42 042 Bad News

042 Bad News

Over the last two days, Arc watches how the Army and Shadow unit made their preparations. The more he watched, the more excited he felt, but today he was worried about another matter.

Lisa the liaison for the Human Federation Alliance "HFA" supply office come by with disturbing news, HFA 23rd squadron was annihilated 24 hours ago with no survivor, the news hasn't been announced to the public yet, it was dreadful news the casualties is too much to say...

Arc's face paled when he heard it from Lisa, who clearly hasn't rested for quite some time, Judging from the darkness under her eyes.

According to Lisa when the reinforcement arrived at the scene, the battle is already over, the only consolation is that the number of destroyed enemies ship is more than what we have lost, even as we speak retrieval operations are still underway to look and find the black box of the 23rd command battleship as well as retrieval of our fallen heroes. This news was only known to the higher up for now.

"Then why are you telling me this?, this is all top secret after all, are you not afraid I leak this out?" ask Arc with a slight smile on his face.

"Why? Yeah, why indeed, to be honest, I don't know, I just felt like you have to know, sigh maybe I'm just too overworked and not thinking straight," replied Lisa who was slumped in the chair she has dark circles around her eyes.

"Tiffa can you give Lisa one of our G solutions"

"Sure boss," replies Tiffa, who quickly leaves to get a G solution.

"Don't bother I already took SSS solutions a few hours ago, but even an SSS grade solution has its limit." said, Lisa who was still slumped in the chair.

"Exactly when was the last time you rested?" ask Dianna curiously.

"I don't remember a few days ago? There are just too many things to do for the supply office the moment the war started," replied Lisa still slumped in her chair.

It was just her, actually, the HFA is very busy Admiral Ford is in the command center coordinating the supply ship non-stop even HFA elders who usually have nothing to do are busy with their own department.

The news might not have yet been made public but, all superpower top personnel are already aware of the news, and all of them are also making preparation because the attack might have been on HFA today who knows that tomorrow they might be next.

Tiffa arrives with a solution in her hand, that has a golden color, Lisa notices it right away and asks, "new products?"

"No, it's only for internal use" reply Dianna with a smile.

Lisa looked at the solution given to her by Tiffa it looks very beautiful. "It's like there is countless mini suns in there," Lisa said while looking at the solution in her hand

"Stop looking at it and drink it while it's still cold," said Arc while smiling at her.

Lisa didn't bother to reply and immediately drank the solution, and immediately she felt a cool sensation all over her body and a few seconds later, her tired feeling completely disappeared. She was so shocked.

"Wh… What is that? How…? When did you develop his solutions?" Lisa immediately asked who was now standing up, looking very surprised.

Arc laughed when he saw the surprised look on her face.

"Does it matter? This won't be sold or given to anyone outside our company, this is for personal use only" Answered Arc.

"Then why did you give me one?" asked Lisa, still looking surprised

"Maybe the same reason why you told me the confidential information, or maybe because I felt like you needed it," Arc said while grinning at her.

Tiffa and Dianna also had a smile on their face, because Arc just returned the exact same words Lisa said earlier...

"Haha, fair enough but really, that solution is amazing. I felt like I came from a long relaxing vacation, can I have more? Please? Lisa said with a pleading look on her face.

Arc couldn't help but laugh some more. Even Tiffa and Dianna are laughing, albeit quietly

"I can give you one more, it's not easy to make, after all," said Arc with a slight smile.

"Thank you so much, I really need that right now, especially in the next few days when the news of the destruction of the 23rd squadron was made public," said Lisa happy to get additional G solutions but as soon as she mentioned the 23rd squadron she deflated like a balloon. Just thinking of all the things she has to do is making her depressed.

Arc really felt sorry for Lisa, he can only imagine the workload she will have when the news about the 23rd squadron was announced to the public. But there's really nothing he can do about it. At least, the current him is powerless when it comes to the matter in Space.

"Sigh, ill give you 2 more, that's all we have at this moment," said Arc with a bitter look on his face, this is all she can do for her at the moment.

In reality, he can make as many as he wants, and he actually has a lot of them, it is a standard solution used by his army after all, but he can't just make it public after all the decision to give Lisa a rank 5 solution is just a whim on his part, or maybe it's like he said payback for the top-secret information Lisa has given him.

After chatting for a bit, eventually Lisa left energetically.

"Eve, what do you think? Is this news going to affect us right now?" Arc asks Eve.

"Not at the moment Boss, but it might be in the future," said, Eve.

"Sigh our capability is limited at the moment even if we want to help there is nothing we can do unless we gamble our future, and I won't do that ever," said Arc.

"I agree Boss, we can only do what we are capable of at the moment, any more than that, and we are risking our future." Stated Eve.

Arc didn't notice that Eve said our future, not your future, But Dianna and Tiffa did, but they just keep quiet there was also a glint in their eyes when they heard it...

"Yeah, I know. I just don't like the feelings of powerlessness it's like I was back in the market carrying produce for a couple of credits and keep doing it because there is nothing I can do but that, sigh, whatever I'm not the same powerless guy as before I may not be able to do anything to those aliens, but I can do something about the criminal organization here in Earth" said Arc with a resolute look on his face.

"That's the spirit Boss," said Tiffa, smiling at him.

"Alright, girls, I'm going back to my office you girls do what you do whatever it is," Arc said as he smiles at them.

"Will do Boss!," said Dianna also smiling back.

"I'm coming with you Boss, I don't have anything to do at the moment anyway," said Tiffa grinning.