Chapter 217: being the prince charming saving the damsel in distress

The sight that greeted Clark was so shocking that he hid again behind the tree despite his stealth armor still active, as a storm of emotions went through his mind.

He was surprised as the thing causing so much commotion was humans. Though seeing humans were supposed to be a good thing, he still felt weird about it as this was his first time seeing other humans in over a month.

This group of humans was already in a desperate situation, as they were struggling to survive a siege from an intimidating wolf clan horde.

Seeing his fellow humans suffering and at the brink of death, he felt compelled to move immediately, but he held himself back to think more about the situation.

First, how did these humans cross through the tunnel to this forest where countless others already died, evident from the decayed skulls that they found when crossing it?

And by the manner they were still holding their ground against such a large wolf family, it was clear that they were trained soldiers.

“Are these people one of our competitors? Which country are they from?”

As these thoughts crossed Clark’s head, he made a series of further signs with his hands which his soldiers understood as they started moving closer to the edge of the hill’s cliff.

After spreading themselves orderly around the cliff and making sure to be hidden, they finally saw what was causing all this commotion. They were also shocked on seeing fellow humans.

All the soldiers’ eyes narrowed after understanding the situation, as the same thought as their Major’s crossed through their heads.

“If these are competitors, I think we should use this opportunity to wipe them completely instead of helping them. That will remove a tumor from our side that we would have worried about later on”.

Diana finally spoke out her suggestion in a cold tone, as her face already took on a bloodthirsty tone.

Surprisingly, the lazy bum second in command finally spoke out to give his own input at this moment. It seems he was not always clueless After all, his comrades were shocked.

Ignoring the weird gazes being directed at him, Benny spoke out while looking at his friend.

“Clark, even if they are our competitors, I don’t think killing them would be the best course of action at this moment”.

“Meeting them at the front means that they probably arrived at this forest long before us, so it’s inevitable that they also know more than us. Perhaps, they already even know the way out of the forest”.

“This is a rare opportunity where we met them in need. We should take advantage of it and act as the prince charming coming to save the damsel in distress, at least, we’ll have favor in their sight that way”.

“From the looks of it, they probably suffered far more damage than us also, so we have the advantage of numbers even if they are stupid enough to start a war with us”.

“And, we have you, that’s an advantage in quality of soldiers also. Unless they have a 3rd rank high-grade soldier, which I don’t think they do, we have the upper hand”.

“If we take advantage of this chance to get a temporary ally, then we won big because we terribly need it”.

“With that, we can better consolidate our strength to avoid more casualties while at the same time getting more chances if we discover our mission target in the end”.

Hearing their second in command’s deep analysis of this encounter, all the soldiers, including Clark fell into a daze as they processed this in surprise.

“So, you were this competent in analysis and you dared to laze off for the past few months”.

Instead of complimenting his friend for this, Clark grew angry and speechless on thinking of all the user input that he already missed for over a month.

“Hey…, hold it. Do you want them to sight us first? Control yourself, Major”. Benny quickly raised his hands before saying innocently.

Clark’s face twitched on seeing this as he reluctantly suppressed his urge to pounce at his friend. “What a lazy bastard”.

“Diana, what do you think? For me, I think Benny’s input is more viable this time. Like he said, we are the superior side, and elite soldiers such as this should be able to judge this”.

“I think acting the prince charming role this time is the best, what do you think?” He finally turned to his other second in command again, before asking.

“Yeah, I also think Benny did a good analysis job for the first time in weeks. I don’t have any objections, as long as you agree to let him take over every analysis problem from now on”.

“Deal, we are doing it”.

“Clark, what?” Benny felt betrayed.

Ignoring his pitiful friend, Clark turned again before addressing his large group of soldiers as they all perked up like attentive birds to listen to his orders.

“You all heard us, we are storming in to help our fellow humans. If we can use this opportunity to make new ally friends, then good, but if we can’t, we can as well wipe them out with these filthy wolves”.

“Are you afraid?”

“No, Major!”

“Good, for this battle, I already devised a not too sophisticated strategy for it. All the ranged soldiers, you shall remain here at this hill’s cliff and provide us with cover fire”.

“I, Diana, and Benny will lead the melee soldiers down to help them more directly. With our help, I think we can quickly snowball using our fierce momentum to achieve quick victory”.

“For the high-grade soldiers among you, don’t reveal your trump cards. Don’t use your battle arts, keep them, we cannot reveal our hand completely to these soldiers yet before we understand them”.

