The Army Sets Out, Landing on the Island Without a Hitch!

The troop rotation with the Central Theater went more smoothly than expected.

The handover of the garrison was completed within two days. Since only the stationed troops needed replacing, the security forces of the City Defense System remained at the other defensive zones.

After the rotation ended, Yang Wenqing moved directly into the flagship, concentrating his living quarters, office, and command operations aboard this massive warship hovering above Bluefish Island's harbor.

The flagship's Command Center operated around the clock. Marked points on the water-screen map of the seas surrounding the Redstone Archipelago refreshed at regular intervals as data converged from every direction.

Nian Qian personally remained beside the communications terminal, ensuring that every encrypted signal was received and relayed to the appropriate units as quickly as possible.

Yang Wenqing stood before the main command platform, with Lan Ying quietly perched on his shoulder. Kang He stood at his right, holding a pen over a sheet of notes covered in rough markings and numbers.

Red Aunt sat at a more distant intelligence station, with several Rune Tablets arranged before her, displaying fragments of information recently gathered by the intelligence network.

Time crept forward in silence.

At midnight on the twenty-sixth—the start of the twenty-seventh—Red Aunt accepted an encrypted jade talisman handed over by an intelligence officer. Her Divine Sense swept rapidly through its contents, and she immediately rose, walked to Yang Wenqing, and handed it to him.

After reading it, Yang Wenqing turned and passed the jade talisman to Kang He.

Kang He read it, his brows twitching slightly. He then strode to the water-screen map, pulled up the developments described in the intelligence report around the Thunderclap Archipelago, and moved the military-banner markers of three ten-thousand-strong Demon Clan main forces originally stationed in the central islands southward, repositioning them along