The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 214 Night Raid on the Train Station, Encounter with a Group of Five Players

"...I see. Since they're willing to search, let them search at their leisure. As long as these guys don't interfere with my normal operations, that's fine!"

Andrei shrugged, not saying directly what he meant.

Theoretically speaking, he shouldn't have known that one of his soldiers had obtained the Holy Relic; he didn't even know what it was.

But then again, if one's own soldiers were to obtain the holy remains and actually be nurtured into living saints, that would truly be defying the heavens.

Recalling the terrifying scene of the frozen battlefield, Andrei couldn't help but drool.

If a player who has been transformed into a living saint were to fight for you, how bizarre would the scene be?
However, considering that the transformation of this living saint seemed to be very troublesome, and that it seemed to require faith and God or something, he felt a headache coming on.

In general, although this Living Saint has an extra strange thing called the Remains of the Saint, in the end, this thing is still no different from the Living Saint in the Warhammer world, and can be considered a higher level of God-chosen.

Without God's approval, these living saints would obviously have no power.

After bringing Yelena and the division's field hospital over, Andrei was once again caught up in a flurry of activity.

It must be said that after becoming a division commander, he had to do much more than when he was a regimental commander.

If it weren't for his deputy and a group of staff officers who helped him with everything from battle plans to logistical preparations, he felt he would have fainted on the spot.

There was no way around it; after all, he had never received formal military training. The education his predecessor received at the military academy had long been forgotten due to amnesia. Moreover, it seemed that his predecessor had never seriously studied at the military academy.

But it doesn't matter. Andrei has a full understanding of himself, so he delegates most of the work to his staff officers. As the division commander, he only needs to choose one of the plans prepared by his staff officers.

Or rather, this is actually the true purpose of a staff officer.

The staff can analyze the data and help the commander notice many details that are usually overlooked. They can also offer advice and suggestions, and the commander's job is to make decisions on these strategies.

This is similar to the military advisors in ancient times. To put it bluntly, the military advisors in ancient times were responsible for devising strategies, but the actual command of the army to carry out these strategies still depended on the commander.

If the commander disagrees, or if the commander feels that another strategist's plan is better, then the original strategist's plan is useless, as he cannot directly command the army by bypassing the general.

According to Andrei's understanding, the Cambrian Empire's staff officers did not perform very well in this regard. Often, noble lords preferred to place their own sons in staff officer positions.

After all, staff officers also have military ranks, and they usually stay in the command post, so they don't encounter any danger.

Moreover, even if they were incompetent, they wouldn't be so easily discovered while in a staff officer position.

As long as they speak and do little in their daily lives and remain completely transparent, they at least won't make any mistakes that could bring them big trouble.

Thinking of this, Andrei couldn't help but thank his father for replenishing his army.

After all, most of the officers in his army were commoners or fallen nobles, the kind of people who had no family background and could only rely on their own hard work to get there.

Therefore, these people must have exceptional skills to have reached their current positions; they could never have climbed to their current positions simply by flattering others.

To put it bluntly, there are just too many people who know how to flatter. These days, you don't even deserve to flatter the noble lords above you if you don't have enough status and connections!
This meant that Andrei's truly capable staff officers formed a genuinely effective advisory group, so Andrei only needed to make decisions based on their analyses.

He didn't need to do some minor things himself, which not only prevented his poor basic military skills from being exposed, but also saved him a lot of trouble.

In his daily life, Andrei sees himself primarily as a player summoner and quest issuer, but also as someone who boosts morale in the army.

After winning many wars, and with the help of propaganda from various newspapers, Andrei would inspire fervent worship in his soldiers whenever he appeared before them.

After all, everything is relative. When all the officers were losing battles, Andrei was able to lead them to victory, and a rather absurd one at that. So he naturally became a role model.

Therefore, Andrei would often show his face to the soldiers, offering words of encouragement and showing concern for their daily lives.

Although these things are small, even trivial, many soldiers lack this kind of care, or rather, respect.

