Mage Veigar

Chapter 34 Leave no one behind

The lanterns are on.

The current time is approximately 19:00 in the evening.

After a busy day of official duties, Raglan walked out of the barracks on time.

He is a powerful brigadier general and division commander, currently serving in the 5th Division of the 3rd Army.

Unlike other officers who like to live in the barracks 24 hours a day, he strictly separates work and life and now lives in a one-bedroom dormitory assigned to him by the army. The dormitory is located near East Street in the North District and the interior decoration is quite simple.

Raglan didn't mind.

Although his monthly salary was as high as over 2000 gold coins, and he could buy a luxurious house with just 1/10 of it, he was not a person who liked to waste money. Most of his salary was spent on buying combat skills and equipment.

Of course, in addition to purchasing combat skills and equipment, he also has another expense - charity.

Perhaps because of his commoner origin, he was very compassionate to the weak. Every month, Raglan would take out 400 gold coins from his salary to support the orphanage and buy food for the street children nearby.

Children are the future of the empire.

As a soldier loyal to the Empire, Raglan could never understand the actions of those damn politicians in the Imperial Government. They collected huge taxes every year, but they ignored the homeless children on the streets. Those were the future of the Empire!

Raglan knew he could not influence the government.

He only did what he could, which was to spend 300 gold coins to prevent the nearby orphanage from closing down, and to spend another 100 gold coins to buy food for the street children nearby to ensure their basic living conditions.

The monthly expenditure of 400 gold coins had little impact on him.

This charity lasted for more than half a year. What supported him to continue doing charity work was the grateful smiles on the children's faces after receiving food. This made him motivated every day and made him feel that he was truly protecting the future of the empire.

"Master, should we go home directly today or..."

The guard asked cautiously. From a personal duty perspective, he did not want his commander, who did not like to have too many guards with him, to run around. Although his commander possessed the strength of a high-ranking professional, he could hardly be hurt by outsiders.

“Go to the slums and see the kids.”

Raglan looked at the sky and said, "Today is the first snow in Kareni. I'm sure the children are freezing. Let's go to the clothing store and buy some warm clothes and send them to the slums."

As he spoke, Raglan walked forward on his own initiative.

The guard gave a helpless smile and could only follow Raglan's footsteps with his subordinates behind him.

He still admired his superiors' style of doing things. Not everyone could sympathize with the weak while standing in such a high position. Take himself for example, even though he was paid a high salary, he was not willing to give a penny to homeless children.

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slums.

This is one of the places Veigar is most familiar with.

He didn't expect to return here again after a year. This time was different from the last time he passed by the Professional Guild. This time he stood in front of a dilapidated house in the slums. This dilapidated house was where he lived last year.

The house has four floors.

Basement, first floor, second floor...

At that time, he lived on the first floor with several other homeless children. Because the upper floors were where the leaders of the homeless children's organization lived, as a homeless child at the bottom of the social ladder, he could only live on the first floor, and he also had to hand over 10% of his harvest every day.

What will happen if I don’t pay?
If you don't pay, you either have to leave the slum or get beaten up.

The only ones who can huddle together for warmth are those at the bottom, but in the final analysis, that is just mutual exploitation.

“Sir, this is it.” The adjutant’s words interrupted Vega’s thoughts.

He looked at the familiar shabby house in front of him, frowned and said, "Adjutant, are you sure it's here?"

"If the message from the deputy company commander is correct." Adjutant Charles glanced at the messenger beside him.

The messenger immediately stepped forward and said to Vega: "Captain, this is the second contact point we need to clear. The deputy captain has already led people to arrest everyone in the house, but there are too many children here, and the captain can't tell which ones are enemy spies and which are just innocent children, so we need you to make the decision yourself."

“Do I need to make a decision on such a small matter?” Vega almost laughed out loud.

A deputy company commander and an imperial officer would not have such a sad kindness towards the child that he dared not take action. Although he was once a member of this place, he did not have any good feelings towards anyone here.

poor person must have something mean.

It doesn't matter if you don't have extraordinary talents, but those parasites who don't even have the determination to die and only live on the pity of others should have been buried long ago. Their existence will only cause the empire to lose more resources.

Da da da.

Vega walked into the house.

There were about 30 soldiers with standard weapons guarding a group of children in the hall. There seemed to be about 90 children in the group. They all squatted on the ground with their hands on their heads, not showing any intention of resisting. Some even shed tears because of fear.

The sound of Vega's footsteps attracted everyone.

One of the brave children raised his head slightly, but was kicked by the soldier guarding nearby and immediately lowered his head again. He never dared to raise his head and look around out of curiosity again.

"Deputy company commander."

"To!"

A man in his thirties in military uniform quickly ran over and saluted, saying, "Captain, you're finally here. All the documents of this contact point were hidden in the basement, and we have recovered them all. However, because there are too many children here, we can't tell who is a spy from the United Kingdom and who is not, so we can only ask you to come and think of a solution."

Vega did not give a direct answer.

He smiled coldly and said, "Sir, Deputy Company Commander, please answer me, what is the order we received?"

"Yes."

The deputy captain straightened his chest. Although his military rank was higher than Vega's, he had to obey his superiors' orders. "According to the order from the regiment headquarters, a large-scale cleanup operation will be carried out on all the contact points of the United Kingdom spy organization in the North District before 23:59 tonight. No matter who tries to stop us, we will execute them first and collect evidence later. No one will be spared!"

"very good."

Vega looked into the deputy captain's eyes and said, "Deputy Captain, please tell me, do you know what to do now?"

The deputy company commander stammered, "That being said, but, but they are all children..."

"adjutant!"

Vega interrupted the deputy company commander and said, "Tell me what the regiment's order is."

"Report to the company commander, don't leave anyone behind!" the adjutant replied immediately.

"That's right, not a single one will be left alive!"

Vega handed the adjutant's standard rifle to the deputy captain: "Deputy captain, please follow my orders."

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