1132 Undercurrent
pAnDa (nov)e1 Date- 4 April 2321
Time- 12:13
Location- Central Region, Central Capital, Unknown, Field Marshal’s Office
Demigod Baylor did not bother to answer Lois and turned to leave the field marshal’s office. But paused as he opened the office door, hearing Henricks say, “General, once this ordeal is laid to rest, we can discuss your place in the real government.”
Demigod Baylor did not turn around, just nodded his head in response as he walked out of the office and closed the door behind him. Seeing this Lois frowned and sternly enquired Henricks, “Field Marshal, are you sure he will get on board without making any waves?”
“Once the helplessness of their situation becomes a reality, they always come around and cozy up to their new identity. Aren’t I the living example,” Henricks assured Lois.
“Then why did you not go into the details when explaining my physique to him, particularly about the fact that as the price of using my miracle, the boy will be crippled for life,” Lois asked, feeling that if Henricks was this confident about his disciple following his footstep then why did he not choose to be forthcoming about everything to his disciple right from the get-go.
“Because there’s a chance that thing might not get to that point,” said Henricks.
“Whatever, I think it would have been best if you had told him the entire truth,” Lois did not agree with how Henricks handled the recruitment of demigod Baylor. And then recalling something she added, “Speaking of recruiting, we got the news that Asong Young has been cured of her chronic disease. Do you still want to recruit her? Others feel that Asong will not be able to see our bigger picture.”
“So we help her see it. Considering her sense of justice and compassion it will be a simple task. And now that she has a long life to look forward to, it will be easier for her to see what we see,” Henricks has an eye for innocent talents, whom he believed to be worthy to carry his dream under his guidance. This was the other side of Henricks he did not show to his disciples, it is because of this fanatic side of his that he was able to form a firm foothold among the shadows that governed the current government despite coming from a humble background.
“Fine, I will have someone reach out to her but before you officially recruit her, she will have to undergo screening for the second time,” Lois was not surprised by Henricks’s new side because this was the side of Henricks she was most familiar with.
“Knowing Asong that is not necessary but if that is what it takes for you to calm your nerves about her being recruited then sure go ahead and do as you see fit however don’t break her in the process,” Henricks spoke nonchalantly, and then switched the topic asking Lois, “What about the Dungeon relocation experiment conducted by Dr. Luna? Were our operatives lurking among the demon worshippers successful in their mission?”
“Unfortunately no, instead we lost a lot of good people,” Lois said, feeling pity for the agents that died in action.
“What happened? Why am I hearing of this now,” Henricks was enraged that he was not informed about the result of the mission until he, himself, asked for it.
Henricks’s rage was justified as he was the mastermind behind the plan to leak the news about dungeon relocation apparatus being borrowed by the southern royal family to demon worshippers in order to use them to get their agents to infiltrate the experiment conducted by the southern royal family and get the clear picture of what the southern royal family was really up to down in the sky blossom city, was it a ruse to distract them from the real action and if not, should they be worried about it?
“Field Marshal, the agents involved were the secret force of the government. I am only sharing the mission results out of courtesy please try and understand,” Lois did not flinch in face of Henricks anger and calmly handled him.
Listening to Lois, Henricks swallowed his anger knowing the secretive nature of the organization, and enquired Lois about the specifics of mission execution, “What happened? Have the demon worshippers grown so weak that they could not even put up a fight against the small temporary base of the southern watch? Then what’s the point of still maintaining their existence, we should just wipe them out.”
“Hold that thought, they were strong and fully prepared, even managed to summon a Devil but luck did not favor them. Turns out that his majesty Heatsend has already chosen his granddaughter Anna as the next heir to the southern region. She made use of the array covering the southern region and slayed the Devil summoned by the demon worshipers. This operation was doomed to fail from the start not because the demon worshipers were not strong or our agents were not prepared enough, instead our intel was outdated. No point crying over it now. At least one good thing came out of this, we now know who the next generation leader of the southern region is going to be,” Lois explained why the demon worshipers and their agents failed the mission, apparently, it was not that they weren’t prepared or strong enough but they had bad intel.
“What is old Heatsend thinking? Considering his erratic nature I can understand him not passing the throne to his son but at the least, he should care about the southern region and its people that he and his ancestors have been protecting for centuries. Why her? Everyone knows that girl is bad news. If he was not satisfied by his son he could have just chosen his daughter, except for her taste in men and obvious shortcoming in growing her child, I heard that she has the making of a brave general and a wise minister,” Henricks commented, hearing that Anna was chosen to be the next ruler of the southern region.
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