30 030 COMRADES

030 Comrades

After the meeting, Arc and Diana, as well as Wedge, were the only ones remaining in the conference room.

"Looks like we need to step up our plans, and I thought I will have to wait until Mia manages to complete the construction before I need to summon the five, but it looks like we don't have that much time. I'll summon the five later. I'll have them coordinate with you and Eve, and it seems like Wedge and his brother will be busy for a while." said Arc

Wedge grinned, "It's about time, boss."

"Haha, you look excited, are you getting bored protecting Diana and Tiffa?" He asked curiously.

"They didn't really need a protection boss," Wedge reminded him while scratching his head.

That's right, Arc remembered the reason why he asked Biggs and Wedge to accompany Diana and Tiffa. It's not really for their protection; it's more like to prevent those leeches from making trouble.

"Right, right, I forgot. Diana and Tiffa are too beautiful, so I asked you to accompany them to prevent any troublesome men from approaching our beloved Diana and Tiffa." Arc complimented them.

Diana blushed and replied, "Tiffa will be overjoyed if she heard what you said, Boss."

Who doesn't want to be praised, especially by their beloved boss? Diana felt over the moon right now.

Arc left with Wedge, so they were on their way to prepare their hideout, while Diana stayed alone in the office to do her job. They purchased an old abandoned mansion and renovated it a little. The mansion is located in a less populated area, so it's a perfect place to summon people in the future, and it's a good vacation house as well, so there was no loss in buying it. After 45 minutes of driving, they arrived at the mansion, and they didn't waste time as they entered the mansion and went directly into the basement.

Arc looked at the system inventory:

1 RANK 5 HEALTH POTION

1X 🌟 SECURITY OFFICER

2X 🌟 MILITARY TRAINER

2X 🌟 INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

5X 🌟 ENHANCEMENT SERUM

1X LOTTERY BOX

He didn't think too much as he clicked on the five officers and summoned them.

Seconds later, 3 men and 2 women were kneeling in front of him.

He ordered them to stand up.

The majority of them looked young, and the oldest was probably the 2 military officers that looked like they were in their mid-thirties, but the security officers and the two women were all young, probably the same age as Tiffa.

He named them the following:

1-🌟 SECURITY OFFICER: Ash Dillinger.

1-🌟 MILITARY TRAINERS: Tom and Jerry Hardy.

He based them on the classic cartoons he used to watch when he was a kid. In fact, he still has the collections in his room, and he smiled after thinking about it. He felt a bit guilty naming the two, especially basing them on a cat and a mouse, but his excuse was that it's easy to remember, and they now have proper human names.

1-🌟 INTELLIGENCE OFFICER: Ruby and Jem Thorn. He set them as sisters like he paired off with Tom and Jerry as brothers before. Oh, Biggs and Wedge are also brothers.

He looked at their stats, and he was impressed. All of them have almost perfect stats, particularly with Tom and Jerry, as their stats are at the peak of a 1-star human reaching exactly 100. The only difference between them is their specialty, and he was looking at them in excitement. He can't wait for their future, wondering what surprises these guys were going to give him.

After asking Eve to give them a short briefing, they left to perform their tasks. Ash and Wedge are returning to Diana's office to meet her and talk about the creation of a foolproof security network.

Tom and Jerry will go together to recruit for his future armies, and he didn't have a single clue about how they'll plan to go about it, but he trusted them, so he didn't think too much about it. As for him, he will be with Ruby and Jem for now, discussing how to form their own intelligence network. After discussing for a while, they decided to return home after the preparation of their vehicles were ready for their journey.

An hour later, he was back home with Ruby and Jem. They are greeted by his personal butler, Jarvis Maxwell, and his two maids, Lily and Lila Blossom, which he named by himself. He felt satisfied with his three servants because they are better cooks than him. Every day, he got to enjoy a first-class meal with his sisters, who were constantly worried about him getting fat.

When his sisters met Ruby and Jem, they were not surprised anymore. They already got used to their presence, as their brother kept bringing them home whenever they visited. Arc's sisters always greeted them with a welcoming smile when they saw each other. To them, they were like a part of their family as their new pair of sisters.

Arc asked Jarvis to lead them to their rooms because they are going to stay temporarily until the training facility is built, where they were going to train his shadow unit. At first, he was planning to put them with Tom and Jerry together, but Eve said that the people they needed are different from what Tom and Jerry were looking for.

Eve will be responsible for searching for potential recruits for the shadow unit in the future, while Ruby and Jem were tasked to personally recruit them and train the new recruits. According to Eve, it's better if they do that after the training facility is constructed.

***

Lisa called her uncle Admiral Jackson Ford. She informed him about the results of the meeting and the demand of Arc D. Grand, the unofficial proprietor of Grand Trading Corporation. Some people weren't convinced that he was the founder of the company, believing that a few higher-ups were pulling up the strings to put him in his current position.

Jackson frowned after hearing her, thinking that it was not going to be an easy demand to fulfill. The question is, how will they tackle the problem of military-grade solutions? Now that a potential war is brewing. GT demand is not small, even an Admiral has no power to grant it. But he also knows the importance of Military Grade Solutions, especially in the upcoming war.

HFA knew how difficult it is to get the supplies towards the front lines. It's not like they are separated by mere kilometers or miles, but light-years. Creating supply lines within a distance of several light years is not easy. Just the logistics involved are astronomical.

They did figure out some solutions to one of their concerns like producing their own military rations, and their effort is a success by making a huge amount of items that are already introduced, and it is deemed acceptable. Even though they have a temporary solution, their provisions didn't stay fresh in the space because it has a short shelf life for some reason, rations, and solutions that contain high-density energy have a very short shelf life in space. And high nutrition food tablets had a major effect on the mentality of the soldiers, so enhanced soldiers in space only consumed those tablets during emergencies, plus they tasted bad.

During peacetime, they suffice, but during the war when a huge amount of resources is needed to be transported into the front lines those transport ships become an easy target for anyone, especially pirates. So they needed to be protected by many escort ships.

And the food is the biggest concern of all, ordinary food won't sustain enhanced soldiers unless they eat a lot of them. Only high-grade food solution or eating a huge amount of nutrient pellets can satisfy their enhanced body.

And both have a serious difficulty, High-Grade food solutions made for soldiers have a short shelf life. And nutrient pellets have severe side effects especially if consumed for a long period of time, it is perfect for an emergency situation but to be used as food replacement is not advisable.

But the solutions made by Grand Trading Corporation have a promising effect after subjecting to several ridiculous tests, it passed with flying colors it even tasted great. But the tests on A, B, and C solutions are deemed not useful for military use. After all, it is made for a regular human to consume, and only S grade solution is passable as it can sustain military personnel who needed a huge amount of energy every day, because of their enhanced physics, but the problem is that the supply is limited even if they get all S grade solutions produced by Grand Trading Corporation.

It's not nearly enough to supply one Ship much less for multiple squadrons, so military-grade solutions made from space beasts are their only solution.

Nevertheless, it's ridiculous to send numerous supply ships with the squadrons going to war for a long period of time, as it will become an obvious easy target for the enemies, and it's a huge waste of personnel to protect it, especially when they required all the manpower they have left in the coming war. They also don't have enough funds for this, as the cost is very high and a waste of time.

It's acceptable during peacetime, since most of the fleet or squadrons have nothing much to do. But in times of war, it's a different story, and Admiral Jackson knew this, and so did his superiors.

Editors and Proofreaders: NikTitanik866, Firmament, King of Mortals.

Firmament (Kuya, nosebleed ako sayo sa sobrang red marks saakin lol.)

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