C232: Night Assassination

Chapter 232: Night Assassination

Second Lieutenant Rivia's perspective

182nd Knight Ranger Squad - 342nd Infantry Battalion

United States of Demon Kingdom Army

8:49 PM, December 16th, 1173

Keris - Warsaw Kingdom

Currently, our DH - 1 Helicopter is flying toward the Imperial Palace of Warsaw Kingdom. Our objective, is to assassinate Queen Stella Fons and Prime Minister Alt Toten.

According to the plan, we'll assassinate these two tonight. The day after, we'll have to make a rescue mission to escort Reimi Frieden to safety. When those things are done, we'll escort Warsaw King - Hoster Sonne to the Imperial Palace. In there, he'll retake his throne from traitors.

Then... our Ranger unit will be waiting for John Rigen's group till they're ready to move to Zaira village of Jung Kingdom.

"Palace in sight". - Our Ranger pilots suddenly informed me, saying that the Palace was on our chopper's sight

"Two minutes before the SF run out!".

"Everyone, hook up!". - I ordered the KR (Knight Ranger) operatives to plug the hook ropes on the chopper before rappelling down

After informing them, I look around the chopper, waiting for my soldiers to finish plugging the ropes on the helicopter. This time is night, so our mission will be a bit struggle for us. But that's not a problem with our Rangers.

"Gubi, you stay". - I ordered Pvt. Gubi to stay on the chopper, protecting us by using his machine gun

"Roger".

Gubi obeys my order, he remains sitting on the chopper while pointing out his big gun. He can be seen sitting by the helicopter's left side window, pointing out a black F1 (Fishtail) Machine Gun, to guard.

"Clak!". - I pulled back my SF1 (Stormfield) rifle's actuator, checking on the ammo inside its chamber

After checking on my rifle, I look around to see more before going down. Hmmm... the chopper can be seen slowly floating in the sky, above the castle's Palace. Since this area hardly has anyone guarding it, what a good direction for us to infiltrate in.

"Lieutenant, let's move". - Sgt. Hawrus asked me to join the Spec Ops squad's mission

He can be seen holding a brown R1 (Rivershrimp) rifle. Looking furthermore around the space, I notice that all operatives' rifles have silencers attached. Mine too.

"Let's move, squad". - I ordered the Ranger operatives to follow me

Shortly, I grab a rope line and rappel down from the green DH - 1 helicopter. When my feet touch the ground, I let out of the rope, starting pointing my SF1 rifle around the place. Other operatives slowly came down the helicopter. They join me immediately after rappelling down.

Only 4 KR Ranger operatives get down and join the assassination. Others will stay in the helicopter to wait for our return, that's our plan.

"Alright, let's move, squad".  "Scanra, take point". - I ordered Pvt. Scanra, who was holding a Snowfield sniper rifle, to lead the squad

Hearing my order, Pvt. Scanra moves up ahead, later leads the team. Our formation has Pvt. Scanra to be the scout soldier, Sgt. Hawrus will guard our back. Meanwhile, Pvt. Worena is behind Pvt. Scanra, and I behind her.

After landing us in the Palace's backyard, the helicopter still rotated its blade loudly. At first, I thought about asking the heli to wait for us somewhere before re-landing on this LZ to pick us up after the mission.

However, I changed my mind in the last moments. Our chopper will land here to wait for us till we return after we finish tonight's objective.

Alright, now we must finish our mission.

"Advised, Rangers".  "There will be civilians... so watch your fire".  "Kill soldiers only".

"Roger". - Those Ranger operatives obeyed me, we started walking out of the yard, heading to the hallway

This time is night so we're facing a bit struggle. We cannot see in the dark, so we close one of our eyes while opening the other one during our mission. Doing this way, the closed eye will get used to the darkness, not so much but it can help us see brighter, even just a little bit.

"Got movement on the hallway, over". - Not so long after infiltrating the hallway, Pvt. Scanra informed me through the walkie talkie

"Get down, now". - Hearing my order, all operatives and I lay on the ground

We lie on the ground, pointing our rifles to the hallway. Despite being surrounded by the darkness, our rifles' sights still show us the shooting line brightly. Attached to our rifles, are the attachments named Green dots.

