The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

87 – Bad Luck (4)

Sometimes, in my life prior to being possessed by this damn game, I witnessed a power plant explode.

All the forces who started infiltrating the thermal power plant in Gangwon-do at night were repulsed, but the bombs that had not yet been removed exploded, causing flames to rise from Unit 3.

A terrible disaster in which fire spread to surrounding facilities in an instant and caused enormous casualties.

The memories of that time and the scene unfolding in front of you now gradually overlap.

‘f*cked.’

It was just that one word. In the first place, this operation was wrong from the first premise. The problem was that both I and Colonel Sonny were only thinking of the Soviet Empire as a somewhat radical and insidious country.

No, I knew there was a skill called a mutant, but…… Didn’t I think I’d actually use it?

And, of course, that facility was this Limansk arsenal.

The operation, which was intended to be simply an assault force to subdue the facility and decorate it as the work of the ‘rebels’, was completely destroyed by the appearance of mutants.

It is as if the Soviet Empire has already lost all its cards. The powerful shame of the biological experiment, which had been tightly hidden, was revealed, and the pearl of omen that had been stolen from Ukraine was also taken back.

If it is the job of a ‘strong gambler’ who has nothing left in the end… ….

Turning the table over.

It is both a pity and an accident to annihilate even the records of one’s defeat.

“f*ck! f*ck!!”

Despite being in the presence of all kinds of officers, including the colonel, lust came out everywhere. Most were soldiers.

In a situation where lives were going back and forth right away, neither the officers nor the noncommissioned officers, who were the backbone of the unit, could say anything to the soldiers.

In fact, they must have already been hurling all sorts of swear words inside.

“If even the armory gets caught in the explosion, it’s really over! Elevate right now!”

Despite Sony Zeppelin’s urging, the pilot who took the nose of the airship was only sweating profusely.

“That is impossible…… !”

“Why is it impossible?”

“Originally, the maximum capacity of this airship is 100 people! Including the cargo!”

“By the way?”

“Hasn’t the number of people from the 3rd Battalion increased significantly since they were put on a different airship!? If that wasn’t enough, they robbed the arsenal and plundered equipment, and the number of people is already too much!”

No matter how much magic was incorporated, it was only natural that the airship would eventually use the buoyancy of the air when taking off.

Unlike when taking off, the weight to be lifted has increased, but there is no way that a quick take-off will be possible.

“I have to throw away all of my equipment and stuff right now!”

At the pilot’s desperate cry, Chief of Staff Major Joseph gave an order to the other company commanders.

“If any of the soldiers have taken useless loot, throw them outside right away! Even the guns and ammunition you brought from the arsenal!!”

“Yes, yep…… !!!”

As soon as the disgrace was given, Nikolai and Hilton quickly disappeared into the boarding compartment.

“But it’s too late, once the armory catches fire, then it’s really over!”

It’s even an arsenal.

Oil and gunpowder to run the production facilities were piled up everywhere, and from the point where the explosion had already started, it was really not long before the big explosion that would blow the entire facility down.

At that time.

“I, I, I can do it.”

Sergeant Roxanna Elim appeared with flowing pink hair. She stepped into her cockpit with a grip on her heart.

“Roxanna…… ! Are you okay!?”

Her expression was not good. She is a psychopathic patient. Still, she had a weak heart, so the hypoxia in her basement might have been fatal.

I grabbed Roxanna’s staggering body. But she gently pushed my hand away as if that kind of consideration was okay.

“If it were me, I could forcibly increase the engine power of this airship. Then…… Then, can you ascend faster?”

She made eye contact with her pilot. The pilot swallowed a dry gulp, then looked back and forth between me and Sonny Zeppelin and nodded to her.

“Wait, Roxanna! It doesn’t have to be Roxanna! I’m still not feeling well right now…… !!”

“Commander, only Sergeant Roxanna can do this. Even Colonel Sonny Zeppelin can’t.”

The pilot added in a firm voice.

“The magic crystals used to control airships are not ordinary magic crystals. It’s a piece of equipment crafted with a very sophisticated technique. In order to adjust the output of this crystal, very demanding conditions must be met.”

Must be a green mage of level 1 or higher.

The amount of mana stored in the magic core should be enough to handle the weight of the airship.

And finally, at least 90% of the response to the magic crystal must match.

