I teleport home, not really interested in blame game or video conference itself. I promptly headed over to thirty second floor and enter the delta dagger command center. I watch me people salute me as I wave a hi before going "how many delta daggers do we have operational?"
I watch admiral Kaidin respond "young master, we currently have forty eight delta daggers ready for action."
I nod and go "get them all ready for stealth mission over orkia an hour past sunset moscow time admiral. Outfit them all with teleportal gates."
Kaidin raise an eyebrow of curiosity as he salutes and returns "As you wish young master." The command center burst into life as orders are being sent to mobilize the delta daggers. We had over six hours until mission time begins, once the crew were assembled I give "ladies and gentlemen, we are going to raid russia of it nuclear arsonal." I activate the display which show the over all mission plan along with all the nukes in orkia who's locations that I had magically divined.
I continue with "Orbital bombardment from our defense satalites will begin by taking out their remaining bombers and submarines. Then destroy their energy distribution network and cause a nation wide blackout before targeting military assets. During the chaos, your job is to stealthfully collect all the nuclear warheads in orkia.
After what they did to the Nova Kakhovka dam, I am worried about them using a nukes in the future. Once you secure the warheads from their icbms and bomber bases, you will then raid their long term storage bunkers. Scarabs will recover the warheads from the sunken submarines, make sure to get a video accounting." I made sure the submarines were all sunk with in three thousand meters depth for scarabs to recover the nuclear warheads.
I see the crews are excited and follow up with "once you have secured all the land and air launched warheads, you will be directed to their sunken boomers to recover those with scarabs." From the display, crews watch a simulated video from start to finish including the orbital bombardments. Everyone was a bit stunned, because the orbital bombardment was rather heavy handed as the bombardment will last until sunrise over russia. I fully intend to tear down the madman's little world as every military asset in orbital sight will be destroyed.
Once I see the crews understood their mission I gave a final word "good luck everyone, mission time starts in about five hours real time. During those hours, I decided to to order all the silos to be booby trap once all warheads are removed to destroy the silos and the icbms they hold. Then another idea popped in my head and I called ukraine and ask for the location of every bunker the madman has. They were happy to supply the locations so went to workshop hangers and request a bunker buster missile.
Our current design could only penetrate about thirty meters, which was not good enough and ask them to improve it in some way. Eventually, I suggested added a drill behind a shatterable nose. The nose will penetrate and shatter to absorb the shock of impact and then the magic drill will activate to dig deeper. That caught everyone attention and they went to work trying to make the idea a reality. Forty seven real world hours later, I had a hundred seismic boring missiles ready to launch. I was told the large missile can drill up to three hundred meters before detonating with point nine kilotons.
I had sent ukraine and nato a feed three minutes before fireworks started, I sent them a underworld satalite nightime view over ork with a three minute count down. Pretty sure the shit hit the fan as nato scrambled in fear of what I was planning. When zero hour happened, they watch as orkia lit up like a christmas tree that cause the entire lands to blackout from the simutaneous detonation of thousands of warheads shocked the viewers. The only relief the viewers had was that no nukes had been used.
With ukrainian frontline troop gathered under scarab extended shields. They got a best front row seats you can imagine when the orkian frontline simply and awesomely detonated. Lighting the countryside for scores of miles away. As soon as the air became breathable again, the scarab operator said their goodbyes to the ukrainian allied troops and began racing forward like hunting cats.
Shocking the world of it's third mode of travel as scarabs bound forwards at a healthy forty miles per hour. With it's underslung tri-barrel rotary auto cannon blazing away with the unlimited rounds of a magic ammo restriction. While it's three popup micro launchers with three barrels each on it back firing away it's deadly silent and smokeless wind enchanted armor piercing explosive magic missiles.
The ukrainian soldiers who were enjoying another round of frozen snickers or chugging away at a can of ice cold rootbeer blink as the scarabs went into battle mode. Crackle from headsets to move out cause the celebrating soldiers wolf down the last of their cold snacks and ran for their platoon leaders. With platoons intermingling within the extended scarab shields, as many went around to check on friends.
