504: Find him and kill him!

Inside the tent.

Listening to the discussions of his subordinates, Handa Kento's heart surged with anger.

With this incident, all the pressure now fell on him.

Inao Kazuhisa was his Centurion; no matter what others thought, attacking Wang Chen would certainly be seen by outsiders as his instruction.

But the problem was...

He had never given that order!

If he were truly going to attack Wang Chen, he wouldn't have sent only Inao Kazuhisa's thousand-man unit.

"That bastard Inao Kazuhisa, not only did he act on his own, but he also failed!"

"If he had really killed Wang Chen, things would have been easier!"

Thinking with some regret, Handa Kento looked at his subordinates discussing in the field, feeling increasingly annoyed.

Bang, bang, bang!

"All of you, shut the hell up!"

He slammed the table several times, his eyes impatiently sweeping across his subordinates' faces:

"Now is not the time for you to argue here."

"The mess Inao Kazuhisa created, we must find a way to clean it up."

"The mainland can't give us any support for now. We can only face the Fierce Tiger Legion by ourselves."

Handa Kento quickly explained the current situation, then looked at his Centurions and asked:

"The Fierce Tiger Legion has already entered the sphere of influence of our garrison. Now we only have two choices before us: fight, or accept their demands?"

His question seemed to be directed at his Centurions, but his gaze was actually fixed on a cold-faced middle-aged man opposite him.

This person was Kiriyama Koji, the deputy officer to the Sakura Country's Wang-level expert in the Radiant Small World, a Level 230 Eight-Turn warrior. In terms of strength, only Handa Kento in the tent could compare to him.

Moreover, in terms of status, he was the deputy officer to a Wang-level expert, a rank higher than Handa Kento.

"Legion Commander Handa is right; the Fierce Tiger Legion has given us only these two choices now."

Seeing Handa Kento's gaze fixed on him, Kiriyama Koji took a sip of tea and said casually:

"However, why should we act according to their intentions?"

"Lord Kiriyama, do you mean... we have other options?"

Hearing Kiriyama Koji's words, everyone in the tent was invigorated, their faces showing expressions of anticipation.

"Exactly!"

Kiriyama Koji nodded faintly, then continued:

"Although Dragon Country has sent a strongly worded letter of accountability, and the Fierce Tiger Legion has directly entered the sphere of influence of our garrison, appearing menacing, the situation is not as bad as we think."

As he spoke, Kiriyama Koji picked up the letter of accountability on the conference table and tapped a line of text on it with his finger.

"Look, this letter says that Wang Chen's whereabouts are unknown after the assassination attempt."

"In other words, the Fierce Tiger Legion doesn't know his whereabouts either, and extending that thought, it's very possible that Wang Chen entered our garrison area after the assassination attempt."

"So now the Fierce Tiger Legion proposes to search the entire garrison area to find Wang Chen, and asking us to disarm and wait in the camp for inspection is to prevent us from finding Wang Chen first."

"Therefore, I think our current priority is to stabilize the Fierce Tiger Legion. On one hand, agree to their demands, and on the other hand, send people to search for Wang Chen."

After Kiriyama Koji's words fell, everyone in the tent couldn't help but show shock on their faces.

Those who had been worried moments ago now had shimmering eyes, their excitement evident.

Wang Chen is stranded within the Flourishing Flower Legion's garrison area?!

This meant that a great merit was right on their doorstep.

Since the Global Prodigy Competition ended, Wang Chen's potential had been recognized by everyone on Blue Star.

Even though he is only Rank 4 now, his importance is already comparable to a Wang-level expert.

Haven't you seen that just because he was assassinated, Dragon Country became enraged and exerted pressure, forcing the mainland to swallow its pride and implicitly abandon their Prosperity Legion?

If things were truly as Kiriyama Koji said, then the current situation was not trouble for them, but an opportunity.

As long as Wang Chen was found, it would not only be a great achievement, but the mainland might even go to great lengths to protect them.

"So we must find him and then kill him!"

Seeing that everyone understood his meaning, Kiriyama Koji sneered and said in an incredibly chilling tone.

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...

"Achoo!"

Wang Chen sniffled, and the wild rabbit he was roasting almost fell into the fire.

"Looks like someone is thinking about me!"

"I wonder if the Flourishing Flower Legion has made their move yet? If they disperse their forces, it will be easier for my seniors to act."

He had already penetrated deep into the Sakura Country's Flourishing Flower Legion's sphere of influence. The place he was in was called the Dark Dense Forest on the map provided by Manoya Tomoaki.

The straight-line distance from the Flourishing Flower Legion's garrison was about 500 kilometers.

After rushing all the way here, Wang Chen had no intention of moving forward.

In the plan he discussed with Lin Chunzhi, his next task was to attract the attention of a part of the Flourishing Flower Legion's forces.

That is, to use his presence to make the Flourishing Flower Legion divide their troops to search.

This would create an opportunity for the main force of the Fierce Tiger Legion, striving for a decisive victory to annihilate the main force of the Flourishing Flower Legion.

As for whether the Flourishing Flower Legion would divide their troops to search, Wang Chen was not worried.

He had discussed with Lin Chunzhi that the letter of accountability sent to the Sakura Country had a small oversight: it did not mention his current whereabouts.

As long as the Sakura Country's guys weren't fools, they would definitely discover this oversight, then push responsibility back and forth with the Fierce Tiger Legion while extensively searching for Wang Chen within their sphere of influence.

Now that things had reached this point, they would never have thought that everything was a trap.

"I need to make some noise to attract their attention."

After eating his fill, Wang Chen took out the map drawn by Manoya Tomoaki and began to ponder his next move.

This Dark Dense Forest was an important mining point for the Flourishing Flower Legion, containing a large magic-patterned iron ore.

Stationed here was a hundred-man unit of the Flourishing Flower Legion, responsible for guarding the mine, clearing surrounding wild monsters and magical beasts, and managing the indigenous miner-laborers who extracted the iron ore.

"Directly attack the iron mine?"

Looking at the markings on the map, an idea popped into Wang Chen's mind.

"No, that's too conspicuous; it would easily arouse suspicion."

But as soon as the thought appeared, he shook his head.

After all, he was supposedly seriously injured and had fled here. In such a situation, actively launching an attack would make it easy for even the foolish high-ranking members of the Flourishing Flower Legion to see that something was wrong.

"I'll go kill wild monsters and magical beasts."

"Right near the mine, I'll make a big commotion so that the hundred-man unit stationed there actively discovers me."