Chapter 64: Assault

Chapter 64: Assault

The Banfield houses fleet the fortress-class ships hangar.

Avid Liams exclusive machine, was stored there.

The large black* aircraft had no master to pilot it, so it wasnt currently in use.

And manifesting itself inside such a hanger was a dog.

Looking up towards Avid, it let out a bark.

At that moment, Avids two eyes started to shine.

Its engine began to roar with life, and armaments began materializing from the magic circles that manifested around it.

Three large rocket boosters were summoned and connected to Avid.

Moving by itself, Avid walked towards that exit hatch and pried it open.

The dog had already disappeared, leaving one of the mechanics stationed there to panic as he reported the machines sudden movement to his boss.

Hey, did anyone give Avid clearance to sortie?!

What are you talking about? Avid can only be used by Lord Liam, who here could possibly move it?

But its still moving!

No, Im telling you

Exiting out into space, the boosters on Avids back sprung to life as it rushed into enemy lines.

I had grown bored of shooting at the enemy.

Right now I was leaving that to the originally assigned gunner, as I sat in my seat yawning.

A few days had passed since the battle began, but I was surprised by how fragile the enemy actually was.

Their counterattack was pretty lukewarm as well.

How do I put it? They were weak.

Cedric called out to me,

Special Staff Officer, arent you taking things a bit too lightly?

Havent we already won?

I think it would be better to stay vigilant until its officially over.

The serious Cedric still somewhat tense about the situation.

In comparison, Wallace had already dozed off and was asleep.

why was there such a difference between these two brothers?

Of all the royals out there, I feel like the one that I chose to be my underling was probably the biggest failure among them.

Eulisia brought me a report just when I was considering returning to my room.

Lieutenant General, weve received confirmation that a part of the enemy forces are charging directly towards our location!

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Turning towards the monitor, the simplified image of the battlefield showed that a section of the enemy had broken off and was beginning assault maneuvers towards our flagship.

They were coming straight for us.

Tia immediately started giving out orders to our allies.

Pull back the flagship! Change our formations to intercept and surround them!

Soon after the fleet formed a shape similar to a cranes wing and tried to envelop the enemy, but the momentum they had built up was too strong.

I crossed my arms.

its no good. Theyre going to reach us.

As an expert in assault tactics, I instinctively knew.

Wallace woke up from all the noise and began to tremble.

W-what are we going to do?! Can our battleships endure their assault?!

Cedric twisted Wallaces arms behind him.

Quiet down! Special Staff Officer, you need to escape immediately. Youre probably what theyre aiming for.

To Cedrics proposal, I asked,

Then what do you plan to do?

Im sorry, but I quite like this ship. In the stagnant life Ive lived so far, Im lucky I got to experience this at the end. Dont worry, I promise to keep fighting until my last breath.

wasnt this guy more useful than Wallace?

Well, he was a different kind of person than I was he was a serious guy.

I see. Do whatever you want. However, I dont intend to be defeated by something of this level. Tia, prepare for me a mobile knight.

Lord Liam?!

When I asked for an aircraft to pilot, Tia immediately objected,

No, please give up on that idea. In this situation, you absolutely can not be dispatched, Lord Liam!

Marie then refuted her while agreeing with my opinion,

If this is Lord Liams order, then its your duty as his knight to follow it. Dont start causing trouble!

Tia drew her weapon,

You fossil! Are you going to take responsibility if anything happens to him?! Lord Liams life is worth far more than trash like yourself!

The surroundings went silent at the intimidating atmosphere building up between the two.

I was sick of it.

Hey.

Approaching them, I grabbed their heads and pressed them down against the floor.

L-lord Liam?!

W-what the meaning of this?!

Marie and Tia were struggling against my grasp clearly upset, but they couldnt go against my strength.

I pushed down on their heads a bit more as their butts stuck out.

To their clear confusion, I explained,

Are the two of you going to keep fighting in front of me forever? I dont remember asking for my knights to be constantly in discord with each other.

Marie hurriedly made an excuse,

I-its not my fault! Lord Liam, its because this minced meat bitch was refuting your orde urgh!

