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18.42% Counterfeit Hero / Chapter 21: Unmasking the Magical Performance

Chapter 21: Unmasking the Magical Performance

Editor: Geoffrey_

Gyaca Woods Empire’s ground force, 32nd Armored Division, 1st Battle Mecha Regiment, 3rd Battalion, battalion commander, Major Raphael was currently feeling agonized. His battalion, which had just received the order to chase after the enemies, had instead fallen to their ambush. A company worth of Battle Mechas had been completely destroyed, whereas the other two companies had survived solely because of the aid provided by the 2nd Battalion.

After breaking through the blockade of the Federation special forces, the moment Major Raphael was about to give the order to continue their pursuit, he received an order from the higher-ups for him to give up on their pursuit. This mission of pursuing the enemy would be completed by the 2nd Battalion, while his battalion should head forward towards an eastern concentration camp, search and annihilate all enemies nearby the area, and ensure not a single enemy escapes. At the very end, he had to destroy the entire concentration camp.

This order, which had come down from the division and bypassed his direct superior, the regiment commander, could not be refuted at all. Even if Raphael truly felt angry at the fact that he could not chase after the company that ambushed him, he would still not dare to go against this military order. The Empire was extremely strict in dealing with those who went against military orders. They were so strict that they would even make him regret being born into this world if he went against them, thus he had no choice but to follow the new orders.

Raphael decided to channel his fury onto the new enemy. Under his urging, his soldiers rushed towards the designated location given by the division in less than 20 minutes.

The concentration camp was full of the sounds of cannon fire, and practically every single corner was a battle. Several utterly defeated Empire’s defending Battle Mechas had been suppressed within the center of the base in a barrack. They were doing their utmost to spread out their firepower. In this concentration camp, every area was filled with the rebelling prisoners-of-war. Their figures could be seen intermittently behind the bunkers. Several other defending Battle Mechas were just leaning on the walls as they tried their best to use their firepower to suppress the rebelling prisoners-of-war and push them back into their quarters.

“These damnable, spiteful Federation insects! Everyone, charge!” Raphael did not hesitate to send down the orders. As long as his two companies worth of mechas charged forth into the concentration camp, nobody would be able to resist. The rebelling prisoners-of-war would certainly be ground into meat pastes.

Perhaps due to the sight of the Imperial Battle Mechas charging into the camp, the rebelling prisoners-of-war began to escape after seeing their hopes dashed. Despite this, the cannon fire suddenly turned even more vigorous. After a bout of crazy firepower, an enormous explosion created a chain explosion in the ammunition dump. Following the explosion, several other explosions rang out consecutively, causing an enormous shockwave to not only level the entire concentration camp but also overturn Raphael, who was prepared to charge in, and his mecha. Within the area of effect, no living being could stand up after this explosion. Due to the raging flames and ignorance of when the next explosion may occur, the Imperial soldiers were all stunned. They were just watching in a daze at this human purgatory that was filled with the wreckage of mechas and the flesh and blood of humans.

Raphael jumped out from his overturned Battle Mecha. The flames reflected on his face, making it look red. Sometimes, it was bright, and sometimes, it was dark. Plumes of smoke rushed upwards into the sky as another explosion burst out. Raphael could not help but use his arms to shield his eyes from the debris. Suddenly, an extremely bright light flashed out from the entire forest, causing his eyes to feel a piercing pain.

Only after a few moments did Raphael finally regain his rationality. He gave out the next order, “Immediately search through the area of radius 20 kilometers thoroughly. I want all of you to comb through five times to ensure that not a single prisoner-of-war survived.”

“Those damn Federation cowards! Since when did they dare to risk their lives?!” Raphael looked towards the currently burning concentration camp. He had a sudden epiphany that, maybe, this war on Miracolo Planet was not as easy as it was in the past.

