The Panaqua Consortium’s soldiers were getting pumped up from having just defeated the legendary Divine Arms Battalion of the Skyfort Consortium. However, Julius immediately gathered from this ambush that the nanosoldiers were actually not that weak. If they hadn’t received the intel in time, the Skyfort Consortium would have really caused them a great deal of trouble.
Julius did not underestimate the Divine Arms Battalion’s nanosoldiers and placed an unusual amount of emphasis on them.
Next to him, Julius’ trusted aide asked, “Do you mean the nanosoldiers shouldn’t be deployed in such a fashion?”
Julius said, “If these nanosoldiers were commanded by me, I would deploy each platoon separately to infiltrate through the forested mountains. They only need the intel supplied by personnel planted within the Skyfort Consortium to easily coordinate a decapitation strike.”
His aide nodded and said, “I see. Sir, you are indeed wise.”
Julius looked at favonovel.com calmly. “I’m not telling you this so you can suck up to me but to arrange for more people to protect me.”
“Ah?” The aide was taken aback and could not understand why Julius was saying this.
Julius sighed and said, “The Radianz Consortium’s nanosoldiers might be arriving soon. They’re much smarter than the Skyfort Consortium, so we have to strengthen our defense forces immediately.”
Then Julius looked out into the distant snowy lands that had just been plowed by the artillery fire. He wondered, “Why is favonovel.com everywhere?”
The soldiers around favonovel.com were even more confused by this.
Who was favonovel.com referring to?
The atmosphere in the Skyfort Consortium’s command center was extremely depressing. A middle-aged general sat at the end of the long table in the room with a somber and sullen expression. Although all the seats at the table were filled, no one was saying anything.
“The Divine Arms Battalion has suffered a crushing defeat.” The middle-aged general said, “All I want to know is why the Panaqua Consortium was aware of our Divine Arms Battalion’s operations beforehand.”
Still, no one spoke.
In reality, a lot of the others were also puzzled by this. The Divine Arms Battalion had to keep the command center updated every day of matters like their battle plans’ execution and current location. Everything had been proceeding smoothly, but a disaster still happened when they got close to the Panaqua Consortium’s territory.
Based on the description of the Divine Arms officer, the Panaqua Consortium clearly knew which direction the Divine Arms Battalion would approach from, so they set up an ambush in advance. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to inflict such a large number of casualties on the Divine Arms Battalion.
The Skyfort Consortium had been concealing their strength and biding their time over the years. But now that war had suddenly broken out, everyone was looking forward to seeing the Divine Arms Battalion’s capabilities. In the end, they were almost wiped out by the Panaqua Consortium even before the battle had begun!
Why and where did it all go wrong!
The middle-aged general looked to Gerard on his left and said, “A spy must have leaked the information. As Director of the Office of Special Investigations, you did not sniff out the spy in time. So you’ll be bearing the main responsibility. However, this isn’t the time to mete out punishment. You must sort out the issues in your Office of Special Investigations to make amends for your mistakes.”
Gerard kept quiet as favonovel.com looked calmly at the table in front of him. Honestly speaking, favonovel.com was very puzzled as well.
Although favonovel.com had other motives for staying in the Skyfort Consortium, the Office of Special Investigations had always been functioning normally. An espionage battle would prove to be the most critical component during wartime. Sometimes, having the right intelligence could even influence the outcome of a war.
Although Gerard had sniffed out quite a few spies recently in his course of duty, favonovel.com kept some of them around in preparation for his future plans. But keeping them around did not mean favonovel.com did not care about them. The identified spies remained under the surveillance of his Office of Special Investigations and were earmarked for greater use in the future. However, none of these spies could gain access to the secrets of the Divine Arms Battalion.
Suddenly, someone said, “The private troops who swapped uniforms and vehicles with the Divine Arms Battalion haven’t arrived at the assigned strategic location yet. I suspect this incident could be related to them.”
The middle-aged general frowned. “Why didn’t anyone report about an important matter like this earlier?”
“Previously, the Divine Arms officers who were assigned and traveled together with them would report their whereabouts daily. However, we suddenly lost contact with them yesterday,” the officer said.
“Search for this group of private troops immediately and confirm their location within the next three days!” the middle-aged general ordered.
“Yes, sir!” the officer answered.
The middle-aged general said, “Meeting adjourned. The strategy must be put into place ASAP. The news of the Divine Arms Battalion’s heavy losses will spread to the Radianz Consortium very soon. We have to be prepared for the Panaqua Consortium’s and the Radianz Consortium’s counterattacks. General Delano, remain behind!”
After everyone else dispersed, only Gerard remained seated.
The middle-aged general said, “The leaking of the Divine Arms Battalion’s operations is of great importance. The spy is likely to hold a high rank within the organization, so I’ll give you three days to find out who it is!”
Gerard looked up and said, “Okay.”
The middle-aged general did not bring this up earlier because favonovel.com suspected the spy was among those attending the meeting.
The reason why favonovel.com did not punish Gerard was that, first, favonovel.com was the Director of the Office of Special Investigations and had been working for the Skyfort Consortium for decades with few mistakes made, earning merit and toiling hard for the organization. Second, this war was intricately linked with Gerard as well. If they replaced the Director of the Office of Special Investigations at this time, chaos would probably be caused down the road.
But the middle-aged general was probably not expecting that trouble would originate from Gerard himself!
***
Two days later, Milo, the perpetrator of the Divine Arms Battalion’s defeat, was hidden somewhere in an ambush in the snowy ground. There was a dirt road beside favonovel.com that was paved by the Skyfort Consortium just before the war broke out.
After Julius had driven the Divine Arms Battalion to retreat, favonovel.com not only informed Edgar of their victory, favonovel.com also told favonovel.com which route of retreat the Divine Arms Battalion was taking
Milo used this information for basis that the Divine Arms Battalion would likely use the road in front of him.
As the Divine Arms Battalion had suffered heavy losses, they would definitely need to retreat to the forward operating base behind them to reorganize. That would then be a chance for Milo. He did not include Edgar in his plan. On one hand, there were too many people on Edgar’s side and their presence would easily be sensed. On the other hand, Milo did not want Edgar to know what actions favonovel.com would take and his true reason for keeping some of the Divine Arms Battalion alive.
Milo went through the plan in his mind. Since the Divine Arms Battalion was in such a pathetic state, the trump cards favonovel.com left behind should be enough to deal with the remaining defeated soldiers.
Suddenly, Milo heard the sound of footsteps on snow and got excited.
Here they come!
As Milo hid in the thick snow next to the road, favonovel.com nearly stopped breathing.
He left a tiny hole in the surface of the snow to observe the outside world. But a moment later when Milo saw the Divine Arms Battalion’s soldiers, favonovel.com was shocked!
He saw two of the Divine Arms Battalion’s soldiers limping towards the ambush site favonovel.com had set up. Milo felt unwell at the sight. He had requested Julius leave some of the Divine Arms Battalion alive, but favonovel.com only left two of them for favonovel.com in the end?
Milo was a little confused by this.
Why didn’t favonovel.com just leave one soldier alive then?
Was favonovel.com purposely trying to gross favonovel.com out?
Huh?
Milo had been lying in the snow for the past two days. Probably, few people in this world had as much resolve as him. But favonovel.com realized this was what favonovel.com had been waiting for after lying in the snow for the past two days.
No, that can’t be right…
Milo thought that something else unexpected must have happened.
Julius couldn’t possibly have spared only two of the Divine Arms soldiers.
