Chapter 767

After an intense battle, the Kingdom Army achieved a decisive victory over Grand Duke Greedy Wolf's rebel forces.

According to the battlefield cleanup statistics, the Royal Army had killed over two thousand enemies and captured more than three thousand, while suffering over two thousand casualties of its own.

The losses did not seem particularly disproportionate, but since the new army was experiencing such a hard-fought battle for the first time, Commander Harrison was generally satisfied.

He compiled an extremely detailed battle report and sent it posthaste to Crystal Radiance.

When the messenger arrived at Thorn Fortress, he first sent a brief message through the telegraph station, then mounted a swift horse and continued north with the full battle report tucked inside his clothes.

The telegraph system had also been extended from Crystal Radiance to Thorn Fortress, the southernmost point of the Royal Territory.

As an imitator of the many things in Northwest Bay, Rhodesney XVIII could hardly have ignored the telegraph, a method of transmitting information at astonishing speed.

After the runaway little princess Irene returned to Crystal Radiance, she described the telegraph's many marvels to Rodney XVII, who was still alive at the time.

This piqued the old king's interest. With his approval, Irene directed the construction of a telegraph node route leading north, connecting Crystal Radiance with Lakeheart Town.

Messages from Crystal Radiance to Lakeheart Town had originally taken half a month to deliver by swift horse, but now they only required half a day.

There was no doubt that the telegraph was a force multiplier, allowing Crystal Radiance's ties with its various vassals to grow ever closer. This was welcomed by Rhodesney XVIII as well.

After ascending the throne, he never stopped expanding the telegraph system throughout the Royal Territory, with communication routes radiating outward from Crystal