Chapter 418 – Chapter 42
“I will cooperate.”
“?”
When the meeting started again, Rick promised cooperation with a half-resigned expression.
Lillian, who did not know what conversation was taking place with Kaicent, could not hide her doubts about her sudden change of mind.
“Requesting to talk to Kaicent means that you were targeting that child from the beginning, right?”
“The change in attitude means that you liked the conversation with that person, right?”
Charlize and Barnes glared at Rick with unkind eyes, as if they were dissatisfied with the fact that they were targeting Kaicent.
“Because after meeting that boy, Queen Lilian’s success began.”
Lillian has been steadily raising a mercenary group for 10 years.
However, with the arrival of Kaicent, the company was able to reach its current position in just one year.
Moreover, the mercenary group that had been raised for 10 years was disbanded because of Kaicent.
“I’m sorry to say it in front of you, but I couldn’t find a reason for these species to follow the queen.”
“… I’m angry because it hits me right in the face. I’m speechless because it’s true.”
“So, when I asked those who were part of the Wolf mercenary group, they concluded that a heterogeneous boy named Kaicent was the core of all the problems.”
Getting to the core from an outsider’s perspective showed how outstanding the Guardian Corps’ human resources were.
“Wait a minute. You didn’t harm them, right?”
“We collected information by paying a fair price. Although we suffered some injuries while subduing those who ran away because they thought we were trying to kill them, we treated them all and sent them on their way, so don’t worry.”
“Those words must be true. If they are false, they will make you regret for the rest of your life that you should have committed suicide while your body was still alive.”
‘When the body remains?’
‘Isn’t it before I get my hands on it?’
The Guardian Corps tilted their heads at the strange sentence.
Lillian, who had more free time thanks to her Artemis, asked her how criminals were punished in the world of Kaicent.
If it were a machine intelligence, it would use methods that you couldn’t even imagine.
But Lillian felt disgusted, and she had to regret it.
-Take out her brain, put her on life support, and pump pain signals into her entire nervous system. Then, even without a physical body, you can vividly feel cuts, burns, frostbite, and other pain at the same time. Forever until life support is externally switched off.-
It’s a method that makes you sick just thinking about it, but Lillian was angry enough to use that method.
The breakup ended badly, but that was Kaicent’s mistake.
Even now, she cherishes her subordinates who have been with her through life and death, starting from the bottom.
‘Charlize.’
‘I will check.’
After sending a signal to Charlize, Lillian looked at Rick again.
“Anyway, were all your questions resolved through your conversation with Kaicent?”
“… I should have just remained suspicious. I had no idea she had such a secret.”
“!!”
When Rick said something that seemed to indicate that he had recognized their relationship, ripples spread across everyone’s faces.
“Now… Wait a minute. No way…!”
“Is this what Kaicent said?”
“That’s right.”
“Uh, how far? How far did I say?”
Lillian and her party, who had been pressing with strong force, quickly became a ragtag group.
‘What kind of secret is this?’
‘I don’t know what that reaction is, but it seems like the heterogeneous boy was telling the truth.’
‘The Grand Master didn’t tell me…’
“You didn’t tell the others.”
Charlize, the only one keeping her cool, looked at the Guardian Corps and realized that Rick had decided to keep her secret to himself.
“Because it was very shocking. Honestly, I thought it was a lie until I saw your reaction.”
Women in love with a young boy.
This is the result of the Guardian Corps’ headaches.
“The content was shocking, but it was an ambiguous truth that made it impossible to reject or approve of the kingdom’s cooperation.”
It would be better if the mind was controlled with special power.
It would have been better if it had been a minor problem that they had not anticipated.
By confidently explaining it to everyone, we could have decided whether it would be cooperation or hostility.
“But it is a truth that will be known someday.”
“That’s right. When that day comes, our response will vary depending on the world’s reaction.”
Hehe. It must be very fun.”
“I’m not having fun.”
Charlize smiled, looking forward to the chaos that would arise when Kaicent’s joint wedding was announced to the world.
Rick looked like he had a headache just thinking about it.
“Charlize.”
“Yes.”
“I heard that he had changed since I adopted that boy, but I had no idea he had changed this much.”
Charlize’s first impression was that she was a ruthless witch.
She is a witch who only thinks about her own benefit, hiding her many tricks behind a smile.
But now she had a bright, mischievous smile that had disappeared.
“A stranger might consider that child lucky, but the real lucky ones are us. She found a new life thanks to that child.”
