Steel Empire's border palace in South Li Continent.
One piece of information after another kept converging from all directions, gathering before Heilyn, the highest ruler of the Steel Empire.
"Sarah Province has fallen in its entirety."
"The Dragon Claw Legion has sent its sixth distress message in two days. They said the Cavemen from the Black Divine Hall are attacking the Space Channel they guard as if they've gone mad. They're already about to hold no longer."
"Coulson sent word that, so far, counting the Space Gates already within our territory, four Space Gates converted from Space Channels have been completed. Another thirteen are under construction and will be completed within a month—a shocking number."
Graff, the head of the intelligence bureau, paused before continuing, "That doesn't include the Space Gates we haven't discovered."
"How can there be so many? Four Space Gates? Thirteen more about to be completed? And Space Gates whose locations remain unknown? Where did the Underground World get so many Cavemen Warriors?"
Heilyn found it somewhat hard to believe.
How long had it been since the Cavemen uprising began?
Less than three months!
Yet the number of Cavemen and their armies had exploded geometrically!
The Space Gates posing the greatest threat to the human world were especially alarming. Not only had their number grown to four, but thirteen more were about to be completed, while countless others were just beginning construction!
The Steel Empire's territory under actual control in West Flame Continent exceeded twenty million square kilometers, and within those twenty million square kilometers were more than sixty Space Channels!
Every Space Channel could serve as a site for establishing a Space Gate. Once the Cavemen finished converting all those Space Channels...
The gateway to their world would be completely thrown open by the Cavemen, and