The guerrillas had never Apparated straight back to base before. Just now, they had first moved to somewhere near it, intending to return inside afterward—and luckily, that was what let them avoid the Magical Kingdom's first wave of bombing.
Using the lull, Macduff led his team as they flashed into an underground bunker in the defensive zone, guarding the perilous outer terrain. It had been built halfway up the mountain, controlling an important transport route leading to the vast Rocky Mountains behind them.
MACUSA's people had previously worked around the clock to turn the geological structure here into granite, then carved defensive runes into it, building it into a fully equipped fortress that was easy to defend and hard to attack. This outer stronghold, along with its internal passages, had already become one of the main defensive fortifications.
Not only did it have a Floating Ship landing port, it also had trenches, Towers, and walls. There were even firing ports large enough to hide Dragons and allow them to breathe fire outward, and around it were smaller bunkers of a similar design but on a more delicate scale, meant for Erumpents.
When they had been hurrying back to the defensive zone earlier, they had arrived just in time for the United Kingdom's bombardment of it. Seeing the defensive zone in chaos, Macduff had immediately decided to lead them here, the nearest position.
The guerrillas stormed into the bunker, and Macduff ordered the round-faced wizard in a Hit Wizard uniform who came out to meet them, "Robert? Take your people to help Your Excellency Leonard, and report that this place has been handed over to us..."
"Yes, sir!" Robert understood that he and most of his men were Hit Wizards, not total outsiders, but compared with these Aurors who had undergone