Just over half a month later, Duke Sheriff launched another offensive with his troops. This time, the Raine Kingdom forces alone spearheaded the attack, with three legions leading the way and another six close behind. The Raine Kingdom Assault Army charged menacingly into the heartland of the East Sea Alliance.
They swept through everything in their path like a blade splitting bamboo. These nine Raine Kingdom legions truly lived up to their reputation as elite royal standing troops.
The East Sea Alliance made extensive preparations to counter them, fortifying some cities and castles along their route and adopting a scorched-earth strategy. But against the fearsome Raine Kingdom standing army, the East Sea Alliance lacked the fighting strength to stop the Raine Kingdom Assault Army.
The force Duke Sheriff commanded penetrated deep into the East Sea Alliance's heartland, continuing toward its new capital. It was only stopped a little over fifty kilometers from that capital.
By then, the Raine Kingdom Assault Army's mounted scouts could already see the walls of the East Sea Alliance's new capital, but the main army remained blocked before another walled city.
This city belonged to a count's family in the East Sea Alliance. The count's name was Valbi Jiao Shiteng.
Count Valbi and his family were famous throughout the East Sea Alliance. His family had been in the stone trade for generations, and several enormous quarries lay within their territory. The stone they produced was renowned throughout the East Sea Alliance as a superior material for cities and buildings. Hard, dense, and enduring, it was purchased by many nobles to build ancestral castles back home.
This city had been built from that exceptionally sturdy stone, and his family had spent several hundred years constructing it. Named Stone Mountain City, it was reputed to be the hardest