Walking forward became a herculean task, Clark felt like he was walking through a trial ground filled with pins and needles.
He needed to activate his exotic boots to prevent himself from tripping.
Every booming sound made from the battle left him feeling light-headed and dizzy, the vibrations went through his body, penetrating his organs and making his blood abnormally active.
He was not participating in the battlefield yet, but the intensity reaching him already forced his brain into overdrive, pumping adrenaline surges through his body as he felt the urge to throw himself into the fray immediately.
The 3 soldiers leading him did not take him to the battlefield, they took him through a hidden tunnel that led underground.
As soon as he entered the underground hidden base, 2 of the soldiers left while the leading one took him to a room.
The soldier brought out his badge with a solemn look on his face to indicate his rank. “General Imo
As soon as the hour elapsed, all the 3rd rank and 4th rank high-grade soldiers of the Spartan republic that were called gathered together in a room.Almost all of them were either external soldiers of the republic or those who were assigned as leaders of various territories. Every internal soldier of the Spartan army was already embroiled in the ongoing battle.Not all the external soldiers of the republic were here, some were too far away to arrive immediately but they were surely on their way.In a country-wide war like this, the Spartan republic did not leave any stone unturned that could turn the tides in their favor.All of the soldiers gathered already completed their preparations. Not only were they armed to the teeth physically, but their psychological state was also already finetuned to welcome the atmosphere of war that would embrace them soon.A solemn atmosphere was among them as they entered the room.Following them in, Clark fe
In the ongoing battle, the soldiers of both sides were already showing signs of fatigue but neither side could rest. Like it was instinct to them already, they just swung their weapons repeatedly at each other. The Mocan soldiers were determined to breach the Presidential Villa and deal damage, while the Spartans were adamant to protect the symbol of honor of their country. The damage, vibrations, and loud sounds induced from the battle alone were enough to make a normal human disabled. Despite these extreme conditions, the soldiers from both sides persevered, partly because of the protective gadgets that they wore and partly because they were getting used to it. Amid this tug of war, a loud sound suddenly reverberated in the air that was able to attract attention despite the other cacophony of sounds. Whoosh! The first shuttle vessel moved through the air at an extremely high speed before it was deposited deep inside the Mocan ranks a
5th day of the Mocan-Spartan War.The first 2 days of the invasion were the days of shock and surprise, the next 2 days were the days of realization and despair to the normal Spartan citizens, while to the soldiers it was the days of the retaliation.On the 5th day, today, the battle at the Presidential Villa was still raging on. The only difference was that both armies now rotated shifts to rest, recover their strength, and battle again.The Spartan soldiers were able to hold on and stabilize the harrowing situation a bit, but they were still slowly losing ground to their enemies.On the 3rd day, the Mocan soldiers tried, making use of the advantage given to them by their 5 warships to batter hard at the Spartans but the defense of the Presidential Villa still held.Every other day, the defense of the Presidential Villa slowly withered. This was because as the Spartan war resources were slowly exhausted, their counterparts only revealed more.
In one of the underground shelters in Vatican City, the civilians huddled together in a huge hall, afraid of staying alone in the different cabin-like rooms built in the shelter for them. At this moment, the civilians had feelings of sorrow, fear, and horror for what tomorrow or even today had for them. The past 5 days have been the most hellish in some of their lives. Packed together in this underground shelter, they could not sleep nor rest as the sounds of the ongoing battle battered at their eardrums. The soldiers guarding them already offered them earmuffs, but it did little in alleviating the fear and trepidations in their hearts. The earthquake-like vibrations of the battle did not help matters either as it only made them more anxious and scared. Their nerves were stretched taut always, even in their sleep, they had no rest as they dreamt of Mocan soldiers storming this shelter and killing them all. The parents shivered while tr
6TH day of the war.Inside the Spartan Presidential Villa now was a scenario of solemnity and silence, but outside was the exact opposite as the fierce war pushed by the Mocans kept raging on.At the main underground shelter where most of the diplomatic leaders hid, anxiety, fear, and anger were the main feeling as these men of power vented in different ways.After battling unrelentingly for 6 days with the same intensity and ferocity, it could be said that the Spartan defense was already dwindling.During this duration, tens of thousands of soldiers already died from both sides but neither side cared about the loss as one side was prepared to protect their home while the other side was adamant in invading.At this moment, the dome-shaped defense structure protecting the Presidential Villa already revealed cracks in different places. It won’t be long now till it was destroyed completely.After repeated bombardment by the Mocan warships
