The passage of information across the sprawling, chaotic theater of the eastern border was an agonizingly slow, deliberate process, dictated by the suffocating reality of the monsoon season. Despite the supreme power of the cultivators involved, the relentless, freezing rain and the heavy atmospheric interference of the churning storm clouds severely hampered the range and clarity of standard transmission jades. Even with Alaric Steele possessing the revolutionary Phone Artifact to instantly coordinate his hidden empire, the physical reality of moving tens of thousands of troops, carving intricate counter-arrays into the bedrock, and redirecting massive supply chains required days of grueling, mud-soaked labor.
