Chapter 232: The Tin Knight and The Witch of Heaven’s Change (2)
I have the head of the Tower of Protection and the other scraps. If you want them back, come to the Tower of Control by the appointed time.
The message left by the witch Mombi was passed on to the Tin Knight’s party through survivors from the Tower of Protection.
Seeing its contents, Dorothea commented, “This doesn’t even look like they’re trying to hide that it’s a trap.”
She grumbled that things never seem to work out easily.
“Whether we like it or not, we have to go anyway, so from their perspective, there’s no need to hide it.”
At Sophia’s words, an uncomfortable atmosphere lingered among the party.
Dorothea’s party wasn’t fighting on equal terms with the Tower of Control purely with their own strength.
The reason they were able to conduct guerrilla warfare by hitting and running here and there was because the Tower of Protection side had deployed troops to check the Tower of Control from moving freely.
The problem was that there weren’t many people in the Tower of Protection who were enthusiastic about this war in the first place.
And the leadership, including Hermina, who led such a tower and focused on backing up the party, had been badly hit this time.
The Tower of Protection mages were frightened by the power of the Witch of the North, who had invaded alone and collapsed the tower. The frontlines were barely being maintained thanks to Hermina dedicating herself to evacuating other mages until the end, leaving some leadership remaining, and the Tin Knight’s party blowing up the enemy’s core city.
In other words.