But I got something to solve this problem, as I was growing a massive headache about this, she finally said something nice, each region is controlled tightly by a group of one hundred towers

She leant over the drawing of her and started to draw circles. Each one contained one hundred towers, if we dealt with the entire structure as a whole, we wont be able to do anything to it. But if we arranged it into different zones, each containing one hundred towers, then we could easily crush the defences there.

I looked at the circles she drew and at the entire drawing. To be honest, I didnt feel much about what she just said. Everything looked like a big puzzle in my eyes.

I dont get what you mean, I honestly said. And she smiled as if she expected this.

The ones who designed all this didnt have the ability to build a sophisticated layout expanding over hundred of miles as this one here. So they had to divide the entire region into zones, each controlled with one hundred towers.

p-a- n-d-a-n-0-v-e-l I looked at the drawing again and when I thought about her words, I felt the drawing became simpler than before.

Even the complicated design of mine began to be much easier to understand.

They arent gods after all, I muttered, feeling much relieved that the scary ones who did all this were still suffering and struggling like normal beings.

Even if they got something novel like this layout, they still couldnt be this overbearing. And I was lucky to have someone like Isac by my side.

So we need to attack that place zone by zone? I asked, but unlike what I expected she shook her head.

Doing this will put great pressure on our forces. After all, other regions wont stand idle and watch us dissemble the layout built near them.

Thats a good point, I nodded despite the lack of any happiness or enthusiasm, but you have a solution for this, right?

Thinking about taking the entire zones out is crazy, she didnt directly answer my question and instead she started to draw smaller circles inside the bigger ones she previously drew, I bet the ones who devised all this wanted any army coming at these defences to commit such a mistake.

And? I still didnt get the answer I wanted.

In the smaller zones, taking down one third of the defensive towers would weaken the entire zone defences. And taking one half down would paralyse the entire zone defence.

This I paused while looking at her drawing again, according to your words, we need to take down at least fifty towers from each zone, right?

Either this, she didnt answer me directly again, or we find a way to determine the main key points in each zone. Taking down these key points would bring the same effect.

Arent both the same? I didnt get what she meant by this.

No, the number of key points is smaller than the fifty towers she looked at me and I didnt say a thing. So she added, if my guess is correct, then there are five main key points in each zone. Taking these down will turn the entire zone useless.

Thats great news! I clapped my hands in excitement. Taking down fifty towers was indeed a hard task, and many of my elite forces would die doing this.

But if we just needed to take down five towers, then things would be much easier for my forces.

I dont have a way to determine these key points

Thats bad news! I frowned and my excitement vanished the moment she said this.

The ones who designed everything are the ones who know where these key points are, she sighed, even if we managed to ascertain a few key points location in a few zones, that wouldnt help.

Why is that? She seemed to read my mind. I was thinking about sending armies out there as a test, determine the location of these key points at a few zones and then aim towards the same locations at other zones.

If I was them, and I admit Im not even close to one tenth of their mastery over defensive arts, then Id make sure the arrangement of these key points will be random. Even if few have the same places of their key points, this will be aimed to fool us and wont give us any help at all.

I listened to her logic and found it acceptable. Such great minds able to think about something this complicated and crazy wouldnt commit a newbie error like this.

But that meant learning all this didnt help at all. My forces had to deal with each zone as if they were exploring new undiscovered lands. With one hundred towers out there, only five of them would be the key points.

And that meant my forces had to attack all to determine which ones were the key points. Doing so would place my forces at greater risk, and the total loss count would escalate.

When I thought about it, I didnt find any benefit from doing this either. It was the same trying to attack the towers and determine the places of the key points and trying to damage fifty towers from the start.

At least the second way had the fixed goal of destroying fifty towers, which would be much easier to accomplish.

Is there a way to determine the key points without the need of sending everyone to all the towers? I held little hope for this, and when she shook her head I knew this was going to end up bad.

I got something that may help just when I was lost in thoughts, trying to accept the grand loss awaiting my forces out there, a voice appeared from behind me, attracting my attention.

When I turned, I saw Garry walking towards me from the direction of my chariots stairs.

Do you have a solution for this? I asked with anticipation.

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