Necromancer, summoning 055? What the heck?

Chapter 356 The Burning Sea Serpent, the Graveyard of Evil Spirits

On April 1, just as the Bald Eagle media broke the news of the "Kishin Project", an order was sent through a special channel from Captain Wilson's desk to Lieutenant Commander Yuya Yamaguchi of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent Navy.

This process is normal; command of the sea serpent force rests with the bald eagle.

However, this "read and burn" command plunged Yamaguchi Yuya into a long period of silence.

Yamaguchi is no fool. As the captain of the Samoyed-class destroyer "Kuroba," the latest class of the Sea Serpent, he is considered one of the best in the Sea Serpent class in terms of both background and ability.

The Black Feather is no small toy. This behemoth, with a hull length of 170 meters and a full-load displacement of over 10,000 tons, has a total of 96 universal vertical launch cells.

This new type of "shield ship," which integrates multiple advanced military technologies, is a naval heavy weapon that can be considered among the most important ships on the entire planet Earth.

Over the past few decades, the navy of the four-clawed sea serpent has quietly completed its strategic transformation from "near-shore defensive defense" to "active defense in the open ocean".

As for the ship's name, that's even more intriguing.

During the last Blue Star Wars, the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent formed the so-called "Eighteen Serpent Warriors" with eighteen heavy cruisers, demonstrating their ambition to devour Aishia and dominate the two oceans.

The Black Feather was one of the heavy ships of the "Eighteen Samurai of the Serpent King".

The implications behind it are self-evident!

As Dongxia's strategic experts said, the Sea Serpent is a dangerous creature that is always accumulating strength, sharpening its claws, and constantly looking forward to the next "life-or-death moment".

However, the opposite bank is no longer that corrupt empire where everyone was silent!
Now, whether he likes it or not, Yuya Yamaguchi must become the one who pulls the trigger.

The Bald Eagles' establishment needs someone to fire the shot to loosen the Bald Eagles' joint defense treaty, thereby justifying the Empire's leader's acquisition of Dongxia's X drug.

The Eagle's military-industrial complex also needs someone to fire a shot and escalate regional tensions. Lobbying groups will tell the gentlemen sitting in Congress that the military needs more budget, more funding, more funding!

The right wing of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent needs someone to fire the shot. They are extremely impatient with the shackles of defeat and desperately need an opportunity to break free. They dream of returning the country to the state of a "normal country" that can "freely" exercise force abroad and "promote national prestige".

The left wing of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent also needs someone to fire a shot. They have completely lost hope in the country's aristocratic politics. Rather than watching the country soak in a cesspool, they might as well sink in, drown, and start over!
Other countries on Earth are also waiting for someone to fire a shot; they crave all the conflict, bloodshed, and turmoil!

Major powers see themselves as profiting from this, absorbing the funds and assets that have spilled over due to regional instability and war.
Smaller countries, on the other hand, dream of finding a way to squeeze in the gaps and gain some support, funding, or industrial transfer.

Of course, there are also some completely unrelated guys who just feel good watching other countries fight each other!

Even Dongxia was waiting for this gunshot.

In the words of the military, since this battle is bound to happen sooner or later, we might as well take it down with us.

If, in order to wash away the shame and eliminate threats to future development, it is inevitable that some people will have blood on their hands... then this kind of 'dirty work' should be completely finished by our generation!

With so many people's high expectations, Yuya Yamaguchi had no other choice.

This haizo was short, and his uniform even needed to be custom-made to make the collar stand up straight. At this moment, he tried to straighten his body, slowly adjusted the stand-up collar of his uniform, carefully smoothed out the wrinkles on the epaulettes, and carefully tucked his sidearm into the holster.

Then, he looked up and stared at the large desk that almost covered his entire body.

Here are a few black and white photographs.

Those were the "Eight-Finger Gambler," "Glory Shiro," and "Razor General," who were once the pride of the empire... and the lowest-ranking "Last Surrender"!
"Then... what about me?"

What kind of name will a memorial tablet have in a ghost temple?

Yuya Yamaguchi straightened his military cap, turned around, and walked out of the captain's cabin.

Later, a bombshell news story spread that the entire planet thought was an April Fool's joke.

