"Bah!"
The captain of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's third small squad in the Drow Kingdom, the human warrior Lesas spat at the other side before turning to look at his assistant, the elven warrior Floyd who was the vice captain.
"Hey, Freud, if we fight, how long do you think it will take to get rid of those idiots?"
Freud glanced at the spit on the ground and slightly frowned. Lesas often teased him for being a woman because of his long and slender eyebrows. While wiping the spit on the ground with one foot, he looked at a campsite about three hundred meters away from him.
"If the other side isn't prepared, one minute is enough.
But if the other side is prepared and we fight head-on … the result is hard to say. "
"Hard to say?"
Lesas suddenly raised his voice, pointed at the opposite camp, and shouted at the top of his voice, "What the f * ck is so hard to talk about?
Even if this bunch of trash dares to fight us head-on, we can destroy them in minutes! "
Freud glanced at the unhappy Lesas, then looked at the camp that was still quiet and shrugged.
"Captain, don't waste your energy. It seems that the other side has received strict orders before they came. They are not allowed to clash with us. You can't provoke them like this."
Lesas' expression changed a few times. He then put down his hand and wiped his face. He instantly regained his composure.
"What do you think … those guys from the Kandla Empire are thinking?
They sent such a large group of people over, and they're just going to stay here and stare at us without doing anything?
Did they eat too much? "
Freud tapped his forehead with a headache.
"Captain, your habit of asking the obvious is very bad.
It's obvious that both sides are waiting for the results of the discussion with the big shots above. Before the big shots finish the discussion, how can we, the subordinates, act without authorization? "
Lesas muttered in a low voice. He looked at the opposite camp with the flag of the Kandla Empire and frowned deeply.
Four days ago, he led a small team of 500 guards to the Namco Mine, and easily drove out the local Dero thugs who had occupied the mine, reclaiming it from their hands.
However, just as they were about to restore order in the mine, the team sent by the Kandla Empire arrived.
When this team with the flag of the Kandla Empire came in contact with the New Flyer guards led by Lesas, they claimed that they were just a small team that came to investigate.
However, this so-called "investigation team" had a total of 2,000 fully-armed soldiers, and there were even a lot of military magic machines among the weapons that the soldiers carried.
Although the New Flyer and the Kandla Empire had cooperated for many years, and the Kandla Empire bought a large number of military magic machines from the New Flyer to equip their own army, compared to the huge army of more than 600,000 in the Kandla Empire, the military magic machines they bought from the New Flyer were simply a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, in the Kandla Empire, the army that could be equipped with military magic machines could be regarded as the elites of the Kandla Empire. They were definitely not comparable to ordinary troops.
This time, the Kandla Empire suddenly sent two thousand elites here. If it was just for a "normal" and "ordinary" investigation, no one would believe it.
However, the day before Lesas led his team here, he had already received an order from the headquarters of the New Flyer guards stationed in the Drow Kingdom. The order described the Kandla Empire's sudden statement and stated that the Kandla Empire would also send people to investigate this matter and asked the team to cooperate.
In the order, although the higher-ups of the chamber of commerce allowed the frontline guards to act according to the situation, they had to abide by the principle of not having a head-on conflict with the Kandla Empire as much as possible.
Therefore, in the past few days, although there had been constant friction between the two sides, Lesas had been suppressing his subordinates and not letting them clash with the Kandla Empire's army.
However, the anger in Lesas's heart was constantly accumulating, so much so that he found the camp on the opposite side very irritating and unpleasant.
Unfortunately, as Freud said, the Kandla Empire's army on the opposite side had clearly received strict orders and had been deliberately restraining them. Therefore, although there were constant friction between the two sides, it didn't escalate. Even if Lesas wanted to teach them a lesson, he couldn't.
"Actually, I've thought about it carefully these past few days. We just want to take back the mine and teach the local Drow people a lesson so that they won't dare to cause trouble again.
But what are these guys from the Kandla Empire trying to do?
Why are they suddenly getting involved? "Lesas suddenly asked with a puzzled expression.
"I don't know." Freud sighed softly.
