Chapter 453 A Cunning Smile

With her eyes shifting to her father, Isis nodded in agreement and said, "Okay, I get it." Summoning her Silver Wind, she walked as graceful as she could out of the Commander in Chief's camp and flew towards the Hippo Land.

Meanwhile, the Timber Deity Empire retreated from the war just two days ago. Taking advantage of it, the Crimson Dragon Army, under Rocky's command, took the camp site of the Hippo Land.

It was customary that after every major battle, especially a victorious one, that the soldiers would take a rest. In this way, they could recuperate better and prepare themselves for the next war that they would face. And right at that time, the military camp was bustling with happy and energetic soldiers celebrating their victory.

But in every busy occasion, there would always be some people who would try and sneak away from the over-crowded scene to get some private moments of his own. Leading the Crimson Dragon Army to recapture the Hippo Land, Rocky was no doubt the key to the victory of this battle. He was the man of the hour.

Sitting cross-legged on a big stone, he closely observed the circulation of the spiritual power inside his body. But all of a sudden, he was taken aback by what he found inside his body since it was new to him and he had not noticed that before. Having a conversation with Sabina not too long ago, he would like to check the situation of the evil spiritual power inside his body. And that was why he wanted, to get some private time and sneaking some place far from the crowd. And from his observation, he found that the evil spiritual power was stronger than ever, blooming like the flame that was being fanned out.

Confused, Rocky wanted to know the reason behind the whole thing. He wanted to figure out the reason for the sudden boost of his evil spiritual power. There was an instance where he thought that it could have something to do with the accident that happened just yesterday. It could have been the large sum of evil power that occupied his body, the same evil power that overflew from Marcia's seal that she put on him to get it under control. Even though Sabina suppressed it, it only became stronger as the residual evil spiritual power which escaped the repression combined with the evil spiritual power that was left in his body from the previous time. And all that made sense to him.

The evil spiritual power in his body which was from last time had already surpassed a royal spirit manipulator of the first grade of the Heavenly Stage. But sadly, it had not yet reached the second grade of the Heavenly Stage. Yet, it was kind of odd that he was still not able to break through even though the evil spiritual power in his body shot up once again. Stuck at the first grade of the Heavenly Stage, Rocky was rendered confused.

During his previous stages of cultivation, he was automatically elevated whenever the required amount of spiritual power was accumulated in his body, which was the case in both the

to offend her? But, even though Commander Marin is never outdone by any men in the battlefield, she is after all, is still a girl. Don't all girls want to be spoiled? Well, all people do, but, don't you think so?" Dunn suggested as if he was good at communicating with girls.

"I think it is better if I stay away from her," Rocky said as he did not want to be brushed off again.

"Ah, right! I heard from the old military cook that Commander Marin cooked a bowl of gruel this morning. Who do you think she cooked it for? The old cook has been under Commander Marin's command for at least two years. He said it was the very first time for him to see Commander Marin cook in person. Do you think Commander Marin was being a bit weird?" Dunn told the story meaningfully to Rocky as he suddenly recalled the anecdote.

"Gruel?" Rocky immediately called to mind what happened this morning as he heard Dunn's account of the anecdote. He remembered that Marin seemed to say that she would bring the gruel for him this morning. But he was thinking other things at that time and left directly without paying attention to what she said. In that case, was that gruel specially cooked for him?

Suddenly, it all made sense! Rocky could finally figure out the reason why Commander Marin was so angry at him. The culprit was the bowl of gruel!

But he knew that it was better for the doer to undo what he had done. Her anger was caused by his negligence of her considerate care. On top of that, Marin took care of him for the entire night, and it would be too rude to turn his back to her without even saying thank you to her.

"I never thought of it that way. Thank you, dude!" Rocky reached out to Dunn as he tapped him on the shoulder. He would probably still remain in confusion if he were not reminded by Dunn. Rocky rushed after Marin's direction after he expressed his gratefulness to Dunn.

An insidious smile then etched on his lip as Dunn watched Rocky's back recede with his shadow.