Lord of the Truth

Chapter 791: Bait



...After the quarter-century meeting, His Majesty Pythor summoned his Marshals and told them that they would not back off and gave them permission to use all the Empire's forces for this war. He told them that it was a war against a full-fledged planetary empire and that they had to bet everything for victory.

After that declaration, batches of epic weapons started to arrive, epic weapons sufficient to arm a few hundred soldiers! Although they were not complete, eye-catching sets like the ones the locals had in Planet Nihari, they were still powerful epic armor and weapons. They were even exempted from presenting the offering of the energy pearls they had been collecting for the past few years to be used in this war!

Pythor also declared that the war was important to the Overlord, and that anyone who

performed a heroic act that contributed to the victory would be rewarded with a huge amount of Durger the Devourer's Blood...

With this kind of support in troops, equipment, and generous rewards, what can stop them? ...They came to Nihari thinking that they had brought a cleaver to slaughter a chick, That this *war* would end within a few hours.

And now, after a few hours of reaching Nihari---

"F*ck! F*CK!! F*CKKKKK!!!" First Marshal Celebus took several steps back and forth, kicking and smashing everything in his way.

An hour ago, the commander of the local army, the person suspected of being the Third Truth Truth Chosen, Robin Burton, announced full withdrawal.

In the blink of an eye, the Instant Space Portals opened and the local Emperors jumped in. Some foolish enthusiasts from the Great Serpent Emperors jumped in after them, but of course, these would never be heard from again...

Immediately afterward, the Sky sealing Grand Array began to shrink towards the north, opening a path between the Martial Emperors of the Great Serpent Empire and the remaining infantry forces.

Celebus, Xanox and Serpal... Each of these marshals took the rank not because they were loved ones of His Majesty, but because they were ruthless generals who chased victory anywhere, but when the locals withdrew and the array was revealed, they did not attempt to search for them and pursue the enemies but rather gave orders to land obediently, to give everyone the chance to lick their wounds.

And there were so many wounds to count...

"What about the troops here?" Marshal Serpal pointed to the twenty thousand soldiers, all of them injured in one way or another, "If we leave them here without protection, the locals will surely come back to finish them off, we must not allow them to claim more lives, enough is

enough!"

The First Marshal waited for a moment and then suggested, "...Let's leave them with 150 Martial Emperors then. The Third Truth Chosen must have taken all his Emperors to set up an ambush in the north. 150 Martial Emperors would be a good number to protect these soldiers, and they could also make a base for us here in the central region instead of this mess."

"Alright, we will follow your words."

"I agree, let's go right away, although there is a difference of 6 hours between us and them now, but if they can hold on, we might catch up with them in time."

After the three marshals agreed, they waited another half hour until they chose 150 of the most injured and tired Martial Emperors among them to stay behind, and then the three marshals set off, along with nearly a thousand Martial Emperors, towards the North.

Three hours later--

*Bzzzzzz*

*Step* *Step*

An instant space portal opened in the middle of the city ruins, and Robin walked out with a smile and slowly looked around for a few seconds before a huge smile appeared on his face, "They left behind 150 Martial Emperors, huh? Looks like the bait caught a bigger fish than

expected."

*Bzzzzzzt* *Bzzzzzzt* *Bzzzzzzt*

Several portals opened next to Robin, and Demons of all levels began pouring out.