Actually, the Prince miscalculated a value. He was able to calculate that today's spacetime disturbance node would reach its peak, with around a million nodes appearing and exploding simultaneously. However, due to a single value miscalculation, he vastly underestimated the number of exploding nodes.
When dawn arrived, the Prince, with reddened eyes, watched as 13 million flashpoints erupted worldwide. He was in despair, truly... desperate. His friends, classmates, comrades, and subordinates had left one by one, and now he had less than a third of his combat strength left, and this time...
"All headquarters civilian staff," the Prince pressed the all-channel communication, "equip weapons, prepare to join the battle."