Grassland Hunt
The kingdom's upper echelon was shocked, and the representatives of every nation were shocked as well.
If the news had not been officially released by the Alpha Kingdom, they would have thought someone was playing a prank.
Who could be stupid enough to dam a river and flood themselves?
Even with Hudson's "reasonable explanation," no one believed it.
Compared to that vague "pressure," they were more willing to believe that the Alpha people had destroyed the Beastfolk dam.
After all, in the eyes of the foreign representatives, the losses suffered by the Alpha Kingdom were nothing worth mentioning.
What was so strange about releasing a little bait to confuse the enemy?
One general's success was built upon ten thousand bones!
After all these years of campaigning north and south, anyone who thought Hudson was softhearted had water in their brain.
Especially after verifying the news and obtaining "detailed battle reports" from the Orc Empire, they became even more convinced of their judgment.
The turmoil did not merely ripple through the Alliance Council; it also affected the kingdom itself.
There was no helping it. The grain convoy swept away by the flood happened to be the private army of the Northern Nobles, while the laborers had also been conscripted from their territories.
Everyone knew Hudson and the Northern Nobles did not get along. Since they were the ones who had suffered this accident, it looked exactly like "eliminating dissidents."
Naturally, the rumors stopped among the common folk. The moment unrest began brewing at court, Caesar IV forcefully suppressed it.
It looked like he was defending Hudson, but that only made the matter harder to explain.
For a time, the Northern Nobles on the front lines were deeply unsettled, afraid that their own commander might set them up again someday.