Chapter 503 (1/2)

”Your Highness, there's a platoon guarding the pier area,” Lightning, as responsible forthe enemy's situation, reported ”There are about 100 of the from their uniforhtly surprised It was predictable that Ti district—the massive fleet was certain to be noticed when it passed through Redwater City and Silver City Though stea shi+ps, and could in five days cover a distance which the latter would require seven days for, they were still not as fast as ed horses and traveled round the clock Not to eons to deliver their report, Timothy would have received the neo or three days in advance

But it was unexpected that Timothy would deploy only 100 ined that the first battle would take place in its vicinity He anticipated that crossbow both banks of the river in order to prevent his troops fro on shore successfully This hy he wanted to build inland river gunboats in ti offensive The efficiency of transportation by water was e was that the troops had to alight at a dock and thus could be easily ambushed If his army had the capability to attack across the shore, it would be able to handle any a point

It seeiven up on the ”e” he would have while Roland's troops were landing Froht decision, it was unjustifiable—it was ie and power of his 152 ht about this, he beckoned Sylvie over ”Are theany Berserk Pills?”

Sylvie suic and took so that looks like a pill Some of them don't even have any weapons on theround”

”The ground?”

”They have buried a few things in the ground there're also some on the pier” Sylvie strained her brows to observe even more carefully ”Crocks and barrels they're filled with dark gray powder”

”Gunpowder?” Nightingale exclaimed uncontrollably

”Well, thatas calm as he could ”Theus with a false opportunity to scranite the gunpowder and blow all of us up”

In his heart, he was not as caly was siood plan Though he saw through it early, his troops would still need to land on shore—having made the choice to travel by water, the pier was a necessary crossing, and it seemed that Timothy are of this inevitability He probably hoped to catch Roland by surprise by setting up an aht up If Sylvie was not around, there was a chance that Roland would have walked right into the trap

The solution to this was fairly acconite the gunpowder, he would have to deploy people near the barrels to do the ignition All that Roland had to do was to eliminate these people In any case, it was important to preserve the pier, or else he would not be able to transport his cannons and ah Sylvie's careful observation, Roland was able to pinpoint two places where the ignition was likely to be carried out One was situated in a shack on the edge of the pier, as evident fro iron pipe that connected it to the nearest barrel The other was situated in the pier's warehouse The two places had a si black hole formed by a God's Stone of Retaliation

After some discussion with Iron Axe, Roland quickly decided the battle plan

First, Nightingale would sneak into the warehouse, silently dispose of the ignition crew, and guard the gate against substitutes running in and igniting the gunpowder Then, Roland would use the naval artillery to destroy the shack There was no proble as the pier reood condition

Leaning against a battleht, Weimar, raised his telescope and observed theand thin canal was like a strip of glittering gold ribbon which cut through the brown and white plains, of which much of the accureen that carass This was proof that earthly things were coardless of the occasion The only things that did not fit the scene were the billows of black sh the air directly above the canal