Within less than half a shichen, straight columns of wolf smoke shooting into the sky and the heart-stopping flashing light of Warning Talismans spread across most of the northern, southern, and western war zones of the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Yet the first wolf smoke to rise came from the Northern War Zone.
The purpose of beacon towers throughout the Human-Demon Battlefield was to give warning.
Such warnings were relayed layer by layer, with many rules governing them.
But no matter which beacon tower's patrol soldiers they were, the moment they saw wolf smoke rising from a nearby beacon tower, they would instinctively become alert.
Within the Northern War Zone, only the seven frontmost beacon towers near the snow cedars had initially raised wolf smoke.
But never mind seven—even if a single beacon tower raised wolf smoke, the alert level of nearby beacon towers and military strongholds would multiply several times over.
Moreover, Ye Zhen had previously issued new orders: so long as one beacon tower raised wolf smoke, all nearby beacon towers had to raise it as well.
First, to sound the warning; second, to intimidate.
If there truly was a large-scale assault, wolf smoke rising everywhere in an instant would certainly make the enemy hesitate or doubt for a moment.
And that brief moment could, more or less, buy the garrisons at the beacon towers a better chance of survival.
Ye Zhen was now trying every possible way to let more soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army survive.
Under these circumstances, wolf smoke rose from every beacon tower across Blood River Fortress in less than sixty breaths.
More than ten advance Shadow Demon squads were stunned when they saw wolf smoke rising everywhere.
They clearly had not launched their attack or exposed their tracks yet, so why had