An hour later, the fire started dying down. Raphael brought a section of Battle Mechas with him into the scene of fire. This concentration camp was overlaid with the corpses of many Federation captives. Many of which even showed signs of having been in battle against the Empire’s guards. All sorts of structures had completely collapsed. At the center of the scene was a pile of Federation captive corpses. Seeing this pile allowed Raphael to understand why the Federation captives went so crazy. Perhaps from their perspective, since they would die regardless, it was better to just take a gamble.

Their bet was with their lives, and in the end, they lost.

The two company commanders responsible for searching the area soon returned. They brought back news of being unable to find a single trace of a living person within the surrounding dozens of kilometers.

“Burn all these corpses!” Raphael ordered. He suddenly relaxed after giving the command. “Maybe this news need not be passed through the regiment commander and should be sent directly to the division. That’ll be better,” he thought as he happily left this accursed place.

Ten hours later, once they had ascertained that all the Imperial soldiers had left, the underground passage broke out in an uncontrolled cheer. The prisoners-of-war were all in tears as they hugged each of the soldiers from the special scouts company. Several female soldiers had even given them a hot kiss to show their gratitude.

Fatty’s magic was an unprecedented success. He successfully cleared the existence of these few hundreds of prisoners-of-war from the memories of the Imperial army, disappearing into the boundless wilderness.

Mei Duo tightly hugged Fatty’s neck. She did not know when it had started, but the ordinary-looking face of Fatty had suddenly become very attractive, causing her to be unable to control herself. She continued to cry as much as she could in the fatty’s embrace, so much so that water could be squeezed out from the fatty’s uniform.

“Fatty, you must never abandon us.” A fervent body stuck close to the back of him as soft and flexible arms wrapped around Fatty’s neck.

“Ni Ya?”

Fatty felt his blood pressure rising… Since when was his luck with women so good? He was so frightened that he immediately left the embrace of the two women and went to hide in a corner, murmuring to himself, “This is definitely not something good.”

Regardless of the two women, which Fatty had no idea how to handle, the moment he thought that this matter would become known to Ni Ya’s good friend, the slave master Milan, he would be hard-pressed in escaping her venomous hands and would certainly be cut into pieces by Milan. Right now, the fatty only had evil intentions but no courage to back them up. He was truly afraid that the moment he had them both, this evil intention of his would be cut into pieces by Milan.

“How can I still play if I am controlled by someone!?”

The moment he thought of that, Fatty immediately decided that before he truly understood what this messy relationship was; he could only control his heart and instincts towards the two alluring, beautiful women.

He solemnly declared himself as a supporter of women and a poor monk who was single-heartedly reaching for Buddhism. Seeing how he acted as if he had already reached the point beyond worldly affairs, it was enough to make anyone seeing him feel like chopping him down.

Seeing how the fatty acted as though he truly abstained from eating meat and had no emotions in his heart as he recited a Buddhist scripture, Mei Duo and Ni Ya could not help but laugh at the fatty who became even more wretched looking. This chap was truly a clown by nature. Who really knew what exactly was in his mind. When one hated him, he would become shameless and take advantage of others. When one liked him, he would act as if he was frightened that someone was about to molest him. It was simply too cute.

Along the road, the two beautiful women had shown their affections to the fatty. Every single part of his body had been pinched by the two women. Since they traveled along this underground passage as it was dug, the fastest they could travel was at 2 km/h. Fatty estimated that by the time he exited this passage and entered a region controlled by the Federation, he would have no meat left on his body.

“Fatty, how exactly did you create that spectacle above ground?” Ni Ya’s fragrant and soft lips stuck close to Fatty’s ears, making him shake and sway on the spot as if he was being tangled by a demoness. His entire body started to itch. He truly wished to move his waist and using a lewd tone to tell Ni Ya, “I just did it moving in and out.” But for the sake of his life, he did not say it in the end.

“Quickly tell us!” His ears were being threatened by Ni Ya’s teeth. Tian Xing Jian hurriedly said, “Don’t bite, don’t bite. It’s actually very simple.” Fatty tried his best to unravel Ni Ya from his body. He gave Mei Duo, who was giggling by his side, a careful look before saying, “This plan actually came from the magic of a living person who underwent great changes.”