“As far as I know, the only other person other than me who meets this condition is Sergeant Roxanna. Even if the other two conditions are satisfied, if the magic crystal does not respond well, the airship will lose power and crash, let alone rise.”

It was an outlier.

Really, it was something only Roxanna could do.

She staggered towards her crystal ball. A faint trickle of blood flowed from his bitten lip.

“I’ve been waiting for this day…… !! Because I was always in pain and caused trouble to others…… !!”

Her eyes were already hardened with determination. If it was someone else, of course she would have allowed it. Wasn’t there any reason to stop her?

But for me, Roxanna Elim had to continue to hesitate.

He is a patient with mental illness. A disease that can cause your heart to stop if you consume too much mana. With the unknown how much mana it will cost to soar this airship.

There is no guarantee that her heart won’t stop halfway through.

And besides, it wasn’t even in a good state. Isn’t she holding on to her heart and suffering? It means that he will use his mana once again in a situation where it is already too much.

Can even Roxanna handle it?

‘This is the only way.’

I hugged her tightly before Roxanna grabbed her magic crystal. Even though I was on a battlefield full of detachment just a moment ago, I could smell the warm scent of spring.

“Lord, company commander?!”

“Isn’t providing mana from a third party a problem in adjusting the Magic Crystal?”

When I asked the pilot directly, he immediately understood what I meant and answered.

“Yes. However, the magic efficiency will be drastically reduced. As far as I know, Sergeant Roxanna is a psychopath…… Can she handle that much mana?”

“Of course.”

“Wait, Lieutenant Enoch? If that’s the case, I can do it…… !!”

“Then, if the battalion commander collapses due to lack of mana, who will take responsibility? Please replenish just enough to keep me from dying after I pass out.”

I flatly turned down Sonny Zeppelin’s offer.

Unless anyone else knows, it was definitely possible for me.

As Roxanna’s personal doctor, I was ‘I’m a bastard’ with magical powers comparable to Roxanna’s.

Besides, Roxanne, I was a member of my platoon, and she is a member of my company. If I could help, she wanted to give in my power and not in anyone else’s.

Despite being critically ill, he is a true ‘company member’ who does not hesitate to prove himself as a soldier or a comrade.

I can’t just stare at her like that.

‘As a man or as a commander.’

I concentrated and resonated the mana with Roxanna’s magic core in her arms. A stream of her mana flows from top to bottom of her, down her fingertips and into Roxanna.

“Roxanna, do you believe me?”

“Squadron commander…… !!”

“It’s okay to run amok.”

Roxanna’s vibrating eyes stopped for an instant. Her gaze, which was looking at me, moved to the magical power crystal that powers the airship.

And then.

Roxanna put her hands on it.

Kiyiing!!

A green flash emanated from the magic crystal. The shimmering magic power is amplified and wraps around the entire airship.

Quaang!! A huge explosion occurred from the back as much as the mana was emanating from it. The air heated by intense heat oscillates and the airship shakes.

A change in the airflow had occurred.

“Hey, hey, hey…… !! Ugh!!!”

Roxanna’s mana was released to its maximum. I also fully opened her magic core to match her pace.

As if unblocking the entrance of a blocked dam, magical energy of enormous concentration and density ran through the entire body and poured into Roxanna’s magic core.

Then the altitude of the airship certainly began to rise noticeably. The ascent accelerates and follows a curved trajectory along the turbulent airflow, rising at high speed.

From now on, it was entirely up to the pilot to balance the airship so that it would not flow backwards or warp vertically.

“Hold tight!!!”

With her eyes closed like that, she focused her mind on her infusion of mana for several minutes.

How much mana did he pour? As her head started to hurt and her breathing began to speed up, she finally heard the thrilled pilot’s voice.

“All right, all right!! Stable altitude entered!!! Out of the blast!”

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I opened my eyes and looked behind me. Kwaaang!! As soon as we ascended the altitude, a mushroom cloud comparable to a nuclear explosion rose from the arsenal of Limansk.

Even if it was a little late, the airship would not have been able to escape.

Roxanna, too, removed her hand from her orb and caught her eye-catching explosion in her eyes. Her shoulders drooped as she shrank in tension.

“Ah, fortunately… ….”

Before she could finish her sentence, Roxanna collapsed.