The dots will glow, showing us brightly the direction our rifles will shoot when their triggers are pulled.

Not so long later, bright lines of yellow lights showed up before us. They seem to be light lines of moving torches. We wait for them, holding our rifles tightly... and there they are, the patrollers.

They seem to be Warsaw guards of the Palace. For some reason, they got here, patrolling this hallway without a formal formation. All of my buddies have already targeted them... they're just waiting for my call to shoot 'em back.

"You saw something earlier?". - While walking toward us, one guard asked the one beside him

"Not really, but I'm sure I heard something".

"Like what?".

"Blowing stuff... heard like something... flying".

"Hmmm... where?".

"Backyard". - One of these men heard the chopper's flying sound, seemed like it was the reason why they got here to check on us

"Alright, squad".  "You two take 'em out quickly".  "On my mark". - I asked Pvt. Worena and Pvt. Scanra to aim at the two moving hostiles

"Ranger 3 ready".

"Ranger 4 ready".

"Good...". - Two operatives were targeting the targets by using their rifles

"Three... two... one".  "Shoot".

"Blup! Blup!". - Two silenced shots had been fired, the moving hostiles could be seen falling on the ground

"Alright, keep moving". - Seeing the hallway was cleared, I ordered them to get up to keep moving

We shortly get up and move on to the hallway once again. Dead enemies are lying on the ground, with their heads draining out blood. These two... were quite risky when they chose to shoot at the heads. Especially in that distance, and in the nighttime.

"Hallway's clear, moving to another area". - Pointing the rifles around the hallway without seeing anything, we decided to move to another area to kill the enemy

We don't have a proper map of this Palace. So say basically, we need to go into every room, cleaning each of them if we want to find the King's room. However... according to Princess Shera's intel, her sister-in-law is living separately from her husband. While the Prime Minister is in another zone. But we'll do our best to assassinate them all.

All of sudden. While walking away from the hallway, our scout soldiers spotted a wide door from the left side. Seeing the place, we move toward it and sneak behind the wide door from both sides.

I look up a bit at the wooden sign written on top of the wide door. Instead of having words on the signs, we only see symbols like objects and things... I forgot this detail.

In human Kingdoms, their place tends to have a lot of illiterated people. Not so surprised when we couldn't see any words on the sign. Hmmm... then this zone must not be the place for the Royal members. We should not waste our time here, I think.

"This place... is not the target".  "Royal zone, that place...".

"Roger". - Instead of breaching the door, we decided to change our route to the right

Our Ranger squad keeps moving along the long hallway on that side, very quietly to me. Hmmm... I can see a bunch of torches heading toward us from afar.

There's no problem for us to get rid of them. However, our ammunition is different from our fuel things for vehicles. With fuel, we can refuel by using magic. With ammunition, not all of us have the non-attribute magic element to create ammo.

"Enemy spotted, over". - They informed me

"Do not engage".  "Over here". - I asked the Ranger operatives to get inside a room to hide the hostiles

Hearing my order, Sgt. Hawrus and Pvt. Scanra move to a door nearby. Instead of forming any formation, Hawrus himself opens the door and walks in casually.

"Room clear, over". - He spoke to us through the walkie talkie

All of us head inside, seeing nothing in here. The door has been shut by me, we'll wait here till the hostiles pass us.

Despite having a room to cover ourselves, we never let our guard down. Hence, our operatives choose other areas such as tables or chairs. Crouching, and even lying on the floor to cover ourselves.

About myself, I hide at the site which will be covered when the door opens. Hmmm... seems like they've passed us when I rechecked the door.

"Alright, let's move". - I ordered my squad members to move out of the room

Heading out of the room, we look around to make sure the enemy is not around. It's good when there are just only us standing around here.

We return to our fighting formation as usual. Pvt. Scanra moves along the hallway, scouting around to find the Palace's Royal zone. Hmmm... when we move for a while and change to another hallway. This path looks... not as quiet as before.

