Dominion's End

V6C3: Tier Three

Dominion’s End Volume 6: The Unknown Elite

Original novel in Chinese by: 御我 (Yu Wo)

Chapter 3: Tier Three—translated by Simone (proofread by Minthe & elisa; C/E edited by lucathia)

I hadn’t expected that the Ice Spears would be willing to follow me and mount a sneak attack on the enemy.

At first, I didn’t even dare to think about it, scared that these soldiers would think the Jiang Dominion was just using them as cannon fodder. I’d already been afraid that the moment they heard of the 400 enemies that they would want to flee. If I still ordered them to go out on a raid, most likely we wouldn’t need to wait until the enemy arrived, there’d be civil war here.

But Wen Jianuo suggested himself to come with me, and the other squad members agreed to come too.

These are the kinds of companions who live and die together. If we get through this crisis safely, I’ll definitely regard them as my own people, equal to the people of the Jiang Dominion—no, they will be a part of the Jiang Dominion themselves!

Now that I had secured more troops, it seemed I could come up with even bigger plans, rather than just going on my own to lie in wait and mount an ambush, counting just on my luck to see if I could kill a few enemies at night—especially when I usually don’t have any luck.

Even if the Ice Spears are prepared for it, I don’t want to lose even one of them. Such disciplined and determined soldiers are hard to come by; losing even one would be such a loss!

For the majority of the time, I’d still only rely on myself, because I could be sure to retreat safely. At the very end, I’d use Wen Jianuo and the others to cause a bit of major trouble, like ambushing the enemy and gunning them down. That seemed like a pretty good choice.

I left it up to Wen Jianuo to work out the details of my simple plan, and spent an hour observing Tai Wen’s ability. He’d perfected it quite well. That he was able to master his skills like this, without the help of crystals, could only be the result of hard work. He must have contributed a lot to Guan Weijun successfully escaping from Lan City with all of them in tow.

I took out a crystal and said, “This is a tier two crystal.”

Tai Wen stared at the crystal with a longing look, but he lifted his eyes immediately to look at me and did not fixate on the crystal. I was quite satisfied with this reaction.

“Because your ability happens to be useful, I’m planning to give this crystal to you. But this doesn’t mean you can take it and run.”

I paused for a moment, glancing at the others from the corner of my eye. Very good, most of them were watching curiously to see what a tier two crystal looked like. None of them were actually bothered by the fact they couldn’t eat it.

Up till now, a tier three crystal would even be regarded as unique.

I said sternly, “Either you leave the Zhanjiang Garrison now, or you eat this crystal. If you eat it, the only way you leave the Jiang Dominion is by dying! Even if you flee to the other side of the world, don’t doubt that I will catch up with you.”

Though saying this made me feel like I was forcing him, I actually had no other choice. There was no time to build up trust or mutual understanding; I could only use the lure of benefits on top of threats.