Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1420: The Girls’ Plan

The massive shadow of the Lookman’s fortress had hidden the spatial fluctuations of the second rift until it was already fully operational.

"This explains it then," Lara got what happened, her mind racing to connect the dots.

"They opened another portal, sent reinforcements to my city to keep them pinned, then they passed through this hidden portal and attacked us from the rear... It’s a nice strategy!"

"I know," this was the main reason that made Becky angry. It was a humiliating realisation.

"It seems William missed the point this time. Those leading the enemies aren’t up there in the command centre, they are here, around us! They used the fortress as a distraction while they played the real game on the ground."

"Then..." Lara already jumped to the same conclusion, "Can you get in touch with him? We have to tell him he’s chasing a ghost!"

"This fortress stops everything," Becky sighed, looking up at the thick mist clinging to the higher levels. "The spiritual interference is too high. We are on our own, the same as he."

"Then we need to do something," Lara paused, her eyes narrowing as she watched the enemy reinforcements consolidate their position near the second portal. "We need to go and target this portal. We need to take control of it."

"This won’t help," Becky shook her head, with lots of scenarios and plans running fast and wild in her mind.

"If we did that, they could easily open another portal and do this trick again. They have the resources and the masters to keep us running in circles until we’re exhausted."

"We can’t stay idle either," Lara paused, before adding in a fierce tone, her thoughts returning to her home.

"My city was supposed to have time to crush the enemies, then they would lay down lots of defensive formations around the portal there. But now they are under immense attacks, and we can’t let that happen! If the city falls, William’s plan fails anyway!"

"Surely we should do something about this," Becky’s tone was ice cold. She looked at the fifty monsters William had left them. They were still formidable, still fresh.

"Let’s change our tactics then. Instead of taking control of the portal, we crush it! We won’t try to hold it; we’ll destroy it just like they destroyed ours. If we can’t have a lifeline, neither can they."

"Crush it? But William insisted that we don’t do this..."

Lara’s voice was laced with hesitation. She still felt the sting of her previous mistake, and the thought of going directly against William’s original tactical constraints made her heart race.

"That was in the past," Becky interrupted her, her voice cutting through the air with newfound authority.

She knew exactly what Lara was going to say, but the battlefield had shifted, and static orders were now a liability.

"We are facing an enemy who can make multiple portals at will. So instead of trying to take control of a single portal and facing constant backstabbing through it, we start portal hunting. We beat them at their own game by making their investments worthless."

Becky moved her eyes around, assessing the fifty monsters William had left under their command. Previously, she had thought fifty was an overkill—an unnecessary drain on his spirit power.

In her mind, just ten of these hulking, nightmare-fuel beasts were enough to kill tons of enemies and keep the two of them perfectly safe.

But now, seeing the sheer scale of the enemy’s spatial manoeuvres, she felt blessed that William had decided to leave the entire pack behind.

"Let’s go. We’ll move under their protection," Becky commanded, her eyes narrowing as she spotted the telltale shimmer of the second rift’s stabilisation. "You handle the portals and ruin their foundations using your arrows; I’ll keep the perimeter clear and look for the next signs of spatial distortion."

Starting from this point, the two girls began their portal hunting operation. With forty monsters forming a mobile fortress of muscle and tooth around them, they moved unrestricted and unobstructed.

They were a localised hurricane of violence, killing all the enemies that stood in their path. No formation of masters could stand against the momentum of forty high-grade monsters charging in unison.

As Becky had suspected, the enemy’s resources weren’t infinite, but they were vast.

The moment they reached the second portal and Lara’s arrows shattered its structural integrity, Becky spotted a third portal appearing like a bruised tear in the sky on the far north side.

Once they aimed for that new portal and ruined it, a fourth and even a fifth one appeared in rapid succession!

The enemy was adapting fast to their movements, seemingly reading through their intentions and trying to overwhelm their ability to travel between points. And yet, there was still a pace and a limit to how many portals the enemy could dispatch simultaneously.

At some point, a total of five different portals were present, surrounding the grand fortress in a pentagonal array, gushing out fresh masters to replenish the fallen ranks.

"Listen, we can’t keep doing this." After a while, Lara suddenly said, her breathing heavy as she notched another spirit-fused arrow.

"There are five different portals now. The time we take to reach them and destroy them is enough for the enemies to make even more! We’re just running in circles while they dictate the pace."

"I was thinking about the same thing," Becky replied, her forehead drenched in sweat. She was lost in thought, calculating the distance between the rifts.

"We need to divide ourselves. Ten monsters are enough to keep us safe individually, so we can go with ten on each of our sides. Then, we can send the remaining thirty monsters out into the field to cause even more problems for the enemies elsewhere."

"You mean..."

"The enemies are carefree, launching portals around because they think they can pin us down," Becky said, her plan taking shape. She knew this plan held more risk than what they had been doing so far.