After Vex and Nate received a report that Buriek elements were herding their prey towards FOC South 1750, they immediately realized that a complicated problem was approaching TF Amethyst. Moreover, Reaper found a Buriek cavalry with a strength of more than 1500 personnel moving east at full speed.

After distributing orders to various units in Davy Jones, Nate and Vex then rushed to FOC South 1750. They had to make sure that the incoming complicated problems were handled with extra care.

As soon as Vex and Nate got off UH-1Y Venom, Captain Nathan approached the two and gave a brief report.

"Guests from Sandhur Region are placed in the reserve barracks. Consisting of 54 combatants, 9 women, 14 teenagers, and 12 children. Would you like to meet them, Sir?"

Vex casually answered, "Not now, what about their pursuers?"

"They are taking position 5 km to the west, behind a hill. Larger elements are estimated to join with them in 20 minutes. Artillery has marked their position and is ready to launch a salvo."

"Captain, for now give the artillery a yellow. We still haven't entered a hostile situation."

Captain Nathan was stunned for a moment before hastily speaking, "Sir, we are outnumbered by 1:5. Eliminating them using artillery as far away as possible is the most ideal solution."

"I know."

"Sir."

Captain Nathan could only sigh silently as he followed Vex and Nate to the operations control room at FOC South 1750

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Main Gate, FOC South 1750

1600, 1 Sept 2025

After regrouping with the reconnaissance element and finding that there was no movement from the foreigner compound, Brigadier Flek decided to immediately put on a show of strength.

The two cavalry squadrons he brought he deployed at a distance of 1.5 km to the west of the foreigner compound, with an aggressive and intimidating formation. The footbow element was even ready to launch a salvo at any moment.

After that, accompanied by a staff officer and four bodyguards, Brigadier Flek approached the foreigner compound.

"Brigadier Flek, commanding officer of Robber Cavalry Brigade, Buriek Guard, requests the highest-leader of this compound to come out right now."

While sitting on his horse, Brigadier Flek shouted the purpose of his arrival. Not long after that, four men walked out of the compound gates and went straight to him. Three of them wore all green clothes and carried oddly shaped sticks in their hands.

While the fourth man wore beige trousers and a buttonless dark gray shirt, with a brown puppy print on the chest.

Somehow, the combination of his casual demeanor, clothing, and especially the image of a puppy on his chest, made Brigadier Flek feel the urge to chop the fourth man up.

At the same time, the man stared at Brigadier Flek before saying lightly, "Vex, highest-leader of this insignificant outpost. What can we do for the honorable Ser Flek?"

The man's casual tone made Brigadier Flek frowned, but he managed to contain his anger.

"We are pursuing political fugitives and our reconnaissance elements saw them entering this outpost. We demand that they be handed over to us immediately."

"Do you mean Captain Rasser's convoy from Sandhur Region?"

"Yes, Kingdom of Buriek is at war with Sandhur Region, and we are on a mission to capture them."

Vex nodded and said, "Understood, we will hand them over."

Vex's answer made Captain Nathan gasp, but in the end he chose to remain silent.

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Lady Erien sat pensively while members of noble families from Sandhur Region lay on their beds. Some children and teenagers have even fallen asleep. Natural thing, considering that for the past few days they have not been able to sleep or eat well.

Of the ten members of Issel Family who tried to flee to Rivek Region, only Lady Erien and her six year old sister survived. While she did not know what had happened to his father and brothers who chose to fight for Lagra City.

To be honest, as the leader of the convoy, Lady Erien had almost given up and chose to surrender to the pursuers. She could no longer bear to see how the members of the convoy fell one by one.

However, Captain Rasser insisted that they had to keep fighting, and finally a glimmer of hope appeared.

The foreigner in the compound named FOC South 1750 received refugees from Region Sandhur with open arms and treated them very well.

The foreigners serve hot food, fresh fruit, and soft fragrant bread. Then conduct a medical examination and treat injuries suffered by the refugees. After that, the refugees were given the opportunity to rest in a comfortable barracks.

