Is This a Joke? (Combined Chapter)

After removing the badge, Andrew examined it for a moment and found nothing unusual. Only then did he turn his attention to the bamboo tube.

He immediately spotted the opening and took out a tiny slip of paper from inside.

At the sight of that slip, the young nobles all revealed looks of surprise and craned their necks in anticipation.

"Andrew, how is it? What does it say?"

Yet after Andrew had only read it for a moment, someone among the young nobles could no longer hold back his curiosity and asked.

But Andrew did not answer him.

As he read the note, Andrew's expression grew uglier and uglier. Then his mouth fell open, and he stood rooted to the spot.

"What's going on?" The young nobles immediately looked at one another.

Unable to sit still any longer, several nobles familiar with Andrew went straight up to him and leaned in to read the note.

But the moment they saw it, they too seemed to have been struck by a petrification spell, falling utterly silent.

"Did you see a ghost or something?" the other nobles asked in alarm.

"N-No... this is bad... We've... we've fallen into an ambush..." Andrew finally came back to his senses.

"What do you mean, fallen into an ambush? Andrew, are you still half asleep?"

"The passage guarded by my little Nalant and Lady Stella encountered an infantry legion of over ten thousand men from the Onyx Principality several days ago. And from the deputy commander they captured, they learned that everything at Oak City was a trap. There are one hundred and fifty thousand Northern Principality soldiers in that city, and tonight, more than ten thousand cavalry will arrive at our flank and rear to attack our camp from both front and back!" Andrew trembled