Lothar had no idea that, in the distant East, two insignificant people affected by him and exiled to Central Asia were now caught in danger.
He had never overlooked the Tatar threat, even though in the original history, it would still be decades before they reached Europe, and the Eastern European countries trampled beneath their iron hooves had basically nothing to do with him.
According to the intelligence brought back by Eastern merchants, the peerless genius rising from the steppes had defeated the divided Naimans and unified the Tatar grasslands far faster than on his original historical timeline.
The future western campaign would surely be launched by that conqueror himself, and its scale would be even greater.
Long ago, he had used Gwent cards to list the Tatars as a separate faction, filling it with powerful cards and, in a sense, spreading the idea of a "Tatar threat."
If that genius of the steppes ever reached Europe, he would surely be amazed at how quickly his deeds had spread.
Many had initially assumed the Tatar faction in Gwent cards was fabricated. But as Eastern merchants brought more news and people gradually pieced together the image of a powerful ruler matching the cards' descriptions, a whole crowd of card players was left stunned.
Some clergymen even publicly declared that the steppe prodigy was very likely the descendant of the Three Magi of the East—the Christian ruler who governed the wealthy lands of the East and held both the titles of Christian patriarch and King, "Prester John."
After all, many tribes under the steppes' rule were devout believers in Nestorianism.
Lothar merely sneered at that. Europeans had once mistaken Yelü Dashi for Prester John too. Only after sending envoys there had they discovered that while Yelü Dashi's domains contained quite a few