Connected World's

Operation Phantom Force: Power Projections

Amidst the fanfare from the attack from the Vunois royal forces, the Marines coming from the Combat Engineer and the Mechanized Infantry Regiment, continued to blindly fire on the positions of the Tiara forces.

Bullets of various calibers were aimed at Tiara's forces that were approaching the castle where the evacuation process was still ongoing with the Marines leading the evacuation along with Sophia and the royal knights.

"Sophia, we have to attack that human"

One of the knights looked at the atmosphere outside where the strange warrior looked to be fighting for this kingdom, feeling a little strange.

In his mind, he had always assumed that humans were a race that would always be hostile towards them, but for the knights when they saw firsthand how the humans were quickly evacuating the citizens regardless of the danger that existed for themselves.

Sophia who was like-minded with the knights could only try to quickly evacuate the citizens out of the kingdom with the help of strange humans along with the new soldiers they recruited from this kingdom.

"They're these"

Sophia began to open up to this new human who was very clearly seen worried about the people who were here.

'They're....'

'... not only did they not care about interracial matters, they even dared to risk their lives for this kingdom. What they got from us, actually'

Sophia was at a loss for words when she thought about this alien world's humans.

"Don't panic, for parents, don't force yourself to run!"

One of the Humans seemed to help the elderly half-human race walk without feeling any racial difference from the man

'I think this is what makes Miss Rosella sure of them'

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

Delta Headquarters, March 1, 2023, 00:53 Early morning

Corporal Jonathan, who had just finished writing a detailed report on the Journal of the expedition he conducted with Alpha Company to Staff Sergeant, began walking towards the barracks located in the westernmost part of this headquarters.

Right in the Motorpool parking area a man appeared to be leaning on the hood of a car with a suspicious look at Jonathan.

First Sergeant John, 0311 Rifleman, of the 44th Mechanized Infantry Regiment.

"Jonathan, can we talk to you for a second"

Looking at John's expression, Jonathan slightly guessed what he would talk about.

"Did you deliberately ask me to speak here without anyone listening, Sergeant One John?"

"Heh... You're so stiff"

Seeing the mocking expression from him, Jonathan was a little uneasy about being made by someone like him.

"Can we get to the point?"

John began to look at him with a serious gaze that clearly said something was going on at this headquarters.

"You must be aware of what Lieutenant General is thinking by bringing a special guest to this base, don't you, Corporal?"

"A little, yes I understand"

"That's how it is, at the moment, our position is very much in tune with the presence of this new world, but we cannot make significant movements without sufficient reason to bring us to Congress, he said, with you forming a bond with that race, few of you have managed to create a bridge between our positions with them"

"But it's not unreasonable why should we bother sending that much logistics to Rosella's place?"

"Heh... You still think that the numbers we give are far too large than the help we gave Ukraine last year, so naive"

"....."

John began to gaze into the night sky where a bright atmosphere filled with stars lit up tonight.

"The world is full of mysteries, about how the Solar System of this world works, about the existence of living things between races, as well as the most important...... The fact of how they can summon humans from our world to their world is only using techniques like magic. You must have thought that our government would use this world as a source of exploitation, right?"

"Am I wrong about that?"

John smiled mockingly at him which very clearly made Jonathan's eyebrows twitch slightly.

"Listen to this, Sergeant Major Jonathan Crish, I speak of this as your former subordinate. Our world is almost completely independent of resources anymore, and if this portal were known to everyone, we wouldn't care at all, but the problem is the balance of world politics, if all countries know about the world, then our only enemies are those who try to threaten us by trying to use this world as our primary access resource"

"You know what would happen if everyone tried to come here, don't you"

The serious look from John instantly made him speechless. He was right about that, the only reason their world had no war was because the struggle for resources was no longer considered important to the world, the only thing the world needs most is the most advanced microchip war, so a trade war on the pen by government is the most important thing in the world today.

After relations between the United States and Russia deteriorated as a result of the Ukrainian invasion last year, China wanted or at least had an agenda to invade Taiwan, then the stability of the world is at stake once again since the cold war ended.

Using this world as a reserve in case of a nuclear war, was the most reasonable option since their world was on the verge of a third world war.

That's the most reasonable agenda for the Pentagon right now.

"Do you want to tell me that we're going to show them "something" to consider the inhabitants of this world so as not to mess with us?"

"Not really"

This time Jonathan was speechless when he heard John's response.

"You better be prepared, there's a chance that what you just thought was gonna happen"

John's memory before he walked left Jonathan deep in his own thoughts.

He does not need to be told about what is going on at the headquarters and the posibility he will be dropped, he said, just looking at how this base looks combat alert where normal Marines who like usual relax and insult each other, actually look serious with combat equipment installed in their bodies.

"Why are you daydreaming, Jonas?"

"Aah!"

He gasped in shock as someone spoke from behind him, as he turned around, a woman with scarlet red hair having a pair of horns on her head seemed to stare at him with a suspicious look.

