Magicless Extra: The Villain’s Survival Method – Chapter 135.1

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟑𝟓.1: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐫 (2)

New York City.

The entire army was able to arrive in Long Island, New York City within a week, traveling by vehicles and trains.

Stationed once again at the Imperial Empire’s concession in Long Island, Oswald received a new order from His Majesty the Emperor.

“Alright, Lieutenant Colonel Pretoria. Let’s begin the purge operation.”

Operation code name: ‘Purge’.

This was Oswald’s operation to eliminate the rebel forces within the expeditionary force before its conversion into a suppression force. It was an operation centered around the intelligence department to weed out the participants or potential participants of the rebellion and arrest them all.

As soon as they arrived here, he ordered the troops to rest and provided them with alcohol and meat to get them drunk. Therefore, the intelligence personnel alone would be able to swiftly deal with the internal dissidents.

“Major Letona?”

“Yes?”

While Major Letona was staggering around drunk, soldiers from the intelligence department surrounded him, and an intelligence officer recited the charges and arrested him.

“Major Letona, you are under arrest for rebellion. Effective immediately, Major Letona is relieved of duty and his rank is revoked.”

“Wha. . . What rebellion? Let go of me!”

However, magic-restricting restraints had already been placed on both of Major Letona’s hands, and he was subdued in an instant without being able to put up a proper fight.

The number of people arrested within the expeditionary force in this way reached almost 400. Due to the large number of personnel caught, from officers to executives, there was a significant leadership gap. . . but if they didn’t do this, the army itself could collapse, so they dealt with it decisively.

“Promote outstanding sergeants to fill the executive positions. Also, select outstanding individuals from among the executives to fill the vacancies of officers.”

A large-scale promotion process took place overnight, and soon news of a civil war breaking out in the empire reached them. The next morning, Oswald looked at the 300,000 troops gathered on the parade ground and immediately began his speech.

“Currently, the empire! They have denied the legitimacy of our Emperor and have rebelled, plunging the unified empire into the danger of civil war. Therefore, our expeditionary force, by order of His Majesty the Emperor, will now be converted into a suppression force, and the moment we pass through this warp gate, we will engage in battle with the traitor Douglas and the Western Military District! My soldiers, are you afraid!”

“No!”

“No!”

“No!”

“Hahaha! As expected of the veteran warriors who fought and defeated the demons of Chaos!”

Of course, among them were tens of thousands of supplementary troops who had not experienced combat, but the majority were the elite of the elite who had survived the battles against the demons of Chaos. Oswald then began a speech to give the soldiers a reason to fight and boost their morale.

“Furthermore! Those traitors worship Chaos and do not hesitate to perform human sacrifices! Remember why we had to come to this distant foreign land and fight the demons of Chaos!

For our homeland! For our families! For our happiness, we fought the demons of Chaos and defeated them! But those wicked traitors are trying to sell our homeland to Chaos!

The finest elite soldiers of the empire! Let us, together with this Oswald, punish those wicked Chaos worshippers, uphold justice in the world, and protect our homeland! Our families!!”

“Waaaaah!”

“Waaaaah!”

“Waaaaah!”

Thus, the troops began to pass through the warp gate one after another to Lisbon City in the empire. Vehicles were already waiting in Lisbon to transport the troops to the train station.

As Oswald also crossed the gate as the vanguard, countless citizens came out and gave them an enthusiastic welcome. It was like a scene from a triumphal return. . . A tremendous cheer erupted, even louder than the fervent cheers of the 300,000 troops just moments ago, almost deafening.

‘𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯, 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥.’

The soldiers, too, became even more determined to fight the traitors upon receiving such a warm welcome.

“Oswald!”

“Alicia!”

As Oswald was moving forward, Alicia appeared in front of his vehicle. He stopped the vehicle and faced Alicia.

“What brings you here?”

“I heard you were coming. I’d love to hug you tightly, but. . . there are too many people, so I’ll hold back.”

“. . . . . . . . . . .”

“More importantly, have you heard the news?”

“I have. What’s the situation?”

“There haven’t been any significant battles between the rebel forces and the imperial forces yet.”

“That’s a relief.”

“The problem is, according to information from Peace Eye, the 3rd Prince Douglas is capturing and imprisoning citizens who are trying to leave their residences. . . We can’t figure out where they’re being taken.”

“. . . . . . . . . . .”

Oswald frowned at the mention of residents being taken away.

“We need to mobilize all our intelligence networks to find them. Maybe. . .”

“Maybe?”

“They could be being taken as sacrifices to summon the demons of Chaos.”

“No way. . .”

“It’s entirely possible for the power-hungry 3rd Prince. You’re not unfamiliar with the Stormtroopers he commands, are you?”

Douglas possessed an army of 100,000 chimeras through chimera procedures, similar to the creation of demon hunters. The problem was that while demon hunters were also unethical, the procedures were only performed on volunteers, and Oswald believed that the 3rd Prince’s Stormtroopers were not solely composed of volunteers.

Since Peace Eye had already reported several instances of prisoners disappearing, it was highly likely that those prisoners had become sacrifices for the chimera procedures.

“Oh, and my father has been appointed as the commander of the Eastern Alliance and is leading the allied forces of the lords northward.”

“Your father?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm. . . The north, then it’s the 2nd Princess Arwen, is it? That’s going to be a headache.”

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