And their numbers were still increasing even now.

If taking the Berkley fleets position into account, we were attacking them from above, and the enemy was rising upwards to reach us.

However, since there was no gravity in space, the direction they came from wasnt relevant.

Okay, here they come!

Pressing down on the accelerator, I felt the cockpit shake a little.

Avid wouldnt even budge at this.

Mobile knights approached one after another as they targeted me.

The enemies were an assortment of state of the art models and mainstream ones.

In the vastness of space, I passed by another mobile knight holding a blade, swinging through and destroying it.

I swooped down on them with a hail of lasers and bullets avoiding enemy missiles and destroying them with a swing of my sword.

You guys are just a little more crunchy than Derrick!

An allied mobile knight shot down an attacking enemy with their rifle.

Lord Liam, Im here to support you!

Marie had come to my assistance.

Thanks to her taking down the troublesome enemies, I could take down my targets with ease.

Whenever my mobile knight swung its sword, five enemy aircrafts exploded at once.

Its amazing that theyll even explode in space! How does that even work?!

I beat them down with overwhelming power.

The mobile knight was able to reproduce the One-Flash, but its reaction rate was dismal compared to Avid.

It wasnt able to reproduce my movements that well either.

Marie shoots and destroys another aircraft that tried to take my back.

Just by defeating the enemies in front of us, our kill scores gradually increased.

Well, I guess its okay for a prototype.

When I said that, a huge aircraft appeared among the enemy forces.

Even though Marie tried shooting at it with her rifle, the bullets and beams were easily repelled off of its armour.

These bastards! Lord Liam, leave this one to me!

Dont be stupid, Ive been waiting for someone like this.

I advance my aircraft forward and slashed at them with my blade, but the enemy deployed a spherical barrier of light around them.

Its output was nothing to laugh at.

If the aircraft I was piloting was considered a standard model, then my opponents machine was a super one in comparison.

Youre pretty good, but thats nothing to me!

The enemy moved to catch me, so I cut off both of their arms.

Unable to process what had just happened, the enemy hurriedly tried to pull back.

As my opponent you should entertain me more!

Closing the distance and swinging down my blade, I broke through the enemys barrier shield but then was stopped by their armour before I could bisect them.

Tch.

I clicked my tongue, letting go of my sword while backing away, and immediately after a rain of beams and bullets rained down on the place I was just a second before. Swallowed up by the attack, the enemy aircraft exploded.

this might be a little difficult.

Looking upwards, there were eleven more similarly built large aircrafts.

The red eyes in each of them were shining.

Marie moved forward as if to protect me.

Lord Liam, these ones are dangerous. We need to take them down before they surround us.

That sounds like a good plan, but I dont think theyll let us.

An enemy battleship pointed their bow m way and started firing at me.

Completely disregarding their allies that were still nearby.

Honestly? Looking at things I was probably scre

Avid?

Turning towards a new a new presence I felt approaching, there was an aircraft rocketing towards my direction while weaving between enemy ships.

Marie broke out into confusion in the comm lines,

Avids here?! Thats impossible! Whos piloting it?!

Apparently, Avid seems to have flown out from the Banfield fleet.

Alone without authorisation.

I smiled.

Perfect follow up, guide!

I charged the aircraft towards Avid, and as I adjusted it to match its relative speed, enemies started gathering around.

But Avid spread its arms, letting out lasers to destroy them.

The boosters attached to Avid disconnected themselves.

Catching the aircraft I was piloting with both of its hands, it opened its cockpit hatch to receive me.

Good job.

Lowering the visor on my helmet, I opened the aircrafts hatch and jumped out.

After that, Avid reached out and caught me, sending me into its cockpit.

Inside was the nostalgic and spacious chamber I was used to.

I took off my helmet.

Its been a while since I rode you.

No one was sitting in the pilot seat.

in other words, this was all the work of the guide following up on me.

As I thought, he truly was reliable.

He brought Avid to me at the best moment.

I need to make sure to thank him again.

Sitting down on the seat and grabbing the control stick, I was finally able to rampage with Avid for the first time in a while.