When Shun Ti finished asking them, everyone started to scream the answer he was already expected.

"Let's go for them!"

"Why are we still here and not going towards them now!?"

"Yeah! Let's stop wasting time!"

Renzo for his part just nodded at Shun Ti when he felt his gaze at him. They wouldn't move there if the person responsible for making them think of such an action, didn't wanted to go.

Shun Ti smiled wryly while taking a side glance at Kaeri, who just smiled back at him.

Seeing his men starting marching towards the direction that the Kinkou Order acolytes came from, Shun Ti quickly followed behind them.

"While we are on our way there, dont waste your time and make sure that your wounds are properly care. We are about to face thousands of Noxians and I don't want any of you to make a sorry display there!" Hearing their captain taunting them, a few started to laugh as they marched north east.

"Have you already thought about what to do with the enemy scouts, sentries and spies? With such a huge group of them they should already established such perimeter around them." Ymir suddenly asked at Shun Ti who nodded at her words.

"Their perimeter would be a heartache for us. However I've already planned something." Shun Ti said with a firm expression.

Ymir raised an eyebrow and asked "Mind enlighten me with such plan?"

"Well lure them towards us, we're going face on." 

Ymir stopped on her tracks when she heard his words.

"You're kidding, right?" She couldn't help but ask. She was giving a glance to her captain that was telling him that his answer better be yes.

"No, I'm not. We don't have the means to intercept and prevent the enemy to raise the alarm. The best course would be head towards them as if we were unaware of the danger-" He couldn't finish his plan as Ymir slapped him on the head as she glared at him with an icy look.

"Stop kidding or I'll beat the shit out of you."

Shun Ti frowned his brows and was about to tell her that he was dead serious when they suddenly heard Kaeri voice.

"We're going to take a detour and make our ways in their path, in that way they going to come towards us." Hearing her proposal, Ymir felt that it was more feasible and possible than the suicide one from Shun Ti.

Still, it didn't save them from the problem of being spotted by their sentries and spies.

"That could work, however we need to think a way to take care of their scouts." Ymir added.

Both Shun Ti and Kaeri nodded as they begin to ransack their brain while thinking a solution.

However they were interrupted by Karya's voice as she said to them.

"Uhm, Renzo said that he could trap the entire army if we make sure that there's no civilians around." Saying that Karya glanced again at Renzo.

Hearing her, Kaeri nodded as she answered "I can infiltrate and take a look for a brief to see if can do something. Still, how are you planning to trap them? You're not planning on doing what Shun Ti said, right?" She couldn't help but ask him with a heavy frown on her face.

Renzo shook his head as he said "This plan is kinda dangerous for me, not because of the enemy, but because of my power. I will really be in a bad spot most likely once I took action and I won't be able to cover you all in case of danger, so the follow up effort from your part need to be enough or else we're screwed." 

When Karya translated his words everyone was looking at him with question marks and heavy looks on their faces. What could possibly put him in such bad position to make such claim?

"And what exactly are you planning to do?" Ymir couldn't help but ask.

"An actual earthquake, one big and powerful enough to cover the entire area. I'm planning on sunk them on their place while giving an advantageous position for us." 

Karya was at lost as his words, she couldn't help but glance at him as if he was crazy. 

"What did he said Kar?" Kaeri couldn't help but ask in anticipation after seeing her state.

"T-this madman plans to create an earthquake!" She looked back at them.

"And wasn't that what he was doing until this point?" Hyuna couldn't help but ask not understanding why was the fuss about.

Shun Ti gulped down as he was the one answering her "What he was doing right now couldn't be take as an earthquake, at most could reach the level of a high level magic attack or the likes." 

'But he literally break the previous battle ground like an earthquake...' Hyuna refuted in her head.

Hyuna still not understanding, could only heard the rest of Karya explanation.

" The most dangerous parts in the plan, is the moment I try to get near them so I can proceed with the attack, and the next one would be the moment I finished the attack. I haven't tried using that much of strength in my attacks , so I can't tell how my body would handle that much energy." When everyone heard his explanation, they were giving him looks as if he was crazy.

They wanted to ask him why would he put himself in such situation, but they shut up their mouth.

Renzo was indeed the whole reason they were taking this mission in the first place.

