“At three o’clock, request for support!”
Hearing the call for help, Sam immediately turned his gun and, along with his comrades, began to lay down fire suppression.
“Damn it, these green skins are not right!”
Sam’s teammate cursed while helping him reload: “We have dealt with these green-skinned demon clans before; why are these demons in the concession so fierce?”
Sam’s arm was already losing feeling, but he still pulled the trigger, roaring, “If we don’t hold them back, they’ll start looting the town again!”
Finally, under the intense fire suppression, the demon clan withdrew.
Although the territory of the resistance had been continuously expanding due to the string of defeats faced by Fang Ge, it had not yet completely encroached upon the demon clan’s territory located on the edge of the Northern Border.
It sounded fantastical, but the situation was indeed that the resistance was helping Fang Ge guard the northern territory.
With the progression of the war, the demon clan no longer concealed their intentions and, relying on those concessions and the Eastern Border, began large-scale invasions of Fang Ge’s territory. After all, everyone knew that if they did not seize the moment, everything would be taken by Graythorn Territory.
Meanwhile, Fang Ge had lost his mind somewhat and was no longer resisting these demons, focusing instead on preparing for a climactic battle.
The gambler had wagered all his chips on the poker table.
Aside from preparing for the final battle, the main reason was that the demon clan had started to behave strangely. Previously, the demon clan relied on exceptional individual combat prowess to suppress humans with fewer numbers. Now, the combat strength of the demons had become even fiercer, making it hard to contain even ordinary firearms.
Not to mention that, as more firearms leaked from Fang Ge’s side, those nobles completely relaxed their control, and the firearms used by the demon clan became increasingly sophisticated.
Relying on the former most important mining area in the northern border, the Suld Mining Area, the demon clan’s military equipment began to gradually surpass that of Fang Ge.
Those generals trying to win merit and fame through the demon clan were constantly defeated. The demon clan treated the concessions as a springboard, starting to wreak havoc in Fang Ge’s territory.
Once a city was occupied by the demon clan, recapturing it became exponentially more difficult. If Fang Ge exploited the territory sustainably, then the demons directly started scraping the ground bare—what sustainability? It didn’t exist.
The demon clan didn’t even bother with economic methods of exploitation using Fang Ge’s vouchers; they simply began to loot.
The resistance had long been facing challenges beyond just Fang Ge, so upon receiving this news, Isha immediately set out with the resistance forces.
Those nobles under Fang Ge’s rule also turned a blind eye to the resistance’s actions; after all, these nobles had to leave themselves a way out.
After fending off another wave of demon attacks, resistance leader Layton wiped the sweat from his forehead and arrived at the temporary base in the city saying to Isha, “Lady Saintess, the demon clan has temporarily retreated. They probably took significant losses this time; we should be able to hold on for a while longer.”
“I understand, thank you, Sir Layton. Do we have enough weapons and ammunition?”
At that moment, Isha was caring for the wounded residents in the city. This was the first time so many people had been injured since the resistance acquired their equipment.
“I’m afraid we don’t have enough; this is our first battle on this scale.”
Layton looked outside the city and said, “Lady Saintess, something seems off with these demons; it appears their mental state is problematic. Rather than being fearless, they seem somewhat crazed.”
Isha nodded and said, “Among demon clan’s bloodline magic, there are many sinister arts that we humans have yet to fully understand. It might be because they are using those sinister arts. I will have the Lord Governor send more supplies; let’s just hold out for now.”
The resistance had just finished a fierce battle and their supplies had already been depleted, yet no noble dared to take action against the resistance. Thus, the resistance confidently took control of the city, and the nobles inside had no objections whatsoever.
Even the most stubborn nobles in the northern border began to straddle the fence, collaborating in full with the resistance whenever possible.
The tragedy of Copper Mountain Territory spread much wider than the surrender of the Laurent Family; this was the first time the northern nobles had witnessed the fangs of Graywhite Territory exposed.
Once, these nobles thought that the Graywhite military was merely a slow-moving force, gradually besieging cities. Although the campaign had gone smoothly so far, the Graywhite forces had not displayed any extraordinary combat capabilities that exceeded the common knowledge of these nobles.
However, the incident in Copper Mountain made these nobles realize that the Graywhite forces could ignore those so-called territorial defenses, directly launching deep incursions and rapidly conquering entire territories.
Even after taking Copper Mountain Territory, this army did not stop; they began to meticulously demolish the territories connected to the nobles of Copper Mountain.
In this situation, Graywhite Territory also began internal purges, uprooting those nobles still colluding with the old nobles of the northern border.
While the nobles in Fang Ge’s territory relished in Lind’s romantic exploits, the heads of those nobles began to realize this was Graywhite Territory demonstrating its military and control capabilities.
If Lind wanted to, Graywhite’s army could already ignore the so-called defensive lines of Fang Ge and project itself into any territory deep within the northern border.
And those nobles who had already surrendered only helped print a few brochures, only to be thoroughly inspected and confiscated. Under the formerly lax management, identifying who was responsible became nearly impossible, yet it was easily uncovered by Graywhite Territory.
This left both the nobles still in Fang Ge and those who had surrendered without any dissenting thoughts, and they became even more polite to the resistance than before.
Graywhite had proven that they indeed had the strength to eradicate an ancient noble bloodline completely from this world.
Thus, the lord of the city and the nobles not only harbored no thoughts against the resistance but proactively offered supplies to Isha.
Isha did not take advantage but intended to purchase at market price. Seeing Isha’s attitude, those nobles instead pleaded with her to accept their offerings. In the end, Isha reluctantly agreed, purchasing the supplies at a settled price.
Those nobles felt they had done a good deed and joyfully retreated back to their castles.
At this moment, Fang Ge was angrily pounding the table, cursing, “We can’t win here, we can’t win there; let’s just surrender!”
A nearby noble whispered, “Then, Lord Fang Ge, how about…”
“How about your mother!”
Fang Ge, furious, slammed the ink bottle onto the noble’s head.
Anyone could surrender, but not Fang Ge. Fang Ge had not only personally killed Duke Lars; in Graywhite’s declaration of war, they also claimed Fang Ge was involved in the assassination.
Although, based on Fang Ge’s understanding of Lena, if he kneels and apologizes, maybe she would really let him off. That niece-in-law of his would likely only show mercy by allowing him to choose a more dignified way to die.
At that moment, a guard came to report: “Lord Fang Ge, the demon clan’s envoy requests an audience.”
