The Medallion
Chapter 1614 The Mysterious Dragon Gateway Array

Seeing that the human army had suddenly formed their own array, Isabel took a moment to analyze it as her eyes narrowed. However, the more she observed it carefully, the more she got rather confused. Logically speaking, an array should be based on a certain principle. Some would be based on the Eight Diagrams, some were based on celestial bodies, and others were based on living beings like birds and animals. In other words, there must be a specific form for its basis.

However, to her utter frustration, the array built by the human army seemed very random. Isabel could not tell the exact principle where it was based on.

'This is strange. Is it really a mysterious military array? Well, it contains the aura of one, but I can't identify its principle. What the hell is going on?' Isabel thought to herself, baffled at the turn of events.

It was known to all that Isabel was one of the disciples of the most powerful and brilliant strategist in the spiritual race-Isaac. He used to be the commander in chief of the spiritual race whose reputation was well-known in the entire Supreme Ether Land. Moreover, he was also one of the few powerful spirit warriors of the spiritual race who had reached the Shura Realm. In his several years of existence, he had made countless contributions to the welfare of the spiritual race.

A hundred years ago, the spiritual race was actually invaded by the Shura Race. Since they were obviously weaker, they were utterly defeated and were pushed to the brink of extinction. However, at this crucial moment, Isaac managed to reverse the grim situation on his own. He even captured the commander in chief of the Shura Race in the process, forcing them to retreat from the spiritual race's territory. With this, Isaac demanded the Shura Race to sign an agreement that they would not violate the spiritual race ever again in exchange for the life of their commander in chief. This way, the spiritual race was able to barely escape from their miserable fate. Therefore, Isaac's reputation after this event had even surpassed that of their patriarch. From then on, he became highly respected by every member of the spiritual

race.

But the main reason why Isaac became invincible on the battlefield was because of his proficiency in utilizing the mysterious military arrays. It was said that when he was still young, he had a fortuitous encounter that made him obtain an incomplete manual of the mysterious military arrays. Although it was just an incomplete manual, with his astounding talent, he did not only master all the arrays in it, but he also created his own. This proved that he was indeed a genius.

After Isaac retired from the army, several generals and commanders of the spiritual race would still visit him in order to learn the mysterious military arrays. These military arrays were not easy to understand even by generals and commanders; thus Isaac only accepted three disciples in his life. The first two were now high-ranking officials in the spiritual race, and Isabel was the last disciple that he accepted. However, Isabel's situation was very different from the other two disciples. She did not have a grand family background that made her eligible. On the contrary, her background was very humble. Her parents died when she was young, and she had to live with her brother on the streets and beg for food. In a fortunate incident, Isabel was able to meet Isaac, who was just passing by. But since Isaac could easily sense people's hidden talents, he became interested in Isabel. He could see that she was smart and talented, so he ended up adopting the two siblings, and eventually taking Isabel as his disciple.

This was one of the reasons why Isabel had become a commander of the spiritual race at such a young age. Of course, she also had the power and talent that made her capable of the role. In fact, within a year just after she became a commander, she had already gained many extraordinary achievements that caught the attention of the new commander in chief-Alyssa. When Isabel was ordered to attack the Heavenly Rain Valley, another important task was given alongside it. This was to establish a training base of the military arrays on the location of the valley.

On the surface, there would be a lot of questions as to why Alyssa took the risk to choose the Heavenly Rain Valley as the training base of the military arrays when she could do it in the territory of the spiritual race instead.

However, the reason was very simple.

It was not easy to cultivate the mysterious military arrays. In fact, the simplest array would require a troop at least ten days or up to several months to master it, depending on the abilities of the soldiers. The more soldiers there were, the more difficult it would be. Hence, a longer time would be required. However, the biggest challenge on the battlefield was that the situation was always varying, and casualties were expected to be pretty high.

Therefore, once the casualties of the troops that were experienced in the military arrays became too high, they had to send more troops to replace them. But since these replacements had not yet received proper training in the military arrays, they would need some time to train them first. This way, the process would become tedious and inefficient. When using the mysterious military arrays, cooperation among the soldiers was always the main key. Any mistake would easily expose the flaw of the array that would eventually lead to greater risks.

Moreover, in the spiritual race's army, there were not many troops that were good in the military arrays, to begin with. Hence, if the soldiers were to be trained in their territory, and then later sent to the border battlefield, it would be such a waste of time.

Thus, Alyssa came up with a brilliant plan to deal with this problem. She decided to set up a military array training base at the front line of the battlefield instead, which would readily solve the problem of having a short supply of capable soldiers. Furthermore, she could also ask the troops of the surrounding spiritual race armies to train at the training base in batches. This way, they could rapidly expand the scale of the troops that were good in the military arrays in an effective manner.

Therefore, in order to attain this goal, Alyssa had ordered to attack the Heavenly Rain Valley and claim it from the human army.

The location of the Heavenly Rain Valley was close to the border of the spiritual race and the human army. Hence, whoever got a firm hold of the Heavenly Rain Valley could have an advantage in the war. However, the main problem was the valley's terrain. It was so bad that it was easy to infiltrate but hard to defend. Therefore, in the past, the Heavenly Rain Valley was alternately occupied by the human race's army and the spiritual race's army. But neither side wanted to give it up, because they knew that whoever held the valley had more advantage on the battlefield.

The mere fact that Alyssa wanted to set up a military array training base in the Heavenly Rain Valley showed that she saw the valley's great significance on the battlefield. The moment she established the training base and was able to secure it by letting elite troops guard it, it would instantly become a game-changer. With this, she could easily dispatch capable soldiers in several areas of the battlefield that could directly increase their fighting capacity.

With this plan, it could be seen how farsighted Alyssa was.

Thus, when Isabel was given this very important task, she had no choice but to accept it wholeheartedly.

Although Isabel sensed that there was something wrong in the valley, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, she was confident that she could overcome any hindrances through her mysterious military arrays. Even if the human army had set up countless traps inside the valley, she deemed that it would be rendered ineffective before her arrays. She thought that she could complete the task soon enough. "Mysterious Dragon Gateway Array! Open the Dragon Gateway!" After making up her mind, Isabel wore a serious expression and activated the Mysterious Dragon Gateway Array.

The Mysterious Dragon Gateway Array was built according to the principles of the nine divisions of the sky and the Eight Diagrams. The spiritual race's soldiers were divided into eight phalanxes with equal strength. The so-called Dragon Gateway referred to the center of the Mysterious Dragon Gateway Array. Hence, if one wanted to destroy it, he would have to enter the Dragon Gateway and break it from the inside. However, if he would not be successful, he would be trapped in it, and his strength would be exhausted until he died.‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