ASEAN Forward Command Base, Kingdom of Altaras
On the repurposed Muish built-Altaran Airport which supported the backbone of ASEAN air superiority on the southern Philades.
Four CASA C-212 Aviocar lined up in the runaway. They are here to fetch the Parpaldian high ranking officials towards rodenius, hopping to Lauria and Qua-Toyne, with some stops in the mainland before landing in the Cat Bi International Airport. Also, some C-130 and C-295 are here to pickup and deliver, the remains of 29 service men died in the battle together with the 90 wounded, to their respective nations.
The airport is quite busy today as several sortie order have been authorized on the very same day. The Parpaldian's are launching small to medium scale counter offensive against ASEAN positions in attempt to liberate their captured capital. It's futile, even the marines stationed there alone could hold them off, However, the most annoying things that parpaldian done is the inaccurate long range bombardment with the use of Milishial made cannons on the city.
There's already some casualties on the Esthirant, mostly civilians who got unluckily killed by their very own Imperial army. On the side of ASEAN, there's at least a dozen who got wounded, nevertheless, most of them immediately returned in service after getting their first aid from light bruises they got from hostile fire.
With the effective use of counter battery fire, drone strikes, and airstrikes from multirole fighters, many of Milishial made cannons, together with their gunners, was sent to oblivion. Additionally, the satellites of ASEAN have began to be use in limited fashion for this conflict.
Back on the Altaras airport, several cars and buses arrived on the airport. One of them are carrying the captured 3rd foreign department head, Kyeos.
He gazed upon a dozens of aircrafts and helicopters lining up neat at the runways and temporary hangers, some are gigantic transport on the airstrips and fairly small attack trainers of reserve light attack wing of ASEAN resting on the hangers, also the most eyes catching to him is the jets firing up their engines upon take off.
"What in the world we just antagonized?." He exclaimed.
It's too abnormal, those war machines even overshadowed the Muish biplanes he saw in Otaheight during the birth of a new Muish Princess 3 years ago.
"Okay people line up properly!."
The ASEAN soldiers commanded them with high pitch voice, they aren't shouting but they could convey their words loud and clear, they lined up upon orders.
"Okay folks, let's start with the 1st department officials please step in once I called your names."
The soldier gently said so, they aren't rough nor harsh in commanding the captured Parpaldian officials which who thought first that the ASEAN forces are brute to the point some of the ladies in their side tried to commit suicide, due to the misconception that the ASEAN soldiers will assualt them.
They are bewildered by their behavior, there's no prejudice of being a hostile captured citizens of the country who are in war with them, which made them think as if no war happened. Little they know, the ASEAN just adhering the Geneva convention from earth which Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. A concept that they yet to know, nor experience.
"Next is.... Kyeos? 3rd department head. Please go on the third aircraft."
After getting called upon, Kyeos followed the command and rode the aircraft. The captured Parpaldian officials are segregated by rankings or birth because some of them are essentially connected on some influencial noble family back on the empire.
Inside the aircraft, Kyeos saw some Imperial big shots who looking humiliated being captured by ASEAN. Many of them tried to escape but got cornered and still captured.
"Please put on your seatbelt like this."
A soldier teached them how to use the unfamiliar things they saw in the aircraft, though some of them have rough knowledge on how to use it, it's either they've been gone to Milishial or Mu.
"If there's some uncomfortable feelings about anything here or questions you wanted to ask feel free to question this guy okay?."
The supposed soldier who are talking with them since outside entered the door towards the head of this mechanical aircraft, he is a pilot. He pointed his fellow soldier to manage the people here.
"Hey."
One of the 1st department officials ask on rude manner.
"Can't you give me a more comfortable seat here? It's cramped."
He complained on the seat. He simply wanted to have a better space. Not to include, he is physically obese, making it hard and uncomfortable to sit.
"It is cushioned seat sir, so It's all squishy, it's enough to compensate on the crampness of the seat."
"Tch! Then have this person get away from me!."
