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Vol 06 Chapter 188: The First Zoldias War IV

「Hey, you’re late.」

「It can’t be helped. Because of yesterday’s rain, the river swelled, and it took time to detour around it.」

Roswald shrugged his shoulders. Ron kept a thousand troops to defend the conquered territories while Roswald and Gram led nine thousand soldiers to join up with Bartolo.

On the way, they encountered trouble due to the rain, which caused the river’s water level to rise. This led to a detour around a normally passable river, causing them to arrive half a day late.

「You should have built a bridge on-site to cross the river.」

「That’s unreasonable…」

Gram gave a wry smile, but Bartolo was dead serious. It goes without saying that only Bartolo would be able to do something like that, no one else would even think about it.

「What’s the situation with the Zoldias army?」

「They were staying near the border, but they’ve started to move. We’ll probably engage by tomorrow morning. They seem