Winner Takes All

"This matter also needs to be investigated?"

Achilles was a bit stunned and said incredulously, "The mercenaries and the Oirat Army seemed to be coming for me to kill me as I had blood feuds with them when I was the Chief Guard in the past."

"Heh!"

Zenith Harol chuckled, "The Oirat Army appeared may be because their scouts have discovered your trail. There's no excuse for that, but why do a mere group of mercenaries have the qualifications to know about your patrol trail?"

Achilles was transfixed suddenly.

The next second, Zenith took a step towards outside, "Although today's matter is top secret, after a thorough investigation, it's time to get rid of the mercenaries in Northern Territory whether there're results or not. Since they dared to deal with Dragon Cavalry, they should go to the hell! With regard to the Coalition Order, it also requires to get rid of these scoundrels who are venal in advance." Bang!

The door of the room was closed.

Then Achilles just gradually recovered his wits and there was some horror in the depth of his eyes.

What Zenith said had given him a feeling of enlightenment.

Anything that happened in these endless and extremely cold snowfields of Northern Territory was not surprising at all.

Similar encounters might happen at any time just like last time which they had encountered a tracking team of the Oirat Tribe when they went out on a scout round.

It was logical that they would be discovered by the opposing scouts and attacked by a large number of soldiers as they faced the Oirat Army today.

But... on what basis did the mercenaries do that?

In the place like Northern Territory, three hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry were crushing foreign tribes across the land.

This was the top strong army!

Even though there were a lot of mercenary teams at the Northern Territory, they were mostly under suppression and stayed in a small team as Thegiant City and Dragon Cavalry were in place.

A team of five hundred mercenaries was already quite a large number.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

However, in the eyes of Dragon Cavalry, they were just useless in the Northern Territory.

Yet, they knew their route and came straight to kill them!

This was simply doing something risky!

What was more, the route of their five-member team was exposed to their eyes!

As a former Chief Guard, Achilles clearly knew the operating procedures of Dragon Cavalry, even down to every detail.

Even if the three hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry left Thegiant City and it was the easiest and safest scout round, their trails were kept strictly confidential!

Not to mention the mercenaries, even the fellow soldiers in Thegiant City would hardly know about it without intentionally probing into the situation.

"Does it mean that... there's a mole?"

Achilles's expression soon looked stern with his eyes cold, "No wonder the Commander's attitude towards the mercenaries is even harsher than towards the ten thousand people of Oirat Tribe. If there's a mole within Dragon Cavalry, it's simply a great shame!"

Traitors would be punished... that's a felony under military law!

Not to mention... Dragon Cavalry is a top strong army that personally built by Zenith and a great weapon that was unstoppable.

As the one who built it, Zenith straight away included the military law of disloyal in the highest military law regulations.

No, it was even higher than the highest military law regulation and unmatched.

Achilles was even well aware of the next decision that Zenith might make.

"If can't find out, I would rather kill all just for one."

...

Thegiant City was on top of the North Wall.

The cold wind was like a knife.

The snowstorm was severe.

Shawn stood majestically above the city wall with his fiery gaze, looked into the distance as if he could ignore the snowstorm and always showed a smug smile. "Shawn, it's time to change shifts!"

A cadre who had the same rank as Shawn walked over.

"So fast?"

He recovered his wits and felt startled.

"Fast? Don't you see all these brats under your command were frozen?"

He laughed and joked.

Shawn laughed awkwardly and quickly swapped shifts with him so that the soldiers under his command could leave. However, he remained standing on top of it.

"Why don't you return to your barracks to warm up?"

The cadre looked at him in confusion.

Standing guard was a hard job. Even though there was no thrilling battle, standing in the snowstorm and having to keep a vigilant eye out was extremely taxing on both physical strength and mind. Thus, usually the soldiers who were replaced went straight down to the walls by greasing their sole.

"No, no. I just want to see more of the blizzard."

Shawn rubbed his chin and looked at the setting sun with his deep eyes, "Nowadays, Northern Territory was all under the pressure of Dragon Cavalry. If it happened in the past, I think everyone wouldn't expect that our three thousand Dragon Cavalry could turn Northern Territory which was in chaos to become impregnable."

"Yes!"

The cadre also lamented, "It's all thanks to the Commander as his existence as an outstanding dragon, so Northern Territory was peaceful now and resulted in the glory of our three hundred thousand Dragon Cavalry!"

"I've to go down first. It's indeed cold."

After pinpointing the time, he greeted and quickly descended the city wall.

However, he was a bit hesitant.

He stopped beneath the city wall.

"Should I go and take a look?"

He frowned and hesitated for a while but he shook his head finally, "Forget about it. Since Timur wants to recruit me, he will definitely succeed and a mere five people would have to die. Even Jack and Achilles will definitely not be able to turn the tide."

A sneer appeared on his face when he was thinking of this.

Then he looked up at the wintry sky and rubbed his face.

"My brother... finally I've helped you to revenge!"

The sky gradually darkened.

It was night.

Thegiant City was brightly lit.

No matter it was day or night, as such a city, it would never have the time to slacken off.

In front of Jack's barracks, the corridor was brightly lit.

However, their barracks were dark and empty.

After half a day, a few figures just emerged from the darkness in the distance.

Zenith's face was sullen as he stared at their barracks.

There were three Golden Guard following behind him.

"Commander, we've been staring until night and there's no movement. Perhaps we've overthought?"

A Golden Guard said in his low voice.

Zenith rubbed his nose and chuckled, "He's really careful and cautious."

Three of them were stunned at the same time.

Obviously, Zenith was certain that there was a mole in Dragon Cavalry.

In fact, from the moment Zenith had found them, three of them had been taking turns to secretly observe their barracks. Even Debut Moore and Yarol who were slightly injured had been left in other barracks temporarily to ensure their barracks were dark and deserted.

If there was really a mole, he would have been watching the movements of five of them.

He kept staying there and he would be able to catch the mole if a slight hint was revealed.

However, after waiting for most of the day until late night, there was no any sign of weird movement inside the barracks.

In the next second, he said in a stern voice, "Keep watching. If there are no clues before dawn tomorrow, then investigate five of them thoroughly, catch all those people who have enmity with them to await punishment according to their social status when they entered Dragon Cavalry. Those who have enmity with Achilles should be investigated intensively!"

"Commander, isn't that too arbitrary? If all those people who feel hatred of him are tied up and sentenced, it's too far-reaching." A Golden Guard said in shock. "You're newly promoted, so I allowed you to ask such a stupid question this time."

He turned around fiercely, "There's a mole within Dragon Cavalry and that's humiliating me!" His mightiness made the Golden Guard's face to turn pale.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