"Mr Ye, Mr Ye, something terrible has happened!"
The next day.
Chloe knocked on the door of Ye Qiyan's room at the inn.
Ye Qiyan, who had been awake for quite some time, turned the handle, and the blonde girl hurried inside anxiously.
"Mr Ye, hurry and leave Former Days City while the trains can still depart. If you wait any longer, the platform will be sealed off!"
"Leave? Go where? Besides, why should I leave?"
Ye Qiyan curled his lips. Of course he knew what had prompted Chloe to say all this.
The Black Tide had arrived.
Beyond the borders of this provincial capital, in that boundless black ocean.
Countless Performers had come ashore with the rising tide. Now, they had reached the provincial capital's forward fortress and were launching an attack.
All of this was firsthand information that Ye Qiyan had Eve capture through Photography and send back. The governor of this provincial capital probably did not know as much as he did.
Just as Ye Qiyan already knew, Chloe explained how the black ocean's tide had risen and the Performers had started a war.
The ordinary citizens had not yet been told about this. She knew because, as an externally contracted member of the Church of Discipline, she was about to be sent to hold a fortress that had not yet become the front line and delay the Performer army.
Retreat was forbidden until reinforcements from the Land of Strange Laws arrived.
Or, to put it in plainer, crueler terms.
They were to use the lives of Chloe, the other ability users, and the entire provincial capital's tens of thousands of troops to buy time, slowing the Performer army's advance toward Former Days City.
It was indeed cruel, but it was also an effective method.
As long