"I see...... You're wondering about this. Hearing Lieutenant General Varta's question, Hyliga couldn't help but smile, and he understood why this was the case.

As a high-ranking officer of the Empire, Lieutenant General Varta was confident in the performance and deterrence of his troops on the battlefield, so he never laughed at the ignorant remarks of people who had never seen the cruelty of the battlefield. In his opinion, people who have not experienced war, even if it is just a simulated atmosphere, have nothing to say about war at all. And over the years, both the pretentious academics, the journalists and celebrities who always boast of seeing the big scene, have always changed their arrogance and opinion after seeing the atmosphere of the battlefield, including in the Garelian fortress. So when the other students were either lost in thought or full of surprise during the drill, he found that one of them was indifferent to such a scene.

If it had happened before the exercise, he wouldn't have paid much attention to it. But the problem was that the reaction he observed was that the airboat force had already completed the sweep and the whole exercise had just come to a climax — and in this case, he was able to naturally show disdain, a man he had never seen in his years of military career. So, curious, he asked Instructor Knighthardt about the origin of the student, and learned from Craig's subordinates that the student had actually saved the "Notre Dame Park" and its surrounding dignitaries from the hands of terrorists in the imperial capital a month earlier, and was the only one of the three attacked places to capture the other party's leader. What's even more terrifying is that according to the Imperial Capital Gendarmerie, except for the guard soldiers who were almost frightened by the monsters at that time, the only reinforcement was this one. Such an achievement should have been hyped by the media, but it seems that under the pressure of the high-level of the royal family, those media finally brought the matter over.

Although he still doesn't quite understand, Lieutenant General Varta knows that there must be some deep-seated reason behind this. Although he has become a lieutenant general, he still has a lot of personality and will still get to the bottom of many things that he has never seen, which naturally includes this matter.

"First of all, I hope you don't get me wrong." "I don't care about the exercise, not that I have any misunderstanding of the concept of 'war' itself—but only in terms of the so-called intensity, or from the point of view of destructive power—I have not seen anything larger, more powerful. ”

"Something more powerful than a group of guided vehicles...... Have you ever seen a test launch of a "chariot gun"? Lieutenant General Varta frowned, this should have been done in extreme secrecy.

"No...... You're thinking wrong. What I see is not the work of humans of this era—it is likely that it was created by ancient humans before the Great Collapse, and that is beyond the reach of modern technology. As a reminder, do you still remember the change in Liberl and the southern part of the empire three years ago that led to the mass cessation of conduction? ”

"Liberal's mutation and floating city?" Lieutenant General Varta was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, "The intelligence seems to have mentioned that in addition to Olibart and Vanderqing, there is still one person who returned to the empire with them, can it be ......?"

"yes...... For similar reasons, I've kept a low profile. Heliga nodded, "And it's not just the ancient weapons on that floating city...... In Liebel, what really changed me and His Highness Olibert was the "Society" in its preparations for the liberation of the floating city. During that process, His Highness and I, as well as the companions I met in Liber, each crossed over what we were most unwilling and afraid to face in our hearts—the soldiers of the Liber Kingdom Army could use their hands and steel "puppet weapons" to fight hand-to-hand when all the guiding weapons were not available...... The "Red Ark" that is enough to destroy the whole of Liber...... Technicians and logisticians worked overtime to finally get some of the important facilities back up and running – we've seen what a battlefield is from the Liber Mutation – and the people who are on it, what they're carrying, and what they're supposed to do. ”

"I see." One of Lieutenant General Warta's doubts was answered, "Indeed...... Seeing transcendent ancient relics and seeing the battlefield in the true sense of the word, you really have a reason not to pay attention to the exercise. No matter how real the drill is, it can't compare to a real battlefield where life fights, and this is all too clear to Varta himself, but it still doesn't fully explain his doubts: "But...... It stands to reason that it is precisely because we have seen war that we understand the cruelty of war. ”

"The cruelty of war...... "Helliga repeats the words, "I didn't mean to say that...... But that's the essence. War is, in fact, nothing more than an extension of the political game – when no agreement can be reached through verbal communication and negotiation anyway, war upsets this balance and redistributes resources from both sides – which is essentially what it is. ”

"......" Lieutenant General Varta was silent. He couldn't argue with that, because that's what it was.

"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. Am I right that the army is a violent organ of the state, to put it mildly, just a gun belonging to a politician? There are great men among the military, but the military, no matter how you describe it, is essentially something like that. ”

Heiliga stood up, taking a sip of coffee in front of him that he had never touched again, and it was already quietly cold.

"So, in the eyes of those who have seen through the essence of the army, no matter how powerful it is, it is nothing more than that—there is nothing to fear. And......" A hint of uncertainty flashed in Heliga's eyes, and the tips of his fingers lifted slightly, but quickly calmed down, "Forget it...... That's all for now. Have your questions answered? ”

At this time, Lieutenant General Varta began to look at Hyliga with a scrutinizing gaze. The latter shrugged his shoulders and left the dining room.

“…… Osborne, maybe that's a great opponent. It was only after a long time that Lieutenant General Varta let out an exclamation alone.