A Guide to Sending the Skeleton Alliance Soaring
"..."
Despite his best efforts to conceal it, the [Great Wei Boxing Champion] couldn't help but reveal a speechless expression upon hearing this:
"My lord, please... stop fantasizing."
"I've gone to contact the remaining Demon Servants to mobilize the army. You just need to take care of logistics as always."
"Heh heh, heh heh heh heh~"
A grotesque, eccentric laugh rang out. [The Great Wei Boxing Champion] looked up and found that Alfonso seemed to be lost in some kind of fantasy.
Judging from his appearance, it seemed like he was holding something that wasn't there.
Is this guy fantasizing about becoming the Grand Seal Keeper...?
[The Great Wei Boxing Champion] twitched his lips, turned around and left Alfonso's tent.
Well, it seems this viscount has been spoiled by the Soul Returners.
He thought this to himself, but then he realized that the reality seemed to be quite different.
After turning to the rear, [Great Wei Boxing Champion] discovered that Alfonso indeed possessed strong logistical planning capabilities.
Oh no, did this kid really get it?
Thus, everything unfolded according to everyone's plans.
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, [Howling Pothos] took the lead and climbed up the Great Fortress, only to find that there was nothing on the city wall.
There were no soldiers, no weapons, and no one who had successfully executed the empty city stratagem [Hard Armor] while wearing sunglasses and singing "Yesterday is gone forever."
The ground was littered with things that hadn't been gathered up in time: scattered pieces of armor, visibly damaged military flags, and all sorts of tattered debris, a testament to the massive retreat that had occurred not long ago, a retreat that was practically a complete rout.
[Howling Pothos] was stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect that after fighting all night, the four sandcastles he led the way to capture were full of Skeleton Man who fought to the death.
When they arrived at the Great Fortress, they found it to be an empty city.
How could this be?
This is just as absurd as climbing a tower in other games only to find the boss room is empty at the end.
As more and more Soul Returner climbed onto the city walls, everyone quickly realized that the Empty City Stratagem had failed; the Great Fortress was truly deserted.
Faced with such a war fortress filled with the secret technology of the Skeleton Alliance, the Soul Returners naturally launched a major investigation.
Just minutes later, someone discovered some strange objects in a fairly spacious office room.
Those were several finger bones covered in runes.
These things are considered strange for two reasons: firstly, players rarely see bones with tattoos, and secondly, these finger bones have been deliberately arranged into a unique shape.
It's like a simple line drawing of the World Tree.
This...
There really is a top-tier inside player?!
Upon learning of this, [Great Wei Boxing Champion] quickly contacted [Ginseng Rooster], who was leading Colin on a forced march, and learned that the item was most likely the message left for them.
After the Psionic Energy was injected, all the Soul Returner saw the movements of all the current soldiers of the Skeleton Alliance.
That includes the more than 100,000 troops left behind in Sand Capital, nearly 200,000 officially rebelling troops, the location of about 500,000 Skeleton Man who are currently in a great retreat, and all the defense information within a 100-mile radius of Sand Capital.
Well...
After witnessing this, players felt as if the game was being cheated.
Moreover, it's not a numerical cheat in the ordinary sense, but a conceptual cheat that directly helps them remove the fog of war.
[Great Wei Boxing Champion] looked at the information in front of him and couldn't help but sigh:
"I suspect [Hard Armor] is our mole."
When Grand Marshal Luokenuosuos i learned of what had happened, he was astonished and transformed into a giant dragon in a thick fog, personally rushing to the Great Fortress.
Even the Grand Marshal himself showed a look of astonishment after seeing the message left by the informant.
The reason is simple: as the mainstay of the empire, Luokenuosuos i and the Skeleton Alliance have been locked in a power struggle for decades.
He knew, of course, that while everyone could use the runic bone artifacts of the Skeleton Alliance, only the strongest among the Skeleton Man could create them.
In other words, the person who left this information must have been a High Tier who was in the Great Fortress the night before.
Even if it wasn't [Hard Armor] himself, it must have been someone of similar status to him, or one of his High Tier warlords.
So...
Luokenuosuos i was briefly puzzled.
Did I almost kill the inside player?
Of course, as the Grand Marshal of the Empire, he quickly decided not to think about these trivial matters.
After confirming that the intelligence information left behind was likely true, Luokenuosuos i issued a series of new military orders, commanding his elite troops, which had been carefully selected, to set off immediately to pursue and kill the retreating skeleton army in an orderly manner, in order to reduce the number of them reaching the Sand Capital.
Siege warfare is not so simple. Once an ordinary skeleton soldier enters the Sand Capital, he can play a more important role than the three Skeleton Man outside.
Unfortunately, the team that received the order to activate the pursuit mode also included troops under Alfonso Lange.
Thus, the young viscount was forced to confront a pressing issue—
What should you do if your son holds a higher official position than you?
Sailesi had flown from midnight until the first light of dawn and was now somewhat exhausted.
While Psionic Energy flight isn't difficult for High Tier, it still depends on the time it takes.
Just like running, most people can easily run for a few minutes or even ten minutes, but if someone can run for several hours without getting red in the face or out of breath, then they are definitely not an ordinary person.
Moreover, in order to return to his familiar hometown as soon as possible, Sailesi was still pushing his body at full speed.
Upon seeing the dense forest at the edge of his field of vision, he finally felt a great sense of relief and chose to land.
Let's proceed as usual and rest for a while. We'll continue flying when we have the strength. Let's go to the Holy City first and see what the situation is like now. Maybe we can still see Geliwusi and Luxiusi, as well as that Son of God.
As he made this plan, Sailesi suddenly had a strange feeling.
The heavy feeling of exhaustion in the body, which had been pushed to its limits, was receding like the tide.
Impurities causing the mottled colors within the Crystal Clusters are gradually precipitating outwards, as if something unseen is frantically extracting from the body.
"What... what's going on?"
Sailesi paused for a moment. Although he went from feeling exhausted to feeling refreshed, he realized that this didn't seem like a good thing.
He was about to enter the Theocracy and had already reached the border of the Alliance.
Even so, they were still affected. It's hard to imagine what will happen to the Skeleton Man who are still within the Alliance's territory.
Sailesi had had this idea a long time ago --
If the councilors are this powerful with just one Holy Remains, what would happen if they controlled five? Wouldn't that make the Skeleton Alliance soar to new heights?