Chapter 26: 1st Mission

In order to test my new powers I went to my underground training room. It's reinforced like a blast room for my more destructive tests, i.e. limit testing strength and striking.

I just got a good idea on how I'm gonna use this in the future hehe. First, let's test how much weight I can levitate. I started on 100 kgs and the metal cube slowly floated up as I willed it. Not too shabby, now let's try and throw it on telekinesis alone. I imagined it to go flying on a target, it was quite fast. I estimate it at 150km/h.

I assume this will go faster as I refine my control or increase the honkai energy inside of me. The problem is the refilling of it is slow as hell, a thing to think about in the future.

How about my body though? Can I infuse it to my muscles or something, like a reinforcement spell? I slowly feel something invade my muscles. It feels weird, like you suddenly have a pump from working out.

I then tried to lift a 3 ton hunk of metal and with great effort I succeeded in pressing it over my head. A 150% increase at least huh? All the involved muscle groups are torn though. This will help me increase the endurance of my body and control of honkai energy simultaneously.

After that the phantom like limb of honkai energy felt exhausted. I guess I can only use this on emergencies for now. There's still a little bit, lemme satisfy my chunni dreams for a bit.

I look a small 1kg plate at the side, this would do. "Banshō Ten'in" The metal weight then quickly went to my direction, specifically my hand. "Huh, I need to try the others later for sure."

I was satisfied and my reserves are low so I went to the kitchen to make tons of reserve foods. Gotta be prepared after all, and I don't want to eat rations out on field.

A couple of weeks has passed and we finished boot camp a week ago. My little soldier friends are now finished with basics and their marksmanship is phenomenal. Today we are going for a fairly safe surveillance exercise. Maybe encounter a few seraph class.

Squad Leader (SL): "Alright, you overloaded quartet, We depart to the location for this exercise in an hour. It's fairly safe and a village is being harassed by seraph class honkai beasts. We might encounter them so prepare yourselves, those buggers are quick even though they're on the bottom of the food chain."

The 4: "Sir, yes sir!"

SL: "I'll see you here in an hour. Pack up for a possible weeklong mission, if there are more honkai beasts present than reported, we will be support until back up arrives. Do you understand?"

Quarter: "Understood sir."

SL: "Good! Dismissed."

Ein: "You guys ready? This is supposed to be an exercise but there's a high chance we will encounter some hostiles. MOTH is spread thin after dealing with the 3rd herrscher. A judgement class appeared alongside an emperor one after all."

Elysia: "All ready captain! We've been training for this after all." Her excitement was apparent.

Himeko: "Un, don't underestimate us Ein. We were on the top at boot camp." She said smugly.

Kevin: "I'm gonna fill them with honkai propelled lead!" He fist pumped .

I sigh "You guys, don't be too excited. Everything can go wrong in a heartbeat. Keep it cool and focus once we're out on the field, okay?"

Trio: "Yes sir!"

We packed up and we're all set to depart. We travelled for an hour and we arrived at a small village that has some destroyed houses.

SL: "Here we are team, I'll talk to the head of this village. Secure the perimeter and we'll camp near the border of the village."

We started to patrol on teams of 2 around the village. There was nothing of interest and we quickly finished, we set up our post as me and Himeko stood guard while Kevin and Elysia furnish our temporary base.

SL: "There are some attacks from time to time, every few days they say. So keep your eyes peeled and we'll increase the radius of our patrol every day."

We just hovered around the village for a few days and incrementally increased the range of our patrol. It was annoyingly boring, but this is just a simple mission. Better here, than in the front lines with newly minted soldiers like in ww2.

At our 4th day we started the search and destroy tactics to decrease the likelihood of many beasts attacking at once. We spotted a few basic seraphs about 10 km west of the village.

SL: "Team! We got hostiles on sight. 3 seraphs, about 100 meters away, go in formation and prepare to engage."

I just whipped out my spear and waited for the group to unload their surprise attack. They made short work of the beasts before the 3 even arrived.

SL: "Good marksmanship. We'll continue to search and take out small groups of them if we spot any."

We continued to search for hostiles and we found a few of them in the course of several days. As the squad just finished another group of beasts, we decided to call it a day and return to base and be relieved by another squad tomorrow.

There's a fair bit of distance to the village and it's nearing dusk. As we were on our way to return, we saw some smoke coming from the village.

