A burst of flames spread across the entire area. If not for the thermal regulation of the Valkyrie suit Lifa and Vath would have both died or badly burned. The tough exoskeleton of the insects were almost completely burned down. Ignoring their own pain, Lifa and Vath used this opportunity to massacre the ants.
Not long after the fires died out the squad sat down.
“Damn Fred, your ability is way to destructive”
“H-Hey, I wasn’t expecting it to be that potent”
“You nearly killed me mate” Vath joked
There were still a few more ants but most were already slaughtered by the combination of Fredricks fires and the continuous attacks of Lifa, Imark and Zedris.
Despite being weakened by Fred’s flames, it still took around 2 hours to kill every insect in the vicinity.
The squad Night Rain, one B grade, 2 C+ grade, 2 C grade and 3 D+ grade. The records of their activity show only one casualty since the squad was created 5 years ago. Success rate: 97.45% As a squad without A grade, they are one of the best.
Months passed in a flash, Fred was reevaluated as a C grade Esper. While The grading system is the same, the criteria for Espers is different, higher.
It was 153 February 2nd. The third great Catastrophe Wave.
First Catastrophe: 3rd August 142
Casualties: 11 Valkyries, estimated 3265 civilians.
Area: Sector D, Sector C, Sector E.
Estimated Yaju: 2 billion | increasing |
Status: Not liberated
Second Catastrophe: 16th September 151
Casualties: 7923 Valkyries, 42 civilians
Area: Sector Alpha
Estimated Yaju: 762 million
Status: Liberated after 373 days, 511 raids
Third Catastrophe: 2nd February 153
Casualties: N/A
Area: Sector G, Sector P, Sector Delta
Estimated Yaju: N/A
Status: Started 2 hours ago
Predicted loss: All minor Sector areas around the entire Sector G, P and Delta. Unable to calculate Valkyrie and citizen losses. Currently recorded loss: above 400 million Ira worth damage to residential areas and businesses. Still increasing.
It was chaos, citizens running around everywhere, screaming, families being split apart, some ignoring evacuation orders. The Estima country WDA headquarters was also in a mess. Some even doubted the authenticity of the report. It was only about 2 years, less even, since the last giant outbreak.
Even worse, the outbreak of Gates was spread out over 3 Sectors far from each other. Last time it barely succeeded in liberating the area due to high concentration of their forces. Now, equally or even more Yaju were emerging and they had to spread out the Valkyries.
Shortly after, an announcement was made.
All citizens and normal military personnel are to immediately evacuate from Sector F, G,H, N, O, P, Q, Beta,Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. WDA Military Defence Sector Sigma will be available for normal residents to evacuate in. I repeat, EVERYONE except for Valkyries are to evacuate. Do NOT take any belongings. This is a direct order enforced by all 7 Army Commanders.
For the internal communication a separate order was made.
Platoons 1 to 80 are to mobilise towards Sector G. Platoons 81 to 210 towards Sector P. Remaining platoons towards Sector Delta. Esper Platoon A and F will go to Sector G, Esper Platoon B and E will go to Sector P, Esper Platoon C and D will go to Sector Delta. We will employ guerilla tactics. Await further commands if non are given. Defend the lockdown area at all costs.
Lifa and Night Rain squad belonged to Platoon 42 and had to move to Sector G. HT(Hover Transporter) were bustling in the air. Seemingly endless amounts of them were all moving to the 3 Areas, some dropping off earlier and taking care of the faster Yaju that spread out.
Behind them was a gigantic ship, Great Battleship Lavos. Named after the God of War, the first ever aerial battleship ever created. Armed with cutting edge technology utilizing Chaos Energy. The ship on itself can be graded as a Calamity. On it were the core 15 platoons and Esper platoons. It flew in low altitude, occasionally firing one of its many energy cannons and guns on the bottom side of the ship.
Length: 1.5 kilometers
Width: 400 meters
432 Energy Cannons. 2 Main Energy Cannons. 164 Heavy Machine Guns. 32 Concentrated laser guns. 1280 Ground Bombardment Units. All other than the Main cannons can be manually controlled. Automatic firing by the main control system is possible. A minimum of 10 are needed to fly the ship. A minimum of 700 personnel are needed for maintenance. It is the pride of Humanity.
“Go go go, let’s teach those beasts some fear!”
Hundreds upon thousands of Valkyries dropped from the sky. However, more than double the amount of Yaju were also on the ground. The most despairing thing was, more were still coming from to the plains, and there are plenty more that still haven’t left the Gates.
It was a gruelling battle, each Valkyrie operated alone, some stayed with their squad members since they could only support but it went surprisingly efficiently. The best of WDA were gathered in one place after all.
Desiderius, a person who is also a core reason for WDA’s technological development, was standing within the control room of Lavos.
A mechanical voice resounded from one of the speakers
-Main cannons are charged by 89%. Time remaining until completely charged. 5 minutes.
He waved his hands, which was covered in a glove that had several blinking lights on it.
