10 Technological Advances – 2 (1/2)

(Vladmir's POV)

I climbed in Lyssa's medivac, dressed in my new suit, still not perfect. Of course, I plan on enhancing it for combat. Having a combat suit is a man's romance! Inside the medivac together with me, there are a few SCVs. They are coming with me to build the ghost academy.

Escorting us are five Vikings… and other ten ships that only I can see. Banshees. Great, isn't it? cloaked ships that only I can see, meaning that I can see them covered in a blue aura. I can now produce them in the Starport thanks to my new suit.

I doubt that I can cloak without the suit at all. Therefore, it will turn into a permanent part of my personal arsenal. Not only that, this suit has an unexpected effect. It bolsters most of my psionic abilities!

The one that was enhanced the most was my psionic discharge, the lightning like attack. It's incredibly enhanced, to the point that I don't need to muster any effort to use it, when previously I bled through my nose with the minimal effort to use it.

As for why I'm going away from my base to build the ghost academy… you would think it's a bad play for me, since the produced troops would have a hard time commuting to the base, but that is not the case.

The ghost academy only exists to produce the cloaking ability and nuclear bombs, or nukes, for short. That means that the academy will be on hold for most of the time, and since it hides one of my most powerful weapons, I don't want people seeing it too much.

Therefore, me and the banshees will clear a suitable area, and the SCVs will build a suitable outpost for them. From there, I will be able to shoot nuclear bombs without revealing from where they come from.

Thanks to that, I will have a hidden weapon. And I'm not only going to build one, I'm going to build five ghost academies, as well test this suit in combat with my assault rifle. I don't have a sniper, the first ghost school hasn't been built yet.

Also, ghosts are trained in the barracks, where the other troops are created. As for why I'm being escorted by only banshees and Vikings, don't underestimate my combat capabilities. I'm quite powerful as a soldier, and my body is almost as strong as a marine in a suit, even if I'm still young.

After all, my growth is absurd, and any kind of training raises my abilities ridiculously. And for protection, the advantage of having enhanced psionic powers, is that I can create a passive shield like the Protoss, although mine is vastly inferior, but will still hold out against most monsters.

From the five locations, only two have monsters in the vicinity. One of them being a goblin village that has a large population that I plan on cleaning. I'm not using the threat level that I used before, since that was just something for emergency, and isn't accurate for the present situation.

However, our sensors detect a large amount of magic in a single individual, making the invasion slightly more dangerous, but still not enough to pose any real threat to me. The number of goblins should be around 700, and we will be able to clear the area fairly quickly.

(banshee): ”We are approaching the location. The goblins are detected, transferring images.”

Announced the banshee. I look at the display on my right wrist, now integrated with my suit. There I see the images of a primitive village constructed with wood. I also receive the readings of the scans, showing the levels of magic in the location.

Apparently, in the center of the village, placed in a hard to access flat on the side of a mountain, the leader rests. He has a magic level that is much higher than all the other goblins around him, but doesn't change the fact that this will be easy, since I killed stronger monsters when I founded my first base.

As we approach, the goblins notice us. Green creatures of the size of kids, ugly and with minimal clothing, if any at all. They have clubs or stones in their hands, but I can't see that many details since the camera isn't zoomed in enough.

They point and scream, some even throwing stones that obviously don't come close to reaching. But well, there's a lot of them gathering at the edge… we need a landing space for the Vikings and for myself.