Outside the Owl Race's Villa in Southern Capital City, a well-equipped Demon Race army stood in silent ranks, radiating a murderous air. They even seemed poised to surround the Villa.
In the central command tent, Kuang Cang gazed pensively at the Villa's gates.
Du Bao and Sa Tong were reporting their progress beside him.
Strictly speaking, Kuang Cang's operation could well have been classified as a military mutiny, but he was not worried in the slightest. As a living relic of the Demon Race, he merely disdained political tactics he considered beneath him. That did not mean he did not know how to use them.
He knew better than anyone that the Demon Dynasty did not fear rebellion from the Southern Continent's tribes and cities. What it feared was this outward obedience to its orders while defying them in practice. It would be ideal if his actions provoked Azure Owl. Then he could unify the entire Southern Continent through the simplest, most violent means.
Once the Southern Continent declared independence, the Demon Race Fortune surrounding Azure Owl would no longer be something the prince had to be wary of. Instead, it would become his best justification for taking action. And once the prince no longer had any reservations... heh.
Although Kuang Cang had not known the prince for long, there were only two among Lady First Phoenix's children whom he could not see through: Shen Jun, the Former Monster Emperor, and Prince Yu.
The Former Monster Emperor's magnanimity, political acumen, and wisdom commanded Kuang Cang's utmost admiration, while Prince Yu's inscrutable depths and methods chilled him to the bone.
Thus, ever since learning that the prince had set his sights on the Southern Continent, Kuang Cang had known its reclamation was inevitable, even if someone else were overseeing the operation.