He tried to push his fellow Parpaldian. The ASEAN soldiers won't care much about their conflict but it's still their duty to uphold stability inside the aircraft.
"I would like to end this pity display sir. Unless you want to talk physically with the buffed gentlemen of the Philippines and Indonesia over there."
He pointed on the troops who are assigned to give security on this group of Parpaldian's officials.
"There's no merit on doing such piteous display. The flight will only last for an hour and half, we will land in a airforce base in lauria."
The soldier warned the official, prompting him to contain himself. Kyeos watched upon the events unfolding.
"What's happening?." The ASEAN soldiers questioned his fellow soldier, "bird strike."
"Aw shit, unlucky, another aircraft to be grounded?."
"Idk, probably."
"Where?."
"Returning from combat patrol, probably hit by a migratory bird."
"Too bad."
"Yeah."
While they are talking, Kyeos couldn't understand what they are talking about, however, on the other hand, he finally mustered his confidence to speak with their enemy soldiers.
"Um Good sir."
He was pierced by the gaze of his fellow Parpaldian, he looking meek in the face of enemies.
"Yes? Mister Kyeos?."
He was promptly responded by the soldiers.
"How the... Emperor?."
He looked down, he saw the soldiers of ASEAN storming the palace, he wanted to confirm the status of their dear Emperor.
"Well... Unfortunately, we didn't capture your Emperor."
"Huh?."
"He vanished without a trace, the manhunt operation of my country still persist on capturing your Emperor."
It's been a few days since the capture of Esthirant, However, they failed to capture the only person who could end this senseless war in matter of words.
" .....?."
"We are still investigating the sewerages, hidden tunnels, or any routes that the emperor possibly use to escape us, or either he is still in the capital, just cleverly evading us though."
In the hearts of Parpaldian here, they thanked that their Emperor are safe from the clutches of ASEAN.
"Whatever, it's dragging the war longer than necessary. The emperor only inflicting more pain on his very own subjects by escaping the reality of empire, losing a war with us... he should already knows that the verdict have been decided from the start--that the empire will lose no matter what they do, I hope he just surrendered on us, so he could cut down and minimize the unnecessary casualties of this senseless war."
They are angered by the statement, angered by the truth.
"You know, we don't like war, we wanted to return to our families and respective countries, alive and in one piece."
"....."
"I mean hello, no one, wanted to become a squeezed cheese, a person peppered with bullets or tomato sauce which been blown up by cannons into bits when returning to their countries you know."
It might be an irony from the country who obliterating the armies of parpaldia one after another, but they have a point, not to mention, they are in a state of war which they could do what ever they wanted to do.
Silence dominates the air, they are quite taken a hit from the soldier's statement.
"By countries you mean?."
A woman ask him, which made him cocked his head.
"Countries... Countries, countries? Well yeah. Respective countries."
They are visibly confused by the unsureness and lazy response of the soldier.
"Umm may I take the liberty to ask, a confirmation only if you don't mind good sir."
Kyeos nervously ask. However, the soldier authorized it.
"Go ahead."
"Isn't the ASEAN a single country right now? Why countries?."
"Officially and internationally yes, but you see, we are pretty confused by it also, we aren't sure on what country or government we should serve, the council of ASEAN? or the Governments of our countries? Which one?... So Yeah, my braincells are getting fried by that kind of topic."
The first generation citizens of ASEAN, still overwhelmingly follows the guidelines and laws of their respective countries. There's even more people considered the ASEAN as a international association or alliance rather than a country.
"Then if the ASEAN is not a country. Then how you could move your troops at synchronized operation."
"You're misunderstanding, I didn't say that ASEAN is not a country, it's just majority of it's people considered it as not. Well you could say it'll indeed become one in the following years, but right now, you could say it was nothing but a fancy name for a loose alliance, give the first generation citizens time to recognize it."
"I see.... How about the military cooperation."
Kyeos currently trying to understand and know more about ASEAN. He might find a way to expose their weaknesses to help his dying country, or he thought so.