The panels in front of him came to life. The entire room started its melody of hums.
“Fire left side main cannon at T-00:01:00. Right side main cannon at T-00:06:43”
-Aim?
“Left side, Sector G3. Right side, Sector H21”
-Processing command. Currently 82.310 life forms in Sector G3 and 12.329 life forms in Sector H21. Excluding Yaju Energy signature. A total of 1.923 Valkyries are in Sector G3. A total of 64 Valkyries in Sector H21. Will you confirm the command. Left side Sector G3 in T-00:00:47 and Right side Sector H21 in T-00:06:30.
“Confirm”
-Confirmed.
“Close Deva voice function. Now, it’s showtime”
Almost as if playing a piano on the air, Desiderius manipulated all the control panels.
“Platoon 4, go 6 o’clock, distance 6.0. Maintain current status. This is to all squads within platoon 4” He then sent another order to a few platoons or specific squads to head over to a specific direction, others he simply sent a command through the battlesuits, commands such as those are shown as text in the visor instead of direct commands he ordered through the intercom.
After this was done he also said to run the voice function of Deva again.
-2. 1. Left Main Cannon fired.
He tapped twice on the air, moving away most of the panels and showing a gigantic map on the main monitor. A large red dot was moving at high speeds. Seconds later multiple dots vanished.
“Casualties”
-Scanning area. There are no casualties among the Valkyries. 127 are in need of medical attention. All are slightly affected by the blast. Estimated of 42.900 Yaju were obliterated. Exact number is unknown since there are a few Yaju that died by Valkyries.
“Perfect, as calculated”
-Notice, T-00:04:30 until the right main cannon is fired.
“Mh, close voice function of Deva”
Desiderius Molonov. IQ and EQ not yet measured. Currently thought to be the most intelligent human alive. Apart from creating a perfect AI, he holds many patents on his name. Energy converter, Chaos energy force field generator, standardized battlesuit V-12, Ph-3, Ag-01, Ag-02, FrA-19, U-0, K12-34, rG-31, HzD-2, Hover Transporter, Aerial assault drone DF17-00, Chaos Energy distillation technique, Chaos Energy bombshell. The list continues even further, going as far as almost every gun modified for Chaos Energy and many more.
“What in the world….”
There were multiple large craters. Lifa and her squad were told to move back a bit and all of a sudden a large boom was heard a bit further away, then came all the debris. Had they been even a few meters front, left or back, they would have been flattened and crushed to death.
‘Dr. Desiderius, they said he was smart but did he really calculate the blast range and all the debris flying around?’
She couldn’t believe it, it is not something humanly possible.
To predict where bricks of debris will fall is already hard enough, firstly the force of the blast, then the position of the debris to the blast center, the shape of the debris, any and all weak points of the debris and or if the debris was originally a part of a structure or was already detached, then if it isn’t detached, how much force would be required to rip apart the structure. Then if the amount of force is enough to break the weak points of the debris, and then if it does break apart, the direction of the individual pieces of debris will fly to, as well as the size, shape and weight of each one of the shards. Then the velocity and air resistance and so on. Even calculating one piece is far too difficult to do, especially in such a small time frame. But… there would be thousands of thousands of pieces of buildings, streets, trees, cars, anything that would be flying around, meaning, collisions also needed to be taken in account. Same for all the positions of the Valkyries.
‘Something like this, is he even human?’
“Oh lord, are you thinking what I’m thinking?”(Fred)
“By Herfis, remind me to never get on the bad side of that officer”(Imark)
Lifa sighed, “Wrong god to call upon but whatever”
-All squads may scatter again, squads with wounded may choose to remain or retreat
“Anyone injured?”
“Nope”
“Army Commander, we detected a huge spike of energy Sector G, zone 12, exact position is (211:23)”
“Wavelength?”
“That’s the problem sir, the wavelength is neither Yaju nor human”
“Is it a Gate?”
“No sir. The wavelengths it is emitting is fluctuating too much for that and it seems to be following a set pattern”
“Have Desiderius analyse it”
“Sir, Dr. Desiderius is the one who sent us the report saying he couldn’t make out what it is”
The Army Commander stroked his chin, thinking.
“Fire the Psionic CE Compressant cannon”
The secretary frowned. “Sir, isn’t that still under development? Besides that, the explosive power is too strong, our own forces will get caught in it”
“Then just fire Lavos’ main cannons”
“Yes sir”
A humanoid Yaju was standing in the middle of all 7 Night Rain squad members except for Lifa. Before she knew it, they were all mercilessly slaughtered. The Yaju was a little over 2 meters, his skin was pale silver, unlike the hard black exoskeleton every Yaju had. It still had a few patches of the exoskeleton on the neck, upper body, arms, fingers, legs and feet. Its left arm had deformed into a scythe which was currently impaling Imark. It also had hair, it is something common, but not found on Yaju, yet it had hair, jet black hair, as if symbolising all the darkness which devours the light.
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