As soon as the military report was given and the President left, Rashford finally ended the short convergence conference.
After General Armstrong left, he also stood up to go after making sure that Clark was teleported back by the building’s A. I to be led away by his escort.
He didn’t leave the President’s building though, after leaving the conference room he teleported to another part of the building before taking a spiraling staircase upwards.
It took him 2 minutes to get to the end of the staircase. When he reached the end, he arrived before an open sky.
This was the roof of the helmet-shaped building.
On the roof, there were a swimming pool, a small garden, a small zoo that was filled with creatures and exobeasts of various species, and a small bar at the side that was dominated by drinks.
President Leonidas was currently seated inside the bar, leisurely sipping from a bottle of enhanced treated water. Seeing Commander Rashford, h
Sorry for the late release. I wanted to get rid of the disorganized chapters before uploading, I pestered my editor yesterday and it's now finally done. Don't worry, I'll make up for the yesterday chapters.
Clark already knew of his best friend’s mansion before he went for his latest mission in the Everest, but he was not going there. Today was a Thursday, he was pretty sure that Leo was in his military division base. Thinking of the fact that Leo was already an old veteran in the Python military division, he chuckled amusedly to himself. As soon as he drove past the enormous gate that led inside the Presidential Villa, he leaned back on his chair, added pressure to the car’s gas pedal before speeding off straight to the highway. With a calm face, he accepted the fresh atmosphere of the highway. … A few hours later when it was already getting late, he finally arrived at the familiar roads of Delhi city. His speed slowed considerably as he expertly drove down from the highway and into the boisterous road. The wide road was filled with vehicles going back and forth, spreading optimism in the air. As the road leading to the city’s only milit
“I still can’t believe it, Benny’s dead?” Kate asked again for the umpteenth time, making Leo even more worried for his wife’s health as they ate their breakfast. The night before today, after taking Clark to the guest room to rest, when he went to his room, he found that his wife was not asleep yet. He could only sigh, he knew that Kate pretended to leave just to give him some personal space and time with his best friend. He was grateful for it but he equally dreaded what would follow. As he predicted, after welcoming him, she hugged him on their bed before asking for a sneak peek of any interesting thing that Clark said. In the end, he told her. Benny was a friend that she knew and was close to, he didn’t feel nice withholding such information from her. He already expected it when he revealed the news to her, but still seeing how enormously she was affected made him reject his choice. This morning, he was helpless on how to make her
A few minutes later, Clark finally drove back to his friend’s mansion. Throughout the journey, none of them spoke as they digested everything that happened in the past hour. Leaving 2 aging parents devastated was not an experience that Clark wanted to remember, but he knew that what he did was necessary. Perhaps, because his parents died when he was young, he could not comprehend how the couple felt but he knew that it was painful to lose a loved one. The money that he sent to the aged couple was an outrageous amount of money for a burial, but he didn’t send the money to them for that. Seeing how devastated they were, he took it as a responsibility upon himself that he would never live to see the both of them lack anything. Benny was their one and all, their only child that they directed all their love to. His death was traumatizing enough, he did not want any other suffering to befall the aging couple. At least, with a million Spartan
None of the airplanes in the Delhi City airport were verified to take off to Vatican City and as he didn’t want to impose his authority on any civilians, Clark took the road. As soon as he arrived back at the highway, he pressed hard on the accelerator to the maximum as the car basically started flying across the road. At such a high speed, this was when he finally knew how badass this military vehicle that he was given was. He didn’t know the correct specifications, but he suspected that this car was of a higher level than his exotic car. Upgrading his exotic car was one of the priorities that were on his agenda as soon as he got back, so he was in no rush to get a new car. At an average speed of 600km/h, he sped across the highway like the flash. Of course, red flags were raised and the road safety officials were alerted but as soon as they knew that it was a military vehicle, they retreated. This was one of the joys, freedom, and priv
“Is it true?” Commissioner Martian quickly stood up to face his companion while asking, a surprised but excited look on his face. “I don’t know. I just received the news this morning from my secretary, so I informed all of you”. Commissioner Crook answered with a helpless expression on his face as his 3 companions surrounded him enthusiastically. He felt like cursing. “Don’t you have any dignity as old as you guys are?” Though this was what he thought in his heart, he could not say it out. Still, seeing a bunch of old geezers surrounding him and throwing questions at him gave him a headache. Calming himself down, he patiently answered their queries, even to ridiculous questions like if he was in the bathroom when his secretary brought the news to him. They justified themselves by saying that for such important information, his secretary could barge into anyplace just to let him know at the fastest time possible. For that, he an
