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"Edgar, what do you think about this?"

Lemoto stared at him, his voice low and serious.

Facing the leader's question, Edgar frowned slightly and took a deep breath, as if trying to calm his inner waves.

After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and said solemnly

"According to the information and intelligence analysis I have, the most likely scenario is that... all the soldiers who participated in the crusade have rebelled collectively!"

Before he finished speaking, the entire conference hall exploded.

"How can it be?!"

"Do not make jokes!"

"Edgar, this is not funny."

"Those soldiers, how dare they betray us and kill people?!"

People were talking to each other, with unbelievable expressions on their faces. The conference hall, which had just returned to calm, fell into chaos again.

However, this time Edgar did not remain silent like before, but raised his voice and said loudly

"Do you think I'm talking nonsense? Well, think about it carefully. Although every member of the Emancipation Army is an ordinary human, which one of them is not an elite soldier selected from the best of the imperial army?"

His deep and rich voice kept echoing in the spacious conference hall.

"What's more, in order to be able to perform the difficult and dangerous tasks in the organization, these excellent people have also received the most rigorous and comprehensive scout training!"

"Whether it is lurking and infiltrating, concealing and disguising, gathering intelligence, or capturing and assassinating, clearing the battlefield, setting traps, or even fighting one-on-many head-on, these are all areas they excel in, and they are proficient in them all!"

"Then the question is, who can easily subdue and capture such powerful guys without hurting any of them?"

"Perhaps there are enemy countries in the War-torn Continent that can do it, but on this island continent, not to mention the awakened ones, I'm afraid only warriors with demonic powers can do it!"

"And Bendeno! Haven't you ever thought that he, who was tortured, might have told the whole truth about the demon?"

Edgar's words exploded in the conference room like thunder. The originally noisy environment instantly became silent, and the entire conference room fell into a dead silence.

Once this shocking conclusion is established, the consequences it brings will be an unimaginable disaster! It is even enough to completely shake the foundation of the entire organization!

Thinking of this, even the usually calm Lemoto couldn't help but open his eyes a little wider, revealing a difficult expression.

"But... they... probably don't have any evidence.……"

A man in black muttered timidly, his voice so low that it was almost inaudible.

"Evidence? Haha……"

Edgar had a mocking smile on his face.

"If they really needed evidence, then Bendeno would not have died at all!"

This sentence was like a sharp sword, piercing the heart of everyone present.

For a moment, there was silence in the conference hall, and no one dared to speak easily.

After a long time, the long and oppressive silence was finally broken by Lemoto's voice.

"Even if all the warriors who participated in the crusade betrayed the organization, they are just warriors. Don't forget that we still have the card of Raftila in our hands."

Lemoto's tone remained calm.

"Yes! That's right! Raftila!"

Someone echoed.

"No matter how powerful they are, as long as they are warriors, they will never be able to defeat Raftela!"

"That's right, as long as Raftila is still here, even if the warriors really betray and want to fight against the organization, they will definitely not stand a chance of winning!"

When they heard Lemoto mention another killer weapon in the organization that was specifically used to deal with rebellious warriors, the others breathed a sigh of relief and their expressions eased slightly.

However, Edgar's expression was still not relaxed at all.

In his mind, there was still a crucial question that had not been answered.

What exactly caused the warriors to suddenly take tough measures to force a confession from the agent, or even kill him? And what was the ignition point that triggered all this ? While Edgar was still immersed in thinking about the answer to this question, Lemoto suddenly changed the subject and brought up another topic

"The envoy from the Empire, where is Lawrence now?"

Edgar's thoughts were interrupted when he heard this, but he did not show any obvious emotional fluctuations, and just responded in a calm tone.

"He is dead"

"Oh?"

Lemoto seemed quite surprised by the news.

Then Edgar described in detail

"Investigators found his body in a forest outside Barcelona. There was a huge hole on the top of his head. The inside of his head was empty and there was no sign of brain residue. This unique attack method was most likely caused by a parasitic plant."

"Combined with the traces of movement left at the scene, I speculate that he was attacked by parasitic plants and attempted to escape, but unfortunately failed in the end.

Compared with his previous focus on analyzing those soldiers who betrayed the organization, Edgar seemed a little indifferent when talking about Lawrence's experience, and even showed a perfunctory attitude.

"Oh, it's OK if he died. It's no big deal. I will report it truthfully in the next communication with the Empire. I will say that he died heroically for the Empire and sacrificed his life for his country."

Lemoto waved his hand nonchalantly. The calm expression on his face seemed to indicate that he didn't care about Lawrence's life or death at all.

"What about those dragoons he brought with him?......"

Edgar did not answer this question, but just shook his head helplessly.

"And that guy Easley......."

Lemoto continued to ask

"In another forest, we found traces of a battle, and also found many scattered pieces of the awakened body."

"After a preliminary analysis of the color and strength of these fragments, it can be determined that they all came from the same awakened person. Based on various signs, this person is most likely Isley."

"However, we did not find his body at the scene, so I think he is probably still alive.

Edgar replied in a heavy tone.

"I see……"

Lemoto sighed softly

"In this way, all the established goals of this northern crusade have failed without exception... Not only did all the soldiers choose to betray, but they also lost the lives of Bendeno and the members of the recovery team, and even Lawrence... This price... is really too high!"

Thinking of this, Lemoto couldn't help but sigh again.

"This is really a major mistake in decision making.……"

Lemoto muttered to himself

"Actually, it's not that there is no gain at all."

At this time, a member of the recovery team broke the silence and spoke up.

"The awakened members of the Northern Legion under Isley, including the Silver-Eyed Lion King Rigarut, who was once ranked No. 2, were all defeated and devoured by the parasitic plants, and finally merged into an extremely strange behemoth."

"However, just when we thought it would continue to attack the soldiers stationed in Barcelona, it suddenly suffered huge damage from an unknown attack and was instantly defeated."

"Unknown attack?"

Edgar frowned upon hearing this.

"Defeated instantly?"

Lemoto's eyes also became serious.

"Explain the situation in detail."

Lemoto said in a deep voice

"Yes, sir, this is what happened.……"

The member of the recovery team began to narrate what happened at that time.