"Don't surprise me, Miss Rosella"

"humps.... Why are you calling me that again!?"

His protest in a funny enough tone.

Jonathan chuckled a little at how Rosella could sometimes behave like a child.

"Pff.... Sorry"

"ah! Why laugh!"

This time his protest was quite loud to Jonathan who was laughing at him.

"That's it, I don't care anymore"

Rosella turned her face with both hands folded as if saying she was sulking, what a normal reaction he had to give when he saw the lady from the nobility who was not accepted being summoned with a tone of honor by an ordinary marine seemed to be, it was clear he would laugh a little at that attitude.

"Why are you here, Rosella? Can't sleep?"

Jonathan quickly changed the subject so he wouldn't get angry with him, because if the Lieutenant General knew this, he could be swallowed up by it.

"Oh! I just remember now, do you want to go somewhere?"

"Why?"

"No.... It's just, why are they... (While staring at the Marines who looked ready with all the equipment in the Helicopter ready to take off at any time) ... They look serious?"

'The info is good'

Jonathan thought when he saw Rosella who seemed to know a little about what was going to happen.

"No, it's just regular practice"

He said casually as he walked towards the barracks.

"Hey, you must be lying, right!?"

Rosella quickly followed him from behind trying to demand a definitive answer from him.

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

FOB, Administrative Region of Junois Kingdom.

01:00 AM

["Incoming! Incoming up! Coming!"]

"Revelation!!!!"

Shouted Alfred as dozens of fireballs came, the fire field quickly burned the Marine post thankfully no one was hit.

"Keep shooting at them!!"

"Sir! Barrel overheating!"

Shouted Machine Gunner as the .50 Cal barrel nearly melted as it fired hundreds of bullets nonstop.

The CRAM air defense system also died instantly from its barrel being destroyed by relentless firing.

"The perimeter has fallen! Everybody back!"

The Marines are in chaos after an explosion from a fireball hits an electrical generator for the CRAM defense system, immediately move back to the last line of defense where they will stand here until they are completely defeated.

The Tiara forces, who were still pushing forward despite the loss of thousands of troops due to Marine fire, still continued to advance undaunted at all.

"Tsk.... Too long"

Seeing his army still in the protection of his magic shield that could be penetrated by the strange human attack, Tiara began to form a giant magic circle located under his feet.

"Let's get this over with"

The Marines shooting at them immediately gasped in shock upon seeing the magic circle, then within seconds they simply vanished as if they had never been there.

"What's the!?"

But it didn't take long for Alfred to realize what was happening, behind the Marines' last line of defense, Tiara's forces suddenly appeared right then and there.

"EVERYTHING SHOOTS!!"

"Aahaha! Die you humans!"

Tiara laughed when she saw these humans starting to attack them but her army that was very close to them made this human immediately overwhelmed against all of them.

["This is Juliet 5-6, our position is overrun, request immediate air support, Over!"]

One of the JTAC/Joint Terminal Attack Controller, started calling air support when their situation was severely pinched.

"Don't insult me as a traitor!"

Tiara darted to Alfred who rained down on her with 556 bullets, the battle that was on the outskirts of the settlement was quickly devouring the houses into a burning fire as Tiara unleashed its power.

"Armgh!!!"

The marines that were burned alive immediately made the other Marines begin to disperse into a more individual formation where the estimated one marine had to face 60 enemies at once.

"Don't let me!"

One of the knights from the demon race who had arrived instantly intercepted Tiara from casting her magic using the great sword that was in her hand.

"Human Lord, you have my respect for protecting our people"

"Let us repay your kindness"

The other knights began to arrive with wings removed from their bodies.

"Aahaha!!!! This is what I like!"

Tiara with hysterical laughter began to attack him, sword fighting echoed around, Alfred who was near death if the knight did not come, began to curse in his mind.

'Chuck! We can finish here!'

One by one the Marines seemed to start running out of ammunition as they fired relentlessly at any enemy trying to get close to them.

The distance of the battle became 50 meters where Alfred had to dodge and shoot simultaneously.

Sophia also appeared to have been present at the battle against the Tiara who easily faced the three great-bodied knights of the demon race.

"Everyone take cover!"

Shouted Alfred when he saw Tiara cast his magic, once again a giant fireball was created and this time dozens of houses drowned in the fire fields.

In the south of the kingdom, the Marines, along with the new recruits, are trying to get the panicked citizens out of the kingdom.

However the battle that had engulfed this one kingdom made their efforts a little difficult as the enemy had already started to chase after them.

"Damn it! You are! Quickly get them out of here!"

Jerk the corporal at the elves who looked panicked when they saw the humans from the Vunois kingdom were about to slaughter them.

"Open fire!"

Five Marines quickly fired their M4A2 guns at the enemy trying to get closer to them.

"Luna, get out of here!"

An Elf who becomes a recruit soldier from the Marines tries to prevent his daughter from entering the fight.

"Dad, I have to fight!"

"Luna! Listen to my words!"

"But"

"Go away quickly!!"

