High School Soldier
The only way to win against Nio

Several regional noble families, governments, and nobles of the peace faction of the Luan Empire eventually gained protection on the floating land, where the Cloud Palace stood. All invited guests of representatives of the North Korean and Russian contingents have been on alert, and are readying themselves and weapons if the enemy manages to reach this floating land. They have been ordered by the headquarters to guard President Suroso, with the help of Paspampres and Arevelk forces at the scene.

Arunika finally breathed a sigh of relief after following the tense evacuation procedure, although it was no more stressful than the evacuation process when otherworldly nations entered the Karanganyar City area and took control of some areas. He imagined if the enemy that attacked suddenly tonight was the same as the enemy that fought with Indonesia before the conflict with the Alliance began. Once in the courtyard of the Cloud Palace, Arunika and the others can only wait here until Nio's team can deal with the enemies that are interfering with the party without permission.

Arunika and Lisa and Nike are just ordinary guests who have been guaranteed security by the host, and the presence of Russian and North Korean contingents here adds to the level of security. However, the presence of the enemy still caused them to fret, and what happened next depended on the Nio-led team and the Arevelk Army in the capital.

Lisa looks more uncomfortable with this situation than Arunika who is a little calmer than her. The restless expression on his face was very clear, and he himself had no way of coping with those feelings. He was only worried about Nio and his team who were facing an enemy who always relied on large numbers in attacking. Although her face looked different when nervous or restless, some noble men even glanced at her as if Lisa's beauty had not disappeared.

Nike occasionally justifies the position of his glasses that make him uncomfortable, then back and forth with a feeling of unease, he did the same thing since arriving at this place. Lisa and Arunika who were both unsettled by this situation tried to calm him down. However, it doesn't help, and his restless and unsettled feelings turn out to rub off on Arunika and Lisa.

Suroso had been seen more calm after being evacuated at the government center and the residence of the Arevelk Kingdom leader. He was surrounded by dozens of his Paspampres personnel, and all were ready to sacrifice themselves if the enemy attacked this place. Because the evacuation procedure happened suddenly, and the news if the enemy infiltrated was obtained when the enemy was already in the area of Iztok City. But, uh, the reaction of the 12th Team captain who informed him of the enemy and asked all Russian and North Korean contingent personnel in this city to evacuate the entire head of the noble family and other invited guests left an impression of ‘kus’ in heart.

His Paspampres personnel always follow wherever Suroso goes, because they know they have to follow and protect Suroso no matter what. As Suroso's bodyguards, they look like life shields to the person they are protecting. They were equipped with a gun, and trained hard one of the martial arts in Indonesia.

In addition, Suroso believes in the leader of Indonesia's allies in the other world. He didn't think that Sigiz and Sheyn were planning this thing that made everyone fret and panic.

Even if the two of them thought they would do what Suroso thought, of course they assumed it was stupid and futile. Both queens have seen for themselves the strength and fighting power of the ‘otherworld troops’, therefore of course they have no plans to harm Suroso or they will lose many – warriors just as the Alliance suffered.

However, Sigiz still thought that the enemy who managed to enter Iztok City was his fault. He did not mobilize the troops properly, so the guard became very tenuous in the northern region of the city. He walked in the hallway of the palace alone with a restless and disappointed face that became one, of course he was disappointed in himself. Nio who was struggling to deal with the enemy was one of the causes of the fret feeling in his heart.

He finally stopped in front of the door of his weapon room, took his beloved spear, then came out again from the room that served as a dressing room and storage of armor and weapons belonging to Sigiz. However, she did not change her dress to her metal armor. She kept on wearing a white party dress while carrying a four-meter long spear, and walked towards the outside of the palace.

With his spear, Sigiz will be responsible in his way after involving Suroso and the other ‘worldly contingent’ on this issue. On the other hand, he did not expect a surprise attack from the enemy, so he thought it would be safe to invite Suroso, Arunika, Lisa, and Nike at the closing party of the Year-Replacement ceremony.

The servants and palace guards could not hide their worries. They remained in charge of giving drinks or food to all the people who were evacuated to this Cloud Palace, and for the soldiers to stand guard at some point on this floating land. Dozens of lizard-riding warriors flew by several times to make sure no enemies across the land floated.

