Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 435 The Surprise Attack

With her cold gaze at Rocky's back, Sabina murmured to herself, "This guy is surely unique. But whywould Master Marcia want me to protect him? What on earth is he hiding?" After finishing speaking,she rushed forward to catch up with Rocky.

Soon, they arrived at the garrison camp of the Timber Deity Empire's army. Without any stop, theyheaded towards the ferry where the army's cargo ships docked.

The garrison camp was heavily guarded. Every once in a while, the patrols could be seen here andthere. Yet, Rocky and Sabina could easily avoid them due to their great stealth. Finally, they gotclose to the ferry. Finding a place to hide, they began to observe their enemies at a closer range.At that moment, they spotted six ships carrying grain and other supplies near the bank of the ferry.Also, a squad of spirit manipulators and a group of soldiers were on guard, looking stern and alert."So, what do you want to do next?" Sabina turned back and asked Rocky, hoping to get somevaluable insight into his plan on how to burn the ships.

"I'll use ropes to connect these ships,” Rocky said pointing to a bundle of thick ropes behind hisback. For convenience's sake, the rest of the ropes were stashed away in his Magic Spiritual Space."If I remember correctly, you said you wanted to burn the ships before. Why don't you set them onfire immediately?” Sabina questioned. His strange idea left her confused.

"Obviously, I'll need to burn all the ships completely. To do that, we'll need to cause a huge scenethat will send them into a panic. The six connected ships on fire will surely turn heads!" Rockyexclaimed in a low voice with a sinister smile.

"But what about the guards?" Sabina asked as she pointed at the group of spirit manipulators andsoldiers guarding the front of the ferry.

"Your turn to be the bait." Rocky informed Sabina with a smirk.

"So, you had this all planned out just to trick me." Sabina realized as she glared at him with her coldeyes. Finally, she understood. Rocky tricked her into being here not to protect him but to help himhold back the enemies and give him enough time to destroy the boats.

"Since when did I trick you? And isn't your main goal to ensure that I stay protected?” Rockyretorted without any remorse.

His words left Sabina blushing, irritated, and shocked. "When this is over, you'll be sorry.” Sabinastared at him, her eyes ablaze with anger. Within an instant, her body turned into illuminated icebefore rushing out and disappearing into thin air.

Once Sabina appeared again, the guards saw her and became alerted immediately.

The squad of spirit manipulators along with a few soldiers rushed to the direction where Sabinadisappeared.

Rocky smirked quietly, knowing that Sabina would still cooperate despite her anger. Quickly, heturned into a shadow that moved swiftly to the other side of the ferry and dived into the waterbelow under the cover of night. With a gentle splash, he disappeared into the depths of the riverbefore the soldiers could notice him.

After diving into the water, he quickly swam to the bottom of the ship at the far right—to which hebegan to nail several iron hooks on the rope before proceeding to do the same to the bottom ofthe adjacent ship.

At the end of the process, the bottoms of all six ships were tied together via crisscross ropes likebeads on a necklace.

Once he settled everything, Rocky floated to the water's surface. Instead of sneaking around like ashadow earlier, he used all of his spiritual light to propel himself from the bottom into the air in theblink of an eye.

An abrupt, deafening bang resounded through the night air along with the furious splashing ofwater.

The remaining soldiers guarding the ferry were immediately alarmed, looking up with mouthsagape. Instantly, a floating shadow appeared before them like a god that descended from heaven.Rocky, who just rushed out of the water, landed on one of the ships with great agility. With the deftwave of his hand, he activated his Evil Flame.

Within seconds, the soldiers were blinded by a black-red light that burned like a ghostly fire andmade their hair stand on end.

"Burn Heaven and Earth!" Rocky bellowed loudly. As his hands waved towards the sky, streams ofimmense power burst from his body—transforming into balls of Evil Flame like raindrops that fellonto the surrounding ships.

The Evil Flame ignited the ships, turning them into a sea of fire that soon grew huge anduncontrollable.

When the soldiers realized what happened, they became hysterical and yelled, "Enemy attack!Enemy attack!"

Quickly, the entire garrison camp was alarmed including its two leaders—Commander Wei andWoods

Woods strode out of the camp. When he realized what happened, the same raging fire thatdestroyed the ships could now be seen in his equally furious glare. "Order the soldiers to put outthe fire now!" he screamed at Commander Wei who just came out of the camp. "The person whodid this should still be in our camp. Secure all the gates and bring him to me alive!"

Without enough time to react, Commander Wei heard Woods barking a series of orders at him, as ifhe was the real Commander. His face turned livid. Yet, he didn't dare to disobey Woods’ orders ashe realized the seriousness of the whole matter. The ships were full of supplies that would be usedto support the Timber Deity Empire's major forces. If those supplies were burned, the attacking planof their main forces couldn't be carried out—and Princess Alyssa, the main force's top leader, wouldwaste no time ordering a severe punishment towards him.

Not in the mood to argue, Commander Wei did as Woods had instructed him to. He wasted no timeordering the soldiers to put out the fire on the ferry. Apart from that, he blocked off all the campexits and ordered the spirit manipulators to conduct a thorough search.

After setting the ships on fire, the arsonist left the ferry with great ease. He hid in an inconspicuouspitch-black corner where he could witness the whole camp fall into chaos and observe the soldiersdoing their best to control and put out the blazing flames.

Because all six ships were connected and were set ablaze by Rocky's special Evil Flame, the flameswould take more effort to completely extinguish.

"The show should begin any moment now, ' Rocky thought to himself as he glanced at the west ofthe Hippo Land. Having set fire to the heart of the enemies, he knew that now would be the perfecttime for Marin and her troops to attack.

West of the Hippo Land, Marin, and her five thousand troops were waiting for the right moment toattack. As soon as she noticed the camp of Timber Deity Empire was on fire, she knew Rocky's plansucceeded.

With no hesitation, she sternly ordered the three leaders of her troops, "Divide yourselves into threesquads. The middle squad will set off first to distract the enemies with a fake attack. As for the leftand right squads, you shall hide along the road and wait for my order.”

Under the dark of night, five thousand black shadows separated into three forward-moving streamsrushing from the west of the Hippo Land to the Timber Deity Empire's defense line.

The middle squad was first detected by the Timber Deity Empire's defending troops who lookedimpatient and not alarmed at all.

"Damn it! Why did they return again?"

"Aren't they tired? Why do they insist on feigning attacks a few times every day?"

"Ignore them! They'll all be scared out of here soon, just like before.”

The soldiers stationed at the front of the line failed to realize that the small squad was only sent as adistraction. Thinking that this was another fake attack by the Crimson Dragon Army, they decidednot to inform and update the camp.

From behind the middle squad, Marin was pleased to see that the Timber Deity Empire's soldiersdid not raise the alarm. After the remaining two squads joined the middle squad secretly, sheordered loudly and sternly, "Soldiers, attack now!"