Chapter 393: the plan

The same way that they left, that was how Clark and his student used to return stealthily to the Radan republic without arousing any suspicion from the soldiers manning the harbor 24/7.

Still in its stealth mode, the mini-submarine smoothly changed back to its basic configuration of a car before taking the 2 humans boarding it through the streets of the Radan republic.

12 minutes later, Albert finally steered the exotic car into the junkyard.

The familiar scene of the road bending down happened again, and Albert smoothly drove down to their secret underground base.

Throughout the journey, Clark didn’t talk much as he just admired the scenery of the country. Though there were not many admirable sights in the republic, he just admired the feeling of humanity again.

After staying far away from human community to train for 2 weeks, coming back revitalized his psyche in mysterious ways.

As soon as the car came to a stop, Clark came down and immediately started walking towards his favorite boss chair. On the way, a surprised expression came to his face as he saw someone sitting on his chair.

The familiar hair, the familiar gait, the familiar feeling of carefreeness, the familiar feeling of familiarity, he immediately knew who this was.

“King?”

“Yo! You’re back from your secluded training?”

As he asked, King smoothly controlled the chair to roll sideways, enabling him to look at his junior student with a wide grin on his face.

Clark did not answer, instead, he asked his own question. “When did you come? Why didn’t I know of it?”

As he asked, he was already going closer to King.

“You think you’re a mafia boss now, huh? We need to report all our actions to you? Go get a girlfriend bro”.

Now, this poked Clark where it hurt.

All of a sudden, he forgot what he originally wanted to say. Sighing, he asked again in a humbler manner this time while sitting down on another chair.

“When did you come?”

“2 days ago, after our mercenary group completed our negotiations with Captain Drake”. As King replied, he directed a glance at the surroundings. “It’s a nice underground base you got here”.

Clark ignored the latter part of his sentence, he instead focused on the first.

“We? When did you develop such a sense of belonging to my mercenary group? I thought you were only accompanying them for some time”.

King coughed. “Can’t you be more understanding? I originally planned to do that, yes, but I later changed my mind. Can’t I?”

As they bickered, Albert already arrived at some point and sat across them while just looking at them like he was watching a blockbuster movie.

Clark coughed before removing the carefree expression from his face. “Where are the others?”

“They all can’t arrive yet, that would definitely alert the Radan army. I and Josh were the only ones who came first, the others would come when everything is planned and the time is right”.

As if attracted by his name, Josh came down from the guest room.

He waved on seeing Clark. “Hey!”

“Hey!” Clark waved back.

“So, the plan, have you guys concluded?” He quickly asked.

“Yes, we followed your blueprint and devised a plan but we still want your input. And for the elite assassination squad, we left the plan for you to draft out”.

“…”

Clark was left speechless, his mouth opened and closed but he couldn’t say anything in the end.

He sighed speechlessly. “Ok, connect everyone here”.

He originally intended to rest after getting back before contacting everyone but seeing King and Josh made him change his plans at the last moment.

“Ok”. King answered before standing up to take hold of his bag.

He brought out a square-shaped device from his bag. After activating it, bright blue light flashed from it and in a moment, everyone in the range of the light had their orientation change.

When Clark’s eyes focused again, he was no longer inside the underground base. He was now inside a blue mist-filled world, and his chair was currently standing upon grey clouds.

Besides him were 3 other chairs and people, King, Josh, and Albert who were all with him in the underground base.

Clark was not surprised on seeing this, he already learned about this device from Emily. It was a special device that she bought under the name of the Pendragon mercenary organization, and there were only 3 of them.

She held one, King held one, and the last was held by Josh.

This blue mist-filled world was a virtual domain simulated by the device. It was just like a virtual server, and anybody could log in to it from anywhere in the world so long as they had the server code.

Immediately after King activated the device, he already sent an invite code to all the needed people so they just sat waiting in silence.

A few seconds later, another chair flickered to life, revealing Emily’s figure.

Seeing her already bulging stomach, Clark had a weird expression on his face but he was able to restrain himself from commenting. He just cleared his throat and nodded at her in greeting.

Almost immediately after she appeared, 3 new chairs flickered to life. Occupying 2 of the chairs were people that Clark knew, Captain Drake and Captain Daniella, only the 3rd person was a stranger to him.

Captain Drake spoke out at this moment. “Once again, I want to thank you all for responding to my call at this period that I need it the most”.

He turned to face Clark. “Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel, the Radan republic will forever remember your sacrifice”.

“If there’s no new emergency, I’ll be simulating the detailed plan before the Lieutenant Colonel now”.

Seeing no one respond, Captain Drake spread his hands and a virtual projection immediately appeared in mid-air.

It was a large board like a map, and inside it had complicated patterns and lines making it seem like a building plan. This was the detailed plan that they came with after brainstorming for 2 weeks.

5 minutes later, Clark finished going through the plan. “I have no problems with it, this plan is completely under your custody”.

“What I want to dwell on is the elite assassination squad plan. But before I continue, Captain, do you care to introduce who this gentleman is?”

“Yes, Lieutenant Colonel”.