The Conspiracy of the Elites

Somewhere in a small town called Atique, Leo trained with his fellow terrorist soldiers as sweat beaded down his face. Unlike Clark, Leo didn’t attack the locals to grab the organization’s attention. He disguised as an errand boy for a local gang in the community, the leader of the gang took him as his puppy as he sent him on errands to steal and do a lot of other unconventional things.

After a week Leo became a bonafide member of the gang as he rose through the ranks with abnormal speed. After another 2 weeks of being in the gang he finally attracted the terrorist organization’s attention as they saw him to be a promising soldier. He was directly kidnapped by the terrorists; the organization didn’t see him talented enough to use other crafty and underhanded means to gain his trust.

They directly flexed their strength using the, “if you still love your life join us and if you don’t love your life you can refuse,” method. After he joined, he was added to the growing bunch of new recruits to train.

After 2 days of training, Leo also began using Clark’s method as he slowly increased his performance during training. About a week later he became a grade above the normal recruits as one of the best in the base. He stopped improving his performance after this as he was afraid that he would be suspected and then get caught.

Luckily for him after another week passed, he was sent on an errand to the base’s high-grade armory by one of the executioners leading the base. There he quickly hacked the base’s database and to his astonishment the base actually had 6 high-grade soldiers including the overall commander of the base.

As he only had limited time his mind didn’t even go to looting high grade equipment only lingering on how to finish his training safely, despite his limited time he didn’t forget to check the executioners ranks and equipment. Fortunately for him the commander of the base was a high-grade soldier with only one breakthrough, despite him being stronger than a normal soldier with one breakthrough he was still weaker than a soldier with 2 breakthroughs.

The other 5 high-grade soldiers also only have one breakthrough also. The commander had an exotic armor, an exotic spear and an exotic vision enhancer.

A Vision enhancer is an exotic device that is built like eye glasses and is worn like eye glasses. Its main function is to increase the perception and vision of the user. A high-grade soldier with an exotic vision enhancer can even calculate the trajectory of a bullet to dodge it, it can expose the weak points in an opponent’s armor or any other exotic gadget and it greatly improves accuracy for ranged fighters.

Leo was slightly confused as the commander was clearly a melee fighter, vision enhancer is better utilized in the hands of a ranged fighter, well he couldn’t predict everyone’s thoughts and preferences.

He quickly looked at the other high-grade soldier’s equipment, 3 of them were armed with both an exotic armor and an exotic sword. The 3rd one was further armed with an exotic machine gun, to his relief the 2 remaining high-grade soldiers were armed with only ordinary weapons. “But why,” he silently asked himself in puzzlement.

After checking the base’s database further Leo found that the 2 high-grade soldiers had their breakthrough not too long ago. Their exotic equipment was still on hold as the headquarters of the terrorist organization needs to confirm and go through a lot of procedures before sending the equipment.

“These 2 are my high-grade targets,” Leo mentally took note as he quickly left the armory.

“What took you so long?” The executioner asked as Leo presented what he sent for.

“Sir, I couldn’t find it at first so I had to check around for some time before I found it,” Leo replied respectfully.

“Hmm, who knew you were this foolish,” the executioner snorted in disdain before he ordered Leo to place the device down.

Leo placed it down respectfully as he quickly left. “That’s just one of the things you suffer as an ordinary soldier in this organization,” Leo thought ruefully as he left.

After planning for a long time Leo finally decided on the next day as the day of his sabotage. He trained as usual with the other soldiers as the veteran soldiers of the organization supervised them.

The day was a very long one to Leo as he was excited about his plans for tomorrow. This terrorist base has been in this community for more than 2 months already as the police never disturbed them nor even knew of their existence in the town. The commander of this base was ready to recruit as many soldiers as possible from this town before he would even think of leaving, the only exception was if the base received a mission.

It was not long before night came as a lot of the soldiers slept early leaving only the abnormal soldiers with eccentric behaviors. Leo also decided to sleep early so he could wake up very early for his daring plan tomorrow. He talked a little with his 4 roommates before he quickly slept. These unlucky roommates will probably become 4 unlucky dead souls tomorrow morning.

In the cadet military training base Clark relaxed on his bed. “It’s remaining only 2 weeks before the training ends, I wonder how Leo is faring, be fast I’m waiting for you bro”. He muttered as he slowly savored the taste of the soft drink on his hand.

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