City Of Witches 808

Chapter 808 – #169_Utopia

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One.
No scientist, historian or military expert could have predicted that World War III would break out in this way.

So, it is not a discord or ideological war caused by excessive territorial expansion.
By transcendentalists who have not long since been recorded in human history.

The countries that have had friendly relations with Gehenna so far have been mostly pro-American, pro-Western, and liberal countries.
Conversely, anti-American, anti-Western, and Second World countries were associated with outcasts or exploits.

Therefore, the declaration of Hexennacht, which announced the existence of witches to the world and declared that they would seize supremacy, drew a confrontational structure with Gehenna, and the repercussions aroused worldwide conflict.

The world split in two again.
In order to eat different camps and be reborn as the hegemon of the new era, they waged a large-scale war over 20 years using witches and advanced science and technology.

Many witches died, and many more humans died.

The end of a war that has suffered dozens of times more victims than the war that has killed the most humans in history will be decided here and now.

A turning point in the end of World War III.

Ironically, the battleground was near Midway Atoll, which became a critical turning point in the Pacific War.

It was clear that the victorious camp would seize control of the sea and would have an overwhelming advantage in the war that would follow.

– Quaang! Kwaaang!
-Thud! Koo Goo Goo!

Anti-witch modern weapons and magnetic magic rained down from all sides, and magic reflected light that radiated from everywhere and then disappeared.
It reminded me of the massive rotation of space battleships in a space opera movie rather than a modern war.

Every few hours, one carrier strike group is surfaced.
Every few minutes a modern fighter squadron is shot down.
Every few seconds a battalion sinks to the bottom of the cold sea.

The surface of the sea, which had been transparently lapping, was covered with flames fueled by oil and blood.
Even at the end of the horizon, black smoke rose high into the sky.

A witch’s life was not particularly precious than a soldier’s in this fierce battlefield.

A certain witch detonated her magical energy into a tactical nuke mounted on a cruise missile while her magical energy was excessively exhausted.
A certain witch was hacked to pieces by her magic, and she died without even screaming.

Nevertheless, the archwitch’s performance on the battlefield was unrivaled.

There is a witch who grabbed a sword and rushed towards the enemy camp, cutting off the enemy aircraft carrier.
There is a witch who destroyed hostile witches by scattering flower rain in a radius of several kilometers.
There is a witch who transforms into an angel and defends a wide area from the bombardment pouring into the allied camp.

However, it was not much different from the Hexsennacht side.

The pilot, who lost his temper due to the large-scale hunting, drove the fighter toward the friendly fleet and rammed it vertically.
The soldiers, engulfed in a terrible curse, abandoned their ships and jumped into the sea.
Iron stakes rained down from the sky, penetrating from the deck to the bottom and sinking several destroyers.

“Eww….”

A long lasting name.
Siu, who was stuck on top of the half-destroyed cruiser, let out a low moan and got up.

The black armor woven from the shadows was dented.
Even in the midst of losing my mind for a while, the red branch that I didn’t let go of was rolling in my palm in the loose grip.

“Cool.”

The cough was mixed with thick blood, so I released the helmet for a while and spat the blood to the side.

I can’t even remember exactly what hit me.
I reflexively spread the distortion field and sent a shock wave, and I tried to absorb her extra shock as much as possible with my armor, but….
Judging by the appearance, it seems that he barely saved her life.

“How…. It happened… ?”

Brain splitting headache.

A dot is visible in the distance beyond the reddish field of vision.
It was only a dot, but it took on a clear shape in an instant.

Its true identity is a cruise missile of the anti-witch specification that was successfully developed by the Russian side.
The tracking missile, which has a sensor that detects the power source mounted on the warhead, instantly closes the distance through horizontal flight that exceeds the speed of sound several times.

If you are a moderate witch, it means that the moment you visually identify it, evasion maneuvers are meaningless.
During the melee, weapons like this rained down from all sides, so even witches were bound to suffer damage.

“This… !”

Siu hurriedly tried to raise her body, but her movements were slow as if the shock hadn’t gone away.
I tried to intercept it in the middle using the ribbon in a hurry, but even that was slow.

In such a defenseless state, if you get hit directly by a missile that even collapses a concrete bunker in one shot, it will be the end.
That desperate moment.

In the blink of an eye, the cruise missile that had reached the cruiser that Siwoo had been tossing around came to a halt in the air.

–Bang!

The missile that exploded in front of her nose with a roar was surrounded by a purple transparent curtain.
The amount of light that makes the vision white seems to burn the retina.

-Shuuuuu!

Explosion dissipated toward the pole in the veil with the sound of the wind being sucked in.

“Odile! Mr. Odette!”

Siu looked at Odile and Odette Zemanai with a thrilled expression.
It was none other than the twins who blocked the missiles heading towards Siwoo with a strange harmony.

“Assistant! What are you doing! Wake!”
“Sister! I’ll look after my assistant, so give me cover!”

The expression of the twins wearing dresses that did not suit the battlefield showed a dignified dignity without a hint of childishness.
It was like seeing Albireo and Deneb who are no longer in the world.

