174 Humanity First
While Sebastian, the Grand Marshal of the Empire's Military was facing one of Artemis' Elite Guards, the Imperial and the Republican military were ready for preparation, but not before long multiple portals suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The combined forces of the imperial and the republican soldiers were shocked by what they saw.
"I thought the Anti-teleportation spell could cancel any form of spatial transportation from enemy forces, why is there a Gate?"
"I think there is something sabotaging the spell!" A Commanding Officer shouted and looked at a nearby soldier beside him, "You! Contact the Generals and Grand Marshal Sebastian about this now!"
"Yes sir!"
The soldier was about to cast a flying spell on himself and headed to the higher ups, only it did nothing.
"What the? I can't fly!"
"What?" Confused, the Commanding Officer tries to unleash a skill or spell to try something, only it does nothing, he then looks at the surrounding soldiers to see the confusion on their faces.
"Something is canceling our channels of our mana!" He said as a sudden realization dawned on him.
"What!? Then there could be an Anti-Skill field around, but where!?" He questions, unaware that there are thousands of tiny bots about the size as an ant came out of the wormhole and went to each soldier and canceled the channels with their mana, preventing them from casting any of their Unique skills or magic spells.
Before the soldier gets any answers, meanwhile, both the Imperial and the Republican soldiers near the wormhole noticed that something left from it, but their superhuman senses are not enough to keep up with their speed, they were way too fast.
Two Elite Androids rushed at them with their top speed and began cutting or gunning down soldiers at a speed they could not even register the enemy was trying to kill them.
The main purpose of this operation appearing in this battle began to bore its fruits. Multiple Wormholes were opened all around the Fortress.
They knew that their Dimensional Lock spell was canceled and multiple portal appearances were not in their plans, so each of them started running as far away from it as they could. But it was all too late.
Another Elite Droid comes out, followed by an army of humanoids in full armor, goes out of the portal and attacks them.
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These are the new army Caitlyn and Artemis made, human soldiers with cybernetic implants and armors durable than Adamantite, all of the soldiers are either B to D-rank in physical abilities, they were once soldiers, refugees, and villagers in Fordalt but they sign in the military of the Machine Empire to become as mighty soldiers, right now, they are over 15 million of soldiers, and the numbers grow continuously.
Each of them wore tactical Armor for Combat, the same ones built the 31st Century, and since that year, the advanced replication technology allowed the Human Government to easily mass-produce the best equipment for its troops. Therefore, all of the military use the same best equipment available with the only difference being training. The TAC is designed and inspired by 21st century movie iron man nanotech suits but a lot more advanced.
As you can see, the lights on the helmets are only visible by friendly troops, to the enemy, the Legionnaires of the Machine Army are faceless. The suit has an active and adaptive camouflage system which will change color and pattern based on the surrounding environment.
As for weaponry, they have prewar advanced plasma-based weapons. In the known space, the Human Civilization back then was the only nation that had the technology level advanced enough to create and mass- produce plasma weaponry to use from infantry ground troop to spaceship armaments. It is one of the best-kept secrets of Humanity.
Although detail specs are not published, a plasma is a multilayer bullet, when the trigger is pulled, before mass effect field push the bullet out of the barrel at near speed of light the firing chamber will subject the bullet to an extremely strong electromagnetic field which completely ionizing the matter of the outer layer of the bullet. This process will continue until the bullet leaves the barrel and travels to its target, the result is a bolt of plasma 10 million Celsius (18 million F). Spaceship plasma beams are magnitudes more powerful.
And compared to the guns wielded by the Android Soldiers, the Plasma Weapons of the Legionnaires are inferior.
After them, APCs, IFVs, and Tanks came out of the portals and started to mow down and shoot missiles killing nearby Mages.
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Coming out first was the Lancer-12, another pre war tech being rebuilt, it is a hover tank with retractable tracks in case of emergency. Its main armament is one 120mm gun capable of firing superheated plasma rounds for armor penetration or HEIP (high-explosive incendiary plasma) rounds. For anti- infantry it has two SWARM pods at the back and 2 three-barrel rotary 20mm that are capable of tracking enemy aircraft flying at mach 30. In addition to the powerful firepower, the tank is fully armored with KEL and a powerful shielding unit. Everything is powered by a single zero-point energy power cell.
