NABC Chapter 475
Chapter 475
Maurice looked utterly exasperated as he questioned the situation.
“She’s claiming those lands as her own? Just like that?”
“Yes, she’s already taken over three abandoned territories in the wake of the Delphine Army’s advance,” the messenger confirmed.
“But no matter how abandoned they were, how could she take three territories in such a short time? You’d need garrisons stationed there! How big is the Rayfold Army anyway?”
Claiming ownership of land wasn’t as simple as just saying so. Even if the lands were unoccupied, deploying troops was necessary to secure them and call them your own.
The messenger, still unsure of himself, stammered a reply.
“Well, uh... she’s reportedly stationed about a hundred soldiers and one or two administrators in each lord’s manor... under the pretense of maintaining public order.”
But now that she had seized multiple lands, things were becoming very murky.
Maurice pressed his temples and groaned.
“The agreement was to take back lands occupied by the enemy, right? Not to grab empty territory! Isn’t this a little off?”
The lands Amelia had taken were those that the Delphine Army had swept through and abandoned in their march toward the capital. Technically, they were enemy-controlled territories that the loyalist faction had failed to manage.
However, the Delphine Army hadn’t formally garrisoned them, leaving them truly empty.
This left Maurice feeling utterly conflicted.
“What am I supposed to do about this? Huh? What am I even supposed to do?”
You didn't buy this chapter
Buy Now (3 coupons)