Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil-Chapter 237: Worthy Of The Soldiers

One soldier died.

Dead. Straight up.

The main war hadn’t even started and one soldier died.

And upon the death of one, the others went into a frenzy.

"What?"

"Did he die?"

"How? Who attacked?"

All the soldiers were disrupted and they all used all their entire strength to reach the end of the cliff.

FRISH!

PUCK!

"Ahngh."

The soldiers were falling all around. They were dying one after another.

Pablo could only hear the sounds. He couldn’t see anything. The mist was in the air as well.

"Help us, Commander. What is going on?"

"Help!"

"Commander!"

The soldiers asked for help and Pablo was on it from the start.

’Tell me what is happening, Angel. I can’t see anything.’ He asked for details.

"Arrows are coming from the cliff. Long and sharp. They are killing the soldiers. They aren’t stopping. It’s a rapid fire of arrows. All of you will die if you don’t cross the cliff soon." Cupid shared the details.

’How are they falling down when their gravity is low? They should remain floating.’ Pablo questioned.

’Maybe the moment the soldiers died, Xavier’s Ego stopped working. It could be that it doesn’t work on dead people.’ Cupid guessed.

’May be. And there are more important things than that right now.’

Pablo focused on the soldiers.

"Everyone. Arrows are coming from the cliff. They are coming from below. Use your Egoes. Your weapons. Just do something to avoid them. Parry them. We need to keep moving forward. Reach the end of the cliff and it will be fine." Pablo gave some instructions and that helped.

The soldiers now know what was happening.

They could protect themselves from the arrows coming from the depths of the cliff.

"Rower, use your Ego, take as many soldiers you can with you and go forward as far as you can. The cliff isn’t too long. Go five kilometers ahead. You will definitely find a safe land." Pablo ordered.

"I would have done the same." Rower was also thinking along those lines.

He acted on the plan right away and in full speed, he came and went from one soldier to another.

Pablo could see the streak of lights and by that, he knew that Rower was safe and he was saving the soldiers as well.

’So five kilometers ahead is a safe place to land. I get it. But how do I protect myself from the arrows?’

Pablo was also hovering above the cliff and he was dodging just because of Andrezj’s help. The Angel was telling him to move according to the direction of the incoming attack.

Pablo kept his senses open and he also noticed that Rower wasn’t enough for the millions of the soldiers.

The soldiers were doing their best to defend themselves from the arrows coming from below but they weren’t fast enough to move forward. They had to get out of the danger zone.

Pablo roamed his eyes and he saw a big silhouette of red.

"Boulder!" He called.

"Yes?" Boulder replied. He was calm. He was calm because the arrows did him nothing. They couldn’t pierce his skin. They were bending just by coming in contact with his body.

Pablo got to know about it by Cupid. She was telling him about Boulder’s situation and Pablo would use it.

"Throw people to the other side. Use all your strength and throw them. As many as you can. Do it!"

"Alright."

Boulder could do that and he started right away.

He was using both his hands to throw soldiers to the other side.

Boulder’s strength was no joke as his throw made floating soldiers fly like missiles.

He was throwing four soldiers at once. His one hand could hold two soldiers. He was holding them with their feet though, so it wasn’t that much of a challenge.

Anyway, Rower and Boulder were doing the rescue operation and some soldiers were fast enough to cross to the other side.

Some were falling inside the cliff and Pablo could only pity them. Death was evident in the mission.

And like that, floating and throwing, after one hour, everyone crossed the cliff.

"That was hell!" Boulder was the first one to call it out.

"You didn’t even get harmed." Pablo replied.

"Huh? How do you know that? How can you even see?"

"Come on, man. You are a high Duke with a huge build. As if some arrows could make a dent on you." Pablo gave an excuse.

"Heh. You are right about that." Boulder agreed with Pablo.

"But some of our soldiers died. That was your mistake." Jamal did his complaint.

"Not some. One thousand soldiers died and it wasn’t my mistake. It was evident."

"You were counting deaths?" Rower asked.

"Yes. I was in the back. I counted how many fell inside the cliff."

"That doesn’t mean anything. You said to cross this cliff and that resulted in the loss of our soldiers." Jamal won’t let go.

’Is he trying to instigate the soldiers against me?’

