The Metal Military Academy
Chapter 79: The Grim
The window curtain of the workspace fluttered in the night wind, making the room temperature that had been touched by the cold AC so much cooler again.
The pair of fine-skinned hands hurriedly closed the window along with the curtain. Hugging his own body that was starting to get cold, he again walked towards the work desk.
Arni sat there, again checking some documents on the computer that contained the latest data about the foundation he managed.
All the work here is always Arni who takes care, even the snack company after the husband returned to work in space. He did not feel burdened at all. Absolutely not because it already feels that all the work here is part of his responsibility.
She only felt lonely after being left behind by her husband's work, left behind two children and one nephew studying at the academy. Only left with two young children and a few aides, aides, and bodyguards who are always ready to help and take care of him.
“Haaah..”.
Arni sighed listlessly. Tired of everything he has done now. The clock has shown at 22:34, he should be sleeping so that tomorrow he can wake up early for work and take care of all the school preparation of his two children.
However, when his body was about to get out of the chair, his phone rang a sign of incoming messages. When Arni opens, it appears to be an email message from an interplanetary server that connects the connection to the delivery of her message. Arni has guessed who has sent the message through this server line if not him.
[I promise to be home soon <3]
Arni only gave a faint smile when reading the message. He decided to move and leave the workroom while carrying the phone in hand.
“Don't try to give me hope, Mas,” murmured lethargicly while pinning that black hair back.
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“Team 071 is currently destroying the enemy's east headquarters.”
“Damn it! They have biological weapons.”
“Be careful! We can't prevent its development.”
“Report the latest news to the Commander! He should know in order to—.”
....
“Shoot!”
The residential area called the headquarters of the bandits is being attacked by troops from the Space Military Explorer Force.
Currently, they are in the western part of Planet GT624 which has been completed. Its nature has almost matched the Planet Ribelo where many lush green forests, blue skies with fresh air, and a variety of unique flora-fauna that have never existed on any living planet.
However, the birth of this new habitable planet instead began to be colonized by the bandits of the large irresponsible group.
As one of the armies of the military whose planet is involved in this transformed project, the Explorers will not allow irresponsible people to seize a part of their government's power.
They will annihilate anyone who illegally claims the GT624 Planet as their area of power.
“Ugh!”
The modern armored soldiers of the large group of the Explorers Army shot at the many bandits who were trying to fight them. All sorts of shots were fired, from lead bullets to plasma lasers.
Explosion after explosion destroyed the buildings that had been built by the bandits to occupy the area without permission from the Galactic Union who participated in overseeing the development of Planet GT624 teraformation.
Not only that, even the tanks of their troops transformed into standard-sized mecha robots that resolutely fight back against the robots belonging to the bandit gang.
“Commander, we got word from Team 071. Bandit gangs are trying to activate biological weapons,” said one of the soldiers who was shooting while hiding behind a boulder.
Beside the soldier, their commander wearing only a cap and bulletproof vest, Major Rako Bernand, shot at the bandits using a laser rifle.
“Biological weapon?” ask Rako in wonder. “Those bandits have biological weapons?”
“This is beyond what was expected, Commander. We—.”
The words of the soldier were cut off when another soldier bounced past the two of them due to being hit by a mecha kick belonging to the bandits.
“You okay, Private?” ask Rako to make sure.
Although he had coughed and felt pain in the back because he had hit a tree, the soldier tried to get up. “I'm fine, Commander. Move briefly. Leave this part to me.”
One soldier and Rako herself begin to retreat in search of other shelter while avoiding various kinds of gunfire and grenade explosions.
While filling up the new ammunition, Rako had a chance to see what the soldier wanted to do.
The soldier had changed a new magazine, cocked a rifle, then began aiming at the enemy mecha that had kicked it earlier.
“Resurrection Power : Active.”
Green electric circuits ran through his rifle, starting to channel the awakening energy into the weapon.
As he fired his assault rifle bullets in succession, the lunge of all those bullets created a wind-thrust forming a sword-sickle slash that slashed at all the objects around, slashing at the two legs of the mecha as well, slashing at the two legs of the mecha as well, so that the large robot collapsed and was finished off by a robot from the soldier.
