The next day, Wagner, who ran the Mechanic Company, received payment from the client before he even had a chance to threaten him.
The client also felt that Bennett's heart attack had come at far too convenient a time.
He did not care what method the hired killer had used. As long as his competitor was dead, he was willing to pay. Even if the hired killer had nothing to do with it, he believed that paying the money meant he had contributed something toward his revenge.
While Raphael waited for a new client to appear, he pondered how to further digest his potion.
Meanwhile, the people of Backlund were all going through a period of deep despondency.
The fierce fighting on the southern shore of the Sonia Sea and in the Amanda Mountains had already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men from Loen.
Losses on such a scale had shocked even Loen's leadership.
Only in the past few days had they realized that, since modern artillery, heavy machine guns, and other such weapons had been introduced into their armies, no large-scale war had broken out between the Northern Continent's four great powers. These weapons had mostly been used in the colonies.
The enemies in the colonies still relied primarily on swords, spears, and similar weapons, giving the colonial armies of the Northern Continent an enormous advantage in armaments.
In the current war between Loen and Feysac, however, the two sides were essentially evenly matched in weaponry. Loen had a slight advantage, but not a particularly significant one.
Only through this war had the leaders on both sides gained a clear understanding of the killing power of artillery and firearms.
Backlund had yet to finish repairing the damage from the bombing, but many of its young