“Wheat Hill City has been completely occupied by ground forces dispatched from the Flathalla City suburban base without significant resistance.
The Yūgi Knight Territory Village has been surrounded by cargo plane airborne forces, and the surrender of the local lord has been confirmed.
The Afrasia Royal Capital is currently undergoing neutralization operations by descending forces.
North End City has Gigantia, Titan, Okeanos, and Koios arriving in the sky. Airborne deployment of forces is in progress. Within 10 minutes, the subsequent cargo plane group is scheduled to begin releasing airborne forces as well.”
Currently, the ＜Paraiso＞ army is conducting a blitzkrieg against various cities within the Afrasia United Kingdom that are engaged in relatively decent economic activity.
And the situation is that about 60% of that operation has been completed.
“I was worried when the multi-legged tank was slashed down. But well, the damage is within the expected range.”
“Yes, Ma’am. The destroyed multi-legged tank is currently being recovered by a multi-legged heavy machine (Walker). We are sending an airship (Albatross) to Jewelry Lake, north of the royal capital, so we will bring it back from there by air transport and send it for analysis.”
The real-time monitored combat footage. When she (Eve) was shown the video of a living human slashing down a multi-legged tank over 10m in length with a single sword, even she got a little excited.
Apparently, in this world, if you reach the pinnacle, you can fight giant creatures with just one sword.
Naturally, Asahi, who was watching together through the communication window, was cheering.
“Onee-sama!! Can Asahi, can Asahi also participate in the analysis!? I want to directly interact with the multi-legged tank’s AI and ask about that slash!”
“Calm down, Asahi. I’ll make sure you participate properly. Or rather, you’re the leader, Asahi. Calm down?”
“Kyaa-hoo!!”
＜Ringo＞ appropriately reduced the volume, protecting the Commander (Onee-sama)’s eardrums.
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North End City is the northernmost city in the Afrasia United Kingdom.
It is a pioneering base on the northern side of the country, and in a sense, it was also a front-line city.
This city fights monsters every day.
That being said, it’s not like monsters are attacking.
Further north from this city, there is a vast mountain range called the North Wall Mountains. These are huge mountains with peaks so numerous that even ＜The Tree＞, which did not have satellites, could not see the other side.
And its height exceeds 10,000m.
The foot of the North Wall Mountains is covered with vast forests, and it is said that many monsters live there.
The residents of North End City in the Afrasia United Kingdom only know the surface of that forest. No one knows what the depths of the forest are like.
Even so, venturing into the surface of the Demon Forest is life-threatening, but it was also a place where you could bring back results commensurate with the risk.
Therefore, North End City had an ethos that valued strength above all else.
If this city had been located in a reasonable location instead of in the middle of a wasteland, it would have become the most successful city. However, in reality, it was only a remote area in a rural country, with almost no interaction with other countries.
If they had put a little more effort into trade, they might have developed more.
However, the location was bad.
North End City is a city of adventurers.
Adventurers enter the Demon Forest, hunt monsters, and bring back their materials.
Food and resources are almost entirely provided by the blessings of the forest.
Those with strength fight powerful monsters and bring back their prey.
Those with wisdom dissect monsters, collect plants, and use their materials for combat and daily life.
Thanks to the many materials with mysterious properties derived from monsters, North End City has developed to a certain extent and maintains a standard of living where people do not have trouble living.
And so, invaders from the distant heights attacked the city, which was enjoying a certain kind of peace.
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It suddenly appeared in the southern sky.
Something is floating in the sky.
And before they knew it, they completely covered the sky.
Naturally, the city is in a panic.
The threat of monsters was too close to home.
Therefore, it was perceived as a giant flying monster.
The adventurers who challenge the Demon Forest on a daily basis can only think of running away because of its enormous size. In the first place, they are people who have developed the habit of not challenging monsters they cannot defeat, not approaching them, and running away immediately.
However, there is no place left to escape.
Since they are coming from the south, escaping in that direction is not an option. Usually, highly threatening monsters come from the depths of the forest. No one would deliberately run in the direction the monsters came from.
However, even if you escape to the north, it is a monster’s nest.
Therefore, a policy was shown to scatter and escape, and then gather after the threat had passed, and that decision was about to be conveyed to the residents.
At that moment, something came down in large quantities from the giant creatures in the sky.
Of course, it is the main force of the ＜Paraiso＞ army, the multi-legged tanks.
The multi-legged tank group descends to the ground, surrounding North End City while firing rocket motors.
In other words, the residents’ escape route was blocked.
Still entrusting a glimmer of hope, the residents, divided into multiple groups, escape separately from multiple gates.
If they stay in the city, they will only be trampled.
No one thought that they could coexist with monsters or that surrender would work, which could be said to be a miscalculation on the ＜Paraiso＞ side.
However, what the ＜Paraiso＞ side does does not change.
After securing air supremacy and confirming the safety of the sky, many more cargo planes fly in from the southern sky.
The cargo plane group scattered the multi-legged tanks and a large number of multi-legged attack aircraft that it carried in its belly.
It is truly a perfect encirclement that does not allow even an ant to escape.
They intimidate the groups of adventurers and residents who charge to break through the encirclement, stop them, reduce the threat level, and then bring out humanoid machines (Communicators) to encourage surrender.
Humanoid machines (Communicators) are easy-to-use terminals for ＜The Tree＞, but unlike multi-legged tanks, they are structurally very fragile, and they are not intended to be used in front during combat.
Currently, the ones responsible for mopping up the remaining enemies and neutralizing the enemy are multi-legged attack aircraft with a total length of about 2m.
With the large-scale advance of air power, the microwave power supply range has expanded, and detailed power supply control has become possible for a large number of friendly targets, so they decided to introduce them in large quantities for the capture of each city.
Humanoid machines (Communicators) are easy to use, but they are expensive, and the defensive performance of the brain unit, which is an important component, is low, so they are not units that they want to use in actual warfare.
And the neutralized adventurers and residents finally understand that this invasion is not by monsters, but by some kind of enemy force.
Well, there’s nothing they can do about it even if they understand.
It’s not a good story for the ＜Paraiso＞ side, but there are sporadic reports of damage and destruction of the multi-legged tanks and multi-legged attack aircraft that were sent in.
Apparently, there are several adventurers who possess individual strength.
However, the forces allocated for the capture of North End City are 212 multi-legged tanks and 848 multi-legged attack aircraft. Furthermore, Gigantia, Titan, Okeanos, and Koios are circling as aerial forces, and a large number of drones are being launched at the same time.
There are also multiple multi-legged tanks on standby in the sky with transport drones as reserve forces, and even if the adventurers whittle them down to some extent, the overall strength is not weakening at all.
A group of humanoid machines (Communicators) guarded by multi-legged tanks, multi-legged attack aircraft, and anti-personnel drones entered the walls of North End City.
A group that gave up escaping is holed up inside the lord’s mansion.
The role of the humanoid machines (Communicators) is to call for surrender to that group.
Eventually, the last of the resisting groups is neutralized.
The Afrasia United Kingdom is completely incorporated into the sphere of influence of ＜Paraiso＞.
A huge sky fortress was slowly circling over North End City.
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“Emergency.
Unidentified object detected.
The Gigantia battle group has shifted to first-class combat readiness.
Escort fighters, scramble!
Commencing launch preparations for all combat aircraft.
Unknown object, bearing 11 o’clock.
Altitude 1,200m, ascending.
Estimated total length, over 100m.
Approaching the course of Vessel 2 (Okeanos) at a speed of over 600km/h.”