Chapter 2058: Star Foxes

The first few spies around the northern region were killed without too much of a hassle and because there was a lag in the time to report back, Number 4 and Number 8 took this chance as per order to get around Ress to defeat any monsters that were surrounding them.

They had no idea that between the Rifle Mage Battalions and the tanks supporting them, there was actually another group that Ress had cultivated to do some dirtier work which was not known to the public, the military, and even the ministers. .comvl

The ones who were known were only Jin, Kraft, and Gara, the Royal Mage General. This mysterious group was not so mysterious after all if their identities were known to the public partially because Kraft had decided that even lowlife have their uses.

Prisoners of Ress were given a second chance to work for the kingdom or that was the main idea behind Star Foxes. Unlike the Moon and the Sun where people will notice them in some way or another, the stars were different. They glimmer and glitter under the veil of darkness and people only appreciated them for what they had done shining from afar.

Like the stars, these prisoners were never given a second chance to shine brightly, but Kraft put it in a crude way that humans still needed to be fed so it was important for them to work too. But in actual fact, they were racking in more money than usual due to Jin's courtesy but also because the training they were given was equivalent to the Commando Mages.

The only difference was that their training was more...restrained despite the given regiment. They thought the cuffs that they wore could break easily given the amount of magic training that they went through but all of the Star Foxes eventually realised that the chains were equally strong like them.

This was because Jin had improvised smithed all of the chains individually to make them have the 'growth' trait imbued on those chains. So, whenever they leveled up in rank, the chains would also grow in strength. But that does not mean that they did not have any freedom in what they were doing.

With just mana signatures unique from either Kraft or Jin, those chains can either disappear, leaving only the cuffs on, or emerge and put them all in a bind that they could not escape. In fact, they can die from it too as the chains have the ability to execute their victims.

That being said, ever since a bond of trust had been created through training, the Star Foxes were able to roam around without too much of trouble and they were given freedom without the chains on. (The cuffs were still there though but it was better than staying in a rotten cell with nothing but time to accompany them.)

That was also why when this hidden mission was given to them, they did not hesitate to proceed to prove their usefulness in order to show Lord Kraft that they were worth keeping. Jin did not bother with Star Foxes but he was given the command to lock them up as a backup in case Kraft suddenly 'dissipated' back to their original world and Jin was still stuck in that world.

As for their hidden mission. It was actually to lure the demons the moment all 150 Rifle Mages were busy securing the 5 kilometre radius (or more). They did not know that Jin was planning to increase the radius to at least 25 kilometres despite only having such a small force holding the area.

But before that increase, the hidden mission of the Star Foxes will commence. This batch of Rifle Mages trained by Kraft would lure the demons to force them to wrap around the entire isolation barrier. This was used as an excuse for killing the surrounding troops that Number 4 and Number 8 had done.

Whether the demons would stay at the isolation barrier or run around the isolation barrier was none of Jin's business. To him, all the natural resources were available at his end with a snap of a finger so it was not an issue if this entire place had been ravaged.

What he needed was people. People to believe that Ress could save them. People to believe that Ress is a safe haven to live in. It was an evil way of doing but there was no time. He had no way he could produce wars for five years straight just to make sure that the entire population of this world Atopia was ready for a Celestial Massacre.

In fact, if he could push and get everyone on his side in year 1, he had four years to prepare but that was too optimistic. He believed he needed at least 2 years to unite people. But if he can sow the seeds to make people fear Demons, that would be the best route.

Because Jin believed that the current world is still too sheltered by the likes of Demons and Celestials and they would not be able to do anything about it when the time came. In addition, Jin had already seen the capability of this world through Grand Sage Mex. It felt as if he was in a video game where the game gave such terribly lousy levelled NPCs unless he directly intervened in it.

"Go! My Star Foxes! It's your turn to shine!" Kraft said as he finally gave the order to sortie when the Rifle Mages had reported that they had encompassed the five kilometre radius.

The bombardment was ongoing and sightings of flying monsters had already emerged, indicating that the demons were communicating with each other and it would be a matter of time even more flying monsters appeared to kill the Rifle Mages who were having a field day.

The Star Foxes were all in black camo uniform as they put up their fox masks in order not to be identified during the fights when against enemies. For the Rifle Mages, they will know that the Star Foxes were friendlies due to their Friend or Foe system with the Goggle Artifact they had been bestowed with.

(Only the Commando Mages were equipped with Odin's Lesser Jewels but fun fact, the Star Foxes were equipped with 'Odin's Jewels'.)

They took their M4 assault rifles and flew off instantly, provoking the monsters with rubber bullets in an attempt to lure the remaining monsters to catch after them at low altitudes too.

The plan to surround the entire Ress with Demons had commenced.

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