Caterpa Hills.

A group of uninvited guests arrived here.

Count Jesse Swann, a general under Marshal Doro and a great hobgoblin who had made great contributions in the Anzeta Unification War, led the empire's advance team southward.

They passed through the narrow Anzeta Corridor, crossed the vast Anstika Mountains, and came to the Katepah Hills.

The Thracian Kingdom kept their promise and withdrew all their troops from Catepa, but also demolished their only base here, Glennan Castle.

What the imperial advance team is facing now is a deserted hilly area full of monsters and wild beasts.

They needed to establish a frontline outpost in this desolate area to prepare for the future southward invasion of the Burning Empire.

This sounds extremely difficult.

However, the empire had already made full preparations for this and had even planned the location for city construction.

On the first day in Carterpa, under the command of Count Jesse, the advance teams arrived at the target location on the map.

They burned and cut down large tracts of forests, set up tents, erected wooden fences around them, and built simple camps.

The next day, the mages accompanying the army began to send beacons and draw magic circles at the camp.

From the third day to the twenty-first day, the infantry corps composed of tieflings, hobgoblins, and humans swept across an area of ​​dozens of miles, beat all the beasts and monsters here into sieves, and used the meat they obtained to supply the army.

On the 22nd day, the Imperial Ministry of Magic finally opened a permanent portal to the Carterpa region, allowing the Empire's manpower and materials to be transported in continuously.

On the twenty-seventh day, Count Jesse led the infantry corps and the dragon corps to attack the orc tribe in the southwest and annihilated them all.

On the thirty-eighth day, the Empire Engineering Department sent out dozens of civil engineering players, led by [Run Away with the Bucket], to assist the advance team in completing the construction of the new city.

The city of Tahan, which means "conquer the south" in Dragon language, was gradually built up step by step from scratch.

It is now the seventy-third day since the advance team arrived in Carterpa. The prototype of Tahan City has been built, and players, ogres, and frost giants from the empire are busy moving things around.

One after another, large-scale engineering machinery manufactured by the [Mechanicus] was disassembled into parts, transported through the portal, and then assembled.

[Running away with bucket] wore a white safety helmet and folded his arms to direct the construction team.

"Frost Giant over there, don't be lazy!"

"Everyone, cheer up! It's time to get rid of the newbie over there!"

"Ogre! How many times have I told you not to eat concrete? What's so delicious about that stuff?"

After a year-long construction of Istalia City, these construction teams have acquired rich experience and can be regarded as veteran civil engineers.

Jesse stood on the city wall that had been mostly built, and the hobgoblin looked at the hills in the distance with his yellow eyes.

"Cunning Humans"

"Do you think that burning down the original city and releasing the monsters can stop the Empire's progress? Haha, you are really too naive."

"The South will eventually become the Empire's territory."

He clenched the gun in his hand and spoke word by word - in the hand of the Earth Elf Count was a delicate and compact gadget, which was the latest "pistol" launched by the Burning Armory. It was convenient and easy to carry, making him love it.

"My Lord Earl! We found the lair of the hill giants in the southeast."

"There are about one hundred and thirty hill giants there."

Suddenly, the Red Scale Conqueror riding a wyvern came hovering down from the sky and reported respectfully.

That was the largest tribe of hill giants in Caterpa, and they were notorious for eating almost everything around them.

Jesse suddenly smiled, puffing out white smoke, revealing a mouthful of yellowed fangs, and the scales on his forehead also bulged slightly.

"very good."

He raised his pistol high into the air.

"Then let these vulgar fellows see for themselves——

"boom!"

"The power of the empire!"

When the gunshots rang out, the attention of everyone in Tahan City was immediately drawn to it - except for Tumu Lao who was working hard to put out the dust and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

Jesse stood on the top of the city wall, looked around, raised his hands, and fired several more shots. "For the Burning Empire! For His Majesty Cassius!"

"For the Burning Empire!"

"For His Majesty Cassius!"

"Conquer! Conquer! For the great blueprint of the empire!"

The monsters and humans in the city all raised their arms and cheered, celebrating the upcoming victory - except for the players who were beaten to dust.

Celebrating before a war has always been a tradition in the empire, because they know that under the protection of the emperor's dragon wings, any battle will be easily won and crushed with ease.

In this way, under the mobilization of Count Jesse, the army in the city of Tahan launched an attack in a mighty manner.

At this time, the hill giant tribe was still immersed in sleep.

These simple-minded, strong-limbed giants lay casually in the wilderness, wearing untanned animal skins that were simply tied together with hair and leather strips.

The sweat of the hill giants dripped onto the rotten hides, emitting a strong smell, and there were leftover bones and scraps of meat around.

The chief of the hill giants is called "Bone Stick". He holds the thigh bone of the previous chief as a weapon. He is the tallest and fattest one in the tribe.

"call"

Bone Stick made a heavy snoring sound, kicked away the giant who was squeezed next to him, and did not forget to turn over.

Suddenly, a shrill scream was heard.

His experience told him that this was not common in the hill giants' dull, mundane life of foraging for food.

"Hmm?"

Bone Stick slowly opened his eyes and looked up to face the sky.

“Is this edible?”

The hill giant thought so, and instead of hiding, he opened his mouth as if possessed by a ghost.

What came into view was a metal ball that was growing bigger and bigger in his eyes.

This was followed by the flash of an explosion.

"boom!"

The huge and fat head of the bone stick was blown to pieces, and skull fragments flew everywhere.

"Roar!"

"who is it?"

The hill giants were awakened one after another and roared, only to find that their simple camp had turned into a sea of ​​fire.

In the sky, Red Scale Conquerors riding on wyverns kept flying by, dropping bombs on them and spewing out scorching flames.

"small bug!"

“They are in heaven!”

The hill giants threw rocks into the air in anger, but they could not reach the wyverns that flew high into the sky.

The Red Scale Conquerors are now more accurate in controlling the distance, and it is difficult to hurt them with ordinary throws.

Just as the hill giants were helpless and furious, gunshots were heard again, and several giants fell to the ground.

The hill giants turned their heads in surprise.

A dull sound.

The wilderness is trembling.

Jesse was seen riding on the back of a ground dragon beast, drawing the long sword from his waist, and behind him were the empire's dragon beast cavalry, who were rushing towards the hill giants like moving hills.

"For the Empire!"

"Kill them all!"

"This is the land that belongs to His Majesty Cassius! No one is allowed to touch it!" (End of this chapter)