A messenger bird descended from the southern sky shortly after the vanguard arrived at the guardian's mountain, dropping Ren's dispatch straight into Arturo's hands.
The parchment carried a blunt warning... The battle was about to get complicated.
Selthia had redirected her two hundred surviving southern units, along with her newly minted Diamond titans, toward the north. Their marching route would bring them directly to the city walls and many if not all may stay to siege them.
Ren's orders were concise: hold the line.
In the best-case scenario, he would finish his hunt and circle back to reinforce the capital before the marching horde even arrived. In the worst-case scenario, at least two of the girls, flanked by Sirius and Liu, would drop in shortly after the siege began. Because the strike team was traveling by air, their return trip would take less than one hour.
If Ren's fiery trap worked as intended, the Light Dragon would not stall them for long.
