High School Soldier
129. They, the heroes have arrived

Two weeks before the battle against the wind dragon king.

**

Monday, probably the saddest time of the week. Most people, will sigh heavily when they have to leave a short Sunday, not least with the lover of First Lieutenant Assistant Nio, Indah. But, he still seemed to smile a little while walking to one of the minimarkets in Karanganyar City which became his workplace. He could still smile after getting a selfie from Nio who was wearing his full combat uniform.

The two of them rarely encourage each other when they want to do the job, because of the task of Nio who often served in the field. However, Indah remained convinced that Nio was fine in another world.

Indah does her best so that Nio is also happy with her, including not too often contacting Nio so that the young man is focused on his work. But, once they exchanged messages, the content of the message they both sent was very romantic.

This girl turned on her phone to monitor the current clock, while looking at the lock screen of her phone Beautiful seemed to smile to herself. That was because the background he used was a photo of Nio that he had edited in such a way, the young man indeed rarely sent his picture to Indah.

“Ah basic, why do I want to meet him so soon?”

He continued to travel to work while reinserting his phone into his uniform pocket. Given if Nio was the person she liked, Indah thought she would strive to keep this relationship up until good destiny sided with their relationship.

Indeed, the Beautiful can do when reading every news that contains Expeditionary Force activities is to hope for the safety of his lover, Peltu Nio. Although not too often, Indah always sends a message that contains so that Nio prioritizes his safety when carrying out missions to potential battlefields.

“New to leave for work?”

A Student Army soldier, and a member of the 406th Company Karanganyar Garrison, as well as one of Nio's companions besides Jonathan stood in front of Indah. Rio, he and his subordinates are doing regular patrol activities after the assault incident.

Before the war, the two of them were classmates. Rio was able to get to know Beautiful when he found out that his best friend, Nio, often taught the girl a history lesson. Lovely just thought of Rio as her lover's best friend, nothing more. Meanwhile, Rio was just the opposite, he was attracted by Beautiful.

“Yes. Why don't you continue your work?”

“This is already in my break time. I've been on patrol since 1 o'clock.”

All the troops in the Karanganyar Garrison patrolled in turns, and did so thoroughly up to the border with Magetan City which had its own garrison. In fact, Company 32 is now moved to the Tawangmangu region so that the spread of troops is evenly distributed. Meanwhile, the Commander of Company 406 had been replaced after Herlina was transferred to the Expeditionary Force and became the deputy commander of one of the Combat Groups there.

Public opinion of the Student Army has not shown any significant improvement. However, almost 80 percent of Karanganyar City residents trust the Student Army to guard the Karanganyar Garrison.

It was beautiful to respect all the Student Army soldiers who served this city, especially Nio who had been transferred. But, why did he appear ordinary when faced with Rio in front of him?

When Rio said “Can I ask for your number?” Lovely handed her phone to the hand of Rio who had already put on a pleading face.

But, when Rio saw the background used Beautiful on the girl's phone, Rio's heart was racing and felt disbelief with what he saw.

“Are you done recording my number?”

Beautiful looks calm when asking that to the young man who is ‘broken heart’ in front of him.

Indah is the first girl not the ‘brother’ that Nio likes, the first girl he likes remains her brother. Ever since knowing Indah and teaching her a lesson that the girl did not understand, Nio always wanted to express her feelings despite some hindrance.

Nio's girlfriend is one of the most popular girls in school, and quite beautiful according to many people. He had straight black hair that was now cut short by a boat, and clear eyes that were alluring with great kindness. When near Nio, Indah always put a sincere smile on her face, which made her able to captivate Nio.

Meanwhile, other than the cleverness and kindness that Nio had, the hidden strength belonging to the young man made Indah curious. Once again, when she found out that Nio had often completed dangerous missions and received many government awards, Indah always thought twice “why did Nio choose me?”

And for whatever reason, the one who liked Indah was not only Nio, but that young man named Rio also had feelings for her.

The background used Beautiful on her phone turned out to be able to make Rio's heart shake.

“Are you really dating Nio?”

“Ya, it's been quite a while anyway.”

Hearing that answer, Rio's eyebrows dropped sharply, but his lips seemed to tremble.

“Since when?”

“Since he came home to do his bionic hand mounting operation.”