A soldier in charge of guarding Sigiz's wind dragon stables was astonished by his queen walking to this place while carrying her spear – and wearing a party dress instead of the usual combat attire the girl was wearing when skirmishing. Then he ordered his dragon cage guard soldiers to open the door and take out his wind dragon.

“Your Highness, do you intend to fight the enemy as well?”

“That's not the thing to ask anymore.”

Sigiz's wind dragon cage guards immediately took care of his queen's orders, and opened the eight-meter cage door. However, the cage keeper was able to open the door of such a large cage alone without any problems. After the two doors of the cage opened, a wind dragon with silvery scales slowly walked up to Sigiz.

Sigiz had been taking care of his wind dragon ever since the flying lizard was born, so he did not need to train any harder on his wind dragon. The nameless wind dragon seemed to miss Sigiz terribly, and was last removed from the cage during the welcoming of the first wave of the Peace Forces, aka about a month and a half ago. No wonder the young wind dragon looks very pampered by its owner, and looks very comfortable when the finger of Sigiz's right hand caresses his bowed head. Meanwhile, the cage guard warriors put up a special saddle to ride the flying lizard on the dragon's back.

Sigiz's wind dragon is quite small and has a height of nine meters. Where the average height of a winged dragon like a wind dragon was twelve meters high, with a wingspan longer than its body. After his dragon was satisfied with the caress of his hand, Sigiz climbed on the back of a dragon that had been fitted with a special saddle.

Just as he was about to order his dragon to fly, Sigiz saw his father and the Great Witch walking towards him with faces filled with questions.

“Don't you better stay here, Sigiz? His Majesty Suroso cannot be protected with just a small army.” Hin said. Although he was aware of Sigiz's stubborn nature, but he thought there was no harm in trying to persuade Sigiz not to join the battle.

“Queen, I am sure if ‘people predicted’ is able to face the enemy with his friends,” continued the Great Witch.

“But, leaving the eastern region of the city unguarded is my fault, so that the enemy can enter the city and start the battle. So, the one that Mister Nio is involved in this battle is me. No harm in giving him a little help?”

Although he knew that the combat capabilities of other world forces, especially Indonesia, especially the team led by Nio, was far different from the fighting strength of Arevelk troops who still relied on fighting while sheltering behind a shield. Indonesia is Arevelk's most valuable ally, and Sigiz knows if something bad happens to the 12th Team members, then it's a bad problem for relations between the two countries. So, the girl won't change her mind.

“Yah... I had guessed that you would still fight with ‘people predicted’,” even Hin could not do additional actions that could prevent the child just the puppet plunged into the fight.

Meanwhile, the Great Witch does not want ‘people who predicted’ hit by bad luck when fighting to deal with the enemy. He felt Hevaz and the gods/goddess would be very angry if it really happened, considering the enemy still has heroes and magicians whose army of magic exceeds the weapons belonging to the contingent of ‘otherworld’, given that the enemy still has heroes and magicians who have magic powers over weapons belonging to the contingent of otherworld, while this world will be split into two big groups, and one of the groups said in the prophecy requires ‘hero’ to face major events in the future.

Sigiz felt as an ordinary human being, Nio was already strong enough, and it would be much stronger if the man had magic energy in his body – and that was what made him fall in love for the first time as long as he lived. Even so, he felt that he could not let Nio solve the problem that his carelessness caused.

The wind dragon Sigiz boarded took off after flapping its wings dozens of times, after being at a suitable height it flew towards the north, where the battle took place.

Sheyn who saw Sigiz leave this floating land with her dragon was upset, she thought that after the fight ended that would get praise from Nio was Sigiz. If he had a dragon and had the ability to control a flying lizard would have made it easier for him to catch up with Sigiz to the battle ground. He had absolutely no such experience, and was only adept at controlling horses on the battlefield. Although Yekirnovo already had an air force despite being a new state, Sheyn did not think of trying to control a dragon or wyvern.

