"Heh! It seems Lord Alsace is rather unhappy with me," Beckman said with a smile.
Even after Nie Yun's verbal jab, Beckman remained unruffled, as though the mockery had been aimed at someone else.
"Yes! I am!" Nie Yun nodded as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Uh..." At last, Beckman's composure cracked. Everyone else wore decidedly strange expressions too.
Wasn't that... a little too blunt?
Granted, the military was full of hardheaded, straightforward men, but someone this straightforward was still a rarity...
Ignoring their expressions, Nie Yun continued earnestly, "Personally, what I hate most is beating around the bush and playing mind games!"
Everyone: "..."
Hey, hey! Were you really in any position to say that?
"In my view, soldiers should be responsible and accountable, like Lord Reynolds! They shouldn't respond to their own strategic blunders with a torrent of fancy words, shifting the blame for defeat onto frontline officers-especially brave, outstanding officers like Lord Reynolds. How is that... any different from being a politician?"
Everyone's eyelids twitched sharply. Quite a few people stole glances at Gilad's stormy face.
Nie Yun's words were outrageously bold. Ostensibly, he was criticizing Beckman, but his real target was Gilad.
The sarcasm in the word "politician," in particular, was plain enough for even a deaf man to hear.
First, he had slapped his critics in the face with an impressive personal combat record. But he wasn't done-he immediately followed it up with a backhanded slap!
He was landing combo damage now!
Quite a few officers from the outside forces silently gave him a thumbs-up. Nie Yun had undoubtedly voiced what they wanted to say but didn't dare.
Of course, they knew that the real reason Alsace dared mock a heavyweight like Gilad was the Kruze Family and the Speaker