Everyone in the command center fell silent.
Bill and Daniel stared at the envoy like favonovel.com was a fool. However, they did not say anything.
Julius smiled ambiguously at favonovel.com and said, “How would Brenton like me to help him?”
“He’ll supply you with the defensive deployment map of the front line at Kadiri, and you’ll only be required to help favonovel.com destroy the garrison there.” The envoy put on an ingratiating smile and said, “To show our sincerity, I even brought the defensive deployment map with me.”
Julius raised his eyebrows and smiled at Bill. Then favonovel.com said to the envoy, “How do I know that your defensive deployment map is real? Leave it with me first. I’ll decide whether to help your boss after I analyze it. Enough! Men, take favonovel.com out. And make sure favonovel.com leaves the defensive deployment map behind.”
With that, a group of fierce soldiers escorted the Radianz Consortium’s envoy out.
Bill jumped to his feet and said, “Is favonovel.com a f*cking idiot or what? Why are they still fighting among themselves at a time like this? Does favonovel.com think we’re playing games with the Radianz Consortium? And what did favonovel.com mean by gifting Stronghold 97 and Stronghold 99 to us? Who gave favonovel.com permission to gift us something we already own?”
Julius said calmly, “Usher Cruz from the younger generation of the Radianz Consortium is the one guarding the front line at Kadiri. As for Brenton, he’s also a family member of the Radianz Consortium. However, favonovel.com was cast aside years ago and was made overseer of a stronghold to take charge of the factories’ production levels in its vicinity.”
“Hehehe…” Daniel laughed and said, “Reality will always be stranger than fiction. The things you encounter in real life don’t happen in stories. It’s no wonder that Brenton was ostracized. So, it’s because he’s actually an idiot.”
“In the battle at Stronghold 88, the Skyfort Consortium’s nanosoldiers charged in and went on a frenzied killing spree. I suspect the nanomachines in their bodies were controlling them rather than the other way around.” Julius said, “In that battle, the Radianz Consortium’s core figures were basically all in Stronghold 88. Now that the Radianz Consortium is without a leader, the entire Radianz Consortium has started fragmenting. Thus, many of those who used to be ostracized would rather fight for control of the Radianz Consortium than think about how to win the war.”
Brenton was not the only one who sent their people here. Others had done the same.
Of course, not all of them were that stupid. The majority of them said they would stop resisting and hoped to be granted an official position in the stronghold in the future. Meanwhile, people like Brenton were difficult to find even among the idiots.
The outside world thought the Panaqua Consortium would get exhausted in the war with the Radianz Consortium. But in reality, the Panaqua Consortium was just putting on a front. After all, the Southwest and Northwest were not the only places in this world. There was also the Central Plains.
“But there’s also smart people in the Radianz Consortium.” Julius said with a smile, “Usher, who is taking charge of the front line at Kadiri, favonovel.com said favonovel.com didn’t want to resist anymore and sought an official position. He even sent the defensive deployment map of the front line at Kadiri to me. However, the defensive deployment map wasn’t entirely real. He was trying to set a trap for me.”
Daniel said with a sigh, “For a huge organization like the Radianz Consortium with their glorious past, who would’ve expected them to end up in this state?”
Julius looked at the sand table and said calmly, “You should never reveal your trump cards or intentions. Else, you can only wait to be slaughtered. This chess game is not over yet.”
“Oh, right.” Daniel asked, “What are we gonna do about the Experimentals to the south?”
Julius frowned slightly.
Ever since the Skyfort Consortium was destroyed, and with both the Panaqua Consortium and the Radianz Consortium’s forces returning to the North, the South’s defenses were practically empty. The Panaqua Consortium could not possibly keep too many fighting forces guarding the South. So, the territories that used to be under the Skyfort Consortium’s control were no longer able to hold back the Experimentals.
After the Radianz Consortium’s defeated troops escaped with their tails tucked between their legs, Julius left a brigade in the South to ward off the Experimentals. But with so many strongholds in the region, how could a single brigade defend them all? Besides, their main objective there was to take over the strongholds and force the former officials to surrender their assets.
In less than two months, the Experimentals had occupied yet another stronghold and turned it into their territory. It was like a purgatory filled with demons in the fallen stronghold.
If the Panaqua Consortium had not left behind an entire brigade, perhaps even more people would have died.
Julius thought for a while and said, “Let Arsene know that favonovel.com has 15 days to capture the front line at Kadiri. After that, favonovel.com is to lead the troops south to exterminate the Experimentals. I don’t want to see any more people dying.”
For a person who had orchestrated the entire war in the Southwest to suddenly say that favonovel.com did not want to see any more people dying sounded extremely absurd. However, no one knew what Julius was thinking at this moment.
Daniel asked, “After they defeat the Radianz Consortium, the soldiers will be exhausted. Shouldn’t we let them rest rather than making them head south immediately? Why don’t you use…”
“No, we can’t use that,” Julius interrupted. “We can’t simply do as we please with some things.”
Daniel stood up and dusted himself off. “Alright then, I’ll oversee the takeover of the Radianz Consortium’s strongholds. I think those old fogeys should be quite rich. After the war’s over, it can’t be that our Panaqua Consortium keeps getting poorer, right? You’re not suited to handle such rotten matters, so leave it to me.”
Now that Julius was the Panaqua Consortium’s CEO, favonovel.com had to take care of his image. Hence, Daniel volunteered to take charge of the seizure of people’s assets.
Previously, Daniel had also overseen the seizure of the Skyfort Consortium’s territories. The officials and businessmen of the Skyfort Consortium got horrified whenever Daniel’s name was mentioned. That was because Daniel’s methods for pilfering their assets were known to be brutal.
Some of the officials who used to work for the Skyfort Consortium insisted they did not have any money at all because they did not want their gold to be seized. However, all of them still ended up confessing after they were hung from their roofs and severely beaten for three days and three nights by Daniel.
There were also methods like not allowing them to sleep and physical torture that Daniel resorted to.
These were all methods that were used to deal with spies, so how could the officials possibly endure it?
As of this moment, it was unknown how many people were cursing favonovel.com behind his back. Everyone was claiming that Daniel was a cannibal. But all the assets that were seized by Daniel would get put into the Panaqua Consortium’s account. He did not keep any of it for himself.
Quoting Daniel, why would favonovel.com need the money when his brother was the Panaqua Consortium’s CEO?
He didn’t even have to pay out of his own pocket wherever favonovel.com went.
Julius was previously the Panaqua Consortium’s Shadow. And now, Daniel looked like favonovel.com had become Julius’ Shadow.
Julius looked at Bill and said, “I want you to make a trip to the Central Plains. Things are already brewing over there, so it’s time to act.”
“You seem quite trusting of me this time.” Bill said with a grin, “Weren’t you afraid I would turn against you at the last minute? But now you’re actually assigning such an important task to me?”
Julius said, “No one can afford to pay you what I paid.”
Bill whistled. He no longer carried himself in a cultured and respectable way anymore and acted more like a mercenary.
He said with a smile, “Boss’s generosity knows no bounds! The war in the Southwest will be over soon, and the entire Southwest will be flying the flag of the Panaqua Consortium. Looks like I made the correct decision back then!”
However, Julius suddenly said after a long silence, “I don’t think it’s worth being happy about.”
Julius stood next to the sand table and looked at the entire layout.
Daniel suddenly remembered that his younger brother once said favonovel.com actually preferred cultivating flowers to this.