They were no longer apprentice witches.
Befitting the count’s honor, she is the 22nd hierarchy, the ‘Gemini witch’, standing in the camp of Gehenna and giving countless lessons.

While Odette, who closed her eyes, temporarily revitalizes Siu’s body….

-Koo-gu-gu-gu-gung!

“Sing!”

Odile detonates tens of thousands of cluster bombs dropped by military aircraft in the air.
One crisis was over, but that didn’t mean this disappointing moment was completely resolved.

“Ha…. Ha….”

Both Odil and Odette are extremely exhausted.
Even on Odile’s side, half of her face was bloody because of the heavy bleeding from the torn forehead.

“What happened to the war situation? Is it radio?”
“No, the jamming around me is too strong, both magically and mechanically. Still, I can tell you the rough situation.”

Siu tried to stay calm and asked Odile.

What I remember is that the tactic adopted by the Gehenna camp in this battle was a three-sided siege tactic.
And even the fact that the Hexsenacht side responded with separate defeats at different times.

“To be honest, it’s not good. The Hexennacht guys are mobilizing their reserve forces and launching a surprise all-out offensive.”
“Even though Duke Tiphareth and Associate Professor Amelia are struggling…. The enemy 5th Fleet, which has penetrated the right flank, is attempting to break through the center.”
“Assistant, can you fight more?”
“Sister, this is not the time to ask such questions. Here is the Maginot Line. I can’t back off any longer.”
“Of course we will fight.”

Odette’s concern, Siu proudly held the spear, but soon felt his body lose strength.
Can you really fight?

A heavy silence falls.

If the witches of Gehenna hadn’t neglected the growth of Hexennacht and had actively engaged in combat from the beginning of the war.
If only more exiles had been coaxed into becoming members of Gehenna’s camp.

I am brooding over these belated regrets.

-Koo-Goo-Gung! Bang!

One of our aircraft carriers, which was hit on the side of the hull, can be seen sinking in black flames.

“Ah….”

Defeat.

Along with Odette’s sigh, the two vivid letters she had tried to avoid flashed through her mind.
Odile, who gritted his teeth and vowed to fight until the end, could not hide his despair.

It’s not just warships that have sunk.
The number of great witches who would influence the game of the previous world was also insufficient.

On the other hand, the presence of the Hexsenacht witch is getting closer and closer.

“Looks like we’ve come this far….”

Odile, who did not know how to give up in any hopeless situation, sighed like a sigh.

“If I knew it would be like this, I would have thrown away the war and everything and just chatted with my assistant.”
“That’s right, even if you lose the war, if you lived well hiding in the corner, it would have been fine for a while.”

Siwoo forcibly raised his body, which seemed unable to move any longer.

A throbbing pain runs through the spine.
For some reason, I couldn’t move my body, and it seemed that my backbone had been shattered.

“Don’t say anything you don’t like. Neither Odile-sama nor Odette-sama are like that anyway.”
“That’s what it says. Anyway, assistant, have you become too arrogant for her slave days?”
“That’s right, when we first met, I cried and asked not to do dangerous experiments.”

“When did I do that?”
“Did you?”
“Because it was?”

A joke that doesn’t fit the situation at all.
A small laugh broke out between the three of them.

It was an optimistic conversation that was forced to continue because it was probably the last minute.

“At a time like this…. If there had been Rruye….”
“Odette, stop talking nonsense. If it wasn’t for Lruhe, this war would have been lost a long time ago. You couldn’t rely on her forever.”

The three of them, who continued their pointless conversation, felt goose bumps on their skin at the same time.

Like the RWR that senses lock-on, it’s a harbinger you can feel when you’re targeted by long-distance magic.
Dozens of magic baptisms, not one or two, were aimed at the three people who had exhausted all energy.

“Run away! I’ll do anything to stop it!”
“How am I going to get away from here?”
“We are the Countess of Zemonai.”

– Pyu woo woo

The colorful hemp cloth that embroidered the sky like a meteor shower, and magnetic magic that changed the world.
The three of them take a step forward to develop a reckless defense.

At that time.

“Dive deep.”

I hear the chanting of the one who cannot be heard.
An old witch who has been feared since ancient times, and the ‘witch of the deep sea’ who can boast of being the strongest on the sea.

Waves rising hundreds of meters in several layers prevented the enemy forces from bombarding the carpet.
Even though white spray is pouring down, the shield of the waves is not broken.

Rather, it returned to part of the sea again, sweeping away the bombardment like a sandcastle with violent force.

Siu and the twins looked at the sea with trembling eyes.

“Rebels who trample my territory with dirt feet and persecute my friends and the government.”

The remodeled submarine ‘Akula’ cuts through the sea with its half-submerged appearance revealed.
Lerouet, arms crossed at the bow and fluttering the white cloak of a naval admiral, looks down at the enemy with an arrogant expression.

After succeeding in an operation to secretly attack the enemy’s rear and destroy Hexenacht’s central fleet, Rruhe Nukelabi joined to assist the right wing of the crumbling Gehenna camp.

“If you are going to pay for your sins with your poor lives, try to count how many you will need from now on.”

That figure was indeed the undisputed queen of the sea and true ruler.