"You were there when we ran field tests in Mero City, weren't you?" Xu Yi shrugged, looking relaxed. "You already had two Archmages completely trapped back then. Killing them wouldn't have been difficult at all, so why do you still look so incredulous now?"
"But we didn't actually kill them back then." Captain Hart shook his head, seemingly still unable to accept that an Archmage had fallen in battle against the men he commanded.
"All right, you'll get used to it." Xu Yi then asked, "You already know your next assignment, don't you?"
"Yes, I received the orders on the way." Captain Hart nodded, his expression growing even stranger. He couldn't help asking again, "Mr. President, didn't you personally let those two Archmages from the Candel Empire go before? Why are you having us kill them now?"
"I have no choice. Neither of the Two Great Empires will behave." Xu Yi sighed. "If possible, I'd much rather make the Two Great Empires understand that Archmages aren't as useful as they imagine without souring our relations. How nice it would be if everyone could sit down and discuss cooperation and development. But... you've seen what happened."
Captain Hart gave a wry smile.
He had spent plenty of time with Xu Yi recently and knew very well that the president had never wanted an all-out war with the Two Great Empires. Otherwise, he wouldn't have released those two Archmages from the Candel Empire back in Mero City.
But events had proved that the president was simply too... ahem, too naive.
The Two Great Empires had stood on the Sains Continent for nearly a thousand years. How could a single setback make them set aside their imperial pride and arrogance and earnestly discuss cooperation and development as the president wished?
Besides, the fundamental