Rio admitted that Nio has many abilities that are still hidden, and he is still too weak in everything in the field of battle compared to Nio.

Most people assume that having a warrior lover is a great and amazing thing. But, Beautiful is different, she likes Nio already since the 10th grade until now, so the predicate of Nio as ‘warri’ is ruled out by him, precisely Beautiful is not at all caring and her love is sincere.

Therefore, when Rio had learned of a fact if Beautiful really belonged to Nio, he became unable to bear with this situation and thought, “Why should he, and not me!?”

In short, Rio disliked the situation, and his face stiffened as he looked at the still-living Indah's phone and showed a photo of Nio in the background. Still, in his feelings Rio did not accept with this.

Rio just did not expect that Indah and Nio were really made up after the various things that they both went through until now. Even so, Rio did not judge if he was most worthy of Indah, and not Nio.

As Rio and Indah were still in silence after being in this kind of perplexing situation, a group of people walked up to them. They had observed the two of them like stalkers, especially the presence of Barons in this group.

All the members of the Squad that Rio was leading had already ordered him to return to the underground city. Regarding this group, Rio had already heard that Nio had already defeated them with just one hand. That way, Rio immediately knew the purpose of them swarming around and Beautiful.

“It looks like you're heartbroken.”.

Rio did not want to get involved with the Baron group, and immediately pulled Beautiful's hand to stay away from this group of delinquent teenagers. Although the words that Baron had said were entirely true, but Rio was trying to put that aside first and tried to stay away from any problems that might be about to start soon.

The arrival of the Baron group made Rio feel if Beautiful was threatened, five of them were seen running after Rio who was still walking while pulling Beautiful hands. He walked swiftly towards the hidden alley, and was a shortcut towards the underground city.

One of the five grabbed Beautiful's hand, and made the girl panic. Immediately after, Rio floated a kick at the teenager's hip.

Seeing their friend being injured due to Rio's deeds, the Baron ordered all his subordinates to attack Rio. But, he ordered to bring Beautiful to her.

Rio strongly believed that the training he had gone through to become a special force could defeat the group that Nio had previously defeated alone with his one hand remaining that time. That was why, he had only used two fighting knives to deal with this group armed with wooden beams and iron pipes.

A killing gaze surrounded Rio, and tried to protect the Exquisite behind his back. The girl, felt that Rio was going to do the same thing that Nio did when stuck in this situation.

Rio gritted his teeth as these dozens of teenagers surrounded him with gazes that hinted so as not to let him live after this.

“Beautiful, I make sure you pay for everything your girlfriend did to me!”

“Hah!? Why did I accept your invitation?”

The baron snorted in annoyance, and laughed as victory over him would soon be obtained after defeating Rio. Rio sighed deeply and grumbled.

“The other world is a very dangerous place isn't it? I hope they are summoned to another world!” inner Rio when remembering a fantasy novel that he read, and tells of a main character who is always unlucky when in another world.

A moment after saying that, Rio felt that if his body froze, he could not even move his fingertips during this situation.

There was a luminous silver circle with various shining geometric patterns under the feet of Rio, Beautiful, and Baron.

The members of the Baron group also saw this strange circle, yet they ran away leaving their leader standing rigidly like Indah and Rio. The three of them stared at the strange glowing pattern that made them unable to move, this circle looked like a magic circle.

The magic circle began to shine more and more brightly, until its light swallowed the three of them. Beautiful could only scream, yet it did not make her move at all.

After a few seconds, or maybe a few minutes the light finally fades and slowly disappears. However, the three people were not where they stood.

I don't know who took out this magic circle and made Rio, Baron and Beautiful disappear.

Or maybe the three of them were transferred to another world?

The light quickly faded away as the darkness swallowed it. Beautiful face and the others turned frightened as she stared at the light that disappeared above her. He desperately stretched out his hand upwards, trying to grasp a light that he knew would not really be able to hold.

It was beautiful to feel if she fell into a very deep and dark abyss, as if she had fallen into a hellhole.

**

Beautifully covered her eyes with both hands and closed them tightly. Slowly he realized that he was not alone, and heard some people muttering something in a foreign language. With fear, Beautiful opened her eyes, and she was stunned as she looked around her.

