Three days after the Frost Beast troops stepped into the northern borders, which was also the day after Annan publicly announced the crimes of the Brotherhood of the Extreme North... Duke Annan suddenly declared that he was going to visit Noah for state affairs, accompanied by his sister Maria Rime.
This series of actions was incredibly coherent.
So much so that those border nobles saw it as a conspiracy that Annan must have planned in advance—mobilizing the Frost Beast troops without any warning after his succession, making a move against the entire North, and then immediately providing extensive and detailed evidence the next day.
It was ironclad evidence that no one could refute.
Even though they well knew the principle of mutual dependence, before this mountainous evidence, no one dared to defend them.