"Look! Just look at this! What did I say before? Sending out another reconnaissance unit would only waste resources and time!"
"Now look what happened. A huge amount of funding has gone down the drain, and there's still no word from the reconnaissance unit."
"After the previous reconnaissance unit went missing, we kept telling the outside world that they were merely missing and that their deaths had yet to be confirmed. We even kept holding back their compensation payments. Their families have been threatening to raise hell lately, and now another unit has gone missing. Tell me, what are we supposed to do about this?!"
During the radio conference, one of the conservative goblins wore a rather smug expression, as if he had finally gotten the upper hand. He simply wanted to see how the Goblin General would get out of this mess.
After two consecutive defeats, the Goblin General was already in a foul mood. Now that his sworn rival had rubbed salt in the wound, he exploded on the spot.
Fortunately, this was a radio conference. Otherwise, there was no telling whether the people present might have started fighting. But a furious exchange of abuse was certainly unavoidable.
A perfectly good radio conference had turned straight into a quarrel.
The annoyed Goblin King cut off the conference and took quite some time to calm himself down.
The same was true for the Goblin General.
In his eyes, those people were all sycophantic ministers at the King's side. Not one of them was any good.
After taking several deep breaths, the Goblin General adjusted his emotions and contacted the Goblin King privately over the radio.
Judging from the decisions made previously, the King still leaned toward him. Thinking it over carefully, there was no need for him to argue