It was a godsend to Boyce that the armies of the alignment had reached the Joenine Forest.
The commotion had drawn curious eyes from those religious citizens of
Gothal. Lilith had a perfect view of the assembling army and she
finally caught sight of who she knew to be her beloved husband, with
Zoro still by his side.
Boyce landed and arranged for a short aerial battle to divert the monastic force's attention from the army that would charge into the city by surprise.
There was only some dozen eagles for this stage of the attack. The scores of eagles that were to fight were scheduled as the second wave that were to arrive tomorrow, but at least the cavalry was only an hour away.
Boyce hoped that Halls wouldn't know what hit them even considering the strange forewarning that they had for the invasion.
While Boyce was quickly taking charge of the operations from the
Joenine Forest, Lloyd had flown across the open ocean to find the
Bestenese navy. Before long he found them. The fleet was amassing
several kilometres to the south east of the Phoridene cost.
He landed on the flag ship and let the fleet commander know that they could make their way to Phoride, for a landing and their attack.
He soon made his way back to Pomperaque.
By this time, one of the high cardinals suggested to the ArchBishop that Lloyd had not flown out to sea for no reason and that there was probably an armada out there, somewhere.
With this suggestion, Orren was ordered t secure the coastline and he had one man placed every twenty meters on the southern shore.