[Chapter 452 Thaddeus’s First Command]

My name is Thaddeus. I was originally a Spartan, and now I am a soldier of the Kingdom of Winter.

I serve in the Winter Knights, the ace force of the Kingdom of Winter, but I am not a powerful knight, just an ordinary member of the Knights.

So when Captain Gareth Stanton ordered me to lead a team to eliminate the enemy’s hidden mages, I was a little nervous.

I took a deep breath, then exhaled~ took another deep breath, exhaled~

After adjusting my mentality, I turned around and faced the team members I led: “For this mission, our team’s temporary code name is Echo, responsible for clearing out all the temple mages on the west side of the battlefield. Do you have any questions?”

“No!”

The four men answered crisply and powerfully, without any jokes, which made me feel relieved.

It was my first time to officially serve as a commander. I was so nervous. Fortunately, they couldn’t see my face because I was wearing a helmet…

“Captain.”

“What?”

“Your helmet.”

“…”

I took the helmet and put it on. I felt my cheeks getting hot, but I decided to ignore him and pretend that nothing had happened.

At this moment, the hatch of the Quinjet opened, the originally dazzling red light went out, and the green light symbolizing the battle came on.

“Echo Squad, set off!”

“Dogs and dogs!”

“Wuhu~”

“Stupid ‘beeps’ of the Temple, the uncle is coming!”

Listening to the various shouts coming from the communication channel, the original nervousness suddenly disappeared.

“Pay attention to the distance and keep the formation!” While paying attention to the various data on the screen, I looked at the target location where I was about to “land”, and soon I found the target: “Mark, clear the field!”

“Got it!”

Watching Mark on the lower right turn on the missile launcher and bombard all the archers and fully armored infantry on the ground, I took the opportunity to glance at the altimeter.

“Adjust your attitude and slow down!”

Boom!

The thrusters started, and the teammates who were falling like big pieces of iron paused in the air, and then they “smashed” to the ground one after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

I was the last one to land. The commander would be protected by the team members when airborne. This was the first time I enjoyed this treatment.

To be honest, there was nothing special.

“Pay attention to the surroundings.”

While ordering the team members to search for targets, I couldn’t help but look in the direction of the main battlefield not far away.

“Wow~ It looks so spectacular.”

Three thousand heavily armored knights wearing full body armor with various lights flashing on their armor are charging to the north.

Three thousand horses, also wearing heavy armor and with muscular bodies, are running on the ground, making a huge rumbling sound. The sound reached my ears, as if several hammers were constantly hitting my heart. I

felt this way even when I was standing far away and watching, not to mention facing this impact head-on.

“It’s a very powerful cavalry unit, but unfortunately… we chose the wrong opponent.”

I took a look at the direction of the Tilan Knights in the distance. The three Apocalypse tanks in the middle and on both sides were adjusting their turrets…

Boom boom boom!

The Apocalypse opened fire, and my teammates also opened fire at the same time.

“Captain, it’s the mage!”

“Kill them!” I no longer paid attention to the situation on the main battlefield, but focused on the current task. Through the search device on the helmet, I have found many hostile targets: “Keep your distance, pay attention to your surroundings, this time it’s a collective action, don’t disperse…”

“Fifty meters to the left, a team of archers!”

“High-explosive missiles!”

“Mage, there is a shield!”

“Flash bomb, focus fire!”

“An assassin was found in the back!”

After hearing the report from the team members, I immediately stopped the concentrated fire and handed over the mage who had turned on the shield on the opposite side and his guard to my team members: “Leave the assassin to me!”

After turning around, I immediately used various detection systems to search for the assassin’s position. After a second without any results, I immediately raised my foot and stepped hard on the ground.

Dedication! Although I had just learned this skill not long ago, and could not perfectly convert

the

holy light released on the ground into enough damage, it was enough to force the assassin in the invisible state to show his figure.

A muffled groan came from beside me. I turned my head and found that the assassin had stretched out his hands to hold my assault rifle. It seemed that he wanted to take my weapon away.

For such a naive idiot, I was too lazy to say anything to him. “It is absolutely impossible to take the rifle from the Winter Knight wearing Blizzard Power Armor.” I just swung my arms to the side and threw the assassin out. He fell heavily on the ground ten meters away. Raise the

gun, aim, and shoot!

A bright blood mist exploded, and then a tactical flash bomb was launched from the left arm: “Watch out for the flash bomb!”

Bang!

A strong light flashed, and after changing position and releasing several sacrifices, no more assassins were found. It seems that there is only such a guy ambushing here.