During the soldiers' continuous training sessions, he would watch them train and chat with them during breaks. The morale of Andrei's unit was soaring.

With their morale constantly rising and their rudimentary leadership skills, Andrei's unit didn't look like a Cambrian army at all.

Compared to other Cambrian armies, the soldiers in Andrei's unit were not apathetic at all; their eyes shone with hope.

Although on the surface the difference between the two armies is not that great, Andrei believed that this inherent difference would naturally become apparent in the future.

As night fell, the patrol teams made up of players began to roam around the city again.

It has to be said that after these players turned on the minimap, they seemed to have unlocked some new abilities, such as the skill of catching spies.

Although they didn't capture any of the enemy's hidden skin-changing people in the past two days, they managed to capture over a hundred spies hidden in the city using the minimap's marking function!
Some were spies infiltrated from Altera and the Black Hawk Empire, while others were simply saboteurs or traitors who had taken money from the enemy.

From the very beginning, these player patrols caused quite a stir in the city. Many of the captured spies and traitors repeatedly protested their innocence when confronted by the players.

Unfortunately, the players who captured them had no interest in listening to their explanations. Instead, they gleefully escorted them to Andrei's headquarters to collect their reward.

Because when they captured the first hidden traitor, all players suddenly received a completely new mission:

Capture the spies hidden in the city and the enemy's saboteurs!

The first guy captured by the players was a spy sent by the Black Hawk Empire who had been lurking here for a long time.

This guy has many years of experience living in the Cambrian Empire. He is not only very familiar with the culture and daily life of the Cambrian Empire, but he also has no problem speaking the language. He even imitates the northern accent perfectly.

When he was suddenly seized by Andrei's soldiers, he struggled and shouted that he was innocent and strongly accused the soldiers in front of him of trying to rob him.

But when the military police arrived and stormed into his house without hesitation, and found a radio inside, his expression froze.

This unscientific!

He hadn't given himself away at all; he was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night when a group of people suddenly broke down the door and dragged him out.

Judging from the soldiers' attire, he knew he hadn't been exposed; otherwise, it wouldn't have been a patrol of soldiers coming to arrest him, but rather the Tsar's special forces.

But faced with this situation, the military police who rushed over did not stop the group of soldiers immediately, but instead immediately ran to his home to search!
It's strange that the military police who rushed over didn't think that these soldiers were disturbing the peace by taking advantage of their night patrol.
Clearly, although this guy had lived in the Cambrian Empire for several years, he still didn't fully realize what kind of existence the Cambrian Empire's great nobles were.

The military police who arrived at the scene immediately recognized the soldiers' uniforms as belonging to Major General Vorontsov's troops, and specifically as Vorontsov's personal guards.

Vorontsov is from a noble family and is currently a rising war hero; these few ordinary military policemen have no right to mess with him.

Moreover, these men were soldiers under Vorontsov's command, so they would certainly not disturb the people. After all, these noble soldiers would not be owed wages easily, and they valued the honor of their noble lord more than wealth.

So without thinking, they felt that the person who had been arrested must have something wrong, and decided to search him first.

Even if nothing is found during the search, and it was just a misunderstanding of this unfortunate citizen, we can simply compensate them with some money.

Could this unfortunate citizen possibly run to the Tsar to complain about this?
After a radio was found in his home, there was no doubt that he was a spy!

With this precedent set, when players made arrests in the future, the military police who arrived would instinctively cooperate by searching the area first before discussing anything else.

Unfortunately, apart from a very few individuals with exceptional professional skills or vigilance, most people who are caught cannot escape the search.

Whether it's finding a radio in their home, discovering unwanted letters, or finding unusual money, these could all be sufficient evidence to arrest them.

During these days, Vorontsov's soldiers inexplicably gained the nickname "hunting dogs," referring to their keen sense of smell, which allowed them to detect the scent of traitors and spies even through doors.

Today, another player's patrol team discovered a red marker on the map.

"Hehehe, here it comes! Today I've finally run into a spy!"

