"Ah, you're right."
Long Ao Tian had not expected Chen Ping to guess why he had come so quickly. He was momentarily speechless, but continued nonetheless.
"Although, thanks to you, the Sun Moon Empire Army was driven back from both the Star Luo Empire border and the Heaven Dou border, the Sun Moon Empire hasn't abandoned its plans to continue its invasion."
"Over the past month, although the Sun Moon Empire has withdrawn its tentacles from the Star Luo Empire border, it's been far more active on the Heaven Dou border than before."
"In the earlier border war, a single ambush destroyed two of the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Corps, and the Soul-Guiding Soul-Revealing Lamps exposed what the Holy Spirit Cult had done. It's true that these incidents left the Sun Moon Empire's border legions gripped by panic."
"It's just that..."
At this point, Long Ao Tian seemed rather hesitant to continue.
"Just what?"
A bad premonition suddenly rose in Chen Ping's heart.
Logically speaking, although the annihilation of two entire Soul Engineer Corps meant the Sun Moon Empire had only lost twenty percent of its top Soul Engineer Corps and still had eighty percent of its fighting forces left, that was not how the reckoning worked.
To put it in terms of Chen Ping's homeworld, Blue Star, it was roughly equivalent to two or three army groups within a military region being wiped out in a single campaign, leaving that entire military region with practically no fighting forces.
Once news like that reached home, it would be enough for the country to be declared fucking doomed online ten thousand times over. What was more, the Sun Moon Empire's soldiers had personally witnessed Evil Soul Masters devouring their comrades' souls.
Under those circumstances, could the Sun Moon Empire's Border