When this new piece of news was first posted, the people nearby seemed not to have reacted yet. They assumed it was just another routine report on the recent ecology of the demon plane, like the ones posted earlier. But before long, commotion rose from the crowd as everyone finally realized what the paper meant!
Hao Ren heard people muttering behind him: "The Demon King's City? Wasn't the Demon King's City torn apart by a spatial storm?" "The remnants of the Demon Lord's Army should already have been scattered... How did another group suddenly show up?" "Could it be fake?" "I heard that the Demon King's City merely fell into a spatial rift back then, and no one actually saw it being torn apart..." "The news might not be true. Didn't you see the word 'suspected' everywhere...?"
The commotion in the crowd grew more intense. Soon, the quiet discussions developed into a noisy uproar, and more and more people gathered in front of the posting wall. Even the mercenaries nearby who had been exchanging information and taking on missions were drawn over. Just then, another soldier walked out from the side, and someone immediately grabbed him. "Friend, is the news posted above true?!"
"I'm only here to put up the post," the young soldier said with a shrug. "Anyway, this is the news I was given."
As he spoke, the soldier posted another piece of intelligence on the wall, right beside the previous notice about the Demon King's City projection. It contained only a few brief sentences as well: The remnants of the Demon Lord's Army have been definitively sighted on the Second Plane, and are suspected to be surviving soldiers of the First Legion. The demon lord Banuklak of the Second Plane has left his castle and led an