9 Showing off (2/2)

”Colonel Smirnov, I must again say that it is an honor working with a man such as you.” I said. he was one of the VERY few military officers I could say that to without being sarcastic.

”You honor me by saying this, Prince Ciel. But please, if you don't mind you can call me Sergei Smirnov when it is just us.” The older man said and I nodded. He had short black hair and a scar the looked like a burn mark covering his left forehead to his cheeks.

”I must admit, your work on this base is impressive considering how outdated your equipment was even when compared to most other bases within the Empire.”

”Well, there is nothing I could do about how outdated it is, but thanks for the compliment. I guess this location isn't so important to the empire as the battlefront so they couldn't afford better conditions for us, at least the new equipment you brought with you will come a long way to help us out here.” He said. I did indeed bring equipment to this facility to both military and non-military circumstances like water purifiers and the like to help them here as well as some Glasgows I obtained from some of the 'geniuses' that thought I wouldn't notice someone bringing a giant made of metal in the middle of my city. Seriously, shit for brains the lot of them.

While I was thinking that the communication panels illuminated as the images of Reisi, Neil Dylandia, Slaine, and Kamal already in position. Reisi is in front of the biggest base with his Blue Damocles in the ready, Neil was in front of the base with the most complicated terrain for being on top of a mountain that any attack would be seen long before it reached with the use of his Knightmare Dynames, while Slaine and Setsuna who were using Tharsis and Exia respectively were on the final and simplest base, their objective was to bring down these bases and rescue anyone who was captured in them.

I grimaced a bit. The White Fang of this world was rather foolish organized as just like in RWBY it was divided into individual Cells working independently from each other. Only here Siennas position as High-leader was merely a figurehead for the most part. She was the Leader of Area 7 (Hawaii) and she restricted herself to protests and every now and then some extremely racist Noble vanishing without a trace. That was merely a pin-prick which didn´t even register in the Emperors mind.

Area 6 though was led by two people who were little more than monsters in human-skin: Victor and his son Craydon Creed. The Sabretooth and the Leader of the Friends of Humanity from Marvel. Once I found that out from the reports I decided that they had to die NOW! Under their lead the Area 6 White Fang had developed into a brutal Cartel with some Cultis vibes. They dealt in Slaves, Drugs, Weapons, Terrorist-attacks and Assassinations. In the last five years countless Britannians and even non-affiliated Numbers had been killed in this Area on their orders.

I will start dealing with this slowly as my forces are not fully developed but I swear to myself before the year is out the two would meet their demise.

Well, now I guess it is time to show the world properly a first appetizer of what my city and my forces can do.

”My knights, remember that the mission is to eliminate any and all radicals. Now, let's commence operation!”

And so my knights moved into action.

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3° Person P.O.V.

As Reisi heard the order to begin operation he moved his glasses up, a confident smirk on his face as the stealth function of his precious Blue Damocles was deactivated, the enemy base was right in front of him.

It was a large military base for terrorists, right in the middle of the Amazon Forest and with anti-Knightmare measures in place it was clear that they didn't steal it all but also received 'generous donations' from most likely the EU considering he could see some Alexander Prototypes in place. The fact that it was surrounded by a large plantation of a variety of drugs that would be sold for 'funding the righteous war' also didn't help the eyes of Reisi.

Well, he didn't mind that all that much. It was long since been confirmed that the EU and Chinese Federation secretly supported terrorists within Britania anyway and the plantation would be burned to the ground before long.

Moving his Knightmare with confident steps it was not long until the enemies detected his presence, multiple missile launchers aimed at Reisi who snorted.

”Pathetic, to think you'd be using such inferior weaponry.” as he said that two lasers on the side of his hips and two on his shoulders moved, blue laser beams were launched and cut down all missile launchers before they could even launch, Blue Damocles steps not faltering from the start to finish.

When he was close enough to the base that he could touch the buildings one of the Knightmares jumped at him, there was a total of fifteen Knightmares on this base with some already aiming at him from the distance and a few others trying to reach him from the back.

”Humph, taste what my Blue Damocles can offer you scum.” As Reisi said that he took out his sword. The blade was a light blue and as soon as he activated its plasma sword function activated.

SCHIN

With one movement the blade already cut the Knightmare above him right through like the metal was paper. The other pilots didn't have the time to process the speed of the swing or how the sword cut right through but they were worried about something else.

The sword was quite normal or even small in size but the plasma itself reached over 15 meters tall in a gentle blue light. But for the pilots seeing this it looked as threatening as threatening can go.

