Chapter 229
Chapter 229
In extreme shock, Grant’s hand holding the secret letter trembled uncontrollably.
The Vyrdenian high officials surrounding him were no fools. “Your Majesty, what is wrong?”
Each one who had climbed to their current position had mastered the art of reading between the lines.
Seeing Emperor Grant’s expression, everyone present revealed a hint of unease.
Ike hesitated for a moment before asking Emperor Grant, “Your Majesty, what’s happening on the battlefield?”
However, Emperor Grant seemed not to hear his question, staring intently at the secret letter in his hand as if it would morph into the content he wished to see if he stared long enough.
After a dozen seconds, Emperor Grant seemed to finally accept reality.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
Then, he looked at everyone around him, opened his mouth with difficulty, and said in a trembling voice, “Benson… has been captured by the Sunset Empire…”
“Benson… has been captured by the Sunset Empire…”
Everyone around widened their eyes upon hearing Emperor Grant’s words. “What?”
Although they had already had a vague premonition, it was still unbelievable to hear it from Emperor Grant himself.
One of them said, “How could this be?”
Another said, “Commander Benson has only been on the Outer battlefield for ten days, and he led a million soldiers there!”
Someone else asked, “Has… Has the Sunset Empire already grown to such an extent?”
While everyone was shocked, Emperor Grant glanced at Raven, his face extremely gloomy.
He never imagined that just after he finished speaking, he would receive the terrible news of Benson’s capture.
At this moment, he recalled that he had repeatedly vowed that Benson had gained a firm foothold on the Outland battlefield, and felt as if he had been slapped in the face.
He couldn’t understand why something that seemed so easy for Raven to accomplish would take such a drastic turn when it was his brother’s turn.
He thought, ‘Could it be that I really underestimated Raven?‘
Before Emperor Grant could figure this out, a high–ranking military official suddenly said with a trembling voice, “With Commander Benson’s identity, he will definitely be subjected to severe torture by the Sunset Empire. If he can’t hold on…”
Suddenly, almost all the high–ranking officials gasped in horror at the same time.
Benson was privy to many of Vyrdenia’s highest secrets.
If the Sunset Empire were to pry open his mouth, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Emperor Grant felt a deep sense of terror upon hearing this. In all of Vyrdenia, Benson was the one he trusted the most.
In all of Vyrdenia, Benson was the one he trusted the most, bar none.
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Benson knew all of Vyrdenia’s trump cards. If he were to reveal everything he knew, Vyrdenia would face a true crisis of national extinction.
Not only that, more importantly, he only had one brother.
Previously, he saw the captured member of the Sirius Pack being brutally dismembered during interrogation.
At that time, he felt that it was only right for the members of the Sirius Pack to make sacrifices for the country, and he did not feel much fluctuation in his heart when he saw the scene.
But now, thinking that it might be his brother who would be treated like that next, his whole heart was trembling.
In extreme anxiety and fear, Emperor Grant suddenly looked at Jedidiah.
As if grasping at a lifesaver, he looked at him anxiously and said, “Mr. Ortega, those under your command in Vyrdenia should already understand my determination to maintain friendly relations between our two countries.
“Can… can you contact the higher–ups of the Sunset Empire and ask them to let Benson go?”
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