In October of the first four years, it was not too far away from the annual "Double Day Festival". In this autumn, the festival is completely devoid of its former festivities, and the clouds of war hang over the entire continent, whether it is San Jose or Desic, and all attention is focused on the war on the south bank of the Morro River.

Kyoto Castle has not even prepared a grand celebration this year, and the cabinet ministers of the Imperial Council are very busy, and almost all the country's supplies are concentrated in Kyoto Castle and then transferred to the three battlefields.

Many of San Jose's young people left their homes with their families and followed their noble lords into the barracks. The war has been going on for more than four months, and San Jose has lost more than fifty thousand soldiers. Although this number is much smaller than the losses in the war between the Desik merchant alliances, it is also tens of thousands of lives.

The battlefield of the Northern and Eastern Fronts, the area from Kursk to Hongye Town, has now been completely connected by a series of posts built by the Desiks, and the two sides have been facing each other for several months on a front of more than 500 miles. The total strength of the two sides of the confrontation has always remained at about 150,000.

The battlefield on the southern front was much quieter. It is quite incomprehensible that more than 30,000 people in Desik, relying only on supplies by sea, were firmly nailed to the Patong area on the southern coast of San Jose. You know, they also kept eight thousand prisoners of the San Jose Navy. Oh no, now there are just over five thousand left.

The court mage sent five high-level mages, including Mage Set, to lead the team to the battlefield on the southern front. Their mission is to investigate the goals of the Dark Rising members in the Patong area, the Red Branch Stone Forest, and to protect the San Jose army from magical attacks.

When the court magician arrived, he immediately launched an investigation. Those magical elements that ordinary people think are quite mysterious, in the eyes of magicians, are the same as words written on white paper, no different.

According to records found by court magicians in the materials left behind by the Magic Empire, the dark mages cast a long-lost forbidden spell "Psychic Storm" during the brief battle in the Red Branch Stone Forest, which stunned 8,000 ordinary people on the spot, and the Desiks captured a large number of laborers without much effort.

The power of that forbidden spell was so great that even when the court magician arrived at the Red Branch Stone Forest a long time later, he could still feel the restless magical elements in the air.

A powerful magic spell is like a flame touching boiling oil for a magic element, and those magic elements that were originally alien also look forward to the appearance of a powerful spell.

As in the northern battlefield, part of the guards brought by Count Mosick, as well as the local garrison of Nanhai County, set up a large camp not far from the Red Branch Stone Forest to monitor the Desik landing army. However, I don't know what it is, the Desiks are not in a hurry to break through the Stone Forest area, but only send troops to harass them from time to time.

Even if it was just a bit of harassment, the losses received by the San Jose army in a few months were not small, because the Deciks had two special weapons: Alcmene and Amut. These two alien beasts, one can top a battalion of San Josens, and they are invulnerable, rarely taking damage, and at the same time can also cause great damage.

Although with the help of the court magician, the San Jose army was no longer as terrifying as it was when they first encountered these two beasts, but every time they encountered it, they suffered a lot of losses.

However, the dispatch of these two strange beasts is not frequent, and sometimes they only appear once every ten days and half a month. The battle between the two sides is more like testing each other, killing time, and going through the motions.

The court magicians are the only ones who can't be idle, and they have been trying to find out the purpose of the dark magicians in the Desik army in the gap between the battles, but the other party is also very shrewd, and every time they appear, they are very cautious to appear on the tower of the Red Branch Stone Forest and disappear. Many times, both sides perceive each other's presence more through magical elements.

In the past few years, people on the mainland have known that whether it is court magicians, family magicians, or these dark magicians who have risen in darkness, they all come from the remnants of the Magic Empire a thousand years ago, and their magic lineage can be traced back to the same origin. As a result, disturbances in the magic elements caused by the opponent's magic casting can often be perceived by the opponent.

Setie, the veteran high-level magician, she is not in the barracks at the moment, she has a more important mission, and she takes her two companions, Pete and Angelina, who sneak through the Red Branch Stone Forest to the heart of the Patong region.

Magicians are magicians, and they have 10,000 ways not to be discovered by the Desik soldiers, and at this moment, the three of them, shrouded in black burqas, crouched on a hill in the Patong region, looking out at the brightly lit seaside in the distance. Their appearance at this time is no different from that of dark mages.

There are even a few times along the way, when they encounter the Desik patrol, all of whom have been fooled out as dark mages. Those stupid Desik big-headed soldiers can't tell the difference between a court mage and a dark mage.

