High Tech System

From The Rear!

It is natural to doubt a grown-up man if he acts like a child.

'Bunch of children' Ebbar thought, watching Igrus and Zileus throwing spell towards each other.

Zileus was a middle-aged man with hairless white skin, snow-white spike hair, and glacier blue eyes with a golden necklace on his neck. "If there is a spell that could make you taller, then I would go to war just to erase it!" Zileus waves his hand to deploy a thin golden shield in front of him which blocks Igrus's attack.

"Shut up!" Igrus spins the wand in his hand which generates more and more tiny stars that shoot towards Zileus.

The stars detonate on Zileus's shield which makes it fading like a thin veil. Zileus counterattack with a radiant light shooting towards Igrus.

The other generals just sit on their chair without having the intention to intervene, Azor, on the other hand, lift both of his hands with his finger spreading, suddenly Igrus and Zileus got pulled towards Azor.

Igrus and Zileus were startled but they didn't dare to retaliate and let their body being pulled towards Azor. Azor catches them by pulling on their ears and he twists them.

"Enough, if your subordinate sees you behave like this wouldn't they be ashamed to serve you?" Igrus and Zileus were in pain because Azor still twists their ear.

"It's always like this when you two are together, when are you going to grow up?!" Igrus and Zileus look down like a child being lectured.

Azor shakes his head like a single father that had problematic children."You all can go now!" Zileus and Igrus still look down, turn back to leave while bumping elbows to each other.

The other also stand to their feet and exit the carriage, leaving the old man Azor alone. "Am I that bad at raising kids?"

It's not wrong to say that Azor is their dad because he is the one who brought them in, give them food and train them to be the man they are now.

Each and every one of his general is an orphan, he found them on the street and he thought of grooming his own loyal subordinate and so he brought them and train them.

initially, he wanted them to treat him as a teacher and superior, who would've thought they would treat him like a father instead, but as time passed Azor also treat them as his child, this is why he did not strictly punish them when doing childish stuff in front of him when there is nobody around.

Azor turn, he looks at the map embedded on the wall with his hands on his back."Time for war!"

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In a thick forest, Ignacio and his unit are currently on top of trees ready for their enemy, they had AK-47, M16, and snipers on their hands. Jin Sung decides to give them all kinds of firearm so they can use them according to the situation, the new arriving firearm, M16, and sniper rifle were the favorite toys of the soldiers, with their high accuracy and high damage in long-range shooting, it makes the perfect firearm for the soldiers.

Ignacio signaled for his troops to hide on top of the trees, bushes, or vegetation, honestly, Ignacio did not need to do that because they already wear the chameleon paper wrap which makes them invisible.

"Prepare for the incoming enemy!" Ignacio said to his men.

Suddenly the grounds were trembling and so is the trees which make their leaves fall, Ignacio and his men firmly stand their ground, eyes peeled forward, firearms fully loaded with ammunition and on their backpack is full of ammunition, so there are enough bullets for everyone.

The quake gets stronger as time passed, after a few moments he notices a huge convoy of 20.000 troops consisted of heavily armored mounts and carriages. "What in the world?!" Ignacio was greatly startled by the turn of events, he did expect 20.000 troops but he did not expect a 20.000 fully armored convoy. 'The spy did not inform me about the fully armored convoy, what in the world is going on?' Ignacio keeps his thought to himself.

"Just like I explained earlier, we will let them pass our line and trigger all the traps on the plain, after that, we will strike them from behind, try to scatter, and move around to confuse the enemy!" Ignacio never had been a good war strategist but talking with Jin Sung had been an outstanding reap, know your enemy and know yourself, never fight with a single strategy, morale is important as your weapons. these are just a few of the lines that Jin Sung told him, he had failed the first line and he can't afford to fail the other.

The soldier was startled by the power of the enemy troops, fully heavy armored mounts, and ornate gold carriages, these kinds of things are usually used to wage war on other kingdoms not to defeat rebel forces, not to mention the lead unit has Brimstone Mirror on their hands, but seeing their general's complexion without worry, the fear and doubt they had in their hearts receded, they tightly hold their firearms, take a deep breath and focus their eyes on the enemy ready to fire when the order comes.

The rumbling noise of the convoy is getting louder as they get closer, Ignacio unit was inside the forest whilst the enemy convoy was in the plain heading towards Xiangwei, the plain had been set with traps, and when the convoy passed the area with the traps, their troops would already have decimated, and that is when Ignacio and his unit would appear and rains bullet on them.

