The command room of the Royal Navy's Western Fleet is a military stronghold and no one is allowed to enter without permission.
As the falcon attendant of Count Golden Anchor, Viscount Paulus is in charge of many secret affairs of the castle and is only responsible to the Count. No one else is qualified to ask where he appears and what he is going to do. Even extra attention will be regarded as an inquiry into the Count's secrets.
Rudolf followed Viscount Paulus and walked unimpeded to the operations room.
After entering the operations room, Rudolf saw that there was only one officer in the operations room, an officer Rudolf had met before, the Chief of Staff of the Western Fleet, Major General Alberto.
Seeing Paulus come in, Alberto turned his head and continued to stare at the sand table in front of him.
The sand table realistically restored the terrain around the port city of Kodor, including cities, mountains and sea. There were also many small flags on the sand table, red or blue, representing the armies of both sides.
Viscount Paulus whispered, "Mr. Rudolf, you only have three minutes. You can choose a route that suits you according to your ability."
The blue flags representing the Constitutional Army were densely planted, and two lines of defense were built outside the port of Kodor. Even the top of the mountain, the Constitutional Army deployed troops.
"Mr. Rudolf, you have to be careful. The Constitutional Army has airships. Airships gather very quickly and can gather a lot of airships in a certain place in a short time. The saturation attack of airships is the most troublesome thing for us."
Rudolf looked at the sand table and quickly found a route. This route was close to the coast. The Constitutional Army did not set up defense forces on the coast.
There were three red flags on the light blue sand representing the sea surface. The Royal Navy deployed three fleets here.
It seems that the Constitutional Army seems to be afraid of the firepower of the Royal Navy fleet. The Constitutional Army closest to the sea is more than ten kilometers away.
If it is along the seashore, the Constitutional Army can only gather troops from one direction at most. This is a good route.
After memorizing the appearance of the sand table again, Rudolf followed Viscount Paulus out of the war room.
However, when the two of them were far away, Major General Albertu took out two blue flags and threw them on the coast. He took back the three red flags on the sea. This was the real deployment of troops.
After a long time, the door of the war room opened again, and Viscount Paulus stood in front of Major General Albertu again.
"Major General, Master Caleb will remember your help."
"It's just a small favor."
Albertu sighed in his heart. No wonder his father said that we should never underestimate the bloodiness of the nobles. Caleb actually used the reputation of the Golden Anchor Family to clip his brother's wings. He said:
"What I care about is whether the Ancient Sea Wizard Association is really willing to stop helping the Constitutional Army?"
"Yes, Chief of Staff. Wells, the 6th-level wizard of the Ancient Sea Wizard Association, said that they are willing to cooperate with us. The condition for cooperation is that we lead the furnace into his trap."
"The Undead Duo is not that easy to deal with. Are you sure?"
Paulus smiled: "Why should we deal with the Undead Duo? The Constitutional Army and the Wizard Association will take action on their own. At most, we just failed to detect the Constitutional Army's deployment there."
"Indeed, at most, we just failed to detect."
When Rudolf returned to his residence, he saw Kedrick waiting for him in his room. When
they met again, Kedrick seemed to be a different person. He was wearing a gorgeous viscount dress, which was the most serious dress he wore when he was conferred at the banquet.
Kedrick didn't have time to change his clothes and came to see Rudolf as soon as possible.
"Mr. Rudolph, are you really leaving?"
"Yes, Kedrick, I want to go back to my hometown." Rudolph said:
"Just like you will not leave the Golden Anchor Family easily, I also have a home, but my home has never belonged to me.
I was born there and grew up there, but everything there is dominated by a few people. Both of us regard each other as termites, and our differences are as big as enemies."
"I seem to understand this feeling, just like I grew up in a castle, but I am destined to leave that castle one day."
Rudolph suddenly said: "Kedrick, please take us for a while. I have something to talk to you about on the way."
"Okay, it just so happens that I also have something I want to consult you about."
Rudolph did not hide it: "It may be risky to take us there." "It doesn't matter what the risk is, Mr. Rudolf. This is Port Kordor, and the Golden Anchor Family is the dominant one here."
Rudolf narrowed his eyes, thinking that the risk comes from within the Golden Anchor Family...
"Kedrick, when you and I leave, we must be very secretive and no one else can know. I hope to pass through the war zone smoothly."
"Okay, Mr. Rudolf."
After Kedrick left, Cooper asked in confusion: "Why do you want Kedrick to send us? Can't we go by ourselves?"
"After returning from the Royal Navy's operations room, I felt a little uneasy, as if something went wrong. In Port Kordor, no matter how big the problem is, it will be solved easily if Kedrick is with us."
Rudolf and his party did not delay and left Port Kordor under the cover of night.
In the palace late at night, an inconspicuous old man stood at the door of the Earl's bedroom.
The attendant's expression changed drastically, and he immediately rang the bell to wake up the sleeping Earl.
Count Pallu, wearing pajamas, met the old man without delay.
"Teacher Childe, did you predict something?"
The Count looked a little nervous, because the person in front of him was not an ordinary person, but Pallu's teacher when he was young, and also Pallu's personal advisor.
His more important identity was the Word Spirit of Pallu, responsible for predicting danger for Pallu, which was one of the reasons why Pallu dared to persist in the port city of Codor.
Childe's voice was very hoarse: "Palu, tonight's divination told me that you must do something tonight, otherwise you will suffer a painful loss."
"Painful loss?" Pallu asked hurriedly: "When tonight?"
"I don't know."
"Where did it happen?"
"I don't know. Pallu, it's useless to ask more questions. The enemy's Word Spirit is also involved, which makes my divination very vague and I can't get any details at all."
Pallu looked serious: "Okay, I understand, Teacher Childe, please go back and rest first."
After Childe left, Count Pallu was not sleepy at all, and went directly to a building next door, which was the operations room of the Royal Navy's Western Fleet.
A few minutes after Count Pallu entered the operations room, Rear Admiral Alberto, Chief of Staff of the Western Fleet, hurried to the operations room.
"Count Pallu, is there any urgent combat mission?"
Count Pallu stared at the sand table and found that the layout of both sides was the same as last week, without any change.
Count Pallu asked: "Is there a large-scale troop mobilization of the Constitutional Army?"
"No! Our reconnaissance is very comprehensive. If the enemy has a large-scale troop mobilization, we will definitely know it in advance!"
"Confirm with the intelligence department again and send out all the reconnaissance troops! We must know the movements of the Constitutional Army!"
Alberto nodded in response, but saw that Count Pallu had no intention of leaving. He sat at the main seat at the conference table, and it seemed that he was ready to wait for military information overnight.
"Early tomorrow morning, notify Commander Nahor of the Eastern Fleet that the joint meeting has been cancelled. There is an urgent military situation here. Tonight... Don't disturb them tonight, let them have a good rest."
Hearing the Count's order, Alberto felt a deep sense of uneasiness in his heart.
In the past, there were also examples where Count Pallu had foreseen some large-scale military operations in advance, and the Count's intuition was all fulfilled.
However, Alberto was very sure that the Constitutional Army had been very quiet in the past few days and would not make any major moves.
What went wrong?