Time was a river, forever flowing onward.
When the Watch Alliance sought Demacia's aid, its envoys deliberately concealed the Noxians' movements in the north to emphasize the severity of the situation.
As a result, Lux hadn't learned through their channels that the Black Forest Federation had dissolved or that the Iron Thorn Kingdom had fallen.
Instead, the Watch Alliance envoys had exaggerated the situation so much that Demacia mistakenly believed the Noxians were trying to expand their maritime trade for economic reasons, and had shifted their focus south.
Demacia's intelligence-gathering efforts in Noxian territory had already been weak, and there was a serious delay in receiving information. Now, with the Watch Alliance envoys interfering, by the time Lux learned that the Black Forest Federation had dissolved and been absorbed into Noxus, and that the Iron Thorn Kingdom had fallen, more than three months had passed since the events.
As a result, construction in Yeming City was already underway and progressing in an orderly fashion, while Demacia's plan to extend its influence east had run into trouble at the stage of concrete implementation.
The original plan had been to pass through Tukugul and head north to join Avarosa. But now that Tukugul had once again become an autonomous region of Noxus, was it still viable to travel through there?
Compared with dealing with the Black Forest Federation, crossing Noxus would undoubtedly make things more complicated. Although Demacia and Noxus had fairly cordial relations at the moment, Noxus was unlikely to accept a large Demacian army passing through its territory, and Demacia wouldn't feel comfortable placing its own supply lines on Noxian soil.
That was what it meant for plans to fall behind events.
In these circumstances, the eastern campaign would inevitably have to be revised.
A plan that had originally served