Chapter 2798 - 1325: Hei Fan’s Trap (Part 2)

Meanwhile, on the other side, Teresa Tarosa was frantically trying to remedy the situation with unprecedented attention and concentration since her birth, doing her utmost to rectify her recent mistake.

No, to be precise, it wasn’t her mistake at all; it was a trap her opponent had probably been setting up from the beginning of the stalemate!

Her Prince had likely abandoned the choice of defeating her with direct tactics the moment the stalemate began, and instead, employed a more skillful and invisible means to continuously influence her, guiding her towards an irreversible defeat.

It wasn’t a tactic that could be effectively recorded in any textbook; it was an extremely targeted psychological manipulation!

It was a trap designed entirely for Teresa Tarosa!

After the second ridiculously powerful blue troop forcefully broke through, Teresa had completely seen through all of Motan’s arrangements. What was despairing was that she could see through it easily because her opponent had no intention of hiding anymore at this point.

The Black Vatican Priest had completed the setup, and she had unknowingly cooperated with the guidance, reaching the moment when her opponent could fully reveal her bottom card without any hesitation.

It wasn’t a very complicated plan, but it was nearly impossible to achieve.

From beginning to end, the Black Vatican Priest had been doing one thing, training troops—

The timing of this decision was probably within minutes after she demonstrated her ruler-level tactical practice ability.

Learning from Richard Ducasse’s extremely precise, impeccable command style, rooted in innumerable battle examples and the perfect tactical system recorded in textbooks, merging these into a whole should create the most threatening rhythm for the Black Vatican Priest, she judged.

The claim about the opponent’s lack of a solid foundation and intending to provide precise tactical teachings in actual combat might exist, but the proportion did not exceed one percent.

Lian foolishly believed because Teresa Tarosa indeed had this kind of personality.

But what Lian didn’t know is that the Witch in full state wouldn’t be so considerate for her heart; she selflessly wanted the opponent’s attention entirely on her, her being the center of their thoughts, heart, and mind!

And to carry out the aforementioned thought, it had to be an attack that was the most unbearable, unsolvable, hard-to-cope-for the Black Vatican Priest, an attack that would make him rack his brains to seize a glimmer of hope or despair all the more with no hope in sight!

Without doubt, Teresa Tarosa was a genius. Even though she had only learned about the existence of the ’Black Vatican Priest’ the night before, merely glancing at the ordinary battle examples Foster found, she still sharply captured the opponent’s traits and endeavored to transform them into disadvantages in actual combat.

And theoretically, the result should be pleasing...

In Teresa’s view, the most terrifying feature of the Black Vatican Priest was his ability to adjust his strategy against all styles, which meant he could incisively handle his enemy’s habits and tendencies without a sound, often forcefully breaking their plans, deciding their rhythm without them noticing, and making preemptive responses.

The previous simulation between Ramollok and Richard employed this theory.

Ultimately, the truth of the Black Vatican Priest’s frequent ability to predict outcomes was not mere calculation power, but rather, repeated ’guidance’ based on his actions towards the enemy.

Using chess as an inadequate analogy, consider the more straightforward Gomoku, where the Black Vatican Priest might create two stones on each side with a gap in the middle or one side guarded connect-four forcing the opponent to play in the predetermined position on their next turn.

Of course, war itself is not chess and is much more complex than chess, and there’s a big difference from the stated analogy, yet Teresa still keenly perceived its essence and found the theoretically most efficient countermeasure.

Since the Black Vatican Priest’s winning premise was utilizing and guiding based on the opponent’s style, then it’s simple, don’t reveal any style.

All are the most orthodox standard solutions, all are textbook-perfect tactical applications, abandoning any inclinations or stylistic tendencies, transforming entirely into a precise machine, performing no unnecessary operations, missing no loophole, every strategic thought is the most neutral pragmatic dismantling and advancing stifle the opponent’s strengths, forcing the opponent to compete in fundamentals under a first-mover disadvantage, this is Teresa’s choice.

A very perfect choice.

Truly perfect, incredibly perfect, perfect to an impeccable extent both in plan and actualization.

And then, this perfection got exploited.

Upon reverse deduction, Teresa astonishingly found how simple the opponent’s logic really was.

Firstly, given she had opted for the most exquisite style, it likewise doomed her to spend immense efforts to sustain this rhythm, a difficulty indeed high, even for someone as capable as a Witch.

Secondly, in order to consistently maintain the ability to limit the Black Vatican Priest’s ’perfection,’ every step she took had to be the best choice devoid of any emotion, and ’best’ implies ’singular.’

Based on these two premises, the Black Vatican Priest immediately chose to engage in a piecemeal offensive within the central battlefield. Although it seemingly left him in a disadvantageous position with no other option, it absolutely didn’t imply he lacked more subtle choices at that time. All these were actually to intensify the simulation’s fierceness and rhythm.

As a bet, the Black Vatican Priest voluntarily walked into a dead end from the start, a dead end where he couldn’t possibly win unless she underperformed.

What she paid, in turn, was her extremely tense mental state and unprecedented concentration to avoid any underperformance.

As time progressed, a subtle balance emerged between the parties, and as the battle scaled, it slowly stabilized, maintaining her mental state at a highly intensive, yet barely bearable peak.

Up to this point, the seemingly passive Black Vatican Priest could only rely on her tactical mistakes to open up the situation through an imaginary breakthrough.

What she needed to do, naturally, was to maintain the rhythm, not giving any opportunity.

But this was a trap! A trap crafted specially for her!

When the word ’maintain’ arose in her heart, the Black Vatican Priest had already succeeded, because sustaining didn’t require any exceptional performance. Experiencing such substantial effort before, she subconsciously disregarded this option, as excessive concentration equally elevates the likelihood of slip-ups.

Subsequently, the Black Vatican Priest began to consciously allocate attention to over ten small, scattered battlefields, and with nearly undetectable small-scale normal maneuvers, consistently kept a certain number of needed troops engaged and shielded them with a superficial veil of normal troop rotation.

Due to the excessively intense battle consistently raging, it didn’t take long for those secretly designated units to start upgrading massively, turning into the highest-rank species outside system allocation!

And the Black Vatican Priest cleverly concealed this, using the high-rank units’ not particularly prominent individual strength as a façade, camouflaging them as ordinary offensive troops, seemingly adopting the center blossom tactic, but actually began positional adjustment at a certain time point, ultimately—

Alongside Lian’s sharply intaking breath, a terrifying force at least equivalent to half an army group, entirely composed of high-rank units, completed its final assembly in the center of the battlefield!

The next second, they began to charge!

In perfect formation as a pack of wolves!

Chapter 1325: End