The Samoyed-class destroyer JS Blackfeather, nicknamed the "Four-Clawed Sea Serpent," fired an anti-ship missile at a warship of a certain country stationed outside the Liuzhou Islands.

Subsequently, Captain Yuya Yamaguchi issued a public announcement to the entire world via the international maritime public channel.

[Hidden for fifty years, now unsheathed in this one strike!]

Enemy ships invaded our fishing grounds and entered our maritime territory, acting aggressively and arrogantly.

To the left of the cannon, we see a loach lost its master; to the right of the United Nations University, we can't bear to see black and white turned upside down!
Where is the spirit of the sea serpent children?
The vast nation that our ancestors conquered with their blood and flesh can now only cower in the shadows, filled with sorrow. Must this four-clawed sea serpent forever remain shackled under the chains of a defeated nation?
With this strike today, we will tell all the nations of Earth that our great race will never accept humiliation imposed upon us!
A new sun will rise from the burning sea, and the Sea Serpent Empire will finally reclaim our glorious glory!
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The content is quite long and highly provocative.

Accompanying this was the thunderous wrath of the Eastern Xia.

That's right, Dongxia is indeed waiting for the guns to fire, but it's waiting for guns, not missiles.

Although the missile launched by the Kuroba was successfully intercepted in the final stage by the efficient anti-missile module on the Dongxia frigate, everyone was still terrified.

What if we fail to intercept it...

The consequences are simply unimaginable.

The Black Feather was well aware that it did not have the capability to systematically confront the Eastern Xia, so it fired one shot and then turned and left.

On the return journey, Yamaguchi Yuya refused all communications from within the Sea Serpent Kingdom, simply sitting at the bow of the ship without uttering a word.

Only when the winding coastline of the four-clawed sea serpent finally came into view did he seem to awaken from his long hallucination.

Once again, and for the last time, Yamaguchi Yuya straightened his uniform, picked up his long sword, and symbolically made a cut in his abdomen.

Seppuku is too painful, and it's a slow death; I can't bear it, so I have to find someone to perform a second...

Let's use a gun!
The gun was pressed against the patient's palate, and a dull thud followed as a large-caliber bullet pierced the brainstem, instantly ending the life of the haizo.

If anyone on the right wing of the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent can survive openly after this battle, he might have a chance to enter the Ghost Temple.

After all, in such a resource-scarce wasteland, unable to be self-sufficient in food or minerals, and only able to gaze at the bountiful continent year after year, how could the distorted national character cultivated in such profound despair not be driven to madness?

Treat every gambler as the hope of the community!

The gunshots have already been fired. The death of Yamaguchi Yuya certainly cannot quell this storm. The time that follows will be the stage for the ambitious people of Earth.

You can't imagine how many true and false messages fly around on this April Fool's Day. However, there are always some people whose words you can only listen to seriously, even if you know they are nonsense.

For example, the commander of the bald eagles.

"As you know, I am a peacemaker. I have led more than a dozen peace negotiations, and I have even just facilitated friendly communication between the Sea Serpent and the Double-Headed Eagle on the issue of the Northern Islands. But unfortunately, some people, yes, those guys you're thinking of, have acted too impulsively."

"I think this kind of reckless and irresponsible provocation will inevitably be met with some minor punishment, and I can fully foresee that!"

When asked by reporters, the president shook his head:

"Joint defense? Oh no, I won't let such reckless guys drag the great White Eagle Empire into the abyss."

"We will only protect...those rational, rule-abiding allies."

"Of course, I will tell the Dongxia people that the eagle's base in that territory needs to be secured. I think they will understand that; no one understands them better than me!"

"Yes, I am very confident about that!"

Almost at the same time that Commander White Eagle uttered these words, Dongxia's battle proclamation landed on the ground.

"It's tolerable, but it's unbearable!"

The firepower strike against the sea serpents has begun.

The goal of the first round of strikes was to completely cripple the enemy's ability to retaliate.

"Resolutely and thoroughly destroy all enemy weapons that could threaten our controlled areas, and ensure the strategic security of coastal and border cities."

Based on this instruction, Dongxia launched the most dense wave of ultra-long-range attacks in human history.

Many people may not understand what the concept of system-of-systems combat is. To put it simply, only two countries can achieve precise global positioning. Once these two countries shut down their navigation systems, the long-range weapons of the entire world will revert to the era of inertial guidance, terrain matching, or remote targeting.

