Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 316 A Trap

On a hillside a fair distance away, Dunn had set up a defense line. Thanks to the geographicadvantage of that area, they could look downward and have a good view of everything within a fewhundred meters.

"What's going on here? Doesn't that bastard want to fight a battle?” Dunn mumbled angrily whenhe found Rocky and his team members were having a barbecue right in front of his defense line,fury written on his face.

"Deputy Commander, what should we do now?" a spirit manipulator asked Dunn immediately. Thespirit manipulators with Rocky seemed to enjoy the barbecue very much. As a result, quite a fewspirit manipulators who were with Dunn drooled with envy as they fixed their eyes on those whowere eating, not to mention the smell that drifted up to them was heavenly.

"There must be a trap! Don't bite at the bait and get fooled by them. Just cheer up and ignorethem!" Dunn ordered in a cold voice. His eyes were furious at the sight of the drooling spiritmanipulators.

To make matters worse, the hot sun shone brightly at its peak. Since Dunn's defense line waslocated at a higher altitude without any tall tree or other kind of shade, the thirty spirit manipulatorswere on guard under the blazing sun. All of them were bathed in sweat with their tongues hangingout in thirst.

In contrast, Rocky and his team members were eating meat while enjoying the cool under the trees.The defending spirit manipulators could not help but envy them.

The spirit manipulators by Dunn's side began complaining. Gradually, they had less and less desireto fight.

"It's so hot. Come on, leave a few people here with our flag. All the rest go to the river together withme to have a bath," Rocky said as he stood up all of a sudden.

Immediately, all the spirit manipulators cheered excitedly at Rocky's proposal.

A moment later, most of them had taken off their outerwear and went towards the river togetherwith Rocky. Only a few men were left, ordered to guard their flag.

Standing within his own defense line, Dunn was surprised to see Rocky lead a group of spiritmanipulators away. Stripped to their waists, they left suddenly while only a few spirit manipulatorsprotected their flag. He had no idea what was going on.

"Follow them! Find out where they are going and what they are planning.” Dunn snapped at one ofthe spirit manipulators by his side.

It was not long before the spirit manipulator came back. He reported to Dunn, "DeputyCommander, they are bathing in the river not far away."

"Bathing?" Dunn asked in disbelief. He really couldn't understand that man's strategy, if he was evenusing one.

"Deputy Commander, the flag is just over there. We can rush and take it easily.” Dunn heard one ofhis spirit manipulators suggest. The others looked at each other, no doubt in the same confusedstate as he was.

Although Dunn's team was supposed to be on the defensive, it didn't mean they could not launchan attack. If Dunn rushed downward with his team members, he would be sure to get Rocky's flag.In that case, Rocky would lose the contest.

Dunn was big and tall, but contrary to his physical attributes he was known to use caution in hisfighting strategies. He found it hard to believe that Rocky would surrender the flag to him so easily.However, the flag was right there, almost within their reach. It was truly a rare chance. Dunn thoughtit was worth it to get the flag right away regardless of the cost of certain casualties if Rocky plannedan ambush,

With these thoughts in mind, Dunn immediately selected ten of his strongest spirit manipulators tostrike Rocky's front line by surprise. He swiftly ordered the surprise attack as soon as he was surethat Rocky and his men were still at the river.

At full speed, the ten spirit manipulators rushed towards Rocky's front line. At that time, there wereonly a few spirit manipulators guarding the area. They fled away as soon as they caught sight of theattacking enemies. In the end, there wasn't anybody but a flag in that place.

The ten spirit manipulators from Dunn's side looked quite proud of themselves. One of them walkedforward to pull the flag from the ground.

"Damn it! The meat smells so inviting. These bastards seem to really enjoy themselves. They notonly ate venison but also had a bath,” one of the spirit manipulators sighed. When he saw that a fewwild birds were being roasted over the bonfire, he felt like eating them too. Failing to resist thetemptation, he tore a drumstick and began eating.

Seeing that, the other nine spirit manipulators joined him too. They believed that they had alreadywon the contest because they got the flag. All the ten spirit manipulators began eating the wildbirds happily, believing themselves to be victorious.

However, one of them collapsed on the ground. At first, the other spirit manipulators thought thatthey had fallen into an ambush when their comrade fell down. Hastily, all of them stood up andlooked around warily. However, in succession, they felt immobilized and fell on the ground,incapacitated.

"My barbecue is delicious, isn't it?" Rocky mumbled when he appeared soundlessly. All the ten spiritmanipulators had fallen on the ground, unconscious and unable to defend themselves. His mouthtwitched in a suppressed smirk at the sight.

He had added some seasonings to the wild birds on the bonfire before he left with his men. It wasabsurd how experienced men had eaten his bait without the least suspicion and fell into his trapeasily.

Rocky raised his head to look up towards Dunn's defense line. As he expected, Dunn had alreadyfound out his spirit manipulators had fallen in a trap. He looked furious, which absolutely amusedRocky.

Dunn's sudden loss of ten spirit manipulators was immediately reported to the auditorium.Everybody, including Lance, was stunned to hear the news. They couldn't imagine how this hadhappened.

"Rocky already had a plan before the contest began?" Lance asked, as he realized what hadhappened all of a sudden.

"It seems that we were all fooled by Rocky. He wasn't actually drunk. He just pretended to be drunkand acted unreasonably at the same time, so that we would not suspect him. Then he set a trap andDunn bit the bait." Isis uttered her analysis. Her beautiful eyes sparkled. Neither she nor her fatherhad expected that Rocky would give them such a surprise.

"This bastard...” Marin was speechless when she realized what was happening. It annoyed her, beingcaught off guard. But it entertained her as well.

Obviously, the third round of contest had begun as early as when Rocky appeared like a drunk man.However, nobody but he himself was aware of that.

"What a wonderful scheme! He deceived everybody else! A military officer should know how tomake use of tricks.” Lance could not help but praise his cunning.

"But Dunn still has twenty spirit manipulators. Maybe he can hold the defense line until the contestexpires if he tries his best," Isis said

"How much time is left?" Lance asked. His face was blank, but in his mind he had already gonethough many possibilities of what each leader was planning to do.

"About one and a half hours.

Dunn has an advantage. If Rocky wants to win the contest, he needs to act right away,” Isisanswered, her eyes narrowing in thought.

Rocky figured out that there was not much time left for him using the sun's position. Promptly, hecalled his team members together. Since the thirty spirit manipulators had eaten barbecue to theirsatisfaction and had a bath, their morale was incredibly high.

In contrast, the spirit manipulators by Dunn's side had been on guard under the burning sun,without food or bath, so they all looked tired. On top of that, they had lost ten buddies. As a result,all of them were in no mood to battle.

In this way, it seemed that all was in Rocky's favor. Through his careful planning, he had stacked theodds to his advantage. Ultimately, victory was within his grasp.