The Duke’s Eldest Son Escaped to the Army (173)

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

56 The Cell Area Military’s Counterattack (1)

Regardless of the earth-shaking cost of the water buffaloes and the stunning assault of the large ant corps, the Area Military troops had been in a position to shield their Command. Proper now, they had been tending to their casualties and accidents and repairing the damages to the fortress whereas ready for his or her Commander’s return. 

Nonetheless, opposite to their hopes, their Commander didn’t return. All of them waited anxiously however Iron couldn’t be seen. Solely then did they understand that the state of affairs that they tried so arduous to disclaim had come true. 

‘The Commander encountered an issue!’ 

This thought flashed in everybody’s heads.

The primary to maneuver was Ariel. Then, Cardro instantly went to the place the drakes had been to order the drake unit to go to the realm the place Iron fought at. He was conscious of the seriousness of the state of affairs so he tried to maneuver as quick as he may together with his subordinates. 

However earlier than they might transfer out, a small chicken immediately flew in direction of Ariel.

“Baep… sae?” 

The little chicken tilted its head cutely earlier than pecking Ariel’s brow. Then, Iron’s voice rang in Ariel’s ears.

― I don’t assume I will come again to Command any time quickly due to the large armored worm. Preserve the Command protected till I come again.

Baepsae tried to fly after his voice was delivered. It appeared just like the little chicken wished to return to its proprietor instantly after doing its job. However Ariel hurriedly pulled out a small bead, a communication crystal, and held it in direction of Baepsae. The one downside was that it appeared too huge for Baepsae’s small physique to hold. 

― Tweet!

Baepsae chirped and gestured in direction of the hesitating Ariel to position the bead on its again. Ariel’s hesitation grew after seeing Baepsae’s gesture however finally positioned the communication crystal, which was far bigger than its physique. Then, inexperienced mana appeared and lined Baepsae’s total physique because it carried the communication crystal as if there was no downside in any respect. 

Ariel watched Baepsae carrying the communication device blankly earlier than coming again to her senses to name Cardro.

Cardro got here operating and stopped in entrance of Ariel as he listened to all the story. 

“So, you’re saying that… Baepsae got here right here… and advised you that there weren’t any issues?” 

Then, Cardro’s expression turned solemn. 

“The issue is… we’ve got to guard this place by ourselves for some time…” 

Ariel sighed after listening to Cardro. 

She thought that it could be high-quality if they might block their enemies as soon as. However that wasn’t the case in any respect.

“First… let’s request for help from Southern Command and inform the Central Authorities.” 

“The Central Authorities?” 

Cardro’s eyes widened at Ariel’s remarks. 

“We’re in a disaster proper now.” 

“However the Central Authorities…” 

It could change into extraordinarily troublesome as soon as the Central Authorities caught maintain of their weak spot. 

“Simply as soon as.” 

Ariel spoke with a heavy voice when she noticed Cardro’s hesitance.

“What?” 

Cardro checked out her as if he couldn’t perceive her phrases. 

“We solely stopped them as soon as but it surely’s already like this.” 

When Ariel turned to look out of the window, she may see the troopers engaged on the repairs and treating the injured. 

“We’re not the Commander.” 

The Cell Area Military with out Iron was no completely different from an empty shell. The inadequate energy of the items considerably lowered the extent of all the Area Military. They usually had been in a state of affairs the place they didn’t know once they must face varied mutated monsters. 

“Hoo… Regardless, that’s the Central Authorities…” 

Seeing that Cardro was nonetheless hesitating, Ariel had no alternative however to name for the opposite commanding officers of the Area Military. 

With Iron’s absence, they’d no alternative however to place their heads collectively.

Ariel and Cardro each fought within the battlefield, however after going round, they realized that they didn’t have the political energy so that they wished to get assist from others. Nonetheless, most of their contacts had been within the Northeast and the wizards of the Wizard Tower had been all caught of their small room. Even Leonhardt’s younger lions weren’t useful since they had been solely loopy about swordsmanship and battles. 

“Depart this to me.” 

Everybody turned to take a look at Carl Stein after they heard him communicate. 

“Everybody’s heads are too stiff… Tch, tch. Use your brains.” 

Carl checked out them as in the event that they had been pathetic as he spoke. The gazes of everybody him turned ugly. Nonetheless, Carl simply spoke as if he didn’t care about them. 

“We’ll use the Central Authorities.” 

“…What? How?” 

