Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1419: A Second Portal

Fang didn’t need to send anyone to investigate to know what had happened. He already saw through William’s intentions with a veteran’s clarity. And just as William had envisioned, Fang took the chance and gave orders to everyone to exert their best and fight to the fullest.

Things had progressed smoothly from there for a time. The enemies on the battlefield knew they had lost their life support and their only way of retreat; that realisation dealt a massive hit to their morale.

It wasn’t a surprise that in mere hours, the tens of thousands of enemies who had stood close to the city’s outer walls were gone—either slain or scattered—and the city’s masters were getting closer to the portal than ever before!

When everyone, including Fang, envisioned controlling the entire area around the city and exterminating the remaining enemies, a second portal popped up all of a sudden, crushing such dreams with the harsh weight of reality.

"It’s a second portal! Arrange your lines and prepare for an impact!"

Anjie was fighting at the forefront, her armour stained with the blood of her foes. She shouted these orders the moment she spotted the swirling vortex of the second portal.

She didn’t need to wait for Fang’s orders to adapt to the shifting tide of war. She knew that with the second portal open, the severed reinforcement line of the enemies would be revived.

The brief window of advantage had slammed shut, and the battle was destined to return to its former state: a slaughterhouse between two sides with no end in sight.

Fang’s orders came next, echoing Anjie’s sentiments across the spiritual communication arrays. But when the enemies gushed out from this new portal, it was more like a dam that had suddenly broken.

A flood of masters appeared and filled a large area at once, landing heavily over the heads of the defending city masters who were still trying to consolidate their gains.

No matter how well they were prepared, against such momentum and sheer quantity, no tactic seemed to work! The suddenness of the second portal’s arrival acted as a psychological hammer, beating back the city’s defenders.

What William had thought of didn’t happen. He had known that Lara and Becky’s intervention wouldn’t last forever, but he had hoped for this favourable phase to last much longer.

He had expected the tight set of formations laid down by Fang and the city masters to absorb the shock coming from the new portal.

Yet, that didn’t happen. The spatial ripple from the second portal’s opening was so violent it shattered the nearest defensive arrays before they could even activate.

The newly arrived masters pushed the city masters backwards with a ferocious zeal, forcing a retreat that cost the city nearly one-third of the ground they had just gained!

On top of that, the enemies regained control over the perimeter of the second portal, quickly organising groups to send masters to flank Lara and Becky, who were still positioned near the first, now-dormant portal.

"Watch out!" Lara was the fastest to notice the arrival of the new enemies from behind. Her senses, honed by William’s training, caught the shift in the wind and the rhythmic thud of a flanking manoeuvre.

That left Lara in the rear, standing in what was considered a safe spot. But when the enemy masters arrived from there, Lara hurriedly ran towards Becky’s direction, launching lots of arrows towards the new enemies. Her movements were frantic, driven by the sudden realisation that the "safe" zone had become a kill zone.

"No, don’t retreat!" Becky’s anxious voice alarmed Lara. The latter realised she committed a big mistake, yet she realised it way too late! By moving toward Becky, Lara had inadvertently drawn her fire away from the very thing they were meant to protect.

Bang! Bang! Boom!

In the few minutes Lara took to realise what she had done wrong, and before Becky could arrive at her location with enough monsters to reinforce the perimeter, the gushed-out enemies dealt a massive blow to the portal foundations.

They didn’t target the girls; they targeted the delicate, glowing pillars of the array. With a sound like shattering glass magnified a thousand times, the portal collapsed.

The portal crashed in front of the two girls’ eyes, the swirling spatial energy dissipating into harmless sparks, while Lara felt terrible.

"Sorry, I totally forgot what he warned us against..." She said while lowering her head, her voice trembling.

She felt much worse after recalling William’s last warning. He had been so specific, so adamant that the foundations were the priority, and she had let her fear for her own safety override his command.

"Never mind," Becky sighed, wiping a smear of soot from her cheek. She knew there was no point in throwing and exchanging blame in the middle of a battlefield. "He already saw this coming. He never ceases to amaze me! Does he have a time element or a foretelling ability?"

Becky tried to crack a joke, tried to make Lara feel better by highlighting William’s almost supernatural foresight. Yet the latter kept her dejected look, her grip tightening on her bow, making Becky sigh again.

"I can’t believe there are enough enemies on the other side to come here," Becky muttered in puzzlement, looking at the fresh waves of masters now coordinating their movements. "It feels like something is off! We missed something..."

Becky was focused mainly on the areas closest to their spot, assuming the threat was localised. But as things escalated into this unforeseen end, she started to thoroughly examine the entire area around the fortress with her heightened spirit sense.

The fortress was massive enough to take up a big city’s landscape, a literal mountain of stone and magic, and yet Becky’s spirit sense was wide enough to see far beyond that.

It didn’t take her long to spot the root of all this trouble.

"Those bastards... They set up another portal on the opposite side of the fortress," Becky said in an enraged tone, pointing towards the other direction that was shielded from them by the grand fortress structure.