Lining up for the crossing, Lancer tanks platoons of the 75th Armored Division are leading the two columns (Lights tanks are out of commission in this universe as MBTs offer high maneuverability and capable of harass and flanking operations) will be the first to engage enemy forces detected by cloaked recon drones on the other side. Next in are the command APCs and IFVS carrying 5th SIF and 6th Marine Division then 20 artillery Regiments and finally the logistics.
The Infantry Fighting Vehicle is as heavily armored as the Lancers with the same energy shield generator. However, the main different is its armaments allow effective counter to mass infantry and swarming tactics used by several races in the galaxy. It is armed with one powerful 45mm gatling rail cannon that fires 30mm shells at Mach 6 which are more than enough to grind a small town into dust within minutes. It also has one AT smart missile pod, two 20mm three-barrel rotary guns and 3 SWARM pods. The IFV is capable of carrying up to 10 fully equipped soldiers and has 4 ports for 4 Android Soldiers.
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The command APCs, another pre-war tech Caitlyn rebuilt, a highly battle-versatile vehicle carrying powerful sensors and electronic warfare suits, armed with the verdun chain gun or retrofitted with the RGTL 40mm (Repeating Grenade Turret Launcher). It only has two 20mm three-barrel rotary guns and 1 SWARM pods but is capable of deploying an energy shield dome with 10 meters (32.8 feet) radius. Armor and shielding are the same as IFV but the APC is longer and capable of carrying 20 fully equipped soldiers in additional to sensor and EW stations
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"This is Hammerhead 1-1, we are exiting the wormhole, over." The commander in one of the lead tanks reports with a mechanical deep voice thanks to the Nanotech suit he wore.
[Roger that Hammerhead 1-1, you are weapon free, I repeat weapon free, over] The person on the other side of the call gives the orders to all units.
"Copy that Hammerhead Command, over."
The stream of Lancers pour out of the Wormhole and span out to create a perimeter around it while firing on enemy forces in all directions. The IFVs rush to the front lines and deploy their infantry while APCs in the back activate their shield domes.
The Empire and the Republic forces scramble to the sudden attack of the invading force from the wormholes, some are shocked and panic while those who manage to stay calm rush to gear up and form into combat formations as they are trained to do.
Twenty unarmed Imperial and Republican soldiers are going to the armory to get weapons but it was blocked by another Wormhole in front of them, unlike the others, it is even larger as a Spider Tank came through the portal and put out its two miniguns in its side and shot them down with bullets travel dozens of times faster than a regular bullet.
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A new project type of tank Artemis created, this 50 feet tall tank is armed with a 210mm Primelium alloy railgun that fires either SABOT or HPEAT(Hyper-explosive anti-tank round) or shooting a powerful energy that if 100% in full power, it could single-handedly collapse a mountain.
The tank is very powerful while being protected with advanced composite armor made of light-weight but highly durable plasteel and advanced synthetic plastic, Explosive reactive Armor and Ceramic platings layered in between. This protection enables the spider tank to have 10x lighter weight than 26th century spider tanks but endure five times punishment.
The secondary armaments in its weapon systems of the tanks are two Miniguns coming out each side and also has rocket batteries in its back that fires hydra cluster rockets for a long-range option of fire. The spider tank boasts a speed of 30km/h on both flat ground and rough terrain such as rocky roads and swamps, and it could dodge fast projectiles by turning into a ring and rolling at a tremendous speed.
The Magical Turrets on top of the walls and on the ground fire at the Spider tank which it dodges by turning into a ring and rolls avoiding the magical missiles, some hitting the Legionnaires killing some.
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Magical Turrets was created by a great engineer of the Republic, the republic are the only ones that have this in their military defenses and has special ability of nullifying any defensive magic, making it one of the reasons why Ghirra's wall is the most defensive fortress on both ground and air.
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But then, a Gunship Drone appeared above them, the magical turret was then blown up by two missiles from these weapons of mass destruction.