Ni Ya’s eyes brightened. She stuck her body onto Fatty’s figure once again before asking, “You know magic?”

Mei Duo giggled as she said to Ni Ya, “Do you believe him even though he says that this profession of tricking others isn’t something he’s good at?”

Ni Ya nodded before twisting Fatty’s ears. “This chap truly loves to trick others.”

Fatty immediately tried to change the topic. “Those defending Battle Mechas and the firing cannons had been remotely controlled from behind the bunkers. The locations where the bunkers were placed had been decided and planned before the battle. Even though it seemed to span the entire base, in reality, as long as everyone revealed themselves for a moment when the enemies arrived, they could just simply run in the direction of the bunkers. These bunkers were placed at a location that would cause the bunker with the underground tunnel to be at a dead angle from the viewpoint of the enemy. I’ve long arranged for the camp’s defender Battle Mechas to be placed within the barracks and start firing at the opposing side. Of course, under the firepower, they would not have the time to think that all of our people have actually escaped into this barracks. Once everyone entered the hole, I’ll be the last person to jump in before using the mechanical arm to fill up this hole and activate the buried ammunitions. It’ll be fine as long as the removed soil is covered by the fallen barracks.”

Fatty felt proud of his own masterpiece. He boasted, “Using misdirections and the timing between thoughts — that’s the true secret behind this magic. Those Imperial soldiers must be thinking that since this barrack is under the control of the Empire, the captured Federation soldiers could only be located outside it. Since there are no places to hide outside, the moment the explosion occurred, all the Federation soldiers would be doomed. Seeing all the corpses around the camp, they would never have thought that they were tricked. Hehehe, unless they are more intelligent than me of course.”

“You only know how to trick others. We have all been tricked by you.” Mei Duo pulled on Fatty’s hands before leaning close to his face with a coquettish look. She had turned those reprimanding words into something sweet. With a smile and a happy expression on her face, there were no signs of them being unhappy about this.

“That’s right, I’m gonna strangle you, this damned fatty!” Ni Ya went to pinch the fat by his waist before saying that with giggles.


Chapter 22: Ni Ya’s confession

Editor: Geoffrey_

This Ni Ya… Ever since she was saved for the second time, she had suddenly become even more abusive towards him.

For the sake of diverting Ni Ya’s attention from the flesh at his waist that was about to be torn apart, Fatty racked his brain before finally holding onto Ni Ya’s hands, as no good idea came to mind. With an expression of lewdness as he touched her hands, he asked, “I think it’s time for you to tell us how you got captured over there.”

Ni Ya’s hands were grabbed by the fatty. Seeing the lecherous way he touched them, her face started to blush. Rolling her eyes, she did pull her hands away; instead, she let him have his way with it. “Mei Duo and I were initially on a transport ship that was about to fly back to New Rome. I’m sure you know of this. Before the transport ship would be able to reach New Rome, it would have to go through enemy territory. At the moment when we started to enter the atmospheric layer, the enemy’s fighter aircrafts caught onto us. Our escort fighter aircrafts were heavily outnumbered and were soon destroyed. Still, they helped us delay the enemy, allowing two of the transport ships that went with us to escape. However, because the reverse-gravity system on our ship was destroyed, we couldn’t exit the atmospheric layer and had to descend instead. Ever since then, we’ve become prisoners-of-war of the enemy’s ground forces and have been imprisoned in that concentration camp.”

Fatty had not thought that Ni Ya would actually let him have his way with her without any thoughts of resistance. For a moment, he was dazed as his hands felt like boiling sweet potatoes — he did not know whether to throw it or not.

As Ni Ya continued recounting her experiences, the agonizing emotions from her experience in the concentration camp bursted out, causing her to quieten down. Only after a while did she finally continue softly, “Everyday, they would grab some of us to aid in their experiments. These experiments were conducted right in front of all of us. If we died, they would just throw us to the side. Nobody truly knew who would be next and when it would be their turn. Initially, everyone still discussed about how we should escape, yet we did not succeed in the least. Instead, more people had been killed. Finally, the enemy started increasing their guard, and at that point of time, we have all given up. That’s how we passed through day by day, wondering if we can see the sun again tomorrow.”

