"..." Adolf Heinrich furrowed his brows in confusion as he watched the Goblin Knight Order approaching from ahead. If he remembered correctly, Roland had sent this army out as the vanguard long ago...
"..." Valfay, Omsk, and the others immediately turned their gazes toward Caslo, who had only recently returned. After all, according to Caslo, the Goblin Knights had been safely stationed by the riverbank and had even casually sent off an Eastern Yi Chariot People vanguard. They had been absurdly fierce, and the whole process had gone so smoothly it was alarming. (Caslo had very shrewdly omitted the part where Wes's Grand Forbidden Spell had nearly smothered the Goblin Knights to death. As compensation, he piled the credit for wiping out the Eastern Yi Chariot People onto the Goblin Knights. That preserved his dignity while keeping things fair.)
"Abba abba!" Caslo's brain crashed completely. Forget them—even he was utterly baffled right now. Everything had been fine before he left. Could the main Eastern Yi army have advanced?
"Damn it! I knew it!" Omsk slapped his thigh, drawing sidelong looks from several Knight Captains under his command and the others—Lavien, Holyn, and Yu Morland.
Caslo's heart skipped a beat. Omsk was the one most familiar with him, one of King Roland's right-hand men. He had never expected Omsk to expose his little secret!
"Those damned Eastern Yi barbarians! Just as I thought, they've been harboring evil intentions! We haven't even reached them, yet their main force has arrived! They must have been plotting against us for a long time! If not for His Highness's wisdom and might, we wouldn't have realized it until they were at our doorstep!" Omsk looked as though he had seen through the entire situation, making him strangely convincing.
"..." Caslo's mouth twitched. Sure enough, he