"Hey". - All of sudden, the hallway ahead suddenly showed up a woman's figure. She was walking by the hallway while speaking with someone

We immediately lie on the floor to hide our existence before the woman. She's quite near to us, about 30 meters according to Human Continent's measurement system.

"You don't bring up a torch?". - She appeared to be a maid, seemed to be asked by someone who was not appearing in our sight

"It's not too dark tonight...".  "Anyway, I've got a new job to do, so I'll b-".

"What are you going to do?".

"To the Queen, of course".

"This late?".

"Yeah, I think she needs... to eat this late".  "His Majesty is now illness, so his wife has to manage many things". - Hmmm... we should use this maid, by following her to track down the Queen's location to assassinate her

"We need that lady, Rangers".  "Follow her till we reach the Empress's location". - I sent the order to my squad by using the walkie-talkie, which was attached to my collar

"Roger".

"I understand...".  "By the way, did you hear something strange earlier?".

"Hmmm...?". - The maid we were stalking seemed to be wanting to focus on her job, but her talking friend kept making her stop by

"The sound, heard like something flying".

"Yeah... I heard that in noon too".  "Strange, huh?".

"It just came back here earlier, now it's gone".

"Hey, I still ha-".

"Everyone is sleeping right now, and I want to have someone to talk with".

"Sigh...".  "Alright alright, girl". - Getting distracted, that maid leaned her back to the wall nearby, talking with her co-worker

"I heard that... Veta had fallen". - Her co-worker said

"Oh... that?".  "Not too much surprised, that's obvious".

"Luckily that my family is in another place".  "Hmmm... anything else to say about?".

"I'm going to sleep".  "Too tired, you should sleep too after service that bitch".

"Alright... good night".  "Yawn... I wish I could sleep". - Done saying goodbye to her co-worker, that maid walked away so we started stalking her from behind

We follow the maid slowly from behind. She walks along the hallway as usual without any caution toward us. Seeing the situation is going well, we keep following her till she gets inside a room.

From the symbols drawn on the wooden sign on top of the door, I think it can be a kitchen room. The woman is now in there, seems to be gathering food for the Empress. I must do something right now, I think.

"Stay low, Rangers". - All of us shortly lied on the ground

We wait till the maid gets out of the room. Her hands can be seen holding a plate... it seems to be hot and has a lot of food. Instead of walking away after receiving the meal plate, she keeps standing still.

"Hmmm... it looks fine". - Done whispering to herself, she grabbed a thing like a spoon and poked a bowl placed on the plate

"Ohhh... it's hot".  "What a good soup... better than our 3 meals a day...".  "Hmmm...". - She smiled alone, later started both walking and eating the soup bowl

We keep following the maid to make sure we won't lose the important track. Stalking her through another hallway's direction, we see some moving torches ahead.

"Get down, now". - All of us lay on the ground, once again

About 5 Warsaw guards could be seen walking past the maid, they're patrollers. Walking past her, they head toward us so we lie on the ground, staying in the shadow to cover ourselves.

"Why didn't we shoot 'em, Lieutenant?". - Pvt. Scanra asked me through his walkie talkie

"We can".  "But at this distance, she'll hear our gunshots".  "All of you remember? Suppressors on our rifles cannot be silenced completely".  "Let 'em pass". - At this distance, silenced shots can be heard if we shoot. Because of that, I decided not to shoot the guards

All of us keep silent, waiting for the patrollers to pass us slowly from afar. Not so long later, they approach us. Little did they know, our existence as if is now invisible before their eyes and their sense.

They keep walking along the hallway to another one, for patrolling around. About us, some of our guys crawl to my position. Needless to say, the hostiles were too near them so my soldiers crawled toward me for a safer spot.

I keep silent, later noticing that they've gone a bit far. However, I start crawling with my cautiousness still turning on. After seeing there's no threat around us, finally I decide to get up.

"We're losing our track".  "Squad, on me". - Instead of asking Pvt. Scanra to lead the way, I chose to lead the way myself for a faster track

We move a bit faster, moving to the left side and see the maid is still there. However, she had gone a bit far from us and now was about to head into another hallway's direction. Hmmm... no enemy is here, maybe I should increase the tracking speed.

