Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

A glimmer of good news emerged as Rain discovered that the members of the small council and the majority of the city's residents had successfully escaped the relentless assault. This small victory fueled his determination to press on with his mission and bring an end to the injustice wrought by the human army.

"Did you guys hear anything from them? Anything that could tell you guys what they were planning?" Rain t.

"No, they kept us away from their command center and around guards that didn't speak at all," The Water sniper instructor said.

Rain felt like sighing… he didn't learn much, but at least he slowed down the advances of the human army. The real problem was that he was unable to contact any member of the king's blade. He could return to the town of the golem masters, but the enemies probably would use the red crystals to seal magic in many spots, including where they were.

"Do you guys have any secret passages that you can use to reach the city?" Rain asked. "I can slow them down a little more and buy you guys some time to reach your friends who evacuated."

"No, we don't have that. We never imagined that humans would have the guts to invade us like this."

"Of course not…" Rain thought and then sighed. "You guys never imagined that we would have the manpower to do so in one hundred years."

The second goal of the whole trip was to talk with some members of the organization that could be trusted… and while Rain had been away from home for four days already, he couldn't just return now, he will have to do that eventually and that would be a massive waste of time.

"Well, you know the path that you will have to follow," Rain said. "I finished my job here."

In the end, Rain quickly used Impulse to leave the area since he still had things to do that night. One hour later, he could see Teria in the distance and then stopped to drink a potion and recover his mana before flying and then landing in a dark alley.

Before long, Rain began to focus his magic on the ground to locate some mana potions there as well… At that point in time, he didn't care if they belonged to Joanis or not. Those who supported him maybe didn't deserve that, but bankruptcy was fine in Rain's book.

In the end, Rain found the location of some, but the number wasn't that high… it would work, though. Rain also found that there were no red crystals in the city, and he also found the presence of magic people locked down.

"I can never take a break… but this is necessary since who knows what Joanis is planning to do with them that might enhance the strength of his forces," Rain thought.

In any case, Rain proceeded to jump over the buildings in the area to check the places with potions. Thanks to that, he confirmed that only the walls had any guards doing some patrolling… The king and Joanis were investing all of their resources in crushing the magic people as soon as possible.

When Rain found the buildings that had the potions, he just used his magic to create doors on the walls and then grabbed them. At the same time, he was thinking that the enemies wanted to finish the magic people as soon as possible since the Western side of the country was under his control and the food being produced there wasn't being sent to the rest of the kingdom.

"Maybe they wanted to win before resources become a problem… with the magic people skills and some of their soldiers and their territory as well, they will be able to produce more food," Rain thought. "It will take a while, a few months at least, but it was the best option that they had since they could deal with a powerful enemy and ignore Rain's actions.

"I should make a tunnel under his city just in case… the other has been sealed, but I need to make it further away," Rain thought.

The plan was to make the tunnel toward the other side of the country… but the run was rising, and Rain didn't want to let the magic people know of its existence… in the end, Rain was forced to go and free the prisoners first… he could make the tunnel during the day and then finish it at night.

The prisoners were in a single spot, but it was a heavily guarded warehouse. When Rain approached to check the place, he found the guys in the caravans that he saw the other day and a bunch of ordinary soldiers patrolling around the place.

"Killing the enemies outside is one thing. Killing those that only live beer is another matter…" Rain thought. "It will be difficult for my reputation if I kill people weaker than me with assassination tactics."

In the end, Rain couldn't let Joanis' soldiers become a nuisance for him either… Rain also couldn't let the soldiers that he was going to stay alive see him either, and he couldn't leave traces of his actions… that sure was a pain in the ass.

Rain wondered if he should change his mindset a bit. He was too used to war and killing without a care. When he killed during the war, he couldn't become the Target of the animosity of a lot of people since he wasn't the one who started the war and was giving orders, but things are different now. He was the main head of his own camp, and he had to be responsible.

With that in mind, in Rain sniped the ordinary soldiers with stone spheres in their heads, but just enough to make them pass out without knowing what had happened. When Joanis' soldiers realized what was going on, Rain buried them and then crushed their bodies there and hid them very deeply underground…