Elsewhere, Hin walked after returning from Sigiz's wind dragon stable, and headed to where Suroso was. Suroso was the leader of Arevelk's most important allied state, so he wanted the man's safety not to be guarded with dozens of bodyguards alone. The man's face looked very calm when there was a fight that could have endangered him.

After all, she was once the leader of this country – even though it was only a few months, and only replaced Sigiz until the girl was old enough to occupy the throne of Arevelk Kingdom. All this mess is included in his responsibility, Hin felt the need to take responsibility.

“Yang Mulia Suroso, please forgive our decreased security quality.”

“Oh, Your Highness Hin. This incident was not a mistake in the city's declining security, but the enemy always seemed to have unexpected tactics. After all, I have incredible warriors all around me.”

Hin heaved a sigh of relief when Suroso did not demand anything for this event. He had heard information about the strength of the Indonesian forces. He was lucky Sigiz managed to establish relations with the Indonesian government. According to Hin, if Arevelk is involved with the war against Indonesia, then the TNI's overwhelming power will defeat their full strength in a matter of days.

No one is planning on catching up with the 12th Team who are dealing with the enemy north of Iztok City, except the invited guests of the representatives of the Russian and North Korean contingents, and let's not forget Jonathan and Liben. However, the two of them had absolutely no weapons, and that was the biggest problem the two had. In addition, Ivy and Kambana do not allow their partners to fight without weapons. Then, the North Korean and Russian contingents did not carry spare weapons that they could both use, so all they could do here was sit idly by and wait for the good news with mixed feelings.

Meanwhile, one of the personnel of the Russian contingent tried to communicate with the headquarters regarding the problem they had in Iztok City. The moment the signal had been connected to the headquarters, he immediately said everything that was happening in this city. He also said the 12th Team of the Reconnaissance and Battle Corps was fighting an unknown number of enemies. However, enemies who always rely on large numbers are a problem even though in this city there are attack helicopters and 20mm automatic cannons on the 12th Team's panzer.

Then, the fighting in the city is too risky if it acts without the permission of the local authorities, besides the evacuation of civilians is important. After obtaining permission to provide assistance for the 12th Team, two attack helicopters immediately took off and brought each personnel. The rest remain in the Cloud Palace to guard the head of the noble family and the guests of ‘otherworld’.

**

While flying over the building where the party was held, thousands of Arevelk soldiers blocked the entire road leading to it, with the elite Arevelk warriors as frontline fighters. In addition, thousands of residents gathered around the building of the party location with the protection of thousands of soldiers. It certainly surprised the noble families who were still throwing parties. However, there are thousands of soldiers here according to them as an additional form of security, so they decide to continue the party without knowing what is going on out there.

Seeing the location of the party protected by thousands of soldiers, residents who heard of the enemy attack immediately took refuge in the place. All the soldiers ordered the residents who wanted to take shelter to immediately go to the party location or to a safe place. Because the inhabitants of this city are not just ordinary humans, there is also a race of Demihumans or other half-monster humans. Some human men and Demihumans hold axes or sharp weapons that are in the house as self-defense. After all they are civilians, who deserve the right to be protected, but if the situation is urgent at least they can defend themselves with weapons carried by some men.

Most of the residents who took shelter were women and children, while the men became the last fence if the royal forces could not withstand the enemy attack to the fullest. Women and children wept bitterly, some groups of people kneeled on the street to pray to save the fighters who were fighting with the enemy and protect them.

The sound of crying babies and children disturbing the ears rang out all over the Iztok City shelter, as well as the sound of some people praying for the enemy to be defeated immediately and the fighters to gain victory. They have filled the streets and courtyards of party buildings since word of the enemy's assault spread, and now they look like a crowd of protesters with complaints and criticism of the government.

Now, the entire entrance to and out of Iztok City was blockaded, and sealed off all enemy retreats. The soldiers had been willing to become a wall of protection for the citizens who needed their protection, so they did their duty wholeheartedly. However, the TNI is more polite than most troops in the world.

After seeing a scene as miserable as the refugees of war in their home world, the commander of each helicopter asked their aviators to continue the flight. The two attack helicopters immediately resumed flight to the point the battle was taking place at full speed. Using infrared devices, the aviators could easily find the location of the 12th Team.

