Ding dong ding dong.

The emergency bell at the Panthea base rang continuously. As if chased by the urgently ringing bell, the soldiers quickly found their spots and settled in while the commanders and leaders at the base gathered at the command post set up on the wall.

“What about the patrol?! Are they back yet?!”

“They’ll be here soon, sir!”

As people were shouting a group of cavalry appeared in the distance creating a large cloud of white dust. 

“They’re coming, sir!”

At the sharp-eyed guard’s report, the commander of the base, an old Paladin who was also the head of the Templar Knights, clicked his tongue and spoke solemnly.

“There’s a lot of empty spaces.”

It was clear that the cavalry had tried to buy the soldiers at the base some time and overdone it. How else would so many of the speedy patrol squad, who was faster than anyone else on the plains, die like that?

A large cloud of dust rose behind the patrol who was racing towards them at full speed.

“I can see the demons, sir!”

After the sharp-eyed soldiers and knights discovered the demons, they began counting them.

“At least 40,000 in the northwest, sir!”

“More than 50,000 in the central west, sir! The majority are large demons, sir!”

“The number of demons is increasing, sir!”

There had been countless battles so far, but this many demons had never gotten this close to the base before. 

The expressions of the knights and commanders were stiff as never before. 

“I think we’ll...