When to Play Dumb, Play Dumb

Voices of dissuasion rose in an endless stream, basically divided into two categories. One category was to remind Auben that such a method was far too crazy and would push the entire Holy Vorm Commonwealth to the brink of destruction. The other category was to hope that Auben, as the supreme commander of the legions, could remain calm and refrain from taking even more insane actions because of the currently unfavorable combat situation. The battlefield changed in a flash, and an unfavorable situation now did not mean the situation would be unfavorable in the future; but the arbitration of the Supreme--that would be physical, destructive ruin.

Auben motioned for the high-ranking officials of the various legions to calm down first, let him finish speaking, and continued to explain his thoughts.

"None of you need to worry. I am very calm and rational right now, and the situation is not as terrifying as you think."

"We have not attacked the Inali Radiant Empire. The non-aggression pact has not actually been torn up. This is an unchangeable fact, and the Supreme will certainly not make things too difficult for us after understanding the situation."

Hearing this, the high-ranking officials of the various legions all looked thoughtful. They had been blinded by the fear brought by the Supreme, but now calming down to think about it, they found that it indeed possessed a certain degree of feasibility.

They would use the Supreme to counter those natives of unknown strength.

The Supreme was not completely unreasonable. If there were no possibility of reasoning, the Inali Radiant Empire would not have dared to ask the Supreme to guarantee the non-aggression pact back then. As long as the commonwealth could ultimately produce strong proof that the commonwealth had indeed never torn up the non-aggression pact with