No one doubted Marshal Silver's resolve.
For a thousand years, under his command, the Heavenly Fleet has always led the charge in demon suppression. They are Heaven’s sharpest sword, its most elite force—no matter how powerful the demon king they faced, no matter how brutal the war, victory was always theirs.
Everyone believed this time would be no different.
With the military order issued, six hundred thousand troops were mobilized.
All Heavenly Generals at the Spirit-Transformation Stage and above were pulled from their posts, with their positions temporarily filled by officers below the Spirit-Refinement Stage.
A new strategy was devised.
They abandoned all small outposts, concentrating their entire military might in Cloudrealm Sky Harbor and Cloudwatch Harbor, along with their dependent forts. All routine training exercises were canceled, and frequent small-scale patrols were discontinued.
No fleet with fewer than twenty thousand troops, not even for transport, was permitted to leave port!
Adopting such a strategy demanded extraordinary resolve.
It meant the Heavenly Fleet had to reduce its surveillance over the Western Ox Continent and Northern Reed Continent, granting the newly risen minor demons there precious breathing room and time amid Heaven’s vast campaign against the monsters of the mortal world.