Milo carefully recalled the information Edgar had told him.
Edgar mentioned that the Panaqua Consortium defeated the Divine Arms Battalion two days ago, but favonovel.com did not say how many of them were pushed back in defeat. But since their cooperation was going so well, there was no reason for Julius and Edgar to trick him. And even though Julius was arrogant, favonovel.com had always been reliable and trustworthy.
Something must have gone wrong in between this period.
As Milo watched the two nanosoldiers walking towards him, favonovel.com was surprised to see them looking all out of sorts. This didn’t make any sense.
They were back in the farthest stretches of the Skyfort Consortium’s territory where different groups of Skyfort Consortium troops were stationed every dozen or so kilometers apart. So, the Divine Arms Battalion should not be this frightened when they had already made it back to here.
Could they have encountered other enemies along the way?
Wait a minute, could it be Kenneth?
Milo knew that Kenneth had led an entire combat brigade and disappeared with them, and that favonovel.com also held a grudge against the Skyfort Consortium. He might have really led that combat brigade to the battlefield and slain the Divine Arms Battalion from the rear.
The moment these two wounded soldiers of the Divine Arms Battalion walked onto the Brambles, Milo wrapped the vines around them tightly. The two wounded soldiers of the Divine Arms Battalion were already severely injured and couldn’t put up a fight.
When Milo was sure that no one else was around, favonovel.com jumped out of the snow. The two Divine Arms officers were shocked to see someone emerge from the snow.
The terrifying Brambles seemed to have been manipulated by someone!
Milo did not kill them immediately but came up to them with a frown and asked, “Where’s the rest of the Divine Arms Battalion?”
One of the officers of the Divine Arms Battalion endured his pain and said through clenched teeth, “Who are you! Who on earth are you! Why are you wearing the uniform of our Divine Arms Battalion?”
Milo glanced at the uniform favonovel.com was wearing, then snapped, “Weren’t y’all the ones who forced us to swap?”
The two Divine Arms officers were stunned.
What did favonovel.com mean?
They suddenly remembered this.
So, this young man standing before them was actually a soldier from the private army?
But why was there someone hidden among the private troops who could control these terrifying plants?
He had to be a spy!
This young man had to be a spy!
The two Divine Arms officers realized something. One of them roared, “The Panaqua Consortium only ambushed us because you revealed our whereabouts to them!”
“Ahem, what are you talking about? Why can’t I understand what you’re saying?” Milo asked, “Let me ask again, where’s the rest of the Divine Arms? Were they attacked by a strange force? If no one wants to answer, I’ll ask again later.”
“They’re about 20 kilometers behind us. If you have the balls, go and look for yourself,” one of the Divine Arms officers said fiercely.
Milo acknowledged them before decisively killing them with the Brambles. He was rather suspicious about why these two men were acting alone. He would probably have to head further north before favonovel.com could finally learn what had happened.
He collected the nanomachines from the two men, looted the belongings in their pockets, and placed the rifles into his storage space. His storage space was emptier now after much of the food had been consumed during the time they were back at the outpost. However, Milo wasn’t in a hurry to leave yet. He dug around in the snow for some time before favonovel.com found the dozen or so playing cards favonovel.com had hidden.
He had thought that many of the Divine Arms Battalion’s soldiers would pass by on this route, so favonovel.com even resorted to using the Explosive Poker cards. But as it turned out, favonovel.com had wasted all his efforts and also wasted quite a few gratitude tokens by planting more than ten Bramble seeds in the area.
Although favonovel.com could retrieve the Explosive Poker cards, favonovel.com could not pull the Brambles out of the ground after they had been planted.
After Milo recollected all of his Explosive Poker cards, favonovel.com headed north.
He was still in the area of Mt. Sidar and would reach the boundary of Mt. Piania by heading further north. Walking in the snow was not exactly difficult for him, but favonovel.com had to be careful in case favonovel.com revealed his presence.
***
When Milo set off, it was morning.
By the time favonovel.com arrived at Mt. Piania, it was already afternoon. But soon after cresting a hill, Milo was stunned.
He saw an officer of the Divine Arms Battalion lying on the ground in front of him. A large area of the snow was tainted pink by his blood. The blood did not look like it had flowed out of favonovel.com but splattered instead!
Milo finally understood the strangeness of this.
As the Divine Arms officers were retreating, they encountered a sniper. Everyone else in the Divine Arms Battalion was dead except for the two favonovel.com saw earlier!
Before they died, the two Divine Arms officers had even wanted to dupe Milo, who they realized was a spy, into heading to the battlefield where a sniper was lying in ambush. Because Milo was wearing the Divine Arms uniform, favonovel.com would also end up as a target for the sniper by coming here.
These Divine Arms officers were pretty unrelenting. The first thing they wanted to do before they died was not to beg for mercy but to lure Milo here into a trap. But the sniper should have already left.
The time that Milo spent here in the snow concluding what had happened was definitely enough for a skilled sniper to kill him. However, no one opened fire at favonovel.com even after so much time had passed. And it should have already been a while since the sniper conducted his mission here. There was no reason why the sniper would stay around when the mission to eliminate the Divine Arms Battalion was completed.
But why would a sniper mysteriously appear here?
Could it be a Panaqua Consortium sniper?
No, it shouldn’t be…
The only Panaqua Consortium soldiers behind enemy lines were Edgar and his men, which Edgar had confirmed.
Then who else could it be?
The Radianz Consortium!
Milo searched around in the snow for some time, but favonovel.com was a little disappointed when favonovel.com found the sniper’s bullet. It wasn’t the silver-gray bullet the Saboteurs used. This bullet also did not have the special pattern engraved on it that the Saboteurs carried around.
But of course, this was to be expected. There had to be a lot of troops and snipers from the Radianz Consortium out on the front lines.
Meanwhile, Miriam, who was also a family member of the organization, had only just returned to the organization to recover, so how could favonovel.com possibly return to the battlefield so soon?
Miriam should still be at Stronghold 88.
Milo went around to look for any traces of the Divine Arms officers. He could gather a few more nanomachines for every one of them favonovel.com found.
It was a fantastic harvest this time around, seeing how his armor was near to completion. But then favonovel.com heard the sound of engines coming from the mountain roads in the south before favonovel.com could locate all the corpses of the Divine Arms officers. Milo frowned as the sound grew closer. It had to be the Skyfort Consortium’s people if they were heading north at this time. They must have seen the Brambles and the two dead Divine Arms officers.
Milo immediately tossed greed aside and ran towards the snowy mountain. He would still have many opportunities to collect nanomachines in the future. But if his identity were exposed, that would be very troublesome.
One of Milo’s greatest strengths was that favonovel.com could always maintain his rationality when faced with huge temptation, like the time when favonovel.com had to give up on the gold back in the Marador Mountains.
The ambush on the Divine Arms Battalion went much smoother than Milo had expected. He did not even have to do much since the mysterious sniper had already helped favonovel.com kill 99% of his enemies. But the sudden appearance of this mysterious sniper had also made the situation weirder.