>THE BLACK WEEK> This flashed on the holographic screen as a series of edited opening scenes quickly followed in rapid succession. A lot of edited graphics took the screen for about a minute before the real footage started. The screen background took on a blood-red tone, making Clark stiffen as his nerves became stretched taut. Then it started… … “Sir, the terrorists stayed through to their claim. There have been reported attacks in 7 vantage points, the city’s emergency security guards are already stretched thin”. “By your orders, we intend to send reinforcements immediately”. Sergeant Maria had a distressed but serious expression on her face. “Have you contacted the commissioners?” Corporal Cinnabar also had a serious expression on his face, his tone now deeper than ever. “No, sir. We were waiting for your input”. “Ok, call them now”. After an intense section of discussion through virtual projections wit
After entering his car, Clark did not take a single glance back as he drove out of the government building the next moment. As he drove his veins throbbed repeatedly, making his face seem older but he didn’t seem to notice. As soon as he stormed out of the conference hall, King quickly followed after him. At such a delicate moment, King was sensitive enough not to irritate him. Though he was not a Spartan citizen nor a Vatican, watching the recorded footage was still enough to rile him up, making him have strong hatred on sight against the so-called Persian tigers. If he felt like this and he was unrelated to the casualties, he just could not imagine how Clark felt. Seeing children being butchered brutally like pigs, old men being kicked to death like stray dogs, couples being shot to death like they mean nothing, he felt a wave of simmering anger engulf his heart. How can humans be so cruel? Yes, he was a soldier but such cruelty stil
After Clark made up his mind, his conscience became free again. Enjoying the feeling of freedom from guilt, he continued speeding across the road, straight in the direction of the highway. The forest reserve surrounding this road was among the smallest sized in the city, despite this it was still a few kilometers big. This meant that the road going through it was also long, over 2 kilometers. Clark estimated that he would get to the highway in just a few minutes so he was currently relaxed, listening to the music that was blasting from his car’s hidden sound amplifiers. As the song played, this was when he deduced that it was a long time ago since he last listened to a piece of music. He was stunned by this discovery, was he so cut off from society now? “Hey! Who is the trending musician now?” “Hmm?” King turned to him with a lazy expression on his face as he chewed on a pack of chocolate. “I asked who the current trending musician was
6 months ago, the sky turned red which according to world leaders signified the start of the war that would decide the fate of humanity.2 months prior, the news was finally publicized, spreading worldwide panic but with all the most powerful world leaders working together, the panic was easily curbed and order was restored.According to the government, humanity was not hopeless, they had heroes in the form of their soldiers and elite soldiers.Not only that, humanity had a superhero, the great Elite Commander Clark Pendragon. After the special training started, a fuse seemed to have been switched on as the Spartan soldier experienced a period of rapid growth.With veteran Elite Commanders around to guide him and with every resource he needed available, he encountered no bottlenecks, he improved at a superhuman speed never recorded since the human race was born.In just 4 months, he broke through 2 times, going all the way to the Elite-grade rank.
A month later, in the Gen. Clark Pendragon Mansion.At the big balcony attached to the mansion, Clark stood, looking out into the distance as a lot of things went through his mind. The past one month has been the best in his life, and he was grateful for it.Despite it being the best in his life, as a 4th rank high-grade soldier now, his intuition told him that something was happening.As a high-grade soldier and mercenary, things happened everyday around him but he knew that this was not the normal happenings, his intuition told him that this was far higher than anything that he has encountered before.And after making connections from the recent happenings, from his famous marriage ceremony, to the big 5 jointly broadcasting it, a lot of other things and now the Spartan President personally calling for him, he confirmed his guess.Something big was happening, it was just that no one deemed it right to inform him about it yet. As a man
Vatican City Central Church, General Clark Street. This was the church where the big things were happening for today. Not only people from all over the Spartan republic, even esteemed guests from foreign high-grade countries came to grace this occasion. Today was the day of Vatican City hero’s marriage ceremony. After 22 years as a single, General Clark Pendragon was finally ready to tie the nut with his fiancée. The name of the street where the ceremony was commencing was given and commissioned a few days after Clark became a General. Some of the most esteemed guests attending the marriage ceremony were the legendary President of the Spartan republic, Leonidas, and the armor tycoon, the billionaire Mr. Calibri of the Dakran republic. These 2 people were such powerful and well-known personalities in their own rights that their attendance alone shot the attention being given to the marriage ceremony to the highest point. Not only that,
