The patrol team followed their usual patrol route and left Grimvitay City. After traveling for about five kilometers in the southwest direction, they saw a mountain range in the distance.
This mountain range was the largest in the southern part of the former Frankish Kingdom. It was called the Grecius Mountain Range.
If one continued to travel south from Grimvitay City, they would have to travel hundreds of kilometers to the east or west to bypass the Grecius Mountain Range if they did not want to pass through the valley in the southwest of Grimvitay City.
Therefore, this mountain range was a clear dividing line between the northern and southern parts of the former Frankish Kingdom.
Nearly a month ago, under the attack of the Malfa Alliance, the Lampari Kingdom's army retreated all the way to the Grecius Mountain Range. They relied on the fortifications they had built in advance at the only passageway in the Grecius Mountain Range, the Dawn Valley, to resist the attack of the Malfa Alliance.
It had to be said that the fortifications built by the Lampari Kingdom here were too strong.
In this month, the Malfa Alliance had launched a total of 14 attacks on this valley, many of which were led by four Mage Tutors and the most powerful mages in the alliance. However, they still could not break through the defenses here.
Even with the counterattack of the Lampuri Kingdom's army, the Malfa Army had suffered heavy losses. In less than a month of fighting, there were over twenty thousand soldiers that had died, with over forty thousand that were heavily injured and countless that were lightly injured.
These were not the worst. The real loss was that in these 14 battles, the Malfa Alliance had lost more than 100 high-level mages and even two Great Mages to the Lampari Kingdom's army.
In addition, even the four Mage Tutors could not do anything. This caused the mountain range to become an insurmountable barrier in front of the Malfa Alliance, preventing them from expanding their gains and reclaiming the territory that originally belonged to the Frankish Kingdom from the Lampari Kingdom.
In the past week, the higher-ups of the Malfa Alliance had temporarily given up on attacking the Dawn Valley. They decided to stabilize the situation in the territory that originally belonged to the Frankish Kingdom from the Lampari Kingdom before making any further plans.
Therefore, the two armies were now in a stalemate near the Grecius Mountain Range.
Of course, this did not mean that both sides would really be at peace.
Whether it was the Malfa Alliance Army or the Lampari Kingdom, they would definitely find an opportunity to launch another attack.
Therefore, during this period of time, the Malfa Alliance had been strengthening their patrols of the Grecius Mountains. On one hand, they were guarding against the Lampari Kingdom's sudden counterattack, and on the other hand, they were looking for loopholes in the Lampari Kingdom's army to break through the Grecius Mountains.
First Lieutenant Nokmo and his squad of 17 Frankish soldiers were one of the scouting squads in charge of scouting.
Lieutenant Nokmo and his subordinates had patrolled the area many times over the past few days. They knew where they were even with their eyes closed. Naturally, there was no need for further exploration.
Now that they had entered a place where they could see the Grecius Mountains with their naked eyes, they had finally reached the area where they needed to be more vigilant.
According to the information obtained from the battle with the Lampari Kingdom's army, the Lampari Kingdom's army was now equipped with the newest Magic Cannons from New Flyer, which had a range of over four kilometers.
If they were to attack from above the Grecius Mountains, the range could easily reach over five kilometers.
So when Lieutenant Nokmo and his subordinates entered this area, it meant that they could be attacked by the Lampari Kingdom's Magic Cannons at any time, which would put their lives in danger.
Of course, this was only a theoretical consideration.
Actually, the Lampari Kingdom wouldn't waste their precious Magic Cannons on the Malfa Alliance's scouting squads who knew where. This kind of precious resource would only be used in a direct confrontation.
In terms of scouting and counter-scouting, other than using the Magic Airships in the sky to scout from above, the Lampari Kingdom would also send scouting squads out of the Grecius Mountains most of the time.
After the giant and unparalleled Magic Airships appeared in his mind, Lieutenant Nokmo looked up into the sky. He found that there weren't any suspicious black dots flying in the sky right now, so he nodded and calmed down.
Because the Lampari Kingdom had the Magic Airships, the Malfa Alliance's movements and information could be easily found, so they had suffered quite a bit in this aspect.
Just two days ago, there were three scouting squads that had been attacked by the Lampari Kingdom's army when they approached the Grecius Mountains, not a single person had been brought back.
