Connected World's

Operation Phantom Force: Siege of Junois Castle

The Demon Kingdom, Sophia who as usual groaned in frustration as the endless pile of work began to make her scream in annoyance.

"Armgh! Why is there no end to this disgusting thing!"

Shouted Sophia when she saw the pile of documents that were growing more and more, the morning was quite bright, in the kingdom many residents of various races began to open with the strange humans.

Not a few of them seem to be happy to welcome and greet them in between the work they do.

'Grn ... Miss Rosella, if only she wasn't the queen I'd have scolded her a long time ago!'

Sophia protested in her mind when she had to undergo a job that normally would have Rosella in charge of this job.

'And also'

He glanced at the man who was working on the documents in the corner of this room. The man who called himself the person in charge of the strange human forces in this area of the kingdom, since the first time he was here, this man did not care at all about the racial differences that existed between them.

"If you have time to look at me, you should continue your work, Sophia"

"Jeez!?"

Caught glancing at him, Sophia immediately stammered unable to reply to what First Sergeant Alfred said.

'He is this'

Sophia was a little irritated by Alfred's relaxed attitude about insulting her.

"Miss Sophia, I have something to ask you"

"Huh .. what else?"

Alfred then stood up and walked towards Sophia's desk with a project proposal document that he wanted to submit to Sophia.

"What does this mean, Alfred?"

Sophia who was a little confused about the proposal given by Alfred, began to look at him with a look for an explanation.

"As my intention is, you must know about our presence in your castle grounds. So we want better ties with the citizens of this kingdom, the trick is we want to hire some citizens to be the bridge of communication between your kingdom and us so there are no more restrictions and gazes of suspicion that exist in the citizens"

"What do you think, Miss Sophia?"

Looking at Alfred's ideas, Sophia read each line of sentences carefully before giving her decision.

But it did not take long for him to give permission to them after seeing the potential that would arise from this idea.

The next day, February 27, 2023, the territory of the kingdom of Junois.

Sophia first saw some demi-humans recruited by them.

His eyebrows slightly raised when he saw the data of the recruits where three elves from the slums, three dwarves as well as two from the cat-human race recruited by them.

"What's the point of training them to read and write, Alfred?"

Seeing Alfred remain silent with some documents in this room, made him a little curious what this human being thought of by forging connections between kingdoms that were very different in terms of culture and economy.

Training of new recruits begins with training them physically where the recruits are required to undergo heavy semi-military training that is usually undertaken by new Marines.

"All of you! Don't protest too much and quickly do as I say! If you want to get out, you better do it now!"

Snapped a sergeant to the new recruits who seemed unprepared for the loud noise by the Sergeant.

"tsk..why do we have to be on the same page as these humans"

One of the elves seemed to be in disbelief when they were being scolded by that human.

"See, but they promise that if we get this done, they'll pay us"

The other elves seemed to answer him in an indifferent tone. It was true that this human was the one who gave a lot to their family, but to the elves, they still did not accept it if it had to be under the orders of humans.

"Why are you daydreaming about the new recruit base! Move quickly!"

The repulsive sergeant made the two gasp in shock and started running along with the others.

The gazes of the royal knights seemed to ask, for what their training is, yelled at and forced to do physical exercise.

The training was almost similar to the training of royal knights, but they never knew that people from the commoners could get into training like this made the knights a little astonished.

One full day they are trained with enough weight where they are taught to obey commands, withstand pressure, and can read well.

Around the base area of the Marines in the kingdom of Junois, one by one the Marines began to train with new recruits from the kingdom where they showed what to do in certain situations.

First Sergeant Alfred along with Sophia, began talking about an expedition for a team of Marines in the northernmost part of the kingdom of Junois which is a warning about dangerous A-class beasts.

"No way, I don't let you go there"

"And can you explain why?"

"I told you, it's too dangerous for anyone. I can't risk it if something happens to you"

"Is that the only basis for banning us from going there?"

"Well..... You, listen not what I mean!?"

Frustrated, Sophia slams her hand against the table when she sees Alfred who has no problem at all about the existence of dangerous creatures that are there.

"What should I say to Miss Rosella if you go there and when you come back, one of your friends gets hurt!? Do you want to make my life harder!?"

"Hoo..."

