Like an orange carpet, the morning sun spreads from east to west, and Preston City is soon bathed in the morning sun.

The changing of the guard soldiers hurried up to the city, and the two soldiers at the head raised their thick binoculars and looked north. In the distance, the Alessandro Mountains were filled with a thick fog, and the huge flags of the outposts could be faintly seen fluttering in the wind.

The squad leader took a slight breath, then stared intently into the distance.

The East Ikras had conquered the fortress of Bardini three days earlier, and everyone thought that they would push them to Jessel in one go, but the enemy commander was very cautious, he always believed that Angelo would set up an ambush in the Alessandro Mountains, so he had been sending small forces to sweep through the mountains and forests these days.

Yesterday it was reported that the East Ikras had pulled out the last stronghold of the Venadas in the mountains, and the generals believed that the East Ikras would attack Preston today.

The army had been assembled, and the sound of footsteps under the walls was so dense that even the earth trembled as Vinada soldiers in suits of armor poured into the city, silver armor glittering in the sunlight.

Since the breakup of the Ikra Empire, the Venada soldiers have been virtually undefeated in war, thanks to their sophisticated Vinada steel processing technology, but they are also limited by the number of people and steel, which has prevented them from unifying the continent of Aishkana in one fell swoop.

While the swollen Venada were struggling for power, the Eastern Ikra in the north had been sharpening their knives for years, and in the year 334 Ikra finally stretched out their butcher's knife, which was destined to slash from Naijie to Yasir.

The sun hung inexorably high in the sky, and the morning mist of the Alessandro Mountains lifted from top to bottom, revealing the tall cedar forests below, lush and rippling in the wind.

"Boom"!

The trembling sound of the earthquake came from a distance, and the team leader hurriedly sounded the alarm bell, and the piercing bell rang from the north of the city to the southernmost part.

At the sound of the bell, he looked at the outpost in the distance, where the soldiers had apparently noticed something unusual, and they were anxiously looking to the left and right at the top of the tower, they obviously sensed the abnormality, but it seemed that there was no sign of the enemy.

"Be careful!"

The team leader suddenly noticed something, he quickly put down the binoculars and shouted into the distance, but to no avail.

The ground beneath the outpost bulged, and an earthy yellow head burst out of the ground, opening its bloody mouth, and as its mouth closed, the sentry post was crushed to pieces in the blink of an eye. Several soldiers jumped out of the sentry post first, and before they could fall to the ground, they were wrapped in layers of dirt, and finally turned into a part of the body of the earthy yellow giant snake.

The serpent grew into the air like a bamboo, and it stood silently at the outpost, looking down at the Venada from above. Behind them, the mountains and forests trembled, and the soldiers of East Ikra in black armor poured out of the valley like a tidal wave, and at the foreground was a siege vehicle made of Venada steel, which was thirty meters high, the diameter of the chimney reached an astonishing two meters, and black smoke billowed up.

This vehicle appeared during the assault on the fortress of Bardini, and did not cause much trouble to the Venadas at the time. But things were different now, and the walls of Preston were not even as tall as the siege engine, which could easily crush them.

"Your Majesty!"

The door to the conference room was pushed open, and the herald hurried in, and there was no need for him to say anything, and everyone could see the earthy yellow serpent from the conference room, with a few black dots standing on the snake's head, apparently the East Ikra Magician.

The generals panicked, all the troops of the Venada Empire were only 140,000 in number, and most of them were damaged in the defense of Bardini, and if the remaining troops were able to hold Preston, no one would believe this except for the madmen, and none of the people here were madmen.

"Your Majesty."

A blonde general stood up, he looked at Angelo, obviously trying to persuade something, but so many people failed to dissuade Angelo, the young Venada Emperor was determined to live and die with Preston.

The blonde general sighed and walked out with his steel helmet in his arms, and his roar could be heard in the hallway.

"Drag out all the steel spirits that are not dead!"

"Bang".

The door slammed shut, and the warm air pouring in from outside the door warmed the room for a moment, but quickly returned to cold.

On the throne, the emperor with the crown tilted his head and his left hand under his cheek, as if asleep.

No one will have such peace when death comes, at least not the living who are in a state of flux.

The ministers were silent for a while, but finally they began to talk.

"Will the Darriyo Commander be able to hold on?"

"Seeing that siege vehicle outside, all the spellcasters of Yessel combined can't stop it."

Someone sighed.

"Yesel, the walls of Yesel must be able to hold that thing back."

"Yes, and the Hanar River, which will not reach the city of Jessel at all, as long as we fortify its shores."

"Did you read last night's astrological scroll?"

“....... It's been years since Hook Er Er hasn't shone so brightly. ”

There was a moment of silence in the room, let alone an astrologer, last night, even ordinary people saw the shining star in the sky, everyone knew that it was Angelo Pravor's natal star, the natal star shining in astrology means a big change, everyone knows what that change is.

They weren't supposed to discuss this, but people always act incomprehensibly in a panic, but Angelo seemed to be really asleep, and he ignored the ministers' comments the whole time, so the whispering continued.

The chaos continued for a while, and came to an abrupt end as Angelo opened her eyes.

The staff officer, who was expressing his emotions, quickly shut up, and then sat back in his seat stupidly.

But Angelo didn't look at him, but stared straight at the door, which was pushed open.

Albert pushed the door open.

"Your Majesty, except for the two legions stationed at the fortress of Bardini, the two hundred and fifty thousand East Ikras have all been allocated."

"250,000 ......"

Someone opened their mouths wide and spat out the heavy number, and it seemed that the East Ikra had brought in troops from Naijie again, and this time they might have to push all the way from Yesel to Turin.

"Your Majesty."

Someone still couldn't contain the panic in his heart, and was ready to make a bold suggestion to Angelo, and when he turned around, Angelo had disappeared from the throne.

Albert stared at his colleagues and yelled.

"Prepare for war!"

Several of the generals stood up in unison, and they untied their cloaks, and under them were the fine steel armor of Venada.

"Click".

As the helmets snapped into the buckles on their shoulders, the generals walked briskly out of the conference room, quickly disappearing at the end of the hallway.

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