War Begins! (Bonus Chapter for Ten Thousand Inductions' Silver Grand Alliance)

The cold wind howled through the camp. Though the bonfires kept it at bay, wisps of chill still seeped in.

Gu Shen stood expressionlessly before two bonfires.

Distant mountains overlapped beneath the dark, blood-tinged night sky.

Though he could not clearly see what lay beyond those mountains, the intuition from his Mental Sea could not be wrong... the "strange light" he sensed was the spiritual aura of Transcendents.

In this uninhabited mossland, who else could emit such a powerful spiritual aura?

It could only be criminals who had escaped from Snow Cage!

Gu Shen reached out and gripped his pendant. Fate Goddess's Protection was transmitting waves of tense spiritual fluctuations, indirectly confirming his suspicions.

"Little Mr. Gu... what a coincidence. You can't sleep either?"

A voice came from behind him.

Doctor Ji Mo, wrapped in a thick coat, rubbed his hands and breathed clouds of white air as he slowly approached. Reaching the bonfire, he muttered, "For some reason, I've been tossing and turning all night. I just can't sleep soundly."

Gu Shen glanced at Ji Mo.

The situation was rather bad. Aside from himself, there were only two Fourth-Levels in the camp... and one of them was a noncombatant responsible for "healing." It was not that Ji Mo was weak. He was, after all, a genuine Fourth-Level Mental Affinity Transcendent. Against an ordinary Third-Level, he could easily take them down.

But if he faced a Fourth-Level fugitive felon...

His combat strength would not be enough.

"Mr. Ji, did you sense anything unusual?" Gu Shen put away the pendant.

"I spread my spiritual power as far as possible... but I didn't see anything abnormal..." Ji Mo pulled his coat tighter, froze for a moment, then murmured, "What do you mean?"

Gu Shen looked toward the distant mountains.

Those people were