Chapter 699 Evan’s Proposition [Monthly Bonus 3]

Chapter 699 Evan’s Proposition [Monthly Bonus 3]

Three days later, on June's 29th day, Evan was in the situation room of Todbury's capital city, together with Amiyah and her subordinate Commanders.

Some seats were empty as a few Generals and Colonels had been injured gravely in the battle of the Cudjour River, with two Senior Colonels even losing their lives.

No matter how much Evan wanted to reduce casualties, it was impossible for there to be zero deaths whatsoever.

Take this recent battle now; the Imperial Army had lost somewhere around 3000 soldiers, which was 7.5% of the forces they battled with. The casualties on Wolfen's side—although rather low for a defeated army—were around 7,000.

While this amount was tiny, when compared to the people who died every day on Aidos, Evan paid more attention to this because these people were combatants and not normal people.

"Evan?"

'I'll think about that later, now I need to convince them to go through the mountain.'

The boy snapped out of his sea of thoughts when Amiyah called him, and then looked down at the Map of Central Wolfen placed in front of them.

They were expecting Princess Heather to be arriving sometime today, so they were discussing how they were going to plan their routes to Cudjour.

By all rights, going West seemed to be the easier option, despite the rivers. The Cudjour mountain stretched eastward, and they'd need to march longer to go around it.

However, some of the Generals wanted them to go east despite the longer march.

"I agree with him."

Evan finally voiced his opinion while gesturing towards the General who pushed for them to go around the mountain from the east route.

"If we join up with the Princess, and Beluar's reinforcements come on time, then it's very possible for us to go east."

"Beluar's reinforcements? The supplies?"

"No. the soldiers."

Seeing the confused expressions on their faces, Evan decided to explain, starting from the point that the General he gestured to earlier had already spoken on.

"Wolfen knows we want to wrap this up quick, so they'd be expecting us to take the West route which is much faster to traverse.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Like he said, I propose we detour to the east precisely because they'd be expecting us from the West.

My plan, however, goes further than this."

Pointing to the west point of the map, he moved the little soldier models and spoke.

"Let's split our forces into three. A 40-40-20 split.

We'd have the 20% be a detached force that goes around West, so when their scouts spot us, they'd be 'sure' we're coming from the West.

This force would depart a few days after 40% of our army has gone eastward, and since the distances are different, they'd arrive around the same time.

'There's something in the Cudjour mountain that he wants, and he's using us to get to it!'

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The day went by like always and everyone was carrying out their duties as usual. Just like in the previously captured states, the people of Todbury had no choice but to go about their daily lives like always.

By evening, Amiyah received a message and she summoned all her generals to the front of the State's Government House.

When Evan noticed this, he spread out his aura and scanned the entire State in one go, before a small smile appeared on his face.

'She's Here.'

Coming out of the Government House, he flew up into the sky and looked over Todbury, seeing the massive Army that had now situated itself within the State's borders.

He could count over 70,000 soldiers at first glance but when he saw the flag being flown, his smile transformed into a frown.

"Of fucking course Isaac wouldn't send his daughter out there alone."

The Flag of the Fifth Imperial Army was one that Evan did not want to see, as this meant that the Commanding Seven Star General was present.

'Fifth Star' Lierin Ianqen.

A woman who disliked the GWE and everything that came out of the country.

Evan wanted to question Isaac's decision-making by sending Lierin to a place where he, a GWE noble was. What's more, Evan was sure that Lierin was going to stick to Heather like glue and make things harder for him.

lightsΝοvεl ƈοm Sighing in exasperation, he controlled his expression to hide his obvious displeasure before moving his gaze to the young lady who was riding not a Warhorse like everyone else, but a wolf.

He disabled his concealment and almost immediately, she looked right up at the sky.

Her dark, curly hair which she inherited from her grandmother framed her face in soft waves, accentuating her features while her eyes which mirrored her father's, were deep and expressive.

She exuded a sense of confidence and poise befitting of her royal lineage as she rode at the front of the battalion together with the Fifth Star.

Naturally, she stood out quite a bit.

Earlier, she had sensed an unfamiliar powerful aura sweep through the area, and seeing how Lierin's expression had stiffened, she knew the owner of that aura was stronger than she could tell.

Seeing how Amiyah who had also sensed that aura only shook her head with a wry smile, she could tell it wasn't from a hostile party, and this made her all the more curious.

It was at that moment she suddenly sensed a gaze on her body and immediately her head snapped upwards.

Her Wolf also seemed to sense it and immediately growled, forcing her to redirect her attention to placate the creature before it scared off the other horses.

Sure, they were Level 200 War Horses, but this didn't mean that they had lost their fear of natural predators, even more so if said predator was a Level 300 existence.

The creature stood at six feet tall, its imposing figure accentuated by its very dark grey fur. Under the faint light, the fur seemed to shimmer, adding an air of mystique to its presence.

"Calm down, Luna girl."