The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

Chapter 70

70 – Training Like Fighting, Fighting Like Training (2)

I didn’t think it was impossible. Originally, in international relations, it is impossible to clearly distinguish which is bad and which is good.

There are many reasons why a war breaks out. It may be unfair from the standpoint of the weaker countries caught in the middle, but in the logic of the great powers, everyone has a justification.

Even when Hitler first attempted annexation, he was not the symbol of pure evil he is today.

Anyway, as much as there was a justification for reviving the country destroyed by the Treaty of Versailles, occupying Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to ensure the reconstruction of the ‘German Empire’.

For the German people and some imperialists, at least, it was enough to be recognized as a national hero, let alone ‘evil’.

Although the image of the Holocaust was completely shattered as the rare act of foolishness and tragedy was propagated externally.

As in Hearts of General.

Although it is divided into two factions from the beginning, the power structure weakens as you go to the later part of the game, and eventually you have no choice but to go to a power struggle between countries.

Because the ‘perfect’ victory condition is to occupy all 5 countries except yourself.

And unexpectedly, the perfect victory condition is easier to achieve than the ‘faction victory’ condition.

Thus, the setting itself that Petrinand Ludwig developed the first airship with the help of Ukraine may not be a very upbeat story.

How does the player know the background of a series of transactions between Ukraine and Count Petrinand, at least half a year after the start of the game?

‘Even taking that into account, it’s f*cking ridiculous… ….’

I looked at Sonny Zeppelin, who was arguing enthusiastically next to the Count.

Wait.

Come to think of it, is this all related to the artifacts taken from Belgordo Fortress?

I thought back to the first time I met the colonel. Certainly at the time, he said that the artifact in question was the most important part of his plan.

‘I thought it was a pearl of omen.’

It’s an artifact I’ve never heard of. It wasn’t a thing that could change the whole situation functionally, and it wasn’t a guaranteed drop, it was an artifact that could be obtained randomly.

In the first place, artifacts were not considered very important in Haoje.

Although there were always good artifacts that strengthened a specific character or gave beneficial buffs to the entire unit.

Most of them are good if you have them, but you can’t.

In that respect, the Pearl of Omen, an artifact that simply greatly increases the user’s magical power level, was not something that Sonny Zeppelin was keen to retrieve.

But what if the Pearl of Omens was an essential artifact for the development of this airship?

So that would be a valid reason for Sonny Zeppelin to plan an operation to push troops into an enemy country and take it.

‘Really?’

It was just a guess, but the more I thought about it, the more I could come up with an answer other than that.

And finally, the Count’s words, which were just guesses, became facts.

“Currently, they are being replaced with these crude magic crystals, but in fact, special artifacts are required to produce their original output.”

He exchanged glances with Joseph and Sonny Zeppelin, then took a scroll map from his pocket and unfolded it.

“What you see outside is the smallest of the airships I have developed. In the arsenal of the Reinhardt Empire, there are objects five times that size waiting to be activated.”

“Everything, five times!?”

Voices of disbelief erupted from here and there.

Somehow, I heard that the size is small for something developed by the Count. Did you leave the true meaning of the airship that appears in the game in your home country?

“That’s why I need you guys.”

While Count Petrinand Ludwig and Sonny Zeppelin lined up explanations about the airship, Chief of Staff Joseph, who had been silent all along, opened his mouth.

“We, the 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion, will recover the artifacts stolen by the Soviet Empire in order to complete the next-generation aviation weapon that Count Petrinant and Colonel Sonny Zeppelin are working on.”

Bingo.

I knew it would be like this.

Ever since the name “Assault” Was given, it was vaguely expected that this type of operation would be a unit in mind.

I never dreamed of using an airship…….

Sony Zeppelin intends to use the current battalion in any way to retrieve the artifact.

“…… Did everyone understand?”

Of course, I was the only one who knew that, so the noncommissioned officers and noncommissioned officers of the battalion all looked dumbfounded and asked what they were talking about.

The 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion…….

We have a long way to go.

***

“How much did the company commander expect!?”

“Roughly. But I didn’t know that you could use an airship.”

“Why, why didn’t you tell me…… !”

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Said Bell Meyer, stamping his feet. It seemed that there was no need to ask why. It must have been because, to her, her informed plan for the operation felt like an act of suicide.

To get on that big, grotesque balloon and go deep into the borders of the Sobie Empire to steal artifacts?

It was reasonable to think that she was crazy, now that the tactics for ‘airborne operation’ or ‘assault’ had not been established.