**

Nio tried to break away from Zefanya who was already crazy, she pushed several times the girl's shoulder so that she would get away from him. But, for a few seconds doing a deep kiss, Nio was not even able to make Zefanya not like her who continued to rebel, just her rebellious self made the girl more wild. He tried other ways, such as patting Zefanya on the shoulder several times as a code to immediately stop the action, but it actually made Zefanya enter her tongue deeper.

Zefanya pulls the collar of Nio's shirt getting stronger, so she can insert her tongue and play around with Nio's tongue. The young man groaned and tried to say “Stop!”, but his lips and tongue were trapped by Zefanya's wild kiss. Nio's eyes had remained open ever since the hot kiss was started by Zefanya, and saw the girl's eyes closed, yet she had no idea what expression the girl was making.

Whether satisfied or scrumptious, that feeling made Zefanya feel like she didn't want to stop him now. The thought made her shadow dark, but she still poured out her heart by giving her first kiss with Nio. The fact that he managed to do the thing he wanted to do with Nio since the young man had chosen him in Team 12, it clearly made Zefanya feel relieved. He is not too smart to compose words, so choose by performing actions directly.

He knew that what he was doing now would get him punished after the battle was over, and Zefanya did not care about it. He did not want to be late to take action in exchange for these words. Until they heard the sound of gunfire sourced from a 12.7mm automatic heavy machine gun mounted on a tactical vehicle. Nio immediately held onto Zefanya's head, and pushed her backwards to stop the girl's action after she heard the sound of short streak shots.

“Da, cane lyublyu.”

Zefanya was finally clearly relieved after saying those words. He was sure that Nio would not understand what he was saying. He may be fluent in communicating with Indonesian, but he doubts whether Nio can communicate with Russian. He walked ahead of Nio towards the sound of gunfire, while Nio was still standing.

“Hah?! Ty ser’yeznyy?!”

Zefanya stopped her steps, her blue eyes were wide open, and could not say anything, her mind was now empty after knowing Nio could communicate using Russian.

“Already, Lieutenant Nio. Come quickly, they may have been waiting for us.”

Nio furrowed his brows sharply for not getting the answer he wanted. She caught up with Zefanya who was running small in front of her, the girl was happy after Nio responded to her words. But he had not felt that Nio had really accepted it.

He was just happy to have already told Nio his feelings, even though the young man did not necessarily have the same feelings as him.

Nio's face looked pale after the unexpected incident he had experienced less than five minutes ago, he moved to where his comrades were with Zefanya who was in front of him. His eyes showed a surprised expression that showed no lies at all. He did not understand why Zefanya had done that to him, and suddenly they had to catch up with the others to deal with the enemy who had not yet left this city.

The two of them were at the end of an alley that connected to the location of the shootout of their comrades against the enemy who continued to fight. Behind the wall, Nio saw three enemy personnel hiding at the end of the alley. Pursued by unruly feelings, Zefanya runs ahead of Nio who is hiding behind the building wall to monitor the situation. However, the tip of Zefanya's shoe hit a small hole and made her fall. It was realized by three enemy personnel, and they directly aimed the rifle at Zefanya then fired a barrage of fire.

Nio immediately came out of his protection after realizing the enemy pointed the muzzle of the rifle towards Zefanya who was still down, and immediately grabbed Zefanya's hand to drag her. He managed to save Zefanya, and the entire projectile fired by the enemy missed. When going back to his protection wall, the number of enemies who attacked increased to five people, they immediately shot at Nio. The entire shot again missed, but a projectile grazed his left shoulder and spewed blood. Seeing Nio save himself, five enemy personnel move to hunt him and Zefanya.

The blood that came out soaked the shoulder part of Nio's white shirt, fortunately Nio managed to return to his protection. Zefanya who saw that was of course very guilty, and it appeared that blood kept coming out of the young man's left shoulder. Some of the sleeves of the shirt had been soaked with blood, but Nio did not appear to be budding at all. He prepared his mitraliur pistol into ready-to-fire mode, and was ready to welcome enemies who were about to hunt them down. The Zefanya pulled out its 9mm pistol, and was ready to do the same.

