The Dawn Society's massive offensive came so suddenly and swiftly, just as the day they officially stepped onto the Vann stage.

This large-scale operation, which had been in preparation for some time, was named the "Aaron Baru Offensive".

Or, it could be simply called "Operation Watch."

Interestingly, at the time of the establishment of the "City of Watch", the royal family of Saint-Steele was entrusted with the important responsibility of "watching and protecting the northern territory", and the royal family believed that the city was not only a border hub, but also a strong fortress to control large areas.

Now, however, the miserable miners, who had been "rented" to neighbouring countries for the sake of the royal family, have become carriers of the word "watch", eager to liberate their homeland and homeland, and to be able to expel dangerous enemies and things with their own power.

After all this time in the making, the warriors' hatred of the Black Sun Society and the completely corrupt royal family of St. Steele had reached its peak.

They know very well that they are ordinary people, flesh and blood who can be easily killed by magic and bullets.

However, they also know that their opponents are not much different.

From the very beginning, the Dawn Society has been doing its best to educate and introduce the true situation of the enemies to its own soldiers, whether it is mages, hostile soldiers, or even those strange monsters summoned by the Black Sun Society...... As long as the important information can be grasped, Felix will lead the compilation of a book with the assistance of other members and disseminate it among the army.

No one will reject these messages.

Even the laziest and hardest soldiers on a daily basis will listen to the officers and scholars when they explain this knowledge, and unlike other complex ideas and concepts, under the integration of Felix and others, this information is always more direct and more practical—what they determine is most likely life and death on the battlefield.

What weapons and strategies should be used against different enemies and opponents, where should you shoot at enemies, or when should you approach vehicles and mages to hide......

Experiences and knowledge like these have been repeated countless times, and now it's time for these soldiers to test them further.

Inside one of the new vehicles, known as the "Creeper", a group of nervous faces are swaying in the dark.

Each of them could hear the roar coming from afar, and they could feel the vibrations of the vehicle as it ran over the mud and the different obstacles.

"Click!"

A soldier reached out and opened the "window" on the side of the vehicle, so that the light entered the vehicle, illuminating the faces of the young and old.

The window is a long, narrow slit shrouded in rituals, and it can be used as a shooting hole, but most of the time, it is more suitable as an observation window.

Through this narrow window, the soldiers in the carriage could see that in their vicinity, other "creepers" were advancing in an orderly manner, and in the middle of these vehicles, some "cavalrymen" who looked very special quickly passed through the gaps and took the lead in running away into the distance.

Without exception, these cavalrymen were the elven inhabitants of the northern border.

They were not riding ordinary horses, but a slender snowwolf with wide soles and gray-white fur.

This is a fierce wolf beast with a large population that is active in the northern regions, and it is one of the more common magical beasts, and they have magic power far beyond ordinary beasts, but not enough to perform magic, so they use this magic power to transform their bodies, making them more agile and agile.

Therefore, the elves who live in the mountains and hills of the north will try to domesticate these snow wolves.

This custom has been going on for an unknown number of years, and these elven wolf cavalrymen have always been seen in the wars that took place in the past, and now, the Dawn Society has given these cavalrymen a new mission - they are no longer required to charge the enemy's positions, but will be more inclined to reconnaissance and vigilance.

Snowwolves have the natural advantage of not only allowing them to move quickly in harsh terrain, but also to detect the approach of dangerous creatures earlier, and these cavalry, equipped with microcosm telecommunications and capable of sending simple warning signals to the rear, will become the front guard of the advancing large army.

It didn't take long for this measure to prove effective.

After three rounds of shelling, the scouts, who had already moved forward for a considerable distance, were already aware of the anomaly, and the elven riders invariably noticed that their mounts had suddenly stopped running, and the ears of the Snowwolves were drooping and clinging to their heads, their hairs began to stand up, the fangs in their mouths were leaking out, and their eyes were staring at the distant sky.

"Watch out for the sky! Watch out for the skies! ”

Soon, the special warning message successfully passed through the magical turbulence in the cold plains and was successfully transmitted to the rear, and after receiving the order, the marching "creeper" queue immediately slowed down, and some of the vehicles began to activate the pre-prepared secret rituals, so that the magic designed to confuse perception and create illusions began to spread, and they soon joined together, covering almost all the vehicles and the soldiers in them.

"Don't make a sound, be quiet, stop snooping and observing the sky!"

Similar commands sounded inside all the carriages, so all the soldiers turned their heads to look inside the cars, and a few young people couldn't help but want to turn their heads to look out the windows, but they were immediately stopped by their companions or superiors, and the open observation windows were quickly closed.

At this time, the Dawn Society mages who stayed in the cab, responsible for maintaining the magic ritual and observing the situation, became one of the few personnel who needed to face the sky.

Soon, they saw a large black cloud appear from the end of their vision, it was the countless Asharu Giant Birds gathered together, the special legion specially prepared by the Black Sun Society to deal with the large-scale offensive.

As one of the most flexible parts of the Black Sun Society's defense system, they reacted immediately after the Dawn Society's artillery bombardment and attack, and began to advance from the air, needless to say, knowing that the goal of these terrifying giant birds capable of casting a certain amount of lethal magic was to stop and kill the moving troops as much as possible.

They're so fast that they're like rolling waves.

These fierce Asaru giants don't hide their whereabouts, and that's their nature—when their species are large enough and their targets as prey are weak enough, they show their most arrogant and ferocious side.

