Looking at the gradually rising sun in the east, the dragon girl Nina knew—today she had to wake up her master early no matter what.
After all, today would be a very important day.
The dragon girl who had already reached the door of Alexandra's bedroom lightly stamped her feet in water-red stockings, blushing as she opened the door.
She didn't know what way her master would tease her after getting up today...
"Eh!"
A shocking scene appeared before her!
Her master had actually gotten up by herself!
You know—for over a hundred years, except during wartime, if she didn't wake her master, her master would almost always oversleep!
Alexandra, already dressed in a dark black imperial robe, smiled at Nina.
"What, thought I would sleep in today?"
Nina quickly lowered her head.
"This subordinate dares not!"
Seeing Nina's frightened appearance, Alexandra stood up from the bed and smiled:
"I think you know, I have been looking forward to such a day for over two hundred years."
"Moreover, after I finish killing the demons, I still have to go save your little master."
After speaking, Alexandra strode out of the palace.
Nina had no choice but to quickly follow.
After walking a few steps, they came to the large training ground outside the palace.
If ordinary people came to look, they would probably be scared by the Iron Imperial Palace's design.
Why would there be a training ground inside the palace?
However, this was a renovation specifically requested by Alexandra.
Seeing herself already in the center of the training ground, Nina lowered her head to Alexandra:
"Master, please prepare to mount."
Hearing Nina's words, Alexandra nodded and flew into mid-air.
Then, a huge magic circle instantly appeared on Nina's body!
The magic circle instantly enveloped Nina's petite figure.
After a few breaths, as the magic circle rotated, where the originally petite dragon girl had been, there now appeared a crimson giant dragon about a hundred meters long and fifty meters wide!
"Ah, no matter how many times I see your transformation, I find it extremely shocking..."
Alexandra descended from the sky and mounted the crimson giant dragon.
The crimson giant dragon spread its wings, immediately creating massive air currents around!
Supported by the air currents, the huge red dragon took Alexandra into the high sky within breaths.
Flying in the sky, Alexandra looked at the magnificent scene below, and thinking that perhaps the grudge between the Iron Empire and the demons would finally be completely settled in her generation, her heart immediately became extremely high-spirited!
"Go! To Steer Port!"
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"Your Majesty, all warships have been completely refitted and maintained!"
A dwarf only 1.3 meters tall but extremely sturdy saw the Empress arrive and immediately gave her a military salute, excitedly reporting his work results loudly.
He couldn't help but be excited.
As the leader of the dwarf race that had once been enslaved by demons, being able to lead his subjects under Her Iron Majesty's leadership to create such terrifying war machines that could completely destroy the demons was an extremely prideful thing!
"Mm, take me on a good tour."
Alexandra's emerald eyes also showed extremely expectant expression.
How powerful would those warships she had kept hidden for many years prove to be in the near future...
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
Under the leadership of the dwarf leader Duke, Alexandra and Nina entered the giant shipyard on the sea.
Duke praised the current magnificence of the Iron Fleet while reporting his other work results to Alexandra.
"By the way, Your Majesty, we have completed manufacturing all those anti-demon weapons you mentioned with the dragons' help."
"A total of fifty thousand pieces of individual equipment. These weapons should be completely sufficient to arm all the high-level combat units in our country."
Alexandra smiled as she listened, saying nothing.
It seemed that sending a large army to raid the demon colonies among the dwarf race years ago was indeed correct.
These rescued dwarf craftsmen had indeed brought her considerable surprises.
These dwarves not only gave the Iron Empire significant technological progress but also provided extremely fast weapon manufacturing speed for her demon extermination plan.
As Duke spoke, they came inside the shipyard.
"It seems... this naval battle with the demons... should be very interesting..."
Looking at these iron-armored beasts quietly docked in the shipyard with displacement of at least thousands of tons, Alexandra found it hard to suppress the curve of her lips.
Originally, she had actually opposed the construction of this [Iron Fleet].
However, under the old Iron Emperor's insistence, this fleet that consumed enormous resources and time but was useless was still built.
Alexandra had always disliked such super battleships.
Because such giant ships would easily be targeted by demons on the battlefield.
They might even be seized by demons.
The Iron Empire's high-end combat power's individual combat ability was actually still quite inferior to the demons.
So demons particularly liked to conduct boarding battles during naval warfare.
This demon tactic was generally carried out in two ways.