Faced with such an absolute technological gap, some confrontations that appear to be evenly matched, or even slightly inferior on paper, often turn into one-sided, crushing, and lopsided massacres, such as a six-to-zero score.

This time, Dongxia's attack was divided into three waves. The first wave prioritized destroying the enemy's radar equipment and air defense weapons, effectively blinding and crippling them. To achieve this strike effect in the shortest possible time, Dongxia launched over 1,200 medium- and long-range missiles from coastal land-based silos, mobile launchers, and various types of warships within just fifteen minutes. This effectively demonstrated to the nations of Earth why industrial capacity, rather than stock market capitalization or cryptocurrency, is what constitutes war potential.

In the Northern War, it took a year to destroy the enemy's air defenses, while here the war only takes a dozen minutes.

Within the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent's stronghold, battle reports poured in like snowflakes.

All 28 radar stations across the country were destroyed at the very first moment of the war, and 17 positions equipped with anti-aircraft missile clusters were successfully penetrated by hypersonic missiles one after another, none of them escaping unscathed.

Apart from a small number of mobile anti-aircraft vehicles that have been moved to other concealed bases, the entire Sea Serpent has basically returned to the era when it could only use anti-aircraft guns for air defense.

Can anti-aircraft guns defend against missiles?

Just kidding!
Kenichiro Kazuki, the deputy commander of the Sea Serpent Army, frantically grabbed the phone.

"Quickly, quickly, help me contact General Robert!"

A few minutes later, Anxin received very bad news.

General Robert, the commander of the joint command center and the real mastermind behind the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent Army, is currently in urgent consultations with the Bald Eagles and is temporarily unable to answer his calls.

At the same time, General Robert's staff officer also "incidentally" relayed the commander's order: to refuse the request for the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent Air Force fighter jets to scramble and intercept, on the grounds of "avoiding further escalation and preventing miscalculation."

But whether I refuse or not doesn't seem to matter much anymore.

Because just now, Dongxia's second wave of attacks has arrived. This wave targets the Four-Clawed Sea Serpent's air power and long-range strike capabilities—military airfields, missile launch sites, and command centers.

Presumably because there weren't many missile sites along the eastern coast of China, this wave of attacks came from a slightly more inland area.

The missile only flew for a few more minutes.

The screen showed flames rising and falling, black smoke billowing into the sky, and mushroom clouds of all sizes caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot.

"This was a premeditated attack!"

Kenichiro Kishi only took a few minutes to figure out the cause and effect.

Unlike others, Anxin, who had been painstakingly scheming against Dongxia and Baidiao, had the deepest understanding of these two major forces. He had always considered himself a chess player, doing his best to advance this grand game. Now, he suddenly realized that he was just playing chess at the dinner table.

The people sitting at the table have been quietly watching their own performance, waiting for the right moment to raise their knives and forks.

"We've been betrayed!"

"They must have reached some kind of understanding, they must!"

"I don't know what the bald eagle traded us for, but there's no doubt it must have fetched a good price!"

"Dongxia attacked our air defenses first in order to reduce obstacles in subsequent attacks."

"If I'm not mistaken..."

Kenichiro Kishi, his face clouded with gloom, turned to the Chief of Staff of the Navy.

"Next, it's your turn!"

Kishi Shin's guess was completely correct.

This round of attacks by Dongxia is aimed at destroying the following core targets.

The enemy's central command system.

Enemy's medium- and long-range ballistic missile and cruise missile launchers.

Enemy airfields and fighter jets.

Enemy surface and underwater vessels with maneuvering capabilities.

In short, any enemy weapon or weapon platform that could potentially attack targets more than 100 kilometers away should not and is not permitted to exist.

The east wind howled, and the giant waves surged to the sky.

The major naval ports, once hailed as the "pride of the empire's seas," have now become graveyards of steel, with towering spikes in the air and cleaving waves on the sea.

The first ship to be targeted by Dongxia was the "Black Feather" Samoyed-class 10,000-ton destroyer, which had just escaped and had not yet entered its home port.

At least three terminally guided anti-ship missiles, launched from the aircraft, accurately struck the behemoth.

