Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 685: Accountability

In the blink of an eye, it was already dusk, but the high-altitude battlefield above the canyon was still blazing. Originally, the Catu starships had the potential to counterattack with the Grai Giants. However, with the passage of time and the lack of tactical support, the disadvantages of the foreign fleet began to appear. Under the steady attack of the Federation Squadron, the air battlefield of the foreign squadrons began to shrink. They abandoned their previous strategy of desperate attacks and took the initiative to defend instead.

However, this situation was even worse. Neither the Catu nor the Grai were skilled in defense, and the defensive line they constructed was full of holes. However, after killing a Dark Titan in the daytime for Comon, the remaining Dark Titans retreated into the army. One was to avoid the possibility of confronting the Federation experts, and the other was to guard the army, so that the Federation Squadron would not dare to approach them too close.

As the air battlefield battles raged, the ground battlefield gradually entered a white-hot stage. Following the breakthrough of the middle and outer regions of the canyon by the hunting squads and the death-spreading ground forces, the flames of war had already begun to spread to the second-tier theatre. This place was only a step away from the final position of the general attack, but the intensity of the battle was not inferior to the battlefield in the air.

At this point, the hunting mission was over. Many teams returned to the camp and waited for the final outcome of the war. However, there were also unwilling troops that followed the main force of the army into the war zone and continued to accumulate military merits. However, the Second Grade Theater of Operations was not comparable to the outer defensive lines. The Catus had five main barracks stationed here, and each barracks had close to a thousand troops stationed there. With the help of a hundred Grai giants, this ground war was extremely difficult to fight.

The battle lasted from daytime to nighttime. Two of the five main barracks were knocked out, and the remaining three barracks were more than enough to maintain the defensive line in the war zone. Even though the Federation had the advantage, they had paid nearly a thousand casualties. Especially those hunting squads that followed the army. Due to their lack of control over them, many teams did not listen to their advice, resulting in heavy casualties, including some that were annihilated. After the battle ended today and the statistics of the camp staff showed that the casualty figures were released in the form of battle reports, the Hunting Group had lost more than 200 people in the battle today. Nearly 80% of them had died in the Second Grade Theater of Operations. This figure was already quite shocking.

After all, the total number of members participating in the Frost War was only around five hundred. And today's battle, more than half of it was lost. It was unknown how many young people had high hopes for their families, and they were sleeping on the battlefield of another country like this.

In the Federation Camp, many people looked at the circulating real-time battle reports on the screen and sighed endlessly. At this time, there was a commotion in the direction of the camp gate, and a few more troop carriers drove into the camp. As soon as the flying car entered, the ambulance soldiers in the camp rushed forward. Then, they lifted off the flying car and all the Federation soldiers with varying degrees of injuries. The emergency area was already packed with people. There were so many soldiers waiting to use the body repair machine that they had to queue up until tomorrow morning. Some of the seriously injured people didn't even have time for first aid before they finally swallowed their breath in the camp.

In this situation, the ambulance soldiers could only prepare their appearances and put them into their frozen corpse bags, waiting for them to be transported back to Earth for burial. These war dead who died in the camp were lucky. They could at least return to their hometown, but countless corpses did not exist. They could not even retrieve their nameplates.

This is war.

In one of the personnel carriers, a few people jumped down safely. When the paramedics came forward to examine them, they were stopped by a tall man in black armor. Seeing that the other party was carrying a war hammer covered in spikes, the ambulance soldiers dispelled their thoughts of questioning and ran towards the other wounded people tactfully. The ambulance soldier was happy that the other party had refused to take the initiative to examine him. After all, there were so many wounded soldiers, but the number of ambulances was limited.

After Raynor sent the ambulance, he said to Regis, "You accompany His Highness back to the dormitory."

"What about you?"

"I'm going to settle the score with the people in the command room!" Reina said with a gloomy expression.

After withdrawing from the valley belt, they encountered a few more enemies on their way back. Finally, they arrived at a gathering point in the theatre, and were able to return to the camp safely in a personnel carrier. Lucy raised her head and said, "Me too. They have to give an explanation."

'"Your Highness, I know you're angry and worried about Alan. But now, I think you need to rest the most. This matter has allowed me to come forward. Although we are not a wealthy family, we are not cowards who dare not say a word at the mercy of others." Raynor strode towards the command center of the camp with a fiery aura.

Regis pulled Lucy, who nodded helplessly.