“This is Sparta…”The old man stood in a daze as the word of the President reverberated in his mind. He wanted to speak again but when he focused, he saw no one, the President was gone.Bzzz!Outside in the battlefield, thunder seemed to streak through the skies as another shot from the main canon of the Leviathan bore a deep hole through the already weakened defense of the dome structure.As the Spartan soldiers frantically rushed to cover up the opening revealed in their formation by this breach, a figure suddenly flew out through the hole.The battle continued, but thousands of eyes looked up to see this figure.“Leonidas!”At the location of the battlefield where the 2 Mocan Commanders fought, their eyes constricted in slight trepidation and fear as soon as they saw this figure.Commander Rashford and Commander Arthur did not show much of a surprise on seeing the President. From the proceeding
Seeing the outcome of the clash that just happened, both the Spartan and Mocan armies were thrown into a daze amid their fierce battle.Disbelief and horror could be felt from the Mocan army, seeing their 2 seemingly invisible Commanders get so beaten in just 2 minutes and forced out of the battlefield sprouted all the horrors in their hearts.They felt like they were hallucinating, but they knew that it was real.For the Spartan army, the soldiers only felt reverence and adoration on seeing this. The morale which was originally slowly dying rose again, spiked, and blazed like raging wildfire in harmattan.“For Sparta!” They roared in unison.Then, like they received a strange buff, they became more effective on the battlefield immediately as they automatically switched their strategy from defense to offense.Every single Spartan soldier on the battlefield suddenly started punching harder, the ranged soldiers strangely started sh
On witnessing 2 of their warships being destroyed in the span of just over a dozen minutes, horror gripped the hearts of the Mocan army. Disbelief filled their hearts but they knew that they were not hallucinating. For years, the Mocan and even the Spartan soldiers believed that only warships could destroy warships. In their perspective, those were war weapons of technology that already transcended human capabilities. Now, this notion in their heart was ruthlessly cut off and replaced. Seeing the 2 crashed warships, they felt fear grip their soul. Despite the shock, the Mocan war leaders were able to react instantly. Immediately, they improvised in even more drastic ways. The Mocan army did not dare leave anything to luck and chances again. Blue fire spewed out of the sides of the enormous Leviathan, pouring out enough heat to propel it with speed as it immediately rushed to the side of the nearest warship closest to the Spartan President.
6 months ago, the sky turned red which according to world leaders signified the start of the war that would decide the fate of humanity.2 months prior, the news was finally publicized, spreading worldwide panic but with all the most powerful world leaders working together, the panic was easily curbed and order was restored.According to the government, humanity was not hopeless, they had heroes in the form of their soldiers and elite soldiers.Not only that, humanity had a superhero, the great Elite Commander Clark Pendragon. After the special training started, a fuse seemed to have been switched on as the Spartan soldier experienced a period of rapid growth.With veteran Elite Commanders around to guide him and with every resource he needed available, he encountered no bottlenecks, he improved at a superhuman speed never recorded since the human race was born.In just 4 months, he broke through 2 times, going all the way to the Elite-grade rank.
A month later, in the Gen. Clark Pendragon Mansion.At the big balcony attached to the mansion, Clark stood, looking out into the distance as a lot of things went through his mind. The past one month has been the best in his life, and he was grateful for it.Despite it being the best in his life, as a 4th rank high-grade soldier now, his intuition told him that something was happening.As a high-grade soldier and mercenary, things happened everyday around him but he knew that this was not the normal happenings, his intuition told him that this was far higher than anything that he has encountered before.And after making connections from the recent happenings, from his famous marriage ceremony, to the big 5 jointly broadcasting it, a lot of other things and now the Spartan President personally calling for him, he confirmed his guess.Something big was happening, it was just that no one deemed it right to inform him about it yet. As a man
Vatican City Central Church, General Clark Street. This was the church where the big things were happening for today. Not only people from all over the Spartan republic, even esteemed guests from foreign high-grade countries came to grace this occasion. Today was the day of Vatican City hero’s marriage ceremony. After 22 years as a single, General Clark Pendragon was finally ready to tie the nut with his fiancée. The name of the street where the ceremony was commencing was given and commissioned a few days after Clark became a General. Some of the most esteemed guests attending the marriage ceremony were the legendary President of the Spartan republic, Leonidas, and the armor tycoon, the billionaire Mr. Calibri of the Dakran republic. These 2 people were such powerful and well-known personalities in their own rights that their attendance alone shot the attention being given to the marriage ceremony to the highest point. Not only that,
