"General Hall, why didn't you keep them here?!"
"You're asking me about them? I should be asking why you didn't stop him!" Luca Hall looked like a furious lion.
"Heh. The mighty Azure Sky Legion has ninety thousand troops stationed on Flame Star, yet you couldn't even stop a single warship. I wonder whose reputation will suffer if word gets out." A blue-and-white mecha, twenty-seven meters tall with shoulders rising like swords, carved a light-blue arc through the depths of space before landing directly on the deck of the Azure Sky Legion's 2,800-meter flagship. It was none other than Chief Inspector Li Genmao's mount, the S-Class Mecha World-Patroller!
As the two S-Class Mechas faced one another, accompanied by this conversation thick with the scent of gunpowder, the atmosphere instantly became taut with hostility.
"It was your Flame Star's own passage that got wrecked, and your people are the ones taking the losses. Besides, Officer Li..." Luca Hall stared sinisterly at Li Genmao's image on the light screen. "Why don't you try it yourself and see whether you can enter your Flame Star's own passage?"
Luca Hall made no attempt to hide the schadenfreude in his voice as Ghost White Tiger pointed one hand at the frozen passage below.
"Hmph. If I discover that you neglected your duty, I'll go directly to the Military Lord and ask for justice." Li Genmao snorted coldly as he looked in the direction indicated by Ghost White Tiger.
Yet in the second before he turned back, the ice crystals had silently melted away on their own, revealing the empty passage.
The atmosphere instantly dropped below freezing!
"General Hall, I believe you owe me an explanation." A chilling killing intent appeared in Li Genmao's eyes as he asked with a ferocious grin.
Luca Hall: "..."
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