Sure enough, only I could see those things, Ash thought to himself.

"Sir... have you seen the things you said?... those black figures floating in the distance?" Anderson's face showed a trace of confusion and asked tentatively to the ashes.

"I may not see clearly... I can't see it now, maybe it's an illusion. My helmet was hit by a flying shrapnel. Although it didn't open, I was so troublesome. It should be because I saw it wrong... It's so dark now." Ashes concealed. Being able to see things that others can't see is not something worthy of publicity.

"Oh... I thought it was an apostle, something left by the giant apostle just now..." Anderson nodded and said.

"What did you say? Apostle? Do you know that the monster who appeared on the battlefield just now was an apostle? What do you know? About that apostle?" Hearing the word "apostle" popped out of Anderson's mouth, Ashes was stunned and asked hurriedly.

"My father is a Ultimate agent. Uh, sir, you should know Ultimate? After he retired, he was responsible for file management in a confidential department. I have been exposed to a lot of information related to the apostles since I was a child... The upper body of a human and the lower body of the eight-legged horse, wearing armor, and holding a huge sickle. These are the characteristics of the seventh apostle, "Hakarim."

"The Seventh Apostle 'Hakarim'...What else do you know besides this?"

Anderson shook his head: "The Seventh Apostle has never appeared in the official history, at least not in the documents I have read. This is the first time it has appeared... All the abilities of the Seventh Apostle are unknown. In myths and legends, the Seventh Apostle "Hakarim" is called the "God of War", "Death" and "God of Destruction" are synonymous with war and disaster. It will be summoned by war and appear on the battlefield. Every time Hekarim appears, it will cause corpses to spread all over the field and blood flow into a river..."

Speaking of this, Anderson paused: "It's just that those are unverified folk stories, so you can't take them seriously..."

"No... the descriptions in this legendary story are basically in line with the numbers - 'summoned by war', 'appeared on the battlefield', 'corpses are everywhere, blood flows into rivers'... In addition, there are even more terrifying things." Ashes said a little serious. He took off his helmet and took off his armor - although he was paying attention to collecting the energy of the destroyed armor along the way, the armor that uses ink chips as energy is only the Lion Heart Improvement Type of the Imperial Army and the black armor of the Federal Army. Until now, Ashes has only three pieces of ink chips in his hand, and about half of the energy storage remains.

He must save energy as much as possible. Without energy, the armor is just a steel coffin that cannot move...

"Uh...sir...you, you...you are so young..." After seeing the true face of Ashes, Anderson showed a hint of embarrassment on his face, and the sentence "you are still a child" almost said it. Fortunately, it was changed to the adjective "young" at the last moment.

Ashes are still a few months away from 17 years old. As a fresh graduate of the Imperial Military Academy, Anderson is 19 years old this year, two years older than Ashes. In addition, Ashes looks to be young, which makes Anderson's heart skip a beat - "Is this war already so difficult? Even the ban on recruiting child soldiers in the Imperial Law was secretly abolished?"

"I'm from the 11th period of Huangquan, um... I was seconded to this army for some reason." Ashes could naturally understand Anderson's look and explained casually.

"Oh... it turns out... the chief, the chief is Huangquan's agent, no wonder..." Anderson responded that Huangquan Training Camp is an extremely special existence within the Rhine Empire. Many imperial laws do not apply to this organization and people within the organization. In this way, it makes sense.

"If you feel uncomfortable calling someone younger than you, you can call me my name, Ash." Ash said. Although he is indeed two years younger than Anderson, his psychological age is much more mature than this rookie who has just graduated from military academy.

"Okay...Ash... Uh, I'd better call you Warrant Officer. Your military rank is older than me, so it's not good to call him by his name." Anderson glanced at Ashes's collar and said. Even if he had not missed the graduation ceremony and rank ceremony because of the war, he was at most a "intermediate non-commissioned officer" or "lower non-commissioned officer", which was several levels worse than Ashes' warrant officer.

"It's up to you."

"Then...what should we do now, warrant officer? Leave this place?"

"Stay in place first." Ash said. He had not thought of how to break through those human-shaped phantoms for the time being. Also because of the existence of those human-shaped phantoms, neither the Imperial Army nor the Federal Army could enter the narrow area where they are now. As long as those phantoms did not move significantly, it would be safe here.

Sitting down with his armor, Ashes took out a piece of dried meat from his backpack and started to tear it. Just as the ashes were chewing hard, a "cuckoo" sound suddenly came from the side.

"Hold it." The ashes tore off half of the jerky and threw it to Anderson.

"Thank you, Warrant Officer!" Anderson took the jerky and hurriedly thanked.

His backpack with supplies had been lost in the previous melee, and the dry food carried by the dead in the trenches not far away had been soaked in the sticky plasma. With Anderson's personality, he would rather go hungry than eat those things.

As for taking the initiative to ask for food from Ashes, he felt very embarrassed.

"If you eat this thing too quickly, you can easily choke. Even if you are very hungry, you should chew it slowly." Ash said.

"...Yeah, thank you, Warrant Officer." It has been nearly ten hours since the beginning of the battle. After coming out of the fortress barracks, Anderson has never eaten a bite. He was too nervous before, but he didn't feel hungry. Now that his mood has stabilized, he feels colic from his empty abdomen.

After biting a small piece hard and smacking it carefully, Anderson swallowed the dried meat and then took a mouthful of the kettle in his hand.

This dehydrated jerky will expand rapidly after mixing with water. In addition to quickly replenishing energy, it can also provide a certain sense of fullness. It is one of the standard portable dry foods for the Imperial Army.

Ashes were also swallowing the jerky meat in the water, but while he was eating, he was constantly looking at the situation on both sides. As far as the momentum was concerned, the range of movement of those wandering human figures seemed to be limited to a certain area and would not move significantly.

Of course, this is because they are not "alarmed".

The federal soldier had hit one of the phantoms before, and immediately attracted all the phantoms within ten meters around him... What if the noise was made more?
Chapter completed!