129 – Chapter 41. Lower the gate shutter – 4
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Special forces and commando units inspected on the wide deck were boarding transport ships and helicopters one after another.
The mountain where the fortress is located is steep and the road collapsed due to shelling, making it difficult to enter the ground, so all the troops were moved by plane.
“Even the spirits have a pretty systematic army.”
Shane marveled as he saw the various units lined up.
You didn’t know that you could see the organization you learned at school in the spirit world first before entering the Kingdom Army.
“In the past, before the Shinma War, it was reorganized according to the organization of the human army.”
“I think there were quite a few exchanges back then.”
“It is not that there is no exchange even now. You make a contract on a country-by-country basis, and all the spirits are in your weapons, right? Instead, the spirits imitated the weapons made in the material world to protect the spirit world.”
To be precise, the weapons made by the alliance of all races except the Demons were imported and modified to fit the spirits, but I don’t think there is a need for complicated explanations.
A lot of troops headed for the fortress, but there were still quite a few regular soldiers on the deck.
“Are there any units that haven’t been ridden yet?”
One of the sailors passing by answered my question.
“Yes. They are the people who will escort Misfire-sama.”
The number of soldiers designated as my escort unit was over 100.
The escort is a bit excessive. Can you move properly?
“I think it would be difficult to burn them all.”
“It’s fine. The transport plane can come and go one more time.”
“Then let’s go together for a few minutes.”
“I see. Miss Fire.”
I took the spirits to go with us and went out to a wide area and summoned the main body.
When I tried to ride the spirits first and climbed into the cockpit, I saw Shane without any weapons.
“But will you go naked?”
“Our helicopter has power armor. I will take it out.”
“Did Tyran even make power armor?”
“No. It wasn’t made, it was said that it was handed down to the spirit world as a weapon used by heroes for a long time.”
Wasn’t the power armor made by a dwarf craftsman who wondered if it was Smith or something after the Shinma War?
Unfortunately, what Shane took out of the helicopter was a rather crude silver armor.
“This is armor.”
“Tiran converted it into power armor.”
I don’t know if it’s possible to remodel the old weapons into power armor.
It must have been God’s permission.
Moments later, Shane, wearing her armor, came with a squeak.
Even with her helmet on, he looked much taller than expected.
She was a child when we first met, but now she’s grown so big that it’s hard to call her a boy.
Cermia has become a mature lady all of a sudden, so maybe I’m the only one who isn’t much different from her past.
As Shane manipulated the panel attached to the gauntlet on her arm, the green manastones all over her armor lit up.
“Oh.”
Looking at the modern design of the power armor, and looking at the shape of the armor, it looks a bit cool.
It seems that the appearance is similar to my unified form.
“It’s similar to mine. [[Unification]]”
Standing side by side with Shane in a unified state, it wasn’t as similar as I thought it would be.
“This is more crude.”
She nodded slightly at Shane’s words.
As expected, my integrated parts have a good design.
In the state of being fully integrated, all the spirits in the body are embedded in the parts and the engine does not start, so after canceling the integration, I boarded the body.
Sitting next to her, Shane silently fastened her seat belt and started checking her armament.
If she had been alone, she would have been a little anxious even if she went with other spirits, but she was reassured that Shane was with her.
“Then let’s go.”
“Yes.”
After starting the main body, she flew through the dark sky and headed for the fortress.
After about 10 minutes.
I entered the main gate of the fortress with the guards fully armed with integrated parts.
We were in charge of the first floor, and the spire and the second and third floors, which symbolize the four elements, were taken care of by other units, and we decided to gather together and go down to the basement.
The fire and wind spirits with the same wavelength as me closely escorted me, and Shane searched every corner of the fortress with the water and earth spirits.
I didn’t have much to do because I was assigned a role when a powerful enemy appeared that the Spirit Army had a hard time dealing with.
I tried to search, but I was left out with the words, ‘There may be a trap.’
I guess.
A loud noise was heard from all over the fortress.
There were quite a few places to engage, but the situation was quickly over, perhaps thanks to the overwhelming number of friendly troops.
“This is the VIP escort. Please report the current situation.”
An intermediate level fire spirit, the captain of the bodyguard, who was holding a large shield next to me, rang the radio.