An enemy personnel arrives at the end of the – alley where Nio and Zefanya are located. He immediately opened fire until the bullets in his magazine were left only to fight one more person. One man was successfully finished by spending half the capacity of a bullet, and according to Nio it was the most extravagant attack he had ever done so far.

Hearing the sound of gunfire that made a colleague fall in the middle of a pool of blood, the remaining four enemy personnel chose to retreat and seek shelter. However, Nio did not let them escape, he shot again the enemy who ran away from him with the help of Zefanya.

Nio was only given two magazines for his mitraliur gun, so he had already spent a bullet in the last magazine. Seeing Nio stop shooting, Zefanya also stopped his shot that no one hit the enemy.

He took out a carambit from his vest and grasped it firmly with his bionic right hand. He was chasing after an enemy who was trying to save himself rather than fight against himself and his Zefanya, and his gaze was like a ferocious beast chasing its prey. Seeing the change in Nio's nature, making Zefanya could only run behind him while carrying her sniper rifle on his back.

Without wearing full combat clothes made Nio move faster, and was able to pull on the clothes of his nearest enemy and pull him up to his back to hit the ground violently due to Nio's pull. His comrades left him after he was successfully captured by Nio with a single pull.

Nio slashed a lightning-fast punch into his enemy's face, then flanked his neck with his left arm. The man rebelled and tried to break away, but Nio's arm flanked his neck very strongly, not even letting him scream. Nio stuck the tip of his carambit eye on his enemy's neck, then slashed it sideways and stopped when the carambit knife hit his enemy's axe. Blood poured out like a fountain from the incision area, then Nio dropped his enemy's body to the ground just like that. Nio's clothes were slightly splashed with blood, yet he didn't care about it.

The Zefanya could not react to anything when she saw Nio slashing the neck of his enemy, and followed Nio behind her while passing through the lifeless body of the enemy that Nio had just finished off.

After arriving at the end of the alley, Nio saw dozens of lifeless bodies lying on the streets, dozens of bodies in the middle of a pool of their own blood. The bodies did not wear combat clothing such as those of the enemy or the royal army, among the bodies without the lives were several bodies of small children and the elderly. Thus, Nio knew who was the cause of the killing of dozens of civilians.

Nio and Zefanya can see all members of the 12th Team taking shelter in various places, such as behind tactical vehicles, behind carts, and in building gaps as Nio and Zefanya do. They looked calm after seeing the whereabouts of Nio and Zefanya, and continued shooting at the enemy who was sheltering as well.

Nio gave hand codes to the drivers of both Herman and Arif tactical vehicles so that automatic machine gunners in both vehicles could fire without inflicting major damage from their fire. They both worked on Nio's orders, and drove to where the enemy was.

From the camera on the automatic rifle shooter on the first vehicle, Hassan, aimed the barrel of the gun at three enemies who were sheltering in the building's crevice. The automatic machine gun is capable of firing more than 1,000 rounds of per minute, and the 12.7mm projectile is capable of perforating panzer steel armor with ease. The three enemies received dozens of shots, and some parts of their bodies were hollowed out by the slashing projectiles at a speed of 900 meters per second.

“Zefanya, how many remaining bullets do you have?”

“For ten sniper rifle bullets left, if the remaining two magazinesin.” gun bullets

Nio's PM22 V7 can use a magazine on a pistol that carries a 9mm caliber bullet, then he asks for a magazine that is still fully loaded Zefanya and installs it on his weapon.

Nio peeked out from his shelter, and saw several enemies shooting at his members from their hiding places. Most enemies took cover behind merchant stalls or horse carts with their various cargoes.

When Nio peeked back, a few shots almost hit his head if Nio did not have good reflexes to immediately dodge. Nio returned fire that almost hit his head towards the enemy. The enemy had poor reflexes, so Nio's shot hit the head of one of the enemy personnel.

“Zefanya, you stay here..”.

Nio directly came out of his shelter and left Zefanya without giving the girl a chance to answer. He was forced to protect Nio with a shot from his 9mm gun. In addition to protection shots from Zefanya, Nio moves with protection shots from his members' assault rifles.

