As night fell, beneath the silent sky, hundreds of enormous meteors were drawn by more than eight thousand Spellcasters of the Mage Corps and sent crashing toward the Black Asia Orc Polia Main Camp over a hundred kilometers away.
Within the forest seventy kilometers north of the Polia Main Camp, more than thirteen thousand warriors of the Second Army of the Seventeenth Legion removed the camouflage covering their bodies. Led by their officers and organized into squads, they moved swiftly south through the dense woods.
At the head of the marching force, over a thousand lightly armored warriors leaped from trunk to trunk, scouting the path ahead for the army, eliminating potential threats, clearing obstacles, and slaughtering Black Asia Orc Reconnaissance Unit members hiding in the shadows.
At the same time, the First Army and Third Army of the Seventeenth Legion, hidden northwest and northeast of the Polia Main Camp, sounded their horns of advance. They crossed the border demarcated by the United Kingdom of Kols and the Kingdom of Belfas and marched south.
Inside the southern military camp of Celes Fortress, more than three thousand Griffin Knights took flight. Under the command of Soul Intent High-level Knight Ovia Silverwing, they entered the clouds to conceal their tracks and rapidly charged toward the Polia Main Camp.
On the eastern city wall, Lathern Essol, commander of the Dragon Rider Order, picked up the helmet resting on his dragon's back and put it on. He lowered the visor, shifted his center of gravity downward, and said in a deep voice, "Move out."
More than three hundred dragons that had been lying prone on the ground rose one after another, raised their heads, beat their wings, and shot into the sky.
Within the fortress's main city, more than eight thousand mages began their