Chapter 13 Wrath I
Chapter 13 Furious
Until the time of departure, Sue was still wary of Ricardo. Although Pendulum City is near the edge of the core control area, and it is unlikely that Ricardo will quietly take out Sue and his troops, there is still a need to take precautions.
Counting the troops, reorganizing the equipment, drawing up the march route and the attack plan, all of which were discussed and drawn up by Leigh and Ricardo, Sue was excluded again without any suspense. Outside of Q Strategy, although he tried to listen and understand, there was still no room for speech.
Ricardo brought with him twenty henchmen and more than one hundred and fifty mercenaries, as well as three supply wagons. Although there were no heavily armored combat vehicles in his troops, they were equipped with enough anti-armor weapons, such as the Bronze Dragon, to prepare more than thirty rounds. This makes Calamity Scorpion's chariot almost completely unthreatening. Ricardo's mercenaries are uniformly equipped, all with an unconcealed coldness and murderous aura, and even if they smile, they still look at you with cold eyes. Each of these mercenaries is a killer machine, much more powerful than Leigh or Quinn's men. I don't know what kind of war in the north has allowed Ricardo to fight there for more than two years and bring out such an army.
Sue became curious about the North. Persephone also fought in that direction, and often seemed to be in a bitter battle. But in the Dark Dragoon, information and various equipment were considered equally precious, if not much more valuable, and Sue had no authority to ask about this. He once asked Persephone, but she only said lightly that it was fine, and then said that if Sue's permission arrived, she would tell Sue what Sue should know.
Sue also tried Ricardo, but was subtly but firmly rejected by Ricardo under various pretexts. The guy was very happy to see what Su begged him for, and then happily refused.
It wasn't until it was time to set off that Sue saw the comrade-in-arms that Ricardo had mentioned. It was a strong man of about two meters, with short, straight gray-yellow hair, pointing to the sky, as if it were densely packed with pinpricks. The man was dressed in a very simple leather coat, revealing large areas of skin on his chest and arms despite the cold weather. Well-developed muscles and relatively dense body hair are all symbols of those who have the ability in the fighting domain, but it seems that it is only a beginner-level Cheng dΓΉ, and it is not at all like what Ricardo said about a number of sixth-order abilities. If such a character is in the Dark Dragoon, it is enough for the standard of a lieutenant colonel. There was a dead silence in his eyes, and he didn't seem to have any interest in the QiΔ around him, whether it was men, weapons, troops, or eye-catching women like Li, none of them made him look at them more. It was only when he saw Su that he looked at it for a while, making Su feel a tingling sensation all over his skin.
It's a dangerous guy. Almost as soon as she saw the man, Sue came to a conclusion.
Ricardo's introduction is simple: "This is Hanlun, my comrade-in-arms, a brother who was born and died together. β
"Sue." Sue's self-introduction is simpler. He stretched out his hand to Hanlon, but Hanlun didn't shake it back, but said coldly: "Handshake is not a good habit." β
Ricardo laughed, stepped between the two, and said to Su, "Ignore him, he's like that." Come, I'll tell you about tomorrow's battle plan. β
Finding a bad excuse, Ricardo pulled Sue into the command car. Ricardo also has his own dedicated command car, which is very spacious in the back and a full row of monitors in front of the seat. Unlike the usual command car, Ricardo's car had a side seat, and on the seat sat a woman in a dark military uniform, short hair, and a cool woman.
"This is my lieutenant, Channie." Ricardo introduced.
Although Su was not envious, he also had to admit that as a Dark Dragoon, the gap between himself and Ricardo was still very huge, at least in terms of authority. If it weren't for the family's funding, such an abundance of supplies would actually mean a lot of military exploits. It seems that Ricciardo's record in the north should be excellent, this guy is not as simple as it seems on the surface.
After getting into the command car, the troops began to set off in order. The plan was to reach Sue's base on the edge of the core in the early evening and then launch an attack on Pendulum City the next morning.
The command car swayed gently, and the shock absorption was carefully adjusted, making it very comfortable to sit on. The space inside the car is also very large, and it is not crowded at all for three people. After the car started, Channy took out a bottle of aged brandy from the sideboard next to her seat and poured a glass for Ricardo and Sue.
The wine was very good, and Ricardo drank it all and seemed to enjoy it very much. But Sue smiled, tactfully but firmly refused.
On the way, as a comrade-in-arms who was about to fight together, Ricardo introduced his abilities. He is an unusual, unusual, weapon manipulation and spell-like powerhouse in the psionic domain. His highest abilities in both realms were at the fifth order, but at this point, Ricardo did not continue to go deeper. Ability is a person's greatest secret, and revealing all abilities is equivalent to telling others what is true and false, of course Ricardo will not do this, and Sue will not continue to ask.
"Your primary competence is the Perception Domain? How many steps? Ricardo asked, he wasn't pretentious, and he needed to know something about Sue. The main ability domain that Su reported to the Dark Dragoon Headquarters was the Perception Domain.
