The elven army was marching south in force, and the situation in the Black Forest Kingdom grew tense as well. The threat from their old neighbors, the Stone People Race, had yet to be eliminated, and now they had gained another formidable enemy.
Perhaps Count Louis Vuitton was the only one taking it easy. Fortune and misfortune went hand in hand. The more pleased the Black Forest people had been when they annexed the County of Corubia, the more of a headache it gave them now.
The expansion of its territory had made the Black Forest Kingdom the first of the Three Central Continent Kingdoms to clash with the elven army—a proper nightmare difficulty.
There was no gratitude to speak of. It was not as if he had asked the Black Forest people to take the blow for him. As long as he did not stir up trouble or drag them down, he was already considering the bigger picture.
After all, he was not part of the kingdom's direct line. Being granted a seat at high-level meetings was only because Alexander V had to consider the international repercussions.
With little presence to speak of, Count Louis Vuitton was more than happy to coast along. Let them toss things around as they pleased. Not long ago, he had been reassigned from a prosperous county to a remote mountain county.
Backwater places had their advantages too. Even if an alien army came calling, it would not be his turn to suffer anytime soon.
"Why have the Alpha Kingdom and the Moxi Duchy refused to dispatch troops jointly? Don't they have even the slightest strategic awareness?"
Alexander V asked with a puzzled expression.
One only had to look at the map to see that once the Black Forest Kingdom was defeated and forced