Seeing Sophia who was so dizzy facing Alfred, he simply obeyed what Sophia had said for a while.

The next day, Alfred, who was currently in the Camp where the officers led the Combat Engineer platoon, began to read a report from Delta Headquarters about the situation at Headquarters

A report about the Navy being towed back to their world tomorrow, then about Rosella who's at the base with Jonathan, and then about the "agenda" small that is implied in the document

'Sending expedition teams to the northernmost region where volcanic activity is still active and according to Sophia's claim where dangerous creatures live, it might be the best place to experiment with the minerals in the world'

'Solar System that is in the arrangement of habitat zones for living things, as well as the condition of the star according to astronomers at the headquarters, is still very young, is still very young, making this world is the most suitable place to be a reserve world if something happens to the earth. I'm a little interested in how Musk would react if he knew about the world'

Amidst the busy Marines in building this temporary headquarters, some new recruits also appear to still be trained by the Sergeant in charge of their training

"Sir, I'd like to report on the aerial observation"

One of the Corporal-ranked Marines walked into his tent with a transcript of documents he handed over to Alfred.

"Is there anything interesting, Corporal"

"Ehm... Not interesting, sir. More like something strange"

"Any?"

Alfred then read the document in which reconnaissance reports from the navy reported on a large movement some 278 kilometers south of the Kingdom.

"According to the navy, the movement was believed to be a hostile act from a neighboring kingdom"

"Is there any confirmation from the base about what we should do?"

"So far the Lieutenant General has told us not to get involved in anything"

"......"

Alfred was a little troubled about what he heard, he then ordered all the marines to remain alert and show no suspicious activity other than being on combat alert at the crucial time.

Meanwhile, in the room of Lieutenant General, Norman when dealing with the Admiral in charge of two groups of Carrier/Ship Attack/Carrier Strike Group 8 and 9, respectively, exchanged glances when reports from E-2C Hawkeye arrived at Letjend's study.

"Commander General, I'm sure you know what's going to happen, right?"

"...."

The admiral gave a pretty sharp look to Lieutenant General Norman when the two of them had already grasped the situation that would happen if this was left unchecked.

"I know that, it's just that we can't move now, you'll be scheduled to return tomorrow to your position, with you going back there, our position will be much more extra vulnerable to attack"

"...."

What the Normans say is very reasonable, the only absolute defense at the base is the Aegis ships as well as the air assets of the navy, he said, air assets owned by the marines at this headquarters are only 4 A-10A Thunderbolt II which is quite obsolete and 10 Apache as assault assets.

If Norman acted now, it was likely that the headquarters would be attacked without anyone noticing at all.

The only reason he could deploy his air assets to the region, was if the navy was still at the base.

...****************...

Afternoon in the FOB, the administrative district of Rosella de Voir Junois.

"Sergeant, do we have to be on guard tonight?"

The only air defense they have is the Phalanx Ciws, they also have no combat vehicle assets other than the Humvee and M2-Bradley.

If a large-scale invasion occurs, it is possible that their headquarters will be first besieged and destroyed.

'No matter what weapons we have here, it's still a matter of numbers we've lost a lot'

"Copral, tell all units to alternate guard for 4 hours at a time, say for alert status 2, all weapons are released, you are given permission to shoot at hostile-looking targets"

"Understand Sir!"

As he goes back to his position, Alfred starts turning on the radio trying to get help from Headquarters if the situation is going crazy.

But the response he got was very disappointing for him.

["We cannot send any assistance to your area"]

"Sir, we can be surrounded if you don't send help to us"

["We know that, but for now we can't send anything to your place, until the next instruction, hang on, The order must come from Lieutenant General, here Command, out"]

When the communication ended, Sergeant Alfred almost slammed his radio when he got a response that greatly upset him with this

'Blank egg'

In the darkness of the night, the residents who were fast asleep had no idea what was going to happen tonight.

Aided Marines with new recruits who seemed clueless about the situation exchanged a glance before they returned to watch around, the new recruits who were armed with arrows and swords looked on guard not knowing what or why.

Rosella herself, who was in the Human Headquarters, seemed a little restless, somehow her feelings said that something bad was going to happen.

"Tonight is too quiet"

He said as he looked at the clear night sky.

...****************...

