"What happened?"
On the Thorn Path, roughly a hundred li from Kate City, Luke and the others escorting the civilians in retreat stared at the sky in terror.
At that moment, the same thought emerged in everyone's mind...
Could this be... the end of the world?
After that astonishing shaking, cracks began to appear in the sky above them, spreading across the seemingly eternal Dark Curtain. They grew denser and more numerous, making it feel as though the entire world was about to shatter.
This magnificent and bizarre sight inevitably filled them with a sense of impending doom. After all, if even heaven and earth were collapsing, what else could it be besides the end of the world?
"Luke..." In the crowd, Bondi, who had been directing the march, stared blankly at the sudden scene. The War Banner in his hand nearly slipped to the ground. Seeing this, Luke hurried over and caught the banner, glaring at his old friend.
Of course, he was not really blaming him. The sight was simply too terrifying. But the key point was that they were not ordinary people—they were the leaders of a two-hundred-thousand-strong army. If the leaders panicked at a time like this, what would happen to everyone below?
If panic led to a stampede, the casualties would likely number in the hundreds or even thousands!
Bondi came to his senses as well. After giving Luke a grateful glance, he bellowed at the top of his lungs, "Stay calm! What are you panicking about? Keep moving, don't stop..."
Yet faced with Bondi's lion-like roar, the hundreds of thousands of people seemed not to hear him at all. They remained frozen like wooden chickens...
The sight made Luke and the several generals around him look extremely grim.
Bondi was just about to lose