Chapter 316: Leo’s secret operation part 4 (1/2)
After ten minutes or so of walking, they finally arrived back at the surface where they split up.
At this moment, however, Ash was now very busy ordering tens of her men to lead the civilians to go inside the nearby houses to hide. Apparently, they have already established a perimeter and then used the houses to act as the relocation area of the civilians and to also hide the gathering of civilians in this place from the Silver royal family's soldiers. Most likely, they have convinced the respective owners of the houses to help them.
”I was indeed not wrong with my excuse before, Ash is indeed very well suited to do this task. In fact, she's perfect!” Ethan can't help becoming astonished the moment he saw the current situation of their rescue operation to the civilians.
”That's a given, she was even able to lead everyone around the Twilight Forest before finally establishing a village in the outskirts for many years, so not to mention this mere relocation of civilians, and it's even in a place with only Human as a threat, not Magical Beast.” Leo nodded in agreement.
Ash soon after noticed Leo and the other's presence, hence she approached them and asked, ”Is everything done already?”
”Yes, the south is already safe, now we only need to worry about the relocation of the civilians to the south.” Leo replied. He then changed the topic, ”So, how's the situation of the relocation?”
”So far, everything has been going very smoothly. I've split our 500 men into 3 groups, the Perimeter Guards, Patrol Cleaning, and Rescuer. The Perimeter Guards is lead by me and we are tasked to safeguard the relocation area of the civilians and to also keep this place hidden from the eyes of the Silver royal family. The Patrol Cleaning is lead by Charlotte, Sele, and Old man Torre, they are entrusted with eliminating those patrolling soldiers that we're able to accidentally find us as quickly as possible in order to avoid any unnecessary accidents. Lastly, the Rescuer is lead by Veronica and Princess Elaine, they are tasked to convince the people to relocate over here.” Ash explained.
”Very smart move, this is a really good allocation of people.” Ethan nodded his head in admiration.
Leo simply ignored Ethan's remarks as he asked, ”How many Human slaves do we have present here?”
Hearing Leo's words, Ash can't help feeling curious about what he was planning to do, so she asked, ”What do you need them for? We have 20 Human slaves, all are 3 Star level.”
”Gather all of them here, I have thought of a separate task for them.” Leo said before walking towards a table nearby them as he right after laid a map of the Silver City on top. Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, Ash, Ethan, Chief Lago, Sebastian, and Dan quickly followed after.
”We will try to replace the guards in these parts of the wall.” Leo pointed at the corner walls nearby them, specifically the place where the west wall and south wall meets together, ”So that we will not have any problems getting in and out of this place anymore, and to also eliminate the possibility of getting seen by the Silver royal family's soldiers on top of the walls. This would also let us call a few more others inside to help us do some other useful things.”
”I can understand the first part of your plan, as it is indeed good if our people are the ones guarding the part of the walls nearby this location since it would avoid us from getting found out by the Silver royal family's soldiers. But, what exactly do you mean about calling a few others inside to help us do other useful things? Isn't rescuing the civilians our main intention here? If we do something else, it might risk us getting found out.” Ethan quickly argued.
”I plan on using this location not only for a relocation area for the civilians but also the center place that will lend assistance to the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance once they got inside Silver city.” Leo replied.
”Oh...” Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, Ash, Ethan, Chief Lago, Sebastian, and Dan quickly understood what Leo meant about with his words.
To be honest, once the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance breaks inside the Silver city, that still doesn't literally mean yet that they already won the war. Getting inside the Silver city simply meant they are halfway done with the battle against the Silver royal family because once they get inside Silver city, they would now be fighting in the middle of the Silver royal family's territory, which means aside from the place they have chosen to break through, they would be receiving attacks from the rest of the directions, specifically the south, west, and north walls. This would be the most hardest part of the battle.
However, what if the moment the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance got inside the Silver city their only remaining problem would be the north wall, and a few parts of the south and west wall because Leo has already successfully replaced those soldiers manning the war weapons on top of a few parts of the south and west walls with his own? With that, the battle would still be in their favor, and this might even cause the already losing Silver royal family to lose quickly.
”Okay, then let's begin!” Ash nodded before leaving to call out those 20 Human slaves they have over here.