As Indah examined her surroundings, she quickly realized that she, Rio, and Baron were in a spacious room. The entire room was made of sparkling white stone that looked smooth to the touch. A large pillar with engraved sculptures towered to the ceiling, and made this room resemble a palace.

Beautiful, Rio, and Baron were standing on a kind of luxurious looking carpet. In this place there are not only three of them, there are some people who appear to come from outside Indonesia. They have the physicality of Westerners, Middle Easterners, and Asians, and they speak the language of their respective origins.

Meanwhile, Rio turned around to see what was behind him. As she expected, Beautiful looked as confused as she and the nine people in this large room. The girl did not seem to have suffered any injuries, so Rio heaved a sigh of relief.

After monitoring his safety, Rio returned his gaze to the surrounding crowd of strangers, who he hoped would provide an explanation for the situation.

About 9 people in this room almost have the same feeling, namely confusion. But, other than Rio, there was one more person wearing a military uniform. And when viewed from the symbol attached to the left arm uniform striped desert typical of Middle Eastern countries, and the distinctive hexagon emblem, the, the soldier was from the Israel Defense Force (IDF).

The soldier spoke modern Hebrew which means he wants to know what this place is. When his eyes met a young soldier wearing a typical TNI green striped uniform, his eyes widened and grew increasingly anxious.

Rio was also surprised by the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier, but he did not consider that the man could give him an explanation for this puzzling situation.

About forty people stood around these nine confused people. They were heard talking something, carrying a thick book in front of their chests.

Dozens of people surrounding them were dressed in black robes ornate in gold. Each of them held a wand, like a magic wand in movies and novels.

Finally, one of them stepped forward, it seemed like the old man was their leader. She was dressed most luxuriously than the others, with a conical head covering and had an eye symbol.

The staff that the old man was holding was decorated with gold chains, and gave off a clattering sound as he walked.

“Congratulations in Luan Empire, brave heroes. We are happy to welcome you here. I am the leader of the Imperial Holy Witch, Salul. It is an honor for us to meet you, the summoned hero.” the old man who calls himself Salul smiles kindly to the nine people he calls ‘hero’.

He then led the nine still confused people into another room with many chairs and a long table, hinting that talks would be held here.

After all choosing their respective seats, several wagons driven by the retinue of floats entered this meeting room. This is the true servant of fantasy! One of the people who resembled the East Asian was shouting like that. Dozens of maids have an angel-like beauty, not the waitresses often found in the illustrations of light novels and old maids found in Europe. They have the beauty that all men dream of here.

Even in this perplexing situation, almost all of the men from the nine men had a libido that encouraged them when they saw the beautiful maid.

Rio was also almost lustful to look at the waiter serving drinks for him, but he turned his gaze forward to look at the Beautiful who remained calm in this puzzling situation.

Salul finally started talking after everyone was treated to their own drinks.

“I'm sure you all must be confused by this situation. I'll explain everything from the beginning. All I ask is that you all listen to me until the end,” Salul's words are not very common, and seem very mysterious.

In short, what Salul says is this is ‘otherworld’ that needs heroes to defeat ‘colonizer’.

The Alliance forces led by the Luan Empire suffered a crushing defeat after frequent battles with the invaders. Salul said that the weaponry capabilities of their invaders far surpass most of the world's troops.

Rio quickly remembered the name ‘Luan’ Empire. “Isn't that the name of the country that fought the Expeditionary Force?” so said Rio who was surprisingly Beautiful.

To date, the Alliance Army is still looking for ways to make the invaders retreat to their world.

The special forces are required to think quickly, as well as that done by Rio.

Rio's hand seemed to tremble when he discovered that this was another world where the Expeditionary Force was located, and Beautiful's face still showed great curiosity.

“The one who called you all here is us, with the permission of the Great God of War. I feel like the God of War is aware that savage invaders like them should be annihilated, so he allowed us to summon all of you here to defeat the invaders. You are the heroes of a world greater than ours, and therefore you are all blessed with a power that surpasses that of man in this world.”

The cold sweat that Rio let out grew even more profuse when he found out that he had to fight the Expeditionary Force in this world.

Then, Salul continued his words, “I beg the honorable heroes to do what the God of War wants. Please, defeat the savage invaders and save this world from destruction.” He looked almost possessed as he said that.

As Rio contemplated this crazy world, some people actually seemed excited to beat ‘colonizer’ that Salul meant.