Shun Ti looked at Renzo face with a conflicted look on his face. Until he sighed and asked "What else do we need to do?" 

Hearing his question Renzo smiled as he answered "To begin with someone that could quickly give me first aid, as I don't wish to die yet. The next would be someone to send me back quickly so that grandma could heal me back if my bet goes wrong, she's the only one I know so far that could be capable of healing the wounds that I'll probably take." Hearing until the point, the majority glanced over Tahru, who was the quickest and strongest of the bunch.

Seeing everyone's look he just nodded, although he grumped at bit to himself.

"The next thing would be how you all would procede in the aftermath. My attack may be able to kill many of them, but not all. I can't tell the depth of the pit that I would create, however I know that it won't be enough to bury them." When he finished his words he glanced over them and waited for what they could come up with.

Renzo couldn't do everything at this point, he didn't know the surface area that thousands of soldiers would take, but seeing his capabilities he won't be able to put crazy stunts right now.

There's a large room to improvement for him, it has been just a couple of days after all since he obtained the power.

He would trap thousands in a pit to be slaughtered upon, if they can appreciate such advantage, he didn't know what else to do with his resources.

He wasn't invincible, nor does he have the martial skills to face the stronger guys in the Noxian army.

What's more, the moment he battled alongside them, it was bound to weaken his capabilities, as he would have to make sure to not randomly kill enemies with his allies in the nearby.

Shun Ti answered this time and assured him "Dont worry, once you finish your part we would be able to unleash hell at them." As he said this he nodded towards the rest.

"I hope you also give everything you've got. We cannot let the opportunity created by him to slip by."

When he saw everyone nodding, Shun Ti knew what to do, as such he faced one of the assassin's under Kaeri and ordered to him "Go back to the village and ask for the majority of forces available, make sure to tell we would need enough people to wipe out the enemy."

The man quickly nodded as he disappeared from his position.

He recognized from Renzo's words the hidden hint. They won't be able to destroy everyone with their numbers, not even with him around. The most they could do is to contain them and killed the few that could slip and climb the pit. However the vast majority of the Noxian army was outside their reach also.

'Not even with the fire tornado I would be able to inflict enough damage, damn it.' Shun Ti cursed.

His trump card was indeed a powerful ability, in a battlefield using such a skill could throw the enemy lines in disarray, quickly given a chance for his allies to act upon it an win an advantage. However, in this kind of battlefield, the damage that could be done would be determined by its own size and power.

He would kill dozens or even hundreds with them trapping in one place, but it was impossible to kill the entirety of their ranks.

If they took their time killing the enemies with their current amount of people, hours would pass by and they didn't know if enemies reinforcements could reach their place. 

After all, they decided to attack now to prevent this large enough group to grow bigger and reach the main army.

Hearing Shun Ti order, Renzo, Ymir, and Kaeri sighed in relief.

Now with reinforcements on the way, they could march towards the enemy with assurance.

As such now while marching towards the enemy, they were planning into how to proceed to not only reach the enemy main position, but also create an encirclement enough for them to prevent any mishap, taking out of the equation three people from the rest of the group.

"Our only solution is to rush among the enemies in our way. We cannot let ourselves get slowed." That was the decision made by everyone.

Fourteen brains and this was the best plan they could come up with, one must wonder how they could survive until this point....

---

 

Meanwhile in the village, Shun Ti messenger reached the gate.

Hastily making his way towards the Brotherhood headquarters, he was stopped and questioned by the guards "Got something to report? Identify yourself, squadron and reason."

"Understood. Dal Haneul, second squadron. I was ordered by our group leader to report a preemptive attack against enemy position. I request for a head commander to proceed with the rest of information." He said respectfully and attentive.

The guard nodded at his words as he entered inside.

A few moments later he was ordered to enter.

Inside the room various people could be seen discussing energetically, while a black haired middle-aged man, alongside a young looking acolyte from the Kinkou order were looking over the messenger.

"Go on, tell us what Shun Ti wanted to report." Said the middle age man.

The messenger nodded as he started "We received information by acolytes regarding a large enemy battalion. The group decided to intercept the enemy while also trapping them, we request a large amount of reinforcements to subjugate the enemy while."

When he finished, the noisy room was silent as many where having various frowns on their faces.

