Chapter 2387

Finally, things were back to normal.

The contacts list held a flood of messages.

The earliest messages were inquiries from Tang Ruan and Su Qin, followed by a large batch from Li Ruanyu, and after that quite a few from Shangguan Ting.

He glanced through them — they were all outdated information, no need to reply.

Nothing in the group chat was particularly important either.

Most of it was calls for help.

But the situation had now completely turned around.

The lords were all encouraging one another, excitedly discussing how this battle had gone from defeat to victory.

Su Qin hadn't sent Zhao Chi any messages lately — she knew his system was unusable, so she'd been sending everything to Qi Yue and Tang Ruan instead.

Qi Yue and Tang Ruan had been awake for a while.

They sat in chairs by the table, with food and water laid out on it.

Their expenditure was normal — in regular combat they often drained their physical condition completely, but only needed an hour of sleep to recover.

Seeing Zhao Chi wake up, Qi Yue immediately came over.

"My lord, Su Qin sent a message during this time — she has routed two more lords on her side, a combined 150,000 combat power, and is now telling everyone to rest."

"Good."

Tang Ruan said, "My lord, I've already tasted all this food and water — no problems. You should eat some too."

"Mm… alright."

He really did feel hungry.

Extremely hungry, in fact.

He'd lost a great deal of blood earlier; although Hyper-Regeneration had healed him rapidly, Hyper-Regeneration itself drained physical condition as well.

It seemed to be tied to food.

When used too many times, it left him ravenous.

Zhao Chi immediately began eating heartily.

He ate while checking on the current state of the battle.

The situation was encouraging.

【Friendly Lord Diversion Status】

【Total】3,656 people

【Diverted】3,656 people

「In Combat」2,688 people

「Victorious」1,830 people

「Defeated」913 people

【Reinforcements Sent】317 people

Very good.

Victory was almost within reach.

But 913 lords had still been defeated.

However, those 913 weren't necessarily all dead — some had been captured by the werewolves, some had surrendered to them.

The actual number would be even lower.

Even so, the losses were still considerable.

But given the combat power on both sides before, and under all the various circumstances, these casualties were entirely acceptable.

After all, by the previous outlook, a crushing defeat had been the most likely outcome.

Only a handful of lords could have abandoned their territories and fled.

And they would still have had to face the bone dragons, titans, and hellhounds outside in pursuit.

Yet now 1,830 lords had already won — nearly half.

And most of those 1,830 lords had already been deployed to other battlefields to reinforce their allies.

Now to look at the werewolves.

【Moon-Gazing Army Lord List】

【Total】3,071

【Current】1,241

【State-level】0 (8)

【Commandery-level】36 (97)

【County-level】417 (1,119)

【Town-level】788 (1,337)

【Village-level】(182)

The figures in front were still the werewolves'; the numbers in parentheses were the World-Breaker Army's.

The advantage was clear.

The werewolves had already lost 1,830, and the remaining ranks were entirely at a disadvantage.

That was how a snowball worked.

The advantage would only grow more pronounced.

After one more battle's worth of time, the enemy should be comprehensively defeated.

Then they could withdraw.

Before he knew it, the food on the table had been completely eaten.

Tang Ruan immediately handed over a cup of water.

Zhao Chi drained it in one go.

Then next… go kill some collapsing enemies?

Anyway, his condition was good right now, and idle hands were idle hands.

Better rack up some more experience.

Zhao Chi was just thinking when he suddenly received a mandatory notification.

【Urgent Notice】:

【All lords of the Binghe and Tongyan Corps】

【We have just received word from the White Tiger Regiment that they have safely withdrawn, with all members entering Shubei Town and successfully linking up with the Xuanwu Regiment】

【Therefore, approximately 2 corps' worth of werewolf reinforcements are pulling back, encircling toward our side】

【Among them, approximately 3 squadrons of werewolves will arrive first, with an estimated arrival time of 30 minutes】

【All battlefields are to end combat within 10 minutes; after 10 minutes, the main force will withdraw】

【Do not be held back by immediate gains; if the estimated combat time is long, immediately initiate disengagement procedures】

【Once again, combat must end within 10 minutes】

【After 10 minutes, withdrawal is mandatory】

【The withdrawal will not wait for lagging lords; please keep this in mind】

What was coming had to come eventually.

There was nothing to complain about.

After all, the current situation was already good enough.

To go a full 2.5–3 hours without any enemy disturbance at all was simply a stroke of luck by sheer chance.

But Zhao Chi was also a little surprised.

The White Tiger Regiment's headquarters had withdrawn awfully fast.

It was no exaggeration to call it lightning speed!