“I see.”
The tools that reacted to lies in her voice mixed with maternal love and love remained silent until the end.
Rick, who personally sympathized with her tragedy, wondered how to accept that bright smile.
After a while, under the leadership of Lilian, who regained her composure, an alliance was concluded with the Guardian Corps.
As for details, most of them were agreements that could leverage each other’s strengths.
And at the end of the agreement,
-14. A year after concluding the alliance, the Guardian Legion and the Kingdom of Lucian Arkenel form an allied force to attack the Foreign Alliance. –
It was written that a year later, the bad relationship between Kaicent and Kang Myeong-cheol came to an end.
* * * * * *
The alliance between the Guardian Legion and the Kingdom of LuceArcanel was made in secret.
It’s natural.
The allied forces to take down the Kingdom of LucyArcanel were led by the Guardian Corps.
Of course, it was the kingdoms of the Western Continent that showed hostility because they accepted a different species and increased their power with the knowledge of a different species.
However, it was the Guardian Corps that gathered their hostility and formed an alliance.
After following the instructions of the Guardian Corps, they were defeated in the war, and the high-level forces that were difficult to raise were cut in half.
While they are struggling to recover from the damage, the Guardian Corps joins hands with yesterday’s enemy?
It may become known someday, but not now.
It must be kept absolutely secret until the foreign media alliance is destroyed.
Therefore, executives who needed to know this fact had to accept a magical vow of silence.
“Damn it. I can’t believe I have to use a dirty weapon.”
Special agents of the Guardian Corps on the move carrying the weapons of the Kingdom of LucyArcanel.
Among them, the agent holding the anti-materiel sniper rifle grumbled incessantly.
“Shut up. If you get caught by this species, I’ll throw you away first.”
“Fuck. So do you guys like this type of weapon?”
The grumbling agent expressed his dissatisfaction towards his colleagues who were holding weapons made in the Kingdom of LucyArcanel.
“You reverse-engineered the guns that these species have, and now you’re saying shit now?”
“That’s something we’ve accepted to suit our culture. But what is this? It’s the very essence of this species.”
An agent who does not hesitate to say things that Confucian dragons would welcome as their peers.
To be honest, others are not without complaints, but now we have to stop the foreign media association that is increasing the level of pollution.
“From now on, anyone who says anything unrelated to the operation will be summarily executed. So everyone, shut up.”
“…”
“…”
A woman with a hideous face on one side, as if she had been mangled, opened her mouth and then everyone closed her mouth.
When the captain, whose family was killed and whose face was disfigured, told Lee Jong to shut up, the agent holding the anti-materiel sniper rifle could no longer complain.
Sasak-Sarak-Seuseuseuk-
As six strong men and women move on a rough mountain path, only light sounds are heard.
That time when I was moving like that for over an hour.
“Wook.”
“Have we arrived?”
“Yes… Yes… Dirty… The power of foreign media… Wow…”
When the former Paladin agent felt the power of the foreign power, he felt disgusted and nauseated for a moment.
“We’ve arrived in their territory. Drones.”
“Yes.”
The agent wearing a huge metal backpack placed it on the floor and manipulated something.
Pushuuk!
Something was shot into the sky from the backpack.
The agent with the mechanical device attached to his head closed his eyes and began to concentrate.
Then, a vivid video was played on the backpack.
It shows the scenery that the drone is seeing.
This is also equipment supported by the Kingdom of LucyArcanel.
“Then I will move.”
A drone that is controlled by brain waves and moves over the targeted city.
“Wow…”
“Damn…”
The city was miserable. It could not be expressed in words.
If the building is simply destroyed and corpses are lying around, it can be ignored as it is a sight we have seen many times.
However, the city where the blessings and curses of all kinds of foreign media were mixed was hell itself.
A knight screaming to be killed with his body half melted.
A sane victim whose entire body is dissected, and a suspiciously glowing prayer engraved on its intestines.
People who have their minds forcibly controlled and pray with all their might, threatening to break their skulls from the inside.
“Fuck you guys…”
Someone uttered an expletive as if representing everyone’s feelings.
“Check their patrol route.”
The captain gave instructions while maintaining his cool despite the devastation of the city that even experienced people would find disgusting.
“Yes. … The power of foreign media is concentrated here.”
The drone was able to sense energy, energy, mana, divine power, and all kinds of powers.