Originally, the military organization has no choice but to prefer the ‘conservative’ form from the commander-in-chief to the lowest ranks.

Why enter a giant balloon, fall from the sky and attack an enemy fort?

If I hadn’t personally experienced military life in modern times, I would have thought it was crazy.

“Belle, are you afraid?”

“Aren’t you afraid of the company commander?”

“What…… Hey, I did it on a fictitious day.”

“What the hell do they teach at the military academy?”

Although I didn’t do it here.

Still, as a person who wears a steamed karate medicine cabinet, it is not a gara in its own way.

How much less dangerous is an airship stationary at high altitude than a transport plane gliding at high speed.

“Well, they do things like that.”

I said it without thinking.

It cannot be said that Bell Meyer’s life has never been smooth. The reason she suffers from mental illness is because of the terrible past she suffered as a child.

However, it is one thing for her to go through a terrible past and to be drunk in a peaceful world.

Ukraine was peaceful.

That too for a long time, excessively.

If you look at the Quernen war itself, it’s actually more like a local war than a war.

In fact, troops from the Azov Islands landed on the territory of the principality and occupied the southern part, so it was called ‘war’.

Because the impact and scale were too small to be called a regular war.

In other words, except for some people in the south and those close to the border, most of them have lived a peaceful life for over a hundred years.

Peace is something that must be kept, but at the same time it obfuscates people’s judgment.

The whole country is in such a state, but I can’t say Bell Meyer is a particularly strange person.

There will be a war in Korea right away, so if you tell me to go out to fight, how many people do you think will obey?

I promise you.

At the beginning of the war, less than half out of ten?

However, that is not the case now.

War is going to happen anyway, and I had to prepare for that future in the time that was left.

“If you jump once, it will be different again. The feeling of flying is much better than I thought.”

“Yes, yes…… ?”

Unlike Bell Meyer, who still gave me a cold look of distrust, the other platoon commanders took it surprisingly calmly.

“It’s a class. You came up with a pretty interesting method for a Ukrnian soldier.”

“Ohhh!! As expected, Claude is the platoon leader!!”

Platoon commander Erwin Ruth diligently follows Claude carefully inspecting equipment. The platoon commander, Hilton Calia, was also silently wearing his equipment without making a fuss.

The same was true of Roxanna and Lumia, who corresponded to the company headquarters personnel. On the contrary, Roxanna was even excited.

“Flying in the sky!! I never thought that would be possible while I was alive!”

“Assault troops…… That means we are an elite unit, right? To live up to those expectations, I work even harder!!”

“Ah… ….”

Seeing the heat of his colleagues like that, Bell Mayer couldn’t just hide.

“If you are scared, I will jump with you. From now on, it will consist entirely of descent training.”

It wasn’t for nothing that Sonny Zeppelin treated the soldiers to delicious and sumptuous meals.

Right now, from today, the next day, full-scale descent training began.

After filming the 72-hour self-denial survival training, I came back, and I was ordered to climb into the sky on a strange weapon and fall as it is.

The soldiers who had been stabbed in the back of the head were as deadly as Bel Mayer.

“Well then…… Please.”

“Once you get the hang of it, it’s easy from then on.”

If you can’t avoid it, enjoy it.

In addition, with the existence of a rare cheat called ‘magic’, the descent training currently planned by the battalion commander and chief of staff is not even as difficult as the real airborne training.

All he did was to fall down and activate the intermediate wind magic, ‘Featherfoot’ at the right timing.

There is no training for the 11m model tower that humans feel the greatest fear.

There is no need to learn how to operate a parachute, which is extremely complicated.

Even if you learn how to operate the parachute so hard, you don’t have to worry about your lower body breaking down with a high probability the moment you land incorrectly.

‘This is good enough. If you attach an airborne medicine cabinet with this, that’s the Gaara medicine cabinet.’

I thought it would be so easy, but it was the first descent training.

“Descent!!!”

“Drop down drop down!!!”

“Now, Platoon Commander Bell, just look straight at me and jump down, okay?”

“Yes…… ! Yes ahhhhh !!! “

It’s not enough to let out an eardrum-busting scream as soon as you fall off the airship.

“Wait a minute!! Calm down!!! Bell!!!”

“Kyaaa!!!!! Mom!!!!!”

“Keah…… ! Town!!”

Bell Meyer slammed my face into my chest. A soft and supple touch that feels naked…….

But now was not the time to care about such things. Because I was falling in the middle of the day.