Capítulo 53: Natural Enemy
Editor: Geoffrey_
The entire combat planning department was buzzing with activity, though Tian Xing Jian and Karl had become outsiders of the war and were extremely free. To them, their most important daily work was inputting the required data after verification into the computer, after which they would wait for the results before bringing it to the other research units.
Thus, the majority of the time would be spent with Karl in Tian Xing Jian’s office as they idly chatted, boasting about themselves.
When speaking about live battles happening on the front lines, Karl, as someone who did not have any actual experience on the front lines, would naturally not have any right to speak; however, when it came to matters regarding the situation of the nation, military affairs, or classical theoretical examples of battles, Fatty could only listen to the other party.
"The Tara River Military Campaign! Have you heard of the Tara River Military Campaign? I doubt you have! This ground-based army battle is truly one of the most classical campaigns." Karl’s big head shook back and forth, with hands gesticulating and saliva flying.
The ignorant and inexperienced Tian Xing Jian could only honestly admit that he had indeed never heard of this before.
"I truly do not know how you got your way into the combat planning department." Karl had an expression of puzzlement before continuing, "For you to not even have heard of the Tara River Military Campaign." His heart became shattered over his admiration for this idol.
Fatty waved his fist, signalling to the big-headed monster that if he did not continue with the main topic, he would certainly be firmly suppressed.
Fatty had come from a background of training as a scout, spending long periods of time being pressed onto the ground before being punched. This sort of bitterness allowed Karl to discern what the other party was thinking from his body expressions, thus he immediately continued, "The circumstances during that military campaign is quite similar to the war we are currently fighting. However, regardless of whether it is our military strength, our equipment quality, our commanding techniques, or other aspects, we are still inferior to those big nations like the Republic of Ryan and the Naga Federation of ten years ago, much less to say the ultra-big nations."
Tian Xing Jian disapproved that statement, "Even if we cannot achieve that, do you think Gyaca Woods, who have an economical strength half of ours, has achieved it? As long as we chase them out, how formidable the other nations are isn’t our business!"
Karl shouted, "War is an art! An art! Tara River Military Campaign is the most classical example of the art of war. Furthermore, do you think that this is as simple as just Gyaca Woods Empire waging war with us? You don’t even know the motivation behind why they had started this war!"
Talking about war, Karl immediately entered this fanatical state that. If not for his fear of Tian Xing Jian’s fist, Karl’s spittle would just fly all over Fatty’s face.
Tian Xing Jian asked in bewilderment, "Other than resources, could there be any other possible motivation?"
Karl felt that this action of admiring and treating Fatty as his idol was one of his life’s greatest shame. This chap, other than being quite formidable in his deduction skills, did not have any knowledge on other subjects. Seeing how Fatty had exerted a large amount of strength into his fist to calm himself down, he started to teach Fatty about this topic. "Right now, you should understand the history of these nations, right?"
Tian Xing Jian nodded. "Mn, I’ve learned about them when I was learning about the history of the human race’s outer-space exploration."
Seeing that he himself did not have to teach Fatty right from the start, Karl let out a breath of relief. "Several thousand years ago when the federal union on Earth started breaking up into different groups to snatch the capital resources, most of these resources had been used up. The discoveries made by the ultra-big nations were all either without any development potential, or those nations did not have any human-migrated planets in the public starfields, thus humankind has currently started turning into wolves locked up within a cage and killing each other."
Tian Xing Jian laughed. "Even after talking about this for half a day, the reason behind this is still for the sake of resources."
Karl shook his head. "It’s different. The struggle between the Alliance of Fei and the West Faction is becoming more and more intense. Our war with the Gyaca Woods Empire is merely a microcosm of what is happening within the entirety of the human society."
(The military alliance that was headed by the Republic of Feuillants is known as the Alliance of Fei)
(The countries that signed the military agreement at Weston, Binater Empire is known as the West Faction)
Tian Xing Jian nodded. "I know about this, though in these few hundred years, no nations had actually been wiped out even after they fought numerous wars."
Karl sighed. "Even if there were no such cases happening in the past, it doesn’t mean that it might not happen in the future. Since we are currently swept into this maelstrom, nobody could really escape from it. Right now, the highest level human alliance legislative assembly has lost its meaning despite the existence of the name. If two ultra-big nations started fighting, I’m afraid that the true Great Cosmos War would begin. Right now, the Gyaca Woods Empire is merely undergoing a pact related to the West Faction by destroying marginal nations as a part of the plan for a united attack against the main enemy."
Tian Xing Jian fell silent. Leray Federation was merely a small to middle-sized nation, occupying just three starfields, one of which was occupied by others when fighting against a nation governed by a military dictatorship regime. If the true Great Cosmos War fully begins, then under the participations of the other nations, the Federation would not have much hope of surviving.
As for the exploration of the external world beyond the known cosmos, under the highest human alliance legislative alliance’s lead, it had been happening for more than a thousand years already.
