Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 451.1: Veteran Sis-con (1)

The crackling campfire and clanging armor of patrolling soldiers could be heard clearly amidst the silent night. Roel lay inside his sleeping bag, staring restlessly at the beam of moonlight falling into his tent. In the end, he gave up and slowly made his way toward the table.

Sitting on the table was a war report he had flipped through many times now, but still, he couldn’t stop himself from frowning when he looked at it. The contents left him feeling too uneasy.

“To actually allow Alicia on the battlefield… What in the world is my father thinking?” Roel murmured under his breath in frustration.

It was one of the rare times he complained about Carter. In truth, his reaction was already much calmer than how he was actually feeling, evident from his decision to hasten their marching pace for the past day.

It all happened when an emergency report arrived in the evening, while his army was in the midst of building a temporary camp. It contained information about the movements of the Sezes’ troops, their countermeasure against the Sezes’ aggression, and the military dispatch order for Roel.

Roel wasn’t surprised about the enemy’s movement at all. The important mission Carter had entrusted him with gave him a rare spurt of fighting will in this infighting among humankind, for he knew that the fight with the Sezes was where the crux of the battle lay.

If they failed to hold back the Sezes’ troops, the Theocracy’s allied army would swiftly fall into a bad position. On the other hand, if they succeeded, there was a good chance that they could end the internal war in a single swoop while avoiding the interference of the Austine Empire.

In comparison, the siege on Edgar City was, paradoxically, of lesser importance.

That was exactly what Roel wanted—the opportunity to stand at the center of the battlefield and pop the Austine Empire’s swelling ambition. However, when he saw a familiar name in the team that was dispatched to stall the Sezes’ troops, his mind suddenly went blank.

Alicia Ascart.

Roel had known that it was only

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