Chapter 583 - Discovered (1)

Auron had already spread his group under him. He was waiting for everything to calm down before he harrassed Regalia once more.

Auron was currently observing the path linked to Masdul City. While watching, he didn't forget to communicate with the other group. So, he could act as quickly as possible when there was something wrong.

While waiting, suddenly, one of the groups under him sent a signal. The signal means that there were enemies spotted. Auron frowned. He quickly ordered the other groups to go to the group that sent the signal. He also brought his group towards the group.

Auron had tried to move carefully. Unfortunately, there were some groups under his spotted by the enemies.

"Gaia is here! Prepare for battle!" One of Regalia's soldiers spotted one of the groups under Auron. He quickly shouted to warn the others.

Since they were already spotted, Auron's groups could not help but intended to engage in battle. Auron gave the signal to attack.

Auron still had 40 people under him. He thought that it would be easy to kill this Regalia's soldiers' group.

Contrary to his expectation, Auron was surprised when he saw the enemies' number kept increasing. He thought that there would be only around 5 or 8 soldiers, at most 10 soldiers. However, the number of enemies in front of him right now was almost equivalent to his group's number. Moreover, it didn't stop right there. The number kept increasing until there were 50 soldiers.

It was too late for Auron to give a retreat command. One of the groups already engaged in battle. Obviously, he could not leave this group behind. Auron gritted his teeth and shouted, "Charge!"

The reason was that their number and the enemies' number were almost the same even though they were on the losing side. Moreover, Auron already sent a messenger towards Smite's group.

The Regalia's soldiers' leader did what their leader had told them to do. He quickly took out his signal flare and shot it to the sky. The signal could be seen from anywhere in the Bridge World, including Regalia's and Gaia's sides.

Smite frowned. His bad feeling had been proven to be correct. He quickly changed his plan.

Smite sent another messenger to the others group to tell them to pull out to the outpost. Then, Smite led his groups towards the signal flare. His intention was to save Auron's group and retreated.

Meanwhile, they also saw this signal flare and quickly deployed troops from the nearest cities from the Regalia's side. The soldiers from Masdul City and Puwit City were dispatched to this location. 

All of the nearest troops from both sides converged here. Meanwhile, Auron, who was in the middle of a fight, frowned. Now, he could realize the result of his action.

Since the situation had escalated to this, Auron quickly shouted, "Retreat!!!"

If the Regalia didn't send the signal flare, he would still fight on. However, since there was a signal flare, even a stupid person would know that something was going on. Every troop would be sent here to investigate. Since this location was closer to Regalia, if he didn't give the retreat command, they would be surrounded and could not escape anymore.

Of course, the Regalia's soldiers would not let that happen. They quickly charged and surrounded Gaia's soldiers.

Auron's escape path was blocked by the Regalia's soldiers. He quickly used [Fire Lance] to breakthrough. The [Fire Lance] shot towards the soldiers in front of him. The soldiers quickly raised their weapons to block the attack.

Obviously, Auron's attack could not kill the soldiers. However, it didn't matter since it was not Auron's real intention.

With that attack, Auron quickly commanded, "Charge!!!"

All of the Gaia's soldiers tried to breakthrough. Of course, Regalia's soldiers fought back. Auron's group, as the spearhead, led the groups under him to break the Regalia's soldiers' encirclement.

Gaia's soldiers started to see hope. Under Auron's lead, they could escape from the Regalia's soldiers' encirclement. Unfortunately, not everyone was fortunate. One or two soldiers were left behind and got attacked by the Regalia's soldiers. Sadly, those soldiers could not escape and died under Regalia's soldiers.

Auron also saw this. However, he could not do anything. Hence, he could only continue to escape while occasionally throwing some spells to help the others soldier in need.

The Regalia's soldiers kept on chasing Gaia's soldiers. Not long after, a group of soldiers was seen near the place. The newcomer group was not Smite's group. Instead, it was the other half of the Regalia's armies.

The group came from the side and tried to block Auron's groups' escape path. Auron had to turn direction to avoid the newcomer group. 

The chase happened. Some of the Regalia's soldiers that had a quick movement attack the fleeing Gaia's soldiers from behind. The attacked Gaia's soldier could defend the attack, but it stopped them from escaping. Hence, when they blocked the attack, the other Regalia's soldiers pounced on them and killed them.

Slowly, Gaia's soldiers were killed one by one. The only cleric inside Auron's big group also became the victim of this.

Almost one-third of Auron's group's died. Auron gritted his teeth. He could not let this continued, or else all of Gaia's soldiers would die.

Auron glanced behind him to see the Regalia's soldiers. Then, he could see that one female mage was caught up in the pursuit and was engaged in battle. The female mage was Julia.

Auron suddenly felt rage, and he wanted to help. However, he stopped before he could go far enough. He was now in his mage character, and it would be a disaster if he died from this. He quickly moved to his swordsman character. Then, using his swordsman character, he went to Julia.

Julia blocked one of the attacks with a wand. However, there was another attack aiming at her. She gritted her teeth since she knew she could not avoid this. However, a sword blocked the attack for her. It was Auron. He was like a shining knight saving a princess.