Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 335 Before The War

"Retreat!" Rocky ordered hastily. It was possible to win if the three beasts worked together to defeatthis Trunk Giant but it would surely cost them too much

The first priority of this trip was to stay safe. After all, he was not strong enough to take too manyrisks. If he acted rashly, he would certainly meet his death here. The primary objective of this journeywas to seek rare treasures in the Myriad Beasts Ground, and the second was to collect differentspirit-manipulated beasts’ samples. He didn't want to waste too much time outside the MyriadBeasts Ground when it was so near. Thus, he decided to withdraw first.

Rocky and the three beasts made a detour to escape the Trunk Giant that was on patrol. The TrunkGiant narrowly saw them as they crept away, but fortunately they entered the forest before itnoticed them.

Rocky felt like he could breathe again when he saw the Trunk Giant as it finally walked away,seemingly clueless to their presence. He realized that he had underestimated the danger of theMyriad Beasts Ground. It was too risky to pass through the forest in front of it. If it was alreadyperilous along its periphery, how much more within its lands? The plants in this forest were so densethat they even blocked sunlight. The whole forest was immersed in suffocating darkness. Rockydared not use a light because he wasn't sure yet if they had indeed lost the giant.

'For the rare treasures, ' Rocky thought as he walked. He was so close to the Heavenly Stage now,that it would be foolishness not to take the risk. As soon as he reached the Heavenly Stage, he couldreactivate the Holy Dragon Bead in his body. Although he could only regain part of the Holy DragonBead's power by then, that was enough for him to grow stronger by leaps and bounds.

However, troubles kept coming after Rocky no matter how carefully he acted. After he and the threebeasts had walked for a while, they were greeted with a cluster of Venom Hounds. This kind ofspirit-manipulated beast was hard to deal with, especially since they came in packs. This packseemed to have at least a dozen, all rabid and looked ready to attack. Poisonous liquid was runningover their decayed skin. Rocky knew to keep clear of it and warned his beasts to do the same. Assoon as the liquid came into contact with their skin, he knew it would fester.

Rocky had met Venom Hounds before, but they were only at the second grade of the two-star level.And the most number of hounds he had ever seen was three, nothing like what he was seeing now.Dozens of Venom Hounds seemed to have materialized right in front of them, all of them at thesecond grade of the three-star level. Even a squad of Earthly Stage spirit manipulators would behard-pressed to defeat this cluster of Venom Hounds. Obviously, it was almost impossible for Rockyand the three beasts to pass through them.

Meanwhile, the cluster of Venom Hounds had encircled their prey - Rocky and the three beasts.They left no path for escape.

Rocky, of course, would never easily give up. With his rich experience in fighting as a guide, heremembered that fire was the mortal weakness of Venom Hounds.

"Uriah!" Rocky called. He did not need to say anything at all as Uriah already knew what he wanted.It immediately roared and ran in front of Rocky and the two beasts. Its ruby scale stood up from itsbody simultaneously. In a split second, waves of flames spurted out from its erect scale andstretched out on its left and right sides, which shielded Rocky and the two beasts behind it.

When the cluster of Venom Hounds saw the furious flames, they cautiously kept their distance.Despite the protection granted to them by Uriah, Rocky knew that they still had a dilemma. If hechose to retreat, he had no assurance they would not be attacked from the back when Uriah hadextinguished its flames. However, if he chose to fight, he would waste too much time at such astalemate.

All of a sudden, Rocky's eyes lit up. He looked at the direction which the Trunk Giant headed for.Then he took out a bottle of the magical saliva and placed it in Rubygon's mouth as he gestured forit to run to the Trunk Giant's direction.

After he was done with that, Rocky and the Rainbow Glow Unicorn stepped backwards under thefire shield provided by Uriah. He was trying to replace a safe spot, because a massacre was about totake place soon.

After a while, a strong rumble seemed to grow closer to them. Rows of trees fell down to theground, and a colossal figure appeared. In front of the figure, a beast was running swiftly towardsRocky. It was none other but Rubygon.

"Good job!" Rocky patted Rubygon's head and then took the bottle out of its mouth. His plan,where Rubygon attracted the Trunk Giant with the magical saliva until it came to their location, hadsucceeded. He stared up at the giant as it met with the cluster of Venom Hounds.

As the cluster of Venom Hounds saw the Trunk Giant, they all wore submissive expressions. Theylooked like an embodiment of the classic phrase- dogs with their tails tucked between their legs.They could instinctively sense how strong and powerful the giant was. On the other hand, when theTrunk Giant saw the hounds, it gave out a deafening roar. As the cleaner in charge of the forest area,the Trunk Giant immediately stretched out its long, thick nose and swept over the hounds. Twohounds failed to run away in time and were sent flying against the sturdy trees. They fell to theground with weak whimpers and groans.

As the rest of the hounds saw this, they were enraged. They barked angrily at the giant, green fluidflowing in abundance out of their mouth. Although the Trunk Giant was formidable, its opponentsstill had the advantage of numbers. As one, all the hounds left rushed to the giant and attacked atthe same time.

An intense fight started right away. The battle caused a great uproar, the giant's loud roar mixedwith the snarls and howls of the hounds.

While all this was happening, Rocky and the three beasts were sitting, far enough away to be safebut close enough that they enjoyed the intense fight.

An hour later, the Trunk Giant had defeated all the Venom Hounds. The hounds were all either badlyinjured or killed while the Trunk Giant paid a huge price for its victory. The skin all over its body hadbegun festering and the poison was invading into its body through the skin.

After a while, the Trunk Giant failed to hold on and fell to the ground with a loud crash. It hadfought and won in the end, but what a bitter victory it claimed.

"It's our time now, guys!" Rocky smirked and swaggered to the corpses with the three beasts. Hetook out his tools and took samples from the dead bodies of the Venom Hounds and Trunk Giant.At the same time, Marin was headed south of the main camp, towards the Rough Slope. She led fivethousand soldiers of the northeast military camp and five squads of spirit manipulators. They hadstarted off the front-line headquarters yesterday and traveled as fast as they could.

Half a day later, Marin and her army had arrived in a vast sloping field. It was only one mile awayfrom the Rough Slope. She decided that it was a strategic area and stationed her army in that field.As the camp was set-up, Marin sent for several spirit manipulators. They were tasked to go to theenemy's military camp in the Rough Slope for reconnaissance.

Two hours later, those spirit manipulators came back and reported promptly to Marin.

"They only left five thousand men? Are you sure about that? It's so few.” Marin felt that somethingwas off about the whole situation. Logically, the Timber Deity Empire had spent a lot to occupy theRough Slope in order to destroy the Crimson Dragon Group's defensive line. Through this, theycould take advantage of that position to push the Crimson Dragon Group into a corner.

In other words, as long as the Timber Deity Empire still occupied the Rough Slope, they couldintrude into the Crimson Dragon Group through this gap of their defensive line. It seemed to be acareless move for the Timber Deity Empire, that they only stationed five thousand soldiers for such acritical and advantageous location.

"Go and check again!" Marin ordered after she gave it some thought. This was a delicate matter. Shehad to have a clear and accurate information about the enemy's army before she made anydecisions. Only with the appropriate information could she give correct judgments and draw upeffective countermeasures.

Although the quantity of Marin's army was also five thousand, she could easily ask for soldiers fromother military camps nearby. In one day, she could gather reinforcements consisting of more thanten thousand soldiers.

Thus, what mattered the most was not the quantity of armed forces she brought but how she couldquickly get the Rough Slope back, once for all and with the lowest casualty. She needed to hurrythough, before their enemies could send reinforcements.