Surrounded by the Mage Soldiers guarding him and feeling the pain radiating from his left arm, Major Will Hoffman, commander of the Allied Forces Army Fifth Legion's 3rd Special Operations Battalion, was bound tightly with ropes and forced to kneel on the ground in humiliation. Despair filled his heart. Half an hour earlier, after leading his men to successfully requisition a batch of food from Stone Village, he had followed Lieutenant General Roxy's orders and led his men into hiding in a valley on Horseshoe Mountain, waiting for notification from Baron Myka, who had reached an agreement with the Allied Forces.
So they could carry out Lieutenant General Roxy's plan to assassinate that damned John Maslow.
But he had never expected that the anticipated signal would fail to arrive. Instead, ten Mage Soldiers had descended from the sky and accurately unleashed Explosive Magic upon their temporary base.
As for him, because the Empire's Mage Soldiers had deliberately held back, he had merely had one arm blown off and ultimately became their prisoner.
At first, he had thought their plan had been discovered by Imperial agents. But after seeing Siegfried and the other villagers outside the valley assisting those damned Mage Soldiers in attacking them—
Will instantly realized that their plan had gone wrong because they had looted the villagers!
How could those mud-legged peasants do this?
How dared they do this?
Were those stupid idiots not afraid that the Golden Rose Kingdom would hunt them down afterward for colluding with the Empire?!
Those idiotic peasants—they, they had no loyalty whatsoever!
Will could not help cursing furiously in his heart.
But when he thought of the brutal punishment he would face once word got out that he had allowed his soldiers to loot Stone Village, resulting in the mission's failure, Will