The night of April 17, the 4th year of the new calendar, for many people, is just an ordinary late spring night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Avery Industrial Estate is still as usual, with the factories brightly lit.

At four o'clock in the morning, the whistle of the first train came from the direction of the Avery Iron Mine, and in a few hours, it was time for the morning and evening shifts to change.

Not many people in the entire industrial region, or even within the entire empire, know that a huge army of knights has set foot on the territory of the northern part of the empire, and an unprecedented war is about to begin.

Donner sat in his office on the sixth floor of the Avery Building, in a large room with only a magic lamp lit on the desk in front of him, illuminating a densely written manuscript paper.

However, Donner's attention was not on the piece of paper full of memos. He was looking through the window on the north wall of the room, looking at the industrial park in the dawn night.

In the past three hours, he has contacted the border guard, Kornas and the City of Truth, and all the measures have been laid out.

Commands are like pebbles thrown into a calm lake, and the ripples will cover the entire empire.

But while thousands of people were awakened from their covers, Donner sat quietly in his chair, motionless.

This is the fourteenth year since his return to Middle-earth. In the past fourteen years, he has performed countless miracles in the north of the empire, and the industrial area of Avery in front of him is one of the proudest of them. But now, these creations of technological civilization are facing a huge threat.

Donner didn't know how the knights had climbed the cliffs of the north, and he felt that without the cooperation of the Far North, such a large army would never have appeared there out of thin air.

Sam had already sent out a dozen hot air balloons, and the situation had reached such a point that there was no reason to worry about the dangers of cruising at night. But even then, before sunrise, the reconnaissance mission will not bear fruit.

In the middle of the office of more than 200 square meters on the top floor of the Avery Building, Donner felt as if he was in a dark secret room, a dangerous beast was beside him, and he could stretch out its claws at any time, but he didn't know anything about this beast.

It's a suffocating situation.

If that knight army quietly turned north, the army of magicians he had been running for nearly a decade would be immediately exposed to the enemy, and in a hurry, Sam, would they be able to withstand the tide of knights?

And that's not even the worst of the worst cases. If that knightly army had completely dispersed and infiltrated the south, perhaps the old and young empire would have a real catastrophe, like the small village that had been slaughtered.

Unconsciously, a layer of azure light appeared on Donner's body, which was a sign of the explosion of azure fighting energy.

He is using his brain to deduce, trying to figure out a foolproof way to deal with it. Unfortunately, the information he has obtained is really limited, and the slightest deviation in the data may lead to completely wrong results.

Twenty-two years ago, in the war against the Thorny Army, Donner turned the tide and saved the entire empire from the danger of destruction.

But the current situation is completely different, the army of the Knight Continent and the army of the Thorn Empire are by no means the same concept, the dwarves who could be used as help at that time are now difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and Donner himself is no longer an inconsequential member of the youth army in the war, but the king of the north who can command all the combat power of the empire at any time.

The fate of millions, if not tens of millions, of people will be fundamentally changed because of one of their own thoughts, which is different from the reform and the New Deal, which is a rapidly changing war.

The invisible pressure was like a high wall across him, making Donner's breathing a little rapid.

If only all this had been ten years later...... He shook his head, putting the idea of weakness behind him.

Although no one could have imagined how the knightly army had bypassed the five northern cities full of dwarves and came to Middle-earth, it had happened, and now was not the time to be upset, and the top priority was to do everything possible to wipe out this army that appeared out of thin air in the northern lands.

At that moment, the office door was pushed open with a thud, and Sarah stood in the doorway with an angry face.

"Why? Why did he arrest Ceoses? What did he do wrong?" said Sarah, dressed in neat armor, she hadn't dressed like this since she had returned to Middle-earth.

Donner looked at Sarah vacantly, as if he hadn't heard her, his mind still on the strategy of facing the enemy.

"Don't say those white-robed mages weren't sent by you. Sarah strode in, looking at Donner questioningly from across a desk.

"I don't have time to explain this to you right now. Donner got up and walked to the door.

Sha stretched her hand and grabbed Donner by the shoulders and pulled him back.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" she exclaimed.

"A large army of knights has been found in the north!I have reason to believe that it has something to do with Cynthia or Ceosaceus!" Donner finally said in a deep voice.

"This ......," said Sarah, whose face turned horrified, "but it has nothing to do with Ceoses? ”

"He and Cynthia came by coincidence, not sooner or later, just at this time. I can't take any chances, you know. After Donner said this, he left the stunned Sarah, strode to the door, and shouted outside: "Go, call all the factory directors for me, and in ten minutes, I will see them here!"

......

At the first light of dawn on the eastern horizon, more than a dozen hot air balloons gathered over Isa Falls began to disperse and drift in both directions. According to the instructions of the head of the border guard regiment Sam, in order to avoid exposing the tracks, these hot air balloons flew extremely high.

Looking down from such a high altitude, the knight torrent near the North Falling Cliff is simply palpitating.

The young magician put down his lookout and looked west, only to see the moving stream of people stretching to the horizon of the far west. With his mouth half-open, he turned slowly and looked to the east, seeing the same sight.

The lookout scope in his hand suddenly fell down because of distraction, and the older comrades next to him grabbed the lookout goggles before they fell from the cracks in the floor grid, and shouted in a deep voice: "What are you afraid of?"

"Captain Gunther...... Don't you see......? So many knights ......"

"Of course I saw it!" the magician named Gunther gritted his teeth vigorously, "But so what?! Once, the most magnificent city-state in the Knight Continent was at our feet, and it wasn't razed to the ground?!"

Gunther looked at the torrent of troops on the ground, as if he had returned to the time when he followed the Duke and destroyed the giant city-state. Of course, he was afraid, just as he had been when he had seen the magnificent city-state that stood on the horizon, but in Gunther's breast burned a flame that had been kindled by the Duke's impassioned speech many years earlier, and as long as it was not extinguished, he would always feel the warmth from it.

"For thousands of years, Middle-earth has been a weak person to be bullied," he said slowly, "but from the beginning of us, the story will be completely rewritten......

Beside Gunther, the childish young mage seemed to be infected by Gunther's resolute and holy expression, as if there was also a flame burning in his chest.

"Full speed east!" Gunther shouted to the mage behind him who was controlling the balloon, "I want to see where these ants came from!"