Opening communications to all enemy forces and using the hacking system of his machine he invaded all communication devices before speaking.

”Stop all assault and surrender, any who do so will be judged fairly and no unnecessary death will have to happen.” After he finished he saw how none of the pilots seemed to listen and he shrugged seeing this, he warned them.

Seeing that peace was not an option he moved, the agility of his machine shown to all as he accelerated by using the propulsors on his legs and back to reach the nearest enemy Knightmare. The enemy didn't even get the time to react as with one swing the enemy was cut in half together with one unity behind it. The others tried to attack him from the back but he jumped above them faster than they could understand and while airborne moved his sword in a flurry of movements, the blade adjusted to reach the enemy unities and cut them all down.

By the time he reached ground level there were only three more unities, two stood and advanced to either side of Blue Damocles to try and pincer attack it, but it was useless as each shoulder had a laser canon attached, they launched at the same time and killed the pilots within the Knightmares with extreme accuracy.

The final pilot decided that there was no way he could beat this monster so he ejected his unity to escape, but while his escaping pod was in mid-flight one more laser, this time on the head of Blue Damocles, hit it squarely and killed the last pilot.

12 trained Knightmare pilots killed in less than a full minute.

”Now, I will say it one last time. Stop all assault and surrender, any who do so will be judged fairly and no unnecessary death will have to happen.” As Reisi said this message the laser cannons in the machine fully opened and a total of 48 laser canons showed their head aiming at quite possibly everything.

This time, everyone dropped their weapons in surrender.

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On the mountain base where the White Fang operated you could see from the distance rows upon rows of Britanians. They have captured civilians who were being used as slave workers to excavate the mountain as it was filled with sakuradite that was to be used to construct the Knightmares to the White Fang.

It was something discovered not long ago by the locals and the main-land of Britania still had no idea of this new location so the White Fang positioned one of its bases here and started working to obtain all sakuradite inside. The britannians working were put on degrading conditions such as the woman being constantly harassed or even openly raped or the men being tortured for the fun of the soldiers. Even little kids that were captured were used as entertainment or even 'chairs' for the White Fang soldiers, it was a truly gruesome scene, it was a truly gruesome scene which only a twisted man like Victor Creed could come up with. But, none of the White Fang members of the extremist faction thought this treatment cruel as they just wanted to inflict pain on any britannian they could get their hands on, they just wanted to inflict pain on the 'responsible ones' for their previous suffering.

And, as in most wars, the ones to suffer the most were the innocents. If they were responsible for wounding any of them didn't matter, they carried the name 'brittanian' and that was plenty reason enough.

These britannians were all regular civilians that moved in this place to escape the excessive economical pressure nobles put on them back in the capital and mainland as mostly anything good there was for the nobles. These civilians just wanted to get a piece of land to work with and live a happy life with no great danger from terrorists. However, they were captured regardless and the local authorities didn't bother reporting or rescuing them as part of the sakuradite obtained by the terrorists was given as 'extra taxes' to the top brass of Area 6. Corruption showing its ugly head as weapons and luxuries were paid by the sweat, blood, and tears of those who nothing had to do with it.

But, things would change quite a lot on this place as a Knightmare was positioned high above the clouds. Inside the pilot saw what was happening and felt his blood boiling over it, but he quickly pushed this feeling down as he refocused on the mission. He pulled down a weapon-like appendix that was inside his cockpit, aiming it the robot he was inside accompanied the movement. The robot was a forest green with two Gatling guns on its hips, four small laser blades in place of need, a shield on his left shoulder and the main weapon on his right shoulder being a sniper rifle that could work with a variety of ammunition and could be used to reach over 50 kilometers of distance if needed, or if well prepared well over 300 kilometers. It also had six four tubes missile lanchers, four on the hips and one on each knee. It also had a secundary shield on its back that could move to the font together with the shield on its left arm to protect the Knightmare Dynames from damage.

”Changing from Energy Batteries to E26 Batteries. Lockon Stratos, Targeted and Firing.”

As he finished saying that he pulled the trigger. The sniper rifle released the shot and the distance of more than 9 kilometers was breached within 4 seconds, the communication tower was the first target to avoid any chance of them asking for reinforcements. Following that Neil continuously shot down any Knightmare who tried to move, any airship that tried to take flights, and any vehicle that might try anything funny.

Before long the base that was considered by most as an impregnable fortress was reduced to less than even regular rebellious forces would have, any heavy weaponry was destroyed and the White Fang members were reduced to only using handguns.