“Leonidas, you wish to attend?”Hearing that, the Spartan President sighed, exasperated. “If you were not my mentor, I would have probably fired you already. Cough…, sorry for that but I’m really going, what’s the big deal?”“You’re really asking me that right now? Of course, there’s a big deal. Apart from military burials, do you know the last time you have for social gatherings?”“I dunno, probably a decade or 2”.“No…, 4 decades! 4 whole decades! You get that?” The old man emphasized by waving his hands vigorously, showing 4 fingers at the powerful soldier.“Suddenly going to a social event after such a long time staying at home, what do you think will be people’s reaction. They may feel that something is happening, they may even panic”.“And just because he’s a 4th rank high-grade soldier does not change anythin
A day after the reunion with her family, Sonia took permission with her parents before going on the first official date with her boyfriend. It was a date, but they just wanted to spend more time together and close to each other. The few years apart was torment to them, now that they had the opportunity, they wanted to make up for it by all means. At first, staying together left them feeling awkward but they soon got over it and started reliving the feelings of a few years ago. For the destination for their first date, none of them planned for it as they were both individuals who have never interacted with the opposite sex in such fashions before now. As the only daughter of a famous billionaire, other billionaire sons already tried courting her in the past but she simply didn’t find them appealing enough, so she always ignored and avoided them. After just a day of staying with Clark, her brother, and her parents in her childhood home, she now
Among the 3 Pirate Gods in the Sahara, though none of them never publicly claimed the spot as the strongest, the Black Pirate God was the one most recognized by pirates as the strongest. After him was the powerful Red Goddess Pirate, then the Lilac Pirate God. Compared to the first 2, the Lilac Pirate God was on the more glaringly weaker side but he still had the strength to back his title. At this moment, in the Black God Pirate City, a surprising piece of news was being circulated. Pirate Queen Anamel was dead, and Pirate Queen Cobra was secretly a student of the Red Goddess. Not only that, the most shocking piece of news that took the city by storm was that of Pirate Queen Cobra’s intention to leave the Sahara and settle in normal human settlements outside. … “Is this news verified?” A deep voice asked with suppressed anger in an underground room with far better living conditions than most of the others out there in the desert. “Yes
Though they both wanted to just remain in each other’s embrace forever, Clark and Sonia knew that they were still in a pirate city and what it meant. With reluctance, they quickly left the city with Arthur.Even if they tried to cover it up, it was impossible so they didn’t bother. In minutes, the news of Pirate Queen Anamel’s death spread through the pirate city and beyond.For long, Clark has always been worried about his reaction when he finally saw Sonia again but he was surprised when he did. It was like they never separated; it was like they’ve lived through all these years together.15 minutes later, they got sufficiently far away into the desert from the pirate city so they finally had the time to speak things out.Sonia brought out the stolen pistol first, which Clark handed over to Arthur. After this, she finally started detailing her encounters after Clark asked.According to her, after the fierce battle on her fa
While Arthur asked the pirate, Clark already went to work as he closed his eyes to focus. As experienced soldiers, they already put a lot of contingencies in place during their tour around the pirate city.Even if they wanted to catch some fun, it was too unrealistic for them to just keep touring without setting anything in place.With his implant, Clark immediately accessed the hidden cameras that they placed around the city, most especially this bar. It didn’t take him long; he saw a hooded female going out through the bar’s back door.“Found our target”.While muttering to Arthur, Clark already turned to storm out of the bar. Arthur simply knocked the 2 pirates out before storming out also.In seconds, they were out of the bar’s main structure.…A few meters away from the bar, a hooded lady walked through the streets at a leisure pace as she kept a close but alert eye on her surroundings.<
The next day, Clark and Arthur woke up with the intention to remain patient while waiting for their informant to contact them. They didn’t even go into the pirate city, it was too disgusting for them to stay in it. The more Clark felt this way, the more he feared what his girlfriend may have become now. If just a day staying in it could make him this irritated, he just couldn’t imagine what staying here for 4 years could have done. Thinking of this, he felt guilty again. “Why didn’t I come earlier?” Souring his mood with such thoughts, the day moved extremely slowly to him. Perhaps, having noticed his current mood, Arthur didn’t disturb him and opted to go out hunting alone. When he came back, he had a desert antelope with him. Seeing the catch, Clark was left speechless. “Can we finish that?” Arthur wasn’t fazed by his question. “If we can’t finish it today, we’ll just finish it tomorrow or the next. Don’t worry, I have preservation gadgets with me, and besides, your girlfriend