Late at night in Italy.
Xue Yiming was patrolling the camp outside Black Gauze's Reaching-Heaven Fortress. After Bai Shi, Xia Yuwei, and the others' surprise attack yesterday, Sanyou Weimen and the others decided that continuing to wait outside Tiger's Maw was unwise, so they collectively retreated to Reaching-Heaven Fortress.
By now, the teleportation arrays in Reaching-Heaven Fortress and all the fortresses Lu Yang had previously captured had been repaired. The nine strongest guilds had formed an alliance, and players could freely teleport to any fortress occupied by those nine guilds.
Xue Yiming glanced at Black Gauze and typed, "The first batch of catapult parts will arrive at Reaching-Heaven Fortress this afternoon. They'll be assembled tonight.
Right now, the leaders of Sanyou Weimen's five guilds have sent half their men to nearby maps to grind monsters and level up. The other half are guarding the four sides of Reaching-Heaven Fortress's walls to prevent your sneak attacks."
Lu Yang said, "Send me a detailed deployment map."
"No problem." Xue Yiming had prepared for this long ago and sent the deployment map to Lu Yang.
Lu Yang opened his mail and examined it. According to the map, Roland was guarding the north side of Reaching-Heaven Fortress, Sanyou Weimen the west, Olma the south, and Black Gauze and Jerz the east.
This deployment map was extremely useful. It contained detailed coordinates, as well as the coordinates of the enemy positions. With those two pieces of information, Lu Yang could directly order the elf mages to transport the Forbidden Spell Mage Corps into designated safe zones and bombard the enemy with forbidden spells.
He ended the call and sent Jerz a message. "I'm going to bombard Reaching-Heaven Fortress shortly. Leave behind some poorly equipped players and pull out all the elites."
Jerz had been feeling