“Understood?”

“Yes, Major”.

“Ok, I leave our backs to you, you better not snipe us by mistake”.

“We are veterans sir”. The soldiers laughed a bit at their Major’s small joke, as he finally started leading the melee soldiers down.

They still had the luxury to laugh despite their ambitious plans of facing such a large horde of wolves. This just displayed their current confidence, as this would have been taboo to them a month ago.

Though they took the talks casually, they were still serious as this was probably going to be their most hard-fought battle since they arrived at this forest.

Not even their escape battle from the cats in the tunnel could rival this, as the staggering difference in the number of enemies was frightening.

As they scaled down the hill again, Clark’s brain was already working on overload as he thought of the right method with which he should engage the battle to make it more efficient.

Before they got down to the base of the hill, he already had a plan in mind as he led the soldiers directly to the right direction of the hill.

This was the location that led to the rear of the beasts, he wanted to form a pincer attack with the soldiers under attack to force the wolves to a corner and finish them directly.

The soldiers who remained at the hill were already set, as they calmly waited for the signal from their Major to engage in battle.

About a minute later, Clark finally led his soldiers behind the large group of rampaging beasts but he did not engage immediately as he ordered his soldiers to hide behind trees.

Why would he fight a meritless battle? He was not giving charity.

He planned to put a call through to the leader of these soldiers, lay his intentions across and negotiate thoroughly before he would even contemplate being the prince charming to them.

He leaned against the thick-skinned tree that hid him, squatted down before bringing his bag out.

In such a chaotic battle, it would be hard to get a stable connection as he did not have the direct contact details of this man either. He had to perform some programming cheats before he could put his call across.

After glancing at the battle for only 5 seconds, he already identified the alpha wolf of this clan and the leader of this group of soldiers, so he had his priorities straight.

He carefully brought out a small device that looked like a smartphone out of this bag. The only thing distinguishing it from a smartphone was that, unlike the latter, it had a long antenna at its top.

He quickly used his gloved hands to extend the antenna’s reach, adjusting it a bit before he finally nodded in satisfaction after getting the wave frequency that he wanted.

[Ding!! The wavelength and frequency of waves are stable. The threshold frequency of this region is already exceeded, master can connect directly and send a call across now.]

After getting the confirmation that he wanted, he smiled before putting the call across.

Red wavy lines fluctuated on the smart device, showing the readings of the call’s proceedings.

Though he could have done this call directly through his implant, he already learned to minimize his implant’s use as every use drew part of its energy from his body.

This was essentially exchanging his energy for convenience, so he already learned to set a good scale of preference long ago.

Beep!!

Hearing the notification sound that the call finally went through, he snapped out of his daze before focusing on it. Before he activated the video call, he did another thing first.

“He adjusted his black climbing uniform better, patted unseen dust from it, quickly checked his teeth to make sure they are sparkling white, donned a mask on his face before speaking out”.

From his many experiences, he already learned that when meeting a stranger, the first impression could do wonders. So, what better first impression was there than to act mysterious?

After activating the video function, a flustered face suddenly emerged, filling the screen as the stone-faced man looked at his masked face alertly.

Just like them, when he got the call and quickly deduced that these were probably other humans, he was shocked. Various thoughts crossed his head also, but he did not have the luxury of free-thinking because of his annoying opponent.

He suppressed his doubts and answered the call, he wanted to know these newcomers’ motive, and most especially, he wanted help so he didn’t have a choice.

“You are the one who called me?” He asked cautiously.

“It is I”.

Clark spoke calmly, as his voice suddenly sounded a few decibels deeper.

His subordinates were already coughing blood at the side, as they barely controlled themselves from laughing out.

“Who are you? And where…”

“Before you talk, allow me”. Clark interrupted this guy in a cool manner.

“I already saw your situation and I saw that you needed help, now is not the time to talk, we’ll talk after we rescue you”.

Though the man felt a little irked by the use of the word rescue, he kept silent as he had no choice. “Then what are you waiting for? We will soon be overwhelmed”. He continued anxiously.

“Not so fast, I have a few terms for you to go through. Sign them, before I can decide to help you”.

After reading through the information that was just sent to him, the man suppressed his anger, showing that he was a veteran as he answered calmly.

“I agree, just save us first”.

Inwardly, he was already cursing at this fool. “Do you take me as stupid to accept such terms?”

Clark easily read his mind but he didn’t care, he just chuckled and answered. “I’m coming, prepare to be saved”.

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