Chapter 626 — Battle Plan, March on Red Maple

Gao Yang listened to this unexpected intelligence with some astonishment, then suddenly realized something: "So... you're nobility of the Holy Dragon Duchy? Or are you of the Dragonblood Duke's..."

Maggie cut Gao Song off with a trace of reluctance: "Sorry—only a marginal family that was never given any weight. And that's all in the past. I don't want any connection with that place anymore."

"I understand," Gao Yang sighed. "Anyway, rest a little. We set out in a little over an hour."

...

The war chariots started up, the warships weighed anchor, and the war machine of Cecil, after a brief respite, set out once more upon its campaign of iron and fire.

On the Gorgon River, the Pioneer led the Aurora and the Morning Star, leading several inland river warships converted from cargo vessels and two light gunboats as they breasted the waves; the magic-power wing panels were covered with black cloth, the sound of the engines masked by silence wards, and the steel prows clove the river water as the fleet sailed north like voiceless ghosts;

On the east bank of the Gorgon River, war chariots and all manner of troop carriers advanced along the march route scouted out ahead by the steel rangers and the giant eagle scouts, grinding over stony beaches and across gullies; the night-vision potions distributed to individual soldiers and the low-light filters installed on every war chariot let this army move over the dark wilderness as if on flat ground, racing swiftly onward;

This day was the 43rd of the Month of Revival.

Red Maple City, and the mountain legion trapped in Giant Stone City, lay just ahead.

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