"Damn it, I've been listening to you guys discuss espionage in the chat these past few days, but I've never actually experienced what an espionage instance in this game is like!"

Upon seeing the red dot on the map, a player who had just joined the patrol team became excited.

During these days, he heard all sorts of descriptions from other players, which made him incredibly eager to try them out.

If given the chance, he would also like to study the effectiveness of this mini-map in catching spies!

But then, as the patrol team gradually approached the distant street corner, their expressions froze.

Because they realized that the person they encountered in the suburbs this time didn't seem to be a spy!

First of all, it's highly unlikely that spies would wander all the way here during curfew, and the patrols in other places are not to be underestimated either.

Secondly, what legitimate spy group would gather dozens of people together at once, especially near a train station?

They couldn't possibly be here waiting for some night bus!
"Damn it, it seems we haven't run into spies this time, but rather an Altera sabotage squad! They've infiltrated us without us even realizing it, and they're probably trying to sabotage the train station!"

"That's strange. Where are all the other soldiers along the way? Didn't anyone notice these guys? Could this be some kind of plot device?"

The players communicated cautiously in the communication channel, while also notifying other players.

Although their patrol consisted of only five people, while the enemy in front of them numbered at least 50, they were not afraid at all.

That's just how players are; when they encounter enemies, they don't back down, they just go for it!
It doesn't matter if you die, there's a resurrection point near the train station where they can resurrect at any time.

The most important thing is to get your own merit points before the other players arrive!
So while complaining, these players launched an attack on the unsuspecting enemies not far away.

Two players in this group had just unlocked the newest psionic ability. They were initially worried that they had no other use for their skills besides interrogating spies and traitors.

This is great! Now we have ready-made targets for them to shoot at. How can we not take this opportunity to properly test the abilities of psionicists?

Previously, when these guys caught hidden spies, sometimes they didn't find physical evidence directly, and the roughnecks in the military camp weren't good at interrogation.

Therefore, the psionicist's fear ability came into play.

A psionic illusion can instantly break down a spy's mental defenses. At such a moment, a sudden interrogation can be launched, and most spies cannot withstand it.

That's why, without realizing it, the psionicists under Andrei's command seem to have almost turned themselves into torturers.

Having just silently killed the sentries guarding the train station with the help of the skin-changing humans, these Altera soldiers are now quietly planting bombs on the tracks.

According to the original plan, the mission should not have been carried out by them, but by spies who were placed here and saboteurs who had been bribed in the city beforehand.

Prior to this, they had already used their secret channels to deliver bombs and corresponding weapons to the saboteurs in the city.

If the timing is right, and some commotion is made elsewhere to draw the patrol team's attention, there's a high probability they can blow up the train station.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

No one knows what's been going on with the Cambrian Empire lately, but their intelligence network, which was originally lurking in the city, has inexplicably suffered a huge blow.

In the blink of an eye, almost all the spies and bribed traitors they left in the city were caught. Even if there were any other survivors who managed to escape, they all became cowards and dared not make any further contact.

With no other option, they had to resort to this extremely risky method: sending an elite special forces unit to dismantle the railway tracks and blow up the train station in the process.

Just then, an Alteranian soldier suddenly heard something and turned around with a grim expression.

"Watch out, someone's there! We've been spotted!"

A player was sneaking towards them. He whispered something to the person next to him while quickly pulling the trigger on his crossbow.

A crossbow bolt shot out with a whoosh, hitting the soldier squarely in the chest with a crisp clang.

Wait, where did that crisp sound come from?

Just as he was wondering what was going on, the sound of machine guns exploding suddenly rang out.

Since the five players were prepared to take on this enemy force of up to 50 men, they naturally needed to be prepared.

Needless to say, the psionicist had already hidden himself in a blind spot, and the other players also equipped themselves with special weapons and gear.

For example, one player equipped the Sentinel Set he had previously purchased, instantly transforming into a heavily armored machine gun Sentinel.

