Qianye stood with his hands behind his back, watching the generals clean up the battlefield. The old general Liu Chengyun walked over and said, “Sire, shall we move our base? The ones who ran away will be back with reinforcements soon.”

“Build defensive structures here, we’ll discuss after we finish off the reinforcements.”

Qianye’s prestige was at its height at the moment, so a single order sent the entire army into action. The soldiers immediately built simple defensive structures and made ready to defend the area. The captives were placed under watch in a sealed cave. Should they try to escape, the cave entrance could be blasted to bury everyone alive.

Not long after the defenses had been set up, clouds of dust appeared over the distant horizon as three dark-races armies appeared from different directions. These three units contained around thirty thousand soldiers each, double the Empire’s forces in combined strength. Their overall fighting power was likely even higher since the dark races had assigned twice...