“Master, are you sure about this?” Asmodeus asked as he ordered his Steel Golems to dig into the ground. “Shouldn’t we help the Blackrock Clan resist the Haca Dynasty’s Army?”

Lux, who had summoned his Doppelgangers, who then summoned the Skeleton Gang Bangers and the Steel Golems, shook his head.

“Even if we were with them, it would still be useless,” Lux replied. “The Orcs are outgunned and outmatched by their opponents. Sooner or later, they are going to retreat back here to the Capital City. So, there is no use staying with them. We’ll just be wasting our time and effort there.”

The Half-Elf then looked at the ground where Eiko was sharing her senses with him.

“Um, Eiko, can you and your clones dig a little deeper?”

“Pa!”

“Good Girl. Okay, that’s deep enough. You can hollow that place and make sure that it is spacious enough.”

“Un!”

When the Orcs retreated, Lux and Asmodeus didn’t bother stopping by the mountains of Lorgakh Kur, which the Orcs planned to use as a natural fortress to halt the advance of the Haca Dynasty’s army.

Instead, he headed straight back to the capital city of the Orcs and began to lay out a surprise for their enemies.

Although Asmodeus acted as if he didn’t know what Lux was planning to do, he silently gave his Master two thumbs up in his heart.

‘Master, you’re starting to think ahead,’ Asmodeus smiled as he ordered his own Undead Warriors to speed up their digging. ‘This is good.’

Truth be told, Asmodeus wanted to corner the Blackrock Clan until they had no other choice but to rely on his Master for help. But without telling that to Lux, it seemed that the Half-Elf was thinking of the exact same thing.

Both of them understood that the Orcs were very proud, and helping them right now would not allow them to feel as if the very existence of their Clan was threatened. Only when the Orcs knew true despair would they understand how the Half-Elf could tilt the tide of battle in their favor.

While everyone was busy digging, the Half-Elf suddenly chuckled as if he heard something very funny.

Asmodeus, who was paying close attention to what his Master did, walked towards him and inquired what the red-headed teenager found funny.

“Draven succeeded in infiltrating the ranks of the Haca Dynasty’s Army,” Lux explained with a smile on his face. “If he manages to achieve the mission I assigned to him, then we will gain a lot of spoils in this war in more ways than one.”

“He is really amazing.” Asmodeus praised their new ally. “His ability allows him to infiltrate any organization. As long as he doesn’t do anything to stand out, the enemy wouldn’t know that someone is spying on them under their noses.”

Lux nodded in agreement. “Also, there’s one more thing that I need to share with you.”

The Half-Elf was no longer laughing, and a serious expression appeared on his face.

“The Haca Dynasty has no intention of crossing the Mountains of Lorgakh Kur,” Lux stated.

Asmodeus frowned after hearing his Master’s words. “If they don’t plan to cross it, are they planning to go around it?”

The red-headed teenager shook his head, which made Asmodeus gasp in shock.

“Y-You can’t mean that…”

“Yes, Asmodeus. The Haca Dynasty plans to obliterate the mountains that are blocking their way with the Magic Cannons, as well as the Grand Spell.”

Fifty years ago, the Orcs used the Lorgakh Kur mountains to slowly kill the invading army of the Haca Dynasty. Because of this, they didn’t have enough force to mount a proper offensive against the entirety of the Wanid Kingdom and were forced to retreat.

Great General Garret had no intention of repeating the mistakes that had been made in the past, so he decided to brute force his way through, even if he had to deal with an entire mountain range.

“But how?” Asmodeus replied. “Although their Magic Cannons are strong, it is impossible for them to obliterate entire mountains, unless…”

“Unless all of their High-Rankers who specialized in long-range attacks work alongside the Magic Cannons and the Grand Spell,” Lux finished what his strategist was about to say with a bitter smile. “We should dig faster. I’m afraid that we only have two days at most to finish our preparations.”

Asmodeus nodded and urged his Undead Army to speed up their work. Their only saving grace was that they were commanding Legions of the Undead, who didn’t know the meaning of fatigue and exhaustion.

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Lorgakh Kur…

“This is madness!” Tanabur smashed his fist on the ground as explosions erupted all around him. “They plan to destroy the entire mountain range?!”

Barca, Lady Avyanna, and Oreg were just as surprised as him as the Haca Dynasty launched a barrage of long-range attacks in order to destroy the mountain little by little.

“The power of their Magic Cannons has increased exponentially,” Lady Avyanna stated. “Before Lux left, he said that the quality of the Beast Cores used to power those weapons of war would determine their performance. I’m guessing that they are now using Deimos and Argonaut-Ranked Cores in order to raise the firepower of their Magic Cannons, so they can obliterate this natural fortress that we rely on.

“Bastards!” Oreg gnashed his teeth in anger. “We are like sitting ducks here and we can’t do anything but accept the bombardment they are firing at us!”

Right now, only Mogazar and Baronar were able to launch a counter-offensive against their enemies.

Similar to what the enemy was doing, Baronar was using high-ranking spells to cast elemental attacks against the far-away army.

Mogazar was doing the same, but they were having very little success with all of their attempts.

The High-Rankers, who specialized in long-range combat, were also attacking the mountains, making the ground under the Orcs’ feet tremble.

Mogazar’s and Baronar’s attempts at a counterattack were easily blocked by their High-Ranking Enemies, who had already predicted what the Orcs were going to do next.

“This doesn’t feel like we’re fighting Powerful Orcs but mere Apostles who are just starting to understand how to fight,” Ronan commented as he blocked Mogazar’s long-ranged attack with his shield. “I wish all our campaigns were this easy.”

The other High-Rankers, whose tasks were to block Mogazar’s and Baronar’s attacks, nodded in agreement.

Only their Great General Garret felt like something was amiss.

Although the war was progressing smoothly, and they were able to overpower their enemies with very little resistance, his guts were telling him that something was off.

‘Just where is this uneasy feeling coming from?’ Great General Garret thought as he scanned his surroundings. ‘Am I just over imagining things?’

The Great General of the Haca Dynasty wasn’t paranoid. However, as someone who had managed to reach his Rank, his battle instincts had been refined over the countless campaigns that he had been a part of in the past.

Whenever he had this nagging feeling at the back of his head, something would happen that would endanger his life.

However, since he had the Unique Ability of Future Sight, these attempts on his life were easily thwarted.

He had the ability to see a few seconds ahead in the future, but that didn’t mean that he knew everything that would happen in the war. His ability would only activate once he was being targeted by someone or something, granting him enough time to dodge, deflect, parry, or avoid the attack completely.

Because of this, he had gained the title Untouchable.

No one was capable of defeating him in one-on-one battles because of this cheat-like ability.

But, for some reason, the feeling of anxiety only grew the more the Blackrock Clan was being cornered.

‘Is this feeling because of the Blackrock Clan’s desperate last struggle?’ Great General Garret thought as beads of cold sweat formed on his forehead. ‘Will their final counterattack be that deadly?’

The Great General of the Haca Dynasty didn’t know the answer to this question.

However, hundreds of meters away from him, an Engineer was busy clearing out the shattered remains of a Beast Core from the power supply of a Magic Cannon, so that he could replace it with a new one.

Since everyone was busy looking at the mountains that were already covered in thick, white smoke, no one noticed the shadowy glint inside his eyes.

The Engineer then gave the smoke-filled mountain a sidelong glance, as the corner of his lips rose up into a smile.