Chapter 1100
“Your Majesty. A decision must be made.”
A crowd of envoys who blamed Alberta for the two kingdoms’ mess had gathered, pressing the King of Vatan to make the final call. They had a good reason—the monsters they kept screaming about had begun launching simultaneous attacks on various fortresses and territories.
The monsters’ assaults had been far too strategic, far too clean-cut. To think it was solely the work of ordinary monsters would be ridiculous. A being with intent was clearly controlling the monsters to attack Vatan.
That was their conclusion.
Some remained silent throughout their spiel, and it was none other than the king. He had long awaited the chance to finally use the situation as a pretext to wage war against Alberta, and they all knew it. However, due to an agreement with Hero Reina, he couldn’t act so freely for the following few days.
He knew that if anything in his plan went wrong, the blame could fall entirely on Vatan.
“I understand how you all feel. With the war preparations already complete, it makes no sense not to strike that loathsome Alberta. I agree. However—”
“Why do you care so much about some Hero?! Your Majesty, you are the king of this nation! This is your Vatan! There is nothing that Your Majesty cannot do here!”
The envoys kept telling him that they were the Vatan Kingdom, and there was no real reason to hold back.
King frowned and clutched his head. “No! Even if we’re prepared for war, if we disregard the procedures of the treaty with the Continental Alliance, we don’t know what kind of backlash we'll face later!”
The youngest prince of Vatan jumped up and shouted, “Your Majesty, we only have to wait a matter of days! Besides, if we were to march on Alberta today while ignoring the fortresses and territories currently under attack from monsters, it would be tantamount to abandoning our people!”
The prince was correct in that, even if retaliation against Alberta was inevitable, the right course of action was to stop the large-scale indiscriminate attacks first before making any moves. Unfortunately, he had little political influence.