For Zhang Tie, who had been piloting gliders over the Selnes War Zone for more than half a year, this land was far from unfamiliar. The mountains and rivers beneath his feet were living coordinates in his mind. Even without an aerial map, he could find the right route and direction from memory alone. Thus, after continuing southward for seven hours, correcting his course twice along the way and scouting the situation in several cities within the Titanic Duchy, by nightfall, when stars appeared in the sky, Zhang Tie had easily crossed the entire Titanic Duchy and arrived in the Selnes War Zone he knew so well.
Four months ago, everything here had been familiar to him. Yet now, everything had suddenly become strange.
Ruben had said that the human defense line in the Selnes War Zone was about to collapse completely. Zhang Tie had been somewhat doubtful when he heard it, but now, as he truly approached the Selnes War Zone, he realized Ruben had not deceived him. The human defense line in the Selnes War Zone was indeed on the verge of total collapse.
When Zhang Tie saw the enormous Grave Tower Demons standing like pyramids outside the cities on the side of the Selnes War Zone bordering the Devil Race's territory, he knew that the situation here was far more perilous than he had imagined. And now, the human airship forces were already powerless to stop it.
Zhang Tie thought of the scene outside Tokeyi City, like a graveyard for human airships. It seemed that in that operation, the human airship forces had paid a far greater price than he had imagined. The Grave Tower Demons outside Tokeyi City had been destroyed, but the human airship forces had also suffered a terrifying blow, perhaps one from which