High School Soldier
125. Escape 2: right eye

“What is..?”

Nio lamented his two subordinates lying on the ground with faces stuck in two and four arrows respectively. Two witches were killed with an arrow stuck in their chest and stomach.

“I... let them die again..?”.

Nio's voice sounded trembling, but it wouldn't make the two subordinates and the witch come back to life.

“Quiet! It's only natural that people die on the battlefield!”

Sergeant Liben rebukes Nio and the rest of the remaining members of the 1st Cruiser Squad as if he were a war veteran, but the situation is different from the time of Chandra's death. Previously Nio had not witnessed how his subordinates had fallen, but now he saw how the two of them were no longer alive at the hands of the otherworldly forces.

However, they were not just subordinates that could be ruled, they were friends. Nio saw the deaths of his two friends. Although Nio was ready to accept if he died now, and he would not regret it with that. But, Nio was still given a life to look back on his dead friends like when he was an amateur soldier.

“Job! Damn it...!!!”

Ungoverned, some members fired ammunition at their own salty assault rifles. Nearly 30 enemy soldiers died and sprayed blood as a result of a 7.62 mm slash of bullets at a speed of 900 meters per hour fired from a distance of 30 meters.

“Everything, maintain formation! Don't leave position!”

“Those green soldiers used demonic weapons!”

The enemy forces did not try to stop the pursuit, and still maintained a line to prevent the escape of the 1st Cruiser Squad. No Imperial soldiers died after being hit by bullets, and desperately maintained a position with a face of fear.

“This primitive squad... they tried to win apparently!” muttered Nio while trying to strengthen his footrest on the ground.

The true number of victims who died when the incident attacked other world troops when the independence anniversary reached thousands, it is a secret that the government hid in order to prevent public panic. On the other hand, until today's battle has been recorded about 300,000 enemy human soldiers were killed, he said, that number does not include the casualties of the monster army which if added up can reach 550,000 combined casualties of human and monster soldiers.

Is it the determination or obsession of the enemy to achieve victory over the TNI? For the first time, Nio felt determination rushing down from his back while recalling that.

After all, the 29 teenage soldiers in front of the Imperial army were much stronger regarding weaponry. The enemies who were still setting up the formation did everything in their power to close the enormous gap in the weaponry. This is different when they come to Indonesia just like fools. Nio was sure the enemy was still desperate.

Nio had a special place in his heart to hold his hatred towards all the enemies of Indonesia, especially the Empire that had formed the Alliance Army. If he were to catch up with Chandra, and her two fallen friends, Nio would feel proud.

But, Nio's determination says if he has to stay alive to protect the only family this young man has, Arunika.

Nio took out a grenade from his vest bag, and threw it towards the line of hundreds of enemy soldiers in front of him. While lifting a hand grenade weighing 400 grams, Nio felt that there was a load much heavier than the actual weight of this weapon.

“Everything, follow Commander. Throw all the grenades you have!”

The one who ruled earlier was Liben, he knew that Nio was still difficult to talk and put grenades without warning its members.

Dozens of explosive grenades floated in the air, the Imperial army assumed that it was a signal that the green troops in front of them had begun to despair, and threw their ‘potato-potato’. But potatoes are not just potatoes.

It was the potato that caused enormous damage.

Dozens of grenades landed in the middle of the meeting ranks arranged by the Imperial troops, seconds later the weapon caused a barrage of extremely loud and powerful explosions. Blood, pieces of flesh, hands, feet, metal armor slabs, and others flew up and scattered during the exploding grenade.

The archers on the roof of the building looked terrified as several pieces of limbs floated up and hit their heads, and the siege they were under was thrown into chaos.

Nio shouted after seeing the enemy troops that looked messy, “Kabur...!!!”

The entire rover Squad 1 fled at the same time after Nio's command. Some of them threw all the remaining grenades, and some more shot until their respective magazines were empty.

Nio fired his assault rifle while holding his fallen member, he was named Tomi and carried the fallen soldier on his shoulder. But, suddenly something big pierced through his shoulders.

Not only arrows, the Empire's elite troops also possessed weapons similar to crossbows. Of course, the weapon is more deadly than ordinary arrows, because it can slide arrows much faster.

The 1 meter long arrow pierced through Nio's left shoulder, the young man lost his balance and fell which caused Tomi's body to be thrown.

“Commander...!!!” Fariz and several members stopped after seeing Nio fall.

“Run…!!! Quick...!!!”

“But..!”

Some members crawl to escape the rain of arrows from the enemy's elite forces, and drag the body without Tomi's life. Nio's injuries were so severe that he couldn't possibly continue the escape.

