The cultivators from outside searched the whole world for people, while this world's natives searched the whole world for Lion-Ant-Bees.
The disappearance of the Lion-Ant-Bees was not a good thing. Although it was good news for ordinary people, it was bad news for many powers that had yet to suffer at their hands.
The Desperate Frontier Guard had been formed to drive out the Lion-Ant-Bees and reclaim the land humanity needed to survive.
This had been a noble mission, one every member of the army believed in and was willing to give their life to accomplish.
But the Lion-Ant-Bees had disappeared.
They had lost their enemy and become an army without rivals.
Then the higher-ups issued several strange orders in succession, and the army fractured into three factions, each making a different choice.
The first faction chose to obey their superiors. They led their troops against many cities that had escaped destruction by the Lion-Ant-Bees and swiftly brought those cities under unified rule.
Another portion of the army decided to lead the survivors back to the lands ravaged by the Lion-Ant-Bees and prepare to start anew.
The final portion insisted on exterminating the Lion-Ant-Bees and headed toward War God Mountain.
Clearly, Owl and his companions were not the only ones with brains. Quite a few people in these armies had also noticed something wrong with War God Mountain. But in the past, they had always been on the losing side against the Lion-Ant-Bees. Even knowing where the enemy's nest was would have done them no good.
Now that the Lion-Ant-Bees had disappeared, however, they ought to find out what had happened, even if only to investigate. The Lion-Ant-Bees could hardly have vanished into thin air for no reason.
They had no idea that Lion-Ant-Bee corpses were excellent materials. After all