”You know, I would feel bad for you all if you were not scum. But considering what you all are I guess there is no need for leniency.” Neil said as his Knightmare Dynames descended. When on the ground level he didn't bother speaking as he took out his Gattling guns and shot all terrorists he could find, he killed dozens within less than three minutes and avoided wounding anyone who wasn't a target to the best of his ability. Unfortunately, the terrorists decided to kill as many of their captured hostages as possible but the people themselves also rose up in a quick rebellion.

Still, Neil gritted his teeth when more than two-hundred of the one-thousand and three-hundred Prisoners were killed in the battle. He knew that the idea of having no casualties was a pipe-dream but, for him, every life lost was a tragedy. He only wanted to end this sort of actions and make sure that no one else would suffer by the actions of terrorists.

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On Isla del Sol in the former territory of Bolivia, a White Fang base was located. It wasn't quite as big as the other bases of the White Fang but it didn't have to be. Its main use were the usage of its location to launch planes to any shipment passing by the sea nearby that left one of the main ports within Area 6 and 'relocate the materials to better use', which was just another word for stealing everything on the ship and killing all occupants.

Yes, it didn't always work as sometimes the tripulation managed to fight back but the fact it happened near constantly made it hard to deal with. This base worked as 'food production center' for the entire White Fang organization, and was also one of the main contributors to the mass hunger the Numbers and Honorary Britanians were suffering throughout the empire, a hunger they used as an excuse to convince other to follow them and enlist to the forces of White Fang. It was an efficient system to White Fang, starve the poor and offering the food they stole for their loyalty, hungry breeds desperation and if you are desperate and hungry you would do anything to have what to eat.

However, they didn't see what was about to happen at all. High above the ground, so high that the human eye could not see and normal equipment would not notice, a air carrier opened. From it two knightmares flew down with express requirement to eliminate all who oposes them.

The first was a white and blue Knightmare with one long and one shot ultra vibration blade on its right and left arm respectively arm for any enemy that energy-based weapons don't work, a plasma sword on its back, six plasma daggers for the case of extreme close combat or to use as flying daggers if need be, a shield equiped on its left arm that is made from a metal similar to Vibranium, a metal sword on its right hip that can work as a rifle, and finally two small guns installed on the forearms this Knightmare is likely the most extreme when it comes to CQC, but if needed can also use regular weapons to auxiliate its functionalities.

The second, however, was a different monster entirely. Being entirely white this knightmare had two large shields on its arms, big enough to cover the entire arm, it also had five machine guns on each shield tip with the bullets being pure plasma, from the shields it had a large metallic double-edged sword for each shield, a true monster on defense, but the less noticeble but most important aspect of it as its mobility. Due to propulsors on its back, feet, and shoulders it could move in extreme speed to any direction on a 3D fashion not being limiter by the ground in the slightest and boasting of a speed of flight and movement that could make any other think it should by all means be impossible due to the Gs that the pilot would support but thanks to the new developments on human improvement the pilot had his body slightly modified to be able to support two times the normal Gs other humans could take without losing efficiency. Truly, a monster in its own right.

The two machines were undetected for a while, but when they were close enough to be seen by the naked eye approaching and the enemy started to react it was too late as the speed they had accumulated wasn't something that could be dealt with so easily by the enemies.

BOOM

The two impacted the ground creating two craters in their awake. The only reason the craters weren't even larger was for the fact they had used their propulsion systems to lessen the acceleration at the last second to ensure no damage to their machines.

Both stood there, larger than most Knightmares by 5 whole meters standing at 13 meters high, even their presence was enough to terrify the terrorists present.

”Exia, Setsuna Seie, commencing operation, eliminating targets.” Setsuna said from inside the blue and white Exia.

”Count Troyard, for orders of Prince Ciel Phantomhive Zi Britania I shall eliminate you all.” Slaine said from the white Knightmare named Tharsis.

And so they began the fight, not that there was much of one since the sheer difference in specs was just that large. Added that they appeared right in the middle of the enemy base and the image was one where they eliminated all targets swiftly. Slaine could only feel relief that one of the medicines he took before entering the Tharsis was to help calm and numb his emotions as, otherwise, he might react adversely to this mission where he killed for the first time.

However, he would have done the same regardless as he understands how this mission would help many others by eliminating this source of a problem to the nation and his prince. Saline's loyalty was absolutely in no way inferior to the one Jeremiah Gottwald had towards lady Marryane.