When the extremely explosive machine gun fire rang out, several Altrian soldiers who were still busy setting up bombs were immediately shot down, and the others panicked and lay down on the ground.

What the hell? Where did this monster come from?

Because it was dark, they couldn't see the enemy's appearance clearly. They could only make out, by the flash of the machine gun, that the person standing opposite them seemed to be an armored man covered in iron armor from head to toe.

Wearing such thick heavy armor, he can even lift a water-cooled machine gun weighing dozens of kilograms by hand!

What else could these be but powered armored soldiers? They've definitely been ambushed!
Almost instantly, the Altrians realized that perhaps a spy had betrayed them, or that their movements along the way had been exposed.

Although their operation was completely sudden, according to the spies' testimonies, the Cambrian people might not have been unaware that they were about to launch a sabotage operation in this direction.

Recalling how easily and silently they had eliminated the sentries along the way, they suddenly couldn't help but wonder: had they really eliminated the sentries along the way so easily?

Is it possible that the sacrifice of these sentries was actually a ruse by the Cambrian officers, intended to lower their guard and prepare for the current surprise attack?

Damn it, what a despicable and evil Cambrian Empire! They are utterly wicked!

Without a second thought, they quickly pulled out their submachine guns and began to fight back against the heavily armored sentries opposite them.

Although the sentry had successfully achieved suppressive fire with his machine gun and was constantly clearing out the enemies lying on the ground one by one, the firepower from dozens of submachine guns firing at him was also beyond his capacity to withstand.

Therefore, after taking a series of bullets, the sentry had no choice but to retreat. At the same time, he cursed into the communication channel:
"Damn it! Psionicist, what are you doing hiding here?"

The psionic player was busy figuring out how to use his skills when he suddenly saw someone tag him in the chat channel.

"Don't rush, don't rush, I'll get started right away! I was just figuring out how to use the skill!"

As he spoke, he aimed his crosshair at the officer in the distance and then silently used the Boiling Blood skill!
In an instant, the officer felt an unparalleled pain throughout his body, so terrible that he couldn't even scream.

He had never experienced this kind of pain before. When the blood flowing through his body suddenly boiled up as if it had turned into scalding water, he felt like he was going crazy from the pain.

Fortunately, this sudden pain ended quickly. The boiling blood not only burned the officer's internal organs, but also cooked his brain, destroying his central nervous system in the blink of an eye.

The soldiers nearby were confused. They only heard their captain groan, and then he fell to the ground silently with a thud.

One of the soldiers crept over quietly, wanting to see what was wrong with his captain, but he suddenly felt his blood boil!

After killing two soldiers in succession with the Boiling Blood skill, the psionic player looked at the numbers in front of him with a bit of speechlessness.

"No way, I only used two skills, how did my crisis level already reach over 70?"

"This psionicist's crisis level is increasing way too fast! Even the Dark Tide psionicist's crisis level didn't increase this dramatically!"

Even though the crisis value was rapidly cooling down when he wasn't using spells, players still couldn't help but complain.

Generally speaking, the concept of a psionicist does have its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages.

The advantage is that he can find any nook or cranny to hide in and use the markers on the minimap to kill people.

Moreover, he took down two enemies in a row without either of them noticing his location, killing them silently and with great stealth.

However, the downside is that this unit has very poor endurance. Once it encounters a large-scale battle, it feels that it would be difficult to fight against a large number of enemies.

After taking a few slow breaths and seeing his crisis value drop to around 30, the psionic player chose the Fear skill this time.

In an instant, all the enemy soldiers in a large area saw various illusions appear before their eyes, each corresponding to something that they would fear.

Some saw an incredibly ugly and enormous reptile; some saw their young child in their home beheaded; and some saw their hard-earned savings of many years turn to ashes in a single flame.

The various fears caused these soldiers' psychological defenses to crumble in an instant.

Although many of them recovered from their fear after only a dozen seconds, their sudden jump quickly made them easy targets for other players.

