The Fall of the God of Combat

As the war on the Northern Continent entered October and Backlund began to turn cold, the situation suddenly underwent an enormous change!

Over the past few months, the Fosac Army had rarely launched any proactive offensives, but they suddenly struck southeastward! Bypassing the Chester Mountain Range that stood before them, they directly launched a surprise assault on eastern Backlund.

Backlund's eastern defenses were extremely weak. The hastily assembled positions were breached in a single enemy charge, and by late October, the Fosac Army and a large number of extraordinary forces from the God of War Church had appeared in Backlund's suburbs.

Backlund had become the front line! The sudden shift caught everyone off guard. It was not that they had not anticipated this possibility, but that the day seemed to have arrived far too soon!

Ever since support from the South Baylam Duchy had eased the pressure on the western front, the general expectation had been that the enemy would not be able to breach the Balchis Mountain Range defenses until the first half of next year.

If the war could be dragged into the second half of next year, it was destined to end at the negotiating table.

Yet, unexpectedly, the outer defensive line was breached just as winter began.

What followed was the collapse of the Loen soldiers on the western front.

Medici realized that the hundred thousand troops under His command could hardly withstand Intis's several hundred thousand soldiers on the frontal battlefield. He swiftly ordered a southward retreat, yielding the main passages through the Balchis Mountain Range.

South Baylam retreated all the way to the southern part of the Backlund Region, watching and waiting for the war's final outcome.

At this point, everyone believed that Backlund's fall was only a matter of time.

It was then