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Chapter 94: The Eastern Alliance Super Soldier

Finally she understood She knehy the name had sounded so familiar to her Finally she understood why she’d been so curious about the man in black

On the back of the five-pointed metal star was a colu that , Commander-in-Chief, An Lun Planetary Military Co of words, but it nonetheless took An Liu by surprise

She knew about An Lun With the naether, she knew precisely who the gentleman before her was

An Lun was a planet located on the border regions of the East’s celestial territories It was the closest planet to the Northern Alliance, and one practically bursting with all ic i area It was an endless expanse of ends – legends largely involving Lan Qing

His background was a mystery He first appeared on record as a si foot on An Lun as a coends was about that si but the standard issue mecha the ar out pirate infestations, the Northern Alliance had sent a crack team of mecha pilots to An Lun The clandestine operation was tasked with sabotage of the ’s third day in the armed forces

The primary objective of the infiltrators was a sieed with pirates in An Lun planetary air space, attacking unprovoked to provide cover for their mecha unit The conflict drew the brunt of An Lun’s defenses to orbit for support

Five hundred expert y This was the squad that invaded while their support drew attention away to the skies above It took theet The arrisoned in defense Lan Qing was one of those

In the opening wave of attacks the Eastern defenders had lost more than half of their nu defeat that routed the garrison It looked like the mine was lost

Despite their victory, the Northerners discovered several of their nu to retreat, discovered one of their nu then said to his comrades has been forever etched on the cultural memory of the East: “Make for safety I’ll cover your retreat” These simple seven words are what catapulted the siainst five hundred of the best the North had to offer It was a suicide e This was no deciding battle

Indeed everyone suspected Lan Qing was sacrificing himself so his squad- would perform a miracle

First, his masterful control of his mecha allowed him to set the surprise attack in disarray He then utilized the native defensive syste facility to keep them at bay

Losses continued to increase for the invaders Eventually they broke through the defensive line of the mine’s systems, but their number had been reduced to three hundred More than a hundred of those lost were at Lan Qing’s hand

The Northerners were indignant and enraged, but still were on the cusp of co’s audacity had not been spent He still had a plan

Theused for storage The geral coave theathered for their third assault, Lan Qing arranged a nuether He waited patiently for the company to swarm in to theexplosion was enough to obliterate half the mine, and a hundred rievous losses However, with the mine in shambles they considered their objective co had detonated the front part of thesince been mined dry The richest veins still lied within, safe from the blast radius

The infiltrators prepared to depart, but Lan Qing still wasn’t satisfied As theywas like a specter at their heels Like the angel of death he picked the but his standard-issue mecha

He came and ith no more substance than a shadow He struck with the force of a hurricane Even to this day no one understood how he could know the terrain so well after only three days But it was simple – he used every tool at his disposal, every ounce of knowledge and skill

As the enemy’s numbers dropped to near fifty, their morale collapsed They couldn’t stand in the face of this unbelievable assault All they wanted was to escape All their energy went to running

Lan Qing was too exhausted to proceed He’d single-handedly turned the tide of what should have been a massacre There, battered and tired, he received a co enerouped, returning to fight by their comrade’s side Even two Master-Ranked pilots who’d co had made a name for himself In these short end only increased when he refused histo have them honor his squadron ht he was nuts The kind of psychopath willing to face five hundred enemy soldiers Still, a triumphant psychopath A hero

As the conflict between the North and East continued, Lan Qing repeatedly proved hisfor the East’s officer to realize he wasn’t just a genius on the battlefield, but also far surpassed any of his peers in areas of strategy and leadership They were skills that led him to victory in every skirhteen years old at the ti he remained on An Lun, at the forefront of the East’s conflicts His intelligence and strength resulted in victory, for all two hundred plus battles he fought Never once was he or his company defeated His medals, accolades and coest Rear Adiven command of the entire military force of An Lun, and in that tile foothold or earned any beneficial victory It was a post usually reserved for only the highest ranking military personnel

He had yet to achieve the top posts of the military, but there wasn’t a soul alive in the East that wasn’t willing to bow to him as the Supersoldier of An Lun The Northerners knew him as the Specter of Death It idely accepted that the East was the weakest of the Three Alliances, however Lan Qing insured they were able to maintain control of this es In the criets for assassination, a list that changed extensively but for his name That’s how important he was to the East