Chapter 60 Promotion (1/2)

Chapter 60 Promotion

Translator: Tchu

Editor: Amaranth

Proofreader: YR

Only after the remnant of the cavalry scout team reached the 13th Cavalry Army camps their faces started to relax slightly..

The military intelligence that they collected was handled by the scout team leader according to army regulations and the information was delivered to the intelligence regiment. Shaar and Kevin started to go towards the Praetorian Guard camp.

Looking at these cavalry scouts with whom he fought together side-by-side quietly leaving the camp, Shaar suddenly felt a dull rage inside him – almost no one spoke a word in past two days when they were rushing back. An invisible fire started to burn fiercely in Shaar’s heart and it was burning stronger with each passing day.

Watching those cavalry scouts walking away, Shaar looked at the team leader’s back……

Suddenly he felt that he was very lucky.

At least, the old man died on his bed and he could personally bury him. As for what happened to the team leader and his son – in order to return to camp as soon as possible, they didn’t even have the time to bury the body of his son!

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Both Shaar and Kevin didn’t have any time to rest. Just after they reported that they carried out their orders successfully in the Praetorian Guard camp, they didn’t even had enough time to untie their belts as someone was waiting for them outside to convey a message to them: The general wanted to see them, now.

When Shaar entered General Adrick’s big tent for the second time, he immediately felt that the atmosphere was extraordinary. At the entrance of big tent, the Praetorian Guards on duty were doubled and everyone had a pre-war anxiety all written all over their faces.

When Shaar and Kevin were waiting to be announced, they stood outside of the big tent and suddenly they heard an angry shouting voice coming from within the tent followed by a suddenly burst of an intense quarrel.

A moment later, several military officers walked out the big tent and Shaar recognized that one of them was the silver-haired middle-aged man, Burtler the centurion of the 3rd Legion he met last time. The others that came out were probably also Centurions of the 13th Cavalry Army.

When those eight people walked out, some of them had faces full of anxiety while others had an indifferent face and there were even some who had flaming rage in their eyes. When they were walking Kevin immediately pulled Shaar away to let them pass and pounded his chest in salute.

Waiting for these people to walk further away Kevin noticed the puzzled look on Shaar’s face and started to explain: “It must be the pre-war conference. Those Centurions probably started an argument in order to snatch the vanguard role – this is a common occurrence. Seeing the look on Centurion Butler’s face, it is very likely that it fell into his hands. “

The map on the wall of the big tent was painted with various colors. Many numbers and military symbols were marked on various areas. Furthermore, those symbols were also painted in different colors.

When Shaar saw that the map it looked like it was changed beyond all recognition. Shaar was startled and subconsciously glanced at it a few times……

This …… was probably the markings of a military map? Shaar remembered reading a book which was devoted to these things. When he was still young, he found it quite fun and took a map of Primal Wildfire and drew on it for a while.

Ah, so the square symbol represented their own camp, the round symbols represented the logistics camps and the dotted line represented the logistical lines.

All the triangles represented mountains and hills, while the ellipses represented low-lying terrains. The areas on the map that were painted with a little green flag symbol meant that it had been searched and a safe area.

The places that were marked by a small cross meant that there was an enemy encounter at that position.

While staring at the map, Shaar was in a small trance and only recovered after Kevin pulled him. When Shaar raised his head, he suddenly noticed that General Adrick was standing next to him, watching him with interest.

This tyrannical General’s face was somewhat red and beads of sweat could be seen on his forehead. Holding a small dagger with a golden hilt in his hand, he casually cut a thick paper into several small pieces.

He looked at Shaar without stopping the movements of his hands and carefully examined him for a long time. Only when Shaar felt some tingling on his scalp, General Adrick pulled back his scary piercing eyes.

“Can you read the military symbols on the map?” Adrick caught Shaar’s expression when he entered the tent.

After hesitating, Shaar replied: “I know some.” Catching his curiosity, Kevin who was standing next to him leaned in to have a closer look at Shaar. After taking a breath, Shaar continued: “I read some books which had those things on them.”

“Very good.”Adrick nodded, picked up a charcoal and threw it to Shaar: “Mark the place where you fought the Odins on the map for me.”

Holding the charcoal, Shaar didn’t hesitate and walked towards the map and accurately marked the position. He then drew a small cross on that place and after thinking for a moment, he added a small round circle next to it. His last action immediately made Adrick reveal a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

The last symbol that Shaar drew represented the enemy’s frontier force according to the Byzantine military symbol.

“It seems like you really understand these things”, Adrick smiled. Withdrawing his attention Adrick nailed the dagger on the table and put on a serious expression again: “I heard the result of this your mission. Well done……”

While staring at Shaar he asked: “Did you really kill six of Odin’s Icefield hunters?”