June 4th, Black Iron Calendar 898, inside the Devil Race military camp outside Tokeyi City, capital of the Titanic Duchy...
It had now been two and a half years since Zhang Tie had left Huaiyuan Prefecture under the pretext of entering seclusion for cultivation. For grass and trees, those two and a half years had seen two cycles of withering and flourishing. After winter gave way to spring, vegetation would always burst forth with vigorous new life once more. Yet for the Devil Race and the Three-Eyed Society families in the north of the Blakerson Human Corridor, these two and a half years had brought only "withering," never "flourishing."
Ever since January 1st, Black Iron Calendar 896, the entire Devil Race-occupied territory in the north had been shrouded beneath a black, icy nightmare—and had yet to awaken from it.
Whether to the Devil Race or the Three-Eyed Society families, it was a terrifying nightmare none wished to face: the most despairing nightmare brought by a human Knight named Golas.
In two and a half years, eighty percent of the Grave Tower Demons in the occupied territories had been destroyed. Of the eighteen Three-Eyed Society families of varying strength within those territories, seven had been utterly wiped out. The remaining eleven had all suffered severe blows and devastating losses to differing degrees. Countless elites and bloodlines of the Three-Eyed Society families had been cut off by that man's hand.
One Devil Race Knight had fallen, along with three Knights from Three-Eyed Society families. Throughout the Devil Race-occupied territory, the mere rustle of wind or cry of a crane sent everyone into alarm; all lived in fear. Even the Devil Race legion personally commanded by the Devil Marshal had become that man's target a year ago. While the Devil Marshal and several