Revenge of the Son of the Nobles

Chapter 26: The Release

The unit led by Alex finally arrived at the city of Pyotr which became the southeastern outpost.

Military officers and townspeople were shocked to see the train that was supposed to be a ride the young soldiers arrived at the station in a state of severe damage on its front, the train even stopped using emergency brakes.

The soldiers were immediately on standby in anticipation just in case the enemy came out of the carriage. But when the car door opened, a group of young men in military uniforms appeared.

Everyone was relieved to see it, but some of them looked messy, some were even injured with bandages here and there.

But what made them completely at a loss for words was that when a stretcher was lifted out, on it lay a young man in a military uniform drenched in blood. The white cloth that covered her face indicated that she was no longer with them.

A teenage girl was seen sitting on the side of the stretcher, her face haggard, her lips dry, and her eyes reddened with swollen eye bags. Even when medics examined the body, he did not want to shift at all.

The military officer still did not fully understand the situation, before finally a blonde-haired young man with blue eyes approached and saluted him.

The condition of the young man was no better than the others, his military uniform was scratched in many places and there were blood spots and also strange patches of green.

"Soldier Alex Collin, come to report."

The officer paid his respects, "What happened?" The officer asked impatiently.

"Reply sir, we were attacked as the train crossed the mountain range before entering the territory of Peter."

"Attacked by what exactly? I don't think it's a human attack, is it?" Officers pointed to a hollowed-out train locomotive and a one-car whose roof was torn apart.

"Every pack, big guess it's part of the devil, I've never seen a spider that's the size of a train car with legs strong enough to penetrate the roof of a train." Alex explained briefly.

"I didn't see the driver of this train, where did they go?"

"Every pack, after we've successfully subverted the spider monster, we checked the wheelhouse and didn't find the train driver's body there."

"Jasad you said ... You sure they're dead?"

"Every sir, I'm worried it's the way it is."

The military officer sighed, even the demons had already infiltrated his army into this country, whether the defensive post was really useful or not later.

"You may go, another soldier will lead you to the barracks at the city's defensive outpost, restore yourselves. The dead soldier will be repatriated, the ceremony will be held this afternoon along with a final tribute."

Alex saluted, then he turned around and coordinated the new soldier to follow the senior soldier's lead. They immediately packed up their unexpected items quite a lot, and walked regularly following the direction of the senior soldiers.

The officers stared at the exhausted-looking new soldiers, perhaps they stayed on guard all night in anticipation of another attack.

The bodies of the dead soldiers were already covered by white cloth and brought to the funeral home in preparation for the ceremony, the female soldier who had been by the side of the corpse had refused to go to the barracks and chose to go to the funeral home. But another more senior female soldier dragged her into the barracks, she was seen thrashing while groaning, refusing to leave the corpse.

"Welcome to the battlefield." Whisper the officer with a voice that only he could hear, then he turned around and left the station accompanied by some of his subordinates.

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Meanwhile in the south-east defense post barracks.

Alex puts all his luggage away and immediately settles down on the small mattress provided by the barracks dormitory, he feels very tired because after the fight against the spider monster, he is very tired, they were kept awake in anticipation of another attack.

He didn't even think of cleaning himself first if it wasn't for Anford throwing his face in a towel.

"We, Anford."

Alex finally got back on his feet, took off his outer shirt and went to the bath. The bath in this barracks is only a row of small rooms that are only enough for one person in each room with one large pipe on the head, so the lack of bathroom dividers, so the bathroom, the, they can talk to each other while taking a shower.

"The bath here is very different from the Academy, yes" said Anford opened a chat, Alex could see Anford tubers because of the low bulkhead of their bathroom.

"Bath room like this is obtained by Bronze Class, Gold Class is indeed given special treatment." Alex chiming.

"What's the agenda after this?" Ask Anford again.

"Breakfast it seems, the officer let us rest until tomorrow." Answer Alex.

"G ... After what happened last night, I'm not feeling well."

Alex was speechless, he recalled last night's fight, what the hell is that thing? The spears that resembled legs did not look like spider legs. Moreover, as the spider attacked, he only raised his legs slightly then a spear suddenly shot out from the tip of his foot.

That was only one, what if they were to fight against such a group of creatures in the future? What if it wasn't just a spider monster? Just imagining it makes Alex feel nauseous.

"You know? The spider leg I cut off became soft after a while, so soft that I didn't expect it to penetrate the roof of the train" said Anford, who made Alex more dizzy.

There is nothing reasonable about these demons. Although only this time Alex faced them head-on, he knew that the spider monster was only one of the many other monsters. Recalling in the report of the massacre of the fortress in the Chyrosian Empire, it is said that in the bodies of the soldiers there were shredded and most secure wounds, it was clearly different from the injuries inflicted by the spider monsters attacking their units on the way.

Slowly he began to doubt his own abilities, one demon army alone was able to make them suffer a great loss, in this case they lost Brian who incidentally was one of the soldiers with the power of light.

After taking a shower, a middle officer asks Alex to direct his comrades towards the barracks canteen. Although he himself does not have an appetite, but inevitably he as the head of the temporary unit at this time must follow the instructions of the superior.

On the way to the barracks cafeteria, someone approached Alex who was rather pensive "What happened back then?"

That person was one of Alex's colleagues who came from the Silver Class named Phillip, he was in the carriage three back then, the people from the three carriages had absolutely no idea what had happened until after the spider monster was defeated.

"Why don't you just ask the others?" Actually Alex was very lazy to explain the incident, he was not wanting to remember the moment of Brian's death.

Phillip shrugged, "I think asking you is the best option."

Alex sighed, "Well, I'm sorry, maybe next time."

Phillip looks disappointed to hear Alex's answer, but he understands that the passenger of the one-car is currently devastated by Brian's death, so he has no intention of urging anyone to answer his question.

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That afternoon, the soldiers from the southeast defensive post performed a release ceremony for Brian as well as a final salute, empty cannons were fired into the air as Brian McGray's coffin was lifted by several soldiers into the train to be returned to his home country.

Tania who was in the line of female soldiers could no longer stand up until she finally fell down, some other female soldiers were about to carry her out of line, but she refused. "I want to see him one last time" he said softly, finally supporting his body to remain standing until the ceremony was over.

The soldiers placed flowers and candles in the carriage in which Brian's coffin was laid, and several senior soldiers and officers boarded the other carriage, they acted as representatives to carry out the funeral ceremony in Brian's hometown

After the last soldier laid his flowers and candles, the carriage sounded the sign whistle immediately departed. Most of the soldiers chose to return to the barracks, but some others, especially Brian's unit, remained in place until the train disappeared from view.

It was at that moment that they were completely aware of the threat from the demons, without sufficient mentality and strength they would not be able to survive this war. Anger, resentment, inferiority, and regret fuel them to grow stronger.

They are determined to see the end of this war, whether it is a good ending or vice versa.