Just on March 1, 2023 the special administrative region of Rosella, 00:34, in the distance appeared tens of thousands of armed men from the Vunois kingdom moving towards the Demon Kingdom.

"Mufu....."

A kind of white-colored energy enveloped him, the energy then formed a sword that was very shiny had a very real holy aura to be seen by mortal beings.

"Look at me Dad, I'll show you how great we are"

They were moving towards that Kingdom in a very neat formation.

Meanwhile in Sergeant Alfred's tent, he gets a report from the Marines who are at the forefront.

"Sir, the rekon has confirmed the attack will come to the kingdom from the east. We can't mobilize all our troops without arousing suspicion from Sophia"

"...."

Looking at the deteriorating situation, Alfred could only think of the most correct option, which was ...

"Tell the Marines for immediate combat alert, take 2 platoons to the east and defend the area, take with you the M2-Bradley as an extra force"

"Ready sir!"

The Marines quickly formed their way to the area to be attacked, two Bradley armored vehicles were deployed to be heavy bullet support.

Meanwhile, Sophia who was asleep at her desk suddenly gasped when she felt something crossing the barrier she made.

'Assault!?'

Sophia quickly stood up and ran out of the room towards the knight leader in the castle, but in the corridor many knights were already on standby before she could say anything.

"Miss"

The knight leader looked at Sophia with a serious look.

"Yes, we're under attack"

In the sky, Sophia saw something that seemed to shine illuminating the distance.

("Flares out!")

The Marines fired flares of light into the distance using an 81mm-caliber mortar.

The Marines gazing through the binoculars saw in the distance there were at least a few hundred humans there, but a little strange of them.

'Didn't anyone report saying they numbered in the thousands?'

Jolted at it, the Marines quickly turned to the west where the flares were fired into the distance.

'Damn it!'

In the western area, Princess Tiara along with 50 thousand troops seemed ready to invade the Rosella region.

"O Holy Spirit, give your servant a blessing.... Fire Bullet"

Five objects sized like rocks big enough to be shot towards the Marine base in the western area.

[Beeps...Beeps...Beeps.... Incoming up! Incoming up! Incoming up! Beeps.....Beeps.....Beeps... Incoming up! Incoming up! The incoming!]

The air defense alarm went off loud as the object began to approach the headquarters.

The 20-millimeter bullet was fired by the Phalanx Ciws/CRAM/Counter Rocket Artillery & Missile platform.

The bullet interrupted the five objects that almost made the headquarters sink in the fire field.

[Beep.beep... Incoming up! Incoming up! The incoming!]

The alarm went off again this time ten objects came to the headquarters making the defense system instantly overwhelmed in intercepting the object.

Nine out of ten objects were shot down, while another landed in one of the towns that had been hit by the quake sent the entire city into a panic.

"Everything! Keep perimeter!!"

Shouted Alfred over the radio to all units to be on combat alert.

"Copral launch mortar on that bastard!"

"Yes sir!"

Mortars were quickly fired at them but a sort of invisible shield protected the enemy by a woman covered in white energy.

"What's the!?"

As the enemy approached at a distance of 900 meters, the Marines quickly formed a line to fire at them.

"Copral, order the new unit to evacuate the citizens immediately! If Sophia's against it, tell me that's my order!"

"Sir!"

The corporal quickly ran towards the new recruits who were pensive to see otherworldly warriors fighting for their city.

"You guys, come with me! We have to evacuate the citizens!"

A little stiff in his language, the Corporal quickly instructed those who were lucky they could understand the meaning of his words.

"Shoot 'em!"

The 12.7-caliber turret, operated by the Infantry Machinery Gunner, began raining down on enemy positions with a barrage of bullets carried by various calibers by Marines who had seen the enemy enter firing range.

[Incoming! Incoming up! The incoming!]

The alarm once again sounded, this time fifteen objects came towards them, the CRAM defense system fired at the object but again two objects managed to pass through the defense and hit the other residents' settlements.

"Safufu ... It's gonna be very interesting"

Tiara laughs when she sees a man protecting a kingdom that should be an enemy of mankind.

'The weapons are very interesting'

He thought as he looked at some of his troops being killed instantly by the strange magic they were using.

"Silverfufu...Ahahaha!"

"You're all going to die today!"