Kaboom!
Cicero felt as though he was struck by lightning. His face had turned ashen and he tremored violently.
Gabriel and all the other 'faithful dogs' had forlorn expressions on their faces as they realized that it was over for them.
Franklin and Colin led their respective soldiers to assist Keanu in capturing Cicero and whoever was in league with him.
Cicero's face contorted with anger and hopelessness. He had come here to exact revenge on Nathan, but never expected things to pan out like this.
Nathan cracked a small smile as he looked at Cicero's bloodless face. "Cicero, I have known about the existence of the Omniscience since a long time ago, and have already investigated all of those who were involved. What I didn't expect was that you would come here to take revenge on me, together with Gabriel Lambert and the other faithful dogs. I'll have to thank you for this. Because if you didn't bring them along with you, we'd have a lot more work cut out for us trying to locate them. It's all good and well now that we can capture everyone right here."
Cicero, Gabriel, Jose and the rest almost spewed blood when they heard this.
Before long, Cicero and the others were arrested.
Keanu, Franklin and Colin retreated with their men, bringing along all the corpses. The blood on the ground was also washed away, as if nothing had happened.
However, the Smith's knew better. They had just been thrown into a life-and-death situation and witnessed the destruction of yet another enemy.
Now that there were no outsiders present, Sean and his large family scuttled over.
Everyone surrounded Nathan to pepper him with questions, wanting to know what exactly had just happened.
Sean's voice stood out the most, "Nathan, I heard them calling you 'commanding officer' earlier. What's going on?”
Samuel added with excitement twinkling in his eyes, "Yeah. You were so cool when you commanded the army earlier. Nathan, are you really a commanding officer?"
"I think I heard them calling you 'general' earlier. I must've heard it wrong, right, Nathan?" Ferlyn's question came next.
The Smith's, even Penny, Leah and Benson, stared wide-eyed at Nathan as they awaited his explanation.
Nathan looked at Sean and the rest, perceiving the conspicuous greed peeking through their eyes. In the end, he chose to keep his identity as a general a secret.
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