Chapter 617 Invasion & Chaos

Chapter 617 Invasion & Chaos

The mysterious winged serpent circled high above the battlefield, casting a shadow all over the Untamed Jungle's middle area. The Heart of the Blazing Lion armies ran for their lives. The intense feeling of instant death and the sudden darkness shrouding the surroundings was enough to evolve into a mass panic.

The remaining Commanders didn't want to retreat and run away from the fight. They knew what awaited them back in the Zentika Empire if they returned without any gains. The Heart of the Blazing Lion army might have burned down the northern part of the Untamed Jungle's outer rings, but they didn't claim anything yet. The Zentika Empire's scarcity of food had yet to be solved.

As the Heart of the Blazing Lion army retreated the huge shadow shrouding the middle area dispersed. The heavy pressure evaporated, allowing Michael, his people, and the High Beast Horde to relax for the first time in hours.

The mysterious winged serpent left after revealing its presence to the Zentika Empire's forces.

Was that good, or would it have been better if the serpent had released its ferocious flames to burn the remaining members of the Heart of the Blazing Lion army? Michael and the High Beasts managed to kill one Commander, but the others survived. Would he be fine with that?

Michael was not sure. He couldn't tell whether he was lucky, or if he would have managed to kill the two Commanders with the Crysalis Deer's help. Michael had sensed that the remaining two Lionheart Commanders had been rather weak. The fight against the High Beast Horde weakened them. The Crysalis Deer might have been strong enough to eliminate them.

"What a mess," Michael chuckled bitterly. His legs caved in as the last bits of energy left his body.

The High Beast Horde split up and separated. It looked like the war against the Heart of the Blazing Lion army was over for them.

However, the same couldn't be said for Michael and his people.

The following events were the most important, however, their success didn't depend on Michael. Instead, it all depended on whether Tiara managed to complete her mission, or if she failed.

It was a risky mission, but Michael deployed Tiara to invade the Zentika Empire's military camp before the battle started. He gave her several Artifacts that helped hide her scent, distort the vibrations she made from stepping, and an Artifact that shroud the sounds she made in silence. Tiara was camouflaged in another high-ranked magical device. She was camouflaged perfectly and managed to infiltrate the Zentika Empire's military camp without getting noticed by the Orbs of Hostility and other magical devices that were supposed to detect invaders.

The greatest advantage about Tiara was that she had yet to advance to Tier-3. Her energy fluctuations were weak enough to cover and distort them with the right Artifacts and magical devices.

It was a good thing that the Heart of the Blazing Lion army didn't expect anyone to be foolish enough to invade their military camp while they invaded the Untamed Jungle. Their security was lackluster and the few hundred Lionheart that had been left behind in the camp to guard it were weak and not very perceptive.

A single High Lionheart had been deployed to watch the military camp in the absence of the Commanders. However, the High Lionheart was already old. He was a Lowest Rank Tier-4 Native who managed to ascend to a Higher Lifeform as a 3-Star Native.

Tiara didn't intend to fight the High Lionheart, but a Higher Lifeform's perception made it difficult for her to complete Michael's plan successfully. Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)

Fortunately, the Scouts with technqiues that allowed them to pry into the Military Camp from a distance managed to discover the High Lionheart's weakness: He was always intoxicated.

She stalked through the Military Camp and killed a few low-ranked Lionhearts by utilizing her camouflaged presence and the fact that nobody expected her to be in the military camp to her advantage. Several Tier-2 and Tier-3 Lionhearts fell victim to Tiara's power. An intertwined Spirit Whip followed up by a spear thrust to the enemies' hearts and throats was enough to eliminate potential threats easily.

Tiara groaned as the searing-hot flames reached her and retreated. The High Lionheart spun around and roared at Tiara, whose body expanded.

Tiara used her Silvarean Tiger Soultrait to the fullest. She was covered in silver-striped fur, claws grew from her fingers and her body expanded ever so slightly.

Her eyes turned into yellowish-golden slits, and she readied herself for a fierce fight. Though, she hoped that it wouldn't be necessary.

'A few seconds should be enough...right?'

A few seconds ought to be more than enough for the full effect of the silver pills to be triggered.

The High Lionheart didn't know that yet, but Tiara shoved Chaos Pills down his throat. She'd activated them to unleash their might as she pushed the Chaos Pills deeper down. It was only a matter of seconds before they would erupt within the High Lionheart.

Maybe, the High Lionheart would survive the explosion of the Chaos Pills, but they would occur inside him.

He should sustain heavy injuries and end up getting crippled. At least, that was what Tiara was hoping for.

The Lionheart was a Higher Lifeform and the Chaos pills had been concocted from the impure chaos of a Lesser Lifeform's blood. To the intoxicated Lionheart's misfortune, the Chaos Pills were about to explode within him.

The old Lionheart charged ahead in anger. He crossed the distance to Tiara in the blink of an eye, his entire body shrouded in blazing flames. However, all of a sudden, the flames around him died down. The blazing flames transformed into lightly flickering flames.

The Lionheart also lost control of the energy within him, and his legs caved in. The old Native of the Zentika Empire collapsed in front of Tiara.

Tiara wanted to attack the Lionheart, but she backed off instinctively. Loud crackling noises followed by thunderous explosions occurred in front of her...the Chaos Pills inside the High Lionheart exploded.

She retreated as fast as possible while her eyes lingered on the Lionheart. The old Lionheart's body turned black, the skin all over his body ruptured and black-silverish blood spurted out of him.

His eyeballs splattered all of a sudden and the Lionheart's fur turned silverish-black. Even the weakly flickering flames around the Lionheart turned black...and they began to burn the Lionheart as well.

It was almost as if the chaos itself was not in control of the flames.

Tiara was shocked to the core at the sight that unfolded in front of her. Her eyes widened and she swallowed hard.

'O fuck.'