"Are they attacking the various battalions gathered north east from our position?" Asked the acolyte.

"Yes, some of our members are injured, however we still decided to intercept and stall the enemy until our reinforcements came. We can ensure that the enemy would be in a bad position If the reinforcements came, as our members abilities could not only reduced their numbers, but also prevent the enemy from receiving reinforcements." When the messenger finished his words, the middle aged man couldn't help but ask.

"I can assume that your squad finished their previous task and eliminated another battalion, right?" 

The messenger nodded as he answered "Indeed, we were on our way to the village when we received the information and decided upon."

Various murmurs could be heard from the surrounding members, as an smile could be seen on their faces at the good news.

The middle aged man nodded briefly, he then glanced over the acolytes and asked "Are there enough members under your disposition to be send?" 

The acolyte glanced back at the board with a thoughtful look on his face, seemingly counting his available brothers.

He then glanced back and said "There's at least three groups available for the request, in a few hours at least four to five groups should come back from their missions."

Hearing his words the middle aged man sighed as he started ordering "Very well, prepare those three groups alongside half of our available squadrons. Although this time we could eliminate a large amount of enemies, we cannot comprise the headquarter and the other groups outside in case of emergency." As he started ordering various guards started to leave the room, heading to inform the various squadron leaders.

The middle aged man still continue issuing orders "Raise the patrols around the area, send a batch of thirty scouts to the second squadron position to aid in their help before we reach. I'll be leading personally the reinforcements, so I'll be leaving the command from our side to Yamato until Kae or Ikko return back." 

Once he finished his words, the man signaled the messenger to return while he exited the room, heading towards his house to prepared himself.

When the various guards and messengers moved around the village informing the urgent orders, an uproar spread among the people as the news were heard from the , not so discreet, guards and squads.

Many soldiers and civilians were excited by the rumors of another battalion destroyed by a squad.

When the people started to see the large amount of preparations in such quick speed from the many squadrons in the village, the other rumor regarding a supposed attack towards a large group of enemies, seemed to ignited the fighting spirit in many Ionians.

When groups of civilians started issuing their willingness to partake their part in the attack, the command where at lost in what to do. 

However someone quickly issued a order to tell the people that they weren't willing to reduce the numbers of Ionians in the attack, and if they wanted to help, they could help with the burden of the supply teams in the village.

They were also promised to be called when the next attack would be made. As at this point almost everyone knew that a great battle was most likely to happen in the Placidium of Navori.

With complaints from their part, and a few eagers to help reduce the work behind the supply team, these groups were dispersed just in time to watch the reinforcements marching in quick speed towards Shun Ti's squad position. 

Leading by the middle aged man called Yenma, twenty squadrons from the Brotherhood of Navori alongside three groups of acolytes from the Kinkou Order, made their way under the heated gaze of the villagers and defenders alike.

Almost seven hundred warriors and trained assassins marched in high speed, while thirty minutes after their departure, another large team, this time from the supply squadron, followed behind them with various carts and beast of burden.

Something big was about to happen, a turning point in the Noxian invasion of Ionia.

---

It was noon by now, that much Gallesi could tell. 

It has been many weeks since they reached Ionia after crossing the sea. He came to this land alongside another wave of reinforcements send by Noxus.

They left him in charge of various battalions that belonged to his warband. As a warlord in command of fifteen battalions that composed three warbands, he enjoyed a good position in Noxus.

Although he could easily enjoy a lavish life in Valoran, he enjoyed, like many others, the trill of the battlefield and the constant feeling of growth.

When he got a wind of the invasion of Ionia two years ago, he was excited by the possibility of getting stronger in this magical land.

It was well known that Ionians had in their power various techniques and abilities that were largely sought. Various renowned temples and schools with ancestral knowledge have their homes in the various island of this marvelous and mysterious place.

With this invasion, a new window was opened for the various family's, clans and warlords of Noxus as with the opened fronts in the Freljord, Shurima and the various borders in Noxus, there weren't many options for them.

And the most current profitable one in terms of battlefield experience was against the Freljord.

And he didn't wanted to get thrown in the cold land of the Freljord. 

At such, when he was offered a position in the next batch of reinforcements he didn't doubt and prepared his bannerman and throw himself into the treacherous seas towards Ionia.