Kevin: "Are they making a huge barbecue or something?"

Elysia: "Ooh, that's gonna be good! Hurry, let's return immediately."

Himeko: "Of course not, the smoke is too thick."

I focused my eyes and I was surprised. "No! There's a fair bit of seraphs attacking. There's even scarlet Uriels. We have to go support them, now! Call for back up immediately!"

We boarded our vehicle and drove to the village. As we neared, we saw the houses being tackled and burned by dozens of honkai beasts. The people were in total disarray and running around like headless chickens.

Ein: "SL I'm going to leave these 3 to you! I will thin them out as much as I can." They then saw a 2 meter great sword appear on his hand as he dashed away like the wind and started hacking like a madman.

SL: "Squad! With me! Provide cover fire to Einheri. Me and Elysia will watch our 6, go!" Kevin and Himeko immediately fired upon the honkai beasts that were a bit away from Ein.

Ein: "Tch, these fuckers are too many and annoying." Every swing of his gigantic sword bisects multiple honkai beasts that were crowding the small village.

Due to Ein's quick thinning of the honkai beasts in melee range it was starting to calm down. "You guys alright?"

Himeko: "We're okay, no injuries whatsoever." She says as Ein slashes the last archangel.

Elysia: "That was intense. Thankfully they're all dead now."

Kevin: "Thanks to Ein they didn't even attack us once."

SL: "Chat later, we'll secure the perimeter 1st and triage the wounded. I'll check with the chief on what exactly happened."

They separated by twos and checked the surroundings. A lot of the buildings are damaged and the cries of the villagers were heard.

Kevin: "Damn, this is a disaster."

Ein: "Yeah, such a small village too. Now this place will be inhabitable for sure, not with attacks like this frequently happening.

They then heard a radio comm from Elysia.

"Elysia here, there's a certain problem. Requesting support please."

Me and Kevin went to their location and we saw Elysia pacing about, and Himeko was sitting on some wreckage with her head down.

Seeing their behavior I ask "What's wrong? What seems to be the problem?"

Elysia gulped and was hesitating to speak "You see, we found a guy and he's not in great condition." She then started walking to a damaged house nearby.

When we entered we saw a man that was really not in a great condition. He saw us and spoke with a hoarse voice "Please... Help me stop the pain and suffering!"

Kevin gasped as he saw the situation. The man was on the ground, breathing heavily. Big patches of his skin started turning white. I frown as this guy is definitely not going to make it.

"Listen to me... This will be hard, but this is something you must see and never forget. The best thing you can give the corrupted... Is ending their suffering." Ein took a knife and kneeled beside the man.

"Rest in peace." Ein stabbed him on the back of the head precisely so he will not suffer anymore.

The three gasped collectively as they saw the display of mercy killing.

Kevin gritted his teeth and looked down on the ground with clenched fists. Himeko frowned as she saw a man die for the first time. Elysia looked on in horror, frozen on the spot from the shock.

Ein: "This is our lives now. And next time... You guys might be the ones that will do it." He then walked away.

The three just stood there, realizing that their previous casual lives are gone. Slapped by the cold and harsh reality that is the honkai.

After rounding up the wounded and casualties they silently return to their surprisingly untouched base.

SL: "This is what happens when they attack. Don't be too discouraged, we still have to defend and hold our position if necessary until back up arrives. Rest up for now, you guys need it."

Ein: "Come on guys, I have some meals that I prepared for us. Good hot food keeps the morale up, we'll talk about this later and rest for now."

After eating, they visibly relaxed a bit.

Kevin: "Was it necessary? To kill him that easily? Doesn't he have a chance to recover?"

I looked at him straight in the eye "Yes, it was necessary. And he won't make it, better make him suffer less."

Kevin frowned "How do you know that!? He might have lasted long enough until back up arrives and they can maybe transport him to a hospital!"

Himeko: "Kevin, enough!"

I raised my hand at Himeko "It's because I did it twice already. Will you take responsibility if that man turns into a powerful zombie and harm more people Kevin?"

Kevin went silent. Elysia then remembered the graves that Ein dug and mourned at.

Elysia: No way, it couldn't be!? She looked at Ein and started to tear up.

Ein: "Enough, we rest. Now. You guys need every ounce of sleep for we might get sieged again by honkai beasts."

They then went to their beds. Each of them occupied by various thoughts.

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