The Arctic.
Tianshu Underground City, central Command Hall.
City Lord Han Niba had just received good news from Tianxiong City.
The Seventh-Order Demon Venerable had been confirmed killed, and Tianxiong City's defensive line had stabilized again.
The atmosphere in the hall eased slightly, but there was little joy on Han Niba's face.
After all, the key to ending this war did not lie here.
Sure enough, before everyone could finish breathing a sigh of relief, a new development arose.
"Report!"
An information soldier stood up from his computer and shouted,
"The satellite monitoring system has detected an anomaly!"
"Large-scale Demon Clan formations have appeared on the surface above multiple fallen Underground Cities!"
Han Niba's pupils contracted.
"Put the footage up!"
The information soldier's fingers flew over the controls, and the central screen instantly split into four feeds.
Upper left: the surface above Freedom Underground City.
Upper right: the surface above Shengdun Underground City.
Lower left: the surface above Ersu City.
Lower right: a comprehensive situation map of the surface surrounding Tianxiong Underground City.
The first three feeds showed identical scenes.
Densely packed demons poured out of the ground in a black mass. From the satellites high overhead, they looked like ants whose nests had been stirred up.
They did not scatter and flee, but moved purposefully in the same direction-toward Tianxiong Underground City!
Everyone in the hall looked at the screen, their expressions changing.
"What's going on?" a staff officer could not help asking.
"Aren't the demons afraid of our missile blockade anymore?"
Another staff officer looked grim as he watched the footage and said in a low voice,
"There are two possibilities."
"First, the Demon Clan's Burrowing Earth Dragons tunneled all the way from Freedom to these cities. After attacking them, they withdrew onto the surface instead of returning