For such an important war, there had to be half a dozen or so of these powerhouses involved across both factions. There was no way a battle plan could exclude the movement of these powers, but Song Zining hadn’t taken them into account up to this point. That was rather strange.

The seventh young master sighed. It looked like he was explaining the situation but also as though he were muttering to himself. “Yes… where are the heavenly monarchs and great dark monarchs?”

He turned toward Qianye and asked, “Say, how do we predict their movements?”

Qianye shook his head after some thought. “Impossible.”

Song Zining gazed at the map. “Yeah, the heavenly monarchs and great dark monarchs aren’t chess pieces on your board. On the contrary, we are their pawns. If I can’t even predict their actions, how can I even hope to plan for them?”

Qianye shook his head. “Plan their movements? You’re thinking too much.”

Song Zining pointed at the map in front of him. “My deductions can no longer proceed beyond this point. At this point in the battle, there’s no way the great dark monarchs can stand by and watch. When the great dark monarchs appear, the heavenly monarchs can’t stand by and watch, either. So at this point, there really isn’t any point in calculating because there is simply no way to guess their movements. This is how a normal battle...