The Marshal’s Little Fairy 7

In the end, Dantalion upheld his words however embarrassed he was towards himself and did a compatibility test with Bai Liang. The result was a staggering 100%. The highest compatibility rate ever recorded was 93% and the belief that 100% compatibility was impossible was broken just like that.

They were recorded in the empire's pairing database and Dantalion went to report it to the emperor the very next day with the result of the test. With that, they were officially a pair.

All throughout the process, Dantalion honestly felt like he was in a lucid dream. He lost his mind and suddenly he had a lover as a result. Even when he was facing a swarm of parasites he had never felt so flustered.

"Sir Dante, there is not much paperwork for the day. You will be free after lunch," Bai Liang skimmed through the documents on his tablet. "The first and seventh divisions are going to have a mock battle to decide on who will have the right to the new mechs after lunch. Would you like to watch?"

To maintain competitiveness among the soldiers, Dantalion let them fight for resources that he hadn't decided on who to give yet. Of course, these fights must be official and proper proposals must be submitted and approved first before they could proceed.

Dantalion returned from his thoughts and nodded, "What about the other divisions?"

"They already lost," Bai Liang showed him the result of the battles, moving it to Dante's desk. "If you wish to watch the recordings, I will prepare them for you."

"Have you watched it?"

"Yes, I have."

"What do you think of them?"

"Well…" Bai Liang recalled them for a while, "…since the new mechs' main point is their aerial combat features, the mock battles also simulated aerial battles. If I may be honest, they do not qualify to pilot the new mechs. Although it will indeed make them stronger, they will not be able to pilot it to their full potential."

"If a non-pilot can clearly see that, then, I suppose there is a need for aerial combat training before the evaluation," Dantalion frowned.

"Shall I make the proposal and meeting plans?" Bai Liang asked.

"Yes, please do."

Bai Liang went to his own desk that had been installed in Dantalion's office for a while. The two of them worked their own tasks until lunch. They ate their meal before going to the simulation ground as planned.

On their way, they encountered Oster with his assistant who had just finished their lunch at the upper cafeteria. Noticing them as well, Oster promptly greeted them and went to them.

"Marshal, sister-in-law, are you going to watch the first and seventh divisions' mock battle?" he nonchalantly asked.

Joan choked on air and hurriedly stopped him, "Admiral, they're not married yet!"

"Huh? They're not?" Oster looked at Dantalion and Bai Liang for a while and bumped his fist to his palm in epiphany. "Then, they must be married in their past life!"

Bai Liang's eyebrows slightly rose in interest. He was sure that the concept of past life was like a cultish belief here. Was that his instinct speaking?

"What past life, Admiral?" Joan looked at Dantalion and Bai Liang apologetically. "Please, excuse Admiral Oster's rudeness, Marshal, Chief Assistant."

Dantalion gave a small nod. He didn't think it was anything rude. Quite the opposite actually.

Since Oster was on his way to watch the mock battle as well, the four of them went there together. Despite Joan's words, Oster still called Bai Liang sister-in-law as they talked along the way. Bai Liang saw that Dantalion seemed to have an automatic filter in his ears which faded out Oster's chirpings as background noise.

They entered the observation deck which was one floor above the simulation ground. The first and seventh division's representatives were preparing themselves for the mock battle below them.

Bai Liang saw that Aiden was chosen as one of the first division's representatives along with 2 other soldiers. Noah was also there, ready to help Aiden if anything happened. Since he had been ensuring that nothing went astray from the trajectory, they safely reached this point of time accordingly.

When the other members of the divisions went to the observation deck as well, they were surprised to see the marshal and an admiral coming to watch and they hurriedly saluted them.

"Has the terrain for the battle been decided?" Dantalion asked.

"Yes, Marshal," the first division general promptly tapped on the deck's window and the control interface showed up. "We agreed on space environment 3 which is within a cosmic dust."

Bai Liang's eyebrows subtly tightened.

Even this kind of little detail wouldn't be spared? Xue Liang could change it to match the trajectory, but Dantalion would definitely be suspicious. He didn't want to make Dantalion run around looking for a non-existent hacker. Moreover, this was caused by the change in the corps evaluation. The mock battle should also be in outer space.

"Assistant Cain," Dantalion suddenly called.

"Yes, Marshal?" Bai Liang readily answered.

"Pick the terrain," Dantalion looked at him. "You have watched their battles with the other divisions, have you not? Pick an appropriate terrain to test them properly."

Bai Liang blinked and gladly nodded. He held his smile as he stepped forward to adjust the simulation. He didn't know whether Dantalion guessed his thought or it was just pure coincidence, but he liked the thought that Dantalion could be subconsciously helping him.

The first and seventh divisions didn't think too much of it, expecting that a fairy like Bai Liang wouldn't know the difference anyway. But when they watched him fluently navigate himself through the interface and changed almost the entire settings, they were dumbfounded.

However much Bai Liang wanted to use a surface terrain, he couldn't. Instead, he analyzed the closest settings and difficulty to match the fated mock battle.

He chose space environment 2 which was in an asteroid belt in exchange for the trees and rocks, added some level 2 Ether Parasites since the original one had Parasites as well, and added a third party of three which would attack both the first and seventh divisions. He set the third party's skill proficiency to match the average level of Magnum and Glory Corps.

The seventh division's general anxiously stepped forward, "Chief Assistant, we have agreed in sending in the new recruits as our representative. This high of a difficulty is just too–"

His words were halted by Dantalion's glance at him. Under the brim of his cap, his eyes glowering from the shadow seemed as if they would eat him alive.

"What I want are soldiers who can pilot mechs, not soldiers who can simply drive one. The mechs are built to support our soldiers' strength, not the other way around," Dantalion lowly said.

"If your new recruits can't even hold against this standard difficulty, they better return to the academy and learn back the basics," Oster bared his fangs as well.

The first and seventh division members gulped and sweated. They wanted to say that the spec of the soldiers at the thirteenth division who were all awakened dragons was the abnormal ones. After all, all the soldiers from the first to the twelfth divisions were non-awakened dragons, the opposite of the thirteenth division.

"If you are thinking that our standard is high because we are awakened, then let me remind you," Oster suddenly said, as if reading their thoughts. "We awakened before joining the thirteenth division. I myself came from the third division. Don't think you can just ride our coattails."

Everyone trembled and lowered their heads.

With a nod from Dantalion, Bai Liang started the simulation. He then took several steps back to stand by Dantalion's side once more. Watching the simulation ground turn into space in only a few seconds, Bai Liang inwardly sighed in admiration once more of this world's technologies.

It was apparent that the pilots were flustered by the unfamiliar terrain. None of them moved from their spot, hesitantly reading the situation. The first to move was Aiden on the first division's side when a simulated mech found their group and attacked. The other side also moved when a Parasite caught one of them.

With the simulated mechs and Parasites, the battle was forcefully advanced. For a while, the two divisions were both busy defending themselves without having any time to fight one another.

Dantalion's eyelids lowered in dissatisfaction, "Too slow."

Oster clicked his tongue impatiently, "How could they be slower than Parasites?"

Bai Liang noted down everything that needed to be improved while keeping half of his focus on Aiden. His performance was actually better than in the trajectory already, but it seemed like he also wasn't ready for complex manoeuvres in aerial battle. Still, he was the best one among the 6 new recruits.

He wondered if the protagonist could be stronger than what he was meant to be. After all, there was an impending danger bigger than the invasion.