Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master-Chapter 1467: The Want to Compete with a Princess?!

But the most shocking discovery wasn’t the men—it was the portals.

On the western edge of the town, a sprawling complex of portals had been erected. Even at a distance, the scouts could see the uncanny similarity between this area and the grand portal plaza in Lara’s city. It was a secondary hub, a mirror image of Lara’s city portal system, built in total secrecy.

Before the scouts could even begin to categorise the number of gates, the grand army began to move. The earth trembled under the boots of thousands of masters as they divided into two massive wings. One wing, led by Sara, marched toward the group of portals labelled for one zone. The other, led by Berry, headed for the other one.

It didn’t require a tactical genius to connect the dots once the scouts reported back. The presence of Ro at the absolute centre of the operation was the smoking gun.

She sat surrounded by a sea of maps, her brow furrowed in concentration as dozens of masters scurried about, relaying intelligence and updating the territorial markers in real-time. It was a mirror image of the command structure back at the capital.

The message was loud and clear: the trio was no longer content being the Fox Guild’s support staff; they were mimicking Lara’s entire strategic infrastructure to create a second heart for the war effort.

"Did you hear the news?!"

The moment Lara received the full report, she felt a strange mixture of relief and trepidation. She knew exactly who would be the most enraged by this development—Anjie.

The "Tigress" was not known for her patience or her willingness to share the spotlight. Lara took a deep breath, bracing herself for a volatile confrontation as she sought out the princess.

"About the three girls and the Scorching Lands town?" Lara began, her voice cautious. She watched Anjie’s expression closely, preparing a long, diplomatic defence. "Look, Anjie... I know it feels absurd, and perhaps a bit overstepping, but we have to face reality. We need more help. The continent is too large for one city to—"

"I’m going to do the same thing back at the fortress!" Anjie interrupted, her voice not filled with the expected venom, but with a sharp, vibrating excitement.

Lara blinked, the rest of her prepared speech dying in her throat.

"I love what they did!" Anjie continued, pacing back and forth with a predatory energy. "I can’t believe I didn’t think of it first! We’ve been foolish, Lara. We depended solely on your city and your portals.

When the capital was targeted, we were seconds away from losing our entire reach—our eyes, our ears, our very brain! The risk was too high. It’s glaringly obvious now that we need multiple hubs. Redundancy is the only way we survive this."

"You... aren’t mad at them?" Lara asked, giving Anjie a look of genuine bewilderment. This reaction was a complete departure from the Anjie she knew—the woman who usually guarded her authority with iron claws.

"No, not at all," Anjie replied, though she felt a slight internal shiver. Truthfully, she should have been furious. Every instinct told her to suppress this "rebellion."

But thanks to the subtle influence of a certain observer—and perhaps the sheer audacity of Berry’s move—her initial spark of rage had been transmuted into a roaring fire of competition. It wasn’t about anger anymore; it was about the desire to win this newly formed race.

"Good," Lara said, deciding not to question the miracle. She didn’t care what had changed Anjie’s mind, only that the guild wasn’t fracturing from within.

"Listen, if you’re going to establish a third hub at the northern fortress, do it. But keep me updated on every single advancement. If an attack falls on the capital, the fortress, or the Scorching Lands, we must be able to move in unison. We share the burden, or we fall separately."

"Great idea," Anjie nodded, already mentally drafting orders. "I’ll send envoys to Berry, Sara, and Ro immediately. We need to link the three operation bases. If we can synchronise our maps, we can cover the entire continent without a single blind spot."

"Indeed," Lara paused, a practical concern crossing her mind. "But Anjie... do you actually have enough portal cores for a project of that scale? They aren’t exactly easy to find."

Anjie’s face beamed with a vicious, regal smile. "Lara, you forget—I was a kingdom’s princess before I was a guild member. My family’s secret treasuries weren’t just filled with gold."

She turned on her heel, her cape swirling behind her as she headed toward the portal leading back to her fortress. "They want to compete against a princess? Let’s see how far their ’ambition’ carries them!"

Lara watched her go, a calm, weary smile finally touching her lips. She returned to her own headquarters, where the flow of data was becoming a torrential downpour.

"I need two elite teams ready to depart immediately," Lara commanded, standing before her most trusted faction masters. She briefly explained the new tripartite structure of the Fox Guild.

"We are no longer a single spearhead. We are a tripod. For this to work, we must share every battle-tactic map, every scout report, and every resource update across all three bases. We move as one guild, three hearts."

While the girls were navigating the complexities of internal friction and continental drift, the man at the centre of their world was occupied with a much more primal struggle. Far out on the frontlines, William remained immersed in a sea of blood and fur, flanked by Becky and the ever-stoic Fang.

"Something feels off," William muttered, stepping over the carcass of a lesser beast. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Suddenly, the rhythm of the battle shifted. The terrifying Scarlet Bears, which had been the primary threat for days, began to thin out. They were being replaced by waves of normal monsters—creatures that were certainly dangerous to common soldiers, but posed absolutely no threat to masters of their calibre.

"What’s going on? Where did the bears go?" Fang asked, his brow furrowed.