Lu Yang sat where he was and waited. At the same time, he was waiting for reports from the front. He was anxious, yet there was nothing he could do.
"Beep, beep, beep."
A call came through on the communicator. It was a video call from Oberto, the Harpy Legion Commander. Lu Yang accepted it and asked, "What's the situation?"
Normally, the communicators should have remained connected at all times, but their batteries were limited. No one knew how long they would need to track the enemy, so Lu Yang had instructed them to connect only when reporting in.
When Oberto saw Lu Yang on the screen, he immediately reported, "Master, the enemy has reached the border between the L8 Zone and An City. There are vast mountains and dense forests there, beyond our surveillance range."
Lu Yang said, "Let me see what's below."
Oberto aimed the communicator's camera downward. Through the video, Lu Yang could see an endless chain of mountains eight hundred meters beneath Oberto, covered in lush, dense woodland.
At the turn of spring and summer, pink flowers blanketed the mountains, making them look exceptionally beautiful. Yet they also obscured the Harpies' vision. Only through occasional gaps in the canopy could they catch sight of Orcs, Scorpion Men, and Fire Demons hiding below.
Lu Yang sighed. They truly could not pursue them any farther. Back when they had burned the mountains, Zhuojiu and the others had already done everything they could. There were too many mountains around them, and they had needed to kill magical beasts to train recruits, poison the rivers, and slaughter the nearby Wild Beasts to carry out a scorched-earth strategy. They had only forty thousand people, divided between two areas. Burning away all the forests and trees around Donghai and Dan City had