“Clear the corridor on the second floor of the fortress. Currently searching for a room. A fight is taking place in the immediate vicinity. The military condition is good.”
“Clear the Spire of Fire.”
“You have completed the suppression of the Water Spire.”
“The 3rd floor of the Spire of the Winds is currently engaged.”
“Wind Spire. Do you need support units?”
“It’s okay. I think it will be able to be suppressed soon.”
“I see.”
And the radio did not come for a long time.
“There seems to be a problem with the ground spire and the third floor.”
There were constant gunshots from upstairs.
It was quite noisy for a battle with demons in the process of searching the room on the second floor.
If that sound came from the 3rd floor, it must have been a fairly large-scale battle.
“Should we go too?”
“For now, let’s send the troops that have conquered the fire and water spiers to the spire of the earth.”
“What about the third floor?”
The captain of the escort rang the radio a few more times, then wrinkled his brow and clenched the lizard’s tongue nervously.
“I can hear the sound, but it is difficult to understand because of the noise. I brought in some old communications equipment on purpose for jamming, but there seems to be something interfering with that.”
I was contemplating whether to enter the third floor, but the sound of battle from above the stairs stopped.
“2Nd floor suppression complete!”
At the faint resounding voice in the hallway, I and the captain of the guard nodded his head at the same time.
I waved to Shane, who was chatting with the spirits in the distance.
“Shane! Let’s go to the third floor together.”
“Yes.”
Shane led the way up her stairs with a large shield handed to her by the guards and a pistol in her other hand.
On the second floor, there was a commando unit waiting for the radio.
“Pilseung. Miss Fire. The atmosphere on the 3rd floor is unusual.”
“What is the specific situation?”
“The unit in charge of the third floor is another commando unit that infiltrated from the fortress rooftop, and there is regular communication, but there is only noise and no sound.”
“Well.”
It was the same reaction as when the captain of the escort went on the radio.
“Let’s all go in together. The probability that there is a gate on the third floor is low, but there is a high chance that there will be a strong enemy.”
Unless the Demon-Elemental Gate and the Spirit-Material Gate are close together, a large space will be required for tanks and supplies to move.
There won’t be such a large place on the 3rd floor of the fortress, so naturally there must be a gate in the basement.
But he couldn’t go downstairs, leaving a threat on the third floor.
We entered the 3rd floor, led by the guards with shields at the forefront.
“This is… ….”
The faint purple mist that lay low on the floor hinted that this was an unusual place.
“Ugh.”
Suddenly, I felt a stench that could not fly in the spirit world.
The other spirits also hesitated for a moment.
“Why, Erif?”
Shane looked around her as if she didn’t feel anything, and then she raised her arms to see if she had found something.
“Demons!”
Shane, who found her demon as soon as she turned the corner of the stairs, pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The magic bullet fired from her pistol hit the demon’s torso and arm.
However, the demons did not fall.
The demons approached this way with her arms dangling bizarrely like the zombies she had seen when she lived on Earth in the past.
“Head! Aim for the head!”
Doo Doo Doo-
The spirits’ fire spewed out, and the demon’s head exploded.
But he still didn’t stop.
One fire spirit with a shield stepped forward and pushed the body of the demon that came all the way to the front.
Then, the body of the demon exploded with the sound of ‘Poo-oong’.
The fire spirit, who stepped forward, was also caught up in the explosion, and his body gradually faded.
“May you be reborn with a brilliant fire.”
Briefly, the captain of the guard, who took care of him, called his troopers.
“Miss Fire. Looking at the flow of magic, it seems that there are demons at the level of the Demon King’s army.”
“I think so too. May I ask for reinforcements?”
“Communication is unstable here, so go down and make a request…… ?”
The captain of the escort who turned back and was about to go down to the second floor made a surprised expression.
I turned around to see what was going on, and the stairs had disappeared.
“This is… ….”
It was a powerful magic spell.
I searched the place where there were stairs by hand, but there is only a dead-end hallway.
“It seems to be stuck.”
About 30 spirits who came up with me and Shane.
I waited for a while just in case, but the rest of the troops coming up from behind did not appear.
It seems that we have to defeat the enemy here on our own and go back.