The Conspiracy of the Elites

It was now already over a month, since the fleet started moving after repairs. They didn’t encounter any other hostile fleets, and the ship’s scanners haven’t detected a place with a high concentration of exotics yet, so they practically just sailed aimlessly without a specific direction. Clark felt homesick, but he persevered, restraining his longing as a beggar was simply not a chooser.

After another week, the fleet finally stopped, as their scanners detected a place with a high concentration of exotics. This was his first time, witnessing exotic mining from a first-person perspective. He was dispatched this time, with some other soldiers to protect the miners from any threat under the water.

They were all provided with oxygen bags, and military grade diving suits to go under the sea. After more than a month of training, he could already be considered competent in fighting on and under the sea.

It was a very unique experience under the sea, the unique and beautiful fauna and flora here would have easily made the experience like a vacation to him. But he couldn’t bring himself to admire anything, as his fate was still hovering in the hands of others.

They surrounded the miners in a circle shape, to protect them from every possible angle. 5 augmented sea animals attacked them during his shift, but they easily killed them. Luckily, they didn’t encounter any sea exobeast.

This became his daily routine for the next few days, as he was always dispatched under the sea. The leaders of the fleet, basically saw him as someone with no status in their fleet, so they didn’t hold back in assigning him to be involved in such manual labor. This routine finally broke on the 4th day, when they encountered another fleet.

As he and some other soldiers were protecting the miners as usual, a visible electric field suddenly surrounded them. What felt weird, at the same time bringing relief to them, was that no electric discharge was transferred to them using the water as a medium.

“Ahh!!” Despite this everyone was startled, as the miners immediately started panicking, some of them already started screaming. The 1st rank high-grade soldier who led the protectors, tried to calm them down while trying to figure out what was happening, as he was also currently in the dark. As the area became slightly chaotic, an audio message was finally sent.

“Hello, this is Sergeant Emery, we have a situation. Prepare for battle immediately, a larger fleet is attacking us,” someone quickly informed them through their communicator.

Clark was already beginning to get anxious, first, he was wearing an ordinary armor and he was wielding only his 2-form gun. He was not feeling safe at all, “what a set-up,” he cursed in resentment.

He was originally planning to distinguish himself in battle, but with the current look of things, there was a high chance that this fleet is getting destroyed and annexed today. It was better to be not too exceptional, then be taken again as a captive. As he thought, the soldiers from the unknown fleet finally descended on them.

“FIGHT!!” The 1st rank high-grade soldiers’ leader in their midst yelled, as he advanced forward to meet the aggressors.

Tu! Tu! Tu! Tu! Clark configured his gun to become a machine gun, as he shot at them while retreating. “I’m not one of them, so why die with them?” he reasoned.

He was able to discreetly hide himself using the surroundings as cover, as the battle raged on. “I will watch for now how the battle unveils, before deciding on what to do,” he quickly decided.

Boom!! Boom!! The battle here was very fierce, but the Camelotian soldiers were firmly suppressed by the opposing soldiers, as they fielded three 1st rank high-grade soldiers. Not too long later, they finally succeeded in killing the Camelotian high-grade soldier. After killing him, they ordered the remaining soldiers to surrender, but they refused, so they were all killed without hesitation.

All the miners surrendered and were all taken away, Clark finally revealed himself, stealthily swimming upwards to view the overall battle situation.

Boom!! He suddenly ducked back into the water hastily, as his back suddenly grew very got. He broke out in cold sweat, as he just narrowly escaped death from one of the fighting ship’s main weapons. The water above him directly evaporated, from the extreme heat. After his heart calmed down a little, he slowly brought his head out of the water to observe.

“Damn, the opposing fleet actually has a whooping 5 ships, no wonder,” he thought in trepidation. On the Camelotian side, it was not looking good as 2 of their ships were already on fire, the last one was trying to escape but was prevented from doing so, by the opposing ships.

The fight was mainly being fought by the low rank high-grade soldiers. It seems the Camelotian Captains finally lost their cool, as the 4 Captains of the fleet finally jumped down into the sea. Clark was surprised, “are they trying to escape or fight under the sea?” he soliloquized in a puzzled tone.

He was given an automatic reply, as he saw all the Captains emerge from the sea, their shoes started glowing blue before they landed back on the water surface. His jaw dropped completely, as he saw the Captains moving with the shoe on the water surface like surfers, he had heard of anti-gravity shoes, but he had never heard of this.

“Try to escape,” the overall Camelotian Captain, Captain Jack commanded on the comm as they advanced to fight for their last ship’s survival. As they advanced forward, 4 high-grade soldiers also jumped down from the opposing ship to meet them. They were all of the same rank as the Captains from Camelot.

Boom!! Both sides quickly clashed as they both opted for a melee battle. Things didn’t always go according to plan, this was not an even competition, Clark thought as other ranged high-grade soldiers started helping their comrades from the opposing fleet.

The battle was very fierce, but unfortunately the Camelotian forces were still defeated and their last ship was taken. This battle, one thing that Clark focused on were those magical boots, they could increase your strength in the sea by a huge margin.

“It is just like fighting on dry land,” he thought as he marveled at the convenience technology brought to mankind. He didn’t feel good though, as he got ready to reveal himself. There was no way that he could survive alone is this merciless sea, so having a master was not too bad an idea. But it’s definitely still not a good thing, being a captive who changes masters here and there.

“Who is there?” One of the opposing soldiers turned to see him standing there at the edge of their ship, as they salvaged their spoils from battle. This battle gave them an intact ship, increasing their fleets ships to 6. They were now already one of the strongest fleets in this part of the sea.

As they detained him, he repeatedly emphasized that he was not one of the Camelotians, that he was captured by them. They didn’t give him a second glance though, as they dumped him in a huge hall. That was where, they also dropped all the Camelotian high-grade soldiers.

On entering the hall, Clark was astonished as he saw hundreds of captured people here. “If this hall is for only high-grade soldiers, you mean that this people actually dared to hold so many high-grade soldiers in their fleet?” He asked himself inwardly, while feeling shocked.

“What have I gotten myself into,” he questioned himself again in shock.

[Thank you for reading this chapter, I really appreciate. Happy Valentine to you all, once again thanks for reading my book, I wish you all the best life has to offer.]