The ground quaker stronger and stronger, as the figures of the adversary became apparent, when the lead unit step into the trap area, they were greeted by explosions, as dust and horses are flying, the smell of gunpowder became apparent which tingle their nose, the was convoy alarmed and halt their advance, except the flying dust and the wailing of the horses' nothing can be heard, it's like the quake and the stomping of the giant beasts is nothing but an illusion.

Gerald rides his white, ornate gold armored horse, that covers it from tip to toe, he steers the horse towards the lead unit, the horse gallops with vigor and speed as the weight of the armor is like paper to it, with Gerald on its back, looking like princes charming looking for his princess, but it's not princess he found but dead bodies, and craters on the ground.

Gerald frowns and observes the area only to see more dead bodies and craters created by the explosion."Where is the enemy?"

one of the soldiers, get down from his horses and run towards Gerald."There is no enemy on the horizon sir, the explosion comes from the ground."

Gerald tensed."The ground?" he observed the area in front of him and narrowed his eyes.

"Tell one of the Dreadstep riders to come to me!" Gerald glance at the soldiers and commanded.

"Yes sir!" The soldier rushes to his mount and rides towards the Dreadstep unit.

Gerald inspects the dead bodies, legs destroyed and shrapnel seems to penetrate their organs, and the Brimstone Mirror cracked, unable to be used again.

'The enemy is a creative one' Gerald thought, using mines to decimate enemy troops before the enemy even arrive at their destination, this could reduce the enemy's personnel and morale. 'I think I can use this in future battles' Gerald ponder.

'Stomp, stomp' a heavy footstep suddenly heard, and the ground trembles, a giant beast overshadowed Gerald from the sun." Sir what is your order?" the beast rider bows respectively towards Gerald.

Gerald is unable to discern the soldier's appearance as he can only see his silhouette."Go forward for a few meters, see if you can find anything!"

"Yes, sir" The soldier slowly drives his Dreadstep Vilebeast forward, which makes Gerald shot him a sour glare, the soldier tremble and feel cold in his spine, without even looking he knows that this is because Gerald is glaring at him, to make the cold disappear he sped up, and after a few meters, the beast step on a tripwire which deploys a grenade into the air and explode beside the beast rider, he was thrown from his mount by the explosion and shrapnel penetrated his unprotected skin.

he landed on the ground painfully because the weight of the armor does not support his landfall, it only protected against the shrapnel of the grenade, the Dreadstep Vilebeast on the other hand is fine with only a little damage on its armor.

Seeing this Gerald had an idea."Tell the Dreadstep beast unit to use the beast as a trap cleaner!"

"Yes sir," a soldier beside him rushes towards the Dreadstep beast unit to deliver the command.

"Everybody else would advance 20 meters behind the Dreadstep beast to prevent the shrapnel to reach you!" Gerald rides his horse in front of the crowd and speaks loudly like a prince leading his army.

Gerald glances towards the broken Brimstone Mirror. 'what a waste of resources'

Suddenly the ground starts to rumble as the pack of beasts stomps their way forwards, at the forefront of the pack is a bigger beast equipped with ornate gold armor and sharp spikes, the one who rides the mount is Ebbar with heavy and a very long guan dao in his hand which pointed towards the sky.

Ebbar glare towards Gerald."Gerald since when can you order around my unit like you own them, why don't you tell your own unit to be the trap cleaner instead!"

Gerald glared back at him."Ebbar, don't forget that this is my turn to lead the army, so everyone must obey my order!"

"Hmph! I'll remember this Gerald, just you wait!" Ebbar leads his unit to pass him and advance after he commanded his men to steer the unmanned beast to clear the way of traps.

The unmanned beast gallops like horses as they shake the earth, grenades are flying and exploding near them, shrapnels shot towards their armor making small scratch and tear on it, but the beast doesn't care as it advances carelessly, stepping on as many tripwires and traps as they can.

Ebbar looks at the scene in front of him and was amazed.'I can't believe there are so many traps'

Grenades are constantly jumping and exploding in the air and the roar of ammunition exploding its gunpowder is heard, penetrating through the foot of the beast, the beast bleeds but it does not stop its footstep, it leaves a blood trail as it keeps advancing.

Then suddenly there is a roar of firearms constantly firing as the sound of bullets ricocheted against metal and steel followed suit.