Therefore, the strategy for employing troops is: if you outnumber the enemy ten to one, surround them; if five to one, attack them; if two to one, divide them.
If you are equally matched, you may engage them; if you are fewer, you may flee; if you are no match at all, you may avoid them.
"Troops" can also be understood as strength.
When your strength is equal to your opponent's, the best way is to divide their forces and defeat them one by one!
By the time Bureau Chief Ye flew into the air, Qin Ye had already vanished.
What happened? Did Mr. Qin look up and see the stone mirror?
No, that's not right. With his level of caution, he would never make such a rookie mistake.
Something's wrong!
"Mr. Qin!!!"
Bureau Chief Ye roared, truly consumed with anxiety. If something happened to this man, how could he ever face His Majesty, who had shown him such great kindness and recognition?
Meanwhile, Qin Ye was also somewhat dazed. He had been teleported away!
He had been sent to a chaotic battlefield where Demigods were fighting!
At a glance, at least five or six Demigods were attacking one another. Below the battlefield sat an altar, where a person wearing a long robe and a Nuo opera mask was dancing.
I think I've seen this person before.
Just as the thought crossed his mind, a cold gleam of light slashed toward his neck.
Alarm bells rang in Qin Ye's mind. He bent over to dodge, simultaneously unleashing his divinity to counterattack.
Puff!
The enemy's sneak attack missed, but Qin Ye's blade sliced into the man's abdomen.
Although he hadn't come out on the losing end, Qin Ye's expression was grim.
He discovered that his divinity was being suppressed!
Even trying to transform into a shadow felt sluggish. This was why he had chosen to dodge and counter instead of using his usual methods.
Given no time to escape or explain, he was swept into the battle between the Demigods.
Everyone around him was a lunatic. He couldn't understand it at all—the Great Qi army was right outside the city, and a sealed object loomed overhead. In such a situation, shouldn't their first priority be to flee for their lives? Why were they fighting to the death here?
Whoosh!
The man who had been slashed in the abdomen refused to give up, flying toward him once more.
Qin Ye's gaze turned icy. He gripped his right wrist with his left hand and opened his right palm. A terrifying surge of divinity condensed into a small sphere in his palm, which he then fired out!
The sphere acted like a black hole, growing larger as it flew, tearing at the surrounding space and air. By the time it reached the man, its diameter exceeded ten meters!
The man's speed was slow, and dodging was out of the question. Gritting his teeth, he erupted with his remaining divinity and slashed at the black sphere!
Hum~
The black sphere was sliced in two by his blade. But before he could celebrate, a large hand wreathed in black flames grabbed his face!
The scorching flames caused his skin to sizzle. The Demigod screamed, forcing himself backward with sheer willpower, but his entire face was ripped away by Qin Ye's grip.
With his skin gone, his muscles and fat were exposed, making him look horrifying. Yet he ignored the pain and threw a punch toward Qin Ye's face.
Qin Ye dodged the punch by shifting left and took the opportunity to strike with his blade.
Though he was a prince, he was no hothouse flower. He had experienced many life-and-death struggles since childhood.
Furthermore, this Demigod had been fighting for an unknown amount of time; his divinity was nearly exhausted, and he was already wounded. He was struck once again.
"You..."
Qin Ye was in no mood for pleasantries. He pulled the blade lodged in the man's abdomen downward, slicing him open and letting his organs spill out.
The Demigod died with his eyes wide. His corpse burst into flames in front of Qin Ye and vanished.
"Hmm?"
Qin Ye felt a surge of power appear out of nowhere within his body, rapidly merging with his own divinity and strengthening it by a significant margin!
"This is..."
He looked at his hands in disbelief, finally understanding why everyone else was acting so crazily!
Killing other Demigods actually increased one's own divinity!
Wasn't the reason they came to the battlefield in the first place to increase their divinity and break through?
No wonder these Demigods are so insane. To them, other Demigods are nothing but fuel!
He quickly shifted his gaze to the dancer on the altar.
This entire situation reeked of strangeness from top to bottom, very much like something a cult would orchestrate.
Among everyone present, the masked man fit the image of a cultist best.
He's the one behind this. How is he making it so that killing other Demigods allows one to plunder their divinity?
Damn it. For the sake of the plan's execution, I have to give up this opportunity.
After all, if I can't break the Qin family curse, I'll never be able to reach Sequence 4 in my life. What would be the point of accumulating divinity then?
With that thought, Qin Ye prepared to leave.
His current priority was to find a safe place to wait.
But as he tried to leave, how could the other Demigods allow it?
After all, in their eyes, he was also a "natural treasure"!
Because of his attempt to flee, several Demigods pegged him as a soft target and attacked him simultaneously.
Qin Ye cursed under his breath, dodging frantically.
If he had to face another Demigod one-on-one, he wouldn't be worried.
But fighting two or three at once was a bit much.
"Where do you think you're going? Since you're already here, you might as well stay."
A Demigod appeared behind him as if teleporting, his dagger slashing toward Qin Ye's throat.
The hair on Qin Ye's neck stood on end.
Damn it, it's a Silent!
As a member of the Shadow Lotus Church, he was all too familiar with the Killer pathway.
Sequence 5 of the Killer pathway was known as Silent!
There was only one word to describe their abilities: troublesome!
Extremely troublesome!
Fortunately, he was very familiar with their attack methods. He decisively lowered his head to dodge the strike, then changed his face and roared in anger.
"Whose subordinate are you? How dare you attack me?"
The Demigod froze, looking at Qin Ye's current appearance. He did look somewhat familiar.
But if that were the case, he had to be killed even faster!
With that thought, the man grinned maliciously. In the next instant, over a dozen figures appeared nearby, all identical to him in height and build, even radiating the exact same aura.
"Hehehe~ Based on those words, you're also from the Church?"
"If you're from the Church, then don't say such naive things. You'll only make yourself a laughingstock."
As he finished speaking, the dozen figures lunged at Qin Ye together. Qin Ye was thrown into a frantic struggle, and in the blink of an eye, he was slashed over a dozen times.
But just as the final figure approached, Qin Ye brushed his hand over himself, and all those wounds were transferred to his opponent!
This was the ability of a Soul-Snatcher, Sequence 6 of the Thief pathway.
And since Qin Ye was a Demigod, it proved he was a Marquis of Theft!
Seeing this, the opponent frowned. A Silent was troublesome, but a Marquis of Theft was no better.
Both belonged to pathways that were lethal and possessed bizarre methods.
Right then, the other Demigods arrived!
None who could become a Demigod were useless.
Their goals were clear: they were targeting Qin Ye. Who told him to try and run just now?
This also ignited Qin Ye's ferocity, and he began to fight back with everything he had.
On the altar, the Flayed Ghost danced with even greater fervor.
Rate on N.U.
