If Charlotte had said this before going to Saint Michael's Island, at least half the generals at Menilman's military council would have called him an idiot.
Sabastine might even have pointed at Charlotte's nose and bluntly said, "Get this idiot out."
But after Charlotte returned from Saint Michael's Island, none of Menilman's generals dared look down on him anymore.
Menilman had fought battle after battle and captured more than twenty ships, a classic campaign worthy of becoming military course material at every major Imperial University. Yet Charlotte had quietly returned with over a hundred ships and seventy to eighty thousand people in tow.
Who would still dare underestimate him?
What earned Charlotte the greatest respect from Menilman's generals was this!
Of the more than one hundred ships Charlotte had seized, he left ten for Ban Lamorak and kept not a single one for himself, handing all the rest over to Menilman.
Still, no one believed Charlotte could possibly have some simple solution.
Golden Goat Herolf might have been at the end of his rope, but this was a world of Transcendence. All the miraculous military strategies developed on Earth were useless here.
Byron had once had a "military genius" who tried using the Vangogh Clan's Infinite Mirror World to maneuver a vast army with uncanny unpredictability. But the Transcendents of several major human empires launched a joint surprise attack and killed several Vangogh Clan vampires. The Byron army was left without retreat or supplies and died miserably.
It was annihilation in the literal sense.
It was said that the stench from the burning vampire corpses could be smelled all the way into Byron.
The Transcendent vampires who had accompanied the army fought as they retreated, but the long retreat route left them hunted by swarms of human Transcendents. They suffered