So even if Lieutenant Nokmo and his team hadn't seen a single Lampari Kingdom's army for a week, he was still very careful and tried to avoid being the center of attention.
After leading his subordinates through the lush forest at the foot of the Grecius Mountains for another two kilometers, Lieutenant Nokmo had everyone stop. With a wave of his hand, the team members all took their positions and entered a state of alert.
In a situation where they were prepared, Lieutenant Nokmo believed that his team could easily eliminate an unprepared Frankish Kingdom team.
But if the other side was prepared ….. then he didn't need to think too much and just needed to run for his life.
After fighting with the Lampari Kingdom countless times, even if the Malfa Alliance had several times more soldiers than the Lampari Kingdom, the real advantage they had was the help of the four Arch Magi.
If they didn't have the help of the four Arch Magi, on the battlefield, a traditional soldier like Lieutenant Nokmo who was still equipped with a sword would be able to deal with a single soldier of the Lampari Kingdom who was fully equipped with military magic machines.
"Hei, if there was a single Lampari Kingdom soldier, how good would that be?
If we could take care of him when he wasn't prepared, we could take all his equipment. "
Thinking of the powerful military magic machines that the Lampari Kingdom soldiers had, Lieutenant Nokmo couldn't help drooling.
If he had such a set of equipment, he might even have a chance of winning against a mage.
Of course, he was also clear that even if he really encountered a lone Lampari Kingdom soldier and took the military magic machines from him, they would still be taken away by the higher-ups.
Now, the Malor Empire was in great need of the military magic machines that the Lampari Kingdom's army was equipped with so that they could have more examples to study and imitate.
It was said that within the Malor Empire, a large team of mages and craftsmen had been formed to research the military magic machines with all their might. They were trying their best to reduce the gap between the military equipment of the New Flyer Camp.
However, these things obviously wouldn't be produced in a short period of time. At the very least, Lieutenant Nokmo didn't see many military magic machines in the Malor Empire's army all of a sudden.
After seeing that his subordinates had already hidden themselves in their respective positions, First Lieutenant Nokemo climbed up a tree and hid himself in the trunk. He took out a pair of binoculars and looked through the gaps in the leaves towards the Grecius Mountains in the distance.
Actually, there wasn't anything to see here.
In the previous week of scouting, every time Lieutenant Nokmo led his subordinates to this area, they would find that the Lampari Kingdom's army was obediently staying in their positions in the Grecius Mountains, not showing their heads at all.
Even if they occasionally saw a few figures, they would only flash by and they wouldn't be able to see any movements at all.
But Lieutenant Nokmo's mission was to see if there were any strange movements from the Lampari Kingdom's side. As long as he stayed here for a day, he would have completed his mission.
After watching for a while and confirming that there was nothing strange with the Lampari Kingdom's camp, Lieutenant Nokmo gave a bored yawn and prepared to take a rest with the binoculars.
When this thought appeared, there was a black spot that appeared in his field of vision.
Lieutenant Nokmo was surprised before quickly looking over. He quickly determined that it should be a Magic Airship.
This Magic Airship came from the sky to the south of the Grecius Mountains and slowly landed in the Lampari Kingdom's camp.
Because there was a wall separating them, Lieutenant Nokmo didn't see what kind of people or goods came out of the Magic Airship.
But according to the information from the other scouting teams, the Lampari Kingdom's Magic Airships often came from the south. It was guessed that they were transporting some goods from the south to the Lampari Kingdom's army stationed in the Grecius Mountains.
When he heard this information before, Lieutenant Nokmo didn't believe it because there were only twenty Magic Airships in the Malor Empire right now and they were all taken by the people with the highest positions in the Malor Empire. There was only one in the Malor Empire right now, so it could be seen how precious this thing was.
Moreover, according to what Lieutenant Nokmo knew, the Magic Airship consumed a lot of energy to fly, so it wasn't cost-effective to use this thing to transport goods.
Even if the Lampari Kingdom had quite a few Magic Airships, they shouldn't be this extravagant.
But it was like deliberately slapping Lieutenant Nokmo's face. When he had this thought, there was another Magic Airship that appeared in front of him.
Before he could react, there were Magic Airships that appeared one after another in the sky to the south. Soon there was a black cloud in the sky that almost covered the entire Grecius Mountain Range.
Seeing this strange situation, no matter how ignorant Lieutenant Nokmo was, he knew that something was about to happen.