The Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief frowned at the sight, a sudden sense of foreboding rising within him.
"Quick, go check the place where the sparks are coming from."
Ordinarily, if such enormous wooden stakes had appeared, the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief would certainly have grown suspicious and heightened his guard.
But the Goblins had hauled over so much wood at once and set fire to several other piles, causing the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief to lower his guard.
Even when Nalant had ordered the Goblins to bury those stakes underground, he had not realized there was any major problem.
But by the time he understood, it was already too late.
Rumble!
Just as the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief finished speaking, a tremendous roar that seemed to tear through the heavens suddenly rang out.
Even at the cave entrance dozens of meters away, the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief felt as though something had blinded him, leaving only intense white and purple light before his eyes.
And that was not the end of it. While his vision was briefly lost, he suddenly felt an immense force strike from beside him.
The once-sturdy passage instantly collapsed.
Countless clods of earth buried his body.
Soon after, the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief lost consciousness.
Compared to the Spiny-Fur Gray Rat Clan Chief, the other alien races watching from the sidelines saw everything far more clearly.
Just as everyone was wondering how Baron Nalant had suddenly vanished from where he stood and appeared a hundred meters away—
—and why, the instant he appeared, he seemed to have encountered some terrifying beast and fled at top speed toward their outer perimeter—
—in the next moment, they saw a flash of purple-white light above the Spiny-Fur Gray Rats' nest.
After the