Chapter 66 (1/2)

Chapter 66: The Outbreak of War 3

From Lamer to Rakan, there were three possible routes.

The first was to move by using a boat from the Nair River. However, the problem was that they were going through a drought famine, so heavy ships couldn’t be moved in that path.

Also, if there was a situation like an overturned accident in the water, they might drown, and their expensive weapons couldn’t be put to use later on.

The second way was to use the highway along the river.

That wasn’t the path that Cain had chosen. The highway was under good maintenance, so there was no problem should they chose to march there. However, the disadvantage was that they had to go around; it was the long way.

Wanting to demonstrate his strength and agility in capturing the Lord of Rakan, he chose the third way, which moved straight and fast.

Goth did fear that the enemy might be waiting for an ambush in advance. However, Cain decided to ignore it.

He was confident that tricks like ambushing wouldn’t work against him.

Their march had been going very smoothly. There were very few monsters in the region, so all they had to do was walk.

“Let’s rest in here for today.”

When the sun came down, Cain ordered the camp.

Right away, the soldiers made camps and scattered all over the place. Some of them were gathering firewood, fetching drinking water and making dinner.

“Hmm, meat stew? It smells good.”

After a while, his subordinate bought a stew full of meat, potato, vegetable with bread and honey.

Since they wanted to finish marching as soon as possible, their pace was fast and that made Cain hungry, so he immediately dug into the stew and bread.

‘It has been so long since I ate in a field.’

It was a short time. This was his first time after 5 years of being in the border with the Volga Republic.

It was indeed a while, but it wasn’t that bad.

‘Would we be able to reach the Rakan lordship region by the end of the week?’

If he was riding a horse, he would have arrived there faster.

But he had to haul 5,000 troops, trailers with Gigants and the carts filled with supplies.

‘I think this can also be training for the war that we might have with Marquis Mayers.’

Someday, there was bound to be a war between the Emperors and the Nobles.

At that time, Count Monarch was likely to face Marquis Mayers.

It was because the two estates were close in distance, and their powers were equal.

After deciding that the current war was going to be like a military training for the future, Cain swept the stew clean with his last piece of bread.

After a while…

Grrrr!

‘Uh?’

Grrrr?!

Suddenly, Cain’s face went confused at the urgent and loud sound of his stomach.

“Soldier!”

“Huh?”

“Soldier give me a piece of cloth!”

Cain ripped off the cloth, which was near him, and ran into the forest.

However, there was a problem. There were many soldiers who had gone into the forest first to assign their places for the night.

Everybody had a place they wanted to be at.

Sitting behind a large tree and finishing his business, Cain later pulled up his pants.

“Phew, I will live now.”

Cooling down his stomach, he went back to the camp to get some rest to calm his anxious stomach.

Grrrr!

“Oops!”

With the strange feeling in his stomach coming back, Cain went back to his spot in the forest to finish his business.

Cain had to do it three times. He called for his lieutenant when he reached the camp.

However, the lieutenant took some time too.

He too had struggles and was trying to resolve his anxiety.

“What has happened? What were the ingredients that were used for our dinner? Did anything went wrong?”

It was summer, so the ingredients might have gone bad. Or the water that they fetched for drinking could have been contaminated.