"Antilene, you take the 2nd squad and make sure our left flank is secure. 1st squad on me, go go! Move everyone!" A lieutenant with a female voice gives orders to her platoon upon exiting the IFV. "David, I want
LMG on that rock formation! Move!"
The female commanding officer can see the enemies are forming up into large formations from the holographic display screen in her helmet, which make them a target for the Lancers' 120mm HEIP shells. TACNet is a system that allows TACS to share and receive information between soldiers, and vehicles in immediate combat, similar to the Hivemind for Artemis' Androids and Drones.
Through TACNet, the number of enemies that were in this fortress measured up to two million and is being reduced quickly, but not before long the rate of reduction will decrease as the enemy forces will soon retaliate.
Taking cover next to a Lancer, the female lieutenant fired her rifle alongside with her squad, killing a dozen soldiers and Magical Beasts from the Magical Beast Division, a force filled with Beast Tamers that nurtured and tamed magical beasts, turning them into powerful beast knights.
Each beast knight is ranked <A–> and above by itself, and the combined strength of magic beast and riders is impossible to gauge. Despite having only 300,000 members, it is the one of the most elite units the Empire has to offer.
But now, those so-called most elite units that each one of them could level a country were utterly obliterated by the Lancers as they fired their main guns giving out a deep boom sound, HEIP shell evaporating the legendary beasts and their riders.
Meanwhile, a combined force of a few dozens of Imperial and Republican Airships were headed to the battle and began bombarding the Machine Army, able to take down the Legionnaires and a few Armored Vehicles with their superior magical weapons.
However, not long after the infamous Metal Dragon, or the Gunship Drones had appeared and began to slaughter them
Stream of Argent bullets and swarms of missiles taking down or evaporating Draconite Squadrons and enemy Airships in the air, not even strong defensive magic barriers from the Airships were saved, effectively reducing the prideful air fleets of the two countries to nothing.
Witnessing the power of the enemy, the Republican and the Imperial were horrified.
"What are we going to do, General?"
Hearing his soldier asked, one of the four Generals went in deep in thought, the enemy seemed to have superior technology and power and were slaughtering the forces of two superpowers like pigs. If only they had their magic back, then they would still have a chance. But now, they only have to use physical strength and raw stats to take them down, which would be suicide.
As he was deep in thought, the corner of his eyes spotted something small on his shoulder.
Taking it out, with his special eyes, he could see this peculiar tiny creature that appears to be made out of metal.
But once he killed it, the mana within him suddenly awoke.
Now, he learns whatever these tiny creatures were, they were the one that canceled their magic.
"Everyone! Those tiny creatures on you were the ones that canceled your magic! Take it down!"
Listening to the General, all of the soldiers did the same and by then, they could unleash their magic back.
Back to the Machine Army, as a platoon of Legionnaires were happily slaughtering their enemies, they suddenly saw countless magic spells were heading to their line, which means they had figured out the Anti-Magic bots that were secretly implanted on them.
With their magic back, this hasn't become a one-sided battle.
After killing an entire Platoon, the two forces of the country's military finally went on the offensive.
Some Imperial Mages focused on some of the armored vehicles alongside a few Legionnaires and started to fire at them, while the soldiers wielded their magical melee weapons and unleashed their special skills.
After killing a few enemy soldiers, they try to take down one of the APCs. However, their attack does nothing when on impact with the shield without doing any harm. The APC crew give a thumbs up to a nearby officer indicating that the shield is holding strong.
Dozens of magical shots from a large number of magically enhanced guns on the Airship also bounce off the shield dome harmlessly.
Both the Republican and the Imperial Army fought off the invaders, both sides were equal because the forces of the two countries figured out how they got their magic back, giving the enemy forces some casualties on their own. It was a huge warzone inside the Ghirra's wall, while the Soldiers and mages have superhuman abilities during a good job on defending but there are so many Legionnaires and Armored vehicles that they are forced to retreat. Some cowardly soldiers tried to escape using each Airship but it was shot down by Gunship Drones.
Then they sent the Tank Forces to defeat them.
