Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 571

Chapter 571: Battle Strategy
Arit learned during her battle against the assassins that attacked her and Talia in City F that she was not the type to plan out a fight. Her instincts were her greatest asset, and she had learned to trust them in battle. As far as Arit was concerned, tearing the enemy in front of you apart was the most effective means of finishing a fight. Coming up with a sound strategy on the fly or trying to guide an entire army into battle was completely foreign to her.

Arit understood that the demons were being pushed back by the Angels, but she didn’t know how to fix it. The demons were weaker, fewer, and obviously at a disadvantage when pitted against the Angels. It was an almost unsalvageable situation, and Arit wondered if Mark would be able to come up with a way to give them a fighting chance.

“My Lord, perhaps we should focus our forces on the land over here since it is more important to the war efforts.”

The succubus, Mildred, spoke up while giving Mark a curious look, and Mark turned to her and saw she was pointing at the land close to the Mining town. Mark had also been thinking about saving that land since he knew it was more important than the town close to the ancestral trading land.

Mildred smiled as she saw Mark nodding at her, and she turned to give Arit a look that could only be described as smug. Arit was not able to give Mark valuable advice, and Mildred saw that Arit was struggling with this, so she decided to gain some favor with her Lord by speaking up in place of Arit.

Arit gritted her teeth but said nothing, refusing to stoop so low as to speak up angrily when they were having such an important meeting. Arit knew that what Mildred did meant nothing to Mark other than being good advice, but Mildred’s smug look, along with the fact that Mildred was intentionally doing all of this just to spite Arit, made Arit’s bloodthirsty nature boil in her stomach!

In her QUEEN form, Arit had a similar personality to the QUEEN, and although the QUEEN didn’t say anything to Arit, Arit knew that even the QUEEN was getting tired of Mildred’s bullshit.

‘If this happens again, I’ll kill her.’

Arit made a pledge inside her heart that would have terrified Mildred if she had heard it. But Mildred didn’t hear it; instead, she was focused on trying to get Mark to see the reason behind what she said.

Mildred explained that although there were some demons still residing in the trading town, they were only using that land for small exchanges and nothing more. All of the major exchanges had been moved to the central palace due to the war.

The Lamia who had spoken up about the importance of the land suddenly admonished Mildred and told her that this was an insult to their land.

“That land has been with us for generations. You want to just leave it to those dirty Angels so they can soil it with their bird shit?”

The Lamia was righteously pissed, and Mark could tell just from the way her tail moved around erratically while she glared at Mildred that she really did not like this idea one bit. All the Angels had large bird-like wings that allowed them to move through the air easily, so calling them birds was probably her way of insulting them without acknowledging the advantages they had with those wings.

But Mark had a different mindset regarding that land and asked another question.

“What form of communication do you have with the outposts?”

The entire council was surprised by the sudden change in topic, but they didn’t let it stop them from giving a suitable answer. It was the goblin general who spoke up and told Mark that they used carrier hawks to send messages across armies. Mark raised a brow in surprise, and his voice came out in an incredulous tone.

“Hawks?”

The general nodded seriously, as if the mere thought of doing things any other way was completely foreign to him, and Mark had to stop himself from facepalming right there. What sort of backward kingdom had Freya sent him to? How could they have so much magic and still not be able to make a proper communication system?

The world of Rosario was still in its developing stage, and even though many of them had magic, that didn’t mean they had developed any method for properly sending messages from one place to another. Their magic was mainly focused on the natural elements, so unlike the humans who had to move away from the elements early on and begin developing technology, the people of Westrio were very in tune with the natural elements, and their development was still going slowly.

Mark asked how long it would take to send a message to the outpost and receive a reply, and the goblin general said it would take two days for a round trip—one day to go there and another day to come back. Mark frowned in annoyance.

“That’s too long.”

The goblin seemed surprised by this and told Mark that this was one of the fastest means of communication in the entire world.

“Our carrier hawks have been trained for speed. You will surely not find anyone better than them in all of Rosario.”

“It doesn’t matter if they’ve been trained for speed if it takes an entire day for them to send a simple message to an outpost. Where I’m from, there is a means of communication that allows you to send messages instantaneously across any distance in the world.”

All the demons looked at Mark like he had gone mad, and Mark had to resist the urge to facepalm again as he saw the shock and awe in their eyes. This really wasn’t his problem. He wasn’t going to start explaining the wonders of telecommunication to them in the middle of their war meeting.

But since the carrier hawks were the fastest means of communication for now, that could only mean the Angels were using the same things. That was good. At least, it’s not like the demons were using carrier hawks while the Angels had something faster. If that were the case, then we might as well just throw in the towel right now.

Communication was very important in any war, and Mark knew that in a battle, the side with the better means of communication was going to be able to move faster and better than the side that didn’t have a good means of communication.

Mark also knew he had to come up with a way of relaying information in the middle of the battle to the soldiers, and he sighed and ran a hand through his hair. Mark really needed to get these guys into shape. He didn’t know who the previous demon lord was, but that bastard hadn’t done a very good job at all.

Finally, Mark spoke up, and all the council members who had been murmuring quieted down and listened to him.

“We are going to focus our forces on taking back the areas surrounding the mining town and allow the Angels to have the trading town.”

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