"Reporting to my lord, this subordinate received an order from the Crimson Beard Dragon King to assemble two hundred thousand elite Water Clan troops within three days, with their own weapons and provisions, and await military orders.
"This subordinate does not know whether this is related to the Water Clan army entering the war as my lord mentioned. However, this subordinate has received the order, and superior orders cannot be defied. I have therefore come to ask my lord whether I should act according to the order?"
This was the urgent report sent by Dang Xiao, the Water Lord of Yuan Xin Water Mansion.
Although Yuan Xin Water Lord Dang Xiao had merely received an order from his immediate superior, the Crimson Beard Dragon King, who had given the Crimson Beard Dragon King his orders?
The various water mansions of the North Sea fought each other brutally, but once one reached the level of Dragon King, disputes became rare. Every Dragon King had designated water mansions and territories under his jurisdiction; there had never been any large-scale wars.
Then the Crimson Beard Dragon King's order to assemble the Water Clan had, nine times out of ten, come from a higher authority.
And that higher authority, needless to say, was almost certainly connected to the Four Seas Dragon Court.
In other words, from this single piece of intelligence alone, Ye Zhen could infer much useful information.
First, it was certain that the Four Seas Dragon Court had already dispatched Water Clan troops into the war, and on no small scale. They had begun mobilizing the forces of the various North Sea water mansions.
Yuan Xin Water Mansion alone was required to draw two hundred thousand elite Water Clan troops. A Dragon King had no fewer than seven or eight Water Lords