our plan? ”

”Yes—move those pawns! ”

Back in Renhuang, Hong Xi nudged Sun Mengmeng.
”What do you think of the nicknames you ’ve gotten on the battlefield? The demoness of purple flame, the tyrant of— ”

Sun Mengmeng cut her off with a sigh.
”Well, it ’s not as if we want those titles, but you ’d better not laugh at mine.
Don ’t they call you ’the maiden of sun and moon ’? ”

Hong Xi clutched her head as she moaned.
”I don ’t want a title like that! ”

In the battle against the sura, Hong Xi ’s aura of [Eclipse] had proved to be a great boon.

She changed the topic.
”Why do you think the Yeluo chieftain summoned us all back? ”

The members of Team Zenith all played instrumental roles in the fight against the sura army, but Sun Mengmeng and Hong Xi had temporarily left the battlefield.
They had received a transmission from Yun Bing claiming that the Yeluo chieftain had succeeded in a piece of research that would turn the tides of war.

With this research, they would apparently be able to finish the sura off for good.

Sun Mengmeng sighed.
”It would be amazing if it were really that impactful. ”

The sura army seemed to be fighting on equal footing with the Renhuang forces, but there were a number of hidden problems with the Renhuang forces that were only now making themselves known.

After all, Renhuang ’s forces were a coalition of wildly different races, and it was basically a given that there would be spies mixed in.

The sura were frequently able to lay ambushes for Renhuang ’s forces, and the unstable stalemate had only been preserved so long because of the members of Team Zenith.

It was impossible to ferret out these spies, so the members of Team Zenith instead decided to decentralize command of the army to a cohort of supervisory tacticians and strategists formed largely from members of the four prime races.

While these spies still had a detrimental effect on Renhuang ’s strategy, the overall result was acceptable, and Renhuang ’s forces fell prey to sura ambushes much less frequently.

The problem was that the five sura monarchs had barely made an appearance on the battlefield, and if they were to strike simultaneously, Renhuang ’s forces would surely suffer even if they could hold the five sura monarchs back.
After all, there was currently no force sufficient to counter their simultaneous incursion.

Perhaps the members of Team Zenith could take them on for a while, but it was unlikely that they would come out victorious.

Furthermore, Renhuang had far fewer resources than the sura, and a prolonged battle would prove more and more disadvantageous for Renhuang once it started to drag on.

Renhuang would run out of provisions and supplies, and once they began to suffer defeat, the morale of the alien races would drop and the army would fragment.

At that point, Renhuang would have well and truly lost.