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These 20-30 feet beings are known as Knight Golems, they are defenders of the republic. They are powered with magic crystals that give them movements and have immense strength. Their armor skin is enhanced with powerful magic, making them durable enough to survive from a nuke.
Hundreds of giant Golems begin dashed towards the Machine Army with incredible speed, even with their large size, immense weight and wearing makeshift armors with massive weapons, they still run like a fast athlete.
Not taking any chances, the Lancers, the APCs, and the IFVs start gunning them down with their 120mm and cannons. However, it seems it will take a lot of rounds to kill one.
But with their numbers they managed to reach the distance from them. In a matter of seconds, they had killed 250 Legionnaires so far, one of them lifted a Lancer and yeeted it at a small group of running Legionnaires, some able to dodge with their own superhuman speed and magic except for the unlucky ones were crushed.
Seeing the Knight Golems able to push them back, the republican and the imperial army charges, thinking they might have a chance. However, they aren't the only ones who have giants in combat.
In the portal where the spider tank was, Titans have entered the battlefield.
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Better known as Battle Mechs or Titans, unlike the other mechs in the Machine Empire's arsenal, these mechs are faster, stronger, and more powerful than the previous mechs.
The Battle Mechs combines the brutal frontal assault of the tanks, long range bombardment of artillery, anti-air capability of anti-air guns and the maneuvering of all-terrain vehicles with its robotic legs that can run far smoother and transverse terrains than any wheels or tracks could. This results in a totally versatile combat platform as it can rain hell on the enemies in all manners at the same time, enabling lightning war to become faster than ever. They can be equipped with Mag cannons, Missile launchers, Rail guns, Gatling guns and repeating grenade launchers.
Ten Battle Mechs entered the battle, one of the Knight Golems try to swing its massive magical sword on one of the Battle Mechs but one dodges and used its own sword and decapitate the Golem with greater speed, one of the Battle Mechs held a warp cannon and fired at one of the Knight Golems and easily destroyed it, the other Battle Mechs destroyed all of the Knight Golems without effort.
Meanwhile on top of the walls, multiple magic turrets with bluish aura dancing around them then with more and more intensity, it let out rapid shots of magical missiles, bombarding the Machine Army and hitting the APCs' shield domes continuously making it fluctuate.
"Hammerhead Command, 5th SIF lead, recommending immediate destruction of the magic turrets, target location uploaded, over." A Commanding Officer makes a request with the lead command APC.
[Copy that, 5th SIF lead, over.]
"ARGH!"
Numerous Legionnaires shout as the turrets continue to let out countless magical missiles with different elemental attributes at them, including the Armored Vehicles, which shutdown the shield dome causing the APC to fall back and allow another to take up its position to deploy another shield dome. The magical attacks also hit half a hundred soldiers killing them while some survived but their personal shield is destroyed and TAC suit being fried, which causes serious burns.
One of the Lancers turns 120mm to fire a shot at the turret but the plasma shell is stopped by a multi-layer barrier, which causes the shell to explode and takes the first layer down with it.
"Fire again, everything you got!" The female commander orders the gunner of the Lancer to shoot at the turrets again.
A deep boom from its main turret as a swarm of missiles leaving their pods and flying towards the group of turrets.
The crystal structures were completely destroyed and the aura disappeared.
By the time all of the magic turrets were down, the artillery regiments outside the fortress that were once a distraction for the Grand Marshal, began to fire their loads, and each of them has an AI that detects enemies at location and hits with extreme precision.
[Hammerhead Command to all artillery units, want all enemy's positions leveled, weapon free.]
Once the order has been sent, the artillery opens fire on all the enemy in the fortress.
Salvos after salvos of missiles fired up to the sky then arc down to all enemy soldiers, creating red explosions, which evaporate the enemies that are near the center by plasma flash and the shrapnel that cut through armors of enemies further away and kill them or wound them badly.
Most of these rounds were aimed at the four Generals that had so far killed thousands of the Legionnaires.
Though it took a lot of shells and rounds for one of them, with their magic being annoying for them, they were still able to take all of them in the end.