"Hmm... Military huh, there's some cooperation but mostly it was sole decisions of governments, the council doesn't have enough power at the moment to federalize the forces and command them to deploy their units."
They aren't united? If so, Kyeos think he might find a gap to exploit and end this war in favorable position or mitigate the damages cause on the empire. He delusioned himself that he can do it. Unfortunately, he can't, he is just a mere a prisoner of war. Also, the information given by the soldiers is in level even the general populace of ASEAN and Lauria knows.
"So there's few forces deployed in Esthirant?."
The soldier who are answering kyeos reached the conclusion why he is so persistent on questioning. Kyeos thinking he could outsmart him which makes him to beat the bush.
"It's not we that are troubled by sending hundreds of thousands if not million of troops in Philades or the likes of hundreds of ships blocking your coast and indiscriminate attacks the civilians, it's not a trouble honestly, we could do that, However, none of us like the war."
".... You're not invading other cities? Only the Esthirant?."
"Mister Kyeos, it doesn't mean that we are in state of war we can just freaking send more thousands of troops and conquer more Parpaldian cities, no it's not, we are severely restrained not to do so, mostly by the people who doesn't want to expand this war more than necessary."
Kyeos listened carefully and the following words caught him off guard.
"Mister Kyeos, if you are scheming something like supporting your country in expense of staying here, it's futile, you don't have any leverage nor value to offer on ASEAN, sorry you are just a mere prisoner at the moment, means you're just a nobody with no power."
The soldier looked on the Parpaldian's before the people gave a notice. "Be advised, we've got an authorization, we're taking off."
The transport flew one after another, followed by escorts towards laurian airbase in rodenius.
ASEAN occupied Esthirant
Sounds of rumbling vehicles resounded left and right. Helicopters and jets patrolling the sky and over 10,000 ASEAN soldiers occupied the Esthirant with relative peace. However, the next day, the chaos returned when several Parpaldian Imperial army forces tried to retake the Esthirant with devastating loss.
Successive airstrikes and counter fire, pinpointed and devastates the army groups of parpaldia. None of them are capable of resisting the air superiority nor fights the accurate, long range counter battery fire of ASEAN. The devastation of surrounding forces on Esthirant weakened the empire even more. The loss is already skyrocketed to 70,000 after the 3 days of ASEAN occupation.
The battle still ensuing, with no end on sight at the moment. Unless the ASEAN will go all out in destroying the parpaldian army groups or the Parpaldian's themselves abandon the notion of retaking their capital.
Inside a certain rental building.
A person with vintage camera is carefully and cleverly hide himself while taking the photos in the post battle and occupation of ASEAN on Esthirant.
"Fascinating, they have heavy tanks with 100 mm long barrel cannons, and scary at the same time."
He take another shot of Leopard 2, then followed by Bionix, BMP and BTR.
"Quite diverse, there's no formality, is their logistics is still working or not? Just how broken this country can be?."
This person witnesses the unparalleled SPG fire of ASEAN, supersonic jets, the deadliness of attack helicopters, and incomprehensible powerful submachine guns with rifle class bullets (assualt rifle)
"How should I report this broken country? This is troubling, probably no one will going to believe me if I reported it back to bureau, they might think that I've gone nuts in traveling barbarian countries."
He intently and carefully scrutinizing every details, even the smallest one's, to be passed and have his country formulates counter measures against the ASEAN.
"Great, even my country didn't managed to field jets and yet this country brazenly deploying them in large numbers?."
He looks on the ASEAN fighter formation whom ended their combat air patrol on the city. They are flying at 800 kilometers per hour, way faster than their state of the art monoplane aircrafts.
Then moments later, he saw another batch of ASEAN armored column, and with much more out of this world equipments.
"What are those? Tubes?."
He is looking at MRLS of ASEAN, in his common sense, another nonstandard vehicle fielded by this country.
