Chapter 900: Imperial Assassin Court

In the fifteenth year of the Giant Dragon Calendar, winter, in the mid-northern continent of Aikania, the hilly area beyond Ella City.

The tents grown on the earth seemed like horrifying bulges sprouting from the land, forming an endless but orderly set of camps.

A series of grey-blue painted floating mage towers silently lurked above the vast camps; the power cores of these earliest built floating mage towers came from a rudimentary version of the magic elemental pool.

Although the craftsmanship was not yet complete enough to supply the power for powerful ground weapons, the elemental magic power extracted daily from the magic elemental pool was sufficient to support these floating mage towers to remain perpetually airborne in areas rich with elemental magic power, without falling.

These floating mage towers also became the best lookout and warning facilities on the central battlefield for the Golden Empire and the Allied Kings Army, constantly isolating the majority of shadow and magical power infiltrations under the detection and scanning of the magic main brain.

When I say most, it’s just because in the world of magic, there is always some wondrous magic that possesses power that is difficult to determine with common sense.

Just like some weak creatures using targeted magic can harm and trouble the giant dragons in the sky, some beings that seem far inferior to divine spirits can also use some miraculous magic to affect seemingly omnipotent divine spirits.

And on the ground, there were also many towering wooden watchtowers serving as gate guard facilities for the massive camps; on these watchtowers, giant dragons and giants would occasionally appear, gazing southward from the watchtower.

The temporary circular defense line constructed by the Golden Empire, the Divine Forsaken Mountain Range, Frost Giants, and the Elf Kingdom was situated here, in the hilly plains before Ella City, the foremost city of the Koria Kingdom, where one could observe every move of Ella City.

The front lines of Marino Duchy, Dumyat Duchy, and Rosetta Duchy had broken, and among the initially overrun three high duchies, over ten cities still intended to resiliently resist the northern kings’ forceful pressure.

But under the relentless assaults and bombardments of the northern kings, who spared no costs with the captured resources from the Noble Alliance, the remaining cities almost surrendered at the sight of the enemy. The minor nobles, although cherishing their power and territories, cherished their lives even more.

After sweeping through the Marino Duchy, the Golden Empire moved down the central frontline southwards, crushing three great nobles intending to resist over the following half month.

However, unlike the central battlefield that possessed the might of the Golden Empire and giants, even excluding the sky’s Giant Dragon Corps and the Gogomola Dragon Group, the overall national power of the Golden Empire far surpassed these great nobles.

Whether in terms of the armament level and firepower intensity of the legion warriors or the basic quality of the soldiers, they were many times higher than those in the territories ruled by these nobles. Moreover, the Golden Empire’s resource conversion rate enabled ample war material reserves within the empire to support the war.

The majority of the noble legions were incomparable to the Golden Empire’s legions, and the Golden Empire’s main battle legions were fully armored with sharp weapons.

The nobles’ light armor troops had to expend considerable effort and skills to break through the Golden Empire’s legion armor, whereas the Golden Empire’s legion warriors often only needed a simple, lethal strike to kill.

Even if the nobles, under the pressure of the kings’ forces, no longer dared to preserve their strength, the armor and weapons issued to soldiers on both sides were not of the same quality level.

Apart from the high-end manufactured war weapons such as the Golem Legion, floating mage towers, and magic-guided heavy cannons, the large-scale production products in the Golden Empire remained ahead of those in other nobles’ nations in conventional legion equipment.

However, even so, as the front lines extended, the time required for the operation of logistics supplies began to gradually lengthen, a problem that existed even in the world of Karon Gogomola’s previous life.

Not to mention in this era where transportation was not particularly convenient, the difference between both sides was only whether the logistic gaps were larger or smaller.

The armies of the Golden Empire and giant elves halted here, on one hand, waiting for subsequent material operations; with ample firepower to breach the layered defenses of the southern nobles and siege each city, the war materials expended were almost incalculable.

However, thanks to this war of external expansion, each of the Golden Empire’s national military factories and those private material production factories now had orders pouring in like rain. The steam and magic energy machines on the production lines in the workshops almost never stopped running.

The wealth plundered and looted from the territories governed by the Southern Noble Alliance was transported bit by bit by the goblin and kobold standing legions of the empire into the Golden Empire, serving as funding for these armament and material orders.

This nearly primitive, bloody capital looting and accumulation circulation allowed the manufacturing industry of the Golden Empire to explode like never before, even surpassing the prosperity of the phase of planar warfare.

Because not only did the Golden Empire Legion have orders, but also the armies of the other kings, although the Alliance of Kings was currently united like never before, the Golden Empire had no obligation to aid these kings.

Seemingly, in the Alliance of Kings, the Golden Empire ceded nearly all interests in the division of benefits, but under the operations of the Imperial Think Tank, one could only say that the Golden Empire ‘did not lose either.’