The monitoring unit commander immediately saluted with his hands on his chest along with his companion.
Archman Group had two aspects, the commercial aspect and military aspect.
To the commercial aspect they only saw Luke as the chairman whiles the military saw Luke as their commander in Chief.
At ease commander, come with me! Luke gestured for them to follow him into his office.
In the office,
"Sir we have something to report, can you permit us! The commanders said with a serious expression.
Luke nodded, "this here is lieutenant Chris of the monitoring unit, and over the last few months he's been observing movement at our borders and saids he's identified suspicious movement.
Luke raised an eyebrow, "Go ahead I'm listening"
"I'm lieut.." "just skip the formalities and tell me what you know!" Luke interrupted Chris.
"Ye..Yy..Yes sir!" Chris studied himself,"Two months ago I went to pick my fiance at the airport, while I was waiting I noticed something very intriguing which drew my attention.
"And what was that? Luke asked.
"Sir, I noticed that they were too many men with Mascular build's at the airport! Chris reported.
The Monitoring unit commander almost fainted after hearing this, what kind of rubbish was Chris spewing? Was this the suspicious reports at the boarder which could spell doom for us? Damn it he should have forced him to spew it out before requesting to meet the commander.
Maybe he should stop trusting his subordinate too much! He silently noted to himself.
Luke on the other hand raised an eyebrow after hearing this.
"Continue" Luke said with a serious expression.
"So I intentionally bumped into one and got into a brawl with one, but I lost. Over the few weeks that followed I'll occasionally drop in at the airport and pick a fight with a random person, and it all ended in defeat for me.
The men I fought weren't regular civilians, they were trained fighters, they fought like soldiers even though they tried their best to look as novice as they could.
This caused the commander to rethink what he was initially thinking, but he had questions.
"I'm not doubting you, but could it be that you encountered a soldier or group of soldiers on vacation?" The commander asked.
"That isn't all, I also noticed that on an average at least a 100 strong and trained men arrive in Gold country everyday and all are from the great countries! The men I fought were all arriving from the great nations!!
So I did some monitoring on the embassies of the great nations and I discovered more strange movements. The families of officials of the great countries embassies and ambassadors have been leaving the country on a regular pattern, I don't think it's a coincidence.
Luke couldn't help but frown, " Pull all footages of arrival into the country from the great countries for me. Luke said in a deep voice talking to no one in particular.
Suddenly holograms of different airports begun to pop up around Luke's office in the thousands.
Luke was shocked by what he saw, Chris was telling the truth. He could personally confirm that this were soldiers or at least majority of them were.
The Monitoring unit commander was left speechless as well.
"Sir thats not all, there are also some from the ports and train stations! Chris added.
I've been studying it for two months and I can confirm that, we are being invaded.
Luke breathed in a long sigh, Computer give me the total number of arrival of citizens of the great nations from the ports, airports and train stations.
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An estimated total number of 50 thousand arrivals from the great nations.
"Give me a heat map of were those fifty thousand are staying and a round up of their activities?"
A holographic map suddenly manifested showing the location of the fifthy thousand arrivals, the results was as they expected but still sent shivers down their spine.
The fifthy thousand people were living in locations that surrounded the Crystal Citadel, This was clearly not a coincidence.
Everything made sense to him now, no wonder the great nations were so confident they could subdue him.
He should have caught on yesterday night when he saw the Guardian knights.
He had underestimated the humans and he was going to pay for it! This was a move he never expected the enemy to use.
The great nations had made him believe they'll invade him on the frontline and so he's been strengthening his army and air force preparing from a frontal assault, he had already deployed his main army to the boarders as well.
But how wrong he was! The invasion must have started way before the submarine of the dead event, they wanted him to believe it would be a frontal attack when it was in fact a secret invasion.
But for this plan to work, the Gold country government would have to help them. A few months ago the Gold country had requested that he withdrew his troops from inspection duties at the harbour and airports.
He gave that up to the Gold country military because he didn't want to drive them away from their jobs completely.
Besides no matter how they hated him and his military, they'll not stoop so low to collaborate with the enemy to invade their borders. But how wrong he was again!
"Sir I think we should strike now! The enemy forces are not settled yet, neither are they in any position to attack
We should gather our remaining reserve troops and strike them now when they are not yet ready!" Chris suggested.
"No we can't" Luke shook his head.
They've now blended in with our civilians, if we engage them now many of our civilians will die, right now they are basically using them as a shield so even if they are discovered, it will be too late to do anything.
Besides they've already sneaked into our country, so we gain less and they gain more if we engage them in a confrontation now.
All we can do it's to sit back and watch them attack us" The Monitoring unit commander stated the fact.
"So we lose if we attack and lose if we don't?' Chris said. There was no winning for them in this situation.
Whoever came up with this plan was quite vicious, they left no space for Luke at all.
"Order the soldiers we deployed to the boarders to halt their march!"
Tell all our garrisons and camps outside the gold country to find an Alpha base closest to them and secure it, Tell the media its for a drill!
Also in three days time we'll be holding a celebratory banquet to celebrate my wife becoming a minority shareholder, tell all the workers it's mandatory to come, from soldiers off duty to regular cooperate worker of Archman Group. They should all come with all their families.
The two understood what Luke was trying to do, so they saluted and immediately left.
Luke immediately contacted the invisible navy at the Gold Coast, "John, can you make it back in three days?" He asked in a calm tone.
"I'm sorry we can't leave our position, the great nations have begun assembling their Carriers and gunships at our sea boarders.
Apparently they are saying it's a joint drill between the great nations! John reported.
"They are trying to stop you from coming back!" Luke muttered.
"What do you mean by that?" John asked.
Luke explained everything to John leaving him speechless.
"Do you need me there?" John asked with a serious expression.
"No, if you pull back now, our situation will become much more dire than it already is.
Pulling back from your position will make it easier for the great nations army to enter our waters with more troops, besides they'll eventually gain control over strategic locations after they attack, meaning they'll take over our habours,
which means you'll have no place to duck while facing a barrage of missiles from the captured habour, you'll be surrounded both on land and sea.
If we'll have a chance of winning this war, you have to defeat the Navies of the great nations, which will cripple their forces.
Become our only hope for reinforcement!
"I on the other hand will hold on here as long as I can, waiting for you.
Until then no pressure, just the faith of my entire empire in your hands, no pressure right?" John couldn't help but smile wryly. Luke was still make jokes at this moment.
"From now on, you are permitted to use any means necessary to win this war, good luck my old friend!"
After the transmission ended, John who was on the command bridge of the Pegasus AG7 gave an order.
"We are switching from code yellow to red, begin preparations for battle!!' he orded loudly as red alarms rung through the fleet.
Somewhere in an unidentified location, three old men in white robes sat on a round table, the room was completely dark with only a single candle on the table.
Even the appearance of the three old men was hidden, the only thing discernable were their old raspy voice.
"Oldest, preparation to retrieve the Archman Legacy has begun!" One of the old men spoke[Youngest Brother]
"The main branch of the family have become unbelievably conceited and weak under the current patriach, there's no better time to strike than this" Another raspy voice was heard[Middle Brother]
Our great house and civilization have really fallen from how mighty we were, the current patriach is not fit to lead us any longer, it's time we take our legacy from the weaklings they've become and lead us back to were we belong! We've remained behind the scenes for long enough! It our time to rise now!
Order all our forces to commence attack on the Archman family when they are ready!! An ancient voice suddenly declared!