When the last of the enemy Generals were slain by the might of superior firepower, there's a moment of complete silence before the TACNet alarm lit up in their helmets. A large formation of enemy airships and ground troops, mostly the Beast Army Division, are closing in from the west, enemy reinforcements are here and they are charging towards the fortress to take it back.
Their numbers, strength and power is enough to end humanity on Earth ten times.
"Form up, create a battle line, move, move!" The female commander gives orders for the troops to create a battle line facing the incoming army west of their position. The helmet reads her brainwave and relays it into TACNet to allow other soldiers to understand exactly what her orders are and what needs to be done.
"Bring the APCs, Tanks and Battle Mechs deploy their shields, I want the IFV and Gunship Drones to focus on the North of our line and bring those Airships down!"
Few moments of mobilizing themselves into their position, they also learned that the enemy forces sent out another million forces, it seemed to make a few soldiers nervous.
"Colonel Artemia, are you sure we will face such a number? You know we have lost thousands of men." One of the Legionnaires, who seemed to be a young man, spoke.
The female Commander puts her helmet off in a nanotech fashion, revealing her beautiful face, red-headed hair and large scar on her left eye.
"Private Parts, there is no point of fearing, we'll only to be showered by the blood of our enemies in the end, ready your weapons on the double!"
"B-But ma'am, I have lost too many friends on that battl—"
"Silence Private! Everything that you had thought had a meaning. Every hope, dream or moment of happiness..." She started to quote before she continued, "None of it matters, as you slain your enemies or lie bleeding out in the battlefield. None of it changes about the numbers of enemy forces there, we might either live and return to Utopia or die trying."
Looking at the soldiers that were standing there in silence, listening to her every word, she continued.
"But does that mean our lives are meaningless? Does that mean that there was no point in our being born? Would you say that our slaying comrades, what about their lives? Were they meaningless?"
"THEY WERE NOT!" She shouted. "Their memory serves as an example to us all!
The Courageous Fallen!
The Anguished Fallen!
"Their lives have meaning, because we the living refuse to forget them!
And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!
Because my soldiers do not buckle out or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!
MY SOLDIERS PUSH FORWARD!
MY SOLDIERS SCREAM OUT!
MY SOLDIERS RAGEEE...!"
Shouted Artemia while giving the first shot with her rifle, signaling the start of the second battle.
*Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!* *Ta!*
*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*
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The Lancer Tanks, APCs, IFVs, Artillery, and Gunship Drones started bombarding the army and the soldiers were shooting like never before in their life. Body parts of humans and Magical Beasts flew everywhere in the air, as soon as they reached the Fortress they were utterly destroyed, not even the mighty Airships of the two Empires were spared.
Normally, bullets, bombs, and missiles weren't effective to any of them in the slightest if it was weapons from the 21st, but this isn't the 21st, it was the weapons of the 31st, weapons that could even slain Gods.
So no more slaughtering on the Modern Army side, no more getting stomped on by Worlds that could deem Earth's power weak.
No more excuses for tanking Guns and Nukes because of stupid and dumb reasons.
The Might of the Old Humanity will strike back.
*BOOOOOMMM!!*
Now with the power of advanced technology, a storm of bombs, rockets and bullets had a great effect on their bodies, armor, and powerful magic, their durability could withstand bombs but not high enough to endure from these bombs and countless bullets hitting them every second.
Not worrying about the massive Air Fleets as IFVs 20mm and SWARM pods seem to be very effective against them.
After about 20 minutes of an endless wave, the entire field was littered with bodies and airship wreckage. The morale of the Legionnaires were in the heavens, they were giving high-fives to each other, cheered and laughed at the miserable enemy forces.
As the remaining soldiers of the Machine Army numbering from 500,000 to 300,000 cheered over their victory, the two fast and powerful beings still fought in the sky, with each clash of their attacks splitting the sky into two.
Meanwhile the Spider Tank in the background shot down any surviving runaway enemy soldiers on sight, while huge and an easy target, it could still avoid any magical attacks from mages and shot cluster rockets and its rail cannon at them with 5% of its power. They leave no survivors in the Fortress and in the surrounding areas.
For the first time in history, Ghirra's Wall has finally lost.