This agonizing recollection finally broke Ni Ya down. Tears started gushing out from her eyes as they fell onto the metal surface of the carriage, producing sounds of “pa da”.

“Whenever I had my meals, I would try to savor every last bit in my mouth, thinking that it is going to be my very last meal. When I had nothing to do, I’ll use my hands to touch the soil, the metal fence, my clothes, my hair, my body…” The moment she mentioned her body, Ni Ya’s face turned red. She bit her lips and tried to turn away her face secretly so that Fatty could not see it.

“I like this feeling. The feelings I get from my touch lets me realize that I’m still alive. I want to remember each and every single feeling before I die because when I die, I’ll never ever be able to see, never be able to hear, never be able to touch.” “Wuu wuu” Ni Ya’s soundless tears finally became a loud cry along with Mei Duo, who was sobbing quietly by her side. The two sobbing women buried their face within Fatty’s embrace.

“I do not want to die. I’m afraid of becoming an ugly corpse that is piled together with the others, allowing for those insects to fly over my body. I am truly scared… and thinking about this… I truly feel like turning myself into smoke and ashes. At least if I disappear from the world in this manner, nobody would be able to see my ugly state.”

Fatty felt his emotions collapse. Facing this woman that was as beautiful as life itself, he truly could not understand her thinking. Maybe, the cuteness from women originated from this aspect of unreasonable prejudice.

Seeing how Ni Ya was crying as if raindrops on a pear blossom, Fatty could not help but feel heartache. He held onto her and comforted her, “Alright alright, if you cry even more, then you won’t become beautiful anymore. Aren’t you safe right now?”

Ni Ya wiped her tears in his embrace before saying, “At that time, I started thinking... thinking about the happy experiences I had in the past few years. The more I thought, the more I felt that we should have just stayed hidden deep in the mountains when we escaped that time and pass our days there. That is so much better. My mind just continued thinking and thinking, and my heart was telling me…”

Fatty did not discover that Ni Ya’s eyes had turned so red that it started to become warm. He just blurted out, “What did your heart tell you?”

Ni Ya’s tone became very shy. She lightly nibbled on her lips before saying, “My heart tells me that if you were to come and save me, I should wed myself to you. Even if I die, I’ll still wed myself to you.”

Fatty became petrified. Mei Duo, who was in his embrace, started trembling as well as she lightly said by his ears, “Me too!”

The atmosphere became awkward and ambiguous. Fatty painfully thought to himself, “Dear lord, the next time you want to grant me luck with the ladies, please do it separately, alright? Don’t just throw everything at me in one go.”

As he was letting his imagination run wild, he heard from Ni Ya again, “I like the feeling of pinching you. That feeling on my fingers makes me feel really safe since I know that you are by my side. I think it’s worth it even if I die, as long as I can pinch you once every day.” Fatty was so shocked that he jumped out and shouted, “No way! What kind of nonsense craving is this? I absolutely reject!”

Ni Ya ignored the fatty’s forceful rejection. She simply continued talking to herself, “That’s why I must marry myself to you. Who asked you to come and save me? You must promise me that every time when I wake up in bed, I can lightly pinch you just once. If you don’t promise me, then I’ll always stay by your side and keep pinching you until you promise me.”

Fatty felt his soul fly out of his body when heard Ni Ya say the words “wake up in bed”. As he started feeling amorous, he felt pain on his waist; it was Mei Duo who was currently pinching on that soft flesh that was in agony.

His flesh was going to tear apart into pieces…

“I don’t think I can live through these days anymore.” Fatty was truly aggrieved.

“Reporting to vice company commander. Company commander has information from you,” the [Antenna] Battle Mecha controller, Miller, gave Tian Xing Jian a salute before reporting.

