Chapter 988: Section 642: The Fish and the Fisherman (Part 1)_2
Malin had always carried a sense of regret and guilt for the girl named Sara and her friends. He had sworn to avenge Sara and them, but over the years, he still couldn’t identify the culprit. These days, even the police in Carterburg were running out of patience. If it weren’t for Malin occasionally following up, forcing them to give at least some sort of response, the officers wouldn’t even have bothered to feign effort.
Moreover, it had been too long—a time so prolonged that even Sara’s family had stopped pursuing the case. As for her friends... well, in this era, every family had many children, losing one or two was perceived as an acceptable loss. When the investigation yielded no progress and the initial heartbreak faded... Sara and her friends ended up residing only in Malin’s memory.
Thus, as someone who knew them, Malin felt embarrassed to push the police officers too hard.
But after the incident with Mendel, Malin decided he could no longer let the killer get away.
Both Sara and Mendel deserved justice.
"No problem, I’ll head off now, Lord Malin. Take care on your journey. I’ve heard the route to the Eastern Human World is fraught with danger; be sure to protect yourself."
"I will."
After shaking hands with Lagrelov, Malin watched him leave, then chose to depart himself.
Over the week that followed, Malin reviewed battle reports twice. After engaging with Chaos, the Northern Legion fought well. Crown Prince Daniel did not behave as nepotistically as Malin had feared; instead, he favored employing the staff officers and advisors trained under Malin. These young individuals lived up to Malin’s teachings and Daniel’s trust. Despite advancing steadily, they feigned a weakness, which lured a Chaos battalion into a trap where the Northern Legion annihilated them with superior firepower and manpower.
They beheaded nearly ten thousand Chaos forces, while their own losses were fewer than three thousand—a victory of unprecedented scale in the last decade.
Everyone was jubilant, except Malin. Through officers he trusted, he learned the startling truth: toward the end of the battle, in a bid to conserve bullets and artillery shells, Daniel’s subordinate officer corps encouraged an assault, where most of the casualties occurred.