This is the function of the Resurrection Power on the battlefield. That incredible power could be harnessed to help the soldiers subvert the enemy. However, it is not only on their side that they use it. There are also bandits who master the Power of Resurrection.
“What kind of biological weapon—.” Rako's words came to a halt as she felt a strange tremor on the ground and heard the screams of her soldiers.
“Aaaaarrrgh!!!”
“Uwaaaah!!”
Rako was stunned, seeing a number of soldiers fall by the appearance of strange giant monsters from the ground. The monster is shaped like a worm and a plant because of the shape of its mouth that blooms like a flower accompanied by sharp jagged fangs that can tear anything to formless again.
“So, that's his biological weapon?” hiss Rako squinted.
“GRRRRAAAAAGHHH!!”
The plant worm monster roared so hard that it made the wind in front of it blow up the trees, flying soldiers and bandits, and floated other objects. Even the roar had caused a small earthquake in the vicinity.
After roaring, the mouth of the monster bloomed as wide as possible. It collects tiny blue particles in front of the mouth, clustered together over time to form an ever-expanding ball of blue light.
Aware of what the monster was trying to do, Rako panicked. He immediately gave orders to his soldiers through a communication device in the ear.
“Everything, get away from that monster! He will soon—.”
“GRRRRRAAAGHHH!!”
Again they heard a loud roar from the monster. But not a loud roar of anger, but a roar of pain.
Yes, a roar of pain. Because in just the blink of an eye, the giant monster figure was immediately split in two as a result of being passed by a glowing red object that shot from the direction of a helicopter. Making the monster's body spurt out a lot of blood. But not only that, all the blood spurts even moved themselves to form giant spines that immediately chopped down the monster's body to nothing.
Rako was astonished by the terrifying power that had managed to kill the monster to just vanish. When Rako notices the shape of the futuristic helicopter with four propellers, she realizes who has defeated the monster in just a blink of an eye.
“Commander!” One of the soldiers ran up to him. “Commander Rako, that was..”.
“Iya...”.
Rako was still dumbfounded by the attack she saw earlier. But a few seconds later he shook his head, realizing that it was that figure who had finished off the enemy monsters.
So, why was the person in question suddenly here?
Rako immediately looked back at the soldier with a surprised look. “Marshal Grim? Why is he here?”
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Piles of flesh and blood of monsters pooled to contaminate some of the area of the bandit headquarters that had been flattened due to the war. A figure of an adult man in a maroon robe stood firm while twirling the red scythe causing the tail of his coat to flutter in the wind.
One hand carried the scythe on the shoulder, while the other clasped a pile of monster meat that he had chopped earlier, the meat that had been crushed and covered with a lot of blood to the point of fouling the fingerless gloves he was wearing.
Without feeling disgusted, he chewed the monster's raw meat like chewing food, then swallowed lightly.
Continuing to eat monster meat, he had time to correct the location of the glasses that were slightly dirty due to splashing blood, staring at the blue sky while contemplating.
The tail of his robe was fluttering back, the strands of blond hair were moving finely in the wind, and the golden star emblem on the red military hat he was wearing was glittering reflecting the light of the sun.
Grimaelo Marshal Adrael Novan pondered, bored with all sorts of tasks he had carried on for a dozen years. When can he live a quiet life if many problems always come.
Plus, Grim had just heard the news that one of the Orbit Force headquarters had been sabotaged. As a high-ranking officer whose role is important in the Space Military, of course Grim is made dizzy also going to this case.
After swallowing the last chew, Grim had time to slither, “I got tired of serving in space like this continue.”
He looked back at the blue sky, reminding him of the blue sky on Planet Ribelo, home to his family there.
“When do I go home, huh?”
“I miss family.”
“I miss the kids.”
At first glance, Grim's mind was reminded of the figure of a greenish-black-haired woman who had long accompanied the man's life from hard to as successful as now, a figure who was willing to accept all his shortcomings, and who was willing to accept all his shortcomings, and has become an important part of his life.
His smile, laughter, and scolding always managed to make Grim miss half-death on the beautiful woman who had become the mother of his four children.
“I miss my wife, Arni.”.
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