The travel was long and exhausting, luckily for them by the time they reached the fortress of Fae'Lor, they rested enough and then set sail towards Navori.

Once they landed, they quickly made their way through the various fronts opened. The general Jericho Swain has given to him, alongside other warleaders, the order to slowly encircle the Placidium of Navori while also destroying for any resistance met on their way.

However, something seemed to make their general change his mind, Gallesi could smell that probably it has to do with the spread their troops were forced to make. Making their power thin with only battalions attacking villages instead of large groups, as such he ordered the rest of his battalions to regroup again and answer his general order.

The general Swain wanted to make a quick and decisive attack to the enemy that has started to retaliate.

At such, he was currently moving while waiting for the rest of his troops, at best the day after tomorrow the would be able to finally reunite and join the main army once again.

"Have you receive any reports from the battalions nearby?" Gallesi asked to one of his captains.

The captain bowed respectfully as he answered "We received the confirmation of two battalions in our far west position making their way towards us. While the rest assured that by tomorrow's night, they would reach our place." 

Reached this point the captain have a frown on his face as he informed the rest of the news "Still, we haven't heard any report from one of our battalions in the north west position." 

Gallesi raised an eyebrow hearing this report. Insubordination was something that could happen during a war, however Noxus was powerful due to one thing, the incredible cohesion of it's army.

Add this to the successful advance in the recent weeks and there wasn't any logical reasoning for one of his battalions to not respond to him.

"Try send them a messenger issuing my command of immediately cease their actions and regroup with us. If they still have some sense in their heads, they wouldn't dare to reject a direct order from me." He said with a cold voice.

The captain just nodded and exited their warlord tent.

Gallesi remained silent after seeing his captain disappear from his sight, he closed his eyes and thought carefully at his current situation, while organizing how to proceed with the punishment towards his battalion captain.

He didn't wanted to give a harsh punishment that could affect the performance of his captain, after all, he was a good soldier with a clever head on his shoulder... most of the times.

However, he was quickly brought up from his thoughts when he heard the various screams of his sentry's, it seemed that an enemy was approaching their position.

"Report!" He quickly yelled and a few moments later a sweaty soldier bowed to him as he said "We spotted a group of twelve people heading in high speed towards us, a few of them attacked the guards and sentries that true to intercept them." 

Gallesi diminished the soldier as he walked outside his tent.

It was a small group that seemed to wanted to do a suicide mission.

'Have we entered that stage now?' He thought to himself as he could slowly see the reason why his general wanted to quickly attack their enemy's most important land. 

If the enemy started to make suicidal attacks disregarding their well being with the only thought of inflicting the greatest amount of damage to them. It could be a concerning matter.

After all, a powerful mage or skilled warrior could be extremely dangerous to them.

He then glanced at a group of mages that started heading towards the enemy position alongside other troops. Seeing this he smiled as he didn't think that the enemy could retaliate against such force, not with their numbers.

However, he quickly frowned when he saw a few lights and attack going on the southwest of his campment, there he spotted the enemy figures fighting while a bad feeling started to spread on his gut.

He sensed danger, a great danger at that.

He was about to give an all out attack to wiped them out when a cracking sound spread through the air. A terrible sound echoed the area as if something have been broken.

It was then that the ground started to shake, throwing him alongside everyone in the camp to their feet as the ground started to crack open.

His body was then hit by a powerful shockwave that shook his entire body, the residual energy violently shaking every fiber and bone in his body.

He quickly tried to disperse the energy with his own battle technique, but he was having a hard time to maintain his balance as the ground started to shake more and more violently.

"KILL THOSE BASTARDS, ATTACK! MAGE ATTACKS! ARCHERS, OPEN FIRE!!!" His voice roared the battlefield but it hardly reached a few dozens of meters nearby.

His voice couldn't compete with the vibrating air and the terrain destroying bit by bit.

Luckily a few mages started to throw their attacks, however quickly despair encroached their faces as the attacks stopped in the air and disappeared.

*BOOOM* 

Suddenly the situation worsened as Gallesi felt his body falling, opening his eyes wide he saw in horror that the land around him was broken into pieces as his soldiers and everything around fell alongside him.

