That night, the Airship Fleet arrived over Lisbon and launched an airstrike. The Sigmund Unit immediately parachuted down and headed for the government building, while Oswald armed himself with a jet suit and headed for where President Jean Bradlay was.
In the distance, President Jean Bradlay could be seen hiding in a secret safe house, looking out the window. Oswald immediately changed Blood Daemon into an anti-materiel rail sniper rifle and used the scope to aim at the president’s neck.
A moment later, a bright light flashed with a loud explosion in the void, and without missing the gap, he pulled the trigger, causing a red current to flow through the rail, and soon a red bullet shot out and blew Jean Bradlay’s head off.
The railgun bullet pierced Jean Bradlay’s head and destroyed the wall behind him. The commotion brought people up, who screamed upon seeing President Jean Bradlay’s body.
Kaboom! Boom!
Sigmund Unit members riding Gigants swung their giant swords and thoroughly crushed the Republican forces blocking their way.
Glory Knife and the Marseille Musketeers Brigade were currently on the Seville front, so the only forces that could stop them were ordinary infantry, who were no match for Gigants. There were still a few master swordsmen left. . . but it was impossible for them to pierce the reinforced heavy armor imbued with the Gigant’s reinforcement magic.
The government building housed the ministers of each ministry, the vice president, and the prime minister, and they were all taken care of by Gilgamesh, who had broken in with his bare body. He used the Soul Sword, which could kill an opponent with just a thought, to kill them for sure.
The next morning. . . There were sporadic skirmishes all over Lisbon, but soon news came of the deaths of President Jean Bradlay, the vice president, the prime minister of the State Department, the minister of the Ministry of National Defense, and the ministers of each ministry. . . In the end, the officers commanding the unit had no choice but to put down their weapons.
In fact, the war was all but over. The people who had fled to the New Continent were not worried because the Minister of the Development Department remained in the New Continent. . . However, many people still remained in this land.
After the success of the Lisbon operation. . . There was no reason for the Western Military District to attack Seville any further, so they sent a delegation to D’Orléans in Seville to ask for surrender. Through them, they showed an article that covered the events in Lisbon in depth, and of course, they initially denied the fact.
However, as soon as those in charge of Lisbon’s defense proved it to be true, their will to resist finally collapsed completely.
The emperor did not blame Philippe D’Orléans, the enemy commander who had tormented his army so much, but rather gave him the title of duke and appointed him as the Duke of Madrid, centered on Madrid, the capital of the Republic.
Philippe von D’Orléans, Duke of Madrid. He was reluctant. . . But it was the only way to save the surrendered Republican soldiers.
After that, the Republican soldiers were temporarily incorporated as Sword officers to stabilize the occupied territory. After going through Sword’s regular training program there, they were scheduled to be officially assigned to various occupied areas.
“The war is practically over.”
The Sigmund Unit, composed of Gigants, was reorganized as a unit directly under the commander of the Central Military District, and the Western Military District moved its headquarters to Barcelona City to oversee the newly incorporated West as much as its expanded territory.
The people from the liberal Democratic Republic were incorporated into the Empire as Imperial citizens under the rule of the Empire, but in fact, there was not much difference from the Republic.
There was a class system such as the nobility, but since it was an empire ruled by the rule of law, no matter how noble, they were punished for committing crimes, and even nobles had to enlist as non-commissioned officers or soldiers if they were not graduates of the Imperius Academy.
“Still, half of the people in the territory have fled to the New Continent. . . It will probably take at least a few decades before we can properly collect taxes and stabilize the region.”
The problem was that the invasion of Chaos was also imminent. Not long ago, during the war, it was reported through the Order that the ‘Blood Cult,’ a Blood Chaos worshiper organization within Republican territory, was on the verge of summoning an Archduke Demon of blood.
When he informed Gilgamesh of this fact, he decided to investigate more closely through the Kronen family of Royman and the Peace Eye.
“One peculiar thing is. . . the Knight of Avarice moved.”
“The Knight of Avarice?”
“Barbatos.”
“The Knight of Avarice. Perhaps he is trying to prevent the soul of an earl-class demon from being destroyed in the attack of Lord Leto.”
“Well, it’s not easy for a noble-class demon to be born.”
According to the settings for Chaos, there were countless worlds that they interfered with and invaded, other than this one. That’s why they were always short on personnel and highly valued high-ranking personnel such as earl-class devils, and they tried to corrupt and turn superhumans into Chaos.
“Anyway, the fact that they made such a move means that they will soon start a full-scale offensive through the New Continent.”
“Still, it’s fortunate that we were able to end the war early. If it had been longer here. . . It would have been difficult to respond when the New Continent was attacked.”
“By the way, I heard that you were promoted to colonel this time. Congratulations.”
“Thank you. Congratulations on your promotion to lieutenant colonel as well. Where will you be stationed from now on?”
“I’ll probably continue to be assigned to the Western Military District for the time being to help stabilize the occupied territory. There are still quite a few resistance members and liberal revolutionaries left. . . Oswald, are you going back to Maesterium?”
“Yeah, I am. Now that the war is over, there’s no need for me to stay on the front lines anymore, and Maesterium’s director apparently really chewed out the Minister of Defense.”
“What do you plan to make this time?”
“First of all, I have to make a Magic Aerial Battleship.”
They were already producing short-range fighter jets. What if they made an aerial magic battleship and used it as a mothership? That would be the birth of an aircraft carrier.
Of course, if he were to bring out this magic battleship and aircraft carrier now, there was a possibility that the emboldened Empire would continue its war with Britannia, so he planned to make them once the peace negotiations were concluded.
The Imperial Empire and the Elondil Empire were already conducting secret negotiations through the CID. The Imperial Empire had no intention of occupying the Britannia mainland, which was no different from an island, so the peace negotiations would probably not be difficult.
However, it will take time due to the issue of determining the compensation for the war and the damage caused by the elves’ participation.