News of the battle spread like wildfire, and after only one night, without even a single defeated soldier having made it to the north coast of the Xiaoyao Lake, news about the terrible loss of the Golden Roc Army had already reached the capital of the Hui Kingdom. The rumor-mongers sounded extremely convincing, leading everyone in the city to believe them. The entire capital immediately fell into an apocalypse-like state of chaos.
It was a unique city that was filled with the royal families of each nation as well as speculators with complicated backgrounds. Most of them had placed huge stakes on the Golden Roc Army winning and never prepared themselves for the probability that things could turn out the other way.