"Carl, wake up, we're coming."

On top of the crowded transport ship, when several royal guards in power armor woke up the sleeping Carl, the industrial planet called Palos had appeared in front of them.

"Well...... Sorry......"

In the hazy eyes of sleepiness, I saw a tired Karl whispering sorry and pinching his forehead with his hand to wake up as soon as possible.

"喏~"

In a trance, he saw someone hand a tube of nutrient solution in front of him, Carl looked up, only to find that it was Miss Elena, the combat priest in the team, and at this moment, the gentle and hearty woman with short blond hair was looking at him with a smile.

"If we don't cheer up, how can we carry out the task entrusted to us by Her Highness Clara."

Hearing this, Carl was a little embarrassed to take the bottle of nutrient solution with a strengthening nerve from the other party's hand, and then raised his head and drank it down, feeling the pain coming from his throat, and Carl's heart was also the same taste at this moment.

Although the evidence provided by Her Royal Highness Clara herself at the recent adjudication conference successfully saved her from the pain of capital punishment, due to the huge power of the Klein family, those people still found a bunch of reasons afterwards and fabricated more than 30 charges for Carlo again.

In order to completely dispel those people's thoughts, and before the new round of rulings arrived, Her Highness Clara made a shocking decision, she actually gave Karl the status of personal guard, and made him join the personal guard, which only the children of the nobles could enter.

In this way, according to the royal law, the Klein family has no legal reason to do anything more against Carl for the time being, but such a move has caused quite a stir even among those supporters of Clara.

Despite his royal blood, Carl Franz was actually just a disgraceful illegitimate child, and those people did not understand why Her Royal Highness had gone to such great lengths to protect such a troublesome figure.

Because of all kinds of unreasonable behavior, there have been many rumors in the empire today, and some people even openly claim that Karl is actually Clara's favorite male pet.

Just when he was still feeling deep remorse for these things, suddenly a deep voice caught his attention.

"Remember to be vigilant, we don't know exactly what's going on down there."

"Also, Carl, I don't recommend that you follow us on the mission, it will hold us back, I suggest you stay on the ship and don't go anywhere."

It was Captain Martin who was in charge of the operation who was speaking, as an old guard with one hundred and thirty years of combat experience, the sense of majesty exuded by his body was incomparable to ordinary people, and in the face of Captain Martin's suggestion, Karl only humbly pleaded.

"Please give me a chance......"

As an exceptionally promoted member, Carl was not actually good at the work of the Guard, although he was once a well-known fleet commander, but this does not mean that he can also show the same ability in ground combat.

In order to live up to Clara's expectations, Karl has been training asceticly beyond his physical limits for some time, but even now he is still far from a qualified royal guard.

On the side, another slightly younger member of the guard said in a relaxed tone.

"Just let him try it, anyway, I don't think this mission is any difficult, it's just a group of poorly equipped cultists, in my opinion, the local garrison can easily deal with them, Your Highness is still too cautious."

Miss Elena, the former Battle Priest, agrees with the Guard's opinion, and Carl is relieved and even a little incredulous that the noble Royal Guard does not deliberately exclude him because of his lowly status.

Just like Her Highness Clara, who saved herself, the members of the guard hand-picked by her are indeed a group of honor-worthy and aristocratic individuals, whose presence is so rare in today's decaying empire.

"Well, since you like him so much, let Karl assist Elena, but don't take it lightly, you imps."

As he spoke, Martin turned his gaze back to the rust-colored industrial planet outside the window, and a look of concern gradually appeared on his resolute face like a stone.

"I always feel that this mission may not be as simple as we imagined......"

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......

In a moment, as the ship carrying the guards landed in the garrison base of Palos, the local planetary defense officers and some of the garrison generals were already waiting below the tarmac.

Seeing Martin and his party in pale gold power armor, those officers and soldiers began to take off their hats and salute them, looking at the defense officer in front of them, only to hear Martin's calm tone of inquiry.

"How's the mine going?"

According to information received from the Planetary Defense Forces not long ago, a strange cult has recently begun to appear on the planet called Palos, and under their instigation, a large mining farm has been occupied by the rebellious slaves and laborers.

Karl's team was sent to investigate the matter, because Her Highness Clara believed that the reason why the cult rebellion here was growing so quickly might have something to do with the local planetary governor.

Hearing the inquiry from the Royal Guard, the officer looked nervous, and after a moment of deliberation with his head down, he said in a trembling voice.

"Very bad sir...... At present, in addition to the No. 3 mine, two other factories have also been occupied by the cultists. ”

Martin was taken aback at first, and then his emotions quickly turned to anger.

"What do you eat? Can even a bunch of slave laborers scare you! ”

Although the equipment and training of the planetary garrison are indeed much weaker than that of regular armies, they should be better than a group of slave rebels who don't even have decent weapons, but who would have thought that instead of controlling the situation, these guys would make the scale of those traitors even larger.

"And what about the planetary governor? Why aren't others here? ”

"He's dead, and yesterday morning a cultist lurking around him killed him."

Hearing the other officer's answer, the atmosphere at the scene instantly became serious, being able to assassinate a planetary governor was by no means something that an ordinary cult organization could do.

It seems that Martin's instincts are good, and all indications seem to indicate that what is happening to Palos at the moment may be more than a small cult riot.

"And what do you know about this order?"

"These traitors are armed with weapons that have been modified from engineering equipment, and their whereabouts are very strange......"

"Also, we've found out the name of the order, which they seem to call themselves the Children of the Worm."

"At the moment, according to our estimates, the number of rebels may be more than 20,000, and we hope to get more support if we can."

"The more the merrier, and we need more people."

Listening to the officer's report, Karl gradually began to look at the soldiers standing guard around him, and with an inadvertent glance, he saw a young man with a gloomy face looking at him with a smile.

Seems to be very interested in the appearance of a group of people.