One was boarding through gangplanks from demon warships.
However, this was only a method used by demon low-level forces.
Demon high-level forces preferred another method—directly jumping from demon warships to Iron Empire warships when both sides were about a hundred meters apart!
These giant ships would allow demons to land on them extremely easily.
And they would also become sitting targets for demon spells.
So after construction was completed, this group of warships became extremely useless existences.
Having them attack was impossible, but dismantling them would be too wasteful.
So Alexandra could only let them lie in the shipyard like this.
Every time she toured the shipyard, she always had the impulse to burn all these useless warships with one fire.
But now... things were different...
Now she had to sigh—giant ships were indeed useful.
The reason the past old Iron Emperor built this group of giant ships wasn't entirely from his "giant ship complex."
In the original plan, the Iron Empire should have installed some catapults on these giant ships for naval warfare.
But facts proved—this tactic didn't work well.
Because catapults' accuracy was really too poor.
And catapult damage to demon warships was also disappointing.
Even if catapult stones hit demon warships, they couldn't cause any fatal damage to demon ships.
As long as they didn't hit the waterline, catapults were no different from jokes to those demon giant ships.
Once within one or two hundred meters, demon magic could easily destroy these catapults...
But now it was different...
Looking at the Magic Crossbows installed on the Iron-armored warships, Alexandra had never looked forward to the upcoming battle so much...
To carry as many combat units as possible for boarding battles, demon warships were mostly extremely large...
Especially those warships carrying demon high-level combat units, to withstand the impact of those demon soldiers weighing at least two to three hundred kilograms jumping over a hundred meters, often had displacement over five thousand tons...
Such demon warships would often carry three to four thousand demon high-level combat units...
But because demon technology levels weren't high, these warships were basically wooden warships, with the best warships only having a thin layer of iron plating.
Compared to catapults, Magic Crossbows' shooting accuracy and destructive power were much stronger...
In other words—Magic Crossbows could not only directly tear a hole with at least a thirty-meter radius in demon warships but could also directly aim at the waterline.
Mostly wooden demon warships, once encountering such violent explosions... no matter how large, would sink at extremely fast speed.
And those demon soldiers whose body density was far greater than humans would inevitably sink along with their warships...
Examining these warships loaded with Magic Crossbows, Alexandra smiled at Nina beside her:
"Now the navy is ready. How about your army and air force?"
Upon hearing Alexandra's words, Nina's face, originally excited from seeing this fleet loaded with Magic Crossbows, immediately became serious.
She had long prepared combat personnel statistics.
"Army and air force combat personnel mobilization work has been basically completed."
"For army basic combat power, there are a total of one hundred thousand armored elite soldiers and ten thousand archers."
"For high-level combat power, there are a total of thirty thousand [Iron Armor Army] and five thousand [Iron Imperial Guards], plus five hundred mages."
"For air force, there are a total of three thousand [Griffin Knights] and two hundred [Dragon Knights]."
"Army and air force total one hundred forty-eight thousand seven hundred people."
After listening, Alexandra smiled and nodded.
Good, very good.
Combined, the Iron Empire could deploy a total of two hundred thousand combat units this time.
And among these two hundred thousand combat units, not one was useless.
This combat personnel scale was the first time in Iron Empire history.
The current Iron Empire not only possessed an army and air force with extremely powerful combat strength and scale but also a navy whose combat power had been greatly enhanced by the Magic Crossbows sent by her good daughter.
Moreover, the Iron Empire could completely commit all combat personnel to this operation.
Because the current Elasian Empire would not only not fight the Iron Empire like in history but would also block the beast tide attacks for the Iron Empire.
Plus the batch of anti-demon weapons forged with money sent by her good daughter...
She, Alexandra, had never fought a battle with such a huge advantage!
Looking at Nina beside her, Alexandra showed an extremely rare serious expression.
"Then, without delay, the Iron Empire will begin the final operation against the demons codenamed 'Demon Extermination' in three days!"
Alexandra's attack timing wasn't randomly set.
In the prophecy of the [Forbidden Book], demons would launch attacks on the Iron Empire by land and sea in three days.
And she, Alexandra, was waiting for this moment!
She would only act after the demon main forces appeared!
She wanted to fight the demon main forces!
After all... only by luring out the demon main forces and annihilating them all could she truly turn the operation codenamed "Demon Extermination" into a real "demon extermination" operation...