Ethan's POV
"We are willing to follow Major Conlay's command!"
"We are willing to follow Major Conlay's command! Without a single doubt!"
The thunderous roar swept across the camp. Even from where Maris and I stood some distance away, we could hear it clearly.
That was the unified will of fifteen thousand Blackwood elite soldiers—a blood-deep instinct, a warrior's submission to a leader they truly acknowledged.
Even I had never experienced a collective oath on that scale.
I stared toward the training grounds, at that slender yet spear-straight figure at its center, and something sour twisted in my chest.
So powerful. So dazzling. And she was the one I had personally pushed away back then.
"Haha! This is ridiculous!"
Maris suddenly laughed beside me, her smile warped.
"One punch