Hidden in the shadows, the scout player took down three Altranian soldiers one by one, like target practice, while another assault soldier threw a series of grenades in their direction.

The continuous explosions and gunfire, coupled with the machine gun fire from the heavily armored sentries ahead, completely overwhelmed the special forces unit.

Despite their high level of training, it was quite difficult for them to engage in direct firefights with the enemy in such a relatively open area, especially since the enemies around them were all more inhuman than human.

Needless to say, they were able to silently hit their snipers in the dark, from a distance of hundreds of meters.

But what are these guys who can throw a grenade in a second, like human artillerymen, and the powered armored heavy machine gunners in front of me?
Letting them engage in a firefight with these monsters and freaks in open terrain, even if they are elite soldiers, would be useless.

Moreover, their special operations force is not a professionally trained unit like the Black Hawk Empire's.

To date, only two empires in the world, Black Hawk and Nightless Empire, have planned to train professional special forces, which are a bunch of outrageous units mixed together, making their combat power extremely abnormal.

Aside from that, teams like theirs are at best infiltration squads composed of elite veterans; they simply can't fight against these inhuman opponents.

"Retreat! Retreat quickly! There are mages here!"

"There must be a hidden enemy mage here. I just encountered an illusion!"

An Altera soldier shouted in panic, forgetting even about the bombs that were only half-deployed.

If he were only fighting against a few strange enemy soldiers, he might still have some fighting spirit.

But isn't this asking the impossible when facing a high-ranking and unpredictable mage?

Upon hearing this, the other soldiers disregarded everything else and began to retreat into the distant woods while providing alternating cover fire.

The situation was extremely complicated, far beyond their expectations; the enemy was definitely prepared!

Otherwise, they wouldn't have encountered so many strange enemies here.

"Oh no, they're trying to escape! Quick, quick, psionicists, use your abilities to control them!"

"Okay, okay, I'll be right there!"

As he spoke, the psionicist threw another scare blast into the distance. He had now realized that the psionic flames he thought were the most powerful were not actually as effective as he had imagined.

Unfortunately, this skill, to be precise, transforms him into a flamethrower soldier with a cooldown bar who is prone to overheating.

Players who have played the flamethrower know that this unit is very dependent on terrain. If you are far away from the enemy in open terrain, this unit is useless.

What's more, at least the flamethrower soldier has a double-barreled shotgun, but this psionicist has nothing but a staff that he can use for close combat.

So, hiding in the shadows, he discovered that besides being able to use a single-target killing skill to kill people at a fixed point, the most effective skill was this mental control skill.

Another wave of illusions appeared, and immediately soldiers would fall to their knees with a thud, or perform some other abstract action.

Under normal circumstances, players might be interested in seeing how many abstract behaviors these NPCs can perform, and perhaps marvel at how many patterns there are in the game's NPC behavior library.

But at this time, they are busy fighting for kills, so they don't have time to study the abstract behavior of these guys.
So, under the machine gunner's barrage of fire, these unfortunate men were killed one after another. They were all elite veterans, but they had no power to resist and were slaughtered by the machine gun.

"Hehe, not bad. I didn't expect the game's merit accumulation system to have changed. Or maybe my skill will have some effect?"

Seeing the large sum of merit points he had just earned, the psionicist, who had just used a skill and was busy waiting for its cooldown, laughed.

Because his assist split the credits awarded to him with the machine gunner, instead of simply calculating credits based on kills as in the past.

That's good, otherwise his support skill would be useless!
If he's been supporting his teammates the whole time, but they end up getting all the kills and all the credits, and he's been working so hard but hasn't gotten anything, wouldn't that be a huge loss?
Ignoring his teammates' words, the machine gunner continued firing his machine gun, desperately chasing down the enemy who was trying to escape into the woods.

He didn't want these guys to sneak into the woods, and then he had to run out into the woods to fight the enemy.

Putting aside the fact that the machine gunners were slow, the complex terrain of the forest alone made him reluctant to venture deeper, as he risked being killed if he wasn't careful.

