Volume 3, Chapter 78 – The Yearning Loli

“Mm-hm, Master, Sister Xiaomu really did say that.”

In response to the doubt Tianyin showed, Xiaomengyao answered very earnestly.

“Sister Xiaomu said it like that, and she looked really confident about wiping out those Beastmen too.”

“Mm…”

Xingyu Muxi’s ability to handle things was amazing, that was the impression Tianyin had of her from before.

Not only that, in Tianyin’s impression, Sister Xiaomu was a gentle, beautiful, and highly capable girl, practically a perfect girl. And now she had gained yet another label in Tianyin’s heart, something like a peerless strategist.

Anyway, even though she was a bit surprised by Sister Xiaomu’s instructions, she still chose to trust her unconditionally.

“Got it. Since Sister Xiaomu says so, we’ll head back at once.”

Sister Xiaomu’s arrangements definitely had her reasons behind them. At this moment, Tianyin, who had developed a blind trust in Xingyu Muxi, subconsciously forgot all about that Beastman army still wandering in circles and unable to find a road.

……

Time passed quickly.

A day later, Tianyin led the ten thousand half-beast troops who had gone out back to Eden, and only after returning did she realize that the atmosphere throughout Eden had already become quite serious.

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When Tianyin saw Xingyu Muxi, this beautiful elf girl was staring in a daze at the map on the table.

“Sister Xiaomu~”

After she walked into the room, even though Tianyin felt a little bad about disturbing Xingyu Muxi, who seemed to be deep in thought, she still could not help calling out.

“Mm? So Xiaoyin is back~”

The girl called by Tianyin quickly came back to herself. After her gaze moved away from the map on the table, her eyes landed on Tianyin.

When she saw that the one who had come was Tianyin, the elf girl’s face blossomed into a breathtakingly beautiful smile.

“I’m back, Sister Xiaomu~! But I heard from Xiaomengyao that next, Sister Xiaomu is planning to wipe out that army of more than two hundred thousand half-beasts stationed near the Northern Fortress?”

“That’s right. This time the idea is to take care of that army.”

When it came to Tianyin, you could say that as long as it was something she knew, or something she wanted to do, Xingyu Muxi would tell her without hesitation as long as Tianyin asked.

Because in the girl’s heart, there was no need to hide secrets from the most important Tianyin.

“So it’s really like that… but even for me, dealing with two hundred thousand half-beasts would be a huge headache…”

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The reason she said this was that Tianyin still wanted to know why Xingyu Muxi was doing this.

More accurately, she wanted to understand what Xingyu Muxi was thinking. To go a step further, it was because without realizing it, besides having a hard-to-describe special feeling toward Xingyu Muxi, Tianyin had also started to yearn for the almost perfect girl in front of her.

She yearned for this girl, wanted to become someone as strong as her, did not want to always be the one who needed the girl’s help… instead she wanted to become someone who could stand by the girl’s side, someone who could move forward together with her…

In fact, without realizing it, thoughts like that had already taken root in Tianyin’s heart.

Even though she had not noticed it up to now, on a subconscious level, Tianyin had started deliberately learning from and imitating Xingyu Muxi.

“Well, what you really want to know is why I am thinking this way, right? Actually, when I asked you to stop the Beastman reinforcements, I had already thought up the plan we are using now.”

“Eh, eh, you already thought about what we are doing now back then?”

Tianyin widened her eyes, a cute little face full of disbelief.

“Yeah. Xiaoyin, do you still remember how I deliberately reminded you before, that it was to stop the Beastman reinforcements, not wipe them out?”

Those words pulled Tianyin back into her memories. Back then, Xingyu Muxi, who had sent her off, really had made a point of saying that the mission was to stop the Beastman reinforcements.

She could wipe them out if she wanted, but at the time the word stop had been spoken with special emphasis.

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“Sister Xiaomu did say that back then. So this operation was already decided during that talk?”

“Of course not, Xiaoyin. You should always have one or two plans for everything. When I sent you to face the Beastman reinforcements, I already had two plans in mind.”

Xingyu Muxi explained very patiently.

“The first plan, Xiaoyin, is that you wipe out that Beastman reinforcement army. But if that reinforcement army gets wiped out, for one reason or another the Beastmen at the Stronghold might sense their collapse. If that happens, the Beastmen will definitely send out another army, and what we would do next is carry out the classic tactic of ‘besieging the base and attacking the reinforcements.’”

“Mm…?”

Tianyin nodded, half understanding, half not.

“Well, Xiaoyin, you are not very familiar with this tactic of ‘besieging the base and attacking the reinforcements’? We send a portion of our people to keep watch on the Beastman troops at the Northern Fortress, then deploy our main force along the path the Beastman reinforcements must take. The Northern Fortress and those more than two hundred thousand Beastmen become bait. Whether in reason or emotion, the people at the Stronghold will definitely send reinforcements, and when that happens, all we have to do is wait in place and wipe out wave after wave of Beastman reinforcements. And in the end, when the Beastmen finally react, they will discover that they no longer have the strength to fight~”

“Eh… you can do it like that too?”

“Of course. Because we are in the dark while the Beastmen at the Stronghold are out in the open. In the Beastmen’s eyes, their opponent is the Kingdom, and they do not know about Eden at all, so that is our natural advantage.”

“Mm… so, so amazing. Then Sister Xiaomu, what’s the second plan?”

Seeing how Xingyu Muxi made full use of her own advantages, Tianyin felt like her mind had been opened up.

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“The second plan? That is what we have now. Xiaoyin, you blocked the path forward of the Beastman reinforcements. Because the reinforcements were not wiped out, the Beastmen far away at the Stronghold will not send out any other reinforcements. If the reinforcements cannot reach the Northern Fortress, we can concentrate our full strength on wiping out the Beastman army at the Northern Fortress. After we have wiped out that Beastman army, we will then turn our spears around and deal with the Beastman reinforcements~”

“Mm… I see. So what we are doing this time is carrying out plan two?”

“That’s right. So now is the best time for us to focus on completely annihilating the Beastmen at the Northern Fortress. Once that is done, Fisiel’s army will be a surviving combat force that we can move around however we like.”

“Mm ah… so that’s how it is! I get it now!”

As expected, Sister Xiaomu was still the most amazing one.

Right now, the cute loli Tianyin had a little face full of admiration…

“Well, but you cannot think about everything as absolute. Even though I called you back to join this operation to wipe out the Beastmen, tomorrow on the battlefield, Xiaoyin, you are not allowed to use your special ability.”

“Eh? Why not?”

“Well, because you are my trump card, Xiaoyin~”