Empire of the Ring Chapter 189 - Their Own War (3)

Chapter 189: Their Own War (3)

Youngho and Jongil flew to Istanbul after having a pleasant ti with families in Frankfurt.

Youngho did not inform their visit to Mustafa this ti. It was because he had beco hostile to Arnia. He did not feel comfortable chatting with him or drinking with him obliviously. Moreover, he was visiting the city to buy arms, so he was only going to return ho after closing a deal with the arms manufacturer.

The problem was that he needed to buy combat rations as well. Since Mustafa was his agency, if he t ht from Eti the food company, his visit would naturally be told to Mustafa. Knowing how patriotic Mustafa was, having to see him was a pain for Youngho.

It was pathetic that such pure-hearted Arnian overseas’ money was used in such vain wars.

Deceived by Arnia’s disguise tactics, the Azerbaijani governnt was still believing that the war would be over soon. Youngho needed to tell the truth but he did not have any brilliant idea. If there was no solution, Youngho and Jongil would have to fight in deputy war for Azerbaijan again.

“Just consider that this is our destiny. We’ve been benefited from Azerbaijan, so just think that we’re paying them back.”

After coming back from drinking with Mustafa, this was what Jongil said as they returned to the hotel. It was such an implicative expression.

Youngho had achieved so much in Baku. Although there were a lot of difficulties, he had co so far only because of Azerbaijani people.

“You said that it’s our destiny. You can’t take it back, okay? Don’t ever think about complaining.”

“Man, when did I complain?”

Jongil shook his head. His motions were showing that he was half drunk, which ant that he could have so more.

“You want to drink so more at the bar?”

Youngho fell in love with Otokar company’s Cobra II which was a tactical wheeled armored vehicle. It was a 12-ton strong ten-seater that could even pull a tank.

The best features that Youngho liked were that it was a four-wheel-drive vehicle that could adjust the height of its body and it was drivable in all weathers due to its use of run flat tires. a run-flat tire has a special function to maintain its shape for about a hundred kiloters after it goes flat.

The company’s staff was not surprised even though a civilian was buying twenty vehicles at once. This could an that there was another civilian who bought many vehicles in recent ti.

Curious to know, Youngho tacitly asked,

“There must be soone who’s planning to have a business on a plain in Kazakhstan like us.”

“Well, it’s not that. He said that the vehicles would be used to support refugees in remote places of Africa. He ordered twenty vehicles in a rush and took them two months ago. He had made an additional order for thirty more, so we’re waiting for them to be released.”

Youngho ca to form an idea of who the buyer might be.

“Wasn’t it the Lincy Foundation?”

“Yes, how did you know about that?”

“It’s an Arican foundation but the problem is the owner is Arnian. I wonder if the governnt of Turkey knows about that.”

Youngho inford the company’s staff that the Lincy Foundation had bought arms for Arnia since it was not the ti for him to be ignorant.

The staff’s face turned pale at once. Then he hastily made a call to sowhere.

Youngho called Jongil to a corner.

“Jongil, isn’t what you saw at the storage similar to these?”

“Wait, let’s see. Co to think of it, they look like these. Since they were not colored in camouflage, I was confused.”

“The Lincy Foundation had bought twenty. Two months ago.”

“Well, that’s no use anymore. They’re all burnt.”

The Lincy Foundation would make additional order since all of their vehicles were burnt, but Otokar would not be taking their orders from now on and what were already manufactured would not be shipped to them. Although the company would pay penalty, it would definitely be canceling the contract with the Lincy Foundation.

It was because it would be sothing a dog passing by would laugh about if Turkey sold arms to Arnia since the two nations were hostile to each other.

Since Youngho had revealed the truth about the Lincy Foundation, he did not have to wait for his vehicles to be made. He could just load the ones that were to be shipped to Arnia on his freighter.

He bought the ten more vehicles that were left and loaded them on his freighter. Since he needed those to cover the farm that was half the size of Seoul, the number of the armored vehicles were not too many. He had Russian light machine guns at the farm already, so he did not have to worry about what arms to put on the roof of the vehicles. Those were called light machine guns,t but it had the firepower of cannons.

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The Lincy Foundation’s exposure was a good reason to inform the Azerbaijani governnt. With the information of the Foundation’s purchase of military supply and the disguising of armored vehicles into regular cars, the governnt should know that Arnia was up to sothing secretive. If not, Youngho would have no hope in the governnt.

Thinking for a while, Youngho ca up with a decision to eliminate the cause of the problem.

“I think I should shake the Lincy Foundation. I’m going to have to either rob it or destroy it.”

At Youngho’s random words, Jongil looked at him in confusion.

“Are you talking to ? Or are you just talking to yourself?”

“I don’t think Arnia will be giving up easily as long as their fund source, the Lincy Foundation exists.”

“You’re going to rob their money in the bank? Hacking doesn’t work these days, and do you think they’ll even blink one eye even if you destroy the foundation?”

“Well, that is what I’m going to have to think about for now.”

