Xu Yi walked out through the gates of the West-Garrison Army's camp, glanced back, and frowned slightly.
Over the past two years, the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had fought the orcs of the Black Rice Wasteland many times and had come to know them quite well. As a result, they had easily identified that the orcs who attacked Black Rice Port belonged to none of the tribes on the Black Rice Wasteland.
The Black Rice Wasteland bordered the Stantin Duchy to the south and the Sark Kingdom to the north. There were no orcs in the Stantin Duchy, so these orcs could only have come from the Sark Kingdom.
There was another compelling piece of evidence supporting this conclusion: there had actually been mages among the attackers at Black Rice Port!
Although mages were nothing unusual to Xu Yi, they were still quite rare to the vast majority of people on the Sains Continent.
Even in the Lampari Kingdom's regular army, mages were elite combat assets that could not be assigned to units as standard practice.
Orcs had little natural aptitude for magic, making the presence of mages among them even less likely.
These orcs who attacked Black Rice Port not only had complete sets of equipment and clearly trained fighting methods, but even had mages supporting them. There was no possible explanation other than that they had been sent by the Sark Kingdom.
After reaching this conclusion, Xu Yi had brought the two orc corpses to the West-Garrison Army's camp. His first purpose was to warn the army.
The Sark Kingdom had already begun making moves against the Black Rice Wasteland, so its next step would inevitably be an attempt to invade the Lampari Kingdom through the wasteland.
The West-Garrison Army was responsible for defending the Lampari Kingdom's