The Bloody Border refers to the region at the junction of the Southern Countries of the Human World and the southern Kawa Great Forest of the Seta Continent.
This area extends for hundreds of kilometers, and for thousands of years, the beastmen within the Kawa Great Forest have been engaged in seesaw battles with human soldiers from the Southern Countries in this area. The blood shed by humans and beastmen has nearly stained every piece of land red, hence it is called the Bloody Border.
To resist the invasion of beastmen from the Kawa Great Forest, several duchies in the Human World's south, bordering the Bloody Border, formed an alliance, relying on cities to establish a massive defensive line within the border area. They connected these cities with walls using a large number of enslaved farmers, ultimately forming the unbreakable Bloody Great Wall.
From the moment the Bloody Great Wall was established, it became the most solid barrier against the beastmen for the Southern Countries, and humans relied on the wall's defense to constantly expand towards the Kawa Great Forest.
Landless refugees from various regions, bankrupt individuals, fallen nobles, adventurers, mercenaries, bandits, and traveling merchants selling goods continuously gathered here, amassing a vast amount of wealth by exploiting the resources within the Kawa Great Forest.
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The land outside the Bloody Great Wall is not owned by any duchy of the Human World, thus it is free without legal constraints, an immeasurable territory.
With years of development, human footprints have even reached the outskirts of the Kawa Great Forest. Greedy human merchants have even engaged in commercial trade with some powerful beastman tribes.
A large amount of human activity in the border area, with various commercial and exploration activities, has plunged the Bloody Border into a bizarre prosperity.
However, all of this was shattered by the Beastman Tribe Alliance's attack more than half a year ago.
Since the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the new year, the beastmen tribes within the Kawa Great Forest have migrated explosively, the border areas fell one after another, and a massive number of beastmen directly reached below the Bloody Great Wall.
The prosperity of the past was wiped away, and almost all adult humans were drafted to the walls to fend off beastman attacks.
Trade routes were severed, resulting in substantial economic losses, but most importantly, following months of relentless attacks, the defending soldiers' morale has almost reached its limit, and a sense of impending doom shrouds the entire Great Wall.
Now, various major tribes within the Kawa Great Forest have formed a Tribe Alliance, gradually gathering over five million beastmen stationed below the Bloody Great Wall. Standing on the wall and gazing out, you see an unending series of crude camps and densely packed beastmen stretching into the horizon.
This is an unbelievable number, representing nearly fifty percent of the beastman population within the Kawa Great Forest participating in this war.
This is practically an all-out war, and it's said that the entire border of the Bloody Great Wall is under siege by the beastmen.
Yet, despite such a crisis, human leaders are still embroiled in power disputes, weapon supplies are hard to come by, and some human farmers have had to carry pitchforks to the walls for defense.
The air reeks of a filthy stench, mingled with the bloody scent of successive battles and the foul smell of decaying corpses, as an aura of despair begins to spread among the soldiers.
Meanwhile, in Bodun City,
the largest city on the Bloody Defense Line, within the City Lord's Mansion.
"Mr. Edward, the pressure on the defense line is very severe now. The Grand Duke can hardly get enough sleep each day, but he values your information highly and specifically sent me to find you, hoping your news will not disappoint him."
A middle-aged man dressed as a butler, wearing military attire, led the dust-covered Edward and his companions into the City Lord's Mansion.
"Rest assured, Mr. Butler, I am well aware that Grand Duke William's concerns involve the fate of millions at the border. If I wasn't confident enough, I wouldn't have sought a meeting with the Grand Duke so lightly. This is intelligence that my companions and I risked our lives to obtain, and it will not disappoint the Grand Duke."
Edward, along with a teammate, followed the butler into the City Lord's Mansion, speaking politely, without displaying any contempt despite the butler's position.
After escaping from the Kawa Great Forest, not having time to plan retaliation against that Blue Dragon, the Beastman Tribe Alliance came charging in with large forces, directly attacking the Bloody Frontier.
This war is not like the seasonal harassment of previous years; it is a full-fledged, life-and-death struggle.
Urgent dispatches from the Bloody Great Wall continually reached the various duchies, and Edward was also drafted into the military.
In the army, Edward met some good companions, reportedly from a well-known mercenary corps, now all drafted into the military. Due to his noble status, he became the officer leader of the team.
Because of Edward's strength, leading the team to victory again and again gained his companions' approval. Subsequently, during an order to aid other cities, the army was ambushed by beastman forces and was nearly wiped out.
Luckily, Edward was quick-witted and instead of retreating, chose a contrarian path, stealthily heading toward the Kawa Great Forest with companions, directly attacking a beastman tribe's base camp. This avoided post-battle beastman searches and ambushes, and in a surprise attack, they destroyed a poorly prepared beastman camp.
In that support battle, only they and a few others managed to return.
It was precisely because the beastman forces had set up ambushes along the retreat route in advance, and the beaten human army, fleeing to the city, stumbled into the ambush circle, completely ensnared.
Since that battle, the mercenaries fully committed themselves.
But this wasn't the end. After attacking a beastman camp, Edward discovered a hint of the beastmen's frantic actions. From an injured senior beastman left behind at the camp, he learned the reason for the Beastman Alliance's madness in attacking the Bloody Border.
At first, Edward was skeptical, but after continued investigation, he finally confirmed the truth of the information obtained from the beastman leader.
Because of this, he broke out in a cold sweat.
Mutated Evil Spirits, Undead Calamity, those are things capable of annihilating the entire human civilization!
Yet after calming down, a crazy idea emerged in his mind,
a method not only to resolve the war but also to counter the Mutated Evil Spirit and its Undead Calamity.
And this is also why Edward appeared in the City Lord's Mansion, about to meet with the supreme commander of the human allied forces on the Bloody Defense Line, Grand Duke William.
"That's good. If you can indeed resolve this beastman war, you will be the saviors of the millions within the Bloody Border!"
The butler nodded gravely, arranging for Edward and his team to remain in the lounge,
then entered the inner chamber to report to the Grand Duke.
ps: Uh... the chapter name in the last chapter was wrong; it should have been Chapter 191. Since it can't be changed, let's leave it at that.