Carl smiled wickedly as he answered Cardro. 

“Take into consideration our time within the Northeast.” 

The entire officers tilted their heads in confusion. 

“Ha… The Commander would instantly perceive me if he was right here. Tch, tch~ What’s an important factor for the Central Authorities?”

“Their very own security?”

“That’s proper. That’s why they despatched help to the Northeast. However, give it some thought fastidiously. What sort of place is that this?”

Their eyes turned huge after listening to Carl’s query. 

“Do you bear in mind the Northeast of the previous?”

Monster paradise.

This was one of many nicknames that the Northeast carried again previously. Nonetheless, this place was far worse than the Northeast again then. In spite of everything, this place was chock filled with mutated monsters. 

As a result of the South needed to preserve the frontlines, they’d no alternative however to go away this place and neglect its upkeep. Due to that, the variety of monsters stored on rising. And for some cause the void vitality continued to build up on this place too. 

“It gained’t be troublesome for us to obtain large-scale help from them if we allow them to know concerning the risks lurking on this place.”

“However can the Central Authorities even afford to try this?”

“We additionally must get help from the opposite armies too.”

When he stated ‘use the Central Authorities’ he didn’t imply that they’d merely obtain monumental help from the Middle. He meant to create a powerful public opinion of their favor that may sway their choice and let each area ship help to the Southeast.

“To do this…”

“We’ve to allow them to know all the pieces about our state of affairs. We’ve to inform them all the pieces that has been happening.”

Carl frowned as he spoke. 

“The issue is that we shouldn’t simply inform the general public about it, we’ve got to create a stage the place all the nation can empathize and relate with us…”

In the event that they had been ready to try this, they’d don’t have any want to influence every area’s Command in addition to the Central Authorities. 

“That’s good, allow us to deal with that.”

The twins behind Saeriden additionally nodded with their brother’s phrases. Everybody checked out them suspiciously. Saeriden grinned after seeing the look of their eyes. Their eyes had been clearly expressing their doubts. It was like they had been asking them how they might belief them once they had been solely loopy about swordsmanship and battles. 

“It’s not us who will likely be doing it although?” 

“That’s proper.” 

“Not us.” 

The twins nodded as they spoke up in settlement to Saeriden’s phrases. 

“Then, who…” 

“My little brother.” 

The others appeared confused after listening to Saeriden’s reply. 

“There’s this depraved bastard.” 

“However his head is de facto good.” 

Ariel’s eyes widened after listening to Ludem and Rodem’s phrases. Then, she requested fastidiously.

“By any probability, are you speaking about Faulden?” 

The others nodded at her query. 

“That punk, he left the household to affix an intelligence group. From what I heard, he had already devoured all the intelligence group earlier than we got here right here.” 

“Are you able to contact him proper now?” 

Ariel’s eyes shone as she requested Ludem. 

“Yeah. That punk gave me a service pigeon. He stated that we should always contact him if we want assist, I feel?”

“Then, that’s solved.”

Carl clapped his arms as he concluded the issue. The entire commanding officers nodded their heads. However simply once they had been about to scrub up the knowledge and the video recording crystal… 

Ariel turned to ask Saeriden.

“By any probability… is that buddy not within the military?”

Saeriden and the twins cackled as they answered on the similar time.

“Yeah, no.”

Seeing their vivid smiles, Ariel realized that there was no probability of recruiting their brother so she cleanly gave up the notion. 

After the Commander-less commander assembly ended, the Area Military troops moved busier than ever. Iron’s absence made them really feel and understand how deeply they had been missing so that they turned in direction of themselves and acknowledged the issues that they lacked and requested for assist concerning these issues. They made the choice to endure the disgrace and shame of showing their shortcomings to all the Empire. 

Whereas a groundbreaking choice was being made within the Area Military…

Iron was preventing a troublesome battle on his personal. 

‘Shrewd bastard.’

After preventing constantly for a number of days, the large armored worm appeared to understand that it couldn’t simply flip him over so it determined to bide its time. Regardless of preventing him, it appeared prefer it had an data community of its personal and was conscious that the state of affairs in Command was not good. Regardless that it was a worm, it was nonetheless wonderful that it may use its head identical to an everyday human. 

Iron couldn’t perceive how such a brainless creature may use its mind however it could be his loss if he tried to deal with attempting to assume scientifically on this place. 

“Huh? You’re again?”

