Thinking too far ahead, Laine shook his head and attempted to ask Heilberg: "I didn't expect the imperial reaction to be so swift. The quick gathering of knights is simple, but even the Great Swordsmen are so fast?"
The Emperor and his army set off from Brunswick, force marching for a day and a night before arriving at Hemgart.
"The Griffin Great Swordsmen Corps is not the city garrison of Brunswick; this Great Swordsmen Corps is the private army of the Emperor's Franz Friedrich Clan, sustained using His Majesty the Emperor's private wealth. Therefore, with just a single command from the Emperor, these soldiers must mobilize overnight, or else the Emperor would discharge them from their ranks—this is His Majesty's personal purse; it does not support dead weight," Heilberg gruffly said. "The Brunswick Royal Half-Griffin Guard is also such."
