"Run a 'via the second tier' manoeuvre from the ground side, creating a debacle in Agate Lamb's interception posture. This is the invasion proposed by the demon king Gandalf."

From among the participants, impressive and skeptical voices leak at the same time.

The former is primarily the reaction of the knights, while the latter is primarily the reaction of the adventurers.

The cause of the difference in reactions is roughly speculative, but Sophia seemed to have decided to go on talking about explaining the operation before picking up their opinions.

"As you know, once the army of Demon King Gandalf was based in the Third Hierarchy, but was attacked down by Agate Lamb after being poked through a gap that attempted a ground invasion"

Sophia draws up a series of diagrams in white ink (chalk).

"At that time, the Gandalf army escaped to the first tier via the second tier and was believed to be planning a counter-attack operation against Agate Lamb based in the area. But in fact, the demon kings on the first tier were tentative, and the real ones fled to the fourth tier by deceiving the eyes of Agate Lamb."

Until now, it's a retrospective of the information that everyone in attendance has.

What is at stake is the content of the operation that the Demon King's Army was contemplating using this situation.

This announcement of a series of new information was communicated to the White Wolf Knights (us) via the Royal Palace since it was communicated to His Majesty by the Demon King's Army, so it should be the first for other Knights and Adventurer Alliance officials.

"Further, after our Royal Westland Army defeated the Gandalf Army in the Demon King's War, its remnants fled to the second tier, some evacuated to the neutral city of Athlopolis and the rest are still lurking… and Agate Lamb is believed to have grasped it so far"

But the reality was different.

When Gandalf the Demon King first lost to Agate Lamb, and when he lost to us, he always kept giving Agate Lamb the perception that the Demon King's Army was above the third tier, and was even more corrupt to keep betraying it.

"But according to confidential information sent to His Majesty the King by the Gandalf Army, the remnants of the Demon King's Army, who fled to the second tier, had already moved to the fourth tier through a top-secret direct route"

"What, no, there was something like that? But I can't find anything."

Sophia snorted back at Travis' reaction.

"They destroyed it after it passed and made it unusable. The appearance of the Demon General Norzuri and the Demon General Suzuri in the second tier in the fourth tier without going through the first tier appears to be the result of the use of this secret path."

"After the demon generals joined the main unit, they crushed the way... would it be easier if we had the power around the demon generals Vestri..."

It is a natural backdrop if you think about it.

After fighting us in the Neutral City (Athlopolis), Norzuri thought he'd disappeared neglectfully and came at me using the same dark elf woman's body on the fourth level.

But the third tier is dominated by Agate Lamb, and the first tier needs to steal the eyes of the Golden Tooth Knights and Adventurers.

or so there is no line that the old body was discarded in a second tier and used a substitute body.

Even now Norzuri uses flesh with different genders, whining that it is difficult to use, and Suzuri continues to use Sakura's father's body.

If you consider a natural hypothesis, you should think that there was actually also a direct route from the second to the fourth tier, as there was a direct route from the first to the fourth tier.

"I'll keep explaining. Agate Lamb should thus be aware that the Gandalf army is currently lurking on the second tier and that we are also aiming for the third tier as a base for the second tier. So naturally, the current defense system is skewed by attacks from the second tier."

Of course, to the point where the adventurers have reached the burning fourth tier, they may have grasped it through collaborators on the ground, etc.

But what I encountered there with the Demon King's Army was thoroughly kept secret and only communicated to a very limited number of people, so it would be hard to believe that this information was just leaking.

"This information alone seems obvious that an ambush from the fourth tier is valid. But Gandalf, the Demon King, went a step further from there and dared to make His Majesty realize that an attack had come to the right place, making his guard even less vigilant against the fourth tier."

That was in short terms the first expression Sophia uttered: 'Execute a manoeuvre via the second tier from the ground side, creating a breakdown in Agate Lamb's interception posture'.

It is the human psyche that makes you want to be robust about what you see and what you protect if a known enemy arrives where you've always thought 'you must be attacking me from here'.

It would be impossible to make a decision to thicken the defense in a direction that the enemy does not think is lurking, if that is also what can be done with future predictions.

"I see, that's an exact operation that just tormented us."

"It's horrible when you turn it on the enemy... so"

The knights, starting with the golden fangs, generally hear an endorsement of the operation.

I guess you're shelving the fact that you're an opponent you've been hostile to a while now, and you're evaluating the operation purely.

This, of course, is a pleasure in itself.

We must avoid just being dragged by past hostilities and creating discord in the relationship of co-belligerency.

However, suspicious reactions are hidden from the adventurers.

That was not because the opponent was Gandalf the Demon King, it was a concern for the feasibility of the operation.

"Can I have a word?"

Travis represents the adventurer and puts his concerns into words.

"We've been exploring the second tier for a long time. But the path leading to the third hierarchy has not yet been discovered. If it's a trail of destruction, we've found some, but we still have zero discovery of available routes."

Roy, who is also exploring the second tier, nods silently and agrees with it.

"Assuming I'm part of the Agate Lamb, I'll destroy my commute to and from the second tier completely above all else. For what it takes for us to get out of the ground, we need to use a direct path that connects the third tier to the ground, which was used by the Demon King's army to invade the ground. I mean -"

"- Is an ambush from the second tier feasible? That's the question."

Sophia took Travis' suspicions from the front and gave me a glimpse before presenting the last piece of information she'd taken.

"Of course it's possible. Demon King Gandalf had grasped the broken (...) broken (...) not (...) ok (...) able (...) sutra (...) road (...) due to issues other than strength, and he was making sure it was still alive. I'm going to explain the route."