The scarabs had form a line nine meters apart with the shields at max extension of ten meters. Thus, when two scarab shields meet, the merge to form one shield with the connection turn into a openway to cross under safely to another scarab area. This created a spectacular single shields with a beaded appearance. It's only purpose was to protect the frontline ukrainian troops from the dust cloud created by the destruction of the orkian defences.
The frozen snickers and ice cold rootbeer are my favorites, so I figure I let them have a taste instead of popcorn to watch the night's fireworks. Normally the scarabs carry emergency supply rations, but I figure the ukrainian soldiers were tired of that kind of food. Good old decadent western snacks was in order. Besides seeing the battlecam showing soldiers pressing the ice cold cans against their cheeks and foreheads after a hot summer day was endearing.
Ukrainian drone footage showed on slow mode how the the initial detonation had cause all the landmines across the orkian frontline to explode as well. Before the dust cloud rolled over the detonating minefields, not to mention the scarabs were activing demining with seismic missiles as they advance.
I made sure to have several satalites record the destruction of the madman's one point four billion home with a seismic boring missile. It was spectacular, the missile bury itself right in the central building and about nine seconds later erupted like a small volcano. The outer square of buildings were seen being lifted into the air, only to be obscured by the expanding dust cloud. I sent a caption saying this is how you demolish a madman's home, of course it went viral and the slow mo version was quite popular. Of course this was the video I made nato watch soon after lighting up orkia.
I am sure the ukrainian high command was dancing in the streets for hours while I get a ton of flak from nato pacifists about escalating the war. But hours past and no response from orkia, just a whole lot of tantrums from the few surviviors officers. The madman had been buried in his bunker and thought to be dead. While the rest of the world stood in shock of my heavy hand of ending the war. So I posted the theft of remaining nuclear warheads in russia. With the use of divining magic, I was able to get them all before launching the attack. Including the recovery of warheads from orkia's sunken boomer fleet.
I pop in on nato and watch them celebrating the denuclearization of orkia and frowned, then toss "hey, wake up and invade orkia with peace keepers and make the world a better place for democracy! I am only holding on to orkia until the referendums finish and a month later to ensure china does nothing stupid." I watch the celebration end as they stare at my monitor, but I did not stick around and cut broadcasting. Nato soon announce peacekeeping forces will enter orkia to end the war. Referendums for independacy for it's member states will be given one months time to complete.
After all, I had in one day exterminated all the military bases, airfields, shipyards, military production infrastructure, space infrastructure and most importantly all goverment building in every city. Including the palaces of every oligarchs along the rublevka, as I wanted the each member state to decide a future for themselves for a change. Not to mention eighteen divisions of scarabs securing the oil rigs and mines which I was plundering by right of conquest.
I also took over all of wagner's bases in africa as an after thought remembering the hammer incident, the unconsious members suffered greatly in the hands of their native victims. I did enough transit mining to pay for the trouble of removing wagner from their nations. Not nearly are greedy as I was with orkia of plundering a years worth per day. Drying up many mines while waitng for the process of independance for each member state to complete. Then another month of plundering for my troubles.
Ukainian frontline troops simply celebrated the fireworks as cruise missiles flew over orkish lines dropping one thousand pound magic ammo bombs on the defensive works and mine fields a minute before the scarabs began their attack on the shell shocked surviviors. Ukrainian forces march unopposed as they push forward for nearly two hundred miles and began encountering a few orkish survivior simply raising the white flag, the long night finally broken them.
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As sunlight touch scarab's beflagged twin antenas, they switch from combat missions to policing missions and loaded their autocannon with stunner rounds. While the rear triad of micro missile launcher were armed with web missiles. A magical inscripted version of the common web spell, the main restriction was to desolve instantly into sleep gas when the web touches hair or skin or when an antidote is applied. A second restriction to turn the web into a flexible but hard early tier three substance to trap victims in place. Since the web spell is design to capture targets, I made sure the first two restriction would avoid suffication incidents.
I watch the battlecam footage with my people who were interested in my new army of scarabs in action on the thirtieth floor warhall. Everyone involved in the scarab project, from research and development to production crews, watch intently as the new toy went into action. Once the initial bombardment turn the orkian trenchlines into craters from ballistic missiles with nine one kiloton conventional warheads. Instantly opening up thousands of clear pathways into the orkian rear areas.
