Just as Yang Zhiwen finished speaking, Gao Feng led the Fierce Shark Special Forces out of the castle.
Derrick stared at the group of people emerging from the castle and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
He suddenly realized that since he hadn't seen the reinforcements, yet they were coming out of the castle, it meant these reinforcements hadn't arrived through conventional means. The only method Derrick could think of was an ability activated by a Transcendent.
A Space-Type Transcendent, and one possessing large-scale teleportation capabilities.
Derrick realized at this moment that the faction behind Yang Zhiwen might be far more powerful than he had imagined.
Space Teleportation-type Transcendent, regardless of which country, could be considered an absolute secret weapon.
Because the abilities they possess play an extremely important role in warfare.
One can easily imagine that capturing a city with strong defenses and numerous defenders from the outside would require a terrifying cost. However, with these Space Teleportation-type Transcendent, the attacking side could directly teleport Combat Troops inside the heavily fortified city to coordinate with external forces and capture it.
Or, for example, directly teleporting armed personnel into your home to carry out an assassination against you.
Therefore, Space Teleportation-type Transcendent are essentially secret weapons in any country on the Continent.
However, there is also an unwritten rule among the various countries: not to use Space Teleportation-type Transcendent for assassination missions.
After all, Space Teleportation-type Transcendent can initiate teleportation as long as they obtain the coordinates of the destination, which is unacceptable to any person in power.
Therefore, every country tries its best to gather Space Teleportation-type Transcendent and control them as a secret weapon. If any country violates the regulation, others will have means of counteraction.
No one dares to gamble that the Space Teleportation-type Transcendent of other countries are incapable of assassinating them. Thus, with Space Teleportation Transcendent present on all sides, a state of peace is maintained.
Due to the special nature of Space Teleportation-type Transcendent, they are basically controlled by the various nations.
Perhaps other factions have them, but they would not easily expose them, because once exposed, the nation would immediately demand their surrender.
And looking at the reinforcements emerging from the castle, there were at least several dozen people.
However, compared to the numbers, Derrick was more concerned about the attire of these reinforcements.
These reinforcements did not have iron Armor, nor even leather armor; the only metallic defensive gear they possessed was the semi-circular helmet on their heads.
The semi-circular helmets on these people's heads couldn't even protect their cheeks, at most only the upper part of the head.
Such helmets offer limited protection in combat. Although they appear lighter and offer a wider field of view, compared to the advantages provided by defense, this lightness and wide field of view seem somewhat not worth the trade-off.
Derrick also saw no Armor. Although the clothes worn by these reinforcements seemed to offer some defensive capability, he at least did not see any iron plates or leather plates on the garments, suggesting their defense was likely not very strong.
And the weapons made Derrick even more puzzled. These reinforcements were not carrying long spears, long swords, or shields, but rather a strange-looking weapon.
This weapon was not very long and looked very peculiar; it could neither stab nor slash.
Derrick could not comprehend how strong the combat capability of these reinforcements was.
However, Derrick also noticed that all these newly appeared reinforcements were Black Hair and Black Eyes.
On the Continent, there are people with Black Hair and Black Eyes, but not many.
It is rumored that on other continents, there are nations composed entirely of people with Black Hair and Black Eyes, but at least on the Aiertelan Continent, people with the appearance of Black Hair and Black Eyes are an absolute minority.
They account for less than one-thousandth of the total population of the Continent.
Moreover, Derrick had never heard of any nation or faction on the Continent composed entirely of people with Black Hair and Black Eyes.
Thus, Derrick began to speculate that the faction behind Yang Zhiwen was likely not one from the Aiertelan Continent.
"Derrick, from now on, the defense matters of the castle will be taken over by the reinforcements. The original soldiers and the conscripted young and strong men will be responsible for public security."
"Yes!"
Gao Feng quickly inspected the terrain of the castle with his men.
The castle where Yang Zhiwen was located was not small; its length was about 150 meters, its width about 100 meters, with a total area approaching 15,000 square meters.
Of course, at Yang Zhiwen's rank, he couldn't afford to live in a castle of this caliber. This castle originally belonged to a Count, but the owner of the castle was promoted to the Imperial Capital over a decade ago.
His original Territory was divided and enfeoffed to other Lords, while the castle remained.
Yang Zhiwen was able to obtain ownership of the castle because he cured the rampant Cholera in Nord City.
The castle was surrounded by a Moat. Among them, the Moats on the northeast and west sides of the castle were connected to a natural river. The width of the Moats on these three sides generally exceeded 30 meters, and the depth was over 10 meters.
Only the Moat on the south side was artificially dug later; its width was less than 5 meters, and its depth did not exceed 3 meters.
The only fortunate thing was that the water in the southern Moat was flowing water.
Therefore, Gao Feng believed that once attacked, the south side of the castle would become the key area of assault.
In fact, the castle's previous defensive measures also designated the south side as the key defensive zone.
The height and thickness of the southern city wall were the greatest.
In addition, the southern city wall had multiple arrow towers and flanking towers.
After inspecting the castle, Gao Feng quickly began arranging firepower.
The Type 40 and Type 56 machine guns would occupy the high ground, forming the main striking firepower.
Type 56 Semi-automatic Rifle and Type 56 submachine guns would be responsible for defense in other areas.
Due to the limited personnel under Gao Feng's command, he had to abandon the outer defenses of the castle.
If there were sufficient Combat Troops, Gao Feng would have prepared to set up multiple Defensive Positions outside the castle, mutually supporting the castle, which would better protect it.
But unfortunately, because the duration of Yang Zhiwen's Space Gate was only five minutes, such a short time was insufficient to deploy large numbers of troops and material supplies.
More importantly, the Fierce Shark Special Forces were an exploration unit sent by Huaguo. They needed to determine the combat strength of the Demon Race in the Otherworld. If the Demon Race's combat strength was so formidable that even the Fierce Shark Special Forces could not resist them, then Huaguo would need to consider whether to continue developing the Otherworld.
Never mind that the Fierce Shark Special Forces were equipped with relatively backward weapons this time; the personnel were all top-tier existences.
The reason the Fierce Shark Special Forces were equipped with outdated weapons was mainly to prevent the possibility that if this mission failed and the weapons fell into the hands of the Demon Race or the people of the Otherworld, they could not Reverse Engineer them.
Although Yang Zhiwen had stated that the Otherworld was still in an era similar to European Middle Ages, seemingly lacking technological levels, the existence of Transcendent forced Huaguo High Command to consider multiple factors.
The existence of Superpowers, which cannot be predicted by common sense, can flourish in the Otherworld. Who knows if some Superpowers might be extremely compatible with Technology among the myriad of bizarre abilities?
Once advanced weapons fall into the hands of these Transcendent, it is not impossible that they might only need a few seconds to complete Reverse Engineering.
After all, in the Otherworld, there are thousands of Transcendent abilities; all sorts of strange abilities exist.