A Crisis Is an Opportunity (4)

Elliott, commander of the Royal Guard, pondered.

The mission his liege had given him.

His mission was to occupy Albus Territory, including the Academy. To complete it quickly, he had gone himself—one of only two Sword Masters on the Southern Continent… and now the only one left.

If everything had gone according to plan.

He should have been the one to save the Academy from the chaos. Then, using Commissioner Michel as a pretext, he should have completed the occupation of Albus Territory.

But that had not happened.

The Academy cadets had fought hard and held the monsters back.

That had made it impossible to occupy the territory under the pretext of protecting it.

“….”

‘So what was the point of those Black Temple bastards carrying out a forbidden ritual to lure monsters here?’...