"Report, Lord Rudolf, the first batch of evacuees from the Church of Night have successfully left the royal city. The mercenaries hired by the noble investigation team failed to deal with those people from the Church of Night."
In the room where the Fire Attaché, Blackburn's subordinate, reported to Rudolph and asked Rudolph to help investigate the prayer communication network and matters related to Lady Night's faith.
The personnel responsible for observing the evacuation convoy of the Night Church, who were deliberately let go by Gilbert, reported to Rudolf, who was still immersed in the information on the table.
"Let me guess, what you want to focus on is the explanation of the next sentence, rather than reporting such a failed result to me?"
The calm tone made the reporter shed a drop of cold sweat on his face, and he felt that he had been completely seen through.
"Yes... yes, there are many reasons for this failure." The tone of the reporter was a little stuttering, and the reporter's tone of explanation was a little unconfident.
"Just pick the key points and tell me about the Night Blade involved. I don't need any explanation from you."
Rudolph's words made the reporter even more nervous. He originally regarded the unexpected appearance of the Night Blade as the most important reason for the failure, but Rudolph's prediction completely made his explanation meaningless.
Bite the bullet and continue, "Our response to the carriage carrying the Night Church was a beat slower. The response from the intelligence side was a beat slower than the carriage leaving the city, and the person who set up the bribery in advance during the passage was responsible for setting it up. The city guard who got stuck did not take action."
"Because the carriage was identified as the Night Blade Out of City Investigation Team when it passed the city inspection. According to regulations, the city guards directly let it go."
The reporter nervously narrated the process of what happened, controlled the tone and speed of speech, and tried to tell the whole process as quickly and effectively as possible. This was what Rudolph liked.
"Small clever, but effective. Without knowing in advance that Night Blade will be involved, this is indeed difficult to avoid. Continue."
Rudolf made a casual comment and asked the reporter to continue.
"The delayed intelligence finally reached the hands of the mercenaries responsible for the interception, but they failed. The evacuation convoy of the Night Church had already anticipated the interception and had prepared for a counterattack in advance. A single mistake in intelligence resulted in the ambush of mercenaries being killed very quickly."
"At that time, not only did the Night Veil Church itself take action, or in other words, the only ones who had the combat power and took action from the Night Veil Church were the two bodyguards from the previous goblin trading house in the city, the orc Emon and the elf ranger Wenna."
"There is an entire Night Blade action team mixed in. They were the main force during the counterattack. I didn't recognize them all, but the leader should be the captain of a certain action team, Gilbert."
"This is the general situation. The biggest reason for the failure of this interception was the intervention of the Night Blade, which allowed the Night Church to obtain information in advance."
The reporter was a little uneasy, and after finishing speaking, he looked at Rudolph uneasily.
"Look at what I'm doing. Am I afraid of failure? It's not your fault. I insist that you did a good job. Don't think of me as one of those losers who like to punish their subordinates when nothing happens. It's nothing to me. Meaning, if we have this time, we might as well do more serious work."
Rudolf glanced at this guy, said a few words casually, took out a piece of paper from his special table, signed a string of cipher text on it that represented his identity, and then handed it to the reporter.
"Take this piece of paper to receive your next task and reward. Do your job well. Don't speculate on what we want to do when you have nothing to do. It's not good for me to make things difficult for you, a little person."
The reporter was stunned. He had heard that Mr. Rudolf was a very strange existence before, but he finally saw it today. His thoughts were completely seen through, which made his mood change from fear to a little embarrassed.
"yes!"
Responding quickly, taking the paper handed over by Rudolf, the reporter hurriedly left the room used for reporting.
Rudolph was the only one left in the room who was sitting at the table, folding his hands together and placing them on his chin, as if thinking slightly.
"Although this guy Blackburn is a little impulsive and rarely pays attention to details, this guy is really the most powerful person I know when it comes to weird things like intuition. Sure enough, with the prayer communication network, he got rid of the Darkness of the Sky mark. The shackles of the Night Blade will free you to a great extent."
After thinking briefly, Rudolf separated his folded hands and continued to take out the intelligence and documents from the table and look at them.
"In this interception operation, Night Blade can actually do better, and even can not show up at all. This is a statement. Night Blade is telling the royal family that some compromises were necessary before, but now some They are no longer willing to compromise on things.”
Rudolph whispered to himself softly, with a slight smile on his lips, as if he was thinking of something interesting.
"Arestle, you are in a bad mood now. Do you want this organization, which is older than the kingdom, to express strong dissatisfaction with the royal family that represents a country?"
Pulling out a piece of information, Rudolf read the content on it, looking for a name mentioned by the reporter just now.
"Well, Gilbert, isn't this the squad leader who was thought to have died due to severe mental pollution during the test conducted by Shadow of the Royal City last time? There was already a prayer communication network at that time?"
