Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 749 On the Eve of Departure
"Sek, what are you doing?"

Santas, clad in his magical armor, strode heavily into the equipment room and immediately spotted his comrade, who had finished training early, straddling the massive shoulders of the armor and painting on its shoulder.

Before Saik could answer, he took off his mask and leaned closer to take a look.

"Tsk... Why did you draw these marks on your armor? That's strange."

Baler, who was also performing routine maintenance on his magic armor, breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly, "Sek and I are both from rootless backgrounds. Before he came to Saint Valen... his homeland, the Silvermoon Oasis, was massacred by the demon lizardmen, and thousands of innocent people were killed..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sek threw down the paintbrush in his hand, pointed to the mark on the demon armor's shoulder, and said hatefully, "Baller is right. I am recording the number of aliens I have killed... From the moment I joined the army, I swore to make these damned monsters pay for their blood debts."

Santas suddenly realized, and with an apologetic look, he sighed, "The territory of Eisengard has been turned into a living hell by the Lizardmen. It's a pity that our mission is mainly to the north of the wasteland, otherwise we could go to your homeland and fight them, and you could avenge your people more quickly."

As the three men looked at each other in silence, Gregor rushed in from outside, saying urgently, "Brothers, we'll have a new mission coming up soon!"

what?
Sek's eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly asked, "Is it related to the Leroux Canyon? Are His Majesty and the General planning to send us there?"

“It’s not just us… or rather, we alone can’t completely eliminate the enemies there; there are also bloodline warriors and battle mages.”

Gallagher leaned closer to the three and whispered, "Don't reveal this information yet. Remember the secrecy regulations... I heard that the chief ministers of the new alliance originally volunteered to go to the front lines themselves, but His Majesty rejected the proposal. Now the General Staff's battle plan is... that our Starfire Warriors, Bloodline Warriors, and high-ranking mage battle groups will cooperate and deploy most of the kingdom's extraordinary troops to jointly encircle and annihilate the enemy. At the same time, the Northern Army's long-range artillery units will also provide us with support."

Such a large-scale operation? Just to eliminate a small floating island fortress that appeared in the interior of the wasteland?
Just as the group was about to discuss quietly for a while longer, the alchemical horn above their heads suddenly beeped a signal.

It's a rendezvous number!

Dean, the instructor of the Starfire Warriors, always had a gloomy expression, standing ramrod straight in front of the neatly lined-up soldiers with his hands behind his back.

"You will be receiving a very important combat mission soon. I'm sure many of you have already learned some of the details from the rumors circulating in the military."

He paused, then snorted coldly, "Although it's not a top-secret mission, I still want to remind you that the punishment for violating confidentiality regulations is not something everyone can bear. Think about the lessons you've learned before."

As he spoke, a sharp glare flew towards the four members of the team at the front, causing them to blush and lower their heads.

"The commander from the General Staff will come in person to give the order to proceed. All of you, listen carefully. Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask, and remember that a soldier's duty is to obey orders!"

Everyone tensed up and replied in unison, "Yes, sir!"

……

Not long after, the training base of the Spark Warriors indeed received a summons from the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff.

Immediately, the four squad leaders of Sek were taken by Instructor Dean to the main conference room of the military headquarters, where officers from the General Staff Headquarters, who had been waiting there, began to issue mission instructions and explain the operation in detail.

Also attending this meeting were several officers from the Bloodline Warrior Special Forces, as well as a few unfamiliar faces who, although wearing the same officer uniforms, possessed a demeanor and bearing distinctly different from ordinary people. Sek glanced at them cautiously, thinking that these were probably the high-ranking spellcaster commanders of the rumored mage legions.

Senior Staff Officer Dickinson and Defense Commander-in-Chief Pierce personally chaired the meeting.

The two men directly invited everyone to gather around the area's sand table, and, referring to the huge wasteland map hanging on the wall, began to explain the specifics of the mission.

"To be clear, this operation to reach the Leroy Grand Canyon will be carried out by the Bloodline Warriors, the Independent Aerial Mage Regiment, and the Starfire Special Forces. It is a small-scale raid, which you can also consider as a decapitation strike."

A decapitation... operation?
Sek looked up at the instructor with a puzzled expression, but dared not interrupt the general's speech.

"The operation is divided into two phases...and the possible situations are relatively complex, so the General Staff has developed three different action plans accordingly."

As Dickinson spoke eloquently, he had a thick stack of documents distributed to the public.

According to intelligence reports, the Lizardman Floating Island No. 5, which appeared in the Lerou Grand Canyon, is an alien combat fortress of similar size to the Big Bear Lake Floating Island No. 4, and is estimated to hold between seven thousand and ten thousand enemy combat units.

Considering the distribution of underground rivers provided by the Abyss Map, it is highly likely that there are still a small number of heavy combat units, mainly sea snail beasts, on the floating islands. They will also carry jet worms as ranged weapons, and evolved units such as red lizardmen and winged beings will also be present.

Therefore, the primary objective of the joint operation is to sink Floating Island No. 5 and annihilate all alien forces on it.

The Northern Army's artillery units had arrived near the Grand Canyon ahead of other combat units, and together with the troops stationed at Big Bear Lake Base, they established a temporary artillery position at Yanshan High Point as quickly as possible.

They will also be responsible for firing the first shot in this operation.

Ground forces will provide simultaneous support, establishing several defensive lines around the Grand Canyon to trap the enemy's main force in the canyon area and prevent small groups of enemies from escaping.

Then came the main event of the battle—

Once the operation begins, Floating Island No. 5 may be guided by the alien race's dominant consciousness and attempt to destroy the long-range artillery positions that pose the greatest threat to them... This means that the enemy will send a large number of air combat units to raid Yanshan, which is more than ten miles away from the canyon.

At this point, Dickinson raised his voice and looked intently at the three parties present at the meeting.

"Among the aerial combat units dispatched by these floating islands, there is a high probability that there are one or more high-level evolved beings, just like the ones we encountered on the Ice Sea front. They will be the most threatening enemy targets to us!"

He pointed to the location of the Yanshan artillery position on the map and said in a deep voice, "Your mission is to do everything you can to encircle and annihilate the evolved beings when they are lured to Yanshan. Even if you cannot kill them on the spot, you must hold them back and buy time for the ground troops on the outer edge of the canyon to launch an attack!"

Sek's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized what was going on.

It turns out that the so-called "decapitation operation" was actually aimed at killing the alien evolved being who was rumored to be able to withstand the attack of more than ten high-level battle mages!
(End of this chapter)