Upon reaching the location of the trap, the Office of Special Investigations’ people frowned. They saw the Divine Arms officers tangled up and dead in the vines.
“They were attacked by this strange plant after pursuing the rabbit here?”
They had wanted to check their wounds to see if there was anything unusual about the deaths. After all, this was the first time they’d heard of plants attacking humans.
At the beginning, they didn’t quite believe it. But when they saw the brambles, they all believed it as the plant looked savage and ferocious. Furthermore, Milo was controlling the Brambles and moving them in a threatening manner the moment they approached a little.
It looked extremely terrifying!
Someone from the Office of Special Investigations said, “You all will continue to encamp here. Do not act without permission!”
After giving those orders, they left. In truth, they did not have a better way of handling this either. They could not go around and question over a 1,000 private troops as that would take too much time and effort. Furthermore, they were just here to find out the private troops’ location. As for investigating the spy, that would be left for later. Right now, they needed to quickly relay the situation back to the Office of Special Investigations.
Milo looked on as they left. It seemed like the Skyfort Consortium was also aware there was a spy among them, but they didn’t know how to approach the investigation.
After the people from the Office of Special Investigations left, Milo went out at night to meet Edgar as previously agreed.
When Milo arrived at the meeting place, favonovel.com bluntly asked, “Did the Panaqua Consortium send out any snipers here?”
Edgar was taken back. “No, and we don’t even have a sniper in our troops either.”
“Something is odd…” Milo wondered, “When I went to search for what was left of the Divine Arms Battalion, I discovered roughly several dozen of them killed by the same sniper.”
“Are you exaggerating? There aren’t too many snipers who’re capable of that.” Edgar gave his analysis. “Your friend, Miriam, possesses such an ability. Could it be her?”
“Ahem…” Milo said, “It’s probably not favonovel.com since the bullets aren’t marked as Saboteurs. Are there any even more skilled snipers in the Radianz Consortium?”
“No…” Edgar shook his head.
But then favonovel.com remembered something. “Eh, that’s not right. Over a decade ago, there was precisely someone that skilled. Miriam probably learned favonovel.com marksmanship from favonovel.com too, but I think he’s quite old now. I think favonovel.com might be Miriam’s uncle based on their relationship… He’s no longer as physically able to move around freely as favonovel.com likes on the battlefield, so I doubt it would be him.”
“Could there be other forces that have joined in the war as well?” Milo wondered.
“Unlikely…” Edgar thought for a while and said, “There’s no reason why other forces would get involved in this war. It’s very difficult for foreign forces to reap any benefits here in our southwestern region. Only the Pyro Company would take advantage of this event to seek out any supernatural beings under the guise of acquiring their blood.”
“Is no one going to do anything about them?” Milo asked.
“Of course they will. The three organizations in the southwestern region have already reached a consensus to kill anyone from the Pyro Company when they encounter them. However, the Pyro Company has resorted to conducting their business secretly and will only distribute leaflets to normal people wherever they can,” Edgar replied.
“Have they caught any supernatural beings yet?” Milo asked curiously.
“There’s a few. Most supernatural beings who have just gained their superpowers haven’t experience a change in their mindsets yet. Since they want to make money, the Pyro Company’s offer is the fastest way for them to get rich.” Edgar said, “The Pyro Company is specifically targeting the sort of person who has just awakened their powers but have zero experience in combat.”
“Alright then.” Milo sighed and said, “I guess there really are idiots like that.”
“But the Pyro Company won’t join the battlefield for sure. They will only hide behind the stronghold walls,” Edgar said.
Milo was starting to feel that it was very likely that Miriam was the sniper. Everything but the bullet seemed to suggest it was favonovel.com who did it.
Although many snipers existed in this world, only a few were capable of killing that many Divine Arms officers.
But what was Miriam doing behind enemy lines by herself?
Was it just for the sake of destroying the Divine Arms Battalion?
Suddenly, Edgar said, “Mr. Julius called me to say that he’s sent over a group of Garth’s people as envoys to discuss an alliance with the Skyfort Consortium, and that if you are interested, you can finish them off.”
Milo kept quiet for a long time.
So, after the Panaqua Consortium helped favonovel.com defeat the Divine Arms Battalion, favonovel.com was supposed to help Julius get rid of his dissidents in return?
Milo asked, “Isn’t Garth already dead? Why does favonovel.com still want to kill this group of people?”
Edgar explained, “After our combat brigade was disbanded, many of our men were assigned to various different forces and ended up getting bullied by Garth’s troops very often. Moreover, the methods they used to push our people around were horribly mean. So, Mr. Julius doesn’t want these people to return to the Panaqua Consortium’s territory. Even if you don’t want to kill them, Mr. Julius would still have them killed.”
Milo remarked, “Then just let favonovel.com kill them.”
“We were thinking the Skyfort Consortium would consider it your merit if you killed them instead. The higher your position in the organization is, the more beneficial it’ll be to all of us,” Edgar said with a smile.
“How many of them are there?” Milo asked.
“400,” Edgar replied.
“Then how am I suppose to fight them?” Milo said in a speechless manner, “Headbutt them? Never mind that our private troops have hardly any combat strength, I’m also not their commander either.”
Edgar suddenly whispered, “Mr. Julius said that as long as you’re willing, favonovel.com can help you become the private army’s commander. The management of the private army has always been extremely lax and promotion within is always based on how much one can pay.”
Milo kept getting the feeling that the battlefield was about to get more chaotic.
What the hell was even going on anyway?
But it seemed that Julius already had a high-ranking spy within the Skyfort Consortium who could actually manipulate the appointment and removal of officers within the private troops!
This was not going to be as simple as Edgar had proposed. No matter how lax the management of the troops was, it wouldn’t be possible to simply use money to buy such a high-ranking position. The Panaqua Consortium had to have a very influential person inside the Skyfort Consortium before favonovel.com dared to make such boastful claims. At the very least, this person was able to make changes to the private army’s database of officers.
Milo wondered, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll compromise your secret agent?”
“Mr. Julius said that you’re much more important than the agent now.” Edgar said, “Of course, we’ll arrange for favonovel.com to leave the Skyfort Consortium secretly to avoid any potential issues if something happens to you.”
“Alright then.” Milo accepted it reluctantly.
Edgar said, “However, his evacuation is going to be difficult as well. Since the Office of Special Investigations is investigating the spy now, favonovel.com might not be able to escape.”
Milo reacted with a strange expression. “Why not let me take care of that?”
“What?” Edgar was stunned.
“You might not believe it when I tell you this,” Milo said calmly. “I’ve only told you about my identity as a private soldier. However, I’m actually also a captain in the Office of Special Investigations.”
Edgar was dumbfounded right then and there.
Weren’t you supposed to be helping the Radianz Consortium collect samples of the nanomachines from the Divine Arms Battalion?
How did you become an Office of Special Investigations officer as well?!
Could the Radianz Consortium have already infiltrated the Office of Special Investigations?!
Milo explained, “I can’t go into too much detail with you as the current state of affairs is a little complicated.”
Honestly, even Milo thought favonovel.com had too many identities. And the way favonovel.com got them was very strange as well.