This thousand years were truly the thousand years which the human world had developed the fastest, yet with the increasing population and the advancement of technology, no resources could be found and dug out any further.
The conflicting views and friction had finally started appearing within several ultra-big nations with depleting resources. Just like drinking poison to quench one’s thirst, an armament race started, as those nations were afraid of being eaten by others and also wanted to eat up others. These hungry wolves stood in confrontation against each other, spending large portions of those resources on the military.
This was truly tragic for humankind.
During the past hundred years, under the conspiracy and instigation by those ultra-big nations, several medium to big-sized nations were constantly kept in a situation of war, with the regions engulfed by the fire of war becoming larger and larger. Right now, even the boundary nations like Gyaca Woods Empire and the Leray Federation, these two small to medium-sized nations, had been swept into the storm. What Karl said was right—this war was merely a microcosm of what was happening in the entire human society.
"In such a situation, for the Federation to earn her rights of survival is truly a difficult thing to do. This is a mad world." Karl’s line of thinking had a jump as he changed the topic. "The experience the Federation has in fighting wars is too little. Other than economics, equipment preparation, and technology, a war requires an outstanding commanding officer in order to decide the final outcome between two evenly matched nations. It’s a pity that the Federation doesn’t even have one who could be ranked as one of the top international commanders."
Unknown when he had pulled out a picture book, Karl flipped it open and pointed to the pictures within the book. "Look at it. These are the most outstanding military experts in the entire human society." Sighing, he added, "Today, amongst all the generals serving in the Leray Federation, there isn’t a single one entering this collection of military experts, and yet, there is one in the ground army of our opponent, the Gyaca Woods Empire."
Using his hand to flip through several pages quickly, Karl pointed to a middle-aged officer who was approximately 40 years of age and looked quite thin. "Right, it’s this person. Russell, a general of the Gyaca Woods Empire. I’ve heard that the invasion plan of Gyaca Woods Empire was formulated by him alone."
Tian Xing Jian carefully looked at this slim male who had an ordinary look. On the picture, he was wearing the Gyaca Woods Empire’s general uniform with a calm look. The more he stared at it, the more Fatty felt that this person was mysteriously related to him and was either a natural friend or a natural enemy—one that would light up a mysterious feeling of either becoming enemies on a narrow road or friends who would meet again after a long separation.
Shaking his head, Fatty could not help but laugh as this sort of person was the opponent of the Supreme Headquarters’ General Sergei Eisenstein, and not an opponent of him, who was merely someone with a background of being a Battle Mecha engineer and an impulsive staff officer. Becoming friends with this sort of enemy was much more impossible.
Capítulo 54: The Famous Character of the Chaotic World
Editor: Geoffrey_
"Look at this person!" Karl flipped over to the very first page and pointed to a person wearing the uniform of the Republic of Feuillants, saying, "Hastings, the only marshal of the Feuillants. He is called by many as the War God of the Republic and is also my idol!"
Hastings, this was a name that was heard before even by ignorant people like Tian Xing Jian. Nonetheless, it was his first time seeing a photo of him. The Hastings captured within the photograph was about over 50 years of age, with a handsome, steadfast look and a pale complexion, making him look like a movie star or an elegant professor from some university.
But, this famous military expert’s combat ideology was quite different to his external appearance—his tactics were unyielding and ruthless. When it was time to be decisive, he would be decisive, and when it was time to kill, he would kill. Usually, he would sacrifice part of the military strength for the overall picture. Under the 12 ultra-big scale battles which he commandeered, he had never lost a single time. Even though there was a huge amount of injuries and deaths, he would eventually win.
On the first page, there was also another photograph; it was the only military expert that could be mentioned alongside Hastings—General Sobel.
Sobel’s current age wasn’t that great; he had seemingly not reached 40 years of age. His appearance was quite handsome, though there was a gloomy feeling one would get from looking at him. his thin pursing lips made him a look like a callous person.
"This is the most cunning military expert amongst all humans!" There wasn’t even a single speck of praise from Karl’s remark on this person.
"When we were studying in the academy, we had practically been learning about the battles led by the two of them. Sometimes, we had even suspected whether these two were even human since they are truly too calm—they could capture the most crucial matter during a battle with thousands of other changing factors before sending the most appropriate command. I truly hope the two of them would compete against each other one day." Karl said expectantly.
Tian Xing Jian looked through all the photographs page by page, looking at the military experts of varying ages. All of a sudden, he had an epiphany—it was as if he was looking at the ancient book of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"with all the heroes from that era of turmoil floating in front of him.
Heroes would emerge during a chaotic era, was a chaotic era truly coming?
"There’s also this book, "Battle Mecha Pilot Rankings"." Karl seemingly made another magic trick as he took out another book from nowhere.
"Mn, and this book "Battleship Commanders", and this "Fighter Aircraft Triumphant Roll". You should peruse through them and not be so ignorant." Karl took out book after book that were kept by him.
