After eating his fill, Heracles thought to himself, 'I better start moving right now!'
At that very moment, he rushed toward the direction of the first base that they annihilated. 'They should be able to reach that base any minute now! They would immediately come back toward their base if they ever found about the annihilation of their bottom base,' Heracles thought to himself as he rushed toward his favorite ambush site.
Meanwhile, the lady platoon leader and the three squads under her command reached the base a few minutes after Heracles made his move. At that very moment, the platoon leader was shocked upon seeing the numerous corpses of the people at the bottom base.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALL THESE!? ALL OF THEM GOT ANNIHILATED IN JUST A SHORT TIME!? EVERYONE! SEARCHED FOR SURVIVORS! LOOK FOR OUR PLATOON MEMBERS AS WELL!" the enemy platoon commanded, wasting no time.
One by one, the squad leaders came back reporting to her. "There is no survivor, Platoon Leader! We also didn't find any of our comrades from our platoon!" one of the squad leaders reported. The other two squad leaders reported the same thing as the first one.
At that very moment, the platoon leader suddenly gathered them all as soon as she could. As soon as she did, she commanded with great vigor, "WE MUST RETURN TO OUR BASE! THE CULPRIT MUST'VE PLAYED US! OUR COMRADES ARE NOT HERE! THIS MEANS THAT THEY GOT ATTACKED ON THEIR WAY HERE!"
"Does that mean that the attackers let us come here so that they could attack the platoon's remaining squad!?"
"They planned everything very well! The enemy created a diversion to ensure that they wouldn't fight all of us!"
Without any hesitation, they came back toward their base to see the situation with their own eyes. Like Heracles planned, he hid at his favorite hiding spot to ambush the incoming enemy. He waited patiently for them to pass through his hiding spot.
After waiting from his spot in less than an hour, the people he waited for passed through the spot as they rushed toward their base.
"We need to go there as soon as possible! They might be barely holding the enemies by themselves!" the enemy platoon leader shouted as she leads her subordinates.
When they passed through, Heracles came out from his hiding spot. Before they could reach an unreachable distance, Heracles shouted at the top of his lungs, "INFERNO FLAME!"
He launched a black flame toward the three squad leaders and the surrounding subordinates. They were all killed on the spot, leaving a few normal warriors and the platoon leader behind.
"ENEMY ATTACK!!!" one of the survivor shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Who dares to attack us!?" the platoon leader shouted as soon as she charged toward the attack's origin. Upon seeing her, Heracles did not hesitate to ready himself for a battle.
"A brat like you killed my precious subordinates!? There is no way that I would spare you!" the enemy platoon leader shouted as she drew her spear from her system storage.
As soon as they clashed with their weapons, Heracles said to her, "This is my first time fighting a spear user, so I will leave myself in your care!" "You fucking brat killed my subordinate just for training!? I will show you the difference between the two of us!" the platoon leader said in an enraged expression.
The two of them began clashing weapons at great speed. Heracles moves very efficiently because of his Legendary-tier skill. 'Dealing with spear-user is a lot harder than it seems! Well, it would help me absorb more of the footwork techniques that are inside the passive effect of my Alexander's Swordmanship skill,' Heracles thought to himself.
As the remaining subordinates of the platoon leader gather up, they were watching their leader fight with the young prince in an evenly matched battle.
"The Platoon Leader is at a stalemate with that brat!"
"Let's help the platoon leader! We need to avenge our comrades and squad leaders!"
After some consensus among themselves, they decided to join the fray to aid their platoon leader's victory. Heracles couldn't let this happen, so he immediately made a move without hesitating for a moment. He shouted, "FIERY FLAME!"
He launched a flame toward the incoming reinforcement before his enemy could even react. As the flame goes toward her subordinates, the enemy platoon leader could only shout, "NOOO!! HIDEE!!!"
The incoming enemies could not avoid the robust flame that Heracles fired toward their way. In the end, they reached the same end as their other comrades that died in Heracles.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!" the platoon leader roared at Heracles after his comrades fell to their demise. At that very moment, the platoon leader's attack became even more ferocious than before.
Instead of being pushed back, Heracles was actually enjoying the battle. He was gaining battle experiences from the actual battle which enables him to fight toward his fullest potential. Upon realizing his intention, the platoon leader was even more enraged.
She asked him, "You are getting stronger as we fight! Is this one of the effects of your skill, so you decided to attack our organization!?"
Upon hearing her, Heracles' expression suddenly changed into something cold. He said to the platoon leader, "You think I just came here to attack you to train!? I am not like you guys! I came here to take revenge against those people who attacked my master!"
At the next moment, he removed the hood that was hiding his face. The platoon leader understood everything as soon as she saw his face. "That golden hair and red eyes! You must be one of the members of the Overlord Family! As far as I know, the higher-ups attacked one of your friends. Did you come here by yourself!?" the enemy platoon leader could only wonder as she clashed weapons with Heracles.
"Someone who's about to die has no business knowing all those answers. I already annihilated your base. I will let you follow them!"