The first missile struck the starboard side below the bridge, and the violent explosion instantly tore open a huge gash from which flames and thick smoke billowed.

The second missile struck the vertical launch system area amidships almost simultaneously, triggering a catastrophic chain reaction of explosions. A series of violent and intense explosions followed one after another, lifting the entire midsection of the ship off the sea surface before slamming it back down.

The ignited ammunition depot was like a fireworks display, the flames illuminating half the sky.

The bow of the Black Feather rose helplessly high above the sea, revealing a hull covered in barnacles and rust. Then, with a rapid twisting of the metal, this once highly anticipated 10,000-ton behemoth suddenly broke in two, crashing heavily onto the sea and sending up waves several meters high.

Finally, engulfed in flames and billowing smoke, it slowly sank into the murky sea.

The broken metal hull, the floating oil stains, the scattered lifeboats, and the drifting sailors became the last memories the "Black Feather" left for the sea snake.

Inside the headquarters, the screen in front of Kenichiro Kishimoto lost signal one after another, freezing on the last static filled with jumbled electrical signals. If he hadn't been hiding in this secluded base, perhaps the deputy commander's fate would have been the same as the fireworks that were now rising and falling outside.

In this sudden, overwhelming attack, Dongxia did not take any action against the Sea Serpent's civilian facilities for the time being.

However, out of thousands of missiles launched, there are always one or two that malfunction and miss their targets.

A missile with a heavy warhead unexpectedly veered off course and landed in the haunted temple called "Summoning Souls".

The missile, veering off course, streaked across the sky and swooped down like lightning. As the flash illuminated the Ghost Temple, time seemed to freeze for a moment.

Boom——!
A deafening explosion tore through the air, and a fireball soaring into the sky completely engulfed the main hall of the eerie building. The wooden structure of the ghost temple was inevitably reduced to countless fragments in the shockwave, and some of the spirit tablets enshrined on the shrines were swept up like withered leaves, spinning wildly in the scorching heat.

The chief priest of the Ghost Temple was formerly a vice admiral in the Sea Serpent Navy. Arranging for someone with a military background to inherit the Ghost Temple's militaristic legacy is one of the Sea Serpent's most successful moves in recent years.

At this moment, the chief priest of Otsuka was dressed in solemn traditional religious attire, presiding over a grand festival. Below the stage, hundreds of right-wing elites, remnants of the old regime, and rogue politicians had gathered.

The shockwave instantly tore the main hall apart. Still somewhat bewildered, the Otsuka priest reached out, trying to catch a fragment of a spirit tablet falling from the sky, but was engulfed by the spreading flames in the next second, turning into a standing torch.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, the former vice admiral let out a piercing wail.

On the altar, the porcelain jars containing ashes shattered one after another in the high temperature. The grayish-white ashes mixed with black smoke and dust, forming eerie and distorted shadows in the churning flames, as if the souls nailed to the pillar of historical shame were once again being scorched by the fire of judgment.

The massive beams bent and collapsed in the flames, crashing down on the fleeing crowd. These devout believers, as if waking from a dream, surged frantically toward the exit, and in the chaos began a massive stampede.

Of course, there were also loyal followers of the Sea Serpent Empire, roaring fanatical slogans, trying to rush into the fire to rescue the ashes they cherished and had managed to preserve with great difficulty, and the sinful souls behind those ashes.

Their "heroic" act was rewarded in reality: the spreading flames completely engulfed the hall, revealing charred remains of the "spirits" they had tried to save, who had gone on their journey together.

A wooden plaque was twisted and shattered in the flames, thrown high into the air by the blast wave, and then fell from the sky with a red glow. On its mostly charred surface, only a fragment of the character "国" (country) could be vaguely discerned.

The raging wind whipped up the burning debris, carrying tiny red glows as it drifted into the distance. Those scattered lights, like will-o'-the-wisps, seemed to unleash fourteen great evil spirits, two thousand lesser demons, and two million five hundred thousand miscellaneous creatures hidden deep within.

Let them witness firsthand, in the warm spring sunshine, what fate awaits this land that breeds endless evil.

　I was sweating profusely from writing...

　　Although I really wanted to write something fantastic, I had to skip over many things.

　　You know what I mean...

　　We're still too bound by the rules.

　　I hope it happens in my lifetime.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)