Chapter 85 - Shadow Moon XXVI

Tom and Gerry, as well as Biggs, and Wedge learned of what happened in the siege in Chained Souls Headquarters, as well as the death of Bell. They don't have much interaction with Shadow Unit so they don't feel much with the death of Bell.

But as the first death since the founding of the Grand Army, it was quite significant for everyone in the Grand Army.

Today is the day they will assault Enigma City.

It wasn't a smooth ride reaching Enigma City having been called a natural fortress is no joke. They encountered much danger along the way if not for their superior equipment and enhancement many of them would have perished along the way.

But thankfully none died there are some injuries along the way but with the help of Health Solutions no one perished.

Their suit and health solutions play a key role in their journey preventing many potential deaths. The suits protect them from many deadly elements along the way such as attack from many poisonous beasts, and insect as well as from physical damages, And health solutions make sure they are always in top conditions without those two Tom, and the rest can only imagine how many would have died on their way to Enigma City.

Tom remembers when they encounter a gigantic Brutal Beast it looks like it was mutated from an elephant except it has thee trunks and eight legs ears that look like a gigantic steel wings not to mention the four jet black steel like tusks, and its skin is also covered with black scales that ordinary canon couldn't even scratch, luckily they encounter only one of them if they encountered a herd he can only imagine the destruction it would bring, that elephant beast is over 10 meters tall and at least 15 meters long and it moves quite fast, and even after fighting it for about 5 minutes they weren't able to kill it they can only watch it retreats after dealing enough damage to it.

And that was just one of the many encounters they have on the way to Enigma City. Of course, there are safe routes but that's only accessible for a few people, for them who have more than thirty thousand personnel, and many heavy types of equipment that road is not suitable.

But after almost a full month of traveling, they were finally on a striking distance to Enigma City. It's quite lively for a place that's so very hard to reach. They can see countless people walking and running around the city, all in all, it's not much different from a normal city, in fact, it is much more crowded than a normal city only it was owned by criminals and the residents are all mostly exiles and criminals.

Tom watch as the surveillance drone scouts the city, 200 of Shadow hunters that are with them are already in the city gathering Intel, it's still early in the morning, they've stop 5 kilometers away from the city, they will attack during the night at around 7 pm, that will give enough time for Shadow Unit to gather Intel for potential targets.

Tom and the rest organized and brief the Army after that he leaves them to it. The Army is well-trained and doesn't need anyone to supervise their every action.

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Time ticks by and just like that 7 pm are almost upon them, the army is already in positions Shadow Units have already returned with the Intel. This is a special operation as Eve won't be participating in these operations as there is no stable signal in here, and they can only use the portable network with only a radius of 20 kilometers.

Until they manage to build a network tower that Eve can use to connect to them that they can once again have Eve supports. So this time they were all on their own, they can send messages through their portable communication tower but that's not enough for Eve real-time Intel to be effective.

So Tom decided to do this without Eve and besides it's a good lesson for the Army as they have to learn to do things without Eve, to remove their dependency on Eve.

Actually, it wasn't just Tom who thinks that way even Ruby and Jem don't want the Shadow Unit to depend too much on Eve as it will have a bigger effects in the future, that's why they will send Shadow Unit on a mission to gather Intel without the help of Eve to build up their skills and learn to be independent.

"All preparation complete, jamming is in place no communication will leave the Enigma City besides ours, Enigma City is now 100% isolated from the outside world," said one of the Shadow Units.

"Good job. It's our turn next, rest for now, you can join after" said Tom.

"Sir ETA 30 minutes..."

"Alright go-ahead announce our arrival," said tom smiling.

As soon as he said that the surveillance Drone that's been using optical camouflage around the city immediately announce the warning, and the arrival of the Grand Army.

"WE ARE SHADOW MOON YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES TO SURRENDER, FAILURE WILL BE DEATH!!!"

The message was played continuously by over 1000 drones in camouflage, immediately the whole city enters a state of panic many people can be seen running back into their house, as the message was very loud, and comes from all around them almost everyone in the city has heard it. The leader of the ruling organization immediately summons an emergency meeting...