Inside the imperial tent-- On the steep hill
"...Have you heard the latest news?" One of the girls inside the tent broke the silence and spoke, although her gentle features barely gave the impression that she was in her early twenties, the symbol on her golden shield clearly said that she was a Saint of the Life Legion!
"You talk about Jabba's actions? Yeah, who hasn't heard about it yet? He's too reckless…" Another Life Legion Saint replied as he poured himself a pink liquid into a cup.
But another mature-looking woman next to him moved her hand and gently slapped the back of that male saint's head, "You are a soldier, don't talk about the second commander like that in his absence."
"Argh, Aunt Lindsay, why did you do this?! It's not as if someone is going to hear us here…" That saint scratched the back of his head and spoke annoyed, "Secondly, how do you see his actions? He took most of the army and left without giving reasons, they have been away for three days now, Who knows what happened to them? Why didn't he wait and defend the hill until His Excellency woke up and makes his own decisions? It is him we are following, not that 3 meters tall alien! He is only a disciple of His Excellency but he acted as if he was our true leader!"
"En, I also support Brother Peterson in this, The second commander took forty thousand soldiers from the Golden Battalion and left in haste. There was no one left to defend His Excellency if something happened… Currently, there are only the 5 thousand wounded sages on the hill, and only less than four thousand soldiers that can be relied upon, but even these are mostly life forces and plant forces! ...and of course the bodies of the 1,500 deceased who have been killed in battle since we arrived on the planet. How can we defend His Excellency with this number of forces if a new raid comes?" The girl with delicate features spoke in a low voice
The woman called Lindsay was silent for a moment and looked at the ground, not knowing how to respond.
It is true that the situation on top of the hill has remained secure since Jabba and the forty thousand Golden Battalion members left, that's because all the hostile White Humanoids' ground forces around the hill withdrew and headed northwest after them, currently, the hill has no enemies surrounding it!
This, however, does not guarantee that other troops may not come to attack them again at any moment.
The Energy Protection Dome Array and the Metallic Wall presence are the only factors that assured them a little, but can those two defensive lines protect everyone on the hill forever? No.
Especially the Metallic Wall which is a shadow of the original design, if the enemy Sages concentrate their attacks on it, they will surely destroy it!
The 5,000 sages who had been affected by the lightning strike had been extensively treated under the supervision of the Life Law from Lady Zara personally, except that they were still not in the best condition
And even though there were approximately 10,000 other individuals on top of the hill, namely the Divine Blacksmiths Division and the Rune Masters Division, their combat capabilities are very limited...
Secondly, even regardless of this and that, what is happening with those 40,000 soldiers? All the saints and sages of the white humanoids immediately followed them, and all the ground forces quickly followed as well, did they have to battle all these things head-on!? What if they were trapped there without the Energy Protection Dome Array and the Metallic Wall to take cover behind?
"...The forty thousand soldiers can die, we ourselves can die, we can easily be replaced, and new Burton Family members will step forward and continue to spread the family glory with His Excellency for eternity... But the problem is who will protect His Excellency if we die here? His Excellency Robin Burton must not die here no matter what!!"
But Lindsey finally replied in a low voice, "Don't worry about these things, His Highness Caesar Burton also went out with the immediate commander. If he feels there is a threat to His Excellency Robin's life he will certainly lead the rest of our kin back, Every Burton family member knows his priorities! ...Our family members not coming back until now means that they see that It's better for them to stay there."
The other girl and young man looked at each other and then towards the ground and did not respond. Indeed, Caesar Burton, the adopted son of their family icon, is the only person they can trust at the moment, but they cannot even contact him to find out what is going on...
Although all the forces of the Golden Battalion have sound rings, they cannot communicate with the rest of their relatives from the Burton family to find out what is going on. It was forbidden to use sound rings randomly so that the other side does not get distracted during a battle, for example, and to stop the secret information from spreading among the soldiers, as even if they were all elites and mostly family members, some secrets must stay secrets in a war zone...
So they were informed that the use of these rings is limited to sending an extremely urgent report to the generals or receiving orders from their superiors.
Although they cannot communicate with their relatives, they are not completely oblivious though.
General Elizabeth Trent didn't jump after Jabba that day and stayed behind willingly to lead the defense of the hill, and she said more than once that she is in constant contact with the rest of the generals who left and that the situation is good and that they do not have to worry... But the problem is that she did not say anything else, for example, why this number of members of the Golden Battalion left, or what is happening abroad, or when they will return, everything that happens abroad remained something shrouded in mystery...
"No need to worry... they are all capable people... As long as the situation is stable here, they are certainly in a good position wherever they are... Otherwise, we would have been hammered already..." A weak voice suddenly broke the silence
"Hm, you are right, If they brock our guys out there then they would definitely try to eliminate us by now, but that doesn't mean they will stay okay, right? we saw the White Humanoid Creatures' forces and know what are they capable of, they are not something that 40k of our troops can handle alone, and---" Lindsay gently nodded and started muttering as she looked at the floor, then raised her head with raised eyebrows and looked around, "Wait, who said that?"
The girl and the young man also looked puzzled and shook their heads, they also didn't know who spoke just now
"Heh~ None of you looked towards me, Have you all lost hope that I will wake up one day or what?" The sound came out again, accompanied by movement this time, Robin who was lying on his bed for almost two weeks had sat up!
"Y-- Your Excellency!!"