Chapter 63: visitors from the spartan army

“Hello, this is the Python military division headquarters speaking,” a deep but calm voice finally broke the silence after the call went through.

“Yes, this is sergeant Clark, connect me to the captain this is urgent”.

“Ok sir, please wait for a minute I’ll get back to you shortly”.

“Bzzz!! This is captain Daniel, Clark what is the urgent situation you’re talking about?”

“Captain, I am at Tim Haaland’s company right now. I already secured the company but there have been some complications, Tim Haaland and his personal bodyguard already escaped, I’m sure they discovered our plans before now”.

On hearing this the captain went silent in contemplation, he finally recollected himself after 10 seconds of silence as he replied. “Ok Clark, you’ve done a good job but try if you can discover any suspect from the workers you intercepted from the company”.

Clark acknowledged his captain as he continued to do his work.

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“Good morning my fellow Spartans, this is news from your favorite broadcasting station STA [Spartan Television Authority]. In Delhi city today, a company called Haaland’s security owned by a man called Tim Haaland was intercepted and disbanded today by the regional military division”. The fair skinned female reporter read the news fluently without any breaks.

“The Python military division found evidence that the company was colluding secretly with the Moca republic. A military squad led by the new star soldier; Sergeant Clark was sent to carry out the interception. According to news provided by the military, the company was disbanded successfully but the founder Tim Haaland escaped with his personal high-grade soldier bodyguard”.

“Tim Haaland is presently still on the run, if anyone sees any of these 2 persons in this photo contact the military immediately, they are highly dangerous and are enemies of the Spartan republic. We’ll enter a small break shortly; my name is still Michael Patricia please don’t go anywhere”.

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Clark finally returned back to the military base; he went to report directly to the captain. According to the captain, all military squads are now on high alert looking for the 2 targets. The captain finally decided to give Clark a position in the military division but he kept the position a secret from him for now, Clark smiled slightly in satisfaction as he went back to his room while humming a lullaby.

Leo and Benny came back very late today as all military squads were searching for the targets but to no avail. When Clark broke the news of his possible promotion to them, they just smiled and congratulated him like it was a very normal occurrence. By now, they were already used to him bringing back shocking news from time to time.

Normally a high-grade soldier is expected to serve in his/her assigned military division for years before even thinking of a possible promotion. A soldier is expected to have a lot of military achievements under his belt before the attention of the regional captain is drawn to him/her to consider a promotion as a reward for his/her military service.

Clark receiving a promotion under only 1 year of service is simply a miracle but he was not the first as some soldiers in Northern Sparta already achieved it. But despite this, it was still an incredible achievement.

Days counted forward, weeks passed, after several months of serving in the military division Clark was going to celebrate his first Christmas as a soldier. It was already November 20th, the next month is December, the month of Christmas but the atmosphere in the military base was not too harmonious as the threat of war lingered around the corner.

It was already almost a year since the Spartan army discovered the Mocan’s plans to bring forward the date of their main invasion attempt. A year seemed long but it is nowhere enough to set up enough defenses against the enemies, there is no time to make elaborate plans and military strategies, no time to prepare a proper offensive and defensive military force.

The Python military division, like all other military divisions were kept in the dark from the Spartan army’s plans and strategies but they knew it required a very radical strategy to nullify this main invasion attempt like the ones over the past decades. According to estimates, the invasion attempt will likely kick off this coming year.

During normal Christmas periods the military offers soldiers the choice to choose between going home to spend their Christmas with family and friends or to continue duty in the military base.

Despite the joy of spending time with family and friends, some soldiers choose staying as the salary for that month is 3 times that of normal months, soldiers going back home are exempted from salary that month and besides a lot of soldiers don’t even have family and friends. Clark and Leo decided to be on duty during the December period but Benny decided to visit his family.

At exactly December 1st, as the home sick soldiers left, the Python military division received an unexpected guest. Clark and Leo rushed to the hall after they received an urgent message of 5 stars confidentiality.

A 1st ranked high-grade soldier can only access information about 1 star ranked items. 5-star confidentiality meant the division’s visitors were to receive the same secrecy as if the president visited the military division for a secret mission.

In under a minute all the military division high-grade soldiers were gathered in the hall to receive the mysterious visitors, the captain was already there as he was the one who sent the message. On arrival Clark was astonished as he finally realized why the visitor’s matters had 5 stars confidentiality.

“Damn, these visitors are actually from the Spartan army”. Clark felt excited as the visitors deactivated their camouflage devices revealing the distinctive golden armor of the Spartan army.

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