A large canyon appeared out of nowhere bellow him. It spread near a kilometer as it reached the nearby rocky hill, quickly making the large boulders fall alongside.

The fell almost for five entire seconds until water splashed their backs and hit hardly the surface of water.

Quickly trying to not sunk further, he fought against the suctioning force made by the large boulders that fell first.

After a few moments he was able to quickly swim to the surface and breath once again.

Once he was able to calm himself and breath normally, his senses started to process the scenery around him.

Screams and muffled sounds were spreading around the whole subterranean river, many soldiers seemed to be injured as they screamed for help, not knowing how much they would endure.

He quickly swam around previous spot, trying to help those he could while also looking for some surface to regain foothold.

When he moved his gaze upward, he was able to see the sky open and the walls of rock trapping them. He couldn't point exactly, but they would need to climb at least 40 meters in order to reach the surface and get out of this subterranean river.

"Those bastards!" He roared in anger but quickly tried to suppressed, the most important thing was to look for a boulder or border they could climb and leave the water.

"Over here! There's solid rock here!" He then heard a soldier screaming as he headed towards it. Many around him were doing the same, while a few wounded that couldn't be helped were trying at their best to reach the place.

Still, many of those heavily wounded quickly started to loose strength. Trying to keep themselves afloat with their heavy armors, summed with their wounds was a tiring task that quickly burned their stamina.

Seeing his men drowning, Gallesi gritted his teeth in anger as he continue to swim forward.

Once he reached the surface and was helped by his men, he quickly glanced around and saw with a grim expression of himself the result of the enemy attack.

A giant hole was opened in what was once the terrain he camped.

Many bodies were laying motionlessly in the muddy water alongside the equipment and other materials around the camp.

The rest of his troops were swimming towards not only his place but other surfaces that were spotted and were quickly filling with more and more soldiers.

With a quick glance he counted the numbers of his left men, from the three thousand soldiers on his camp, less that two thousands were left.

Closing his eyes and breathing loudly, he tried to calm the anger that was quickly accumulating inside him.

He wanted to lash out on his men. But they weren't at fault.

This was also his mistake. They grew careless after not meeting any form of retaliation that wasn't small skirmishes.

How he could have prepared himself for a mage attacking them in such a way? 

Anyway, the most important thing right now was quickly regroup themselves and look for a way to escape this whole.

"All of you! Quickly see if you can climb these walls towards the surface!" He then pointed a group of soldiers that were fully equipped and that were still able to use their limbs.

The soldiers quickly followed his orders as they started trying to climb the walls.

Hitting the hard rock with their daggers and axes, they slowly started to climb. 

Gritting their teeth at the effort of climbing with such hard rocky wall and their heavy equipments, they awfully started to climb five meters.

However, due to never be prepared to face such situation, they quickly started to burn out of strength, as their muscles were keeping tense the whole time, quickly straining them.

It wasn't long before someone fell to the ground. At the height of 7 meters he fell on his back, injuring his spine in the fall and screaming in pain.

"Shit." Gallesi just cracked his teeth in rage.

He knew that he was screwed.

"All of you hear me out, try to reach all the food floating in the river, don't leave anything behind. If it's necessary, look down below to see if something sunk alongside other things!" Gallesi didn't wait any longer as he quickly issued his order.

His only hope was to tend his men wounds and slowly see if some of them could climb while waiting for his other battalions to show up and help them.

"Any mage or men capable of destroying these rocks, try to slowly make a way for us to climb back! I don't care what is needed, I want your ass working right now!" Saying this he grabbed his warhammer and started moving around the other surfaces, jumping around and looking for his officials and mages.

Although he wanted to climb also, he decided to wait and see if the enemy would attack at those who we're able to climb. And then judge if he has a chance or not.

"I swear I would paint the ground with those Ionians blood." He murmured with a venomous tone. 

----

Meanwhile in the surface, Shun Ti and the rest were killing the troops that were lucky to save themselves from falling in the river. 

Their numbers were near two hundreds, and luckily for Shun Ti squad, they were injured. Making easier for them to kill them all.

Although they would previously would make a though opponent, Shun Ti and the rest have some help this time.

Renzo, luckily wasn't heavily affected by his attack, as he only groaned in pain and started tearing apart the Noxians soldiers.

