Hero for a Minute?

"With this, nearly 170,000 troops will form a pincer attack from front and rear against your Onyx Principality forces. When the time comes, we'll definitely catch your army completely off guard!"

Hiss!

Hearing Cort's words, Nalant immediately sucked in a sharp breath.

If that was true, then the Onyx Principality army was truly in grave danger this time.

As for why—

The Onyx Principality army had been attacking Oak City as though it were merely a large earl's city. Even after joining forces with Maple Leaf City's troops, their estimated strength would be thirty to forty thousand at most, and those thirty to forty thousand troops were still the sort lacking armor.

Yet now, Oak City supposedly contained 150,000 soldiers—fifty percent more than the Onyx Principality's entire army.

And if another fifteen thousand fully armed cavalrymen charged in, catching them unprepared, the Onyx Principality would certainly suffer a crushing defeat.

"Miss Stella, and the rest of you, I actually have an excellent suggestion. Why not release me now and hurry back to the Onyx Principality? Our Northern Principality's plan this year is bound to succeed! Perhaps even as we speak, the Royal Knights have already begun their attack!"

"If you release me this time, then once our Northern Principality conquers the Onyx Principality, you can come find me, Cort Steddy. The Steddy Family is also an earl family. I greatly admire your bravery, and when the time comes, I'll persuade my father to grant you fiefs as vassals of the Steddy Family!"

Cort showed no concern whatsoever for his current predicament. Instead, he began trying to persuade Nalant and the others to surrender.

Of course, it was not because he was unafraid of death that he dared to act this way.

Rather, unless there was a private grudge as deep