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"The Baruba Empire is about to be betrayed?..."
Kotori, Kurumi, Tohka, Miku, Origami, Yoshino, and the other girls were all stunned.
Looking at the girls before her, Milina hesitated slightly, unsure whether she should trust them and reveal the information she had obtained with such difficulty.
After all, although four of the girls before her could be considered Milina's fellow students, they had hardly interacted at Sparlier World Academy. Even when they had met, it had only been during exchanges between the forces they represented. Calling them familiar would have been impossible; even calling them strangers was a stretch.
How could she guarantee that these girls were truly trustworthy?...
But on second thought, Milina felt that if she stubbornly kept the information to herself, then if anything happened to her, no one might ever learn of it. When that happened, only destruction would await the Baruba Empire!
Besides, if these girls wanted to do anything to her, then with the strength Kurumi and Miku had displayed earlier, Milina would have had no way to resist.
Thinking that, Milina gritted her teeth and revealed the information she had learned from one of the traitors after falling into their trap.
It turned out that the only eighth-rank expert who had secretly sought out the Beast King commanding the magical beasts, surrendered, and tried to save his own life was not the one in the city Milina managed. There were traitors in other cities as well!
Because more than eighty percent of the Baruba Empire's territory was desert, communication between its cities was even weaker than that between the cities of the Ai Lu Empire and