Chapter 657: The gap between the Kingdom Army and the Savage Beastmen
Although few people fully believed the stories about the Black-Clad Ranger that came out of the Organ Tavern, his name had begun to spread along with them.
With more and more Savage Beastmen gathering and a new war threatening to erupt, an unprecedented sense of oppression hung over the entire Kingdom of Bia.
Interestingly, as the Savage Beastmen's intent to invade became increasingly clear, the Kingdom of Bia appealed to the Soma People's other three great kingdoms for aid, hoping they would unite against a common enemy and repel the foreign invasion together.
But the envoys sent abroad failed to bring back the response the Kingdom of Bia had hoped for. The leaders of the other Soma Kingdoms generally believed that the Savage Beastmen had merely expanded the scale of their raids before winter this year and would soon withdraw. Surely they would not send a vast army to invade once winter froze everything over.
Their words even suggested that they wanted to watch the Kingdom of Bia make a fool of itself, or use this opportunity to let the Savage Beastmen weaken its national strength.
This left the Kingdom of Bia's great nobles and royal family thoroughly disheartened. The other kingdoms had not recognized the unusual nature of the Savage Beastmen's actions at all. They were even thinking about what benefits they could squeeze out of the Kingdom of Bia at a time like this.
Besides mobilizing troops for the western front, the Kingdom of Bia could not recklessly move the large forces stationed along its other borders. It had to retain substantial numbers there to prevent those countries from truly taking advantage of its distress. After all, jokes were rare in politics, and sometimes they could