Chapter 154

There were four fortresses.

Just as the border between the Duchy of Saxony and the Demon King’s Realm was once defended by a few key strongholds and river crossing points, there are not many places where large armies can move from the Demon Realm into the Demon King’s Realm.

“Assuming high-ranking demons command the demon forces within the Demon King’s Realm, one or more high-ranking demons would likely be stationed within each of these four castles or fortresses.”

Therefore, Dale pointed to the four strategic strongholds enabling ‘mass movement’ between the Demon Realm and the Demon Kingdom, and further to the castles built atop them. These were ancient fortresses once constructed by the Imperial Army after the Demon King was vanquished by a hero. Now that the Imperial Army has retreated and abandoned them, they have surely become strongholds for the demonic forces within the Demon Kingdom.

Excluding these fortresses and the passes they guard, there is no road allowing passage from the Demon Realm into the Demon King’s Domain.

In that frozen hell, it was a daily occurrence for an entire unit to be wiped out by falling into a crevasse with a single misstep.

“That makes sense.”

At the gathering of the Second Crusade’s commanders, Princess Chiara nodded in agreement with Dale’s words.

“These are the fortresses the Imperial Army established by identifying strategic points where massive forces, comparable to a demonic migration, could mobilize simultaneously during the past campaign to subdue the Demon King.”