As the four regiments of scarab advance, they begin saturation bombing with seismic missiles, clearing left over minefields. The ukrainian troops who enjoyed the frozen snickers and ice cold rootbeer also recieve ballistic googles with been enchanted with night vision. They were told follow to mop up orkian surviviors marked by flares. Instead of the crab like movement when the scarab arrived, they switch over to cat like movement and dash over into the orkish lines.
With their new googles, they felt sorry for the orkians, every scarab was launching micro missile volleys every three seconds. Propelled by wind magic, they left no contrails, allow the ukrainian soldier to watch the devastation of a creeping barrage that extending across the orkian frontlines as far as the eye can see. The ukrainian soldiers describe what they saw was hell unleashed that night.
My people cheer and celebrated their success of their creation, after a decade of improvements, the scarabs finally get to see unrestricted real combat. Sure they were tested in simulated enironmental subspace battleground and the dungeon as well. But seeing them devastates the orkian frontlines so easily make all the effort my people gave worth it. Sure one can say the scarabs were over powered with their black plasmetal, shields and magic ammo, but war is nothing but seeking over powered equipment in the first place.
The orks suffer greatly as the scarabs swept through their lines like skynet exterminating humankind. The orks only weapon that could turn the tide had already been stolen by the delta dagger raiders. With launch centers destroyed by orbital bombardment and invisible ballistic missiles mirv attacks. Orkia had lost the war the moment I order the full scale nightime attack called operation Watching fireworks from orbit
With divining spells, I target every single government official, soldier, oligarchs, police, and milbloggers. Every single ork that had a hand in the starting the war died by orbital bombardment guided divination magic. Every war criminal became the next once I finish removing the orkish warmongers. In the end over a million orks died that night as I raze targetsd moscow and saint petersburg, this included all rich and powerful homes.
At the same time I did the same to north korean for assisting orkia with massive arms delivery. But did my best to limit civilian causualties. Denuclearizing and demilitarizing was my main goal, with orbital bombardment destroy any detectable assets while a division of scarabs invaded from their underwater staging points. With divination magic, the scarabs hunting down the corrupt and criminals of both nations to ensure that there governments never rise again.
As orkia was being broken up into their old nations states, the militaries in the world was meeting to figure out what to do with the four hostile alien recon ships. There were always idiots trying to get everyone to talk to the hostile aliens. Such idiots, all the diviners in the world say the same thing, they came to raid earth and send us back to the stone age before their invasion fleet arrives. So no one paid any attention to these fools.
Besides my cultivation heritage have no problem with the massacres, if my wives were not against it, I might just irradicate the entire orkian dominion. People who stay ignorant in order to survive are not worth saving in my book. What I thought even worst are the people who complain about war, but do nothing to help end it. I lost all faith in nato when I return after spending a year real time in my subspace to find the war was still going on.
Sitting on their ass while providing military aid, milking the war as long as they can. Sure, I suppose the strategy to weaking orkia in the long term was nato's plan. But as protectors of democracy, they fall flat on their faces and basically an embarrassment to that high ideal. They called it a proxy war and avoided sending their own troops to die. I called their hand and made a proxy alliance with ukraine with a handshake and joined with my proxy airforce and ground forces. I suppose as a newly formed nation who has not sign anything, I had the freedom to do as I please made powers that be envious.
What left of the orkian government tried to surrender to Ukraine, but I objected stating ukraine has no troops inside russia. While I have eighteen divisions occupying large areas, and therefore should be surrendering to me instead. The ork diplomat was not happy, but Ukraine agree with me and thus force orkia to accept an unconditional surrender to me. Beside Ukraine was getting it's reparation and did not want anything to do with orkia. So letting me take care of orkia, they gave me nothing but gratitude. I can not blame them for washing their hands of ork stink and get about restarting their lives.