“Oh?” Tian Xing Jian felt that it was kind of weird. He did not request the [Antenna] to try and contact someone externally because he feared it would be intercepted, revealing their location. Receiving the electronic mail, he asked, “How did they contact us?”

Miller understood why the vice company commander was so worried, thus he explained, “On [Antenna], there is an Albert-encrypted signal machine. He contacted us using Albert-encryption.”

“Albert?” Fatty was stunned. This type of point-to-point encrypted communication system was invented by an ancient scientist called Einstein during military research. He spent only a year to invent this system. Usually, only battleships would use this encryption protocol. This communication system was usually as large as a big wardrobe. No matter how he tried, he could still not find a way for the [Antenna] to have this communication system. Since when did manufacturing techniques become so advanced?

He did not care about the report in his hand; instead, he decided that he had to see for himself how the Albert-encrypted communication system was fitted on the [Antenna].

A very small box was taken into his hand. After turning it around for a while, the fatty finally confirmed that this object was originally the wardrobe-sized secret communication machine.

“Damn, you see something new every day.” Fatty felt that the things he saw and learned in the research lab had become outdated just after a few days. It seemed that he had truly underestimated the Federation’s technological and manufacturing prowess. Even though this encrypted communication system was limited to point-to-point communication, the encryption had not yet been cracked by others. Furthermore, this machine was extremely complex and nobody could brute force the encrypted messages, hence there was still a high value associated with using it. For this machine to diminish in size to this point meant that it would be the best partner for any single soldier to have when one was behind the enemy lines.

Scrutinizing the electronic document in his hand carefully, the information revealed that Rashid had successfully escaped the enemy’s pursuit after a strike by the air force. They had also successfully eradicated an enemy’s logistic base. Other than this, there were still two more pieces of information that had to be reported to Tian Xing Jian. The first was that the Federation Army has officially started Operation “Lightning” just a few hours ago. In outer space, several space fleets have already regained control of the Miracolo Planet’s warp gates, and the Empire’s fleets have retreated. The space fleets that control the outer space aircraft carrier battle group and the land-based aviation squadron, armored fighter aircraft battle group that focuses on the layer beneath the atmosphere have started their surprised assault towards the west, opening a passage of 200 kilometers in distance and up to a thousand kilometers in depth of the air space. On the surface, six united army troops that consist of a total of 20 ground-based armored divisions and 11 aviation squadron armored divisions defeated Gyaca Woods Empire defenders who were stationed in this passage. The battles proceeded extremely smoothly. If no accidents happened, the Federation would be able to extend their region of control to the region Fatty was at currently.

This was truly a good news. After all, they could not depend on this rat hole to reach the regions controlled by the Federation, as it was more than a thousand kilometers away. Furthermore, there might be rivers, lakes, and mountainous region which they had no way of passing through. Even if the entire path were flat plains, there would not be enough energy to last the entire journey.

The second piece of information given was not that good. Even though the effects of the attacks on the enemies by the advance part of commandos were stellar, a secret Imperial Army group had actually appeared and caused a huge loss to the Federation commandos team. According to reports, this team that had only participated in encircling the Federation’s advance party should be the renowned and notorious Gyaca Woods Empire special forces — Myth Legion. This legion was built with an organizational structure similar to the army. They had participated in almost every single war the Gyaca Woods Empire had previously participated in. Over many hundreds of years, this legion had thrived in battles with outstanding achievements within the Gyaca Woods Empire. The longer a legion participated in battles, the stronger it would get. In the entire history of human warfare, there had been no legion that could be compared to them.

Under the attack led by the Myth Legion, more than 20 battalions of the Federation commandos had been extinguished in battle, resulting in more than 10 commando regiments scattering.

This information was enough to tighten Tian Xing Jian’s heart. Not even 20 hours had passed since they dropped in by air. Even if these commandos did not resist, it would still require a few hours to wipe them out.

What kind of monsters were there in the special forces of the legion?

“Myth Legion,” Fatty murmured. He had a sudden epiphany — the biggest threat to him in this war should be those ferocious and ruthless monsters that treated war as their professions.


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