Heavenly Admiral Carmel-Ramel was in the courtyard of Fort Vridia.

Before the dawn of the twenty-second day, though the sky was covered in darkness, the courtyard was full of magic crystal lamps. Because he caused the demonic crystal lamps in the fort to gather together, but the blue and white light emitted by the numerous demonic crystal lamps installed in various parts of the courtyard did not lead Carmel to regain calm.

There is fear. My knees tremble and I can't help standing.

It was last night that a report came in that the Gandhian army that broke through Zeol was approaching us. Most of all, it's something I've always known.

The Gandhian army, which began invading various parts of Zalwarn from Nagrasia, had taken three marching paths. One is the western invasion route towards Bahandar. One is the northbound route that bypasses Thruke to Malware. At the end of the day, it was as if we were going for the dragon palace in a straight line from Nagrasia, and it was not difficult to imagine that Fort Vridia, along the way, would be targeted.

It was the seventeenth day that the Gandian army took control of Zeol. Apparently, the Seventh Dragon Scale Army, which is supposed to defend Zeol, fought and defeated the Gandhian army on the Longhi River the day before that. In that battle, Saint Gen. Ginavi-Lyburn, who led the army of Zeol, was talking about the death of the battle, Fay-Vridia, who was an armed summoner for the same Dinobot Cave, and Kell-Clouber, the winged general of the Seventh Dragon Scale Army.

He said the Gandhian army achieved an overwhelming victory and dominated Zeol, who remained unarmed.

While they were healing their battle fatigue at Zeol, Carmel did nothing. Along with releasing intelligence agents to Zeol and letting him look for trends in the Gandhian army, he tried to work with Thruke's Dragon Scale Army. But his prospect ends in hard labour. Slook's Sixth Dragon Scale Army had already been absorbed by Ginavi's army, after losing the battle against the Gandia Army.

When she found out about the fact, Carmel felt desperate. Sometimes just then, a shocking report jumped in that Bahandar had fallen, and whoever could blame him for seeing the shadow of ruin in Zalwarn's future.

If Slook's Dragon Scale army was safe, there might still have been some hand to hit. A corresponding blow could have been made by poking the flank of the Gandian army, which would be coming towards Fort Vridia. Even if we cannot destroy the enemy forces, we may have been able to stop the invasion of the Dragon House. No matter how much momentum the Gandian army would have gained had it not been ready to fight, it would not have forced the showdown.

But Carmel's dream ended in delusion. There was no army in Thruke, and it seemed like the Gandhian army would be subdued simply by rolling out small units. The Gandhian army must be aware of that, too, and leave it alone. I don't want to divide my power just for Thruke. It's not like Zeol on the march path. I guess I don't even need to touch a city that has no problem leaving it alone.

"Aren't you coming for backup..."

He was walking around the courtyard, deceiving his knee tremors. If you're going to wait, I know you should sit in a chair too. But no matter how long we wait, if we get in front of the reality that we don't hear from the center, we can't just sit back and wait.

Without a corner of the Pentagon, Vridia, just south of the Dragon Mansion, should have been able to build a defensive network of iron walls, with Fort Bünell to the west and Fort Fabruneia to the east. Two thousand, three thousand enemy forces, etc. could have easily defeated and even wiped out in collaboration with the fortifications of East and West. An enemy army advancing from the South is attacked so that Beaunel and Fabruneia's Dragon Tooth Army envelop them, and Vlidia's Dragon Tooth Army chases them there. That alone would have disrupted the calculations and escaped.

That is the true value of the Pentagon and the reason why Heavenly Admirals and Dragon Tooth Army are placed in each fort. The elite Dragon Tooth Army, not the Dragon Scale Army to the extent that hairs grew in the Miscellaneous Army. And not the Wing General, but the Heavenly General. A five-way defense force is the ultimate defensive network to defend the capital city of Ryukyu, some of which are more honored to be assigned there than to be part of the Ryukyu army.

But that's only when the Pentagon works. When the Gandhian army divides its troops into multiple parts and launches simultaneous attacks on each fort, we can no longer expect cooperation between the forts. It's just a fort, such as a five-way defense team that lost its interaction. Vlidia's power of war, though more than any other fort, cannot be comforting either.

The enemy is the fierce one who defeated Zinarvi's army. Gandia's general, Alghazard-Balghazar, was joined by the invincible mercenary regiment White Shield and the mercenary regiment Pale Wind, accompanied by Lucion's White Saint Knights and Myon's Cavalry. The fact that the black spear Setuna is in another unit was not even salvation.

Whether the difference in power is significant and whether the fact that it is in the fort works in your favor. In the first place, a caged castle makes no sense without reinforcements. Naturally, you can't win just because you're stuck, but you can't expect that reinforcement. Aside from the story, the reaction of Ryufu is not surprising if Ryufu is going to turn over the defensive forces of the capital itself.

As for Carmel, with all the power of the Dragon Eye Army and the full strength of the Fourth Dragon Scale Army, he defeated the enemy forces approaching Vlidia and rescued Fabruneia or Bünel afterwards. I wanted to get out of the hopeless status quo by destroying each and every Gandhian army. But Ryufu sent no response to Carmel's reminder as to what he was thinking.

(Is something happening in the Dragon House...?

Wasn't it a coup, for example?

Even when I woke up, it didn't seem strange. Zalwarn's political situation has been constantly unstable and disturbing for several years here. The army was chased by frequent civil unrest and could not possibly be considered for an outpost, and Zalwarn continued to do his best in maintaining the land. Such a fold, the native logner was subdued by Gandia, and Zalwarn's prestige fell to the ground. It was no exaggeration to say that the face of a great power was rounded when it was deprived of its belonging. Many voices said it should be taken back immediately, but the circumstances surrounding Zalwarn did not allow it. Grey-Balzerg's departure was an extreme narrowing of Zalwarn's scope of action.

Under that circumstance, the national lord Mirelbas has detained the Nares-Ragnahorn.

Speaking of nares, he's someone with the alias of a genius warrior who drifted from Gandhia. Regardless of your talents and abilities as a military teacher, there is no room for disagreement over the vivid results. He was a man who had tailored Logner to his country of Zalwarn and a symbol of the Mirelbus regime. There are stories of him apparently passing through Gandhia, but I don't know the facts. There was no formal announcement from the Dragon House, and Carmel didn't know exactly one thing about letting her men look. However, it was true that Nares had lost his legs, and he even grabbed that the seat of Mirelbus' belly was blank. It is unlikely, in any case, that Carmel will stand a good chance of becoming the belly of Mirelbus. Instead, the environment surrounding him can be described as the worst.

Carmel's presence at the throne of the Heavenly Admiral was due to the recommendation of Nahles-Ragnahorn, an unexpected event and a flourishing one for him, who was originally nothing more than an indecisive civilian. Needless to say, neither wife nor son, nor kinsman relatives cried joyfully. Carmel has thanked Nares from the bottom of her heart and has worked hard for him not to be ashamed of the name of the Heavenly Admiral. If that nurse was a Gandhian operative, would Carmel's position be in jeopardy again?