26 Chapter 26 (1/2)
”Fire!” A Lunar officer ordered calmly as he observed the Satellian soldiers that charged their position.
The soldiers pulled the triggers as their rifles crackled with a few distinct flashes of light and wisps of white smoke coming from the barrel, infront of them the Satellians fell down dead and even injured...
The green grassy plains were now tainted with blood and dead bodies that kept on mounting on one another.
Alexis watched the battlefield from atop a hill for a while with his binoculars and turned to Sophia who had a frown marred on her beautiful cold face.
”What's wrong with you?” Alexis asked her and turned back to the battlefield.
”It's just... this doesn't feel right! This is too easy, and there is no honour in fighting in such cowardly ways, it's not fair!” She replied in a loud voice as Alexis chuckled...
”You think war is fair? Nothing is fair in war, from country to soldier to civilian... why do you think war happens, It happens because there are differences in each and everyone of us, fairness means equality. We both know that there is no fairness in the world...” Alexis said and pointed at the Satellian soldiers that kept on falling down dead, forming a small elevation on the ground as their comrades now had to climb ovee their dead...
”That's not what I mean...” Sophia muttered angrily.
”You better let go of your so called honour before it kills you...” Alexis warned her coldly as she grit her teeth.
”Besides, mages do the same thing as our soldiers, we throw our magic attacks at the enemy... isn't that cowardice?” Alexis asked her with a smirk.
”They go upto the enemy and fight them!” Sophia retorted.
”Hmm... so do our soldiers, what about archers and crossbow men then?” He fired back as she looked down.
”Besides, your honour is ridiculous... how many have fallen for the sake of the so-called honour? Don't forget that it is just a word given to say 'fight to the last man', Atleast now our soldiers can go back home safely without charging like idiots and dying...” Alexis kept on bashing her ideals mercilessly...
”...”
”You may not agree with everything I say but this is the reality, tell me... would you charge into an army in the name of honour or would you retreat to live and fight another day?” Alexis asked her.
”I...” Sophia tried to speak but was stopped by Alexus who put his hand up and turned to her with a small smile.
”No need to answer, you probably plan on dying... If I was you, I would retreat, get myself an army and then attack the enemy. That's all there is really, don't think that there is anything fair in life...” Alexis interjected before she could answer...
”Especially when it is coming from the mouth of a Noble's daughter, where everything is given to you!” He shrugged and pat her shoulder.
”Be more open minded...” Alexis preached and let go of the binoculars, he then walked away and grabbed a rifle and came back...
”What are you doing?” Sophia asked him meekly, still contemplating on his words.
”I'm going to shoot some pests!” Alexis smirked and pulled the bolt, he then took a stripper clip that held five bullets and pressed it into the breech of the rifle and pushed the bolt back, the empty stripper fell onto the ground as Alexis aimed his iron sight at the Satellian troops that were preparing to charge.
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”My Gods...” The Satellian officer responsible for the next thousand Satellian soldiers, whispered to himself as he saw the carnage infront of him.
He, for the first time in his life felt fear... just what on Terra have the Lunarians made?!
Even their mages cannot outrun the projectiles of the enemy's weapons... but he needed to be prepared, he needed to go and charge at the invading Lunarians! It was his duty...
Feeling his fear lessening, he turned to his soldiers who were pale in terror, the man sighed and shook his head.
”ATTENTION!” He roared getting his men to turn to him, some started hyperventilating knowing that it was their turn to enter the death field...
”Warriors of Satellia, I won't sugarcoat anything... Which means that you will die! ...But we are not going to live forever are we? We are mortal beings!” He shouted and breathed in.
”So then what's the point in trying to live and crying over a universal reality?! If we die, we die! Prepare yourselves, soldiers... because the next time you open your eyes... you won't be seeing this reality!” The Officer said solemnly and glanced at his men who gulped, a few of them seemed to contemplate on his words...
”And remember! With our deaths, comes an opportunity for the Empire to fight back against this cowardly bastards... we will die, but be forever immortalized as the ones who sacrificed their lives for the Nation... and ITS PEOPLE!” He roared as the soldiers shouted along.
It was their final war cry to rouse themselves...
”CHARGE!” The officer bellowed out the order and took off from the trenches they had dug as his soldiers followed suit.
”GO! GO! GO! FUCK YOU LUNAR BASTARDS!” He shouted as fear took over him and he started wailing...
”CH-” But before he could say something again, his body fell on the ground with a bullet hole on the side of his head and his mushy brain matter and blood on the green grassy ground.
And soon, chaos followed as the Lunar soldiers started firing...
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Alexis moved his rifle slowly yet steadily, the iron sight moved with the captain of the Satellians that was charging.
He aimed the iron sight infront of the man, not on the man, so that when the bullet had gone the distance as the man ran, their paths would collide and the bullet would go through his head.
The rifle crackled as it moved up from the recoil as Alexis nodded seeing the man fall on the ground dead...
He then pulled the bolt as the bullet casing popped out and fell on the ground creating a high pitched noise as the brass cover rang on the rocks.
”Headshots are... hundred?” Alexis muttered as Sophia looked at him weirdly, she had some complicated feelings regarding this new era of warfare.
'Maybe... he is right' She told her herself and saw Alexis fired away the remaining cartridges inside the gun.
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Princess Amelia, the eldest of the Satellian Empire's Imperial children, the one who was tasked to bring peace to the world by the Administrator...
She was currently on her way to her father's official room, The room where Emperors worked.
Amelia heard shouts coming from within and frowned.
The guards who were infront of the door gulped hearing the rage in the Emperor's voice, but then they say their Princess and opened the door as she nodded and walked in...
”Goddamn these bastards! It hasn't even been two days since the Invasion and we have already lost two hundred thousand men!” Nartus roared and slammed his fist on the table.