Wang Shisan had just been about to curse when his face suddenly paled.
Countless black dots abruptly lit up on the formation artifact before him.
One hundred.
One thousand.
Ten thousand...
Shafts of moonlight shot out simultaneously from the fissures beneath Fallen Star Plain.
Masses of Black Fox Blood Guards clad in black-scaled blood armor and mounted on Moon Fox war beasts surged out of the moon-shadow portals.
At first, they appeared only north of the Central Army.
Then vast stretches of Ancient Road portals opened one after another to the northeast, due east, northwest, and toward the rear army.
The black cavalry stretched from the horizon to the end of the mountain ridges. Their war banners and curved sabers joined into an unbroken expanse beneath the Yin River's moonlight, while the thunder of beast hooves rolled ceaselessly across the earth.
Wang Shisan instinctively estimated their numbers by units of ten thousand soldiers' military force.
One hundred thousand.
Two hundred thousand.
Three hundred thousand...
Yet the black cavalry kept pouring out.
"How the fuck is that only three hundred thousand?"
Tie Erleng's voice came through the formation artifact again. "Has the Black Fox King dragged out everything the entire Royal Court owns?"
Wang Shisan ignored the oaf and instead stared fixedly into the sky.
Although the azure-black great seal had blocked the Yin River, each wash of black water dimmed the mountain-and-river patterns on its surface a little more.
This time was different.
Over the past few months, the Black Fox King had brought only a hundred-odd thousand Blood Guards each time, fought a round, and left.
But the number of barbarian cavalry before them had already exceeded four hundred thousand!
This was a true decisive battle!
High in the sky, the Black Fox King did not condense his