216 The Reason (1/2)

Battle of Ascension HotIce 37580K 2022-07-22

After hearing the soldier's report, General Nicholas stood up, rushing toward the camp's entrance, intending to go to King Andreas' camp. The anger caused the recklessness and rudeness by the soldier dissipated immediately after hearing the soldier's report as it was indeed an urgent matter.

But just after General Nicholas came out for a few seconds, he came back, showing his head inside the camp before saying toward Randy, ”I heard you were here to raise your rank to gain The King's trust,”

”For what you did yesterday, you will get punished too. I will reset your rank back to Wood Rank,” General Nicholas grinned before saying, ”Don't think you won't get punished because you are not in the wrong,”

After saying those words, General Nicholas left the camp for sure this time as he didn't come back again. Randy and the other three were delighted instead being dejected despite having their rank back to Wood Rank.

This meant they would face more beasts later, the more beasts meant the more EXP. So it was a reward rather than punishment, of course, the four delighted.

But Randy wondered how General Nicholas could intervene in the Ascension System? The rank itself was in the Ascension System, yet General Nicholas could intervene in the term of the rank.

Even though Randy didn't mind having his rank was getting reset back to Wood Rank, but the information to intervene with Ascension System itself was important for him. But soon, Shana poured cold water on him, ”Don't daydreaming, Uncle. You will not be able to do that, at least not now,”

Meanwhile, The ten Major General along with Ronmald, and Ronmald's father overjoyed when they heard the trialers' punishment received, but looking at the four trialers are showing a happy expression, making them confused.

'Why are they happy being punished?'

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Meanwhile, in the King Andreas' camp, there were eight people inside the camp. King Andreas's camp was the mini version of the throne hall in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom's castle.

There was a throne and red carpet stretched out from the throne to the entrance. The different was the camp was less luxurious than the Throne Hall.

The eight people were King Andreas, Queen Cecilia, Crimson Princes Alden, and the missing Crimson Princess Audrey also inside King Andreas' camp.

Meanwhile, on the right throne, there were three people, one was General Nicholas, and the other one was a middle-age with a fierce, bloodthirsty, and oppressive aura around him. The next from this middle-aged man, there was another man wore crimson heavy armor. The man was about in the middle of his 30s.

While on the left throne was a man wearing black clothes, from the top head to the tip of the toe was black.

The atmosphere inside the camp was solemn as they were discussing something. After some time, there were three men entered the camp. One was an old man with a long white beard and the other two were middle-aged men.

The three knelt down before going to stand on the left side of the throne. They were standing with a solemn look too. If Randy was here, he would recognize one from the three who just entered the camp, it was the noble who had dispute when the first time he met The King.

After the three arrived, they started discussing the current predicament of the Crimson Cloud Kingdom. The discussion lasted for three hours before they finished discussing.

”All right, This King will use my own hand to take the traitor's head,” Even though The King's voice sounded calm, but it was clear he was angry from the way he spoke. After saying those words, The King said to the three in his right, ”You three will stay here to defend the northern border,”

Hearing The King's order, the three general on the right side knelt down, accepting the order with respect. No one objected The King's decision.

King Andreas was chosen as King was not because the royal family's blood was flowing in his vein, it was because King Andreas was the strongest warrior in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom. That was why no one worried or objected when King Andreas said he would clean the traitor himself.

But from the beast kingdom's movement. It looked like the two beast kingdoms in the north made an alliance with the beast kingdom in the south Crimson Cloud Kingdom and the war in the northern border was the scheme from both sides.

Over 40 waves of the beast horde sent and forced to the Crimson Cloud Kingdom to transfer the Crimson Bear Battalion in the southern border to the north, weakening the defense in the south.

After that, three Archdukes rebelled against the Crimson Cloud Kingdom and marched to Capital City with the beast kingdom on the south after The King transferred 100.000 Crimson Bear Battalion to north border.