It is an indisputable fact that the Imperial Army is at a disadvantage in the Tedgar Hills, and even with the addition of the second- and third-tier armies that do not have much combat effectiveness, Luke has less than 100,000 troops at his disposal. These auxiliary armies were scattered throughout the Empire's occupation areas, and with the full withdrawal of the Royal First Magus from the Tedgar Hills, the Imperial front line was very empty.

After a round of military meetings, Luke ordered all auxiliary armies to retreat from the first line and take up a strong position behind the Triumphal Fortress.

The Triumphal Fortress thus became a salient.

The Angry Waves City Armored Assault Division first gave priority to transporting personnel to take over the defense of the Triumph Fortress, and used the fortifications that had been built by the Royal First Magic Legion to form the Triumph Fortress defense circle with the Triumph Fortress as the center and the surrounding highlands as the fulcrum.

Use the fortress to reserve weapons for defense, wait for your weapons and equipment to arrive by rail, and then launch a counterattack after completing the reloading.

Luke had inspected the warehouse since he arrived at the Expense Fortress, where the weapons and equipment of the First Royal Wizard Legion had been redressed were sealed inside. The Angry Waves Armored Assault Division has been trained in these weapons and equipment, and there is no problem at all in using them in combat.

In addition, 50 percent of the various airships attached to the assault division have arrived at the Triumph Fortress, including a Kirov-class super-heavy steam airship, and the air power of the assault division has a greater advantage.

Therefore, when the Duke of Celtic led the barbarian army to launch a counterattack against the Imperial army, he found that there was only one triumphal fortress in front of him.

Stuck in the middle of the mountains, this fortress guards the Tedgar Hills on the easiest path to the Empire's mainland. Without reclaiming the fortress, the barbarian legions would have to take the mountain trails and give up most of their baggage.

Moreover, the Triumphal Fortress was of great significance to the barbarians, and had to be taken back even if it had no military value.

With the Duke of Celtic's order, the barbarian legions immediately launched an attack on the fortified fortress, and the battle for the high ground around the fortress also began.

After the Kirov-class super-heavy steam airship arrived at Overhead Fortress, Luke moved his command post to the airship.

From here, you can overlook the entire battlefield.

On the south side of the Fortress of Triumph is an open field, which is conducive to the attackers deploying their forces. It can be seen that when the barbarians built the Triumphant Fortress, they considered how to facilitate their own recapture of the lost fortress.

As attackers, the barbarians who received the new weapons and equipment were also trained in the new tactics. They did not launch a fearless charge against the fortified city as before, and crushed the will of the defenders with their own blood.

Before the attack, the Barbarian Legion was fully prepared for the attack.

The barbarians pressed the second-hand armed steam airships they bought on the front line to provide air cover for the ground army.

The Mage then controls the magic projectile cannon to blast the ground along the route. The magic trap preset by the defenders was forcibly removed during the blast. The Magic Projectile then uses Earth-based Magic Bombs to create slope-shaped cover in the attack lane, so that attacking soldiers can dodge the defenders' ranged attacks and regroup when retreating.

Some magic projectiles are digging trenches to give soldiers a more forward sortie area.

The Barbarian Legion is trained to lay out magic in an orderly manner. Barbarian hoplites dressed in heavy armor and armed with tower shields entered the trenches and lined up in the sortie zone.

Other barbarian light infantry stood by in the rear.

The light infantry is then a war fortress designed and manufactured by the barbarians themselves, but there are still many problems in the war fortress, so the barbarians did not put this attack weapon on the front line to withstand the attack, but let it act with the light infantry, more to give a psychological comfort.

The Barbarian Legion played decently and had nothing to praise it, but it also didn't expose too many loopholes.

The Triumphant Fortress was not left to the enemy by the presence of the Barbarian legions, with the armies on combat duty guarding their respective defensive areas while the rest of the soldiers carried their belongings.

There were so many weapons and equipment that the Angry Waves Armored Assault Division was equipped with, and even the War Fortress was disassembled and shipped over.

No one panicked because of the disparity in strength between us and us, and the entire fortress was running at a healthy and high speed.

Faced with the magical preparations of the Barbarian Legion, the Triumphant Fortress did not allow its opponent to lay a path of attack. The magic projectiles on the fortress turrets responded quickly, and one projectile after another was thrown high, cutting a parabola in the air and smashing down the dirt slope bunkers created by the barbarians.

The dirt slope bunker instantly turned into a sand pile after being hit, and the sand pile collapsed and became a sand depression area that was difficult to walk.

At the same time, the magic projectile cannons located on the high ground on both sides of the fortress took advantage of the advantages of high and low fire and long range, and bombarded the barbarian hoplites gathered in the trenches.

Then, taking advantage of the chaos of the barbarians being bombed, the commando's airship took the opportunity to move forward and used magic to suppress the barbarian legion's airship, and at the same time dropped the steam titan and a small number of magic guide titans carried by the airship.

Titan Commander Orn drove a Wizard Titan to the front, leading the Titans to repeatedly charge and kill the forward positions of the Barbarian Legion, and then quickly retreated to the fortress under the cover of the airship.

Although this small raid did not cause much damage to the barbarian legion, it knocked out the sharpness of the barbarian attack.

When the Duke of Celtic learned that the assault on the heights around the fortress had failed, he ordered the attack to be ended.

The barbarians retreated like a tidal wave, ready to sum up their experience, discuss tactics, and then attack the Triumphant Fortress.

The barbarian legion retreated in an orderly manner, showing the military quality of the elite legion. The defeat of a tentative offensive will not have any effect on the barbarians, and the war will continue.

While the Triumphant Fortress attracted the main force of the Barbarian Legion, the defensive strength of the Holy Mountain became empty. The war has taken away a lot of abyssal mages, and the abyssal temple has become a little empty.

Clear Sky, who had been on the Holy Mountain for a while, finally found an opportunity to enter the Abyss Temple.

Bridges, once the second apostle, is now the first apostle of the Abyss Temple and the only one alive.

A deep sense of crisis led Bridges to live a life of seclusion, barely leaving the Abyssal Temple, sometimes even attending meetings of the Duke of Celtic.

He had a hunch that the clear sky would definitely come to him.

Especially when Duke Celtic took away most of the Abyss Mages, his premonition became even stronger.

Bridges hides in the deepest part of the Abyss Temple, activates all the traps in the temple, and gathers the remaining Abyss Mages and Abyss Monsters together to protect himself.

Dressed in a special battle suit, Clear Sky arrives at the gate of the Abyss Temple, and she doesn't know where Bridges is hiding, so she decides to break in and find it.

"Hey! This is the Abyss Temple, not the place where you should come ......"

Before the big eyeballs hanging from the temple door could finish their words, they froze into ice cubes in a cold air, and then fell to the ground and cracked apart.

Clear Sky stepped on ice chips and walked into the swarthy temple. (End of chapter)