Snapping the Elf to Luna who insisted on helping the human, the speechless Luna immediately fell silent to her, they along with other citizens almost all came out of the kingdom leaving the Marines who still remained where they were shooting at enemies who had nothing to give up on their minds.

"The danger!"

One of the Recruits threw his body at the Marines when he saw the fireball coming towards them, the two marines immediately crashed instantly but for the recruit was ill-fated he was burned alive.

"Stupid!"

Snapped the Marines while trying to extinguish the fire that burned them.

As soon as a gunshot rang out, the Marines quickly turned their heads to who pulled the trigger.

"What are you doing motherfucker!"

The Corporal who went missing in anger instantly hit a Sergeant who shot right in the head of the recruit who caught fire that spontaneously killed him

"Keep your emotions Marines! Do you want to end up like him!!"

"......"

The other Marines tried to get rid of their emotions for a while and continued firing at the approaching enemy.

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

The room of Lieutenant General Norman.

As Norman read the emergency report from the Warrant Officer, he began to look seriously at the officer, Admiral Switzerland who saw Norman's expression instantly knew what he was thinking.

"When to move"

The Warrant officer then walked out of the room together with Norman, Switzerland itself remaining silent for a while in his seat

'I thought this was his plan'

'Under the terms of the Jurisdiction, the armed forces are prohibited from conducting large-scale operations in foreign territory without justifiable reason in court, I'm sure Norman was deliberately waiting for a time when civilians were killed and one of the blood of the American people who were killed, he said, so the reason for counter-attack invasion with the aim of eliminating insurgency can be done'

Switzerland then walked to another office in the building where he began contacting the XO Carrier Strike Group 9 Mothership on standby.

"Here Command, Permission granted"

Headquarters immediately on full alert, hundreds of marines immediately boarded their respective vehicles, the Marine troops are carried through 5 Blackhawk, and the Marine, The 4 CH-53E Super Stallion and 6 UH-1 Venom were ready to take off when all the marines had boarded the helicopter.

In other areas, 5 AH-64D along with 7 AH-1Z Vipers are also waiting for takeoff instructions.

Operation Center Room

"Gentlemen, the kingdom of Rosella de Voir Junois is in danger, our Marines are protecting the city, now they are desperately waiting for us. All of you, carry out this mission well"

The command room containing all the officers in various positions began to stare at the screen of their respective laptops where they waited for instructions to start the operation.

Meanwhile on the helicopter runway, Jonathan who was ready to climb into the helicopter directly intercepted by Rosella with a face full of anger.

"You didn't say anything on purpose, did you?"

With a murderous tone, Rosella threatened him as if he was ready to slash Jonathan's neck right then and there.

Jonathan who did not want to comment on it could only nod to that question.

"Yes"

Instantly a sword was created that was directly aimed at his neck but Jonathan did not budge at all.

The Marines who saw it immediately aimed their guns at Rosella, but Jonathan quickly raised his hand towards the marines as a sign not to do anything.

"Miss Rosella de Voir Junois"

"What do you want to say, Lowly Man"

"Right if I knew something, but I dare to assure you, none of your citizens will be deliberately killed for no reason, I dare to assure you"

"And what makes you think that I can trust your words?"

Rosella's aura thickens, the Marines on the spot begin to encircle Rosella with their guns ready to fire.

"I bet, if you want, you can take my life later after this is over"

Seeing the face of Jonathan who did not care about it makes Rosella must refrain from wanting to kill them all who are here.

"If you dare to deceive me......"

A very thick killing aura made the Marines ready to shoot right then and there, when they saw Jonathan who was not budging at all about the threat, calmly shrugged his shoulders while looking at the helicopter.

"If we have time to talk here, we'd better spend it when we're done dealing with them"

"Humpy"

At once, a pair of wings were created on Rosella's back, within seconds Rosella floated in the air and just before she flew away Rosella stared at Jonathan once more.

"I'll chase you to hell even if you dare to trick me again, you remember that"

"Yes.yes, it's gone there"

Jonathan immediately boarded the helicopter as if he did not care about Rosella's threat, seeing Jonathan's attitude like that some of the marines were a little amazed by him.

("Hawkeye, this is Phantom 1, Targeting is complete")

In space one E-2C Hawkeye aircraft looks to oversee the area around the kingdom which is in the middle of a fierce fight.

at least 3 squadrons (36 aircraft) of F/A 18 appeared to begin lowering altitude after takeoff from the Mothership.

On the other hand, 2 A-10A Thunderbolt with 2 A-10B Warthogs also began to enter the combat area.

Jonathan, along with the other Marines, was quietly waiting for them to be dropped off at the combat site.

'I swear I think I'll die'

No one knows that Jonathan is still sweating coldly after being threatened by Rosella for not telling him about the situation in the kingdom.

'I have to find a way to let him not kill me'

The cold sweat that Jonathan felt only he knew, but for the other marines they assumed that Jonathan was some kind of stubborn Marine.

'Jarhead's'