We returned to Hot Sand Forest. It looked a bit blurry from a distance due to the rising heat waves around the area. Of the 12000 who had set out, 8700 survived. It was a resounding achievement, but it didn’t count as "the weak triumphing over the strong" as a matter of course. Compared to Flames of War, our troop of elite cavalrymen, Famous Generals and Divine Generals were like gods to mortals.

A small yellow flower became trampled as I, He Yi, Lin Yixin, Gui Guzi, Li Chengfeng and more returned to the forest. Some distance away, Lu Buyi cried to his group of 5-Stamina magic knights, "Open up a way for our guild leader and friends!"

After we passed through the shield formation, I leaped down from my dragon’s back and waited for a beautiful woman wearing a dagger to walk up to me. She was Cute Little Naughty of course. It had been a while since we met each other face-to-face, but I could still see from her full set of S2 leather armor equipment that she hadn’t been slacking off one bit.

"Is everything ready, Little Naughty?" I asked.

"Mn."

She nodded with emphasis. "I’ve deployed all 194 eighth-promotion assassins in the eighth subguild. You see this area in front of us? We’ve mined every inch of it. Just give us the order, and we...