When his subordinate reported an enemy invasion, Count Dean Dempsey, the City Lord of Mero City, could scarcely believe his ears.
An enemy invasion?
As the current head of the Dempsey Family, Dean Dempsey had never heard the word "enemy" in the twenty-six years since he had taken over as City Lord of Mero City.
In fact, throughout the more than four hundred years since the Dempsey Family had been granted this land, no foreign enemy had ever invaded Mero City.
After all, Mero City was the largest city near the border of the Candel Empire's Southwestern Province! It was known as the jewel of the province's border!
Who would be reckless enough to invade such a prominent city?
Or, more to the point, who would dare invade the territory of the Candel Empire?
In the nearly thousand-year history of the Candel Empire, apart from its few rare periods of decline, what country on the Sains Continent besides the Malo Empire had ever possessed the outrageous nerve to invade it like this?
They were simply courting death!
"Where did these enemies come from? Have you found out? And what the hell is the Border Guard doing? They couldn't even stop those people?" Count Dempsey asked grimly as he headed outside, preparing to issue orders.
He was not one of those useless noble city lords. Naturally, he understood that anyone bold enough to invade Mero City had to have some confidence in their own strength.
If he failed to handle this properly, even if Mero City did not fall, any damage it suffered from the fighting would be unacceptable to him.
At his questions, the subordinate who had brought the news turned remarkably pale. He swallowed before answering with a bitter smile, "We have. According to the scouts' reports, the enemy