Through the instructions and messy messages instilled by the casters of the Black Sun Society, they learned that just in front of them, a large herd of delicious prey was approaching, and that these targets were enough to feed the entire race.

The voracious desire to prey dominates these ferocious, strange birds of prey, and even the Black Sun Society mages who ride on their backs, constantly watching the ground and preparing to cast spells, are unable to completely restrain them.

Another round of artillery bombardment was launched, and crystallized cannonballs streaked across the sky, creating countless hollow paths, and magical turbulence bursting out of these dangerous hollows, interfering with the keen perception of the Ashru Giant Birds, as well as affecting the judgment of the Black Sun Society's casters on the plains below.

The trust in these ancient creatures, and their contempt for the Dawn Society, led them not to really inspect the seemingly messy areas, but simply looked twice with the naked eye, and after finding that there were no targets worth paying attention to, they drove the flock on.

The members of the Dawn Society, who were in the cab of the Creeper, looked nervously at the sky.

As the clouds rolled overhead, each of them's heartbeats kept accelerating, and what made them nervous was not the battle that could break out at any moment, but their own "mission".

A middle-aged driver couldn't stand the oppression caused by the flock of Yasharu birds, he lowered his head, gritted his teeth and asked, "We just let them go?" Obviously, there are 'Kalfan' on the car, and they are all loaded with high-power crystalline bullets, why not try it? ”

The mage next to him, who had been in the Deresan army, was very calm: "That's what the team will do, don't forget our own mission...... Believe in the preparations we have made before, and also believe in our comrades. ”

"I know, I know."

The driver licked his parched lips, and he took two deep breaths, trying to control his emotions and heartbeat.

For the soldiers sitting in the carriage, stuffed in the dark, the situation was even more difficult.

They couldn't see what was happening overhead, and could only silently pray in their hearts that there would be no accidents, and some of them had even begun to silently load the inside of their revolvers with special ammunition specifically designed to deal with Yasharu, and the dense flapping of their wings was really unsettling.

However, the soldiers' worst fears did not happen.

The deadly and terrifying flock of birds eventually flew over the concealed convoy, and it wasn't long before the giant birds in the air let out an extremely piercing and noisy scream - they had finally locked on to their target, which was a queue of Dawn infantry that was moving at a slow pace further away, and it seemed that these infantry did not carry much heavy weaponry, which showed that they could not pose a real threat to the flock of birds in the sky.

Once the target was confirmed, a breath-stopping whistle suddenly sounded high in the air, and it was the attack order given by the Black Sun Formation mages.

The black clouds became furious, and they blatantly swirled, kinked, converged, and then quickly dispersed in different directions, a hunting formation that had been engraved in the instincts of the Ashru Giant Birds since time immemorial, and the most common posture they used to hunt as minions of the Moon Eagle.

The members of the Black Sun Society, who were responsible for mobilizing and directing the flock, were very satisfied with this, with the help of magic, they could clearly see the reaction of the poorly equipped Dawn Society troops in the distance, they looked frightened, the queue became chaotic, and some soldiers had even begun to try to shoot into the air, but this kind of behavior was pointless, it only made them laugh, after all, even high-powered crystalline bullets could not fly to such heights.

Soon, the death swoop of the Yasaru flock began.

A dark red magical glow began to flicker on their bodies, and the dark magic formed a layer of light and solid armor, and the crumbs of magic burst out in the process, transforming into sharp blades.

As the Asaru giant bird swooped, these blood-colored magical blades were the first to fall towards the densest part of the crowd, creating chaos in the crowd and slicing through the flesh of their prey for the birds to enjoy.

However, just as these magical lights and shadows were about to hit their targets, a translucent magical barrier rose from the ground, and it was like a solid barrier, directly in front of those blood-colored blades.

In the midst of the intense concussions, the ritual set up inside the infantry queue was voluntarily lifted by the accompanying mages, and a large number of specially modified steam vehicles appeared, which, unlike the "creepers" in front of them, who were mainly responsible for transporting infantry, were clearly equipped with several different heavy weapons.

Among them, there are "long-range guns" specially used for long-range sniping, "Kalfan heavy machine guns" that can quickly weave a network of firepower, and more importantly, there are long and narrow barrels that have been aimed at the sky.

This somewhat peculiar style of crystallized cannon requires two soldiers and a mage to operate at the same time.

The soldiers in charge of operating the weapons were already impatient, and in the face of the dense black shadows above them, they began to shoot at the same time, so that the dull sound rang out at an extremely high frequency, and the magic circuits on the gun mount began to flicker violently.

Under the control of the mages who accompany them, these tiny magic circuits are constantly fine-tuned within a controlled range, and each flicker of them means that the next small crystalline cannonball that is about to be fired is imprinted with a special "self-destruct ritual".

Under the effect of these rituals, crystalline cannonballs that should have been flying forward until they hit their targets or run out of power will explode directly at the time of the rituals, so under the precise aiming of the shooters and the careful calculations of the mages, one after another clouds of magical explosion smoke mixed with countless sharp metal shrapnel and crystalline debris bloom in the air, and with each explosion, the deadly impact and debris will create a bloody hole in the dense flock of birds.

Ever since Shug Ernst sent the message to the rear at all costs to be "watch out for the enemy in the air", the scholars of the Dawn Society and the Vann Magical Society have been researching it non-stop.

Now, the time has come to validate the results.

(End of chapter)