Chapter 702 - Prologue — The Country of Darkness
The night sky was limitless.
The scarlet, round moon hung silently on the night sky above this nation of eternal night with no sunrises. Its reddish radiance emanated in the endless night of darkness.
Garcia stood on the platform and gazed at the scenery below him. The dark, mesmerizing cities—Drekoen, Eternal Night City, and Death Capital. They were the last palaces of all the dark and undead races. Unlike Casabianca of the Country of Light, Drekoen was constructed in the shape of a square, which had obviously set apart four regions that represented four families and the four largest races in the Country of Darkness. The four regions served the gigantic, pitch-black castle in the center—and its owner.
At this moment, this city was sleeping under the gentle moonlight. The corners of Garcia’s lips twitched. This massive city could never be treated as luxurious. Even though there were also business negotiations and communications in this city, they couldn’t be as lively as the human countries. To put it bluntly, judging by Garcia’s views on this city as a Human, he saw this place as an exquisite, lifeless graveyard with countless tombstones and graves exuding a faint blue aura.
What a foolish and meaningless thought.
Garcia shook his head slightly and caressed his beard. At this moment, a voice sounded behind him.
“All ready, Sir.”
“Got it.”
Garcia instantly put up a stern expression. He turned around and entered the spacious room with large strides. Even though there were exquisite decorations set up in every corner of this well-decorated room, there wasn’t a single piece of furniture. In the center of the spacious room, there was a mysterious, yet complicated ritual emanating with faint radiance. The ritual was laid out in the shape of a cross with empty circles at all four corners. Garcia stepped onto one of the four circles. Then, the entire ritual cross emanated a faint radiance and shortly after, three other indistinct, illusory silhouettes emerged above the other three circles. Even though Garcia couldn’t see their facial features, he knew that it was the same for how others viewed him — This was the communication method for the four legendary generals. Unless they received orders, they would never gather at a single place. They had never appeared before anyone and always controlled everything in secret.
Ashvril let out a crisp chuckle. However, Garcia didn’t take it to heart as he knew that Ashvril was just an annoying troublemaker. Back then, this raid plan had been approved by the Dark Dragon. Now that the progress wasn’t going well, the Dark Dragon would definitely pay attention to it. However, Garcia had to admit that Ashvril was right. This was a problem between the four legendary generals. If they couldn’t even handle such a problem, wouldn’t the tempted clowns who were eyeing their positions from below be jumping for joy?
“We should retreat and reevaluate the situation.”
Garcia ignored Ashvril’s words and suggested his own.
“General Charlie’s army have reached their target and we can act according to plan. No matter what, His Majesty’s prestige can protect our troops. Judging from the reactions of the Light Dragon, perhaps she can’t do anything to resist His Majesty. The Dragon Soul protection naturally has its inertia, but the Light Dragon’s current status is apparently not enough for her to recover lost ground. I suggest that we go steady and strike hard. Consolidate our battle lines first before launching another attack.”
Garcia gazed to the figure at the side.
“Silent Field isn’t a good choice for us. If it is possible, hand it over to others to defend.”
“Oh.”
Charlie responded, but no one knew if he had agreed to this suggestion.
“But this isn’t our focus, General Charlie.”
At this moment, the flirtatious voice let out some crisp chuckles as it spoke.
“Indeed. We recognize the strength of the Munn Kingdom. But this time, they actually performed so well against our raids. Shouldn’t we consider the possibilities of internal personnel leaking our information? This is a serious problem. According to our intelligence report, no matter which territories on Munn Kingdom’s battle lines, they are more or less prepared against our raids. General Garcia should be clearer in this than me. If we can’t resolve this problem, how should we go about discussing about others?”
Garcia sulked slightly.
Indeed. This was their biggest problem to a certain extent.