“Don't mind me, damn it! Quickly save yourself...!!!” Nio shouted like that in the hope of his members abandoning himself and saving themselves.

“It's okay…! If the enemy knew the law of war, at least I would be made a prisoner of war! That way I won't be killed!”

Nio forced his entire facial muscles to show a smile, even if it was a forced smile. He entrusted the message to Liben who ran towards him, he tried to save Nio.

“Liben, I'm sorry, but I ask you to bring everything to the fortress safely. Tell everyone, especially the General that danger is approaching!”

Nio sat down while enduring the pain on his shoulder which drained blood until his uniform turned red. He rearranged his assault rifle, and saw several enemy soldiers approaching.

“Am I going to die now? That should be it, right?”

The face of someone who first crossed his mind in the midst of this possibility of life and death was Arunika. Nio thought that his brother would not forgive him if he had to die now.

Nio smiled as if he was mocking himself, and then exerted his strength onto the finger pressing down on the trigger.

However, the magazine on Nio's assault rifle did not contain bullets, aka empty.

“Dog! Do I have to run out of bullets now?”

Nio was unlikely to pull out his gun, as he used a gun magazine suitable for use on the latest generation of assault rifles.

The enemy army that surrounded Nio smiled in satisfaction, as if it had managed to defeat the fire dragon king. A few seconds later, they threw hundreds of kicks and fists at Nio's body, and knocked him unconscious.

**

“International ceiling.”

Nio slowly opened his sore eyes, he examined his cracked glasses. He tried to open his right eye, but Nio cried out in pain. He placed his palm on his right eye, and saw blood patches on his palm after touching his right eye. Furthermore, he would not try to open his right eye again, this as an antispation if the pain he felt became more and more severe.

The first thing he saw was a room that appeared to be made of an array of stones. The stones are arranged and form this room, and cover the entire field of view.

Nio who was finally able to move his body, tried to look around with his left eye. This time he saw the iron bars.

Undoubtedly, Nio was in a dungeon. He had been unconscious for four days, and there had been no rescue team to this place. And Nio was alone in the dungeon, but he was accompanied by otherworldly cockroaches and mice.

The arrow stuck to his left shoulder was gone, and was replaced with a bandage that almost covered half of his body. But, the blood that came out seemed to be unable to be held back by the winding of the two-layer bandage, and showed patches of blood that pierced through the white bandage.

Nio lifted his body by forcing his sore muscles. He glanced ahead, as he guessed, he was locked up in a dungeon as he had seen in movies and novels.

The room was quite dark, but only the guard posts were bright with two burning torches, there was also the figure of a man in luxurious armor who clearly explained if the person's position was important in the country.

The man who looked to be in his 30s stared with a sharp look, and Nio returned the gaze of that person no less sharp. The face of the man in front of Nio is like a blend of East Asians with Europeans, with white skin although quite often outdoors. Moments later, an old man who seemed to be the man's superior walked over slowly.

“Fucking dog!” Nio said that while looking at the figure of Bogat in front of him.

“Welcome, army of another world. As you can see, we do not welcome you politely.”

In the opening words, the old Bogat smiled and put on an insinuating face.

Nio remained silent, even though his heart told his brain to say some harsh words towards Bogat.

Nio, who attaches great importance to action, seems to choose silence rather than action. Holding his hands behind him, Bogat spoke a funny language.

“Do you not understand other world languages? So let's repeat so you can understand it. ‘happy noon’.”

Nio was stunned, inwardly he said. “What came out of the old dog was Indonesian. Not wrong again, he just said one of the words in Indonesian.”

“You old dog, where did you learn Indonesian from!?”

“You should be able to think about it yourself. Me, and some of the Empire's people know this disgusting language from your people that we still hold.”

“This old dog..!”

Nio clenched his ‘asli’ hand and his ‘metal’ hand tightly, his heart racing quickly when Bogat said something insulting to Indonesia.

The expressions of Bogat and Maslac made Nio look foolish in front of the two of them. Nio felt nauseous at the sight of the two's expressions, and felt like immediately crushing their faces with his metal hands.

“You should have kept your word with His Majesty! Or do you want me to make me unable to see fully?” The man that Nio did not know, precisely Maslac, he said while carrying a ball-shaped object.

Nio's left eye opened wide after waking up if what Maslac brought was an eyeball.

“Look down, the healing witch has stopped the bleeding in your right eye. At most you just feel pain. And, these eyes, it looks like it could be a beautiful display!”

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Fundact#6: Nio given the armor plots no?

Sorry, I haven't been able to write 2,000 words for a while. Next, you will need to write more than 2,000 words.