“Leonidas, you wish to attend?”Hearing that, the Spartan President sighed, exasperated. “If you were not my mentor, I would have probably fired you already. Cough…, sorry for that but I’m really going, what’s the big deal?”“You’re really asking me that right now? Of course, there’s a big deal. Apart from military burials, do you know the last time you have for social gatherings?”“I dunno, probably a decade or 2”.“No…, 4 decades! 4 whole decades! You get that?” The old man emphasized by waving his hands vigorously, showing 4 fingers at the powerful soldier.“Suddenly going to a social event after such a long time staying at home, what do you think will be people’s reaction. They may feel that something is happening, they may even panic”.“And just because he’s a 4th rank high-grade soldier does not change anythin
A day after the reunion with her family, Sonia took permission with her parents before going on the first official date with her boyfriend. It was a date, but they just wanted to spend more time together and close to each other. The few years apart was torment to them, now that they had the opportunity, they wanted to make up for it by all means. At first, staying together left them feeling awkward but they soon got over it and started reliving the feelings of a few years ago. For the destination for their first date, none of them planned for it as they were both individuals who have never interacted with the opposite sex in such fashions before now. As the only daughter of a famous billionaire, other billionaire sons already tried courting her in the past but she simply didn’t find them appealing enough, so she always ignored and avoided them. After just a day of staying with Clark, her brother, and her parents in her childhood home, she now
Among the 3 Pirate Gods in the Sahara, though none of them never publicly claimed the spot as the strongest, the Black Pirate God was the one most recognized by pirates as the strongest. After him was the powerful Red Goddess Pirate, then the Lilac Pirate God. Compared to the first 2, the Lilac Pirate God was on the more glaringly weaker side but he still had the strength to back his title. At this moment, in the Black God Pirate City, a surprising piece of news was being circulated. Pirate Queen Anamel was dead, and Pirate Queen Cobra was secretly a student of the Red Goddess. Not only that, the most shocking piece of news that took the city by storm was that of Pirate Queen Cobra’s intention to leave the Sahara and settle in normal human settlements outside. … “Is this news verified?” A deep voice asked with suppressed anger in an underground room with far better living conditions than most of the others out there in the desert. “Yes
Though they both wanted to just remain in each other’s embrace forever, Clark and Sonia knew that they were still in a pirate city and what it meant. With reluctance, they quickly left the city with Arthur.Even if they tried to cover it up, it was impossible so they didn’t bother. In minutes, the news of Pirate Queen Anamel’s death spread through the pirate city and beyond.For long, Clark has always been worried about his reaction when he finally saw Sonia again but he was surprised when he did. It was like they never separated; it was like they’ve lived through all these years together.15 minutes later, they got sufficiently far away into the desert from the pirate city so they finally had the time to speak things out.Sonia brought out the stolen pistol first, which Clark handed over to Arthur. After this, she finally started detailing her encounters after Clark asked.According to her, after the fierce battle on her fa
While Arthur asked the pirate, Clark already went to work as he closed his eyes to focus. As experienced soldiers, they already put a lot of contingencies in place during their tour around the pirate city.Even if they wanted to catch some fun, it was too unrealistic for them to just keep touring without setting anything in place.With his implant, Clark immediately accessed the hidden cameras that they placed around the city, most especially this bar. It didn’t take him long; he saw a hooded female going out through the bar’s back door.“Found our target”.While muttering to Arthur, Clark already turned to storm out of the bar. Arthur simply knocked the 2 pirates out before storming out also.In seconds, they were out of the bar’s main structure.…A few meters away from the bar, a hooded lady walked through the streets at a leisure pace as she kept a close but alert eye on her surroundings.<
The next day, Clark and Arthur woke up with the intention to remain patient while waiting for their informant to contact them. They didn’t even go into the pirate city, it was too disgusting for them to stay in it. The more Clark felt this way, the more he feared what his girlfriend may have become now. If just a day staying in it could make him this irritated, he just couldn’t imagine what staying here for 4 years could have done. Thinking of this, he felt guilty again. “Why didn’t I come earlier?” Souring his mood with such thoughts, the day moved extremely slowly to him. Perhaps, having noticed his current mood, Arthur didn’t disturb him and opted to go out hunting alone. When he came back, he had a desert antelope with him. Seeing the catch, Clark was left speechless. “Can we finish that?” Arthur wasn’t fazed by his question. “If we can’t finish it today, we’ll just finish it tomorrow or the next. Don’t worry, I have preservation gadgets with me, and besides, your girlfriend