"I can't say digging out the inland river had no adverse impact on the South Bank land, but it's certainly not as exaggerated as Your Excellency claims."
Establishing the legitimacy of methods and war, refuting moral and reputational accusations against himself, and patiently explaining the post-battle situation in the Ustato Territory, Leon no longer looked at the young scholar lost in thought, but instead glanced around at everyone present.
"Lastly, I ask the scholars, are you aware that when the Battle of Ustato occurred, the undead calamity originating from the Sobonitz Domain had already spread westward, and the war between the living and the undead had long since begun?
Back then, if we failed to swiftly defeat Duke Ablo of the south, quell the Kantadar people's turmoil, and withdraw the army from a pointless internal strife between the two nations, would a mere thousand miles of rich land be all that's destroyed by the shadow of the undead?
