Chapter 100 - Shadow Moon XLI

Queen heard the explosions and thought its one of her bomb traps that exploded, she even grinned when she thought about the idiot who set them up. But she notices the tensed and panic expression of her men.

"What's going on?" She asks.

"My Queen the enemy used some kind of air canon its very powerful not only blows the poisonous clouds but also all the debris within 300 meters on our way. Team B, C, and E was caught by the blast we lost communication from them."

Queen's face paled when she heard it 3 of her 5 teams lost at the same time, was a great blow to her, and her men.

"F.u.c.k! No!" She screams her impression as a Queen is gone. Her men when they saw her was stunned everyone looks at her, Queen immediately notice it and force her self to calm down.

"It's a sad day for us the lost of your bother and sister my children are a big lost for me, for us sigh, change of plans call back the remaining teams and regroup in the base." Said Queen with a saddened look on her face.

Queen knows she needs to keep up the appearance as their Queen if she wants to survive this crisis. The devotion of her men must not falter at all cost, she lost her composure for a moment a bit earlier, she knows that must not happen again. Or her men will doubt her capability, and once doubt takes root there's no stopping it from spreading, She must not let that happen at all cost.

"Yes my Queen" they all responded but their voice is not as fanatic as it was in the past. The invincible Queen they idolized is starting to crack.

Queen also notices the changes in the looks of her men, before their look is full of fanaticism but after her outburst, the fanaticism in their voice and looks have faded a lot.

She cursed inside for her blunder but there's nothing she can do about it, she only hopes their devotions last until this crisis is over, her only goal is to survive she won't hesitate to sacrifice them all for her survival. Her life takes precedence above all else.

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Biggs saw the effect of the cannon and grinned. "I Should have used that earlier," he said in his mind "move in and cleared the area and charge the air cannon again we will use that to clear a path for us." He ordered.

"I will pay attention to the weapons demonstration next time." Biggs swears inside his mind.

Back then he rather trained than participate in the weapons and machines demonstrations. Biggs always scold him for it, but he just laughs, he was no soldier after all his real profession is a bodyguard, after all, so didn't really care much about military weapons and machine. Now he regretted not paying attention to it.

"How far away we are from the enemy base?"

"Sir about 800 meters."

800 meters sound short but with all the building and structures in between it's a struggle for them since their enemy specializes in traps and bombs. So they have to clear and move cautiously, but now the air canon saves them all the troubles.

Biggs think of something and said. "Send a warning this time we don't want any civilian casualties. Broadcast that they need to evacuate the area in 30 minutes, or they will pay for it."

"Yes sir right away"

Soon as they are moving the drones began to announced that the specific area needs to be vacated as it will be bomb.

And the moment the announcement rang, people can be seen leaving the area in droves.

Biggs cursed at Queen, "that bitch Queen shes too ruthless she didn't vacate the area and still set her traps and bomb in them" He can only imagine how many died in the previous traps that destroyed many building and homes. And the air canon, "F.u.c.kers" ask the Shadow Unit to check the people leaving don't let any of Queen's men escaped." Wedge ordered.

"Yes, sir."

Good thing almost 99% of residents of Enigma City are criminals if not he didn't know how he can explain this to his Boss.

The Shadow Unit lurking in the area immediate begin to work, their job is to assassinate those gang members hiding within the common people, although the majority of people in Enigma City is criminal, many didn't participate in the attack against them and decided to quietly stay at home and surrendered. So Shadow Unit won't do anything to them as long as they don't go against them.

Many of the people who surrendered are already escorted in the temporary holding area Grand Army has prepared beforehand, in there they will be processed and questioned using truth serum, those that didn't do any heinous crimes will be rehabilitated and those that did will be imprisoned and wait until the higher-ups decided what to do with them.

Grand Army occupied a large area in Enigma and converted it into a holding facility. Combat Droids and drones tirelessly patrol the area nonstop. And soldiers are only responsible for commanding the droids and Drones. The processing and interrogation are all done by droids develop from multi-purpose manufacturing factory and although they are not military standard, they are more than enough to do the job flawlessly, all droids are humanoid and have a synthetic skin that mimic human skin they look like human covered in tight-fitting armor. The droids are equipped with weapons created by Military-grade factory weapons.

The reason Arc didn't mass produce them is that they are not as strong and as flexible as an enhance soldiers trained by Tom and Gerry, not to mention they need a huge amount of materials to produce, so Arc Build only about 10k of them, and they mainly used as extra laborers and guards if necessary.

Arc always dreamed of having an army of powerful Droids fighting under his command, so he was a little dejected when he found out they have little use for him. As the soldiers enhanced and trained by Tom and Gerry are better in any way. But he didn't plan to give up. As soon as he can afford it he will build a 1-star rank droid factory even rank 5 military-grade factories will do. As there's a huge difference between commercially used droids and military droids.