Sword God in a World of Magic

After obliterating the second two-star Defender Flag, Shang strategically placed an attack flag, causing hesitation among potential attackers.

The Judgment Palace foresaw the upcoming challenges as they couldn't ensure the integrity of their long defense line.

The longer the line was disconnected from the Judgment Palace, the harder it became to deploy new Archmages.

If the Empress of Death had terminated her contract, the Judgment Palace could have traveled freely through the Land and Sky Empire.

Unfortunately, that was merely a possibility at the moment. Acting swiftly, the Mage King from the Judgment Palace deployed several attack flags in the north of the Land and Sky Empire within minutes.

While the Land and Sky Empire wasn't pleased with this development, they recognized the need to widen their defense line by at least three territories.

This strategy allowed the Judgment Palace to have one territory attacked by Shang, one territory attacked by themselves after Shang's conquest, and one territory left unscathed, providing a pathway for their forces.

However, due to the territorial allocation for Mage Lords, each territory was a massive 100,000 kilometers wide.

Given Shang's ability to attack any part of the line, the entire defense had to be three territories thick.

Consequently, the Land and Sky Empire sacrificed a significant portion of their empire, one million kilometers long and 300,000 kilometers wide, to fortify the Judgment Palace's line.

After the disappearance of Shang's attack flag, he noticed numerous impending attack flags around him, but he refrained from getting involved since they didn't directly concern the Lightning Manor.

The Starlight Queen informed Shang about the developments, to which he nodded in understanding.

Eventually, all the attack flags manifested, creating a formidable and expansive line for the Judgment Palace.

resulting in the immediate appearance of a Defender Flag on the recently conquered

Flags in place, as both the Judgment Palace and the Land and Sky

four territories wide. This allowed the Judgment Palace

of this strategy and expressed

approach, the defense line would reach a thickness

be a problem as the Land and Sky Empire could simply

contract, resulting in staunch defense from the Judgment Palace even

require the Land and Sky Empire to eliminate Mage

and

couldn't reclaim their territories for the time

Lightning Manor employed two Defender Flags simultaneously, compelling the Judgment Palace to further expand

day, the line extended to a length of one million

Lightning Manor even went as far as using three Defender Flags at once, but this strained their defenses in

million kilometers

this point, the territories ceased to shift rapidly, leading

one territory after another

retake the recently conquered territories,

favored defense over offense, allowing the defender nearly an hour to select the appropriate unit for defense after the attacker revealed

due to his status as the most powerful being at

territory, the Lightning Manor could observe the attacker and deploy someone with an

the Lightning Manor's success rate to around 70%.

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lost over a thousand Mage Lords, roughly 10%