Chapter 367: the beginning of a blissful cooperation

Bam!

As soon as Clark stepped inside the living room, the guards that escorted him abandoned him and slammed the door shut immediately. This rude gesture did not make him panic; a smile crossed his face as he turned to look back at the door.

Turning his head back, he saw 2 soldiers seated on the sofa.

“Is this to intimidate me?” Clark shook his head in an amused manner before taking another step forward in a completely unperturbed manner.

Without even waiting for an invitation first, he sat down on the sofa opposite that of the 2 soldiers sitting before him. He smiled and looked at them straight in the eyes, the first round of observation began immediately.

The 2 soldiers before Clark were middle-aged. The man already had a bunch of gray hair invading his original black, which was telling enough of his age.

The woman sitting beside him was much more composed. Though the signs of age were also on her face, it was relatively milder. And unlike her male counterpart, she had a stony expression on her face.

Neither of the parties talked to the other, this continued for 2 minutes until the middle-aged soldier finally decided to break the silence.

He rubbed his neck and cleared his throat. “Clark Pendragon”.

Clark frowned immediately on hearing that. “What do you mean?”

The middle-aged man raised his hands in surrender. “I’m sorry, I have no intentions of threatening you. I just decided to look into your identity when my subordinate told me of you, I didn’t expect to get it so easily”.

“Let’s put that aside, it will only bring unnecessary dispute”.

Clark narrowed his eyes but he did not comment. He finally caught into a problem that he didn’t pay much attention to before, his current identity.

Though he made some disguises, he didn’t put much effort into it, and most especially he didn’t take his mask. He felt like slapping himself now. Well, today was a lesson, so he wouldn’t make such a noob mistake again.

“My name is Drake, a former Captain of the Radan army, and the current leader of the old warriors club”. The middle-aged man introduced himself much to Clark’s surprise.

“This is my partner, Daniella, also a former Captain of the Radan army”.

“You must have heard of the reason for us starting this club from my subordinates, so I won’t elaborate on that”.

“Lieutenant Colonel, after doing some research and learning of your identity, I no longer doubted your motive that is why my response was so fast. I don’t know how you want to help us, but I’ll appreciate it if we do it more officially”.

“Please, sir, can we negotiate?”

Clark did not object, which signaled the start of the negotiation. It was more of an exchange of ideas rather than a negotiation, but as the captain said, it was better to keep things in an official setting.

Clark laid down his motive for deciding to contact and help their cause. He wanted the suffering to end, that was his ultimate goal since the beginning.

The leader of the club did not object as this aligned with their motive. If they could overthrow the Radan government, that would be the first and most important step to herald a revolution in the economy.

As soon as they laid their overall plan before Clark, and after he confirmed that none of them went against his principles, he finally laid down some of the additional clauses that he wanted to add to their cooperation.

The Radan republic was just one of the many low-grade countries that he wanted to start his revolutionization dream with.

His dream did not start nor did it end with the Radan republic, the big 5 were his ultimate goal, the Radan republic was just one of many.

The prize that the old warriors club had to pay for his help was that they had to sign a contract of agreement to help him liberate other countries suffering from similar problems.

The leader of the club tried to avoid this clause, but seeing how adamant Clark was about his decision, he could only resign to the will of the Lieutenant Colonel.

That was everything that was needed for their cooperation to kickstart. Both soldiers stood up to exchange handshakes. In just a few minutes, a cooperation that could change the development trajectory of a country was formed.

After this was finalized, Captain Drake finally started revealing all the information that Clark needed to know about the old warriors club and the Radan army.

According to the middle-aged Captain, the old warriors club had only him and Captain Daniella as the 3rd rank high-grade soldiers.

The Radan army had three 3rd rank high-grade soldiers and a 4th rank high-grade soldier who was the Commander of the army. Commander Cable was the main reason why the old warriors club was still unsuccessful in their quest.

After giving all the main information that Clark needed to pay attention to, the middle-aged Captain revealed another piece of information.

“We have another main mission scheduled for the next week. If you can take part in it to ease things, we’ll appreciate it, Lieutenant Colonel”.

“How main is the mission?” Clark smiled.

“Very main”. Captain Drake grinned. “It’ll involve a significant part of our secret forces, and casualties will be inevitable but our soldiers are ready to die for the better tomorrow we’ve always been fighting for”.

Clark stroked his still growing beards in thought. “I’ll think about it, but most of the puzzle bricks points that I’ll participate in it”.

“Who is the target?”

“The Minister of Finance”.

“Ok”.

As Clark was about to turn, he suddenly remembered something. “Please, do you know of any deeply isolated and deserted location in the republic where I can train?”

“Please, be more specific”.

“I recently bought a huge weapon of destruction that I want to test train. I want to know if there’s like any desert-like location in the republic, I don’t want any civilians or even soldiers to see my weapon. Including you”.

Captain Drake laughed. “I don’t exactly know, but I’ll pool my sources to help you search for a suitable location”.

“Then, thank you in advance captain. To a blissful cooperation”. Clark extended his hand for another handshake.

The captain took it. “To a blissful cooperation”.

After waving goodbye to the silent Captain Daniella, Clark finally left the man's mansion.