Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1421: Improvising and Adapting

"If we scatter our monsters around, then the enemies will have to think twice before launching more portals. They'll be forced to defend their summoning sites against the monsters instead of just focusing on us."

"Still… being separated like that…"

"I know it's risky. That's why I'll mark the portals for you with spirit flares. After destroying a batch, we both meet at a designated rally point and start moving from there toward the next batch."

Becky took in a deep breath and looked at Lara directly, her gaze searching. "I know this is way beyond what William asked of us. It's incredibly risky, so I'll leave the decision up to you. If you want to stay together, we stay together."

Lara looked at the towering walls of the fortress, then at the distant horizon where her city lay. She knew this decision held a mountain of risks, yet she didn't spend a single second thinking about her own safety.

The first and foremost thing she thought of was what William would have done in this kind of situation.

To her, William was the embodiment of calculated audacity. He would instantly throw himself in harm's way if it meant securing a path to victory.

If she had learned anything from William during their time together, it was this: The road to victory was never easy.

Without taking significant risks, one shouldn't expect to change anything, least of all expecting to win a war against an enemy of this calibre.

Then she thought back to her city—how it had been hit so badly when William wasn't there to guide the defence.

The calibre of enemies everyone was fighting this time was on a whole different level than any enemy they had met before.

She needed to do her task properly, not just as a student or a follower, but as the city master who carried the lives of her people on her shoulders.

"Let's do it," she made up her mind, her eyes burning with a fierce, cold light. "Let's beat those bastards at their own game and win this war!"

"Great," Becky muttered, her eyes narrowing as she watched the silhouettes of the monsters beginning to diverge.

She had been genuinely worried that Lara, a master raised in the lower realm with its limited perspective on high-stakes warfare, would lean more toward her own safety than craving victory.

To Becky, who had seen the ruthless nature of the upper realm's power struggles, survival was often secondary to the achievement of a strategic objective.

She had to admit to herself, however, that this plan wouldn't necessarily secure them a total victory on its own.

The best they could realistically do was to give the enemies a hard time, making them unable to pull their plans off smoothly or threaten the city that sat vulnerable behind them.

Yet, the main person responsible for leading them to victory was none other than William. Becky and Lara were merely the anvil; William was the hammer.

They needed to buy him enough time until he crushed the enemies waiting at the top of that fortress.

Once he achieved that, he would return like a storm, and together they would crush whatever was left of the enemy forces scattered around the base of the grand structure.

The moment the two decided on this plan, they divided their forces with surgical precision.

Each girl took ten monsters as a personal guard and moved toward a different portal, their paths diverging as they began the bloody work of ruining the foundations of the enemy's spatial rifts.

As for the thirty monsters left, they were set loose, distributed around the battlefield like wild apex predators. They were given no specific objective other than to freely attack the densest clusters of enemies they could find.

At first, the effect of their new strategy was subtle. The sheer number of enemy masters made it seem like a few monsters wouldn't make a dent. But after one hour, it was clear that their plan was working!

The enemies, who had previously shown a terrifying ability to lay down portals at will, started to face significant trouble in doing so.

The chaos caused by thirty unleashed monsters—beasts that required dozens of masters to even slow down—had disrupted the enemy's concentration and logistics.

Instead of a growing number of portals being established simultaneously, the count began to dwindle.

After a few hours, there were only three portals active at most at any given time. And at some points, there would be only one portal left standing, the others having been torn asunder by Lara's arrows or the monsters' claws.

The enemies tried desperately to counter the two girls' plan. They directed massive waves of masters to intercept them and even began activating hidden mechanical traps in the open fields to stop their advance.

Using traps in the middle of such a chaotic, crowded battle was a sign of desperation; it meant hundreds of their own masters fell victim to the indiscriminate spikes and blasts meant for the girls.

And yet, against all this madness, the monsters remained an impenetrable wall. They crushed anything and everything in their path, shrugging off spells and blades alike, never letting either Lara or Becky face a single scratch.

"There! I spotted a group who seem like their leaders! Let's target them!"

At some point during the hunt, Becky's focus shifted. She realised that portal hunting was a war of attrition; they might not win if the summoners remained safe.

She started focusing on hunting down the higher-ups of the enemy forces. If they managed to kill enough of the commanders, they would leave the enemy army leaderless and in a much more disadvantageous position.

Using the help of the scattered monsters as spotters and observing the specific directions where new portals popped up, Becky started to notice a pattern. She noticed the presence of a special group of enemies.

They weren't wearing anything unique or flashy to recognise them by—no golden armour or flowing capes—but what was special was the way they were protected and the specific paths they took once a portal appeared.