Lothair had once been the one everyone pinned their hopes on, and he had fought some impressive battles.
But now, as far as Louis was concerned, it was all over.
Lothair had been dead for several days.
Louis's eldest brother, whom he had once hated, was simply gone.
His younger sister, Yuffie, had also fully revealed herself in the Northern Border.
She had held a press conference and begun denouncing Louis as illegitimate.
Just a few days ago, Lothair had only ventured a little way into enemy territory.
Louis had been frightened by the enemy's flanking troops and recalled the supporting forces. That was how things had ended up like this.
More importantly...
The news of Isa's death had terrified the living Louis.
The mysterious white-haired girl in the Western Territory, the one blessed with Divine Favor.
Freya had originally been thought to be the one.
But there were also rumors that Yuffie's birth mother, Isa, was the one.
Those rumors hadn't come from the Northern Border; a gag order had been imposed there.
They had come from the Western Territory.
The rumors spread across the Western Territory, and the Northern Border army was no longer under a gag order.
But they still refused to officially confirm anything.
They hadn't concealed any of the evidence concerning Lothair's death, and it did indeed bear traces of the Evil God.
On Holy Sword Mountain in the Western Territory,
they had suffered defeat after defeat.
Their original strategy of advancing south before turning north had completely fallen apart.
Although the river that had disrupted the waterways was now entirely secure,
the elite high-tier squad sent south had been wiped out.
Louis was once again on the verge of being encircled from the west.
Faced with this situation, Louis still clung to hope and