The Motherland In Another World | Summoning Soviet Union

Chapter 9 : After the Great Naval Battle

Kingdom of Louria, Wyvern Headquarters

350 dragon riders were mobilized to engage with the enemy's main fleet. 3 hours have passed since the last communication with them, which had ended in screaming. There was a heavy silence in the headquarters. Why hadn't they reestablished communications? Furthermore, why hadn't any of the dragon riders come back yet? Everyone was consumed with impatience and nervousness

Patagene: So where are they?

No one had an answer

It was unthinkable, but... could they have been wiped out?

Throughout Rodenius's history, the wyvern was always the strongest creature. However, they were also a rare, valuable species, and it was hard to gather a large number of them. Louria's rookery of 500 came from a combination of building up forces for 6 years and receiving assistance from the Parpaldia Empire, with the stipulation that they be used to conquer Rodenius. With their overwhelming strength, it should have been a matter of course for them to take over the continent. Upon sending the 350 dragon riders to deal with the enemy's main forces, this elite squadron should have put on a historically meritorious performance before returning to base.

In reality, so far not a single one had returned. It was extremely painful to consider, but there was a high chance that they had been completely annihilated. Under normal conditions, even against an abnormally large fleet, it should be impossible to take out all 350 dragon riders

Was it possible that their enemies were serving the legendary holy dragon Bahamut? No one knew how to report this to King Louria

Patagene: ...tell the advance force that, by emergency order, the wyverns rider order requests that half of their wyverns riders return to headquarters

Central Calendar year 1639, April 30, Principality of Qua-Toyne Governmental meeting

Breweye: This concludes the report on the large naval battle in Rodenius's waters

Officer Breweye, who had observed the battle, was invited to the meeting to give the report and serve as reference. All other attendees had in their hands printed copies of the battle report. The room was completely silent

Rinsui: So, what kind of report is this exactly? The Soviet Union sent out only eight ships or they called it 2nd Ulyanovsk Carrier Battle Group, challenged Louria's fleet of 4,400, then actually sunk 3,400 of them? On top of that, they faced over 350 wyverns riders with no air support, but turned them all into mincemeat? And on top of that, their eight ships suffered no casualties? It's written here 'personnel loss: zero.' No one died?! And let me just add that our fleet sat around doing nothing

If you told me that this was a fairy tale, I'd have said 'no, this is far too outlandish for a fairy tale!' I don't want to accuse a navy officer of coming to a state meeting and deliberately lying his ass off, but you need to at least keep your story grounded in reality and not give us this pile of fantasy horse shit

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Everyone thought pretty much the same; the observer's report was that unbelievable

The room started lobbing insults around, By all rights, repelling Louria's invasion and alleviating some of the national crisis should be cause for celebration, but this battle report was just so absurd that it actually raised people's fears instead

Prime Minister Kanata motioned for silence and made to speak

Kanata: In any case, the naval invasion was stopped this time. While there are still around a thousand enemy ships at large, even if the 8 reinforcement ships were to be lost, we have earned some time before we need to worry about another seaborne attack. Does the Ministry of Military Affairs have any news on the ground war?