Lady Erien's fighting spirit was rekindled and she immediately thought of her next move. In FOC South 1750, she had seen iron carriages that could move without the need to be towed by horses.

If she could hire the iron carriages along with a number of bodyguards, then arriving in Sviek Region would no longer be impossible. Moreover, she had also seen a wide, straight, and smooth road that extended to the north.

Captain Rasser had also confirmed that the wide road was designed for the iron carriages that could speed up to 100 km/hour.

A smile was about to bloom on Lady Erien's lips, when Captain Rasser suddenly rushed into the barracks.

"Lady Erien, you must leave this place immediately."

"Uncle Rasser, why do we have to leave? And why are you alone?"

Without calming his breathing which was rising and falling wildly, Captain Rasser explained, "The highest leader of FOC South 1750 intends to hand you and the entire convoy to Buriek cavalry.

And This compound personnel have a strange device to immobilize my men. Lady Erien, I beg you to hurry."

"Uncle Rasser, even if we can get out of this compound, where else are we going?"

Lady Erien asked as dozens of FOC South 1750 personnel entered with steady steps, holding short sticks in their hands.

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Within the military, usually, the unit that had the most spare time was the military police. Therefore, military top brass would invest a lot of resources so that the military police were not busy doing nothing in their barracks.

So, it's natural if most members of the military police usually have various qualifications. Such as sniper, CQB, high-risk escort, hand-to-hand combat, K9, or other qualifications.

TF Amethyst also applied the policy of allocating a huge amount of resources to the military police. Especially, in the skill to knock out targets who were skilled at hand-to-hand combat.

The syllabus used by the military police in TF Amethyst was compiled by world-class martial artists from both civilian and military.

However, the syllabus that was considered almost perfect, had to be rewritten after the military police performed a real fighting simulation against members of Tuscan Guard.

The stun gun or taser gun used by military police was only useful in the first fight, then was easily neutralized by Tuscan Guard members in the second fight and so on.

No matter how high the skill of a martial artist from military police was, it was useless when it was used on people who trained with the intent to kill and used their skills quite often in life and death battles.

Ground Combat Group higher-ups then prepared a new training syllabus based on input from members of Tuscan Guard.

Therefore, when Vex gave a notification that there was a possibility military police at FOC South 1750 had to arrest 54 visiting combatants, they weren't nervous at all, and when the order was finally issued they easily executed it.

It's just that Lieutenant Hess didn't understand. If from the beginning there was no intention to protect the guests, why did they accept them into FOC South 1750. But in the end, Lieutenant Hess could only follow the order.

Of course the dilemma in Lieutenant Hess's heart did not just go away. He was the officer who became the guide of the refugees from Sandhur Region when they entered the camp. He did his best to help them settle in, but now he was asked to expel them.

With a full regret , Lieutenant Hess looked at the young noble lady before him. "Lady Erien. . . We were sorry. We had to carried out orders."

Lady Erien took a deep breath before saying, "I understand, but can I myself wake the sleeping children. In return, we will leave all the gold and valuables we have."

For Lady Erien, it would be much better if all the gold and valuables they had were handed over to the people who had treated them very well, rather than let it fall to the pursuers who would later humiliate and kill her and the rest of the refugees.

"Of course, but we still have to tie Captain Rasser's hands."

Captain Rasser instantly closed his eyes and took a deep breath, but the tears he had been desperately holding back finally flowed. For the first time in his life, the Captain whose name was always associated with boundless courage burst into tears.

Not because he was afraid of the incoming death, but because of bitterness when he imagined the inhuman treatment that would befall on the young noble lady he had considered his own daughter.

"Lady Erien, please forgive this useless servant."

Lady Erien didn't answer and just hugged Captain Rasser tightly to hide her sobs.

Not long after that, Lieutenant Hess brought Captain Rasser out. Lady Erien then woke up the children who were fast asleep, while some of the women began to sob.

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