Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

“What is going on?!” (Ermesinde)

A few days after the war began, Lady Ermesinde Schulz Coltrezis shouted with a look of fury on her face.

The head of the Coltrezis family’s household knights, Lauterbach, bowed deeply to apologize.

“I’m sorry. I never thought the fort would be captured so easily.” (Lauterbach)

“Enough with the excuses!” (Ermesinde)

The Coltrezis House’s strategy was supposed to begin with buying as much time as possible using newly built front-line forts. However, after the second fort from the west fell in a matter of hours, not even half a day, everything went awry.

(Early Setup)

The large amount of smoke rising from the fort that had fallen immediately after the arrival of the Kingdom’s army (Zeavert Knights) caused the defenders of the other two neighboring forts to panic.

At the same time, the fact that Zeavert Knights managed to conquer their target fort so fast made other parts of the Kingdom army that had just arrived near their target forts, namely the east and west forts, start their offensive as soon as they could. It was all in order to make a name for themselves and not lose to Zeavert’s group.

As a result, the other two forts, which had been in disarray, also fell one after the other as the forcefully conscripted soldiers abandoned them.

Having lost three of the four forts close to the kingdom side on the first day, Coltrezis’s side’s planned time-buying only lasted half a day. It appeared that their calculations were very off.

“And why are the Knights Orders participating in the attack?” (Ermesinde)

Lauterbach bowed his head again in response to the question of why the Knights Orders were participating in the attack, when they were supposed to have suffered heavy losses during the attack on the royal capital.

Both the rumors coming from the royal capital and the information from the neighboring country of Farlitz said that the Order of Knights had suffered heavy losses during the recent demon battle and thus could not be deployed. That was why Coltrezis House took such a strong stance in the first place.

They had not expected that both the First and Second Order of Knights would join the army to defeat them, and when they heard the first news, the old Ermesinde was so angry that she was filled with doubt.

(T/N: Coltrezis House was ruled by the wife of the Marquis as the Marquis was in a coma.)

In fact, Lauterbach, who was in the position of overall commander of the Coltrezis House, also thought about investigating what actually happened. However, his means of investigation had been greatly undermined, to the point that investigation was not possible.

The main reason for this was that the noble families on the Coltrezis side in the royal capital had almost all been destroyed. Even the ones that remained did not deliberately dare to cross a dangerous bridge when they were being eyed by the royal family.

All the noble families were the same in that they would try to pull each other down and find ways to survive no matter what.

In the current dangerous situation where the royal family was just waiting to find justifications to destroy other noble families, no noble family was willing to lose their goodwill with the royal family just to help Coltrezis side.

Furthermore, various rumors, including their attitude towards the hero and his sister, have damaged the Coltrezis House’s reputation. Above all, the fact that the eldest son of the Coltrezis House was the culprit who abducted the hero’s sister Lily was spreading, and the church and merchants, who were hoping for peace to come quickly, were clearly taking the side of the kingdom.

The people of the royal capital, who viewed Welner and Lily’s relationship favorably, were also watching their relationship closely, and if people from Coltrezis house tried to act, they would be unable to move even if they wanted to, as information about their involvement could leak from anywhere.

“I’m sorry. I never thought that an army that large would come from the west…” (Lauterbach)

“Even I didn’t expect that.” (Ermesinde)

The Marchioness interjected, looking dissatisfied. In fact, everyone on the Marquis’ side was astonished.

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