"Recovery vehicles, fuel tankers? And some more that I don't know what they are used for."
He clicked his camera once more, before someone entered his room. His colleagues from bureau.
"How's going on the intelligence gathering?."
"Quite bad, there's some obvious technological superiority on this side of world compared to our fatherland."
"Do you think they will going to believe the things we saw here?."
"Obviously not."
"Figures.... They won't probably believe a country in the east will going to be as powerful and sophisticated as this."
"With this strength, the barbaric empire will not going to last for a year. However, we never saw this country going all out in destroying this inferior country."
Currently, they are bewildered by the act of ASEAN of not looting, destroying or rampaging on the city.
"Or rather, they purposely not causing casualties on the Parpaldian side."
"Inefficient method of putting down this inferior country."
"I concur."
"So what about the other things you gathered while going out here."
"Outside? The ASEAN set up dozens of mortar and machine gun nest, on the coast there's at least a dozens ASEAN warships with single turrets berth on the horizon."
"That's it?."
"I forgot to mention, they have a muish cruiser on their ranks, but didn't particularly participated on the naval landing few days ago, probably those opportunistic Muish done some field observation on how the ASEAN Military doctrines works."
They are the Gra Valkan Spies in the third civilization, have been shipped by their country to asses the treat of any countries apparent here. Including the immerging ASEAN, a possible threat from the east.
"I heard they massively building up their forces? Is that alright to leave them?."
Presently, the forces of Mu already swelled three times larger than before, they are building more and more rail ways for a swift redeployment of forces throughout the frontline in Leifor-Mu national border. Hundreds of upon hundreds of artilleries and anti aircraft guns were mass produced, to be deployed towards their borders in order to protect it from the menace of Gra Valkas Empire.
"Well same goes on us."
The Gra Valkan Empire also began it's expansion with mass production of tanks, previously and exclusively given to 4th Division, However, the two border wars with Mu gave some realization that a single armoured division is not enough to take down the entire Mu, during the border wars, they lost approximately 120 armored vehicles from Muish artilleries and aircrafts. It's just a localized conflict, so both side where ill equipped to fight at full strength.
While the Muish is modernizing and strengthening at rapid pace.
The Gra Valkan's is mass producing their existing tanks, improved Antares, and ships to overpowered the Mu and the entire continent of second civilization.
However, the conflict is somehow becoming hilarious in the border, in some extreme cases, one of the Muish Marin biplane fighter intrudes the Leiforian airspace and have the Gra Valkan sortie to intercept with Antares II just to find the Muish pilot taking a sip of tea and having a lunch in the cockpit of Marin. Also at the very same day, the Gra Vakan responded with an airshow esque of deploying a squadron of Antares II and have the Muish intercept however, knowing that the Muish doesn't have an aircraft with enough speed to chase them off , they opted just put an aerobatic maneuver inside the border with some Antares II going a dangerous double farvel like maneuver on top of Muish Supermarin Monoplane while saying hi.
Either way, the conflict is still escalating in the borders with the Gra Valkan Warhawkish people wanted to get revengeon the Muish while on the contrary with the Muish who wanted to expel the Gra Valkan presence out of second civilization.
"Well whatever, let's continue scrapping every Intelligence we gathered here in the Philades, most specially on the ASEAN."
Central World, Eimor Kingdom, Dragon Capital Dragkysmakira
Eimor Kingdom, the third strongest Superpower of new world, while they are one of the strongest country in the world, it's relatively small in comparison towards the superpower and quasi powers of new world.
With a population of one million, they are founded by a single race; the rare dragonfolk, known for it's oversized ego which made the ASEAN to postpone any attempt of contacting it. Other than the being a magic and racial supremacists, the other reason why the ASEAN doesn't want to associate with them is due to the reason that they don't care about the outside world unless they are dealing with the countries inside the Millicient continent or high elves. While they are respectable in international stage, they don't have give much of interest on it, virtually in every meeting they held is wether talks between straight forward manner which sometimes stepping out of boundaries.
