Chapter 247
The drawbridge slid down smoothly. It had barely been an hour since the Cleanup Unit began their infiltration, and the inner castle gates were already disabled.
It was only natural. While the Cleanup Unit’s official purpose was to assassinate high-value targets from the demon army, Elizaveta, as Alexander’s confidante, had an internal motive of ‘counter-revolution’.
As long as Alexander’s legitimacy remained intact, Elizaveta had to seize power through a counter-revolution. While the Counterintelligence Command eventually wrapped things up, it meant that a military occupation of Frechenkaya was indeed part of the Cleanup Unit’s training process.
“Apprentice.”
Enrique looked at Ivan with a serious face. At this moment, crossing the drawbridge and entering the inner castle, Ivan’s expression was becoming increasingly cold.
Around them, skeletal soldiers were clashing with the resurrected knights of the Royal Guards.
The faces of the Royal Guards were still recognizable, and the Cleanup Unit members were people Ivan had trained one by one.
Every fallen soldier fighting now was a ‘comrade’ whose name, life, personality, and achievements he could recall just by glancing at them.
Those comrades raised their spears against each other. It was a battlefield filled not with screams, but with sounds of blasts.