
The military headquarters was seen crowded by several soldiers gathered. They lined up neatly with their respective unity. Not long after that Eko climbed onto the podium, he gave a brief greeting to the troops in front of him.
“Good morning everyone. Today we are together to hold exercises together. In this joint exercise, there will be a little shooting competition between you.”
“I know you guys who are from my unit feel a bit inferior because now all you will face are those from the special forces.” Obviously Eko.
Eko's statement was echoed by the team from his unit. They understood the difference in their strength with the special forces near them. All this time, if there were joint exercises with that special forces, they had always lost.
Their strength comparison is one in five. One man from the special forces was able to defeat five of them. So, when they were told that they were going to undergo a combined training, they had absolutely no hope of winning.
It will be like the previous exercises. They will act as enemies and become targets that need to be crippled by special forces. But Eko's next speech, re-energized their spirits.
“But don't feel that way. You yourself already know how developed you are after getting a special food menu right? So, show them how developed you are.” Eko Imbuh.
Right yeah. Carrots that they have been consuming have made their strength increase. Shooting is no longer as difficult as it used to be.
Now they can shoot on target at any distance. As long as their weapons were able to reach him, even hundreds of meters of targets they could reach easily.
After several remarks from the other generals, the joint exercises began. The troops in the Eko unit were quite happy when they heard this time they would only practice shooting targets instead of the usual war simulation exercises.
In this way, they can show the results of their practice after consuming the carrots. They will make their unity proud by defeating special forces in this joint exercise.
This shooting competition is carried out with the target of immovable objects and moving objects. The distance is also different. It starts from a hundred meters to eight hundred meters.
This time the competition was ten teams in each team, and each team consisted of ten people. Each target they hit will have its own points. In this joint exercise, the five best teams will be selected which will be rewarded by the generals.
The teams took turns shooting at the target. The one getting the chance to shoot first was Team 1 of the special forces. They are confident enough to win this competition.
All this time they've been killing aliens that are quite difficult to kill. Their shooting ability is pretty good. Obviously they will win.
These special forces were quite astonished as to why they were suddenly pulled from the task of guarding the portal of the underworld and competed like this. Wouldn't that be a waste of their time? It would be very dangerous too if suddenly the alien creature suddenly came out of the portal and attacked right?
Even though they were reluctant to follow this combined training, they were still present here. They could not dispute the orders of their superiors. So they will give the best results here so that their boss knows that activities like this are not very useful.
If the ones training together with them were special forces as well, they were no problem. But they're just regular troops not special forces.
For twenty minutes, the ten people from Team 1 had already finished shooting the target that was there. Now they just wait for the results of the assessment.
Five minutes later, their results came out. Team 1 gets a score of eight thousand nine hundred. That's a good result. The perfect value that can be obtained from the existing targets is ten thousand. So it's not too bad.
“Are you sure your troops can beat the points they get?” Ask Roy to Eko.
There was pride when Roy said this. He believed his troops could defeat Eko's forces with a large difference in numbers. Team 1 is not the best team in the squad. If later his best team goes down, then the score they get will be much greater than this.
“My squad hasn't even gone down yet. So don't be proud just yet. Let's just see.” Answer Eko briefly. A grin adorned Eko's lips when she said that.
What was announced by the jury was quite shocking to those who were there. The result they got was above Team 1.
“Team A score nine thousand three hundred.” Said one of the soldiers who became the jury.
“What is impossible.” Say some generals who don't believe what they just heard.
The troops under Eko are not special forces. They only had the general ability of a soldier. There is no special power in them.
If they manage to score seven thousand alone is very good. But these Eko forces not only surpassed that number they also defeated special forces that had for months made the underworld aliens their target.
It's hard they believe. They are hard to accept. How could they get that much value.
“I told you that carrots can strengthen my army many times over. Now that you've seen the special forces defeated, you're willing to believe it.”
“I want all the carrots that you have bought are given to special forces who have been guarding the underworld.” Roy suddenly said.
If his army ate the magic vegetable, then they could defeat the alien more efficiently. Not only that, with their abilities increasing, the number of fallen soldiers would be greatly reduced.
“Can't Roy. Didn't we agree to the division? Why now you even want everything to be centered on your troops. This can't be done.” Gio Protests.
Gio had already obtained the carrot ration for his troops at their previous meeting. Although it was not much, but now that the carrot had been proven to be powerful, he could form a special force in his unit which could later become an ace.
If Roy wanted to concentrate all of them on the troops guarding the underworld, then his plan could not have materialized.
Gio's words agree with the other generals. They did not want their chance to strengthen the troops lost because of this.
“But my troops have been guarding the borders of the underworld. So, it is appropriate that they get the carrots to strengthen their bodies.” Roy.
“Don't we already agree to take turns guarding the underworld if that carrot proves to strengthen our army? So, don't change what we previously agreed to.” Denying Ardi.
“Ardi is right Roy. Especially now that the second portal we found is getting bigger. So you can't be that smart.”
Some of the generals are now starting to argue for the division of the magic carrot. Meanwhile, Eko did not join and chose to enjoy the competition.
He already had quite a number of troops whose strength was increasing. So even though he will get fewer rations later than others, his troops will still outperform the troops of other units. Now his army is leading the numbers far enough.
In the end the troops of the Eko unit won the competition in this joint exercise. The total score they got was ninety thousand hundred. Then the special forces only got a score of ninety thousand.
The two armies were adrift by the number six thousand one hundred. That's a very big number. It is clear now that the average strength of the Eko unity forces is much higher than that of the special forces.
This made the debate among the generals even more heated. They wanted to have as many carrots as possible for their troops.