In Dragkymakira royal castle, several dragonfolk are initiating a magical divination, 30 people with highest magical quality squeezing their energy to produce pure magical powers to invoke the divination spell.
They are doing it in yearly basis, to make countermeasures towards any possible threat in the future. Inside the dome shaped divination room, Diviner Alesthre siphoned the pure magical power to finally cast the divination spell.
"I invoke the name of the God of Space to reveal the future."
Once the divination began, everyone is nervous including the dragon king wagdran, they are watching agape on the Diviner.
"What!!!? That's?!"
Alesthre, paled and fell under his knees.
"What it is?!." The King hurriedly asked, just what in the world he saw.
"There's two....a war that would will be fought in every corner of three great continents and the return of Ravernal Empire."
"W-what?!."
"I'm .... It's hard, a war of unbelievable scale before the appearance of latistor from the myth is simply overwhelming."
"How could?! Who idiotic enough to fight a war before making countermeasures against the greatest nemesis of this world! Tell me! Is it the Milishial or Mu!."
"I don't know.... All I could see it sunkened ships of Mu and Milishial, blazing cities, skies filled with black smoke, corpse here and corpse there, there are corpses everywhere, if not, mountain of them is the right answer."
".....kuh! Send a messenger towards the Milishial and Mu! If there's some conflict between them! Have us, be the one to mediate it! After all, they are the only candidates who could cause such scale of destruction on continental scale, tch! On the pressing matters, did we become enslaved and oppressed on the future?."
"I'm not sure, the future is not ....clear, it's distorted."
"Then how about the location and when they will appear?."
"I can't see neither both."
Long time ago, during the age of Ravernal Empire, long before the eimor was founded, However, their preceding country, the infidragoon who also one of the two superpowers at the time, was demanded with fixed quota of dragonfolk to be send into the Ravernal empire, when one of the dragon gods ask why, the Ravernals said it their hides was sturdy and beautiful, it was a big hit on the populace of Ravernal empire so they wanted to procure more.
In order to protect the dragonfolk, the dragon gods refused, culminating the Dragon Sorcerer War. It was a fierce war between the infidragoon and Ravernal, However, the war became a stalemate for a moment, because of this, the Ravernals became impatient and use their greatest Trump card, the core magic, destroying one of the largest cities of infidragoon, thus winning the war.
"What do you mean that you can't!."
"As I said."
"It's hopeless?." The dragon king muttered.
"There's a way to escape enslavement!."
"Tell me how?!."
"In the east, an alliance--no right now it was a country from another world."
"Another world?." The King was confused for a moment.
"Yes from a another world, However, they are compromises of ...." The Diviner looked he swallowed something bitter.
"By what?."
"Humans, a human civilization." His face was grim when answering.
"How could possibly those magic inferior race will help us?!."
The King howled, the humans are relatively average in magic, while capable of learning several types of magic like elves however limited by the amount of magic they could possess.
"I'm not confident to gauge their strength on what they could do, However, they are the light on the darkness when the Ravernals returned."
"Possibly they possess powerful legacy from another world, argh, it pains me to rely on humans but have someone send an envoy to investigate this human nations!."
"Just send our people to Muish embassy, Don't approach the Milishial's when talking about the ASEAN."
"What do you mean? Could it be, the war you've meant is...." The King tried to get a conclusion but he got blocked.
"There's no open or direct war, or will ever be in the future between this two countries, but a conflicting interest in geopolitics of this world."
"I see, we need to carefully approach them."
"Also, we could know the extent of their prowess on the ongoing conflict in Philades."
"Hmm... For better or worst, we have to get going, we need to be prepared for the upcoming return of Ravernal Empire."
The Eimor finally moved to make the essential countermeasures against the Ravernal Empire.
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Note*
Sorry to say I'm tired to write this, so I decided that i would permanently discontinued it for the month of april.
Not sure with the fate of this work.
I'm thinking of Rick rolling everyone but I forgot to do so.