"Move up". - I ordered the team to follow me

We follow the maid and change to another hallway's direction. From this hallway, we can see signs with words sticking in every room. Maybe... we're following the right path. The Royal zone.

We keep on stalking the young maid... seems like she's slowing her movement. Later, the lady stops at a room's door, she opens it and walks inside. Seeing her suspicious actions, I slowly approach the room from afar.

"That place must be holding out target".  "Follow me".

Done informing the Ranger operatives, we approach the door slowly while looking around the hallway. There's no sign of the enemies around here, so we're safe for now.

"On the ground, now". - I ordered them to get on the ground

We lie on the ground and wait for the moment when the maid comes out. Shortly after that, the door opened and she comes out, with her empty hands. Hmmm... this maid seemed to have handed the meal plate to someone.

"Sigh... done".  "I've got to go sleep now". - That maid sighed a bit, later walked away

We waited till she passed us completely. When the maid has gone out of our sight, my eyes immediately point to the room's door forward to us.

"Alright, follow me".

We keep moving as usual, till we reach the door. I use hand signals, ordering Sgt. Hawrus and Pvt. Worena to sneak on both sides of the room's door.

"Ready to breach, over". - Sgt. Hawrus informed me when he and Worena were standing on both sides of the door

"For safety... peek first".

Hearing my order, Sgt. Hawrus nods and shortly opens the door a little bit. From the gap in the half-opened door, he peeks inside silently and then closes the door quietly. Done checking, the Sergeant stares at me.

"Target in the room, alone".  "She doesn't notice us". - Hmmm... I'd like to plan the raid according to his intel

"Breach on my mark".  "Open the door slowly and eliminate the target, over".

"Roger". - Sgt. Hawrus nodded, he grabbed the door's handle while his other hand was raising the R1 rifle, straightening his eyes on the gun's sight for shooting

I also point my rifle toward the room's door, it's shortly opened quietly. Inside, I only see the darkness covering all over the room, very dark. However... walking silently in there for a while later, I see something. Some things, look like candles placed on a desk.

"You again...?".  "I told you to go away earlier... sigh...". - Someone was writing while sitting at the desk, she grunted her voice without noticing our existence

Heading inside, Pvt. Scanra closes the door while other operatives are staying away from each other. We keep our distance away a little bit, for extending the perimeter of this cramped area's ambush.

"Cover me and keep low...". - Done ordering those Ranger operatives, I sneaked toward that woman while changing my sidearm

I pull out my M962 silenced pistol, approaching the woman silently. Although she's a target that needs to be eliminated, I want to dig some intel in her mouth, using her value before it dies.

When I approach the woman from behind completely, the lights from the candles light us up brightly. The woman, this one must be absolutely sure to be Queen Stella Fons.

Seeing her is about to turn her head behind to see me, I swiftly grab her head and smash it on the desk's surface.

"Urrrrrgggghh!!!". - The woman's face was suddenly slammed on the desk's surface, she tried to resist

"Get off, bitch!". - She tried to snatch my hand but I managed to shake it out. Honestly, she could've casted some dangerous magic in my hand if she grabbed me

"Get down!".  "On the ground!".  "Smash!". - This woman kept resisting, so I had no choice but to pull her down on the floor

"Stay down!".  "Smash!". - Other Rangers were protecting me from afar. Meanwhile, I slammed her skull by using my leg, later pulled out a rope

"Stay down!".  "Stay down...". - After a short time struggling,  the woman's hands were finally cuffed by the ropes

"Get off me!".  "Who the hell are you people!".  "Urrrrrgggghh!". - Regaining consciousness, she tried to remove the rope but it was too late. Stella was now lying on the floor, with her hands tied on her back

Seeing this lady is too annoying, I grab a cloth nearby and scroll it. Shortly put it in her mouth, take out another rope and tie from her head backside to her mouth, tightening the white cloth.