Su hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Sixth order." β
"Sixth Order!" Ricardo was visibly surprised, it was too much of a surprise to him. After all, when Su first joined the Dark Dragoon a few months ago, he was only a fourth-order ability. The speed of Su upgrades is a little weirdly fast, but there are still many precedents that are not similar in history, and there are even more perverted than Su. Not to mention the past, when the Spider Empress first brought Medirri back seven years ago, no one could have imagined that five years later, this beautiful little girl would walk into Judgment Town alone, kill Vifren, one of the three giants of the Inquisition at the time, in his own seat, and then stripped him of the title of Dark Judge and made himself the Triumvirate.
In the years that followed, Medirri integrated the forces within the Inquisition with extremely domineering means, forcing the other two of the Big Three into semi-retirement. At that time, Medilli was just fifteen years old. From the moment Medirri walked into Judgment Town, the genius of the Dark Dragoon seemed so dim. Su's speed of upgrading can only be said to be barely a little bit with a genius, and it is nothing at all. What's more, there are two criteria for genius, one is to look at the speed of upgrades, and the other is to look at the depth of potential. Su's original ability level was not high, so the weight in people's hearts was not heavy. However, since Su had broken through to the sixth order, even if it was the sixth order of the perception domain, it was enough to reach the side of the lieutenant colonel of the dragoon. The important thing is that, looking at this meaning, Su still has the possibility of continuing to break through.
"Alright, Sixth Order. I accepted, fuck, there are so many monsters in this era! Ricardo cleaned up his mood for a moment, and then stared at Su with a blazing gaze: "I don't care which ability you get, anyway, those sixth-order abilities on the list are very strong!" In this way, it will be up to you to mark the important objectives for tomorrow's battle and guide our heavy firepower! β
As soon as he finished speaking, Ricardo looked at Sue again and asked with some eagerness, "Ah, this, Sue, you know curiosity kills a cat." Can you tell us a little bit about which of your sixth-order abilities is on the list? Or you can give a little bit of a range. β
This time, Su hesitated for a while before saying, "My ability is not on the list." β
Ricardo's expression instantly became very strange. Not being on the list can only mean two possibilities. One is a self-generated ability, and the other is a rare ability. Either way, just appearing on the sixth order was enough to make Ricardo's expression very strange.
After his face changed several times in a row, Ricardo finally shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Good luck guy! Now even I'm going to be jealous of you. β
Sue smiled, and Ricardo's reaction was also expected by him. He just said, "It's easy to be lucky, but don't you just work hard to get promoted to the occult?" β
"You also believe in those abilities that are not at all boundary?" Ricardo shrugged his shoulders and said, "The occult is now divided into more than a dozen factions just theoretically, and it has not been understood after arguing for more than ten years. Those formula abilities are also ineffective, and it really depends on luck. Anyway, I'm not interested in this kind of unsure stuff! β
In response to Ricardo's questioning, Sue just smiled and didn't refute it. He had his own feelings about the occult, which was closer to intuition than theory. But of course this is not said to Ricardo, and in the past when generating abilities, the opening of the occult ability domain was entirely the result of the body's own choice.
The march was smooth, and the scouts who came out were spread out, basically eliminating the possibility of being attacked by the Scorpion of Calamity. After being stationed in the camp, the military situation of all affairs was naturally handled, and Su still played what he was best at, leading five reconnaissance experts to sneak to Pendulum City at night to reconnoiter before the battle.
The induction minefield around Pendulum City was still tight, and Su had five scouts scattered around the perimeter of the city, and he had just crossed the minefield and lurked in Pendulum City. There are plenty of vacant houses here, and Sue is very knowledgeable about Calamity Scorpion's reconnaissance methods, so lurking is not a problem at all.
The night passed quietly, and dawn crept in.
At eight o'clock, the pendulum city was still covered by dim light. It's winter, and the radiation clouds are always hanging low in the sky, so it's still very dim even though it's dawn.
The tranquility of the early morning was pierced by a sharp whistling sound, and three small black dots whistled at an unusual speed, cutting through the dim sky in an instant, and falling on the central square of Pendulum City! Then there was an earth-shattering explosion, three huge fireballs rose into the air, and under the shock wave, the buildings around the square were like sand castles, with the square as the center, and collapsed outward.
Although Sue's lurking place was more than a kilometer away from the central square, the wind blowing in his face was already full of hot and scorched breath! He couldn't see the fate of the Calamity Scorpion warriors gathered in the square, but under the blow of this power, it must be more than lucky.
However, this fierce bombardment of three tactical missiles was only the first wave of strikes, and according to the coordinates calibrated by the Soviet Union, it would be followed by a precise coverage bombardment by heavy artillery.
A faint whistling sounded in the air, and fireballs rose up in the pendulum city, and it was not uncommon to see chariot parts and even blue scorpion warriors flying up with the explosion! The rapid-fire heavy cannon of the Dark Dragoon is terrifying on the battlefield!
Sue's pale golden hair fluttered, and his body felt the earth tremble. In the past, it was just a few individual battles, but the current scene is war!