Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 692 Had Another Plan

Another day passed in Heaven Unicorn City. In the temporary camp of the Crimson Dragon Armylocated inside the city, Rocky was occupied with studying the terrain map of Yu City.

"Senior Commander Rocky." He looked up, as Fleming walked in with a somber expression on hisface.

"Do you have any information?" Rocky asked immediately, to which Fleming noddedenthusiastically.

"Yes, sir. It's from Mont City." "Mont City?" Rocky remarked with an eyebrow quirked up in interest."What's it about?" He probed further when Fleming didn't speak at once. "According to ourintelligence officers, more than two thousand soldiers of Crimson Dragon Army and three thousandcommon people were captured when the Holy Sea Empire occupied Mont City."

Fleming paused, breathed deeply, and then continued, "There are some survivors. It appears thatthe Holy Sea Empire has shown them mercy and didn't kill them all."

Rocky nodded with an impassive expression. He was relieved that there were survivors, but it wastoo early to celebrate. More than that, he needed to make sure that the information was reliable, sohe asked, "Where did they get this information?"

"It came from a deputy commander who has been captured. He learned that we withdrew the armyto Heaven Unicorn City, so he secretly sent us this information,” Fleming readily replied. "That'sgood."

Rocky nodded, as some tension drained from his stiff posture. "Try to keep in touch with him so thatwe can get more information about Mont City and the Holy Sea Empire's army,” he added.

"Yes, sir!" Fleming saluted before he bowed and left the room to do as he was bid.

As soon as Fleming stepped outside, Isis rushed in with a panicked expression on her ashen face."What's wrong?" Rocky asked, immediately alarmed. After all, Isis wasn't someone who was easilyshaken, so to see her in such a state was disquieting.

She had a letter clutched to her hand so tightly that Rocky was afraid it would be torn to pieces. Hereached out and gently took it from her.

His face darkened, as he read further into the letter. It informed them that the Crimson DragonArmy couldn't send them reinforcements, and Rocky was ordered to buy time and defend HeavenUnicorn City. A quick look at the bottom told him that it was Alston who gave the order.

"What the hell is the crown prince doing? The right-wing defensive line has ten thousand soldiersavailable. How could he say that he couldn't send reinforcements?” Isis blurted in outrage. Shelooked so angry that Rocky was afraid she would burst into flames at any second.

"Calm down. I can't say I'm surprised he did something like this, but I didn't think he was this crueleither. He would risk the lives of people in three cities just for his interests?" Rocky muttered whileshaking his head. Alston wasn't a good person, but he didn't realize that he was this despicable. Ifthey didn't have reinforcements, three small cities would surely be occupied, and the people in thecities would suffer. If they lost all three cities, many people would be killed.

"I have to inform my father right away. He can stop the crown prince,” Isis suggested quietly,although it was clear that she was just grasping at straws. She couldn't believe how vile Alston was!"Don't bother. Now that Alston has a high position within the Crimson Dragon Group, theCommander in Chief won't be able to do anything. I'm afraid that the Commander in Chief is in atight place right now as well. After all, Alston is the crown prince of the Holy Dragon Empire.” Thetruth was Lance was in a grave situation himself, now that Alston was overtly moving to take overthe Crimson Dragon Group and exclude him. And he had to restrain himself too because he couldn'tafford to outright offend Alston.

"What should we do if we don't receive reinforcements?” Isis asked, her voice quivering. She knewthat if there were no reinforcements, there would be nothing but death for them. The remainingtroops of the Crimson Dragon Army and the soldiers in Heaven Unicorn City only totaled to severalthousand. They were no match for the whole army of the Holy Sea Empire.

"We have to replace another way to increase our military forces,” said Rocky thoughtfully.

"What else can we do? Recruit soldiers in Heaven Unicorn City?" Isis asked with a trace of sarcasm,after all, who would do something so ridiculous?

"That's a good idea!" Isis’ eyes narrowed at Rocky, as she wondered if he was making fun of her.When she realized that he was serious, she couldn't help but blurt out, "Do you think it's that easy?"She threw a disapproving glance at him and continued, "You were able to persuade the commonpeople to fight with the army before, but recruiting soldiers is more difficult. To recruit soldiers, weneed a large amount of money and additional weapons and armors. But we aren't in Evian City. Wedon't have those.”

"If that's all we need, then it will be easy,” Rocky said confidently, which just annoyed Isis even more.She wondered if he grasped the severity of their situation.

"Easy? It takes at least fifty taels of silver coins to recruit one soldier. To recruit three thousandsoldiers, we need one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver coins. If we buy weapons andarmors, we will need three hundred thousand taels of silver coins in total, which is equal to thirtythousand taels of gold. Do you have thirty thousand taels of gold with you?" Isis asked as she staredat him expectantly. Although Rocky gave her a dowry of over ten thousand taels of gold, she knewthat it was all he had.

"Well, I do not have that much cash, but I still have golden bills worth thirty thousand taels of gold.”To Isis’ amazement, Rocky suddenly presented her with three golden bills.

"You took the golden bills with you?" Isis couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"I don't have a safe, so I have to take them everywhere I go,” Rocky explained as if it was the mostnatural thing to do.

"Fine, you win. But Heaven Unicorn City is just a small city. It won't be easy to exchange the threegolden bills. Besides, we can only recruit three thousand soldiers with thirty thousand taels of gold.We need more money to buy weapons, armors, food, and other necessary materials,” said Isis withher hands folded sternly over her chest.

"Well, I have some more valuable things in my Magic Spiritual Space. We can sell them for morethan ten thousand taels of gold," said Rocky casually.

"Really?" Isis exclaimed in surprise. She was starting to realize that maybe there was hope after all."They are all collected from the Myriad Beasts Ground..." A smirk started to form at the corners ofRocky's mouth, as he waited amusedly for Isis’ reaction.

"Myriad... Myriad Beasts Ground! When did you go there?" Isis asked in surprise. Even the spiritmanipulators of the Supernal Stage feared to set foot in the Myriad Beasts Ground. But now, itseemed that Rocky went there and survived.

"I have been there several times, although I almost died as many times too," Rocky said withamusement but in a self-deprecating way.

"That's not funny." Isis stared at him with a mixture of anger, worry, and fondness. She had alwayshated it when Rocky needlessly put his life in danger.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm fine now," Rocky immediately reassured her, although, from herexpression, he could tell that she wasn't happy with him.

"Stop risking your life so needlessly. Promise me! Don't forget that you're not alone anymore," Isissaid so seriously that Rocky couldn't say anything more.

He just nodded awkwardly, so Isis followed up with a light smile, "And if you don't have a place tokeep your money, I can keep it for you."

Rocky burst into laughter at this and shook his head. "Can I say no?"

he asked with a bitter-sweet smile. There was no way that he would be a hen-pecked husband afterall.

"Are you worried that I'll appropriate your money? I resent that," Isis protested with a slight frown,although her lips were being pulled into a smile.