Chapter 24
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Chapter 24: Runaway General, They Were All Fooled!
“Frontline collapsed?”
Kelly Duville exclaimed in disbelief.
“Y-Yes, General.” The voice of the communicator involuntarily softened, like a defeated rooster compared to before.
Kelly Duville angrily shouted, “Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I have the special ability task force, how could they lose?! How could they lose!?”
“G-G-General, the special ability task force… all of them… have been s-sacrificed.” The communicator swallowed a gulp of saliva, not daring to believe the news himself, but this was indeed the information relayed from the front lines.
At that moment, a rumbling sound came from the direction of the battlefield, as if a group of gigantic beasts was stampeding.
And this certainly wasn’t the noise created by his own troops.
It was clear that something had indeed gone wrong on the frontline, and it was something unfavorable to the city defense forces.
“You’re lying!” Kelly Duville’s eyes turned blood-red as he drew a pistol and aimed it at the communicator’s head.
“Do you know that delivering false military information gives me the right to execute you on the spot?”
The communicator’s eyes widened, and he raised his hands, his expression filled with fear: “General Duville, how could I dare to deliver false news?! We… we really lost!”
Lost…
Really lost…
This news hit Duville like a bolt from the blue. Just moments ago, he had been imagining winning a perfect victory, overshadowing the influence of the Yang family within this unit.
Then, with the merits of battle, leveraging the power of the Duville family, he would slowly take control of the D District Corps, and later use this control to compete for resources within the family. Perhaps, he would even have the chance to become the head of the family and ultimately become the ruler of Saint Yor City, reaching the pinnacle of his life.
Everything seemed so perfect.
But just when he thought he was about to achieve these beautiful goals, reality slapped him hard.
Not only did the frontline collapse, but the special ability task force he had requested from his family was also completely wiped out?
With such a great loss to the family, how could he possibly explain this to them?
Duville was in a daze at this moment, he felt as if he had been abandoned by the world.
“General Duville, the most urgent matter now is to quickly regroup the defeated troops, then retreat to the defense line at the intersection of the inner city and the slums. We must not let the fierce beasts breach the inner city.”, Staff Officer Yang said, while also shocked by the news of the complete defeat, quickly calmed down after a brief moment of disbelief.
His thought was that since the situation had already occurred, the most important thing now was to salvage what they could.
“It’s you, it’s your Yang family, isn’t it!?” Kelly Duville turned his blood-red eyes to Staff Officer Yang. “It must be your Yang family scheming! Your Yang family wants me dead! Your Yang family doesn’t want anyone else to touch your power! Isn’t that right?”
“What a vicious heart! To remove the thorn that the Duville family placed in the D District Corps, you even sacrificed so many lives! You even sacrificed a special ability task force of my Duville family!”
Staff Officer Yang was at a loss for words.
You’re putting too big of a hat on this.
“General Duville, I have been advising you to be cautious all this time. The situation with those beasts was strange, and you must not act recklessly. You were the one who kept saying that nothing could go wrong, that those beasts were just unintelligent animals, easy to deal with, and that today was the day for a man to achieve great things.”
Kelly Duville was momentarily speechless, as this was indeed what he had just said.
Earlier, all he could think about was how to achieve a quick and beautiful victory to gain political capital, but he didn’t expect to lose so inexplicably, and even the special ability task force he had worked so hard to request was completely wiped out.
“Hmph, in any case, this matter must have something to do with your Yang family.” Kelly Duville snorted coldly.
In his mind, whether the Yang family was truly involved or not, it must have something to do with them.
Boom, boom!
The rumbling sound from the front line battlefield grew closer.
Kelly Duville’s expression changed, and he hurried outside to check.
He saw thick columns of smoke rising into the sky in the distance, like enormous pillars reaching the heavens.
Beneath the smoke columns, a dense mass of black beasts surged toward them like a tidal wave.
Kelly Duville’s face turned pale.
“How could there be so many fierce beasts?”
Gu Ran, who had already teleported to the top of a building, was also observing the beast tide in the distance, his expression extremely grave.
“It turns out that the earlier beasts were just bait, the real number of fierce beasts is far greater than anyone could have imagined. When the special ability task force dispersed and went deep alone, these ambush forces could immediately surround them and annihilate the task force as quickly as possible.”
“This beast tide must have a commander capable of directing these beasts.”
The last point was the most terrifying. If there was indeed a commander among the beasts who could organize them, then the threat of the beast tide would have to be reassessed.
Facing the threat to his life, Kelly Duville quickly came to his senses, his thoughts racing: “No, I can’t stay here and wait to die.”
“General Duville, we must quickly regroup the remaining troops; we can’t waste any more time—” Before Staff Officer Yang could finish speaking, he saw Kelly Duville turn into a gust of wind, forming a pale blue blur in the air, flying toward the back of the battlefield.
Staff Officer Yang was stunned, then became furious.
Kelly Duville was a wind element ability user, and it was clear from his actions that he intended to flee the battle!
Moreover, he was planning to use his advantage as a wind element ability user to escape ahead of everyone else.
But after committing such a fatal command error on the battlefield, and then fleeing in the face of danger, wasn’t he afraid of facing the Tribunal?
This would also disgrace the Duville family name. Didn’t he fear the severe consequences of such actions?
However, as a martial arts expert, Staff Officer Yang was not known for his speed. Faced with this situation, he could only suppress his anger and focus on regrouping the remaining troops, setting up a simple defense line to slow down the advance of the fierce beasts.
Gu Ran, hidden in the shadows, observed everything, and so did the people outside the light screen.
Although they could only infer from the conversation and actions of Staff Officer Yang and Kelly Duville, it was easy to judge that Kelly Duville had abandoned his troops and fled after making a critical command error.
This caused an uproar among the strong individuals present who had believed the news reports from back then.
This General Duville was clearly a cowardly scoundrel, not the hero who fought fiercely against the beasts for 48 hours and annihilated them all.
They had all been deceived by the Duville family’s propaganda!
Then, new doubts arose in their minds.
If this General Duville was such a coward and had already fled, then how were these beasts annihilated, and how did Kelly Duville “sacrifice” himself?
Soon after, they saw Gu Ran open a portal and chase after Kelly Duville on the light screen.