Chapter 667: Raging Waves
Bang...
A powerful hand slammed a rolled-up letter onto the table, making the dagger and seal on it tremble.
"One look tells you this ridiculous intelligence is fake, yet you actually sent messenger hawks to order the troops at Trefei Pass to send scouts to investigate. What were you thinking, Basba?"
This was a standard military camp in the middle of the kingdom. It held 120,000 troops drawn from across the country, representing most of the kingdom's current military strength. Almost all its elite units were here.
The soldier who had separated from Riva's group to deliver the intelligence had traveled day and night to reach this place.
With the kingdom's elite troops assembled here, its leading generals were naturally gathered as well.
Basba was a tall Soma man with a long beard, and one of the generals here who wielded real authority. He stood before a map, studying the location mentioned in the intelligence, completely ignoring the other general's complaints.
"Dansen, calm down. Basba is only checking."
Another general beside them tried to keep the peace.
The three ranked among the highest officers in the assembled army, wielding more authority than anyone except the marshal of the kingdom's allied forces.
"Easy for you to say, Hessman. Messenger hawks are precious strategic resources, and he sent them out to deliver an order like this. Two of them, no less! What if we need them in the meantime? How many do we have altogether? Don't we need them to communicate with the front?"
General Basba narrowed his eyes at the Ridge Mountain range, which stretched like a long dragon across the map, analyzing the most likely point where the Savage Beastmen army might cut diagonally into the kingdom's heartland.
But even Basba had to admit that the