Today's third update: Chapter 2799! 3/4!
"Stop right there, thief!"
Rumble!
A thunderous roar came from the mountain to the north. Yue Chan'er's group, having finished clearing the battlefield and preparing to leave, looked up to see Yanran arriving with her army, fury written across her face.
Though their numbers were the same, their momentum was nothing like that disorganized Cat Army from before.
Seeing this, Yanran was overjoyed. "You've fallen into my trap!"
As the Catfolk's distinctive horns sounded, Yue Chan'er and the others showed alarm. Besides Yanran's army, six more armies emerged from three mountains, surrounding them.
"You are surrounded! If you don't want to die, kneel and surrender at once!"
"In your dreams! Everyone, follow me and retreat!"
Seeing the Catfolk army she had awaited for so long arrive, Yue Chan'er did not linger. She led her forces back along the path they had come from.
"Where do you think you're going?"
With such a juicy prize within reach, how could Yanran allow them to escape? The seven armies attacked in concert, their firepower surging forth!
"Don't look back! Hold them off with everything you have and withdraw quickly!"
From high above, it looked as though seven massive halberds were stabbing toward the center, while their target was tiny by comparison—like an iron pestle piercing a pimple.
Yet Yue Chan'er's tiny force, no more than a pimple in size, fled outward at tremendous speed. Using the dense forest around them for cover, they forced the seven Catfolk armies to pursue them deep into the woods.
Under Yue Chan'er's leadership, seventy or eighty people scattered like birds and beasts, forcibly drawing the seven armies and their more than thirty thousand soldiers into this low-lying basin.
"Have they all followed us in?"
"Matriarch, they've all entered."
"Good. The