Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 160 Territory Defense Level Alert

Harvey was inspecting the territory mine when he suddenly received an urgent message from Asdalen.

By the time he quickly returned to the castle on the alchemy beast, Egno had already finished treating Vaughn's injuries and had him take the potion and fall into a deep sleep.

"What happened? Where did they encounter the demon cavalry?"

Tommy, the first to discover Vaughn, knelt on one knee and reported the news he had received to Harvey in detail: "My Lord, I found Vaughn in the woods outside the east gate of the territory. He said that a group of demon soldiers appeared near the Green Water Swamp... I, I examined his wounds, and they were indeed caused by a sharp blade. And this head..."

Harvey turned his head to look at the table where Tommy was pointing, untied the bloodstained and torn clothes, revealing a hideous head with crimson skin.

Red eyes, red skin, and tiny scales all over the forehead...

It is indeed the most typical appearance feature of the demon race.

"Didn't the exploration team initially report that these guys were suspected to be appearing in the mining area on the edge of the swamp? How could it be..."

The mining area discovered by the exploration team is located on the eastern edge of the entire wasteland swamp. To reach the Green Water Swamp, which is closest to the territory, it is equivalent to crossing the entire swamp area, which takes about three days.

This means that the demons are not just staying in that mine, but are constantly expanding to the surrounding areas, rapidly developing the surrounding areas in the form of small teams of cavalry.

"Are they... searching for something?" Asdalen, who used to live deep in the ice field, was the one who knew the most about the demons among their group.

But even he couldn't understand why a group of demon soldiers could cross the vast ice field, pass through the dense and huge evil orc tribes in the wasteland, and sneak into the wasteland swamp area on the north side of the Divine Ridge Mountains.

Harvey didn't want to think about it. He decisively gave Pierce an order, "Have the Territorial Defense Force adjust the alert level to level one, but don't blow the alarm to avoid panic and chaos..."

"Have the Northern Border troops stationed at the camp assemble immediately. Conduct a blanket search in the direction of the Green Water Swamp in battalions. Make sure to locate the demon cavalry that has infiltrated the territory and annihilate them completely!"

We must not allow any of them to escape by chance and return to the base camp of the natural mineral vein to report the incident.

Harvey is now unsure whether his territory has been detected by the demons. His previous plan to wait until the bloodline warriors have completed their training and then launch a surprise attack while the enemy is in the open and he is in the dark is no longer appropriate.

In this case, it would be better to attack head-on, deploy a formation, and use the powerful firepower of magic guns to wipe out the demons entrenched in that natural mineral vein.

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The defense army camp headquarters, which had just fallen into the night, suddenly received an urgent order from the highest commander of the territory - suspected alien invasion, and activated the first-level defense alert!
All the soldiers who were not assigned to guard and patrol the city walls quickly assembled, climbed onto the section of the city wall that their team was responsible for, and then quickly formed combat teams according to the team structure and entered a defensive fortress built every few hundred meters on the city wall.

The entire pioneering city wall is a terrifying twenty miles long. Even if two thousand defense soldiers are crammed onto the city wall, there is no guarantee that there will be people standing on every section of the wall.

This is when the Northern Frontier Army stationed in the territory came in handy. They were responsible for gathering combat troops and proactively attacking in the main direction of the enemy's attack. "Battalion Commander, is this Level 1 alert order tonight another large-scale training exercise?" A captain in charge of the western wall section approached the commander of the First Defense Battalion and whispered.

After all, it's well known that the Northern Army relies on field training for daily training, while the Defense Army relies on exercises for daily training...

Since the army was restructured and split into two, the soldiers assigned to the defense force have experienced several large-scale army-wide defense exercises, both large and small.

But this was the first time they had conducted a level one defense drill, which meant that after the alarm was sounded, they would need to climb onto the city walls and maintain a high state of alert with live ammunition for a full seventy-two hours.

The commander of the first defense battalion glanced at his captain and signaled him to look down from the observation window of the defense fortress. He found that at some point, the city gate on the west side suddenly opened, and a large number of Northern Army soldiers in black uniforms, lined up in formation, poured out of the territory, quickly assembled outside the city gate, and then dispersed into the form of combat teams, entered the dark and dense woods, and quickly disappeared into the night.

"They...is this, is this a nighttime training exercise? Or...are they really going to do this?"

The battalion commander of the defense army stood on the five-meter-high city wall, gnashing his teeth and hammering his fist on the bricks. "Those bastards of the Northern Army have taken advantage of this opportunity to go out and fight and earn merit. Humph!"

A messenger sprinted along the city wall, bursting into the western defensive fortress. He breathlessly reported to the battalion commander, "Report! Sir, the lord will be ascending the city wall shortly to inspect the western fortifications. Commander Pierce wants you to be fully prepared. Don't let your guard down!"

The battalion commander, who had been feeling depressed, immediately jumped up like a chicken, grabbed the messenger and shouted, "The Lord is coming? This... this isn't a drill? Is there really an invasion?"

The messenger struggled to break free, walked to a trumpet-shaped alchemical instrument set up in the defensive fortress, and stuffed a phonograph magic stone from his waist bag into it. After a burst of crackling noise, Lord Harvey's calm and composed voice slowly rang out.

"Soldiers of the defense force! Attention everyone... I am your Lord Harvey... Zizi... The sentinels have discovered traces of demon cavalry in the Green Water Swamp... Zizi... The defense alarm for the territory has been sounded. I demand... that the entire army enter a level one alert state! I reiterate... This is not a drill! This is not a drill!"

Alien invasion! The most vicious and cruel demons from the northern wilderness!
The officers of all ranks in the defensive fortress of the western section of the city wall immediately became more alert. Amid the hoarse roar of the battalion commander, they rushed to the defensive section of the city wall they were responsible for and quickly conveyed the lord's oral order.

The western section of the city wall is about six miles long, and a huge defensive main fort was built at the west gate.

The high-ranking officers of the defense army gathered here with mixed emotions, and had a heated discussion on the detailed map of the territory's city wall defense. Everyone's mood was extremely complicated.

I don't know if they hope that some demons will actually break through the Northern Army's proactive counterattack line and rush to the territory's walls, so that their defense forces can be put to use.

We should still pray that those arrogant guys in the Northern Army are really as powerful as tigers and can directly annihilate the foreign enemies outside the territory.

The bloody and ferocious demon head that was cut off and brought back by Vaughn after being killed was now being carried by the messenger and circulated among the defense strongholds of the defense army.

"So this is what the demons look like. Aside from their different skin color and red eyes, they're no different from us..."

"Look, he was killed with his bare hands and his head was cut off. The warriors who killed him didn't even use magic guns to blow his head off..."

(End of this chapter)