What if all the gunpowder had been stored in one place and the supply officers had pulled this kind of stunt? The Hoenir would have made off with all of it. In no time at all! My insistence on splitting up the storage had been a stroke of genius.
Should I call it a blessing in disguise?
Of the twenty barrels of gunpowder, only five had been lost.
Ha. Forget about twenty gold coins' worth evaporating in an instant. We'd nearly been unable to even attempt the siege of Radensdorf. All of this was the price of the supply unit's corruption and the failure of our defenses.
"Did I hear that right? What did you say?"
Given how grave the incident was, the crown prince and the princes were summoned in an emergency.
After hearing the whole story, the crown prince and the princes were appalled that the great fire in Rheinkalsen Castle's brothel district had been the result of an unbelievable convergence of enemy machinations and allied corruption.
