While Zhou Xu was busy planning the developments to come, a massive army slowly arrived outside Black Stone City.
The situation caused a commotion atop Black Stone City's walls. As the officer responsible for defending this section, White Butcher also sprinted all the way up to the battlements.
The soldiers stationed atop the walls tensed one after another, only relaxing once they made out the flags of the approaching force.
"It's the Assault Camp!"
Those words made every defending soldier, including White Butcher, breathe a sigh of relief.
White Butcher knew that after the Assault Camp had arrived at the front line from the rear, it had been stationed in Yellow Sand City.
But soon, they realized there was a problem.
"Wait, the Assault Camp only has three hundred cavalrymen. The force outside looks to be at least two or three thousand strong! Even with the centaur troops added in, there shouldn't be that many!"
The doubt in his heart made White Butcher furrow his brows.
However, as the distance continued to close, the sight that entered their view soon presented them with the answer.
The "large army" they had seen earlier was actually made up of prisoners of war!
"Hiss—"
The sight before him made White Butcher suck in a sharp breath, while the soldiers under his command were left staring in stunned disbelief.
"Good heavens, three hundred cavalrymen went out and came back with two or three thousand prisoners?!"
This completely overturned his understanding of reality. If the truth had not been laid directly before his eyes, White Butcher would never have believed it.
The two or three thousand prisoners had been bound together in a special fashion, one after another, with the range of movement of their hands and feet restricted to ensure they could not easily