Siegfried, who had completely destroyed the vanguard forces of the Imperial Army, took his men back to their base.  It had defensive lines prepared in advance as he had ordered.

“We will greet the Imperial Army from here.”

“Yes, sir!”

Siegfried personally dispatched his troops and carefully looked over the situation. If it all went as he had planned, then this battle would be the last fight in the Valence Kingdom. It was only natural that he paid close attention to it.

The main army of the Empire had finally arrived.

***

“Huh… so that’s the bastard’s base?”

Duke Sebastian couldn’t help but admire his enemy’s base when he saw it. According to the map, there should have been a small hill with a river behind it. At first, he had wondered why the enemy had set up their camp here. Since there was a river behind them, it would be difficult to retreat and even if there was a slight elevation that the hill might give them, it wasn’t much. But now that he was here and looking at it, the situation was completely different. 

The Republic had built the perfect fortress on the small hill. They had built something similar to a maze out of stone walls and fences all over the hill and high watchtowers were built here and there to provide a view...