Chapter 178: Ria Takes the Command

"… That is the situation." Kai finally finished his five minutes report.

Right after he finished, Ria turned around and ordered as if she had known what to do for a while. "There are two Vanguard Units Commanders and two Attacker Units Vanguards. I want all of you split in three separate ways. First, Yuki will bring an additional two hundred men and go toward our left and rescue Alicia to set up a small base there to create the link between both of our places. We can stop their advance and gradually kill them."

"Understood. Please excuse me." Yuki saluted once more and left the room immediately, knowing she couldn't waste a single second at this point.

"Before separating you three, where is Michelle Graham? Her power might be necessary in this place." Ria asked the three commanders as Kai still couldn't find her.

"She is roaming around the Middle Area to kill all the magical beasts so we, commanders, can focus on dealing with the other four areas," Colton, the Vanguard Unit Commander, answered. "She is together with most of the student groups, numbering around three hundred."

Ria could understand this type of order since the student groups usually took a mission of exterminating beasts in a certain area. Defending wasn't really their strong suit.

"Alright." She nodded and explained the next job. "Colton and Faith from the Vanguard Unit will stand by in the Eastern Region along with an additional five hundred men. Our target was the Eastern after this place, but all of these things ruined everything. Your job is to prevent those insects from coming our way. No need to push them back, just hold them back. Your units will suffer a huge blow because this will be the last place to be relieved."

"Yes, Ma'am. We will hold out no matter what, as this is our job!" Both of them saluted and left the room.

The last person was Henry, another Attacker Unit Commander. His motion was already set in motion even without Ria saying anything.

Even so, Ria still gave her the general mission. "I need you to go defend the Northern Passage and hold there for a while… And you can bring one hundred men."

"If I may ask, will General attack them from the Southern Area?" Henry asked. This place didn't have any instruction or whatsoever, so he thought Ria would lead the soldiers personally to attack this area.

"That old man deserves to be forgotten." Ria snorted. "Anyway, They should have kept those insects in check. As long as we have some soldiers, we should be able to. On the other hand, I… No, Kai will confront the attack from the Western Area."

"Me?" A surprise was planted on his face as he furrowed his eyebrows.

Ria turned to Henry as if she didn't hear anything from Kai. "Now, go! The moment reinforcement comes, you need to move along with us."

"Understood." Henry saluted like the others and left.

Ria then finally looked at Kai. "You are going to lead the attack with all the students and five hundred soldiers to the Western Region. Of course, after they have finished killing the magical beasts in this Middle Area. I will leave the timing to you."

"But they might only finish this job after three hours," Kai replied after learning the situation from his ears.

"Three hours then." Ria nodded. "This will be hard because we need to fight for a day straight and somehow get a rest in between. If you can keep this up, we should be able to minimize our damage… Two thousand… No, two thousand deaths… Almost half of our people."

"I understand… The field assignment will be on me, but what is my mission? Where do I need to attack?" Kai asked. "I know that Sir Nathan and Sir Sherwin are stronger than they look, but they won't be able to finish those magical beasts alone. Even more so since we have lost around one thousand five hundred people because of this stupid surprise attack."

"I know. We have around four thousand and two hundred soldiers at the moment… according to the damage report and your ears. When you bring the reinforcement to the Western Region, you can proceed to the Northern Region and coordinate with Henry. On the other hand, I will bring the rest of the soldiers to help the Southern Region before heading to the Eastern Region and attack them from three directions. "You know what I mean, right?"

Kai fell into deep thought. Nathan and Sherwin only had four hundred, and even if they could absorb the original Support Unit that had been stationed in that area, it would only increase their number by a hundred. A total of five hundred soldiers alone might be hard to face six thousand magical beasts in the Southern Region without Ria's help. In that case, he needed to finish the battle as soon as possible, so Ria could move from this position.

"If I go to the Western Region with eight hundred people, we will have one thousand and five hundred soldiers there. I can station one to two hundred soldiers to make sure the beasts didn't break through to Western Area and stabbed us from behind. After that, I will send a messenger to you and head to the Northern Area, and then…" Kai was finally able to realize her plan. "Still, there are two problems remaining."

"There is no commander that is capable of holding the army for the tired Vanguard Units. That's why I am going to send Nathan to help Colton and Faith." She paused for a moment before continuing.

"The second and most important problem will be Time! We need to hold our position first for three hours and make sure not to worsen our condition." She smirked while looking at Kai. "When you were in Russia and overwhelmed by the situation. You could actually set up a little stronghold and waited for a few days there. Of course, you needed around one hundred people, but it shouldn't be that hard for Kudo Group to escape with a hundred people and not rely on your Teleportation Ability.

"Unfortunately, you didn't have knowledge about it since I had yet to teach you back then. This time, I will show you how to make a natural stronghold that uses Natural Terrain as our advantage. Are you ready to learn again?"

Kai took a deep breath before looking at Ria with a serious expression. "Of course."

"Good!"

Ria began constructing the stronghold. Normally, she would do it with one of the commanders accompanying her since they knew their way around here and how many soldiers were stationed. But she had a choice to rely on Kai's ears.

Although the data wouldn't be accurate since it would take too much time if Kai focused in every single area, the ranged data was fine for her.

She professionally moved the soldiers around, distributing them in perfect time and minimizing the damage. Kai had so much to absorb and learn to the point he couldn't speak unless Ria asked for the rest of three hours.

It was three hours for the others, but it felt like a couple of minutes for Kai and Ria. Nonetheless, Michelle and the other students had finished their mission and came back to the base.

Michelle, as Ria's student, came to their headquarters only to find those commanders had been replaced by Kai and Ria. There were also two students beside her. The female had long purple hair tied into a ponytail while the male had short blue hair. They looked like they had seen hell before their grim expression abruptly changed into shock when they saw Kai.

"Kai! You have come." Michelle ran toward him while the others were staring at Ria Ross, recognizing her face.

"Students, huh… Where are the soldiers?"

"They are in the back and asked us to report here." The female said, almost stuttered herself.

Kai nodded at Michelle with a smile before looking at these two. He had seen this face when Michelle gave him the student data. They were the leaders of the first and second rank groups in the school. Golden and Dawn Group.

"You know our situation, right?"

"Yes… We are attacked from four directions and waiting for the rescue squad." The male answered.

"Your job is to follow him, the acting General for this mission. If you have any objection, you may say it now," said Ria with a poker face and pointed her finger to Kai.

The two opened their eyes wide as they recognized Kai in a single glance. 'Acting General? Him?'

There were many questions inside their heads, but all of them vanished the moment Ria released her aura. "Have you any objection? If you have, I will also use my authority to make your puny families suffer since I don't have time to deal with a bunch of kids."

They didn't feel offended because they knew what Ria was capable of. Much less totheir dismay, they could only grit their teeth and salute Kai as normal soldiers greeted their superior.

Ria knew these two identities and shut them down to make sure they didn't bring trouble to Kai at this moment. She looked at Kai and nodded.

"We are going to kill the beast in the Western Region and move according to my orders. I will explain later since I want the soldiers and students to move first." Even though he knew about these two, he had no plan in talking to them. After all, he only needed to deal with Yuki and Alicia later, not them. Hence, he wanted them to inform the soldiers and students.

"Well, I will help as well." Michelle gave the last push by walking away to help the job as well. With Kai's woman acting like this, there was no way these two would refuse Kai's order. The only thing they could do was follow Michelle.

The soldiers and students couldn't rest and move toward the Western Area with Kai in front.