"Look at the seaside, Master Setty, when did such a large dock be built there. Pete asked.

"Build a dock for sure, without the dock those Desik transports can barely dock", Mage Setie also kept an eye on the situation not far away, "But look what it is!" said Mage Setie, pointing at the shore not far from the dock, where there was a huge bonfire burning on the cliff far from the coast, and there was actually a considerable number of Desik soldiers stationed there. And in the center of the campfire, a dark hole, eerie.

"Like, it's a mine?" Pete hesitated.

"How is it possible, I haven't heard of any minerals in the Patong area. Angelina wondered.

"It's not impossible," Hearing their words, Mage Seti on the side spoke up, "The Patong area is originally the most inaccessible part of Nanhai County, and it is very possible that there are minerals here that no one knows about. But the problem is, we don't know that there are minerals here, so why would the Desik know?"

Pete and Angelina were both silent, "Mage Setty, are we going back to report the situation, or?"

"When I went over and looked, I was a little curious. "Although she is a woman, Mage Setty, who has been adventuring on the mainland all year round, is not lacking in courage and wisdom. Now that you've come here, there's no reason to go home empty-handed.

The three of them quietly approached the mine in the distance. Patong Beach is an open sea area enclosed by the Red Branch Stone Forest, which is inaccessible and rarely inhabited by human villages. There were only a handful of hunter huts, which have long since burned down. After landing on the beach here, the Desiks brought in large quantities of subsistence and military supplies by transport ships, and drove the captured San Jose naval prisoners to build a deep-water dock.

From the wharf, the captives also built a plank road out of timber that led to the mine two miles away. There seem to be some small cars, transporting something along the boardwalk. The final work is being put on the docks by the sea, but the three wooden tunnels that have been formed have allowed a considerable number of transports or warships to dock. At this moment, there are more than double-digit Desik flat-bottomed large transport ships, docked at the dock.

The three of them secretly approached the cave under the cover of night, their bodies were well hidden by the black covers, and Master Setty also cast a special spell, under the effect of the magic spell, the three of them did not make a sound at all.

The trio approached from the northeast of the cave, which was actually on a cliff on the coast, and most of the Desik soldiers were mainly guarding the bottom of the cliff, and there were only a few sentry posts on the cliff.

After quietly approaching a Desik sentry, Mage Setty waved his hand, and an invisible spell was unleashed, and the guard fell to the ground without saying a word. Mage Pete, the only male of the three, hurriedly rushed forward to confirm that the man was completely unconscious, threw his weapon aside, turned back and gestured, and the three of them continued to move forward.

Along the way, the three of them solved a number of Desik posts, and gradually came to the top of the sea cliff, not far below was the strange cave-like hole. The three of them were a little difficult, and they didn't know how to enter the cave without alerting the guards below, and the atmosphere was a little anxious for a while.

Seeing that Mage Sette didn't say anything, Pete gritted his teeth and turned his head to go down directly, Angelina grabbed it, shook her head slightly, and motioned for him to look at Mage Setti. Pete then noticed that Mage Sytie was looking down intently.

The sound of "grunting" came out in the darkness, followed by a Desik officer shouting loudly, "The car is out, pay attention! Let the soldiers on the plank road get ready, pull hard!" The three of them looked down, only to see the soldiers at the entrance of the cave, I don't know when they had lined up in two columns, each holding a very thick rope in their hands, and under the command of the officer, pulling the rope hard.

"Hey, hey, hey!" the Desik soldier looked extremely hard, and it took a long time to see two wooden four-wheeled carts, pulled out of the black hole, the plank road under the hole should not be a flat road, looking at their struggling appearance, the three of them were very curious about what was on the car.

"It can't be a gold mine!" Mage Pete guessed, and Mage Setty shook his head, "No way, come out, look at those barrels!"

"Barrel?" The other two looked intently, and saw a large number of round barrels stacked on top of each other on the wooden cart, and the mouth of the barrel was tightly stuffed with a cork, so that it was impossible to see what was inside.

At this moment, a stone appeared on the plank road for some reason, and the wheel of one of the wooden cars was tossed by the stone, and a certain wooden barrel was not stabilized, and it fell to the ground in an instant. The barrel slammed to the ground, spilling wood chips and leaking out of the barrel.

"Oh my God!" the three magicians, Setie, Pete, and Angelina, couldn't help but exclaim, the barrel was not an ore at all, not gold as Pete had guessed, but a liquid.

"It's oil oil! This is oil well!" Pete blurted out!

At this moment, I only heard an angry shout not far away: "What person!"