Pablo sensed some ulterior motives behind Jamal’s concern. Pablo had to do something before Jamal could succeed.

"The only way to cross the mist was that. Xavier helped us. He made us fly. Because of my decision we are standing here. Yes, no one would have died if we hadn’t crossed the cliff. But that is the case for the enemies as well.

If we hadn’t crossed the cliff then the enemies would still be there and the mist too. Crossing was the only choice and those who died, we have to take revenge for them. That is the only way. We should all keep moving forward! We should kill those who killed our comrades! Isn’t that right, soldiers?!"

"Yess!!"

"Kill them!"

"Let’s go!"

The soldiers were angry at the deaths of their people and Pablo used that full well. He would invoke emotions of revenge inside them.

"It pains my heart to see some of the men dying. I would have saved them if I could. I am so sad at their deaths."

Pablo lowered his head.

The soldiers murmured among themselves and they nodded.

"It’s not your fault, Commander. We were all ready to die anyway. We all survived because of you. Don’t beat yourself over it."

"Yeah. You did nothing wrong, Commander."

"Let’s kill the Enemy. This is no time to be sad, Commander."

The soldiers sided with Pablo.

Pablo wiped his eyes and raised his head.

He gave a smile.

"Thank you for your support." He said.

"Yess!" The soldiers were invested in Pablo now.

’That was fake sadness, right?’ Cupid asked.

’Yes.’ Pablo won’t lie.

’Thought so.’

’I can’t show real sadness for an army I just met. Well, I can’t show sadness for anyone. I am messed up in the head.’

’At least you are self aware.’

Cupid stopped talking and Pablo focused back on the soldiers.

"How many of you are healers?"

No hands were raised.

"No one here is a healer?" He asked.

"Yes." Boulder answered.

Pablo jerked his head at him. "Why? The healers are an essential part of an army. There should be healers."

"There is no need for the healers. Everyone who is injured, eat the Versa pill." Boulder gave the order.

The soldiers who were injured, even barely, took out a yellow pill from their bracelets and ate it.

Almost instantly, the injuries were healed and the soldiers were good to go.

Pablo was certainly surprised.

’I didn’t even know such pills existed here. But I can’t say that I didn’t know about these Versa pills.’

Pablo was a detective for everyone and a detective should know all these things. He couldn’t say he was clueless about these pills.

"Right. These pills are here. Why wasn’t I given them?" Pablo asked.

Now Boulder was surprised. And not only him, everyone else was surprised too.

"You don’t have them?" Boulder asked.

’Was I supposed to have them?’ Pablo didn’t know what to say but he had to say something.

’It seems me not having these pills is surprising. Fine.’

"I never brought these pills with me. It was my assistant who took care of such things. That’s why it’s not in my habit to take them with me." Pablo gave a perfect excuse.

"Right. Of course. Here." Boulder gave Pablo a pouch filled with the Versa pills and Pablo gladly stored it inside his left hand bracelet.

"I hope you know how it works?" Boulder asked.

’Is this a trick question?’

"It heals the wounds, right? After eating and all?" Pablo answered what he knew.

"Yes. But overdo it and your heart will explode. So you can only use three per day unless you have a dark colored Ego rank. Purple or Black. People with such ranks can eat Versa pills as much as they want."

Boulder revealed the workings of the Versa pills and Pablo could only smile.

"I already know all this. Don’t waste time." Pablo lied and he was happy to know he could eat these pills as much as he wanted. He had a Black rank Ego after all.

Boulder shrugged and took his position.

The soldiers were standing in front of Pablo.

"Are you all ready to move forward?"

"Yes!" The soldiers were ready.

"Then moving forward it is."

Pablo turned around and now he stood ahead of the four high dukes again.

Socrates was beside him and Pablo waited for nothing. He started walking forward.

Everyone followed him.

The thick mist was still around them and Andrezj told Pablo that he was finally seeing a left turn.

Pablo relayed that to everyone and they raised their guards.

After walking for twenty more minutes, they reached the left turn.

And Pablo turned left right away.

And after walking a little more, they all found what they were looking for.

The heat signs.

Pablo stopped and everyone else stopped as well.

"Everyone," He spoke.

He raised his right hand in the air and while solely bringing it down, he gave the command worthy of the soldiers.

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