The Military Princess Won’t Fall in Love with a Magic Scientist
Chapter 250 : Chapter 250Chapter 250. The Northern Territory’s “Reinforcements”
That single sentence struck like a thunderclap, instantly shattering the tense air inside the command center.
After a brief moment of dead silence, several of the Second Prince’s most loyal confidants slammed their hands on the table and sprang to their feet, hands gripping their sword hilts, eyes blazing with fury.
“This is mutiny! Naked, blatant mutiny!”
“You dare seize command without a royal decree?! We’re reporting this to the Royal Capital!”
“Where are the guards?! Where the hell have the guards gone?!”
But what answered them was not the guards coming to their rescue, but the heavy, dense clang of steel.
From the shadows of the Council Chamber, dozens of bodyguards in fourth-generation heavy armor poured in like a steel flood. These elites, armed to the teeth, did not waste a single word. The stocks of their magitech guns and their alloy shields came crashing down with fierce force onto the backs of the protesters’ heads and across their faces.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
After several dull, horrifying impacts, the seven or eight officers who had just been shouting about arresting Logaris rolled back their eyes and collapsed to the floor without even managing a scream, blood running down from their foreheads.
The bodyguards moved in perfect unison, dragging those unconscious officers out the door like dead dogs and leaving ghastly streaks across the expensive carpet.
The remaining fence-sitters fell utterly silent, lowering their heads and not daring to make the slightest sound.
Dozens of dark gun barrels were raised from the hands of those three-meter-tall steel giants and leveled uniformly at the fortress officers around them who were still itching to make a move. The condensed beams of high-energy mana at the muzzles emitted a piercing hum that made teeth ache, as if they could erupt at any second.
“It seems you still haven’t understood the situation.”
Logaris sat in the main seat without even lifting his eyelids. He was calmly wiping a trace of dust from his fingers with a spotless white handkerchief.
“I am not discussing this with you. I am informing you.”
He casually tossed the handkerchief onto the bloodstained floor, then let his gaze sweep coldly across the room through his lenses. “I’ll say it again. From this moment on, I take command here. Who agrees, and who objects?”
The deputy battalion commander being targeted by dozens of Magiburst Guns swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple bobbing violently. The sword in his hand fell to the floor with a clang.
In the face of absolute violence, the look in his eyes, once muddied with objection and resistance, became crystal clear.
“Very good.” Logaris pushed up his glasses, and his speech suddenly quickened, like a precision machine beginning to turn. “Who is responsible for the fortress’s magitech central hub?”
In a corner, a middle-aged man in a mage’s robe tremblingly raised his hand. “I-It’s... me.”
“I’m giving you fifteen minutes. I want to see the charging efficiency of the fortress defense barrier restored to its normal threshold. If you can’t do it, then you can go feed the reactor.”
“Yes! Yes! I’ll do it right away!” The middle-aged man practically scrambled on all fours toward the control console.
Logaris’s gaze shifted and landed on a fat man crouching beneath the table.
“Stop hiding. Yes, you. Open the strategic warehouse and haul every spare magitech crystal inside to the front line. Don’t talk to me about those damned procedures and seals. My gun is the procedure.”
“Signals unit, take over all channels. I want real-time data from the entire battlefield.”
As one cold, precise order after another was issued, the command system that had been completely paralyzed was forcibly reactivated. Under the “encouragement” of the Magiburst Guns behind them, those bureaucrats who were usually sluggish and evasive exploded with the highest administrative efficiency of their entire lives.
Once the central command was dealt with, Logaris rose and strode outside.
“I’m leaving this place to you.” He gave the bodyguard captain behind him a casual order. “If anyone dares play tricks at a time like this, don’t ask for permission. Execute them on the spot.”
“Yes, sir!”
...
At the same time, at the first defensive line of Scream Fortress.
Despair was spreading.
Traditional bows and arrows and low-tier magic striking those tide-like magical beasts were little more than scratching an itch.
What was even more deadly was the purple-black poisonous fog rolling forward with the Beast Tide. One breath of it made the defenders’ lungs feel as though they were on fire, drastically reducing their combat strength.
“We can’t hold it! Retreat! Fall back, now!” A garrison officer clutched his mouth and nose as he watched the defensive line on the verge of being swallowed by the sea of corpses, screaming shrilly.
And then, just as the line was about to collapse—
Bzzzzz—!!!
A deep, dense vibration came from the rear, as though the air itself were trembling.
The defenders turned back in shock, only to see dozens of metallic spheres glowing with faint blue radiance cutting through the night sky and hovering directly above the battlefield.
It was one of the Northern Territory’s core reconnaissance technologies—the All-Seeing Eye swarm.
“The data link has been established. Wind-drift correction complete. Coordinates locked.”
On the high ground behind the defensive line, Akash, the commander of the Northern Territory reinforcements, stared expressionlessly at the dense mass of red dots on the tactical panel and coldly gave the order into his communicator.
“First ultra-long-range artillery array, fire all rounds.”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth trembled.
Dozens of massive high-explosive missiles howled out from the ultra-long-range magitech artillery positions several kilometers away, then flashed with spatial light and appeared out of nowhere directly above the densest nodes of the Beast Tide and above the heads of those high-tier magical beasts attempting to command it.
This kind of “detect-and-destroy” information-based strike was still a dimensionality-reduction attack even against armies that had already been partially equipped with firearms.
The light of the explosions instantly turned the night as bright as day, and the surging Beast Tide was violently blasted open into a vacuum zone.
“Holy... shit!”
The garrison officer who had been preparing to retreat stood there dumbfounded, mouth hanging open, so stunned he forgot to sheath the sword in his hand.
Was this really magic?
At that moment, a black steel torrent surged past the defensive line.
It was the Northern Territory’s First Infantry Regiment.
The purple-black corrosive poisonous fog on the battlefield, enough to make ordinary soldiers suffocate and vomit, seemed to lose its effect completely the moment it came into contact with this army.
Click—!
With a perfectly synchronized series of mechanical locking sounds, every Northern Territory soldier’s tactical faceplate fully sealed shut. The runes at the necks of their second-generation Magitech Armor lit up faintly, and the built-in air filtration system activated at once, completely isolating the poison gas outside and converting it into pure oxygen that was fed into their helmets.
Within this poisonous fog, where even breathing was lethal, the Northern Territory soldiers advanced as though walking on level ground, as if it were nothing more than harmless morning mist.
They did not cheer. They simply advanced in silence and with ruthless efficiency. The Thunder Mark I rifles in their hands formed an inescapable metal storm, mercilessly harvesting the stragglers that had survived the bombardment.
...
At this moment, at the very front edge of the battlefield.
A black figure was darting through the ruins at astonishing speed.
Logaris looked at the thick purple-black fog ahead, so dense it seemed impossible to dissolve, and frowned slightly. That was the domain aura unique to a sixth-tier magical beast, and within that aura, he could sense Karlsas’s life-force burning like a flame in the wind.
Logaris’s figure flashed, and without the slightest hesitation, he charged straight into the corrosive fog that could eat through steel.
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