I Won't Let That Happen (104)

“Ah, damn. We’re in trouble.”

Reading through the materials Raio had given me after returning to the mansion made a string of curses slip out.

The amounts of money and troop numbers were on a scale I’d never seen in Fortune.

Maybe I’d underestimated the North’s only commercial city.

“No, maybe I should consider this a blessing in disguise?”

If Belphegor had possessed resources like this and chosen to defend his territory instead of fighting on the plains, Fortune’s resources would have run dry first.

Of course, Belphegor had made that proposal because he thought his side would win even on the plains.

“Urgh….”

Had I proposed a territorial war without thinking it through?

But there hadn’t been any other way in that situation...