Steel steam and flame

The three separate teams have no purpose. Before the communicators on their bodies transmit encrypted signals, they can move freely. Their only mission is to clear out as many hostile teams as possible within their capabilities. There are few rewards. For Lieutenant Colonel Will and others, this is a guerrilla operation in the wild where they may encounter powerful enemies at any time. Even if they avoid carefully and carefully, the possibility of being discovered is not small.

The selected ones knew how to survive and knew the Lieutenant General's orders. Setting off to the Ribbon Mountains, the long journey on the airship was a time to focus on teaching them. The terrain between the mountains, the intertwined teams, the possible troops and weapons of the enemy, etc. are all included in the teaching content.

During the last moment of the journey, Lieutenant Colonel Will and the other two lieutenant colonels had already discussed the various possibilities and hard conditions for the team to survive in the belt mountains. These are all very simple but difficult things to execute. The fewer the number of enemies and the more people on the same side as you, the higher the probability of survival will be. Although the relationship between the two is not directly proportional, a powerful surgeon can maintain a check and balance with several teams. Such situations often occur, especially in belt-like mountains where powerful people are scattered.

It's just that this tiny probability can be fought for by them, and there is no other option.

Next to them was the fourth team they encountered, and they were used to the scene they perceived - every time they encountered each other in the mountains, the pursuers were the enemy. There was no specific information showing the strength of the team in the small country with a large population. After several encounters, Lieutenant Colonel Will no longer had any real expectations.

The time it takes for the formation to expand, surround the enemy, and annihilate them is not very long. The opponent can be said to be well-trained, has a tacit understanding of team cooperation, and has corresponding tactics. But in front of the army of real surgeons, there is still a considerable gap between the two in various data. In particular, the red star appeared nearly four years ago and had already moved from the Astronomical Palace to various parts of the empire. At that time, the empire and the military entered a period of awakening. The intensity and frequency of training in various scenarios are much higher than in peacetime. Lieutenant Colonel Will and the others would go to the front lines from time to time to deal with minor daily frictions there.

The environments of the two are not the same, and the results achieved are naturally different.

Searching for corresponding items on the enemy's corpse to replenish his own consumption, Lieutenant Colonel Will briefly talked with the captain of another organized team, and the vigilance between the two sides was resolved in a series of secret signals. After exchanging the little information they had with each other, Colonel Will corrected the direction of the team's advance, getting closer to the positions where the enemy suffered heavy losses during the first contact.

Lieutenant Colonel Will did not want his team to be too conspicuous in an area. Facing the enemy's family elites and even the few knight attendants, he had no confidence in himself and the thirty or so soldiers around him.

The light in the woods became dimmer, and Lieutenant Colonel Will ordered to speed up and reach the position above the mountainside before dark. During the break not long after, a slight vibration came from the communicator on the waist. The numbers arranged on the gear counter showed that it came from the temporary general command office located somewhere unknown, perhaps in a residential house in a city far inside the empire. , or maybe in that farmhouse in an unknown small country. When comparing military communications equipment to Infinity Communications' equipment, there is no superiority or inferiority between the two. However, in terms of their respective top-level communication methods, ultra-long distance and complex encryption ensure that only a super analysis machine can crack them.

The voice that came was the codeword that had been converted in advance. After three cycles, the communication automatically hung up. A paragraph of digital coordinates, a few brief sentences of information - the members of the Qilaandi family cooperated, and the target was several powerful teams of the Evelin family.

With no more extra information, Lieutenant Colonel Will found the location of the belt-shaped mountain range corresponding to the coordinates in his head, and calculated the distance and time to get there. Unconsciously exhaling, Lieutenant Colonel Will looked at the other members' faces blurred by shadows in his peripheral vision, and seemed dazed for a moment.

Soon after the team set off, Lieutenant Colonel Will corrected its direction. The team was quickly enveloped in darkness and merged into the early darkness between the mountains.

On the other side, on the small airship used for inspection, the discussion between Mavis and six other people in the room seemed to be coming to an end.

Among the seven people, leaving aside Mavis, Isabel and Agnes, the last one to arrive was Mousse, one of the five prince families, followed by another knight attendant, one of the three knight attendants in the Holy Emperor's Hall. 1—Saint Gerd Neroniel. A person who was not noticed before the knight squire examination stayed at the temple in the far reaches of the empire all year round. He was not taken back to Manoma until the examination was over. One of the few people in the assessment who got a spot without relying on team strength.

There are two remaining people, one of whom is from the core organization of the Three Primary Color Group's supervisory department, called Augustus. Their job is to deal with and clean up some defected managers, with identities similar to killers and assassins. He is more famous than Saint Gerd. Except for Saint Gerd himself, the other five people have heard of August's reputation. He is the cold god of death that all managers at the middle level and below of the Three Primary Colors Group are afraid of.