Therefore, we checked the places where traps and alarms were installed and confirmed the route through which the intrusion team could enter.
“I found two routes. One is a bit dangerous, but it’s fast, and the other is…”
“Even if it takes time, let’s make sure we get back safely. We didn’t come for war.”
“Yes.”
By order of the captain, they were divided into two teams.
“You guys start shooting when I give you orders.”
“Yes.”
“I understand.”
“I know there is resistance because it is a different type of weapon. However, this was a decision made by the Grand Master after negotiating with the kingdom himself…”
“I know it in my head. I can’t do anything about the rejection I feel in my heart.”
The agent, who was reluctant to use the kingdom’s weapons, accepted the captain’s sermon with a confused look on his face.
“I understand. So do I.”
“Captain…”
The grumbling agent realized that she couldn’t express her dissatisfaction due to her position as leader and blamed herself.
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. Grab a sniping point and wait for my signal.”
“Yes.”
An agent who moves to a sniping point with a colleague holding the same anti-materiel sniper rifle.
Originally, they would have had to find different sniping points, but the two arrived at the top of the same mountain and aimed toward the city.
A place that looks like it’s 10 km away even if you fly straight to the city.
The highest sniping distance on Earth is 3450 m.
And the sniper was armed with all kinds of top-of-the-line equipment.
However, they had no equipment; all they had was clothes to maintain body temperature, a sniper rifle, and a magic pouch containing a magazine.
“I’ll take the left.”
“Okay. I’ll go to the other side.”
The two exchanged an incomprehensible conversation, then returned the scope to the city and rested comfortably, waiting for orders to be given.
Sometimes, people with abnormally good senses can notice, so they take their eyes off the scope.
-It will arrive soon. Ready for support fire.-
The two agents quickly grabbed their sniper rifles when the captain’s order came through the communication port.
-Launch.-
Pushyuk- Pushyuk-
When you pull the trigger, the bullet flies out with the sound of deflating air.
However, the bullets fired by the two men suddenly took a sharp curve to the left and right, then took another sharp curve and flew toward the city.
Puck! Puck!
Unlike other cult members, those wearing luxurious clothes had holes in their heads and fell down helplessly.
“It’s a sniper!”
“It came from over there!”
“That side too! They’re attacking from both sides!”
Believers in the Foreign Press Association ran to find the sniper in the direction from which the bullet came.
Several bullets shattered their heads, indicating that they were heading in the right direction.
As some of the foreign religious sects ran towards the deserted forest, the number of guards in the city became very low.
“Oh no. The captain was caught.”
“Tsk. There was someone who used his brain.”
However, there may have been some high-ranking believers left who thought they were using the sniper as bait, and the leader and his party, who were carefully sneaking inside, were caught.
“Start with the head.”
“Good.”
“Let’s fire on the count of three. 1, 2, 3.”
Push shoo!
The two people fired their bullets at the same time, and the bullets that flew off to the left and right simultaneously shattered the head of a high-ranking believer.
When the commander disappears, the members of the foreign church recklessly attack the leader and his group.
They pulled the trigger several times and reduced the number of enemies.
When the cult members were wiped out, the leader and his party infiltrated the place where the prisoners were being collected, planted a magic bomb and escaped.
A moment later, part of the city was blown away with an explosion sound.
The cult members who heard the noise and chased the sniper returned, but everything was already over.
“Ha…”
“Whoa…”
Although the mission was successful by successfully completing its role, the faces of the snipers were not so good.
“Honestly, even if it wasn’t us, anyone could have done it.”
“… That’s right.”
All they did was set a target with the scope and pulled the trigger.
The rest was caused by the bullet flying on its own and landing.
“I think what the Grand Master said is correct.”
“…”
Rick said that the Kingdom of LuceArcanel had no intention of invading another country and blamed himself for misinterpreting their intentions and attacking them.
At first, I thought Rick had misunderstood something or made a mistake.
But after using their weapons, Rick was right.
The proof is that these weapons can be mass-produced, but they have not been used in war.
“Damn it.”
The agent who had been complaining about not liking this type of weapon could not insist on this either, so he scratched his head and sighed.
“Anyway, the mission is a success. Let’s join the captain.”
“… Okay.”
The agent sincerely hoped that the Kingdom of LuceArcanel had peaceful tendencies and disappeared down the mountain with a sniper rifle.
As if they had succeeded in their mission, sabotage using kingdom-made weapons spread throughout the territory of the Foreign Alliance.
