All Rhodes Island Spec Ops Team Amiya hands, as per our plan, we will work with the Self-Salvation Corps and launch an ambush on the Londinium Defense Force's command tower.
Amiya
We have only one objective: obtain the message logs from the defense system about the Sarkaz supply line.
Amiya
These messages will determine the success or failure of our entire Londinium operation.
Amiya
And that's... even if we most likely can no longer stop Theresis from declaring war on the dukes.
Amiya
But if we get our hands on this information, we'll have a chance to slow the pace of the war and reduce the sacrifices that come with it to a minimum.
Amiya
We may have come well-prepared, but we need to expect the unexpected.
Amiya
All of us know in our hearts that, in the coming war, each battle will be more difficult than the last.
Amiya
But we came all this way for the same, unshakable goal.
The Sarkaz army has been quick to mobilize lately.
Victorian Soldier
Yes, Lt. Colonel.
Victorian Soldier
Everyone has been saying... saying...
Lt. Colonel Lettou
Saying what?
Victorian Soldier
They've been saying that the Sarkaz are going to strike the dukes' forces soon. When that happens, they will throw us onto the battlefield as their cannon fodder.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
......
Victorian Soldier
My apologies, Lt. Colonel. I've spoken out of turn.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
No, I don't blame you.
Victorian Soldier
We all trust you, sir. We all know how difficult it is to negotiate with the Sarkaz... but you've done it.
Victorian Soldier
All these years, it was you who kept us safe.
Victorian Soldier
Even the time the Duke of Stafford revolted. If it wasn't for how accurate your judgment was, I would've been killed long ago by the rebels' cannonfire!
Victorian Soldier
You saved us time and again, and you protected this city from all sorts of conspiracies.
Victorian Soldier
As long as you're behind the decision, not one of us will question it.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
...I know that.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
It's precisely because I know that...
Lt. Colonel Lettou
What's that sound in the streets down there?
Victorian Soldier
It's the cargo track... They must be transporting construction material for the Sarkaz.
Save your breath, unless you are willing to cough up the coin.
Victorian Soldier
Mercenaries... Who sent you? Which duke?
Rockrock
We don't know any dukes, and they certainly wouldn't know us.
Victorian Soldier
Are... Are you the rebels?
Rockrock
We're the Londinium Citizens' Self-Salvation Corps.
Victorian Soldier
Self-... Salvation Corps...
Rockrock
You know what this is about.
Rockrock
You should've been the ones fighting the Sarkaz, but you chose to raise the white flag. That left us no choice but to rise up ourselves.
Victorian Soldier
Hold your ground! Don't let them into the tower!
Clovisia
Soldier.
Clovisia
You're Victorian, aren't you?
Victorian Soldier
...I am.
Clovisia
Twenty thousand Defense Forces men are stationed across the city.
Clovisia
Aside from those who were killed or captured, every last one of them is bound to the land they stand on by the same order, becoming an accessory to Sarkaz crimes.
Clovisia
There is no way you are not aware that the Sarkaz will soon be launching a war on all of Victoria.
Clovisia
When that time comes, will you still stand with the Sarkaz against your own friends and family?
Victorian Soldier
......
Clovisia
Perhaps all you want is to survive. But you are not Sarkaz. You will never truly earn their trust. Once the war begins in earnest, they could abandon you at any moment.
Victorian Soldier
......
Clovisia
I can see your hesitation. In the end, you are only footmen. It is the man who gives your orders, not you, who we must confront.
Clovisia
So, stand aside.
Victorian Soldier
......
Victorian Soldier
Do not give ground. Not one of you! We will hold the line here!
Lt. Colonel! The enemy is attacking the defensive line!
Victorian Soldier
No idea where or how they came, all of a sudden. Even if they snuck along the cargo track and managed to slip past the Sarkaz checkpoints on the surface, there's no way they could've gotten through the tower's surveillance system.
Victorian Soldier
Unless someone hacked the system and took down all the sentinels within a very short period of time...
Victorian Soldier
But... That's impossible!
Victorian Soldier
I... er!
???
Nothing is impossible.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
......
A shadow flies toward him.
He can smell the scent of death. Unlike the sense of viscous suffocation he felt before the Sanguinarch of Vampires, he knows he will die a quick and relatively painless death.
Which is why he chose not to pointlessly attempt a dodge.
Lt. Colonel Lettou
Nngh—!
???
Out of my way!
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Manfred
...Rhodes Island.
Manfred
So you've come after all.
Manfred
Ascalon... How long has it been?
Manfred
Nine days ago, when you barged into Westhaleg, were you also prepared to brandish the weapon the General bestowed upon you directly at him, as you are doing now?
