"From the direction of Duke City?"
"Yes, my lord. And this time, there are seventy or eighty thousand enemies. There are lots and lots of knights in their ranks, and two really, really long snakes!" The little girl continued nodding firmly.
"It must have been the Stone Gargoyle knights from that day who went back to report it. What a pity—I was still thinking of robbing a few more batches of Earth Essence here!"
Nalant was not overly surprised. In fact, before deciding to intercept them, he had already expected the Dark Creatures to react once they noticed.
After all, all the Earth Essence he intercepted had been headed for Duke City. Once they counted the delivery, they would naturally discover something was wrong.
Such a large Duke City surely had Dark Creature leaders with sharp minds.
"Sherry, go notify Vivian and the others immediately. Tell them to pack up at once. We're preparing to relocate!"
There were seventy or eighty thousand enemies, including a large number of Death Knights. Nalant had no intention of staying put and confronting them head-on.
He intended to rely on his mobility and wage a mobile war against these Dark Creatures.
Of course, before that, ordinary troops with lower mobility, such as the spearmen and goblins, needed to be withdrawn first.
After the little girl left, Nalant summoned the goblin Rumba, as well as Quick, Raymond, and the others.
Nalant had the goblin Rumba lead his tribesmen, together with the spearmen, longbowmen, and the other units, in retreat toward the city he had captured two days ago.
Meanwhile, he would take the Wild Wolf Knight Order, the Storm Knight Order, and the Mage Legion to prepare for the upcoming roaming battle.
Once the arrangements were made, the entire camp sprang into action. In only