"Although I've done a lot of research on human behavior and social patterns, I can't completely understand all the thoughts of you humans.
But I think … according to the principle of humans having a purpose in everything they do, the Kandla Empire must be trying to achieve something this time. "
"Nonsense." Lesas glared at Freud.
"They don't have a purpose at all. Why would the Kandla Empire send two thousand people here? Do they have nothing better to do?"
Then he knit his brows, "But I can't think of any benefits for the Candra Empire in doing this. Could it be that they want to take a part in this mine?
But the Kandla Empire is so big and has so many mines. Why would they want to compete with us for this inconspicuous mine?
It's not worth it … "
Freud shook his head. "Captain, don't think about these questions anymore.
Didn't you always say that we're just guards of the Chamber of Commerce and we just need to follow orders from above? Why should we think so much? "
Lesas frowned and thought for a long time. Then he clapped his hands and relaxed his expression.
"You're right!
This has nothing to do with me. Why would I want to come here?
We'll do whatever the higher-ups want us to do.
Speaking of which, what did they want us to do? "
Freud didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "They want us to restore order in the mine and ensure its safety. They want us to wait for the Chamber of Commerce to send someone else to restore order."
"That's not all. There's more …"
"Captain, you're acting up again …" Freud sighed helplessly.
"Our other mission is to rescue the missing members of the Chamber of Commerce. But now they …"
Lesas raised his hand and interrupted him. He tidied up his clothes and said energetically, "Very well. Let's go and carry out the other mission now.
Our colleagues from the Chamber of Commerce are still missing. We can't just sit here and do nothing. We need to hurry and ask the witnesses. "
Freud reached out his hand, but he couldn't even catch the corner of Lesas' clothes.
Seeing that Lesas was already striding toward the camp of the Kandla Empire, Freud didn't dare to delay. He waved his hand and signaled the twenty guards who had been following them to chase after Lesas.
The two soldiers in the Kandla Empire's uniform who were guarding the camp saw Lesas and the others approaching from afar. They immediately tensed up and became alert.
"Stop!
This is the Kandla Empire's military camp. You are not allowed to enter without permission! "One of the soldiers shouted.
Lesas curled his lips in disdain and said loudly, "Don't talk nonsense. Go in and tell your captain, Uther, that I'm here for my people. He has five minutes to hand them over to me. Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!"
"Impolite?"
A strange voice sounded from inside the Kandla Empire's camp. Then, a thin middle-aged man wearing an ordinary noble's uniform instead of the Kandla Empire's uniform came out.
"Captain Lesas, how are you going to be impolite?"
Lesas glanced at him, then turned his head and said coldly, "Scram to the side. I'm looking for Captain Uther, not a sissy like you."
The middle-aged man flew into a rage and pointed at Lesas.
"Who are you calling a sissy?
You're just a small guard captain of a chamber of commerce. How dare you speak so rudely to a respected Count of the Kandla Empire!
Soldiers, seize him! "
The two Kandla Empire soldiers on the left and right of the camp's gate looked at each other with troubled expressions.
Not to mention that they had received strict orders not to casually clash with the New Flyer's guards, even without this strict order, how could the two of them dare to make a move against more than twenty people?
Seeing that the two soldiers didn't react, Count Count was so angry that he stomped his feet. He pointed at Lesas, his lips trembling. He wanted to curse, but he didn't dare to open his mouth.
Although he had only been in contact with the New Flyer's guards for less than three days, this Count Zidar of the Kandla Empire's Southeast Province had fully experienced the rudeness and unreasonableness of this New Flyer's guard captain. He knew that reasoning with him was meaningless, and cursing him was even more useless.
Fortunately, at this moment, a robust young man wearing the uniform of a Kandla Empire officer walked out from behind him and helped Count Zidar out of his predicament.
"Lesas, what are you doing here again?"
Captain Uther frowned when he saw Lesas and the elven man beside him, Floyd, who had a helpless smile.
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of something.
The higher-ups said that you can interrogate those witnesses for three days. Now that three days have passed, shouldn't you return them to us? "Lesas said.