Chapter 618 - Enemies From All Angles

Landon sat in silence alongside the spies and waited for Lucius to arrive.

Apparently, he was out.

Of course as the main boss of the barracks, he had a massive waiting room with 4 secretaries working there each shift.

The waiting room could seat up to 50 people at once, and even had its own bathroom too.

Most of the time, people weren't here to actually see Lucius.

Nope!

They were there to get several doc.u.ments or assignments from Lucius.

Typically, only teachers or top military personnel would come here to see if any requests that they submitted had been approved or rejected.

At times, it was to make reports on aggravating matters like reporting the matter of international spies and so on.

Anyway, for series cases like these... all they had to do was tell the secretary's the word: 'Hades'

And the secretaries would know that it was a matter of life and death... Or that it involved Baymard's overall safety.

So the moment Landon and the spies came in, one of them said the code word to one of the secretaries there.

From there, the secretary quickly looked at Lucius' schedule and made a phone call to the office or region he was at.

He was currently within the military warehouse, so they called someone there, who later went into the warehouse and told Lucius the code too.

With that, the rest was history.

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"You all are back!

And just to be sure, were you the ones that issued the code?"

"Yes, Commander King-Father Lucius!" The spies replied in unison while watching Lucius calmly walk into the waiting area.

"Good!

Oh?

Excellent!

Your majesty, you're also here as well!"

"Yes, I wanted to discuss something with you.

Coincidentally, I met them here too."

"Wonderful!

This will save the trouble of having to send for you.

Now, let's get into my office first."

With that, Lucius briefly went towards the secretaries to confirm that they were indeed the ones who issued the code before finally opening his office door.

No matter what, he had to ask the secretaries as per protocol... Even if Landon and the rest had confirmed it.

'Bam!'

Lucius' office door was shut tightly, and now there was room for privacy.

His office was huge for mission distribution purposes and so on.

There was also a hidden bed there, just in case he had to work all night long.

As soon as everyone was properly seated, the spies gave a detailed summary of all their findings.

And when they were done, they took off... leaving Lucius and Landon alone in the office.

"Hmmm

They said that they saw a little over 25,000 men.

But they also said that maybe some of Alec's men had arrived way before they were sent out.

So we could be looking at double that amount." Landon said calmly.

"50,000?"

"Hmhm... 50,000 men." Landon states again.

In his opinion, whether Alec was a terrible ruler or not, the fact still remains that he is a Ruler.

So that amount isn't hard for him to come up with.

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The corners of Lucius' mouth slowly lifted up all of a sudden, revealing a sly smile on his handsome face.

Landon looked at him in confusion.

"Why are you smiling?"

"Hahahahaha... I just find it laughable.

Actually, it's not that I'm shocked by the numbers.

No... I'm more shocked by how much he has underestimated Baymard."

"What do you mean?"

"Brat!

When I first started working under him, he would send over 300,000 ~600,000 men to fight battles with other empires.

In fact, 50,000 is really too small a moment for the mighty Alec Barn.

Actually, even though he ruled the people with fear, under his reign, Arcadina's land size increased.

And this was all thanks to the huge amount of forces he had sent out to battle constantly.

We lost so many people in the war, but that didn't stop Alec's momentum at all.

He even created several secret estates that were filled with p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.es and young women whose jobs were to birth warriors.

His men would ravish them, get them pregnant and they would be trained at the age of 7 to be knights.

Well, I never got to see these estates since I was always on the battlefield within the borders.

But some of my colleagues always told me of their experiences there.

So 50,000 shows that he doesn't believe that we have a chance at winning.

And if it were 25,000, we might even be seen as dog poop in his eyes.

But it's that overly confident nature of his that will be the end of him.

Hahahhahahahaha!

He might just have a heart attack from the whole ordeal." Lucius said happily.

Ah....he had been waiting for this day for a very long time.

Lucius is looked at Landon and leaned forward while placing his hands on his cheeks playfully

Speaking of it, are you going to follow the 'Young Master' (Oden Barn) back to the Capital after the battle?"

"Nope!

We will send out some men to drive them there and protect them at all for 18 days.

By then, I expect William to have settled down and gotten rid of all pests in his way.

I know what