Marcus had escaped!
By the time the news spread throughout the entire camp, Marcus had already escaped an hour ago!
There was nothing they could do. The two guards watching Marcus had been silently killed, while the guards around the cave prison holding Marcus had been completely dealt with by his four loyal subordinates. No one had noticed in time. If Thunder King had not sensed the magical cage being broken and rushed back, they might not even have known Marcus had escaped by now.
Peros urgently dispatched many patrol teams to begin searching for Marcus's trail. Quite a few guards sleeping soundly were dragged out of bed to join the pursuit, while those who had not been dragged up were more or less awakened by the commotion. The entire camp was in chaos.
Unable to rest in the middle of the night, the camp guards wailed in misery. Including this time, they had gone three whole nights without proper rest. Complaints nearly rang through the entire camp, and every guard cursed Marcus hundreds and thousands of times before turning their resentment into motivation and searching for him as though they had been injected with stimulants. If Marcus truly fell into their hands, he would probably be made to suffer countless indignities before even being brought back to camp...
Of course, those were matters within the camp and had absolutely nothing to do with Wu Yan's group, who stood apart from it all. Thus, upon learning that Marcus had escaped, Wu Yan merely muttered about it briefly before tossing it to the back of his mind, leaving Thunder King, who had specifically come to inform him, utterly helpless...
In short, chaotic as the camp was, Wu Yan and the others continued living quite comfortably. To them, helping Astrea activate the