The Gray Stone Fortress is extremely far from the Imperial Capital, and it takes the Gale Bird a full seventeen days to reach the Imperial Capital.
That is to say, at the moment this letter reaches the Imperial Capital, the army under Louis has been marching in the depths of the Gray Stone Province for at least seventeen days.
Remont's brow slowly furrowed, as if being pierced inch by inch by an ice spike. His lips trembled gently, and the sound that spilled from his mouth was so low it was nearly inaudible:
"Seventeen days... He's been gone for seventeen days..."
He subconsciously began tactical deductions, which was both a long-standing instinct from his military service and his way of trying to anchor his fear.
Self-comfort emerged first in his mind, his main force was in the Imperial Capital, but even so, the territory of the Gray Stone Province is vast, with layered defenses, and the Knights he had left behind relying on the checkpoints might not necessarily lose.
