"Yes, Major John!" Ian's face immediately lit up with delight at those words, but in his heart, he became even more guarded and wary of the Imperial rising star before him, who shared the same Xianqin bloodline.
At the same time, when he thought of his other identity, as well as the intelligence from the Battle of Walden about the interrogation methods Major John had displayed against spies—methods that could almost be called unparalleled—his heart could not help but grow uneasy.
That was right. He, Ian Grant, was a spy.
However, he was not a spy for the Allied Forces, but one planted within the Third Navy by the Old Guard Party.
More precisely, he was an external intelligence operative of the Old Guard Party.
Previously, during the operation to support the Empire's Northern Theater, although Marshal Bob had anticipated that their planned route would likely be leaked to the Allied Forces by someone from the Old Guard Party and had changed the route several times,
they were ultimately intercepted in advance by the Allied submarine force. The main reason for that lay with Ian, the destroyer navigator.
After receiving instructions from the Old Guard Party, he had used his own Merfolk's Song Formula to summon sea monsters from the ocean. He had then secretly used those sea monsters to deliver the Third Navy's latest route information, ultimately allowing the Allied Forces to successfully intercept the Third Navy at sea.
Furthermore, during this mission for the Third Navy to support Faoken, he had also been assigned surveillance and intelligence-reporting duties.
Once it was confirmed that the Third Navy was about to be destroyed, dedicated Old Guard Party members would meet with him, bring him together with Lieutenant General Doran, and help him successfully evacuate this battlefield that was doomed to