Even with Anne in a key position, Charlot Mecklenburg still had to return to the front lines.
This time, however, he could not return to the Duchy of Behemoth or the South Seraph war zone. Of course, he would not be thrown into a meat grinder like Ferlanden either. Instead, he was sent to open up an entirely new battlefield.
This offensive was known as the Southern Offensive!
The Empire committed a total of five Knight Orders, with three Saint Ranks!
Well, that did not include Golden Goat Herolf and Leopard God Domitian of the West Wind Knight Regiment, because neither of them was part of the Empire's order of battle.
The Old Continent was divided into two parts by an extraordinarily long strait, also known as the Red Dragon Sea. It stretched for over five thousand kilometers, several hundred kilometers across at its widest point and merely twenty to thirty kilometers at its narrowest. It was immensely deep, with mountains covering the northern shore and plains dominating the southern shore—an unusual landscape that did not exist on Earth.
The five great empires were all located on the northern continent. The ancient orc dynasty had originally been there as well, but after its fall, the Sherlock Dynasty drove it from the northern continent. Forced into the Southern Continent, the orcs formed countless tribes of every size.
For geographical reasons, although the former subjects of the orc dynasty multiplied and survived after entering the Southern Continent, they never again had the strength to launch a counterattack.
Last time, the Orc Tribal Alliance had infiltrated the vicinity of Strasbourg with the aid of Supernatural Power, only to be crushed in one stroke. The orc elite had been all but wiped out, though a small portion escaped back near the Red Dragon Strait.