The Conspiracy of the Elites

Despite him looking funny, the strength of this guy was the real deal. Clark’s mouth and heart were sealed completely when he learnt that he was from the Spartan army. Unlike their military divisions, the Spartan army refused to let most of its precious high-grade soldiers into such a dangerous mission.

The Spartan army brought only 20 soldiers out of the needed 200 high-grade soldiers for the mission, but that was already many Clark thought in silence. He also learnt some news about General Bakash, the 5 soldiers who always followed him were all 3rd rank high-grade soldiers. The Spartan army released another four-4th rank high-grade soldiers, and ten 2nd rank high-grade soldiers.

Clark slowly integrated among his squad mates as they leisurely discussed, they were all high-grade soldiers so no one particularly gave him a hard time. From the discussions, he learnt that this big room was his squad’s room and the place he thought of as a mansion was the gathering hall.

Clark also learnt of a very agonizing truth; the Spartan republic released only 10 top grade camouflage devices for this mission which will be used by the strongest soldiers in this mission. “No wonder I was told to prepare my weapons, I thought I was going to be provided with the Spartan army weapons and gadgets, what a rip-off,” he thought in resentment.

He also learnt about 3 notable soldiers in his squad. The 3 were 2nd rank high-grade soldiers but they behaved like 5th rank high-grade soldiers. He already felt it weird how they looked at all the other soldiers in the squad in disdain until he learnt that they were from the Spartan army.

Soldiers from the Spartan army always felt superior to soldiers from other military organizations. The captain of the squad was just an exception, unlike the rest he always tried to build harmony between members of the squad. From this day, Clark’s view of the world completely changed as he started encountering technology that was far from his league normally. The A.I, G-14 organized virtual training courses for his squad to build up their co-operation and synergy as a squad.

Being among the lowest ranked soldiers in his squad as well as the whole warship, Clark tried to act as modestly as possible. He chatted mostly with soldiers of the same rank as he was. His squad was surprisingly one of the best in the whole warship as they had a captain, 4 corporals and 15 sergeants. They had 5 female soldiers in the squad, one of them was a corporal from the Spartan army.

After 2 days of continuous training and a lot of other things, all the soldiers required for the mission were finally ready as the General announced that they’ll enter Mocan territory in about a week’s time. Despite all the weird people around him, Clark tried his best to improve by training diligently during this period of time, he clearly knew what he signed up for. This mission was definitely not a vacation.

During Clark’s time in the python military organization, he already mastered the first battle art he bought, he already bought a new one for melee combat “The Frenzied Maneuver”. This battle art was common, but its strength amplification was not to be underestimated.

Clark trained seriously, repeatedly trying to break his records, when he took this mission, he came with a mindset to wreak havoc and survive, he didn’t come here to die. He knew surviving in this mission was not beans, but he was determined to do it.

After a week of travelling the warship finally reached its destination, a forest in Madara State in the Moca republic. Unlike the Sparta republic, the Moca republic is divided into 30 states and the federal capital territory being Freeborn. Freeborn is directly opposite Madara state in terms of territory comparison.

The warship could’ve landed in Freeborn directly, but the detection and scanning devices there would have probably discovered the ship as the best resources in the Moca republic were completely concentrated in Freeborn. They didn’t build any camp on arriving, the warship was the Spartan soldier’s camp.

After a week of preparation, training and planning on the way, the perfect strategy for this mission was finally fully developed. All squads were presented with the blueprint for their different targets, no one squad knew the target of another squad. This was to prevent a complete leak of information in case a soldier from one squad was captured.

The mission was codenamed “The Spartan’s Rage”, it symbolized the rage of Spartans after the countless invasion attempts from the Moca republic, reaping millions of lives every attempt.

Clark’s squad was assigned to take down the Governor of Madara state. It was a steep mountain to climb, but the squad had what it took to do it if they plan well. This was the first time; this huge number of high-grade soldiers were going this deep into the Moca republic from the Sparta republic and vice-versa.

Despite the arrogance of the soldiers from the Spartan army, they were still their superiors so Clark and the other soldiers learnt to respect and ignore their frequent disdainful expressions. The day of the assault was planned to be on Christmas day when the whole Mocan republic will be celebrating. Most of the countries in this part of the world inherited Christianity as the main religion so most people celebrated Christmas.

Clark’s squad’s mission for this first part was to try infiltrating into the Moca republic. After more than a week of staying in the warship, Clark already made some new friends, Sergeant Sonia was one of the closest friends he made during this mission. Captain Briggs ordered them to not be in groups more than 2 soldiers as the mission progresses to avoid suspicion from the locals and the local military divisions.

On Clark’s first-time seeing Sonia, his previously calm heart strings were finally pulled. Like, he felt that she was the perfect girl he had ever seen but he restrained himself from being silly.

During his stay here, he already developed a crush on Sonia but he already decided not to get too engaged on female relationships before he became an accomplished soldier and was old enough. An 18 years old boy going 19 was too small to be thinking about relationships, he had more important priorities.

Sonia didn’t feel this way though, she always talked of how close the both of them were that the other soldiers already saw Clark as her boyfriend, which was clearly not true.

During this mission of reconnaissance, she volunteered to be Clark’s partner. Clark didn’t object as having a beautiful soldier by his side will surely make his infiltration attempts smoother and more successful.

And most especially, she was a fairly strong and reliable soldier also.

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