James said solemnly, “I don’t have a choice. In a short amount of time, many powerful figures called me to warn against escalating the situation and to accept the enemy’s demands. Help me think of something, Maxine.”

Maxine had been paying close attention to this incident the moment James called Thea.

Then, news came from the Cadens. After hearing of this, she had been thinking of a way to deal with the three thousand-strong mercenaries while suffering minimal losses.

Now, she had a genera