"Tsk, tsk, some of the activities of the royal family may have been exposed. This is really fatal. I can't do anything as an intelligence officer. Report all these to the royal family and let the royal family make their own decision."
"I can't stand it anymore. You can let the Blade of the Night assume such a posture. Are you no longer worthy of that position on the throne? Your attitude towards the Blade of the Night this time will decide A lot of things.”
"Forget it, I'm just an intelligence officer. What do I want to do with so much? I'll leave the internal conflicts for later. The most important thing now is to completely stabilize the battle situation on the front line."
After summarizing the new information he had just received and some of his own analysis, and removing all the personal emotional words unconsciously written in it, Rudolf packaged and summarized the information and conveyed it all to the Kingdom Intelligence Organization where he worked.
Quickly adjusting what he was thinking and no longer caring about the entanglement between the Night Blade and the royal family, Rudolf pulled out new information on the frontline battle situation from under the table, read and analyzed it.
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The Gorge of Sighs that separated the two armies was no longer completely the boundary line between Alestler and Severtan. The lines of the two armies were tug-of-war with each other. Severtan's army had already crossed the Gorge of Sighs and occupied Allais. A large piece of chassis on Steller's side was used as a base to station.
Arestle chose to abandon the relatively good position, pulled back, and deployed a large number of troops away from the Canyon of Sighs.
Since the surprise attack that night, Severtan had been pushing forward like he had taken the wrong medicine, pushing the army forward continuously. Severtan's individual combat ability was much higher than that of Aleister. Yes, if there was a head-on conflict, the one who would suffer greater losses would definitely be Aleister.
The two countries have been neighbors and old rivals for so many years, and each has a relatively clear understanding of the other. Naturally, Severin chose to continue to press the front in this way because of their self-confidence. Arestle seemed to be losing ground in the past. There is also consideration behind retreating.
During the retreat, the area occupied by Seventan as a battle line was where Arestle's army had previously been deployed.
In these places, Arestle's army, which has more powerful magicians and alchemists accompanying it, has long left behind a large number of traps and obstacles that hinder the advancement of the Seventan army...
At this moment, on the frontline battlefield, Severtan is still maintaining its momentum of advancing with great vigor. It has been relying on the strong individual strength of its soldiers for many days to press forward and put pressure on Arestle's army crazily. Combat style.
In the earlier war, Arestle relied on constantly using the flexibility of the mages to deal with the Seventan army, which was not completely determined to suppress the situation with all its strength. He continued to fight guerrillas, but did not let the Seventan army The army is doing well.
But at this time, the Severtan army no longer chose to play tricks with Aleister. No matter how harassing the Aleister mage team on the flanks was flying in the air, the Severtan army just kept pressing forward and pressing back. Then a stone tablet with a certain effect of banning demons was left on the occupied position as a defensive fortification.
At this time, Aleister's shortcomings were revealed. The army's frontal combat capability was weaker than that of Sevetan. Unlike Aleister's rich products, almost half of the country was in a bitter cold land. The martial spirit is much stronger than that of Aleister.
Severantan filled the army with a large number of more powerful soldiers, which opened up a considerable gap in the strength of the main bodies of the two armies, knight professionals and infantry.
Under the head-on collision, Arestle's army could only retreat continuously and give up its position.
However, this kind of retreat has an end. Behind it is the main town of Aleister. The lands of the Aleister Kingdom that were surrendered before are all border wastelands.
Most of them are undeveloped areas and serve as a buffer zone for conflicts with other kingdoms. There is no problem in letting them go.
But further on, it enters the land area where Aleister has a town. Giving up a larger piece of land may cause heavy losses to the kingdom and greatly reduce morale.
The Seventan army can press forward unscrupulously because of another advantage they have.
Although their kingdom in a bitter cold land lacks resources and has inconvenient external communication, the snowy peak of Santa Ana in the far north is also a natural barrier.
Surrounding the kingdom on three sides, leaving only an open environment for the outside world, so that they do not have to worry about opportunistic attacks from other kingdoms.
But Arestle can't. Although the resources are more abundant and it is easy to communicate with other kingdoms, there are more than just seven kingdoms close to the Four Directions.
In this war with Severtan, the surrounding kingdoms have naturally been watching with eager eyes, looking for an opportunity to tear off a piece of flesh from Arestle.
The border guarded by the four archdukes is the most important guarantee for Aleister's stability. Almost half of Aleister's troops are in the hands of these four archdukes.
The kingdom's trust in these four grand dukes is truly unconditional. They have bought stability for the kingdom at the expense of guarding the borders for generations.
This achievement has made no one question their loyalty to the kingdom. Even the royal family will never have any idea about the power of the four archdukes.
