Thomas left with a smile after entrusting Carl, John, and Rio to Iger, leaving the three of them looking at each other in the small room.
It took a while before Iger rubbed his head and said, "Ah! How did I forget about that? Give me a minute!"
He then ran toward a pile of junks inside the room and began searching all around. Some time passed before he came out with three military uniforms and handed them to Carl and the others.
"Here. These are your military uniforms. Remember this: once you put on your uniform, you're an official member of the Empire-sword Army!"
Carl and the others took their military uniforms with a frown. They could see that the uniforms were filthy, with obvious stains and an alcohol stench. It was apparent that these uniforms had been sitting in this room for a long time.
Noticing their expressions, Iger laughed in embarrassment and explained, "Blame it on the lack of recruits in the Empire-swor
Iger didn't seem to care about what Carl and the others thought. He raised his head to look at the sky. The deafening sound of shooting and the howling of the Zergs was everything that they could hear.However, minutes passed but Iger was still standing there without doing anything. Carl asked curiously, "Instructor Iger, what are we waiting for?"Iger smiled and replied calmly, "Since I'm giving you a new experience, I need to at least find a suitable direction for you, don't I?""Really? That's great! I thought you're heartless enough to throw us straight into the battlefield. Looks like you're finding a place with fewer enemies so that we can observe the battle safely!" John shouted joyfully.Iger snickered and shook his head, saying, "Since I said I'd show you what is hell, of course I need to find a place with the most enemies!"Then, ignoring their reactions, he turned behind and looked to his right. He nodded an
"All right. Are you guys fine? If you are, then come up with me. We agreed that you'd experience thirty minutes of hell! We can't just let time pass!"Iger showed them a strange smile and said, "Or do you feel like taking a rest today? If you don't want to join the battle this time, I don't mind letting you do so."Carl and the others looked tense after hearing his words. They shook their heads and replied, "It's all right. We're okay with joining the battle this time."Iger gave them a meaningful look before grinning again. He said nothing more and hooked a finger at them, leading them up the wall."Hurry up! Hurry up! War doesn't wait for anyone! Don't dilly dally there and block people's way!"Carl and the others immediately followed him in a rush. Sure enough, they saw a lot of soldiers transporting copious bodies and injured comrades down on their way up the wall.The higher they climbed, the more int
Two rapidly spinning silver bullets whizzed through the air and hit the heads of the two green-winged locusts. The corpses flew past their heads, leaving a wake of green blood, and fell squarely on the courtyard behind them."Phew! Thanks, Carl!" It took John some time to get back to his senses, though his face still looked pale.Near-death experience completely different from confronting a six-legged bug and a venomous barbed serpent.Carl shook his head in response. He returned to where he was guarding, picked up his Kalin machine gun, and continued shooting the invading green-winged locusts."Enough of that, John! Hurry up and reload your gun! You're not expecting Carl to save your ass every time, are you?" From afar, Iger threw a magazine for Kalin machine guns at John.Realizing his blunder, John received the magazine and hastily attached it to his machine gun. He subconsciously turned his head to look at Rio and
"Wow! This is so cool! You even have flamethrowers!" John was so enthralled by the dazzling sea of fire that he ignored the scorched smell of the burnt bugs below."Good thing these were just a bunch of six-legged bugs. It looks like the flamethrowers could stop their advance very well." Rio was beginning to relax. There was even a hint of a smile on his face.Carl had better eyesight than them. When he realized that the attack of the six-legged bugs had been quelled, he turned his attention to the rear of the swarm. What he saw shocked him so much that he nearly dropped his Kalin machine gun.Rio was standing close enough that he noticed Carl's expression immediately. His face turned stiff and he asked worriedly, "What's wrong, Carl? Did you see something?"Carl nodded. John turned his head to look at him curiously as well. "What's wrong? What happened?""There's a ton of venomous barbed serpents behind those six-legg
Carl turned his attention to Rio. The latter shook his head at him, indicating that he had not heard any strange noises."You must be kidding me…" Carl frowned and focused on the other side of the wall. He knew that he had indeed heard the sound of friction on the sandy soil from the red fog. It sounded like something was chewing and ingesting.However, aside from the corpses of bugs everywhere, the only things remaining outside Punk Fortress were a large number of living bugs."No! Something must be happening down there!" Carl was very sure about his speculation. He tightened his hold on his War Spirit weapon, Massacre, in his right hand.He calmed down ever so slightly after seeing that the soldiers around him had not relaxed their guard.The odd noises under the wall continued until there was a sudden outbreak of strange howling. The howling sent chills down everyone's spines."It's here!" Bill said sol
Carl noticed Kyd's dissatisfaction from his voice but he did not have the time to worry about whether his War Spirit would get a bad mood.Lives were at stake at this moment. Even a second of delay could mean the death of more soldiers at the hands of the six-legged bugs."Watch out! They're coming up again!" An ordinary soldier nearby shot flames at the six-legged bugs that were climbing up the wall again using his flamethrower, wanting to beat them back."This isn't working! If we keep this up, they're going to break into Punk Fortress!" Carl frowned, frustrated beyond measure."Kyd! Save your lessons for when the battle is over! Now, all I want to know is how to kill these six-legged bugs with iron armor!" Carl shouted in his mind.Kyd fell silent after hearing his words. It took a while before he replied solemnly, "You can penetrate their iron armor with Silver Dragon Dual Weaving Bullets using what little War Spir
No matter how upset they were with Iger, Carl and his friends had to follow him back to the streets of Punk Fortress.Iger seemed to have noticed their gloomy expressions. While walking, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Shouldn't you be happy about your victory? Why do you look so betrayed?""Instructor Iger… You call that battle a victory?" Carl retorted in a low voice, his voice carrying deep dissatisfaction.Iger stopped in his tracks after hearing his reply. He turned around to look at Carl. "Why can't I call it a victory? The Zergs have a time limit of thirty minutes to attack Punk Fortress every time, and your mission was to guard the Fortress. As long as you didn't let the Zergs break into the Fortress within those thirty minutes, you could consider it your complete victory.""But we didn't kill all of the invading Zergs! We even let them kill so many of our soldiers…" Carl rebutted him, eyes widened in disbelief.
Iger left as soon as he watched Carl and his friends finish recording their irises, even complaining about how troublesome they were and how he still had many things to do as he did.The three friends then entered the dorm room as ordered.Iger was right. They were new to Punk Fortress and nobody knew them yet. If they were allowed to roam around, there would be a lot of trouble awaiting them.They had no choice but to stay inside their dorm room and wait for Iger to finish his work and bring them out.The first thing they did after entering the dorm room was wiping their eyes. That was because the layout of the room was nearly identical to their room in Brightwood Camp."Hey, look at this table, this chair… If it wasn't for the encrypted door, I would have thought that we're still in Brightwood Camp!" John kept clicking his tongue in wonder as he looked around.Carl and Rio rolled their eyes. They found t