It didn't take long before everyone was done eating and Shane gave Jason a short summary about what had happened.

Apparently, there had been a few older subordinates of the Drake family within the Myldra army.

When Shane revealed his spatial affinity, darkness affinity, and soulbonds in order to rescue and support multiple Ariyor and members of the Shibia clan, his identity had been exposed!

According to Shane's explanation, the Myldra army had received a notification from a messenger crystal in which they probably obtained new orders.

After that, the forces retreated.

If their intel was not wrong, an alliance of multiple races had tried to attack the Drake family while the Myldra army, consisting of 40,000 Myldra and humans had left the Kingdom.

This would explain everything. At the same time, it opened an opportunity for the Shiabi clan to initiate a counteroffensive!

Jason had the same opinion about a counteroffensive, but rather than attacking the Myldra race, he found it better to attack and eliminate the Ifrytor race!

"If I'm not wrong, the Ifrytor race doesn't have an arch-enemy that joined the war on Argos, right? However, they're still several hundred thousand individuals! A single, good-timed attack with all their might is more than enough to eradicate the entire Shandra country. And that includes if the Ariyor race acts as a pillar of support!"

Everyone nodded their head and it was obvious that Jason's explanation made sense.

The Myldra army with 40,000 soldiers was already enough to bring forth chaos. If the Ifrytor race would have used their whole army of several thousand Ifrytor and Ifry instead of a few thousand, the entire country would have been devastated by now!"

Fasro, who had listened carefully, translated everything to Ysla, and Midra, who was unable to understand a few more complex words.

Midra understood what Jason wanted to do, but that didn't mean she felt that it was a good idea.

Instead of bothering Fasro to translate everything, she started to speak to Jason in the universal language.

"Jason, your idea is not bad in its essence, but we are less than 4,000 Ariyor that have reached the Low Prismar stage, with around six to seven solidified prismarine crystals.

We can't even estimate the Ifrytor's strength, even less how many we might be up to fight against.

Humans are under normal circumstances weaker than the Ifrytor race, which means that a single, higher-ranked human would have to fight against an Ifrytor.

There are several hundred thousand Ifrytor and Ifry we have to face, and the Yaslrn caves are a place we have never been to.

That means the Ifrytor race has not only a numerical advantage but it also knows the landscape much better than we do!"

Jason understood what Midra wanted to say, and her words were certainly true.

He pondered about her reasons and tried to find a solution to them as he answered in the universal language.

"What about the secret technique Fasro and the other Ariyor had been using against the Ifrytor and Ifry before? Can't we use this technique with all Ariyor at the same time? It should be more than enough to finish off the strongest Ifrytor.

After that, only Lique stage Ifrytor and Ifry should be left. I might as well be wrong, but shouldn't this be worth thinking about?

Other than that, we might as well blow up the entire Yaslrn cave and force the Ifrytor and Ifry who hide inside, to come out.

In that case, we would gain an advantage!"

Shane and Dalia looked at Jason as if he had gone insane because he revealed that he was able to speak in the universal language.

However, instead of saying anything, they tried to regain their composure as the Shiabi clan patriarch couldn't help but ask Jason.

"You know how to speak in the universal language? Who taught you?" He was curious about that because he had an extremely hard time learning the universal language.

Meanwhile, Jason's pronunciations sounded smoother than his.

Yet, instead of answering directly, Jason just said

"My masters gave me their blessed techniques and I used the given translations within the manuals to decipher what letter belongs to which word.

After that, I've tried to learn how to speak it, and it didn't take long to figure it out. To put it simply, my masters taught me!"

It was not a complete lie, because Jason learned how to write and read the universal language because his masters gave him the two Terra-grade manuals he possessed!

He learned how to speak and understand the universal language differently, but that was not important right now!

Midra thought about Jason's words, and even she had to acknowledge that the perfect timing for a counteroffensive was right now!

Her doubts began to diminish when Jason said that they could detonate the entire Yaslrn cave, while the former point with the secret technique was unreliable.

"We can't use the secret technique because only a few Ariyors are able to learn it! Otherwise, your first plan would have been a possibility. It would have forced every single Ariyor into a state of weakness for a short period, but this shouldn't have been a problem.

In that sense, we can think about how we could create the most devastating attack on the Ifrytor race without sustaining a single casualty!"

Jason's plan was plain and he didn't even think about it more intently before.

He had just said everything in his mind without thinking about it!

If everyone were to act like that, it was not unlikely to create one, great plan.

However, other than his ideas, the others seemed reluctant to say something.

While his masters, the Aryiro siblings, and the Shiabi clan patriarch turned silent, pondering about all kinds of ways to make the most out of their current situation, the others hesitated to say something.

That was most likely because they feared to say something that might sound perfect in the beginning, only to be completely wrong in the end.

With a wrong plan, their entire army might as well be ambushed and annihilated!

As such, three days had passed, before the scouts which the Shiabi clan patriarch had sent out returned with great news!

"The Yaslrn caves harbor less than 300,000 different mana fluctuations of living beings! Deducting the number of mana fluctuations that are completely different to those of the Ifrytor and Ifry, there are less than 200,000 opponents!"

This was great to know, and everyone was happy that the 'several hundred thousand' turned out to be 200,000 and not even close to the 500,000+ which was the number that everyone had expected.

The news seemed to be reliable because the scout had even made a video of everything he had seen on the mana fluctuation radar he had received from the Ariyor race.

Despite knowing that the number was only 200,000 Ifrytor and Ifry, Jason felt that something was odd.

'Why would the Ifrytor I tortured reveal instinctively, driven by fear, that they had several hundred thousand members if it's less than 200,000? Shouldn't it have been more like a hundred thousand in that case?'

Jason felt a bad premonition, but the stated facts proved that his doubts were wrong.

Even in the surrounding areas, there were no news or even mana fluctuations from other Ifrytor and Ifry.

This lead even Jason to believe that they might have overestimated the Ifrytor's intel about several thousand Ifrytor and Ifry!

*Never in his dreams would Jason have imagined that the decision they were about to take, would be one of the biggest regrets in his entire life...*

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