End Times, Surviving with My Beastly Army novel Chapter 346

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“A genuine threat? That’s never going to happen!”

Finished

A man’s voice cut through the tension, soaked in contempt. “You’re just scared! Even if it came to a fight, there’s no way anyone could bring down a base as strong as ours!”

Artemisia kept her voice level and cold. “They might not win, but we’d bleed for it all the same. Last night’s battle in the spider nest already gutted our strength. We’re out here for supplies, not a war.”

“Enough!”

Jack’s patience snapped. His gaze slid over to Martin, his smile all teeth and no warmth. “Martin, so you’re saying Redwood is passing on the chance to work with our base?”

Martin let one corner of his mouth curve upward. “Passing on it?”

A flicker of triumph began to form at the edge of Jack’s lips. He was about to say he knew it. Then Martin spoke again. “Redwood never had any intention of working with your base. Not once.”

Jack’s face went dark as a storm cloud. “Very well, you’d best remember that!

“I hope you don’t live to regret it!”

“We won’t,” Martin said, his tone flat and final as a sealed tomb door..

“Mr. Neel, now that that’s settled, splitting the grain equally shouldn’t be a problem for your base, right?”

Pinned under the weight of so many stares, a visible twitch pulled at Jack’s jaw. He forced the words out through his teeth. “Split it down equally, then!”

The moment those words landed, the crowd erupted into noise and celebration.

Someone deep in the back bellowed with all the force their lungs could muster, “Long live Redwood!”

Jack’s expression curdled into something genuinely hideous at the sight of it. “Don’t forget, short- sightedness has a price!

“Cross Vernon Base, and you’ll earn our wrath!”

From somewhere inside the crowd, a voice rang out with open disdain. “We took nothing from you. You’re the ones taking from us!”

“Exactly! We said equal split! Equal! Oh, I understand now. In Vernon Base’s world, if they’re not the ones walking away with extra, they think they’ve been robbed. They have no shame at all.”

The Vernon Base contingent seethed with fury they couldn’t spend, because with so many bodies packed together, there was no way of knowing who had spoken.

They settled for scorching every face in the crowd with a single, sweeping glare.

Amid the cheering and chaos, everyone surged forward and began dividing the grain from the last

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storehouse.

In all the commotion, one noticed that Martin had moved without a sound to Robin’s side.

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For the entire length of the journey, the Redwood group and Robin’s party had barely exchanged a word, carrying themselves like strangers who’d never shared the same road.

And yet, behind both factions, one single mind had been pulling the strings the whole time.

Martin dropped his voice to something just above a whisper. “You’ve already set your sights on them?”

A slow smile worked its way across Robin’s lips. “You really do know exactly how I think.”

From the moment Martin caught Robin’s glance, he’d already begun assembling her plan piece by piece in- his mind.

Both of them were sharp, and sharp minds had a way of arriving at the same destination.

“Their strength, as they’ve shown it so far, is nothing that would turn heads. But compared to most groups that scraped themselves together from the rubble, they’re already organized. They have structure, real structure, and their numbers run well past a hundred.”

Robin’s ambitions had never been caged inside one small zoo sitting in Klam.

What she needed to do wasn’t simply reach Kapitol. She had to wrap her hands around every base she passed along the way, on as sweeping a scale as she could manage.

The more power she collected, the more solid the ground beneath her feet would feel.

And this particular moment was a rather fine opening.

Beyond that, she couldn’t afford to let too many eyes fall on her. Martin and Redwood Military Base made for an excellent shield to stand behind.

Vernon Base was insufferable and overbearing, but they’d unknowingly done her a favor. After today, these smaller bases would likely feel something close to gratitude toward Redwood. And if not outright gratitude, then at the very least a warm first impression had been carved into their memories.

That would make every negotiation down the road considerably smoother.

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