Without taking to heart Karl’s teasing, Tian Xing Jian mechanically flipped through these books of luxuriant photographs that introduced all sorts of characters.
He suddenly felt quite anxious when he thought about how much time he had wasted compared to these people. He was merely an ant underneath those giants, and all they needed was to pinch their fingers and his entire body and all his bones would be shattered.
A strong surge of crisis shot through Fatty as his heart palpitated faster and faster. His intuition was telling him that these people would eventually turn the entire world into a human purgatory.
The prominence of a general is built upon countless of deaths.
And amongst the bones located at the boundary of the world, there might just be people whom he knew, or even he himself.
Tian Xing Jian started to feel sweat forming on his back.
A week later, in the "Omnipresent Fire of War", as the level of his Battle Mecha continued increasing, the highly awaited different maps used for battling had started being unlocked. The gigantic central viewing gallery was crowded with people. This place was declared a safe zone by the system, ensuring all attacks had no effects. Thus, when SM01314 swaggered into the viewing gallery, if the surrounding eyes of fury could become arrows, then he would long have been pierced through the heart by the tens of thousands of arrows heading his way.
Tian Xing Jian did not care much about those gazes on him as he was already trembling with excitement by the battles that would be happening. The modification to the Battle Mecha was completed, and Fatty was satisfied with both the speed and power of the mecha. This was the very first private Battle Mecha which he constructed, and he had never thought that he would have been able to manufacture this thing. One had to know that during times of peace, private Battle Mechas were all playthings for the rich.
[Beast] was not a private Battle Mecha; instead, it was a military Battle Mecha used by the Leray Federation 30 years ago. Hence, even if it was outdated and the data was not kept a secret anymore, this mecha was still not included in the possible choices within the system because of the long-distance offensive techniques used by the [Beast].
When [Beast] appeared in the viewing gallery, it triggered an uproar that could not be helped, as all the gamers were startled by seeing this Battle Mecha, which should possibly be the very first self-designed Battle Mecha that had been manufactured by a player. This proved that other than having an appearance similar to that of the [Beast], this custom-made Battle Mecha had already been equipped with a close-combat capability similar to those of private Battle Mechas.
It was truly an arduous task farming for the parts of a custom-made Battle Mecha, causing the majority to choose those Battle Mechas that did not have such great requirements for parts. Moreover, if one was not careful when modifying the mecha and made a mistake, all their hard-earned parts and the entire Battle Mecha would become scrapped.
This [Beast] in front of their eyes bespoke of two problems. The first had been that the SM01314 had truly stolen too many parts, allowing him to be able to build his very own Battle Mecha. The second issue would be that this wretched chap was absolutely a great master in modifying Battle Mechas!
What would being a great master in modification of private Battle Mecha represent in the world? It represented a top character who could make anyone prostrate in admiration, and even when one begged him for help, one could only hope for the best that he would be acknowledged!
The path of development was completely different for the private Battle Mechas and the military Battle Mechas. Other than a unique group of mechas who obtained special rights, no private Battle Mechas would dare to equip energy weapons on it, thus these mechas could only depend solely on close combat!
Being the state-of-the-art weaponry that could change the direction of a war, Battle Mechas influenced too many aspects, and it was truly hard for anyone to be able to masterfully grasp the theories behind them, much less to say starting to exquisitely modify it. Usually, modifying a Battle Mecha would require a huge group of people working together.
Everyone was by themselves on the net, and naturally, no such team had formed. Furthermore, the system workshop for modification of a Battle Mecha allowed for only one person to operate it. Regardless of whether it was a mistake in the theoretical design or a mistake in the practical manufacture, the consequences would be the same—the entire Battle Mecha and all the parts would become scrap and return back to the state of ET.
If that’s the case, then this SM01314 could definitely be called a genius Battle Mecha great master—he had not only completed the modification all by himself, but he had even modified the mecha into one that was not a private Battle Mecha, into one that was originally a long-range military Battle Mecha used in the past.
It was truly shocking to the extreme! Within the limitless space in the central viewing gallery, there were many gamers who came from almost every single nation in the cosmos. More than half of those present were part of the Anti-SM Alliance, yet now, they felt that it was an honor for this modification great master to steal their parts.
What kind of Battle Mecha would those parts have become if they remained in their hands? Towards such a character, it would definitely be better to befriend him than to become an enemy.
Still, once SM01314 inputted his name in the list of challengers, there were more than a million other challengers appearing behind his name the next instant.
This wretched gamer had truly offended too many people. Furthermore, everyone would make their judgement about this [Beast]’s close-combat capability after experiencing it.
Fatty delightfully looked at the list of names in front of him. The Battle Mecha portrayed a strange and literate appearance as if he was picking out animals from a list for himself. Finally, the dazzling list of names and brief introductions made him lose his patience. Waving his hand randomly, he was taken automatically by the system into a battlefield.
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