It seemed that his body was indeed able to withstand the epicenter of his attacks. Only leaving behind a horrible sensation around his entire body.

After all, the energy also passed through his body and he wasn't accustomed to such vibrations.

One need to take into account one thing, it was said that an awakened tremor fruit user could vibrate high enough to make themselves intangibles and pass through any surface or attack.

And to reach such vibrations, one needed a body strong enough to withstand such amount of energy.

Luckily for Renzo, it seemed that the fruit indeed was slowly making it's work. As he didn't doubt that any normal person would be reduced to puff of blood in such closeness position of the epicenter.

His attack just now was terrifying! Not only was strong enough to open a path towards the subterranean river, but it also affected the surrounding terrain as he calculated that various kilometers surrounding was affected by the tremor.

After all, although most of its energy was directed in the direction of the enemy camp, large amount of energy was dispersed through the air. And with the epicenter in the surface, the energy was able to run rampant in the surrounding area.

It was due to this that the hill and small rocky formation at the other side of the enemy camp was heavily affected, destroying the beautiful scenery.

And that wasn't all, during the duration of the earthquake, various lightnings could be seen in the sky, as the blue flash incensed them.

It seemed that the energy behind his attack just now was strong enough to ionize the whole place.

Renzo couldn't measure the earthquake, as he never was affected in earth by one. But he was sure that his attack now, would have been a categorized as a strong one.

When the buzzing feeling on his hands and arms died down a bit, he quickly joined alongside Tahru the rest of the squad. 

With his fist preventing the enemy attacks to reach his body, they quickly killed the remaining enemies.

When the last one fell, they quickly ran towards the cliff. Once there a surprised expression was plastered in everyone's face, even Renzo.

He did felt the river below, but he didn't though that it would have been so deep. However, he knew that normally, many other subterranean streams or rivers would've been in much more deepness, with aquifers being in the hundreds down below.

Still, it was a surprising matter and a good news for him. As he didn't have to strain himself more to create a deep rift or valley to trap the enemy. Just breaking down the surface and making a way for it to fell was enough.

It was due to that that a few places were salvage from falling, as they weren't placed in the terrain above the river.

"HAHAHA GOOD JOB ANAR RENZO! GOOD JOB!"

Mao quickly started to laugh loudly as he raised his thumbs towards him.

When they head him, the others started laughing too alongside him, while a cocky smile could be seen plastered in Renzo's face.

Shun Ti however just glanced at the soldiers below, although they did a good job, now they needed to maintain them down there until the reinforcements reached their place.

"Hey Renzo, won't you be able to bury them down there?" Quickly Hyuna's voice and question took the attention of everyone.

Renzo moved his gaze towards the borders above the various groups of soldiers down below. He then answered "I could do that, however the rock may not fall on them but near. But I can be wrong too, just like now while attacking." When saying the latter he bit his tongue while smiling.

When Karya's finished translating him, a few chuckled while Shun Ti ordered to him.

"Go try to do it, although I would prefer for the reinforcements to reach us first, in the meantime it wouldn't hurt for you to try. Still, dont force yourself much, you deserve more than us to rest." Saying this, Shun Ti nodded towards him as a gentle smile was on his face.

The rest of the squad nodded to his words as some of them started to say at him "Yeah! Dont need to force yourself, we can handle these guys in the meantime until you can!"

"Yes! Leave it to us anar Renzo!"

When he heard them, Renzo just nodded but still decided to walk towards one of the places he saw the enemies gathering down below.

Since he couldn't actually see below his previous position, mostly due to vertigo he felt, he walked around four hundred meters until he was in the cliff.

Glancing over Shun Ti and the others in his previous position, he tilted his head below as if asking for the enemies position. 

Receiving raised hands with seemingly thumbs up, he retreated twenty meter from the cliff as he put his right palm on the ground. Quickly channelling the tremors on his whole palm. He put all the strength he could muster.

*PEUWGH* *BOOOM*

Cracks spread quickly as the ground started falling.

A few screams reached his ears amidst the noise created by the falling debris and boulders.

It seemed that it worked!

Smiling to himself, he walked towards another position while thinking to himself 'The tremor guy is too op, please nerf him the next patch Rito!'