I get alot of criticism for ending the war in a most violent way possible without using nukes. After all, the night long bombardment could have ended alot earlier. But I let the scarab and satalite operators get their first nightime real world practice. My official reply posted in underworld net was "a bully can only fear someone who he has no hope of winning. Otherwise he will keep bullying until someone can smacks him in line with nothing more than a casually strike. If he is alive, he better pretend to be a mouse. If I hear he is alive, I will happily send a seismic boring missiles as home warming presents once I locate his new bunkers. I already upgraded the missile to mark two, which has a ten mile boring range and a varible yield up to three kilotons." I am not play games with a mad people anymore. I sent the madman's home blowing up video to china and iran with the title do not cause world troubles for a decade or i will blow up your home too.
There was talk about warcrimes, but I did not target power plants, just the the grid that distribute the power. A whole lot easier to repair than building new power plants. Besides, my anti radiation cleansing missiles had won me a whole lot of praise and ignore orkia's attempt to make me a war criminal. I got tired of orkia media, so I posted 'Me has stolen nukes, Orkia had nukes stolen, stop whining bitches!' That went viral as well, after all, being the youngest ruler of a nation. Everyone wants to see how I run, and many were not happy. I am not here for their happiness, but for my people in my subspace.
I was criticed by everyone as I had no concept of modern politics and jump in as I pleased. I just think they are pissed off because they did not have a hand in orkia's defeated pie. Having ruled for eight decade inside my subspace of ninty six races, I have learn long ago to do what needs to be done rather than wait for popular opinion. Besides, my people have been governing themselves for countless reincarnations, so I rarely need to give any input. My background as a cultivator, I tend to keep mortal affairs at arm length in the first place is the biggest problem the real world has with me. Fortuneately, my wives keep me from exterminating to many people I dislike.
They stop whining as referendums broke up orkia back to their orginal independant nations. China been pleading for anti radiation cleansing missiles as the northern borders had to be evaculated from the nuke that landed ten miles from their borders. I hit it once but now the radioactive emissions from the hot zone were now a major concern as it started to expand south.
To avoid world condemation for not providing China a missile due to underworld policy of never working with a authoratorian
governments. So I charge triple the price, ask for advance payment of course. Then showed a map with radiation levels and a circle of effect for the cleansing missile and voice "how do you wish to deploy the missile to the radiation zone. Closer to your border and completely remove the radiation so your northern lands are habitable again. Or hit the center of the radiation hotspot and permanently remove the problem as it natually subside over time. China did the only political correct thing to do and deposited another thirty million to take care of both choices.
I took a lot of heat saying I waited too long to clean up the disaster. I simply posted I wanted all the referendoms ended before letting China invade the weak and leaderless nations. Secondly, main ingrediant is a magic nullifying material and can not be replicated by magic ammo inscription. Thirdly, I only have twelve cleansing missile left and no way to make more. I was saving them for the possible nuclear meltdown of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Of coarse, I did not tell them, I located large vein of the stuff below the third lunar outpost and will begin transit mining next week.
Of course I get roasted for selling the second missile to china, but I objected with I had done a world poll asking if I should sell a second cleansing missile. The vote had six to one ratio to get rid of the radiation zone. They then complain if I told the world about the limited amount of missiles I had, the vote would have gone the other way. So my next post goes they are blaming the world? The idiots stop causing me trouble after that as many came to my defense.
I never like finger pointers, what use are they anyways? They seem to muddle up things for everyone else, always jumping the gun without waiting for the facts. For these party poopers, and for my mental health, I lower their nations trade rating by one level. Cause me flak, prepare to recieve it back from your own people complaining about the higher price they need to pay. One nation had a mob attempted to lynch their nato ambassador for causing the trade tower to leave as the idiot had caused their nation's trade value to drop to zero.
In the end I spend a month plundering orkia of it's natural resources after all the referendums finished voting. Using void containers, the scarabs stored liquid and solid resources by a shocking amount. Transit fields were removing a years worth of resources per day. Litterly teleporting raw material directly into void containers. Transit fields are square field ten meters per side that sweep through space. Any raw materials discovered are teleported to their respective void container, saving time since I no longer need to dig tunnels. Of course, radioactive resources was a priority, as I did not want orkia to threaten the world once more with nuclear saber rattling nonsense.