Terrifying Beyond Measure

The small container sent out from within the Chao army was brought back to the Mang army camp by one of the Mang army's hidden sentries and delivered before the Mang army's highest-ranking officials.

"The anomaly disappeared? They want a fight to the death?"

Holding the secret report concerning the Chao army's strategy, the Mang army's supreme leader was filled with suspicion, for this intelligence was far stranger than anything they had received before.

First was the claim that human affairs were linked to celestial phenomena. This was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing.

That alone would have been one thing, but the Chao army had actually concluded that the tide of battle would turn simply because the celestial phenomenon had returned to normal, and had decided to fight the Mang army to the death. That was entirely beyond his expectations.

Only by knowing oneself and one's enemy could one win every battle. Intelligence had always carried immense weight in war. Thus, although the Mang army's supreme leader had never met the Chao army's supreme leader, he was already exceedingly familiar with him.

The Chao army's supreme leader was no fool. On the contrary, he possessed great talent and ambition, excelled at administration and governance, was skilled at deploying troops and arranging formations, and was highly accomplished in martial arts. He could be called an exceptionally well-rounded man. A decision made by such a person could never be mindless recklessness.

In other words, there had to be a deeper meaning behind this. At the Mang army leader's position, he no longer judged matters solely by appearances, but examined the deeper reasons behind an opponent's actions.

As the saying went, do not look at what someone says; look at what they do. The claim that celestial