Chapter 513: Mission
Sam didn't want to bother with him and didn't want to prolong the conflict, but if he didn't make a statement, everyone else would think that he is soft permission just like this scion. That would be even more troublesome.
Anyway, the war would start anytime soon, there is no need for him to worry about the ruckus caused by this incident.
He would also like to see if the regiment commander himself would stop thinking about the war and fight it out with Sam.
But nothing of sorts happened, instead, he got a call from Yodha to meet him in his office.
Sam walked over casually without a trace of anxiety.
"What happened?" Yodha asked calmly, he didn't point fingers at Sam nor did he warn him about the incident.
"Just a self-important guy acting up. You don't want me to take that lying down, do you?"
"You could have resolved it another way, the war is around the corner, his father is not the regiment commander just for the show, what if he uses the authority and rules to deal with you?"
"Just let him do that, I want to see if the humans are the only beings that put their own agendas ahead of their communities, particularly one who has the responsibility to do something with authority."
Yodha didn't reply, he is thinking about Sam's words.
"Why go this far? You could have just avoided all of this."
"I tried. What? Do you want me to take a beating or something? I am not a human of this place and I agree that I don't know the rules, but that doesn't mean I have to take the shit thrown at me lying down. If those guys really don't want a problem, they would be the first to avoid me.
Trust me, they wouldn't want me as an enemy. You only saw part of my combat prowess when I am fighting directly. There is a lot more to me than that meets the eye.
Any way just leaves it aside, even if they want to kill me, it would depend on whether they have the capability or not. I assure you that it wouldn't be that easy.
I want to know about the war situation. When would it start and are invading or defending?"
Yodha shook his head at Sam's confidence, he is feeling that Sam is a bit arrogant to disregard the regiment commander completely. But he chose not to bother about this, he would cross the bridge when the time comes.
"This time, we are thinking about the invasion. The border between both nations is a place full of grasslands, ravines, and creeks. So, most of them would be direct confrontations and very few ambushes and temporary outposts. This time, we missed some places that we could have made the ambush points, so it is better to invade them.
And this time we are going to start a bit earlier than usual. If I am not wrong the war notice and the scouting missions would be coming to the camps as we speak, there are some scouting missions that are secondary and optional, and they would be left to the squads and companies to take voluntarily.
As for the compulsory scouting missions, the teams of individuals will be assigned directly by the battalion commander based on the compatibility of the candidates."
"Battalion commander Yodha, notice from the Regiment commander."
As they are speaking, a soldier yelled from outside the tent.
Yodha gave permission to enter. The man is a half-Naga and after saluting Yodha, he gave out a scroll and asked for permission to leave.
Yodha gestured him to leave and opened the scroll.
Inside there is a list of missions assigned to his battalion.
This is the protocol, there is a general gist of what every battalion specializes in at the Regiment commander's hands and he could assign the missions that are required to be done by them during the war and send them to the battalion commander and the battalion commander is responsible for assigning the missions to the suitable soldiers in his command.
As Yodha went to the last mission, he frowned and looked at Sam.
"He really is after you. Guess, Nagas are not really that different from humans."
When Sam heard that he understood that the Regiment commander might have done something to target him.
It turned out that the regiment commander took it upon himself to assign a suitable candidate from Yodha's battalion, completely bypassing the chain of command and assigned Sam alone for a scouting mission, to a location which could be considered somewhat nearer to the enemy base.
The whole camp is sure that there would be people there. There is no need to send a scout at all.
Sam didn't worry too much, he has too many cards up his sleeve to be worried at such a lowly trick. Much less scouting he wouldn't bother if he has to take a walk in the enemy base, he is pretty confident he would be alive.
That too, after he took a precaution regarding the Space element users at consummate realm after his failure to escape at the hunting grounds of the capital city.
Sam is focusing on the point where the rewards are noted. Even though there is not much he desired from the military, he could exchange some decent things for the credits.
If he could promote himself higher, he would have some respectable identity in this nation that would come in handy in the future.
He noticed that the rewards are based on the ranks as well as the cultivation level of the soldier.
The war's tacit agreement is that people who have higher cultivation cannot attack the people of lower cultivation.
The sub-stages in a realm don't count though. A late-stage Nascent can definitely kill an initial stage Nascent without any reservations.
The rewards system is interesting though.
If a cultivator killed a cultivator of the same rank, he would get ten credits and if a cultivator managed to kill a cultivator of a higher realm which is somewhat unlikely to happen, the credits will be multiplied.
Apart from that, there are credits based on the person's rank too. A soldier gets ten credits, a squad captain gets one hundred credits, the company commander gets a thousand credits, the battalion commander with ten thousand credits and finally, the regiment commander was not mentioned.
But Sam could guess, what that would be.
He looked at the mission he was assigned to. The mission is to scout a forest that was a few miles away from the camp.
The forest is the most delicate point of the border.
With the border spanning many square kilometers, this forest is closest to the enemy base camp.
The forest is always tightly guarded by a battalion similar to the Nascent Battalion. Every soldier will be a nascent stage cultivator and half of the battalion would lay in ambush in that forest.
The path leading to that forest is wide and clear without any ambush or hiding points, so it was pointless to battle in that path, the enemy always occupies the forest and they would completely guard the path to the base camp.
It is pointless to scout this place.
Even the scouting requirements are quite high. Not only does Sam have to go there and see the situation, but he should also at least capture an enemy soldier and bring him back.
Sam chuckled at the difficulty.
As he was getting amused by what the notice is saying, Yodha was fuming instead.
"There would be a meeting in few minutes, I will assign the teams for the missions and has to attend the meeting, I would deal with this matter then, you don't go anywhere until then."
With that, he didn't even bother to wait for Sam's reply and made his move, he went to the meeting and came back twenty minutes later.
"What is the matter?"
Sam said as he looked at his gloomy face.
Yodha cleared his throat and started mimicking another voice.
"If he really has that great and has so much capability that he could disregard the authority of mine, he should at least prove it.
Do you think, I would let someone walk over my face just like that?
He can hit my son if he really wants, but he should show me that he is worth it to let my son trampled like that in my own camp.
That worth would be proven if he can really pull off this mission. If such a human can really exist, he can do whatever he wants in this camp.
He can hit any soldier and he can even come and hit the battalion commanders if he can. Otherwise, he doesn't have any right to do whatever he wants, he would be dead, even if it was in my hands or if it was in the hands of the enemy. He would still die. He can decide what he wants."