It was midnight on a moonless night. The army was using Qi torches to see through the dark. This was the only way as it seemed that the closer, they got to the town, the darker the night grew.
With the torches that burned spirit qi to produce light, they could still see in the darkness but it was becoming harder with each meter they moved towards the town. The night was silent and in this quiet, the prince noticed that not a single sound could be heard. The only sounds in this night we those produced by the horses and the breathing soldiers. No insect or animal sound could be heard. This was very abnormal. Even the sound of crickets which were known to inhabit this past of the Sky continent in great numbers could not be heard.
The quiet was now starting to become creepy with this realization.