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Antoine remained silent. Only after hearing Roderick personally explain the disastrous military operation below did he realize that the Raven Guard Knights had long since set their sights on the distant north.

A weak force like the Syndicate would probably never have received so much attention from Roderick if it had not happened to occupy such a crucial location as Strahnbrad.

The Raven Guard Knights clearly possessed enough strength to crush the Syndicate forces in Strahnbrad, yet he had restrained his ambitions and ultimately used an exchange of interests to make Prince Aliden willingly side with him.

As for the previous battle in the Arathi Highlands, he had merely been astonished by Roderick's extraordinary martial prowess and precise judgment of the battlefield situation.

But during this expedition to Strahnbrad, he had fully understood the difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Before Roderick, even if the kingdom were restored, it would likely have to live beneath Raven Guard's shadow.

Unlike the other knights who were still discussing matters, Augustine discovered that, faced with Raven Guard's aggressive advance, the Syndicate had no ability to resist at all.

A massive organization controlling a population of more than ten thousand had been toyed with in Roderick's palm. And these had all been open, honorable strategies; even if Prince Aliden heard this information, he would be powerless to counter it.

Augustine wisely kept his mouth shut about using the Syndicate's deception of the Orc clans. Although the Frostwolf Orcs had been exiled by the previous Horde chieftain long ago and had not participated in the siege of Lordaeron, Roderick clearly had no intention of sparing them.

After returning to Southshore, Augustine gradually realized that if humanity wished to revive the kingdom on the verge of destruction, only a powerful knight with endless methods like