Just as the machine gunner was busy firing, he suddenly heard his comrade Aite remind him:

"Watch out for the skin-changing people here!"

He looked back and discovered that the assault soldiers and scouts in his team had been silently wiped out by the enemy!
He hadn't even noticed, and had no idea when his two teammates had died!
Just then, he saw a small red dot on the minimap rapidly approaching him. Without hesitation, the machine gunner quickly aimed his gun at his side and unleashed a burst of fire.

Unfortunately, all the bullets hit empty ground and failed to strike any enemy.

Just as he was pondering what was going on, he suddenly thought of the sky, and then he saw a large bird descend from the sky and swoop straight towards him.

The owl, which seemed to have flown in from nowhere, transformed in mid-air into a tall man in a tight-fitting military uniform.

Using the momentum of his fall, he gripped the dagger tightly and stabbed it viciously into the body of the machine gunner in front of him.

Click!

He stabbed him with his knife, and the poor dagger snapped in two. The machine gunner, however, was unharmed and stared in astonishment at the man who had fallen from the sky.

Damn it! This can't be!
Seeing that the knife in his hand had broken, the skin-changing man's expression was extremely surprised. This knife was a plated metal weapon imported from the Black Hawk Empire!
Theoretically speaking, with the power he just used, even if the enemy was wearing power armor, he should have been able to pierce through it with one strike. There's no reason why he couldn't pierce through this armored man in front of him!

But clearly, he didn't know that the Sentinel's heavy armor made him immune to melee attacks from the front.

In the game, trench troops cannot damage sentries from the front, and cavalry wielding spears and sabers also cannot cut down sentries from the front. This game feature seems to have been inherited here as well.

Glancing at the skin-changing man who had landed in front of him, seemingly unsure of his purpose, the machine gunner, feeling sorry for the deaths of his two teammates, picked up his machine gun and began firing at the man's chest.

The skin-changing man lay on the ground, staring unhappily at his shattered chest, then at his broken dagger, his eyes flashing with despair.

Damn it, how could a master assassin like him die one day because of an unreliable dagger!

Damn it! They said Black Hawk weapons were all top-notch, but how come Black Hawk Empire also produces counterfeit and inferior products?

Although this assassination attempt by the swapper turned into a joke due to the player's own characteristics.

However, he did buy time for his teammates during the battle.

Without the cover of the machine gunner, the remaining teammates fled into the woods and were already far away in the blink of an eye.

The psionicist, hiding in the shadows, quickly used his Blood Boil skill to kill two more guys, but he was no longer able to hunt.

Looking at his slowly decreasing crisis value, he couldn't help but wonder if he should just buy a Krieg Psionic skin.

Buying a skin only costs 18, which isn't expensive, and it can also reduce your psionic overheating rate.

However, at this time, the most important thing is to quickly wipe out the fleeing enemies in the distance!
Just as he was urging the machine gunner to set up his gun and continue firing, a roaring engine sound suddenly came from behind.

Hearing this noise, the two players exchanged a glance and immediately thought of their missing fifth teammate.

"Damn it, that sixth brother! Where did he hide before?"

Unable to resist cursing, the machine gunner angrily looked into the distance, and then he saw a T-34 tank emerging from the darkness, driving towards him like a roaring beast.

The tanks that suddenly rushed out from the open space on the side of the train station terrified the fleeing Altera soldiers.

Before they could react, the machine guns on the front of the tank spewed fire, and a barrage of bullets swept straight into their ranks.

Machine gun fire from the side appears to be more deadly than machine gun fire from the rear, because from the side viewpoint, the fleeing enemies actually form a relatively loose column.

This means that a single machine gun bullet can potentially penetrate multiple enemies, and enemies positioned in a more densely packed manner will naturally suffer greater casualties when facing a machine gun.

Under such intense machine gun fire, and the crossfire from the sentries behind them, not a single Altranian soldier could escape their hunt.

The last Altrian soldier looked towards the forest ahead, his eyes gleaming with hope, but the massive tank hurtling towards him from the side mercilessly crushed that hope.