Iron welcomed Baepsae again after seeing it fly from afar. However he couldn’t assist however smile awkwardly when he noticed the small Baepsae carrying a communication crystal that was bigger than its physique. 

“How did you convey this?”

― Tweet!

Listening to Baepsae urging him to take it shortly, Iron hurriedly accepted the communication crystal. 

“Is there somebody listening on the opposite facet?”

― Commander?

“Ariel?”

― I’m glad you’re alright!

Ariel shouted in aid. 

Maybe it was her loud voice that alerted the others as the opposite officers current on her facet greeted Iron loudly too. That may have been high-quality, however everybody clamored to report as in the event that they had been attempting to inform him how a lot the work had piled up. Due to their phrases, he was in a position to perceive the present state of affairs at Command proper now. 

― I’m sorry. However the absence of the Commander had resulted in numerous injury…

Ariel felt apologetic as she watched the officers report back to Iron one after the opposite. However Iron simply shook his head.

“You probably did a superb job. That call is ok. In a disaster, the sooner you throw away your ineffective satisfaction, the higher the result.”

Iron nodded his head as he praised Ariel.

“Are you able to maintain on a bit longer?”

― Sure, sir!

“Good. No matter you do, make certain to carry on. Whilst you try this, I’ll make certain to destroy this bastard and are available again.”

Iron turned the communication crystal off as he stated so. 

And simply in time, the large armored worm started to maneuver with the large worms. 

“Proper. Let’s see this to the top.”

The look in Iron’s eyes fully modified the second he confirmed that the Command was nonetheless holding out properly. He had fully erased all the anxiousness that was left in his thoughts as he positioned his total consideration on the large armored worm. The enormous worms and the nice worms could be blocked fully by the divine beasts so all that was left was the large armored worm. 

He had no downside together with his survival out right here. Meals? All he wanted to do was to grill the large worms that he hunted and eat them. Poison? Contamination? Each may very well be purified together with his holy energy. Since his meals had been solved, he didn’t have any extra issues. In spite of everything, he may simply sleep anyplace. So, he may keep right here with none worries and struggle till he may kill the large armored worm. 

The enormous armored worm had felt that Iron’s momentum had modified but it surely additionally couldn’t again down. Even when it retreated at this level, it knew that Iron would chase it so it selected to struggle till one among them had died. 

Figuring out that it could lose as time glided by, the large armored worm started to devour extra contaminated mana earlier than consuming the opposite mutant large worms so it may evolve. 

And to match its tempo, Iron additionally educated so his swordsmanship may evolve and transfer a step additional. 

A day, every week, half a month, a month, just a few extra months had handed.

The extra they fought in opposition to one another, the extra their fight expertise elevated. 

The enormous armored worm sucked contaminated sooner whereas Iron developed and strengthened his swordsmanship sooner.

And the 2 beings’ struggle for his or her lives didn’t finish simply. 

In the meantime, the large spiders and wasps moved to invade the realm the place the large worms lived whereas a number of different mutants tried to dig into the gaps between the 2 and assault. However everytime they tried to go in between, all of them bought killed. 

The enormous armored worm grew to become extra highly effective because it ate different mutants and Iron additionally achieved a extra refined and extra compressed mana in his sword. The mutants that risked their lives to try to make the most of the 2 grew to become meals for coaching for the 2 of them. 

Baaaang!

Iron and the large armored worm collided and created an enormous explosive sound. The shockwave created by the collision between the hovering large armored worm and Iron wielding the blackened mana sword fully destroyed the encircling space. 

Regardless of giving their all in that assault, they nonetheless failed to succeed in a conclusion. 

“Hoo… It’s a tie once more.” 

Iron appeared on the large armored worm in annoyance. It appeared like the large armored worm was additionally indignant that it couldn’t end Iron off and eat him. 

“Tch. Truce.” 

― Kiriiiiiik…

The enormous armored worm grew frighteningly quick whereas preventing Iron and it had now change into barely non secular in nature. 

Proper now, it agreed to make a cope with Iron for a truce. In spite of everything, the 2 of them had suffered nice injury in the course of the course of their battle.

The enormous armored worm’s territory had been lowered whereas Iron’s Command was going through hazard. That’s why they each determined to finish this as we speak and determined to maintain a deal for the long run. 

So, they turned their backs in opposition to one another with a shaky truce that might break at any second. 

And identical to that, Iron left the realm that they’d smashed into oblivion after months of preventing as he headed again to Command. 

However the Command, which he had not seen in half-a-year, had modified so much.

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