Nalant's Defensive Fortifications!

"Mm, get up. Go back and train hard!" Nalant nodded and dismissed the three of them.

"Nalant, you taught the Battle Qi cultivation method to these subordinates long ago?" After Quick and the others left, Stella looked at Nalant in surprise.

"Yes, Stella. Didn't I say so? I want to form a supernatural knight corps too!"

"Mm!" Stella nodded and said nothing further.

During the last Harvest Festival, when the nobles learned that Nalant intended to form a supernatural knight corps, they had mocked him for overestimating himself.

But now, Stella understood.

Nalant's seemingly casual words had never been empty talk. He had arranged everything long ago.

As a mere little knight, Nalant had actually been willing to reward his subordinates with Battle Qi cultivation methods. Stella truly did not know what he was thinking.

It could be said that Nalant's breadth of mind and foresight were something she had never seen before.

And she found that the more she came to understand Nalant, the more this man seemed like an unfathomable riddle.

Naturally, Sherry's investigation had yielded no results. In the end, to set Stella's mind at ease, Nalant personally accompanied her to look into it.

That search likewise found nothing. Finally, Stella could only frown as Nalant escorted her back to her tent.

As the night deepened, the entire camp returned to tranquility.

While Nalant and the others sank into dreams, over fifty miles northwest of their camp, a massive army set up camp in a hollow.

Beneath the moonlight, the tents filling the hollow resembled a dense thicket, stretching for miles.

This was the Northern Principality's army of ten thousand, sent to strike directly at the rear of the Onyx Principality's forces.

"Kael, how much farther until we leave the desert?"

"Commander Hake, according to the