Chapter 17: Insight
The human front line in the Second World is divided into six war zones, and at the forefront of each war zone is a huge fortress group as the main strategic support point.
These fortress groups are the backing and bulwark of humanity's confrontation with Hell, and in the early days, when humanity was still on the defensive in the Second World, these fortress groups were the greatest strength that the human legion relied on.
Of course, the status of these fortress groups has not diminished in the same way, and each of them is a concentrated deployment of the main army in a theater of operations.
Among the six theaters, the most important position is, of course, the Death Fortress Theater, which is located in the "front line of the front", and the rear of this theater is almost the most elite group of professionals and the most important logistics town group in the entire second world.
But the status of the other five theaters should not be underestimated, they are like the fulcrum of the two wings of the Death Fortress theater, so that the elite human legions in the core theater do not have to worry about threats from both sides and behind.
From the perspective of the strategic map, the composition of the major theaters of the entire human front line is shaped like a "human" shape with two feet extending to both sides, and the most prominent position is the location of the fortress of death, while the remaining five theater fortress groups occupy the most important strategic parts of the two legs of the "human" shape.
The war zone where Pointe-Noire is located is at the final point of the extension line in the "human" shape, and belongs to the war zone under the responsibility of the "Late Winter Fort Group", so the name of this war zone is "End of Winter War Zone".
The Late Winter Theater is located on the frontier of the human theater of war, and it is a very important war zone, and the Late Winter Fortress at the forefront of the war zone resists the offensive of the demon legions from the north and northwest sides, and also has to watch out for the infiltration of the demon troops from the northeast from time to time.
Although it is located in a corner, it has always been a thorn in the side of the forces of Hell in the Second World.
Because the teleportation point of the World Stone is behind this war zone, it is here that it has been continuously sending fresh blood to the Second World Human Legion.
Therefore, the Seven Demon Lords often do things in this war zone, in a vain attempt to pull out this nail and completely cut off the reinforcements of the First World to the Second World Human Legion.
Of course, the higher-ups on the human side also know the importance of this war zone, so not only has the late winter war zone received a lot of attention and support from other war zones, but even the number of professional legions in the front fortress is much more than that of other war zones except for the death fortress war zone.
And not only that, even the legion commanders and generals in the forts on the front line of the war zone in late winter were directly selected from the front line of the Death Fortress war zone, and none of these commanders were easy to mess with, especially the silver-haired and silver-robed middle-aged uncle who was now standing in front of the commander-in-chief of the war zone to report to him.
This guy's reputation is widely spread in the second world.
On the front line of the Death Fortress battlefield, he once led a hundred-man team composed entirely of high-level paladins, specializing in sniping those elite units of hell composed of high-level champion demon real bodies.
He even set a terrifying record of slashing 1,200 champion demon true bodies and more than 60 high-level evil deeds in ten hours.
According to the horrified memories of the last Evil Covenant who escaped back, they could only see a dazzling silver light rushing left and right in the battlefield during the battle with him, and every time the silver light flashed, the Champion Demon Legion would be reduced by several people!
Based on this trait, the Evil Pact and the Professionals gave him two apt nicknames, the Silver Curse / Silver Butcher.
And the most terrifying thing was that at that time, he had just advanced to the quasi-legendary level, and he had not yet come into contact with the primordial power.
After decades of being active on the frontier battlefield, the Silver Damnation finally came into contact with the original after a duel with the true body of the Dark Gold Boss: Shalina, the first demon on the battlefield, and finally succeeded in repelling the elite demon forces led by Shalina.
Since then, the legendary paladin has been promoted to Legion Commander by the Death Fortress Theater and sent to the strategically important Late Winter Theater as Deputy Commander of the Theater.
His name is Nelson Sunblade, and he is from Branwell, the city of Paladins in the First World, and is the last direct descendant of the Sunblade family, a declining family of paladin professionals.
Today's Nelson is a little less frivolous and a little more calm than when he was a fledgling, especially his strategic vision, which has made great progress under the tempering of the position of commander of the Grand Army in recent years.
As the deputy commander-in-chief of the late winter theater, Nelson was assigned to the top of the special operations unit responsible for a series of special operations operations such as infiltration, sabotage, and covert operations against the Evil Pact and demons due to his previous experience in elite squad combat.
Recently, Nelson has been receiving information from the Secret Service below that some of the towns in the rear are frequently attacked and harassed by demonic infiltration forces.
Almost sixty percent of this information was about an attack on the lighthouse crystal mine convoy.
At first, Nelson thought that the Hell side was only intensifying the harassment of the hinterland towns in the Late Winter War Zone, intending to distract them from their defenses and weaken the garrison of the Late Winter Fortress.
But from the intuition of a former special operations expert, he felt that this matter seemed to be a little less simple than he imagined.
So, Nelson began to collect all the information received in the last six months about the demonic harassment of the rear town, and then singled out the attack information on the lighthouse crystal transport convoy, and then sorted it out one by one.
After nearly half a month of continuous combing and intelligence supplementation, he found a pattern from these attacks.
That is, every time a town in the rear is attacked by demons four or five times, a lighthouse crystal mine convoy goes missing—the kind of minecart wreckage that can't even be found, and only the scattered relics of the convoy professionals are found.
There have been five such disappearances so far, all in the vicinity of three neighboring towns in the rear of the late winter war zone.
The stolen minecart was originally intended to transport the lighthouse crystals to the three towns.
At this point, Nelson felt a deep chill in his heart, and he was almost certain that the so-called "demonic attacks" that had targeted other towns in the rear were just smokescreens to conceal the other side's true intentions.
And their real intention is probably to seize these mining convoys transporting lighthouse crystals!
As for what the other party wants to do after seizing the mining team, Nelson has no time to think about it now, the other party has been planning for this for more than half a year, and its plan goal must be not small!
And, judging by the shortening time interval between their last few minecart raids, whatever the purpose of their plan, they're about to get started!
Therefore, they must also act quickly to kill the other party's actions in the cradle before they can launch their plans!