The three enemy personnel hiding behind the merchant stall were shocked by Nio's sudden appearance, and were unable to do anything when PM22 V7 Nio fired at them with some 9mm projectiles. Nio targeted the enemy's head, so as not to give them a chance to retaliate.

An enemy personnel who had run out of ammunition ran towards Nio with excited cries. He aimed the bayonet forward and attacked Nio by doing some piercing movements, but all of that could be avoided easily by him. Nio then grabbed the rifle without ammunition belonging to his opponent, and stabbed his enemy in the face several times with a bayonet until covered with blood and finally did not move again. Nio did not care about the cries of pain and suffering from his opponent as he thrust the bayonet into his opponent's face. He will do anything to protect Indonesia's most important person who ‘nyasar’ in this world, as well as fight for Arunika and others. As a final strike, a single shot pierced through the head of Nio's opponent who was already in a face full of blood.

Soon, three enemy personnel who had run out of ammunition tried to fight Nio with their bayonets and swords. Without a second thought Nio shot one of them, then quickly dodged the sword slash of another who was aiming at his head, and then fired two projectiles into his enemy's head.

No matter how strong the warrior was or how good his close range fighting technique was, all of it would be useless if it could not injure his enemy. The enemy personnel were too confident with the large numbers, they could win this fight. But, even though Nio was now surrounded by six enemy personnel, he still fought and paralyzed them with a shot or a hard kick in the head. The only way to win against Nio was to gang up on him with a minimum strength of eight companies, but that would only leave Nio battered and unconscious for a while. It was evident when the five hundred Barisan knights of the Sheyn Roses beat him up until the man was almost struck with a mental attack.

Moreover, Nio was protected by his comrades who were ready to give him a protective shot.

When the enemy who had run out of ammunition surrounded him and pointed the bayonet at him, Nio's subordinates calmly pulled the trigger. The 7.62mm projectile is already strong enough to penetrate a 10mm thick steel plate. When dozens of projectiles fired from Nio's SS20 G2 hit the enemy's body, it was now protected only by thin metal armor, projectiles penetrate the thin metal that protects their bodies and penetrate to the other side.

Shortly afterwards Nio gave orders to all his subordinates to stop the fire after seeing the enemy move backwards. It was a good thing, but they had yet to reduce most of the enemies, and had only eliminated a few of them.

Moments later, Nio sees a stranger running with enemy personnel trying to escape. Nio continued to pay attention to the person he had met some time ago, when the Alliance's first major raid against the Expeditionary Force. After less than five seconds of observing, Nio immediately dashed towards the person before losing track.

On the other hand, Rio did not expect with the contingent of ‘otherworld’ in Iztok City. He frantically ordered the rest of his subordinates to retreat before the panzer surrounded them. A miracle when his enemy did not kill most of his subordinates, and frantically kept shouting for his subordinates to immediately leave the city.

Fighting the contingent of ‘otherworld’ using ordinary tactics only made the Special Platoon of the Rio-led Alliance waste ammunition in vain, and only killed a few civilians and Arevelk soldiers. If he decided to continue the battle, it was likely that the enemy would finish off his entire subordinate without any remains.

He can outrun his subordinates, but his nervousness makes Rio feel his running slightly slowed down. Then, when they managed to reach the path they used to enter the city, a winged girl intercepted them with her giant scythe. Of course it made Rio's entire subordinate stop running, and with a frightened face looked at the girl.

“Shoot him with the rest of your ammo!” rio shouted after confirming if the girl was siding with the Guild.

“Try. No matter how much you attack me, it will all just be in vain,” Hevaz said as he walked slowly towards them.

Of course the rest of the Rio Alliance Special Platoon personnel who were left obeyed his orders, and fired the remaining bullets they had. But all the projectiles fired did not hit the girl's body, and were easily fended off with large sickle eyes. The girl stepped closer, and displayed an enormous threat.

“Mr Nio, you will fight the leader. Whereas I will fight his subordinates.”

Rio immediately turned his head back after hearing the girl pronounce the name of someone he was very familiar with. He saw Nio standing behind him with his left shoulder injured. However, less than a second after they looked up, Nio's bionic right hand instantly smashed into Rio's face until he fell hard to the ground.

**

The back is not strong, so the story is a bit awkward.