"At this moment, Ampton City truly has no power capable of standing against us!" Another voice sounded beside Zhang Tie's ear. Zhang Tie quietly moved behind a bookshelf and listened in silence. He was less than five meters away from them. "But I don't understand why Lord Devil Marshal suddenly came up with such a plan. This plan has caught our Angus Family off guard. It is vastly different from what we originally planned, and we simply do not have time to make further preparations. Under this plan, our family will also suffer enormous losses!"
"This is war. No war will proceed entirely according to one side's will or plans!" The man from the Arthur Family spoke. Zhang Tie remembered that the man was named Salant, also a level-twelve Great Battle Master. "Lord Devil Marshal had not anticipated that our demonized puppet legion would suffer such a tremendous setback in the Norman Empire. Many countries in the Blakerson Human Corridor still possess immense war potential. Although the super legion led by Lord Devil Marshal could destroy every target blocking our path, doing so would cost us dearly and waste a great deal of time. Right now, time is what we can least afford to waste. Every day, countless people cross the Kare Mountains and flee south. For every person who escapes, humanity's future war potential increases by one part, while we lose one potential source for our demonized puppets. Therefore, in order to keep those people in the north and utterly crush the resistance of the northern human nations, Lord Devil Marshal decided to implement a leapfrog strategy: first, completely sweep away these human strongholds north of the Kare Mountains, and shut the northern gate of the Blakerson Human Corridor in one stroke. Not only would this allow us to