Faced with Angeltai's firm attitude of not giving up without asking the bottom of the matter, Luojia was suddenly relieved.

"Looks like you've guessed what the answer might be, Angeltay."

"It's true... I don't even think there's anything strange about that. Perhaps what I have done seems to be so trying to cover up that even you can easily perceive the extent of the crisis. ”

"Let him go, my loyal warriors."

didn't mind the offense in the other party's words, and even raised his hand to signal the original body guards to let go of Angeltai, at this time, Luojia was like an old father who had witnessed the growth of his child, and even his tone revealed a little relief.

“… Sorry, sir. I don't mean to offend you, but we do need an answer. ”

"I don't want our legion to be filled with suspicion and doubt, and I don't want the skies of Colches to be clouded - even though the enemies we face next may be far greater than we think, as people with the truth, we have the courage to face the truth."

Angeltai, who was released, also solemnly expressed his apologies to the father of genes, but the words were still sonorous and powerful, which made Luojia's eyes full of appreciation.

As the commander of the Sawtooth Sun and the son of Colchis, Angelay represents both the officer class and the soldier class at the moment, and although the interests of the two are not aligned most of the time, the current cloudy situation over Colches makes the demands of the two surprisingly consistent, which is why Angelay is able to appear here and ask those questions smoothly.

Obviously, the officers of the Bearers wanted to know what was going to happen next for Colchis, and the soldiers of the Bearers wanted to know where the war was going to go.

Will the sudden cooling of the relationship with the Dark Angel lead to a devastation like the Perfect City?

What is the next step in solving the almost endless strange situation of the Iron People?

Their hearts are filled with endless doubts.

Angeltay is their microphone.

Clearly, Luojia was aware of this. So much so that even Angeltai's radical words did not offend Luojia, and even felt a little relieved.

Because Angeltai's move reminded Luojia that since the Perfect City incident, he has been negligent in communicating with his children, so that the 17th Legion, which was once held together by faith, is now almost a mess - with the example of the first company commander and the chief priest in the past, no one knows if there will be any problems with his immediate superiors, so that all kinds of administrative orders within the legion need to be issued by higher-ranking officers before they can be fully implemented, even after the system of the Bearer is split from the legion into warbands, The problem of this overly bloated system has not been improved.

Even Luojia himself subconsciously ignored this matter, and it was not until Angeltai's advice arrived in front of him that he realized that his legion had unknowingly become this unbearable appearance - even a truth that should be hidden needs the direct appearance of the genetic prototype to fully answer, otherwise no one in this legion where everyone is in danger will dare to take the responsibility of spreading rumors.

Now it seems that he is not only an incompetent general, but even an incompetent father.

With a slight sigh, Luojia picked up the data board at hand.

“… Answer. ”

"I don't know if I can give you an answer that satisfies you, but there's not much I can say."

After hearing Luojia's promise, Angeltai's eyes immediately became more energetic.

In fact, in this context where all the speakers are confused, so is Angeltay himself. As Astarte, who had been involved in the destruction of the Perfect City, the confusion he harbored in his mind was even more complex - for example, Angeltay was acutely aware of the fact that the forces of the Dark Angels were dead in every battle, and that there was no enemy worthy of the life of the best troops in the galaxy.

So what are they looking at death as home? Do they know that they will soon die? Or will Colchis be destroyed by a force that falls from the sky?

During these days, all sorts of extreme conjectures continued to come to Angeltay's brain, and Angeltay's mind was even calmer than the radical ideas of his other fighting brothers—as more and more terrible rumors filled the Legion that could not be suppressed, Angeltay realized that something was definitely wrong with their genetic father.

So, there was this admonition.

“… At first, I thought that this sudden event would be like a sandstorm in Colchis, and that any manic wind and sand would gradually subside with the passage of time, until we came out of the shelter and everything would be calm again, as we had experienced for countless days and nights in Colchis—it had always been, and it would continue to be. ”

"And when an irresistible natural disaster comes, the fool always has luck in his heart - hoping that this flying disaster that does not belong to him will be eliminated in prayer, but the punishment sent down by this god never belongs to any one person, so it is also called the "natural disaster".

"I am a fool who prays that the calamity will come away naturally."

Faced with the unavoidable questioning of his children, the sage, who was no longer noble, began to tell the story of what he had experienced recently.

The warm flame of the promethium candle shone on Luojia's rough skin covered in incantations, making his tired demeanor no longer noble and sacred, but a little dark gold psionic color flickered between the incantations.

"The existence of those iron men is like a sudden natural disaster. I don't know of any better way to deal with the sudden appearance of the mechanical tower, the never-ending onslaught, and all I can do at this moment is to pray blindly—like you, like all of you, even like an incompetent mortal, Angeltay. ”

"They're really weak, so weak that they're weird. And this 'weirdness' exactly caused my brother's concern, and... Not only was he concerned about what was hidden in the tower, but he was also born with ideas as extreme as you might guess. ”

"I have no power to stop him, and I have no reason to stop him, I have only done everything I can - dismiss civilians, reduce the garrison, and even contact the Lord of the Twelfth Legion, although nothing can prove that she can solve these matters, but I can only pray to her and the Emperor."

"That's the truth you want, Angeltay."

"I don't know if the destruction of the City of Perfection is about to befall Colchis, and this time, I am not even qualified to take the whip of punishment on my own initiative."

“… Pray with me, Angeltay. ”

"Pray that destruction will not befall Colchis."

"Pray that the Children of the Mountains will know the truth about the Iron Man."

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(End of chapter)