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77 – Imperial Night (1)

The interview with Count Jacques Pedro was a success. He seems to have been misunderstood suspiciously by Ekaterina, the daughter of the count, but somehow he was able to rectify that well.

Count Pedro promised full support for the ‘project’ I was envisioning, and he said he would contact the administrators of each city to increase the training intensity of the troops.

In the war that will take place in five years, Viyaltok needs more troops, more skilled soldiers, and a stronger fortress to survive.

As expected from a military background, he didn’t just pass by my words that a great war would break out within five years.

‘First of all, the North must endure. It’s impossible to build an axis line like the Northeast.’

First of all, I’ve made the honorary lord of Byaltok on my side, so I can afford it a little.

That’s how time passed.

It’s already been two months since the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion made its first real combat drop.

In the meantime, the battalion was also clearly designated, breaking away from the temporary organization.

Although the training was quite harsh by Ukrnian military standards, the first 160 battalion members were officially recognized as battalion members without a single dropout.

The 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion was fully formed without much change from the organization initially designated temporarily by Sonny Zeppelin.

In addition, the two airships stored in the Mtsensk fortress were moved to the battalion barracks.

It seems that he originally intended to move the battalion site, but the colonel seems to have decided to just sit there.

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Although the barracks were being expanded and new buildings were being erected, the battalion members continued training.

Now, it has reached a point where not only the combat service but also the support service including personnel administration, noncommissioned officer, and officer can descend even with their eyes closed.

-How many times did you descend today?

– No. 3.

– Less than I thought? Let’s finish up quickly and go eat.

It was to the extent that the soldiers could talk like that without hesitation.

It wasn’t just the members of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion that such a change occurred.

Technical Education and Research Department conducting a joint project together. The officers and noncommissioned officers dispatched from there were full of enthusiasm and began to come up with ideas that could be applied to the battalion.

Among them, there was a kind of ‘parachute’.

I put it on hold because I don’t think it will help much at the moment.

The currently deployed airship, ‘Diabola’, is not something that can operate at high altitudes.

Sufficient to descend, but still ambiguous height to airlift with a parachute.

Generally, hand-deployed parachutes can operate at 150m in the air, but Diabola’s maximum ascent altitude was 60m in the air.

‘But you will need it someday. I should tell them to keep it and not discard it.’

Currently, all they do is stomp at an altitude of several tens of meters, but in the early days of the war, they were also used as strategic bombers, dropping numerous bombs from hundreds of meters in the air.

In the future, Count Petrinand’s airship will continue to develop.

In that case, new personal equipment and weapons had to be developed as well. A parachute would be proudly classified as one of those pieces of equipment.

‘It’s progressing steadily.’

I was quite satisfied.

At this rate, it seemed like we could lead a delayed war against the Soviet Empire.

However, the question of why the Ukraine was destroyed still remained.

‘The airship is also jointly developed with the Reinhardt Empire, and elite units are newly created and operated one by one. The leadership is also clearly participating in the reform…….’

Over the past 5 years, what the hell happened in Ukraine, how did the entire country become a devastated country in less than a month?

It seems certain that something not so good happened. It was something I couldn’t say for sure.

‘I wish I had connections with an agency like the intelligence agency… ….’

I closed the scrawled notebook.

Before that.

Because I had to finish the given operation.

***

“Roxanna, are you here?”

“Yes! Squadron commander!”

The airship hangar at the back of the battalion premises. It’s crude compared to modern hangars, but the arched roof makes it look quite plausible.

“You are really interested in airships.”

Sergeant Roxanna Elim usually spends her time here in the hangar looking at airships, unless it’s in the 1st company barracks.

Roxanna answered my call, turning her head. Her pink hair flutters in the wind.

“hehehe…… It’s just like a dream…”

“There is nothing wrong with learning in advance. You never know, Sergeant Roxanna will be the pilot?”

“Huh?! Will I even be able to drive?”

“There is no reason not to.”

Petrinand’s airship was very similar to a real airship that was driven by an internal combustion engine after rising by creating buoyancy with the air in the air sac.

The internal combustion engine was only used as an auxiliary control device, and the main propulsion method was based on magic.

A special crystal called ‘Marble’ was working as a kind of engine.

And this marble was a degraded version of the ‘Pearl of Omen’ that was taken from the Belgordo Fortress last time.

In other words, as long as magic is used as the main power. There was nothing that Roxanna, a first-class green mage, could not do.

“I really hope so.”

“How are you feeling?”

“As you can see, we are fully prepared! Uncle Edward said it would be okay for a while.”

“I’m glad.”

Roxanna said with a Betsy laugh. Surgeon Edward Brecht was staying at an inn in the village of Stout near the battalion.

As much as her father directly assigned her as the primary care physician, she has followed Roxanna even here to treat and care for her.

I really couldn’t help but be a person with a strong work spirit. As much as she is indebted to her in many ways, should she even treat her to a meal later?

“Actually, as the company commander said, I have become close with the pilot, so I am practicing the combined fire and fire operation method.”

“Ah, so that’s why you’ve been visiting the hangar often lately.”

“It was fun. Also, since I’m a green mage, I’m used to riding the wind and flying in the sky.”

Roxanna Elim was a soldier trying to prove her worth in any way she could. The other battalion members, who had initially looked on her with skepticism, now stuck out their tongues and acknowledged her Roxanna passion.

Because she looks much weaker than others and actually suffers from her illness.

She has also produced positive results that motivate other soldiers and noncommissioned officers to work harder.

“But why are you here?”

“Ah, there is no particular reason. Since we’ll be leaving in a few hours right now, we talk face-to-face like this once in a while.”

“…… Wasn’t the company commander also a person who was nervous?”

At my words, Roxanna asked with an interesting expression. What…… It’s not a story I’ve heard once or twice, but I took it lightly.

It is only because of the characteristics.

Because of the characteristics.

“I am not some kind of mechanical golem.”

“Besides that, the company commander always talks like he knows everything.”

“Ah.”

The reason why I can be calmer than others in combat or training is not because I am a high-profile player of Hearts of General.

From when I was commissioned at the age of 24 to when I was discharged at the age of 32.

He jumped into a lot of real battles, and he jumped into a lot of operations. Among them, there were special operations like now, and there were also forms similar to all-out war.

I’ve already gotten used to flying, infiltrating, killing people, and pulling the trigger.

Just the gun you are holding has changed from HK’s automatic rifle to a virtual lever-action rifle.

“Still, I am nervous. Not me…… I fear you will get hurt or die.”

Why did Sonny Zeppelin include 72-hour survival training in the snowy mountains? Why did he order the subjugation of bandits who had roosted in a fortified village after two weeks of descent training?

Because that would be the core of the upcoming operation.

The magic fire that Sony Zeppelin had been taking it easy on was turned into an attack to kill the opponent with sincerity.

It was because the enemies to be dealt with were not unarmed villagers or harassing ragtag bandits, but soldiers of one of the most powerful armies in the world, the Soviet Empire.

That alone already increases the difficulty of the operation’s success to a terrifying level.

Roxanna fell silent at that. Death of a person. In a way, because Roxanna, among the members of the corps, is the one who is closest to death on a daily basis, she realized what I was trying to say.

She held her breath for a moment.

Within a stern voice, he added.

“We shouldn’t let that happen.”

“I think the same.”

Let’s follow the girl’s gaze at the airship. Beyond the sky, the shimmering sunset was slowly setting.

Operation Imperial Night.

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