After returning to Baku, Youngho visited the Ministry of National Defense with Sevan and t so officials.

He slipped what happened in Turkey to them in a convincing way. Only then, they all recognized that the war was having an unexpected turn. They criticized the Arnian governnt for their tactics but soon, they regretted that they had been missing big pieces.

Youngho left the conference room at the mont, his job to inform them about potential danger was done. Also, he did not want to give them too much of his input. He wanted them to find their own solutions to deal with the problem since it was their own war to fight and he did not want to be responsible for future failures of the war.

After giving a huge assignnt to Ministry of National Defense, Youngho also was dealing with his own assignnt, to find a way to break the link between the Lincy Foundation and Arnia since everything would be able to return to its place only after the link was broken.

The war’s aftermath had left not only his farm and ranch but also the whole country in struggles.

The farm’s empty playground was creating a gloomy view without its owners. Youngho could not stand to watch it anymore.

To think that people, whose heads were filled with vengeance for their nation, could be attacking the farm at any ti, he could not even sleep well.

‘Should I just get rid of her?’

To keep the peace of the Caucasus and safety of many lives, there seed no other way but to get rid of her.

“We should’ve done that way earlier. I don’t even get why you’re so hesitant. Our actions will not be justified if we killed one or two fewer people now, we should just be satisfied with the fact that we fought for the peace of our next generations.”

Jongil welcod Youngho’s idea.

“If we can take care of Tracy and her most close personnel, Arnia will be quiet.”

“Is there another witch?”

“There’s one who acts as her secretary. She’s even a more vicious extre nationalist.”

The only way to strike a blow to the Lincy Foundation was to get rid of its head, Tracy. Even though the foundation would still remain, her absence could lead to the downfall of the organization. It would be fortunate if the foundation was rebuilt later to contribute to world peace according to its original purpose of the establishnt.

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Jongil was excluded from this operation.

Instead, Youngho would be bringing a young Serbian lad who was fluent in Arnian.

Because Youngho had a western look and even had a mustache, he could be disguised as a local Arnian but Jongil had an obvious East Asian appearance that stood out.

After making the young Serbian lad’s Russian passport with Sergey’s help, they hurried for their journey.

“You also look like an Asian to these people. Don’t you dare be proud.”

Jongil picked on Youngho since he was feeling sorry that he could not go with him.

“Okay, I get that. While I’m gone, just make sure to take the Russian armored vehicles at the farm and ranch back to Kazakhstan.”

It was his plan to place three of the new light armored vehicles from Turkey in Baku and move large Russian armored vehicles on Arirang Farm in Kazakhstan. Because of the big size of the Russian armored vehicles, they were useless in mountainous regions. Since it was such a waste to keep them at the farm and the ranch, Youngho would get more use out of them if they were placed at Arirang Farm.

“I said, call Boss.”

“How can I call the Archduchess’ husband that way? That can’t happen.”

“It’s a special occasion.”

Youngho was on a train that was going to Yerevan, Arnia from Georgia.

The Serbian young lad who followed Youngho as an interpreter was 21-year-old Vaso. He was stubborn as his grandfather, old Niksic.

Following his parents, Vaso had spent his childhood in an Arnia’s marble mine. That was why he was fluent in Arnian.

Arnia’s marble was well-known as beautiful, high-quality construction material, that there were countless mines near Yerevan. The Arnian marble was so popular that it was even told that the nobles in the ti of the Russian Empire were not considered as nobles if they did not build their houses with Arnian marble.

Youngho eventually managed to convince Vaso and clarified his title.

Tracy’s everyday daily routines were consistent. As a strict ascetic, she kept a tight schedule to the minute every day.

Many staffs ca in and out of the foundation’s office building and the most outstanding among them were the Arnian military soldiers at the entrance.

Youngho already knew that the foundation was related to the Arnian military but as he had confird it with his own eyes, he beca even more determined to stick to his plan.

At this mont, his problem was getting a sniper rifle. Because he had to pass the border, he could not take any weapons with him. He needed to get one from a local black market but he was not sure if young Vaso could handle an arms deal.

Especially during at a ti like this, it would look very suspicious to buy a sniper and he needed to make cautious moves.

Youngho sent Vaso to find out about the location of an arms dealer in secret. Since he had already secured a place for him to snipe at the enemies, as long as he had a rifle, he was certain that he would not miss his targets.

“Boss. I found an arms dealer’s house in the old town but I’m worried that the security is strict.”

Not knowing what Youngho was capable of, Vaso seed insecure since Youngho was not a bulky man on the outside.

Youngho tightened the silencer on his Dragunov sniper rifle and aid it at his target.

Tracy and her secretary who just arrived at the foundation’s building and got off their car just entered at the sight of his scope.

It was a perfect chance in a million.

After breathing in the air deeply, he pulled the trigger toward the secretary first. Youngho could feel the rebound of the rifle on his shoulder.

The secretary who just grabbed her chest was seen through the scope and Tracy had ducked down in fear. Youngho closed his eyes and breathed again. When he opened his eyes, he pulled the trigger once more.