Zuo Qiu Mingyue and the others atop the tower did not have to wait long before a steady stream of messages began arriving, nearly all concerning the strange phenomena in Military Province that they had just witnessed.
Great Xia naturally had more than one or two scouts in Military Province. The other Great Xia scouts concealed there might have been far from the Devil Race's Military Province camp and unable, for the moment, to ascertain its current situation, but those knight scouts had likewise noticed abnormalities in the Devil Race camp.
—Earthquake!
—Blinding light!
These two words appeared in virtually every report from the scouts whenever the Devil Race's Military Province camp was mentioned.
And within barely more than ten minutes, the Devil Race camps in Cool Province and Peace Province had begun to display unusual activity. Devil Race knights who had originally been gathered within the battle forts began flying out in large numbers, massing around the forts and taking up defensive positions. The Devil Race camp in Peace Province seemed to begin pulling back first; soon afterward, the camp in Cool Province began retreating as well, while the Devil Race ground forces in both camps started moving.
Though they had not waited long, to the generals and knights gathered atop the tower, every moment now felt like a year.
Finally...
"My lord, we've contacted Scout Number Two in Military Province..." The Junior Secretary to the Grand Marshal, who had just left, rushed back with an expression of wild excitement. "Scout Number Two had been hiding underground several hundred kilometers from the Devil Race's Military Province camp. The tremendous commotion from the camp just now triggered a violent earthquake. He was squeezed unconscious by the fierce movement of the earth and only just woke up. After awakening, he burrowed