Meanwhile, Setsuna simply kept firing, he didn't need any medicine as he killed many before due to being a former child soldier during the war between his nation and its enemy for some reason Setsuna never understood or was explained. But, Setsuna could clearly remember how some of the guerilla fighters used to hog all the food and water to themselves while saying that it was for the good of the nation but leaving the same nation to starve, he himself starved quite a bit back then as well, and due to this he wanted to eliminate this group to the best of his capacity.

In the end this base too fell in less than five minutes.

”Humph, they didn't even manage to make me activate my Geass.” Slaine said. He was one of the only two of the knights under Ciel who had received a Geass, the other being Reisi. Reisi's Geass allowed him to be unaffected by any Geass if he wanted to, nothing would corrupt the path he chooses and no matter what others tried to do using Geass on him unless he gave expressive consent it would not work, he was considered a security measure against those who might use Geass against Ciel as he was almost ever in guard against it (V.V. found it good to have Reisi by Ciel's side as he'd protect his favorite nephew against any possible assassin by the hand of C.C.), meanwhile Slaine was one that allowed him to see himself taking any damage seconds before it happens, a somewhat weaker version of Bismark's own Geass but with the advantage that it would activate automatically making him with his absurd agility and defense from his shields as good as unkillable.

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Ciel's P.O.V.

Watching the spectacle I could only nod.

”Yep, that seems about right. They took a bit too long to stop the enemies without weaponry, maybe I should create drones to deal with this sittuation.” I commented. Honestly speaking they were about one minute later than I expected for them to defeat all enemies and eliminate the fortresses of the enemy, the terrorists really did their best in trying to run and this led my calculations astray.

Maybe I should try and create a Tri-Diagram satelite like the one in Toaru Majutsu later, it would definetly help me in forecasting this sort of things much better and also help on my experiments. I am really so close to finishing the program for the Calculate Fortress that it is getting annoying.

”M-My prince, was that not enough? This was an astounding victory by all accounts, three terrorist bases with considerable manpower were captured with no loss on our side within five minutes from start to finish, I doubt even his majesty Prince Schneizel would be able to do such a thing.” Coronel Smirnov said impressed.

”Yeah, he would simply blow everything up and cover up any losses amongst the Britanians or civilians as the enemy attacking instead of his own actions. As if there is any point in doing it like this, if you are doing a job you ought to do it to the best you possibly can and not half-ass it.” I said annoyed, unfortunately, what I said wasn't wrong since whenever Schneizel explodes something, be it enemy bases or terrorist groups, the story is always the same.

Smirnov gulped seeing my action but he quickly calmed down before turning to the personal.

”Send the ground unities, rescue whoever was captured, lock and bring back whoever is guilty of being a terrorist, and salvage whatever is on these bases that can be of use.” he said. Suddenly Neil sent me a message with some very interesting info about the base he was on.

”Coronel, please send a message to the Schnee industries. Tell them that we found what seems to be a mountain filled with sakuradite and that they should move in now to take it over in exchange for lower prices to those of this Area and that the idea was mine.” I said. If the food is delivered properly to the mainland the economy of this area will get better and if the Schnee industries work here they would give work to the local numbers too making their situation better as well as selling their sakuradite to this base and others in the area cheaper making them more able to combat the terrorist and turn this area slightly more peaceful.

Smirnov seems smart as he quickly caught on what I meant and nodded with a small smile before turning serious and continuing his work here.

Seeing this I moved away from the command center, there was no need for me to be present anymore and I still have data to take care off since I must see if there was any problem with the programming during the mission. Fine tuning to adapt to each pilot's specifications isn't easy, but the better working of the machines make it all worth it. I just wish I could capture one of those special machines V.V. has that can connect a Geass to the machine itself as well as a few of his Geass users, we already worked the basics for Artificial Geass but we need more examples of offensive ones as I can't use those connected to me as who knows what might happen to the network if I were to do anything of the sort and the ones from Reisi and Slaine are not capable to activate at a whim. I need something like Lelouch or Charles Geass users, if I get a few of those I just might be able to make my future grand creation the biggest deterrent in the world.

Well, until then I can at least search for all the best minds the world has to offer and make them even better and mine. Maybe I could also continue my studies into space colonies and possibly even catch some classes about self-defense with Reisi and Setsuna (the kid was a child soldier on a war zone filled with religious extremists, he has to know a lot about self-defense) as it might come in handy. The world is about to change from the powers I've shown and the number of enemies I have now are hard to calculate, most will be test subjects in the end but if someone manages to get too close... yeah, I don't want to risk it.