Old man Amory kept smoking his pipe as he replied to Eren.
"The kingdom knew the possibility of an attack like this, lad. But it wasn't able to pinpoint the target on time. Still, it tried to prevent the attack from happening by launching a preemptive strike."
Eren narrowed his eyes as he listened to Amory.
"Are you telling me this attack happened after their preventive measures failed? When did they become so useless?"
Eren asked this question to nobody in particular as he released white clouds of his own through his mouth which were swept away by the winds. Amory's nostrils flared when he smelled the stuff Eren was smoking. Even with his B-Rank constitution that was almost impervious to Adept-ranked resources, he could tell that the herbs the butcher was smoking were very potent.
'This lad has the smoking habits of an old man. I don't know how he functions normally with smoking herbs like those.'