This caused Arestle's forces to be dispersed to the border, and the combat power on the frontal battlefield also declined further, making the current situation of the war almost as if Severtan was pushing Arestle back all the way.
At this moment, the battle on the front line is still going on, and it is no longer possible to withdraw from the rear. The losses caused by further withdrawal will exceed the losses caused by facing the enemy head-on.
"Keep pushing forward! Don't drop the royal flag, for the sake of the empire!" The commander of Severantan was mixed in the military formation, roaring at the top of his voice full of momentum, shouting and urging the army to keep pressing forward.
The vanguard of Severtan's army are heavily armored sergeants. These troops have extremely strong battlefield advancement capabilities. They are all mid-level trainee knights and above. The heavy armor on their bodies is not only amazing in defense, but also mixed with anti-magic metal. , which allows them to resist ordinary spells.
In front of the military formation, the heavy-armored sergeant's advance speed was not very fast, but it was extremely stable and oppressive. The epee in his hand did not have much skill. He just kept a certain distance from the teammates next to him and faced him. Slashing wantonly in front.
Shen Qi, charged up, and swept forward. The thick sword drew an arc and hit the shield of the Arestle infantry who came up from the front. The two collided with each other, and the clash between metals made a huge noise. ring.
"Drink!" The Arestle shield infantry grunted during the collision. Unable to withstand the impact, they took a few steps back. However, Severant's heavy armored sergeants showed no signs of being shaken away. nor.
The armor on the Severantan heavy-armored sergeants is not only a drag on slowing down, but also a guarantee for them to ignore the impact and press forward without retreating.
In order to reduce physical exertion, he placed the sword on the ground and rested for a while, waiting for his muscles to recover slightly from fatigue before swinging the heavy sword again to force Arestle's infantry to retreat and advance forward.
"Hoo ho ho!" A violent roaring sound came from the sky. At this time, the slightly dark sky near dusk was slightly red under the light of the fire. Several huge fireballs came from the direction of Arestle's army. Hit this way.
The magic power fluctuations in it are extremely strong, with fire elements covering the outer layer, and earth elements as the core of these flaming meteors, falling from high altitudes and hitting Seventan.
It is difficult to judge the specific level of spell power, but this extremely oppressive momentum is at least a combined spell of level 4 or above.
"Array, obsidian shield!" Facing the high-speed falling flaming meteors, the command of the commander mixed in the army resounded through the battle formation.
The spellcasting ability of Severtan's army is very poor, and they often suffer from mass destruction spells when facing armies with large spellcasting abilities like Arestle.
This also allowed them to evolve a set of fighting methods against magic during the long war, anti-magic infantry.
The heavy armored sergeant took out the large black shield, which was much less effective than mithril in anti-magic, but was also much cheaper. He held it in front of him and pointed it at the flaming meteors falling from the sky.
All the heavy armored sergeants reacted very quickly. A large black spiked heavy shield was erected, and a single obsidian heavy shield with a huge area was connected in a row, forming a dark and chilling shield wall.
"Boom!" Huge flaming meteors with a radius of more than three meters fell to the ground one after another, colliding with the obsidian shield wall.
The fire element exploded the moment it touched the ground, spreading the flames wildly, and the huge weight of the earth element core was unmatched even when it fell at high speed.
The moment it hit the shield wall head-on, it immediately crushed the heavily armored soldier's body and armor under the shield into a ball of tatters.
With one blow, a large number of heavily armored sergeants were directly crushed into blackened minced meat. However, Seventan, who always lost a large number of soldiers in the face of Arestle's large-scale magic, was accepting the loss this time. within the range.
The obsidian shield wall blocked most of the fire element's diffusion explosion. Except for the heavy armored sergeant who faced the main body of the flame meteor and died directly, the other heavy armored sergeants did not suffer much damage during the impact.
Compared with the previous embarrassment in facing large-scale magic, the Seventan army at this moment is as powerful as a rainbow.
The shield wall was retracted, stepping on the burning ground, stepping on the ground beside the smashed teammates, and Severantan's heavy armored sergeant once again began an unstoppable advance.
The destruction of the flaming meteors did not distinguish between friend and foe. Although Aleister's shield-bearing infantry had an intelligence advantage and retreated early, they were also impacted. The military formation was temporarily unstable. What they had to face was a sudden rush out from behind the heavy armored sergeant. of raiding troops from Severtan.
Dual-wielding short axes and wearing only light armor covering their fatal parts, these powerful assault warriors roared out and took advantage of the brief instability of the shield-wielding infantry to charge into the formation and beat Arestle's army. Caught off guard.
The ax cuts into the body, tearing the flesh and blood, and the blood is swaying and steaming on the burning ground. The unpleasant smell is permeated, violent roars, desperate screams, weapons collision, iron boots stepping on the ground, the intensity of the battle on the frontline battlefield, The drama is rising.