Turning around, the team members had already killed the mages and guards.

“What an easy task.”

“What a pity! It would be better if we could follow the team to assault the opposing mage’s position.”

“Then there would be no difference from now, right?”

“We could fire a few more shots…”

Listening to the conversation in the team channel, I couldn’t help but speak up: “It may be because there are too many teammates that we didn’t get a single kill.”

“Hahaha, that’s really possible!”

Everyone said something like, ‘After all, we were assigned to clean up some miscellaneous soldiers on the edge of the battlefield because we were too weak’, and they also looked forward to becoming stronger in the future.

Although everyone is indeed a relatively weak member of the Winter Knights, at least they have passed various rigorous trainings, successfully mastered the Holy Light, and become true paladins.

Therefore, everyone has a bright future!

What’s more, the Winter Knights will definitely continue to expand, and those present will at least be able to get a captain position by then.

“Then our captain can be promoted again.”

“No need to wait for new soldiers to join, the captain can be promoted to general after returning this time, right?”

“Of course… By the way, what is above the lieutenant?”

“Colonel! As a soldier of Winter City, you don’t even remember such an important thing?”

“I can’t be promoted, why should I remember this? Hey… Look over there, the Knights Templar were defeated by the Knights of Tiran…”

Listening to the conversation of the team members, I was still thinking about whether I could be promoted from lieutenant to captain after returning this time, but a sentence attracted my attention to the main battlefield again.

On the wide plain, thousands of Knights Templar wearing gorgeous armor were easily destroyed by the Knights of Tiran using heavy artillery, rifles, and grenades. The formation and momentum of the charge were easily destroyed, and then the Knights of Tiran wearing heavy cavalry rushed into the chaotic army and killed them in various ways.

Even if a small number of Knights Templar deliberately left the “battlefield” and reorganized their formation, they would be killed by the heavy artillery of the Apocalypse tanks not far away.

Looking at the Knights Templar who had no power to fight back, I didn’t think that the Holy Kingdom of Gaunt could turn the tables.

Not only the war in front of us, but the only outcome waiting for the Holy Kingdom of Gaunt and the Temple was complete destruction.

“It seems that this war is over.”

I continued to search for the enemy’s mages on the flank of the battlefield. After finding no enemies around, I contacted Megatron.

Megatron, who was in the air and could overlook the entire battlefield, quickly provided me with new target information – even if the enemy had the ability to hide themselves, once the mage began to cast a spell, any concealment skills would lose their effect, and Megatron in the air could easily find them.

With the new target location information, I took my four winter knights and rushed over as quickly as possible, and then eliminated the target.

However, after receiving the target information three times, I did not receive any new location information, and only received the order to “stand by in place”.

“What’s wrong?”

Looking at the team members looking at me, I could only spread my hands and give my own guess: “Maybe there are no enemies nearby.”

“It seems that’s it.”

“This Holy Gaunt Kingdom is too weak to challenge Winter City?”

“I hope the battles later will be a little more exciting.”

“Impossible, this battle should have wiped out all the soldiers of the Holy Gaunt Kingdom and the Temple.”

Three thousand Knights Templar, five thousand fully armored infantry, and more than a thousand mages. I calculated this “terrible” number in my heart. I seriously doubt whether there are still young and strong men who can serve as soldiers in the Holy Gaunt Kingdom.

In this case, will there be no more work for the Winter Knights in the future?

I want to be promoted to captain. Do I have to wait until Winter City goes to war with the Sodurenma Empire or the New Ailan Federation?

If I think further, will I never be promoted to the level of colonel?

After all, there are only a few countries around the Winter Kingdom. Maybe after unifying the human kingdom, there will be no war in the future.

Smacking my lips, I began to think seriously. If Winter City does not fight in the future, will the soldiers still have such good welfare benefits? Should I study what other business I can do to make a living?

Open a restaurant? A tavern? Or get a wife before that? Have a few fat boys and girls?

Alas, but I stay in the barracks most of the time, and I don’t know who to find as a wife for a while. After this war is over, I have to look for a good woman with a strong enough body.

By the way, Shirley is a police officer in Winter City and knows a lot of people. Maybe I can ask her to introduce me to a suitable person.

If I ask someone for help, do I have to give some gifts or treat them to a meal first?

What should I give?

Before I could think of an answer, the order to retreat had been issued. After standing there waiting for a while, my team members and I were soon picked up by the Quinjet and flew back to the base together.

(End of this chapter)