The Xister Kingdom took this battle seriously. If it could help the East Sea Alliance defeat the Ryan-Vela coalition and drive the enemy from East Sea Alliance territory, it would change everything.
Riding the momentum of that victory, the Xister Kingdom would become the strongest power around the Silver Moon Strait, perhaps even across the entire northeastern part of the continent.
Even if the Xister Kingdom stopped expanding eastward after that, its newfound prestige alone could give it control over the continent's northeast.
That was the ambition of the Xister Kingdom's leaders. For now, of course, it remained a dream. They had to win before it could become reality.
And to win this war, they first had to find a way to bring every army the Xister Kingdom had prepared onto East Sea Alliance soil.
That was the main mission of the force led by Prince Yonitsa and Marquis Kayo: to open a route for the Xister Kingdom's entire army.
The stretch of the East Sea Alliance's northern coast occupied by Vela still had some decent harbors. On the southern coast, however, the East Sea Alliance had destroyed virtually every harbor it controlled.
After losing its navy, the East Sea Alliance had been forced to cut off its own arm rather than let those harbors become enemy landing points.
It had been a reasonable choice at the time. But now that the Xister Kingdom wanted to send help, it was a problem: no harbor in the territory still controlled by the East Sea Alliance could accommodate an army of several hundred thousand landing troops.
So before the Xister Kingdom could send reinforcements, it had to capture a harbor in enemy-controlled territory to serve as a landing point for the army crossing the sea.
Soon, as the Vanguard Army's fleet