"Just as I thought, Sebas and Charles reached some sort of agreement. Otherwise, this would never have happened."
After learning what had happened behind the First Main Camp, Chris sighed from the heart.
The Retalians had reacted far too quickly.
It seemed unbelievable. No sooner had the Minisian fleet bombarded Omdur's harbor than the Retalians joined forces with the Minisians... no, perhaps they had not actually joined forces.
Chris pondered this for a while.
"To Minisia and Raitelia, my very existence is too much of a nuisance..."
Chris carefully considered what he had done before and after occupying Tavitsky.
Well, that hardly required much thought. A quick look back suggested that, thanks to the players' aggressive behavior, Chris had left both Minisia and Raitelia with... yes, rather lasting impressions.
In short, both sides considered the third party, the Kingdom of Bagnia, a nuisance. Naturally, they would eliminate that third party before formally going to war with each other.
That was perfectly normal reasoning. The only abnormal thing was how quickly they had come together.
After losing Omdur, the Retalians had voluntarily withdrawn from Dul Province. They had even abandoned Golden Ear City, which lay very close to Tavitsky, allowing the Minisian army arriving from Omdur to retake it at leisure.
In a very short time, the situation had become strange. Minisia was in the east, Bagnia in the south, and the Retalians had withdrawn to Chivilevka Province, also in the south. The three countries seemed poised to enter a peculiar standoff.
"No... no, this situation..."
Chris mulled it over. This situation seemed unfavorable to Bagnia. Though he had a fortified city to defend and felt confident that the two countries would not truly join forces to attack Bagnia, this three-way standoff...
"I can't let this situation take shape. I don't