The last person comes from the Fruy family, one of the twenty-three great ducal families. The Fruy family is one of the more special families in the empire. It did not control certain areas within the empire like other grand ducal families, forming a monopoly or leading the most cutting-edge technology and manufacturing processes. It belongs to a family that researches and collects information. Its main fields are the study of ancient history and ancient ruins, as well as the specialization of geography. Therefore, their relationship with the Imperial Mineral Source Company is extremely close and they form a whole.

Lidion Fruy, who comes from the Fruy family, has a sense of history and a rather bleak face, like a wise old man who has experienced a long time and various things. He is dressed in knightly attire that only appears in history and museums, and is covered in exquisite alloy armor. The gloves are also made of flexible fabric and fine scale armor.

From noon to this moment, it was the first time for the seven people to meet. Apart from the polite greetings between them, the first step of the discussion was to exchange the information in their hands. Seven is one of the people who knows best what the public intelligence structure of the Belt Mountains consists of. Before reaching a cooperative relationship, it is a common idea to hope that something will happen to the area managed by the other party and find a little fun for oneself. For Cassia, the information collected from each family in the empire mostly overlaps, but there are some differences.

This non-formal discussion meeting entered the second personal step at around 3 pm - everyone's self-introduction. A link that all seven people found interesting. Information about own surgical development projects is included, which is the most important part of mutual understanding.

The seven people gathered together at Mavis's invitation and were wary of each other. When it comes to surgical development projects, the level of tacit understanding among the seven people is average. They all hide the most important one or several projects, and only explain the development of many basic projects.

Surgical ability can often give a glimpse of the surgeon's approach in combat, and its ability will limit the method of use, because if you want a certain ability to exert a huge effect, the optimal solution has already existed for a long time. And there is also a lot of information to analyze in detail the combination of various surgical items. It only took a short time for the seven people to store this information in their heads.

The only thing that Mavis and the others thought was a gain was the squamation surgery development project that Agnes took the initiative to talk about. Mavis and Isabel still remember that during the knight squire assessment, Agnes had not yet completed it and was less than one-third of the way forward.

"With the help of a research result from the Tundra Research Base." Agnes' words made the other six people quickly understand the reason. The second step ends after this. In fact, no one had much expectations for this step, so it didn't take much time. The third step lasted into the evening and still had no intention of ending.

The plan to deal with and hunt Cassia, as well as the unified analysis of information intelligence by seven people.

The plan was divided until the end, and Mavis and her team didn't yet have a general and workable round-up model. In fact, just analyzing the intelligence made them feel difficult.

The most recent reference that can be used is the knight squire assessment record. There is not much description of Cassia above, the focus is all on his brief battle with Zero. In addition, the historical training status of the military school, brief records of overseas missions, etc. were also turned into type printed on paper and went into the hands of seven people.

The airship rose to an altitude of thousands of meters and passed over the highest peak in the mountain range. Its navy blue shell was dyed orange by the afterglow. It silently watched as the dark gray came from behind and slowly enveloped all the sky bounded by the skyline.

The afterglow shining through the round window was fading. Isabel stood up and turned on the light in the room. The cold light seemed to bring an untimely cold feeling: "The main surgical development project must be squamation, and it is also an alienated squamation ability, which is different from Mr. Zero. Not much. As for other abilities, I think they can all be regarded as accessories of the scale ability, and they are not worthy of our attention."

"My point of view is to focus on one problem, how to solve and deal with breath?" This is what Saint Gede said, "In line with Miss Isabel's suggestion, focusing on analyzing other abilities does not have much effect and is a waste of time. We have implemented many During the mission, I encountered an unusually large number of ability combinations, and I could handle them well with the information from each family as a supplement. But only the scaling ability was not good. And the breath in the assessment record..."

Without saying it, others knew what Saint Gerd was trying to say. No one responded directly, and silence was a common phenomenon after the third step of the discussion began. Mavis and the others had to admit how difficult Cassia was.

Agnes, who had not participated in the discussion for a long time, knocked on the table. When everyone looked over, his calm words had reached everyone's ears, "The information we have does not seem to support us in establishing a A complete model about Cassia. In this case, my personal suggestion is, do you need to change the target and find a more suitable candidate? "

Agnes was greeted with silence. The meaning was obvious, so just go ahead and say it. The remaining six people didn't want to guess.

Helplessly spreading her hands, Agnes leaned on her seat: "I, Miss Mavis, and Miss Isabel's joint application have a high probability of obtaining a complete copy of Mr. Zero from the Tundra Research Base through the family. Information. At that time, Cassia will be transferred to Mr. Zero, and with that detailed information, there may be unexpected gains."