Hearing Cecilia's urgent call, both Chief Commander Barnett and Chief Royal Magic Mentor Antonio, who were equally overwhelmed, did not voice any objections.
The former was because he also had doubts about this desperate attack. Coupled with the Chief Bishop of the Temple of Light's Pals Empire branch personally delivering a message and Gannon the Ninth's earlier declaration, it was hard not to suspect that they were being used by the Temple of Light as a pawn.
Even if that Otherworlder Prince was full of threats, such a gamble would only accelerate the destruction of the Pals Empire.
Or perhaps, the Temple of Light had calculated that the Pals Empire and even other Human various countries would be fatally wounded in a fight with the Coldflame Kingdom.
Moreover, the betrayal of the Ironhand Archipelago would leave the crucial yet defenseless coastal ports and cities of the Pals Empire in others' hands.
