Along the Sark Kingdom's southern border with the Lampari Kingdom lay a mountain range that was not particularly high, but stretched for a great distance.
When the Lampari Kingdom was founded, it had seized a vast expanse of land south of this range from the Sark Kingdom. Eventually, the two kingdoms established the range, named Murto, as their boundary, with the Sark Kingdom to the north and the Lampari Kingdom to the south.
For this reason, everyone in the Sark Kingdom, from His Majesty the King to ordinary commoners, desperately wanted to reclaim this land from the Lampari Kingdom.
Thus, in the centuries since the Lampari Kingdom's founding, disputes along this mountainous border had never ceased.
Although neither country had the courage or economic strength to launch a full-scale war, minor clashes broke out constantly.
Every year, the Sark Kingdom committed enormous amounts of manpower and resources to this border. On average, its annual losses in personnel alone reached several thousand, while the resulting economic losses amounted to hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
Although the Sark Kingdom had always held the upper hand in these border disputes, it had actually gained very little.
After all those years, it had merely pushed its territory from the northern foot of the range, where the border had stood when the Lampari Kingdom was founded, to just beyond the mountains. Every attempt to advance farther met fierce resistance from the Lampari Kingdom's Northern Garrison.
At the beginning of this year, at the suggestion of His Majesty the King of the Sark Kingdom and following meticulous planning by the Kingdom Military Department, the Greedy Wolf Legion guarding the Sark Kingdom's southern border launched an exceptionally large surprise assault unlike any before it.
Caught completely off guard by the Sark Kingdom's unprecedented large-scale invasion, the