The central kingdoms finally began to mobilize after aloofly watching the western situation.

They gathered fast-footed cavalry and individuals specialized in searching to create scouting parties and sent them to uncover the true situation in the west. With that, they waited. Three days passed, then four, and finally ten.

No matter how long they waited, none of the individuals sent west returned.

The kingdoms recruited new scouts.

This time, the scouting party sent west contained even more talented individuals. Among them were even knights and mages, the true measures of a kingdom’s strength.

Though they were the lower-ranked mages and rank-and-file knights, they were superhuman beings nonetheless.

Nobody doubted that this new group would return with the whereabouts of their missing predecessors and news about the west.

However, it did not take long for this faith to be crushed.

The mages had taken a large number of communications stones, but after an initial message stating they arrived in the west, communications were cut off once again.

They had lost their superhuman individuals in vain, but they did get something out of this effort.

‘Drachen was correct.’

The last message sent by one of the lost scouting parties was brief, but it...