In this world, there were no walls that did not let the wind through. During the Holy War, if there was anything that spread faster than the wind, there was only one—rumors.
Just one week after Zhang Tie emerged from seclusion, news that the Devil Race had slaughtered the humans in the north, and that nearly two hundred million demonized puppets and the Devil Race's super legions were sweeping in like a sky-covering tide and about to reach the Kare Mountains, had already spread throughout every country south of the Kare Mountains. Even ordinary people knew about it.
The countries south of the Kare Mountains were gripped by panic.
The ones who brought this news to ordinary people included rangers and demon-hunting squads roaming the northern war zone, as well as bandits and robbers who had fled from the north to the south in a panic like homeless dogs. After reaching the south, those bandits and robbers tucked their tails between their legs and became brave human "resistance forces" in the Devil Race's occupied territories.
Yet a small number of even smarter people caught the scent of doomsday from the true rulers and great clans of the southern countries.
For several days in a row, the great clans, prominent families, royal nobles, and dignitaries of the countries closest to the southern Kare Mountains had been fleeing south in droves with their entire households. In the southern cities, anyone whose eyes were not blind only had to look up at the sky to see that the number of airships heading south had been increasing by the day, while northbound airships had all but vanished.
The entire Blakerson Human Corridor was thoroughly shaken.
June 28th, Qihai City, Huaiyuan Prefecture...
Although Qihai City's port had expanded considerably after three consecutive years of