Atop Four Wolves Mountain, a female knight stood proudly, gazing down at the colossal fortifications below.👑💙 💣🐻
For once, she wore no armor. Her tall, slender figure was on full display, and her silver hair streamed in the fierce wind atop the mountain. Yet not one of the soldiers hurrying back and forth dared look at her stunning face.
She was Corey, daughter of General Keli of the Thorn Empire's Third Legion. Just twenty-five, she was already a Level 2 Knight, and had inherited both her father's military talent and his iron-fisted approach to command.
This time, the astonishing plan to invade the Feymont Empire by sending an entire legion—more than ten thousand men—through the mountains and behind enemy lines had been devised by her alone.
Now the thousand knights in her Vanguard Camp and the three thousand elite soldiers of the Mountain Camp had successfully reached the summit. Below the cliff lay a colossal staircase, assembled and built by tens of thousands of laborers over ten full days. It offered a direct route from the opposite bank of the Aiva River to the mountaintop on this side.
All that remained was to locate the mountain path mentioned in the intelligence. Then the army could pour through the passage and infiltrate the enemy's rear. Thinking this, Corey turned and entered the mountaintop tent hastily erected half a day earlier.
Ten minutes later, the intelligence officer came in to report that the scouting party she had spent a fortune assembling from enslaved Elves had been wiped out.
"...The Mountain Camp's scouts just sent word. All seventeen Elves up ahead are dead, killed by the same powerful spell. There are also more than a hundred bodies at the scene, apparently all young students from the Feymont Empire."
Even more shocking than the