Blade Ridge City, headquarters of the Vela Expeditionary Army.
This was originally the main castle of an earl's fief belonging to the East Sea Alliance. Perched atop a sheer cliff, it was a steep military fortress once hailed as never falling.
However, when faced with the artillery strikes of the Two Rivers Legion, no matter how rigorous the city's defenses were, they would still be shattered, along with that earl and his two sons who died in battle on the ramparts, wiping out the entire direct line of the family.
Alex and Victor saw that the location of Blade Ridge City was indeed perilous, and it also guarded the transportation hub of the entire northeastern region of the East Sea Alliance, connecting the surrounding eight counties simultaneously.
Moreover, it was less than 100 kilometers in a straight line from Hampshire on the border of the Southern Four Counties in Vela, and the roads were smooth enough to be reached in a single day of forced march, which was why they chose it as the headquarters for the Vela Expeditionary Army.
Just as the Xister Kingdom Army was crossing the sea, Alex and Victor had already received news of their movements; after all, that fleet that blotted out the sky was indeed too conspicuous.
Long ago, in order to gather intelligence on the Xister Kingdom and determine the movements of their fleet, Victor had already ordered a special operations squad from the Intelligence Department to establish a station in the largest port of the Xister Kingdom.
Currently, this squad was hiding in the city near that port, and they also carried a precious wireless telegraph machine equipped with a cryptographic machine, used for transmitting intelligence.
However, the performance flaws of current wireless telegraph machines were still very large, and the transmission