By the time the other players arrived, the battle was already over.

A group of players looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground, as well as the three surviving players, and cursed the guys in front of them as beasts.

"You beasts! You three have taken all the credit of so many people!"

Players who had rushed out of the barracks with great enthusiasm saw this scene and their hearts finally died.

He could swear that he had done his best to rush this way, charging with bayonets all the way while wearing the Krieg skin, running at lightning speed.

Even so, he still failed to catch up with the last of these Altranian soldiers, which made him cry out in despair.

Anyone who didn't know better would think this guy was on the side of the Altrians and was suffering because his support hadn't arrived in time.

"Ahem, just a reminder, our patrol team consists of five people in total. The other two were killed in action, not that they didn't earn any merit!"

As soon as the psionicist finished speaking, a soldier standing in the crowd immediately shouted at him:

"Nonsense! I didn't get many kills before I was killed by a giant bird that fell from the sky. When I respawned and rushed back out, I found that everyone had been killed by you!"

"Especially that old sixth guy who drove the tank, you ended up getting all the kills!"

The sudden outbreak of battle here immediately alerted the garrison in the city.

Not only players rushed over, but also more troops. Then they saw the corpses scattered all over the ground, and explosives lying carelessly by the roadside, with detonators still attached.

Andrei was awakened from his sleep by the sudden noise of gunfire outside. He switched to trench warfare mode with a single click, grabbed his assault baton, and rushed outside, where he bumped into Yelena, who had just run out of the next room.

Yelena looked at Andrei, who was clad in heavy armor and carrying a spiked club, with an extremely confused expression.

"Uh, Andrei...you didn't suffer from some kind of psychological trauma due to continuous combat, did you?"

"I suggest you ask Uncle Constantine if you have the time, and go back to Peterdel for a rest for a while. I think you're overdoing it!"

Andrei opened his mouth, unsure how to explain for a moment.

He could swear that he was not the kind of pervert who would sleep in heavy armor and hold a spiked club.

But apart from this explanation, there doesn't seem to be any other reason to explain how he managed to put on this heavy armor and pick up the spiked club in just ten seconds.

"I swear, I didn't wear this thing while sleeping. I just wore it because I was bored!"

"You know, men sometimes have those weird thoughts..."

Despite Andrei's desperate attempts to explain, Yelena's expression clearly showed disbelief.

The awkward silence was broken when an officer who suddenly arrived reported what had just happened to Andrei.

Quite inexplicably, Andrei and his soldiers had once again distinguished themselves.

Not only did they capture a bunch of spies and traitors, but they also thwarted the enemy's plot to blow up the train station. Many people looked at Andrei with strange eyes, and a group of officers felt their scalps tingle.

Damn it! Major General, how come your men appear everywhere?

Could it be that Major General Vorontsov was not only blessed by the goddess of summer, but also favored by the goddess of winter?
Thinking about this, many people couldn't help but curse inwardly, "What kind of amazing protagonist is this?"
Being chosen by two gods simultaneously is a rare occurrence in the history of the Cambrian Empire!
And if Andrei wasn't chosen by the Goddess of Winter... wouldn't that be even more outrageous?
Even without the protection of the God of War, he still managed to achieve such amazing results and accumulate extraordinary merits.

If I were to become God's chosen one day, wouldn't I be able to take off immediately?
Thinking of all the possibilities, the officers, many of whom were old enough to be Andrei's fathers, suddenly had an amazing gleam in their eyes.

If the timing weren't so bad, they would have already recommended their daughter to Andrei. They wondered if such a talented young man was a suitable match.

It's okay, being engaged doesn't matter, we can always be lovers!

It's common for noble sons in the Cambrian Empire to have lovers outside of marriage; this is a normal phenomenon.

The next morning, as soon as Andrei emerged from his room, he received a commendation from General Sertov.

However, along with the commendation order came the Winter Church's Guardian Army, which suddenly arrived here.

(End of this chapter)