"Ummm! Ummm! Ummm!". - She kept resisting, despite it was useless and she couldn't do anything to get out

Although we planned to assassinate these two, we didn't know where was the Prime Minister's exact location. Back then, when my Knight Ranger squad and I were sent here to assassinate the King, we did not have a diagram of this Palace either.

This time too. That's why I'm trying to keep this woman alive as long as possible to dig out the intel, using her till she's useless to all of us. However... I hope the progress was better, not this risky action.

"Alright, lady".  "Let me be clear to ya... shut up". - I pressed my foot on Stella's back, later pulled my pistol's barrel to her head and crouched down slowly

This woman keeps resisting for a few more seconds before stopping doing it. When my previous Knight Ranger squad was here to assassinate the King, I encountered her with John Rigen's group. This Empress... must've known the power of firearms, that's why she stopped resisting when a gun was pointing at her.

"Alright... good". - I pulled the gun closer to her head, threatening to shoot her

"Let me be clear... tell me where is the Prime Minister". - While interrogating the Empress, I slowly pulled the scrolled cloth out of her mouth to let her talk

"Who the hell are you people?!". - This bitch... still has that strong voice, huh?

"No need to know who we are".  "Where's Alt Toten?".  "C'mon! Speak up and we will leave you alive, say it".

He's sleeping right now...".  "But wh-".

"Tell us where he is!".  "Smash! Smash! Smash!". - Knowing she wouldn't tell us, I used the pistol's handle to smash her spine forcefully

"Ahhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhh!". - Her moanings were very loud, but seemed like we were all fine, not having any problems yet

According to Gen. Rigen, rooms of Royal members are made soundproof. Thanks to that kind of room's feature, we can torture her to take the intel whatever we like without being scared of getting caught. It's good.

"Say it now!".

"He's not here!".  "He's now in Attenta, not this Palace!".

"Bullshit!".  "Cracks!". - I broke her little finger

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!".  "Urrrrrgggghh...". - Stella moaned painfully. However, she held back her pain, trying to keep herself alive

"I'm not lying!".  "Someone just killed my mother and my father! He just got there to join their burials!". - Hmmm... what the hell?

Although having very little intel of Gen. Rigen, I remember some details. Right after the war broke out, he had secretly sent a Spec Ops squad named Swift Predators out of Warsaw Kingdom.

Their objective, was to assassinate the Attenta King. However, when Veta fell into the enemy, John couldn't contact that Spec Ops group anymore. Because of that, their fates were unknown, and their mission was presumed failed.

No way for him to contact that Special Forces squad. Because Krieg Base - the previous Headquarters of his military, was built near Kurkan forest. And now, that place is an intense warzone.

Our Helicopter when we first headed to Zaira, we faced that forest during the process. From what I saw, the enemy navy was quite successful when they managed to land their soldiers on a small shore. Maybe... that military base is now also being overrun like what happened in Veta.

Alright... I must get back to my current situation. From the way Stella told me, her parents - meant the King and the Empress of Attenta must've died recently.

"What do we do, Sir?". - Pvt. Worena asked me while targeting Stella

"Hmmm...". - I hadn't decided to reply yet, so I looked around, trying to make a fast decision and then withdraw

"Things on the desk, grab 'em". - I pointed my fingers at things placed on the desk

"Roger". - Pvt. Worena and Pvt. Scanra approached the desk, and started taking things on it as much as possible

From what I know. When we breached the room, Stella was focusing on something. As if she was working on something like writing papers on the desk. Her actions were suspicious, so... things she left on the desk must be valuable for us... or for John, I think.

Because of that... those things must be taken away.

When my squad members are collecting the papers on the desk, I look down to see the tied Empress. From her eyes, can be said that she's glaring at me, as if she would rip my body out if she was untied.

"What are we gonna do with her, Sir?". - Sgt. Hawrus who was guarding the closed door, asked me from behind

"No sign of Alt Toten".  "She's no use to us anymore". - Done saying, I pointed out my pistol on its holster, later pulled out my SF1 rifle and pointed it at Stella's head

"What are you going to do to me...?".  "Let me out!!!".  "Urrrrrgggghhhhhhh!". - The Empress kept resisting, but that was useless

All of sudden, I was about to shoot but I heard something opening. Turned out the door opened on its own... strange.

