Chapter 118 – Singlehandedly stopping thousands (2) (1/2)
Chapter 118 - Singlehandedly stopping thousands (2)
Translated by NEET
Edited by Oberon
“What are they doing?”
Outside of the formation, Ye Yi and company were looking at the soldiers in the formation in confusion. They were like headless flies as they moved around randomly. Clearly, their target was right in front of them, yet they didn’t give chase. This was just too strange.
It wasn’t just Ye Yi and company, the pursuing soldiers behind them and the dragon knights above were also wondering what those people were doing.
This was where the magic of the formation arts lay. Those who weren’t inside could never understand how it felt to be inside. They wouldn’t know what it looked like, or what it was like inside.
Outside of the formation, no matter what you said or what you did, the people inside wouldn’t hear or see it!
And because of this, the people behind them also entered the formation to berate those people, but found themselves in the exact same situation.
The final result was like this, more and more people entered and then the people behind them realized something wasn’t right and stopped entering, but at this point, more than half the people had already been captured.
And when they attempted to circumvent it, they discovered that they had entered a new formation. Ye Lang had already extended the formation along the two sides, he even encircled the entire army!
When the dragon knights saw the events unfolding beneath them, they no longer knew if they should continue their pursuit. If they didn’t pursue, as long as Ye Yi and company escaped the Soaring Sky Empire’s area of control, then they would be helpless in chasing them, because dragon knights could not leave national boundaries outside of special circumstances, and even then, only a few of them could leave.
Okay, even if a few of them left the borders and caught up to Ye Yi what then? Can they defeat the Heaven Realm experts?
Therefore, they could either immediately give up, or they could keep on obstructing them and wait for the people behind them to overcome their problems. However, how long would it take for them to do that?
Looking at the situation, it was definitely going to take a while!
“Let’s give up, we’ll go back and ask for help. If we only focus on capturing them and let the hundred thousand or so troops below us die, then our side will have lost too much!” The dragon knight captain solemnly said.
“Yes sir!” The dragon knights affirmed. It looked like they could breathe a sigh of relief.
It looked like they also didn’t wish to fight with Ye Yi and company, but it was too hard to disobey an Imperial order!
If people were to look more closely, they would definitely find that not only did the pursuers not wish to kill Ye Yi and company, even they also tried to hold back. In these last few days of battling, they would avoid killing anyone if they could as they fled.
Consequently, this fighting retreat was an event worth thinking about!
Imperial orders were definitely hard to disobey, but they could be enforced halfheartedly!
No matter how you looked at it, the ability Ye Lang showed in this incident was terrifying. If not for the Soaring Sky Empire suppressing the information, Ye Lang would most likely have become the focus of the whole continent.
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“What did you say? Are you saying... Ye Lang by himself stalled everyone, both those in front and those who came after?” Zhao Yarou, who had become the Empress now, looked at the captain of the dragon knights with a shocked expression.
The front and after she was speaking of referred to the army chasing Ye Lang as the front, and the border guards as the after!
“Yes! He used a never before seen alchemy spell to trap everyone. Inside they walked back and forth but they were unable to exit his spell! Fortunately, the people inside were unharmed. His spell only trapped them and didn’t cause them any harm!” The captain of the dragon knights respectfully replied.