“I’m sure it’s a very important story for you,” Father Bishop said.

Naturally, I[1] felt uncomfortable, but I nodded slowly because I needed to find out exactly what they talked about. The Republic had insufficient information about the enemy. The influence of the World Tree that Everia Kingdom possessed and the fact that Father Lee Ki-Young was in Everia was information we had just recently discovered. It would be foolish to think that those were their only hidden cards, so when considering the possibility that they had many cards up their sleeve…

‘He could have gotten some information.’

One could guess many things during a small conversation, and if we want to end this war effectively, we had to know the enemy’s thoughts.

‘Defending isn’t our only goal.’

It was a matter of when the war was going to start. The war could start as early as tomorrow, and there was a high chance the war would start the day after tomorrow. We needed to prevent the enemy from reaching Castle Rock, so we had to hold them here for at least five days, and even if they...