Charlotte had only one thought in his mind: This is way too dark!
The Empire of Fars wanted to directly annex the Duchy of Behemoth and the Nansera Territory into its imperial lands, and it also wanted to abolish those Knight Orders. Whether the Brittany Offensive had tied down Byron or not, those two objectives had basically been achieved.
The South Seraph Restoration Army was in Ferlanden, while the Knight Orders of the Duchy of Behemoth had been completely "wiped out." Not only had the noble Knight Orders been destroyed, even Baron Filer's Knight Order had been utterly wiped out in the Brittany Offensive.
As for whether Baron Filer would go crying to his sister or do something else, Charlotte had no way of knowing.
Over the next few days, Kreil Brittany handed his defensive zones over to Charlotte one by one, along with several other Knight Orders. However, he asked Charlotte for the two Transcendents, Spotted Deer Gwen and Gale Wolf Bancroft, and Charlotte generously agreed.
Naturally, Charlotte did not keep those Knight Orders intact. He broke them up and incorporated them into the West Wind Knight Regiment. He also filled Anastasia, Dobbin, and Yellow Bear's combat squads to eight hundred men each. He specifically promoted Fast-Handed Clerk Italo Calvino and Sebald of the South Seraph Restoration Army, giving each of them a two-hundred-man combat squad.
Charlotte had originally expected that once Kreil Brittany's Purple-Gold Sparrow Knight Order and Maple Leaf Knight Order departed, the Black Phoenix Dynasty would certainly launch a fierce offensive. He had even prepared tactics for fighting while retreating. Yet after Kreil Brittany left, the Black Phoenix Dynasty's main Knight Orders withdrew as well, leaving behind only Chloe Hadrian, who had been tangling with and pursuing him for two months!
Chloe was mainly unwilling to