In the command room of the camp, several colonels were deducing the details of the ground war, preparing for tomorrow's battle. A soldier ran in panicked and reported to a steady middle-aged colonel, "Colonel Seres, Rainer of the Bescord family requests a meeting with General Catherine."

"Nonsense!" Colonel Seres stroked the thick beard on his chin and said, "The general is currently in command of the airship. How can I see him and send him away?"

At the end of his words, a few soldiers outside the door screamed and fell a few times. However, they were clearly unharmed and quickly got up from the ground. However, everyone looked at the door with panic on their faces. Seres saw that the door was suddenly filled with a figure. Holding onto his warhammer, Reina strode in with murderous intent. "What are you doing? Is this where you come and go? Get out of here!" Seres cursed.

"What a powerful official, but a colonel dares to point fingers at me?" Reina sneered.

Seres' expression changed. He came from the surface of the earth, and as a commoner, he had paid a great price for coming to this position step by step. Normally, what the colonel looked down on the most was the faces of the nobles' children. Clearly, Reina had displayed the nobles' arrogance and rudeness to the fullest. Seres' eyes immediately turned cold as he said, "Even Beth Cod has to observe military discipline in the army. Don't think that aristocratic families can do whatever they want. If you really think so, I will make you regret it!"

Rainer laughed out loud, and when Selis's face turned green with laughter, he lowered his head and said, "No matter what, we can't compare to your federal army when it comes to doing whatever we want, can we?"

"What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Reina's pupils narrowed as he bellowed, "If your army didn't act so recklessly, why is it that I, Beth Cod, have been given a far cry from the actual situation? It was clearly stated in the mission that our target was only a defensive fort, but in reality, the route of the march sent us to the main barracks on the enemy's ground!"

"Is this a mission? This is asking us to die!" '"I, Beth Cod, am not a rich family, but if anyone thinks that I can do something dirty to us, our family will be willing to accompany us to the end. Even your Federal Army dares to provoke us. I wonder if you, Colonel, can shoulder such a responsibility." Lena said coldly.

Seres was immediately speechless. If Reina had caused trouble for no reason, then Seres would not have taken it to heart. But if Reina's accusations weren't groundless, then the problem would be huge. With Beth Cod's momentum over the past two years, there were already people who had predicted that in ten years, this clan would definitely be crowded into a wealthy clan. Even the federal government was unwilling to offend such a large clan, let alone a commoner colonel.

Moreover, if what Reina said was true, then Seres had no reason to provoke him. If Bescord's mission was maliciously modified, it would need to be explained by Colonel Caesar, who was in charge of issuing the mission, and there was no need for him, Selis, to forcefully stand up for him.

"Mr. Reiner," the colonel said, "your accusations are serious. I want to know, what evidence do you have?"

"Evidence? You still want to use evidence to fool me at this time?" "There were five of us when we left the camp, but there were only three when we came back," Rainer laughed angrily. The ones who haven't come back are Alan and Belmond. As long as you pay a little attention to their previous battle performance and strength assessment, you'll know that a mere fifty-man fort won't be able to leave the two of them behind. If we hadn't encountered a commander-level opponent and a dozen bloody warriors, do you think we would have lost our men and returned? And now, you want me to produce evidence! "

The killing intent was like a tide, and the command room was like a storm, filled with the aura of Raynor's anger sweeping through every corner. The non-combat staff officers trembled and looked helplessly at the colonels.

Serene's face turned green and red. With Reina's status, he didn't need to lie. However, this meant that a high-ranking official in the army had used the convenience of his official position to make a vicious move against Beth Cod. Not to mention that there were only five people in their hunting squad, even if the regular army that had spread the news of their deaths crashed into the enemy's main barracks, they would still have to fight hard. Hearing that there were still bloody warriors, Rena's credibility was even higher.

After all, it was only during the surface war today that the military learned that the Catus' bloody warriors had also participated in this war. That was the armed forces of the Barbarian Stone Star Temple. Apart from the military, the outside world knew that it was wrong. Since Rena could call him a bloody warrior, it meant that what he said was probably true.

When Colonel Selis did not know how to step down, a cold aura gushed in from outside the command room, which suppressed Raynor's murderous aura. Rainer turned around and saw a black cloak burning in his eyes. Catherine's black and gray ponytail jumped into his eyes. The youngest female general of the Federation glanced at Rainer and said, "This is not as simple as you think. I already know about your quest being replaced." We are also investigating the culprit, and we are actively carrying out rescue work for your missing members at the same time. Mr. Reiner, please believe that the Federal Army isn't that stupid to do such a thing. "

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