"So who were they fighting?"
The bodies on the ground were easily identified as soldiers of the Babula Fortress Garrison. Apart from those, only three deep craters remained.
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
A knight hurried in and reported, "A Sky Fleet has arrived overhead."
The moment Sevillan heard this, she turned and ran toward the exit without stopping to think.
At the entrance, more than two hundred knights led their warhorses into the passage to conceal themselves.
Overhead, the task force composed of the Fourth Floating Fleet, Fifth Floating Fleet, and Sixth Floating Fleet paid no attention to the small force on the ground. It maintained its speed, entering Cask Province and advancing toward Okra Province.
A few minutes later, Sevillan reached the entrance. Leaning against the wall, she watched the enormous fleet sweep across the sky, a flicker of shock in her eyes.
"They have three times as many Sky Battleships as the Silver Wing Sky Fleet. No wonder we suffered such a crushing defeat."
After murmuring those words, Sevillan quickly realized that the most dangerous crisis since the founding of Okra Kingdom was about to unfold. It was even more dire than the situation three hundred years ago, when Parambria Kingdom had fought its way to the Babula Fortress Group.
Perhaps the fall of the Royal Capital was imminent.
But when she thought of the royal family's accumulated wealth over thousands of years, and the treasures stored in the Treasure Vault that could threaten even saint blood experts and demigod experts, she felt that Okra Kingdom might not be so easily destroyed after all.
Still, none of this had much to do with her, a tax official stationed in a remote region.
A fourth-rank knight made his way through the crowd to Sevillan's side and asked quietly, "Your