Wait... I was wrong. There's a dark figure standing at the doorway, who seems to be an old man or something. From what I can tell, seems like he had rushed here so his sweat could be seen draining on the floor non-stop.

"Haaahhhh... haaahhhh...". - That old man gasped a bit, his eyes closed and his hand was holding the door's frame

Seeing the old man. That scene was out of our prediction so most of us were startled, even surprised. Standing at the door for a while, the old man makes a step inside the room, nearby Sgt. Hawrus. His hand leaves the door's frame, and he covers his face by using that hand, seems to be very exhausted and sad.

"My daughter-in-law... I'm sorry when I have to report to you this information...".  "Your father and mother... that's not a rumor, they truly died 2 days ago". - He wiped the sweat on his face while talking to Stella

"Uncle, save me!!!!!!!".  "Urrrrrgggghhhhhhh!". - Stella kept resisting the rope, while calling the old man her uncle

"Huh?".  "Wait... what...?". - That old man was surprised, he took his hand off his face looked around. Of course, he was confused to see us

Stella called this old man to be her uncle. It means... this one must be... Alt Toten?!

"That's Alt Toten! Kill him!". - I yelled to order other KR operatives, while pointing my rifle at The Prime Minister

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!". - All of sudden, Stella ran her head at me, pushing me to the wall and lost my balance

"Kill him!!!!!".  "I'll deal with her alone!".  "Urrrrrgggghh!". - I ordered them to kill the Prime Minister, while myself trying to push Stella out of me

"Urrrrrgggghhhhhhh!".  "Gunshots! Gunshots! Gunshots! Gunshots!". - This woman was very brave and strong, her body kept pushing my rifle up so it kept shooting on the roof

"Urrrrrgggghhhh!!!". - From my vision, I barely saw Hawrus struggling against the old man because Alt Toten kept pulling the rifle's barrel to the roof

"Gunshots! Gunshots! Clack! Clack!". - However, I couldn't focus on their fight so I tried to take out Stella on my own. However, the rifle ran out of ammo suddenly

"Urrrrrgggghhhhhhh!". - I used all of my force to push Stella away, luckily that she fell on the floor

"Haahhhhh! Haaahhhh!".  "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!". - Gasping in my nervousness, I pulled out my pistol and shot Stella 4 times in her chest

"Sir, what are we gonna do?!". - All of sudden, I heard yellings from other operatives

I look at the door and see Hawrus still struggling against the old man. Alt Toten manages to cover himself behind Hawrus's body, while trying to snatch his rifle.

Cannot fight against the old man, Sgt. Hawrus seems to be very miserable. Looking at the situation, I point my pistol at the Prime Minister, hoping he'll die after getting shot.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!". - Three shots had been fired, but hit Hawrus, not the old man

"Guards, guards! Come out!".  Assassins! Assassins!". - He managed to run away with a slight wound on his shoulder

"Hawrus's down, save him!". - I talked through the walkie-talkie, telling the squad members to save Hawrus

I run out of the door and point my rifle at Alt Toten, he cannot get away!

"Clack!". - Shit! I forgot that my rifle ran out of ammo

Facing the situation, I get the used magazine out of the gun and change to another one. After pulling back the actuator, I target the man.

"Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!". - Gunshots had been made. However, I only saw the bullets hit him once, others missed all

Before I could do anything, Alt Toten had got into a nearby room to hide. Done facing him, now we're facing another problem ahead.

"Sir!". - Pvt. Scanra could be seen holding Sgt. Hawrus on his back, he approached me. Beside Scanra was Worena, who was protecting him since that soldier boy couldn't work while carrying Hawrus

"Mission failed, we'll return to the extraction point". - I informed them. Later I tapped on my walkie-talkie, still looking around to scout for the enemy's appearance

"Ranger 1 to Hellozone, mission failed".  "I repeat, mission failed".  "We're returning to the extraction point, over!". - I could see dozens of Warsaw patrol groups coming toward us

"Hellozone, roger that".

"Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!".  "Move move! To the LZ!".  "I'll cover ya, now go quickly!". - Seeing the incoming enemies, I shot some of 'em while asking Scanra and Worena to run away with Hawrus

Seeing their comrades dying for no reason, some guards start being afraid of us. However, their number is still a significant advantage for them to hit us. Because of that, we keep running back to the landing zone for the evac.

"Blup! Blup! Blup!".  "Move!". - I sneaked into a corner to shoot the enemies, later I ordered my men to go after clearing the way for them

My buddies are running away with Hawrus on their back to return to the landing zone safely, so do I. Running for a short moment, I look back to check if they're after us.

However, these Warsaw guards must've hidden themselves before us. For no reason, they don't show up anymore, not anymore.

"Go, I'll cover you!". - I ordered both of them to run

About me, I pull out a smoke grenade and pull its safety pin ring, and slide it on the floor. Letting the grenade roll while popping out the white smoke to cover us, I also run to keep up with others.

"Shit!". - Worena and Scanra were surprised when bunches of Warsaw crossbowmen were waiting for us

"Get down".

"Spurt! Spurt! Spurt! Spurt!".  "Spurt! Spurt! Spurt! Spurt!". - We managed to lie on the ground in time, so those shots didn't hit us

"Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!".  "Blup! Blup! Blup!".  "Blup! Blup! Clack!".  "Shit!". - Shooting the enemies while getting up, my rifle ran out of ammo not so long later

"Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!". - Thanks to Worena, he assisted me by using his R1 rifle. When he was shooting, I reloaded my rifle to join him to assist

Finished panicking the hostiles, we pick a moment and then successfully run out of their ambush. Despite our slow movement, from infiltration in here till we moment we killed a target. However, the chopper is now before our eyes after a short run to it. Hmmm... still more enemies waiting for us.

"Get to the LZ, Lieutenant".  "We'll cover you!". - The pilots informed me by using their walkie-talkies, asking us to board the helicopter

"Move move move...". - I raised my left hand, swinging around to tell the KR operatives to board the DH - 1 chopper

We're now in the backyard and away from the helicopter not so far. However, the enemies keep charging at us from afar, it's very annoying. Running toward the helicopter, I see Pvt. Gubi holding his F1 machine gun, headed it out from the chopper's door.

"Ranger team, we're ready to suppress fire, over". - The pilots informed me

"Everyone, get down!!!!". - Done yelling, those Rangers lay on the ground with me, crawling toward the chopper

"Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!!". - Blasts from the machine gun kept sounding, all of us had to lower our heads as low as possible to avoid getting shot

"Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!!!". - Gunshots kept sounding out, but we kept crawling till we reached the helicopter completely

"Gunshots!!!!! Gunshots!!!! Gunshots!!!!! Gunshots!!!!!". - After reaching the chopper, we boarded it and still heard the gunshots

"We need medics for this one!".  "It's alright, move!". - I ordered the pilots to fly the chopper away

"Roger, hold tight".

"Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!".  "Blup! Blup! Blup! Blup!". - When Pvt. Gubi was shooting the outside enemies by using his machine gun, I also joined to shoot some

A short time later, our DH - 1 Helicopter floats in the sky when we were shooting the outside hostiles. The helicopter slowly changes its direction, toward Turavan forest of No Man Zone.

After locating the area we want to come to, the helicopter starts flying smoothly in the sky, getting out of the Imperial Palace safely. Getting out of the danger zone, I take a place to sit on the chopper, while Pvt. Scanra and Worena are treating Sgt. Hawrus's wounds... I hope he's fine.

His wounds won't be too serious, Scanra will save him by using his healing magic. However, we must make sure the bullets are not in his body anymore. To do that, we'll have to check on him for a while before proceeding to do anything with him.

I keep my eyes away from my squad members. Instead, I look out of the chopper's door, watching the scene of the Warsaw - Keris Capital city in the nighttime.

It won't be long... we'll fly away from this city to return to the forest soon.