Surprise was clear on everyone's face, but they didn't speak.
"Two Silver Rakshasa were coming from the next junction. If we continued on, we would have gotten caught."
"Then what are we going to do? Are we waiting for them to move past us?" the Fire Lord asked.
"It's not like we can take them on, also I'm feeling that the Queen's consciousness is fading. It's getting harder to control these blocks. We need to think up a plan," I said.
"We need a distraction," Law said.
"Like what?" Dao Shen asked, "None of us can act as bait, if we run, we'll be outran and outnumbered."
He was right, none of us can act as bait for the Rakshasa to chase after, we're not fast enough, or strong enough. Not to mention…
"Even If we can make a bait, it's going to be difficult to draw their attention, it might even cause them to be more alert," I said.
Seeing that they didn't fully understand what I was saying I had to continue explaining.
"Say we use one of us as bait and they manage to outrun the Rakshasa. Not all of them will chase after the bait, and the Rakshasa around the trapped Queen will be far more alerted to us entering. The moment we enter, they'll block us on both sides."
"It seems that we're in a pretty shitty position," Law sighed.
Zhang Tian sighed and said, "If only we had an army to stop them… the only way to keep them from surrounding us by numbers, is to fight them with numbers too…" he sighed.
I smiled as he proposed something I didn't truly want to use from the get-go.
"Administrator, are you certain that the base will not destroy my own puppets?" I asked.
"No, the queen, when she woke up, had already assigned the signal of all the Rakshasa present as enemies, anything else is considered an ally. The unfortunate part is, that she does not have enough energy to stop the base from constantly reverting to its current sitting. The Bastion will always try to retain its current shape. So, we can't stay here for long, or the walls will crush us."
"I see, well that works in our favor. Automaton," I said.
"Yes Master," the automaton's voice sounded from right next to me through divine sense.
"Can you open a portal in this Bastion?" I asked.
"I can, but I cannot move the Lord of Lords pagoda, the Spatial suppression is stopping me from moving it. But I can open and close the gate with ease." He said.
"Okay, good, that's pretty good. Right, I have a plan," I said.
I then began explaining the plan to everyone. It wasn't too difficult, but it needed a few things to set up.
Not more than a few minutes later, the Rakshasa seemed to have moved down the hallway and were far away for us to act.
"Alright, we'll begin, everyone we can't mess this up, we only have one chance," I said as I opened the ceiling above us.
We all hopped out and began rushing toward the main door where the frozen queen was trapped.
The moment we crossed the first junction, I threw four canisters, two on my right and another two on my left. They both went into the alleyways and blew up, creating a loud, deafening, eye-blinding explosion.
Several Rakshasas had noticed us then and began screeching, alerting the rest.
Using the Golden Scripture, several copies of myself had emerged out after us from the hole we were in a few moments ago.
The clones began running all over the base spreading in all directions, sprinting at full speed.
The confused Rakshasas had several targets to follow, causing them to split their focus.
The Brutes inside the inner base realized that the five of us were coming in. They rushed out, massive in size, and burly of muscle, they shook the ground with each step they took.
The moment we went past the doorway, "Automaton, LET THEM OUT!" I called as I pulled out my minigun and began spraying and praying.
The four of my companions also began shooting the firearms I had given them. The reason was so they could save as much Qi as they could. We never know when we'll need to use our own QI.
The explosions and firearms shooting everywhere alerted the majority of the Rakshasas in the vicinity and they came running toward the base.
However, row after row of puppets jumped down from the gate the Automaton had made. They all walked steadily in unison, their stomping on the ground loud enough to wake the dead.
They had no fear, no emotion, and no will or intention to surrender or fall back. The true perfect soldier.
The first line of my puppets arrived at the door leading to the prison space and instantly crouched down, their feet planted tightly on the ground, and since I designed them based on Y's form. They all had their own version of the hovering Shield Mask, which they slammed it in front of them like a tower shield.
One shield next to the other, enough to block the rakshasa coming from outside. Not only that, since the door was large enough, more of the puppets had acted as a stepping stone for more to jump on top of them, and more shields rose up.
From the small openings between the shields, my puppets pulled out their own weapons, placed them in between the small openings, and let hell loose on the aliens.
Explosions and the rattling of bullets spraying from behind us sent shivers running down my spine.
The true taste and smell of freedom my friends.
That was behind us, as for the front, puppets came out in droves and began spreading out, slaying and killing the white rakshasas that were rushing us from inside the prison area.
The Brutes charged us, there were more than a dozen of them, and I knew if allowed to rampage, they'd destroy the entire structure of the puppets holding the gate.
That would have been the case if I wasn't here. "Close your eyes, seal your ears!" I shouted and threw as many explosive canisters as I could. They had poison in them too, and it spread wild into the compact area.
Sound ripping explosions and bright flashes caused every rakshasa that was too used to the dark to screech in agonizing pain.
After all, they never had to deal with sound and light to this extent.
In the meantime, while they were all distraught from all the strangeness of the incoming blows and attacks the automaton was still funneling more and more puppets into the field.
This will equalize the playing field since we were outnumbered earlier, and now the situation has reversed.
The only issue was the quality. The Brutes were already strong enough to fight against a dozen or more puppets with ease. So the only way to even win that fight was by constantly pumping in more puppets as the fight was going on.
The battle raged on, and the Rakshasas were being pushed back.
My own army was able to spread out forward and fight the rakshasas, climbing up on the brutes and stabbing them with anything they carried on them, or even outright go for strangulation or self-detonation all for the purpose of clearing up a path.
The ice crystal where the Queen was trapped was in the center of the area. While more brutes desperately tried to fight and protect it, and also retake control of the situation.
Thankfully, the more than one thousand puppets released were able to hold them off.
Several Rakshasas however didn't move from next to the crystal, these brutes were seemingly ordered to not act.
Behind us, the puppets holding the door were being slightly pushed back, it was an obvious outcome. Since they had two silver Rakshasas who had recently joined the fight.
Each blow of these Silver Rakshasas was able to push the entire wall and rip through the tower shields. But the hole was immediately occupied by another puppet and the bleeding was stemmed.
"We need to get closer to the crystal to take it with us," Law said.
"That won't be necessary," I said.
Since it was protected, the moment we get closer they'd probably rather die trying to protect it, after all it was their only way to leave this prison they're in.
"Get a bit away from me," I said as I pointed my hand toward the Crystal.
"Hurry, I'm almost losing my consciousness," the Queen said as she was also trying desperately using her will to halt the Brutes from moving, she was blocking and trapping them into the ground and using the Soulsteel to bind any that she could.
I threw a cooked cannister right on top of me, and while the cannister reached the zenith, I aimed my arm at the crystal, enabled the ring, and immediately swapped position with the crystal.
Now the crystal was back next to my group, feeling rather confused at first they soon realized what I did. And so did the Brutes that were protecting the cannister.
They immediately jumped me, and before they could even grab me I already swapped positions with the cannister I threw earlier.
A point-blank explosion echoed in the center of the area, leaving a wide smile on my face.
"Automaton, Take us inside!" I said and immediately the portal leading to the Lord of Lords pagoda's prairies opened up.
Law, Zhang Tian, the Fire Lord, and Dao Shen immediately jumped inside, while I hurled the frozen crystal into the gate.
"Retreat!" I signaled the command to the puppets near the crystal and they all began folding back.
Mission success.