BOOM!

Dale snapped. He had expected the lieutenant to use his discretion to handle any unforeseeable factors. Instead, he was still standing there.

"We are at war damn it! There's no time for evacuation. Blow up the buildings as instructed, after all who's to say that it wasn't the vandal who had did it?"

The lieutenant kept a straight face, saluted his superior and went out to execute the order he had been mandated to do.

Dale timed the men he had ordered to carry out his order. He kept his eyes fixed on the horizon ahead, and within fifteen minutes, he heard the ground shake like a mini earthquake was about to happen, and within a few seconds, he saw the rising smoke coming up in the landscape; a signal that it had been done. Dale breathed a sigh of relief. He had now successfully blocked the route that Xzavier had to pass. Dale couldn't do anything but wait until Xzavier reacted.