The next day.
In the base city of the Hephaestus and Athena teams.
The appointed leader of all the mercenary groups and their representative who usually took orders from the Hephaestus and the Athena teams was standing in the meeting room, while he gave the report.
"There were twenty four explosions yesterday. At least the ones we know of. That was a clean wipe of twenty four groups of mercenaries. The twenty fifth one however was captured. That was forty people. A whole lot bigger than the previous one.
I will be honest.
All the mercenary teams are asking to withdraw."
The teams weren't exactly shocked. They just sighed in despair. Particularly the leaders of the two teams.