Unlike the East Sea region, the Imperial Capital region was caught in a new crisis. A large number of orcs had emerged from a distorted space on the northern grasslands.
These gray-skinned orcs stood over two meters tall, and each possessed the strength of a beginner Tier 2. They were converging on the Imperial Capital in great numbers.
Fortunately, unlike Dark Demons, these orcs were not immune to attacks from modern weapons. They were still flesh and blood and could be killed by modern weaponry. However, it took a long time to pierce a Tier 2 orc warrior's armor with such weapons, and even longer to penetrate their Tier 2 bodies. Thus, the Imperial Capital had been relying on heavy artillery and other modern weapons to bombard the orcs.
Fu Nian opened a map and pointed at Tongyun Mountain, four hours north of the Imperial Capital. "We're currently facing off against the orcs here. More and more mages and cultivators from the academies have rushed to the battlefield ahead of schedule, temporarily holding back the orcs' advance."
Lu Yang nodded. He knew the situation in the Imperial Capital. Thanks to the enormous populations of the Imperial Capital and Jin City, the two combined had more than forty million people.
The East Sea region only had three million people in total, yet it had still produced more than ten thousand warriors. The Imperial Capital and Jin City were primarily populated by young people, so the number of warriors and mages they could produce was likely more than twenty times that of the Iron Blood Brotherhood.
The academies also possessed a great many secret cultivation techniques, and the number of people who had reached Tier 2 far exceeded the Iron Blood Brotherhood's numbers.
More importantly, the nation's most important armed forces had