An Assistant to the Angel of Death
9

Claude brandished his sword, forcing the man to take off his clothes. But the man refused and shouted for help from another army leader.

"You! You perverted scum!" The man licks and spits at Claude, but it makes the generals and other army leaders more suspicious of him.

"Hurry to take off your shirt or.." Claude looked at the man sharply and viciously. Scratching a slight wound on the man's neck, Claude threatened the man to do so at his command.

"Well, I'll take my shirt off!" The man prepared to take off his clothes, for Claude to lower his sword, but after Claude lowered his sword the man was about to run out of Camp Claude.

Claude had thought about this before. Directly throw a coin that managed to stick into his head. The man immediately collapsed to the ground as he became unbalanced after being hit by the coin that Claude threw.

"You guys see, right? This man is a traitor to our army, he deliberately sacrificed his entire army in order to gain sympathy from you and stab you in the back." Claude said as he approached the man. With a blade Claude thrust his sword from the man's stomach and tore the man's shirt off with great ease.

"See the mark on his chest is the birthmark of the Tartens. Do you trust this guy more? Or me?" Claude brandished his sword at the others.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Counselor. I think that the defeat of Prince Garg was also caused by him, he gave a lot of strategic proposals to Prince Garg.

Forgive us, Mr. Counselor, this is all because of our foolishness to receive our swords in our honor, Mr. Counselor!" Everyone cheered for Claude's apology, and handed Claude his sword which meant they were ready to die at Claude's behest.

"You don't need to be like that to me, you just need to lend me your strength. Even if we've lost the war leader, but I'll lead you all forward as an advisor." Claude managed to win the hearts of the leaders of the army and the generals. Everyone cheered following the spirit that Claude managed to transmit to them.

"First of all we must examine all the troops who have the same Tarten birthmark as this man.

The second collects data on our weaponry, medicine, and food supplies.

The third you must meet me every day for strategy meetings and army development.

The fourth one has a side job for you after you gave me the data I needed earlier." Claude's words were so easy to understand, the troops immediately swiftly followed what Claude had ordered.

Claude gathered all the soldiers in the field. For the first time Claude checked the generals. Then the General inspects one of the leaders of the army and the leader of the army inspects one of his troops assisted by the general.

The traitors who turned out to be not a few, managed to capture Claude when they were about to escape. The total of all Tarten troops captured about 13 people means 14 people with the leader of the six forces who have been arrested first.

Such an odd number according to Claude, he was sure that there was one more person who was a traitor from the Tarten.

Claude watched the soldiers' progress every day. Through developments reported daily. The troops also had a side job collecting medicinal plants and fruits in the forest. To stabilize the power of the royal army.

"How's it?"

Fruits and ingredients were enough for the entire army until the next few weeks.

Now our only problem is in our weaponry sir, many of our swords are lost, broken to the point of being unworthy of use." Eden reported everything he used to report to Claude in the last few weeks.

"Hm.. Weapons huh? I have unique weapons that you can use for your needs." Claude gave the generals all sorts of weapons. "This is a weapon I made myself. Inside this weapon there is already a stone that can make your magic to be large and maximum.

I won't make it too much, only the generals will use this for the rest you guys should help me forge our emergency weapons. Because it seems that the palace has not cared about us anymore after yesterday's defeat."

"Well, we understand, Counselor!"

All the soldiers went on the move as Claude ordered.

"Are you sure you made them work hard like that?" Krud appeared suddenly behind Claude.

"I know you're always watching me Krud. Of course, they should not work beyond their limits. It could be that when fighting later they are even exhausted." Claude tried to avoid his conversation with Krud because it seemed like Krud would be very troublesome if Claude had to answer him more.

"It turns out that my pure power at that time wasn't bad either?" Krud tried to be proud of himself.

"Yes, thanks for that. I still have a lot of work to do to win this war." Claude ignored Krud.

"I didn't come here to ignore you. I have a side job for you!" Krud tells Claude about a side task that is so special to Krud.

"say quickly what's his side job?" Claude replied with a flat and cold tone to Krud.

"It's easy that you only need to kill the Banda Tarten people you captured, a total of 15 people." Krud says the side job is easy.

"if that's what I'm going to do with the other generals to extract information from 3 people, but just now you said the number of traitors was 15 people? that means there's one more person still in hiding. Do you have data on that man Krud?" Claude had expected the number of traitors caught was odd there must be someone still hiding. But Claude still hasn't found out who that person is.

"I have not received the full data only got seven people, I will give it again before the war I promise." Krud gave Claude the men's data sheet, but Claude was a little disappointed that the data Krud gave was not about the one traitor who was still hanging around.

"Alright I'll extract the information from the person you gave me this data on first." Claude clasped the sheets given by Krud tightly while preparing for the execution of the traitors tonight.

Sheet by sheet Claude read it first. The data is so complete and the details provided by Krud is very easy for Claude.