Chapter 178: Trust in the Guidance of Fate
"You're just shirking responsibility! For the sake of your own career, you're pushing the kingdom into the abyss! Tell me, do you really think our current strength is enough to win?" Ariel demanded furiously.
Monge Greywater shot back without hesitation, "How will we know if we don't fight? The gods have granted us strength and courage. Are we supposed to hide and rot away?!"
Their unrestrained shouting echoed through the chamber, startling the guards outside into quietly retreating a few steps.
It was best to stay far away from a quarrel between the kingdom's general and its princess.
Every nation has its own troubles, and every trouble required a different solution.
To Ariel, the pirates were at most a chronic irritation. They were few in number and demanded little, just like natural disasters. You didn't pour your entire treasury into fighting storms.
The people of the Ragetide Kingdom would go about their lives after the wake of every tsunami or tempest.
If all their time was spent battling calamities, who would fish? Who would farm? Who would build ships or forge steel?
But Monge saw it differently. How could a soldier pretend not to see an enemy in the distance? How could they bow and offer tribute instead?