“You're serious?! Tell us to fight against one of the strongest forces in my world!? Give me back and be beautiful right now!”

“Indonesian soldiers, what did you just say? Are we here ordered to fight the Indonesian forces sent to this world?”

Rio quickly turned his head towards the Israeli army, he was only temporarily stunned by the man who was skillfully speaking in Indonesian.

“Yes. Although I need time to understand it, this is a world at war with our world!”

Beautiful face instantly turned pale, and her eyes were rounded. When heard the word ‘Indonesian forces in this world’, the girl thought was Nio.

“I understand your feelings. But, I cannot return you to your current world.”

Silence filled the room, a stifling atmosphere sensed everyone present. They all stared at Salul blankly, unable to process what he had just said.

Rio again raised his voice in a very loud tone, until his hand hit the glass until it fell to the floor and broke.

“What do you mean! You can't give me back and beautiful? If you can call us here, you should also be able to send us back right!?”

“The only reason we are here is to welcome you, the heroes, and to dedicate to the God of War that the heroes have come. We, the Alliance Forces do not have the strength to fight against invaders, so whether or not you can return depends on the will of the God of War.”

“Do not joke!”

All the people who suddenly understood Salul's words cried out, and Beautiful could only lament her fate in this world.

“War!? Don't joke about what's called war! Bring us back now!”

“I don't want to fight the Indonesian troops! Don't make it up!”

“This may not happen, this may not happen, this may not happen, this may not happen, this may not happen.”.

The whole person became panicked, Beautiful was also shaken by this fact. However, there were only two people who looked calm and smiled slanted as everyone panicked, one of them a Baron.

“Oi, Thai, do you also not like TNI?”

“Basic, I didn't expect that you could speak Thai. As you say Indonesians, I don't like the TNI because they are too strong in the Southeast Asian region.”

“If I, anyway. I just don't like one of their soldiers.”

Salul said nothing when the Baron and the Thais he was referring to spoke out as if in support of the war.

The baron and the Thai man stood up and slammed his fists against the table loudly. It managed to attract the attention of the whole person. After making sure that everyone's eyes were on him, the Baron began to speak.

“Everything, there's no point in complaining to Salul, after all we can't do anything right now? I stand here, with this Thai guy, deciding to fight and avenge me on a soldier named Nio. Knowing this, how could I let them suffer such a tragic fate? TNI against a weak fantasy world? No kidding! We are called to save their survival! Well, Salul, what did I say was true?”

“As you said, Mr. Baron. As heroes, you will all gain tremendous power, and only you can control it.”

Baron and Thai people grin when they hear the word ‘tremendous power’. But, the seven people were inversely proportional, they just wanted to go home and did not want to get involved in this war.

“You…! Are you going to be a traitor!?” Rio clasped tightly his fist after hearing Baron's words.

“Hah, I had expected you to say that,” the answer given by the Baron was accompanied by a cynical look to Rio.

Beautifully crying as she realized this situation, she realized that she would be forced to fight with Nio if that coincidence happened.

They, the heroes have come…

**

Back to the battle with the wind dragon king…

“That lizard, why is he still alive..?”.

Desperation flowed in the voices of the entire members of the 1st Cruiser Squad, Sheyn and Zariv. The enemy, the wind dragon king could still stand, and only lost a little of his true strength. The rover squad 1 and Zariv had already desperately brought out their greatest abilities for this operation. Nio looked at the rising wind dragon king in front of him with a look of despair.

There were no more backup plans on Nio's mind, and everyone in the Squad only had a small amount of ammunition and bullets.

“What all just got here? Are we going to lose now?”

All the steps had been exhausted, after Nio thought that way.

“Don't give up! Keep fighting!”

A sudden audible voice rang out all over the personnel radio. A moment later many armored trucks and armored personnel carriers appeared. And the whole vehicle took out two companies of troops, about 220 soldiers.

“This voice. Isn't this the voice of Captain Herlina of the 1st Combat Group?” inner Liben when heard the voice of girl ‘mantan’ superior Nio in Company 406.

“The wind dragon king has lost his mobility! Companies 2 and 4 continue firing at the target until the time of bombing arrives!”

“Ready! Dimengert!”

Nio looked at Herlina leading hundreds of male and female soldiers, teenagers and adults with her grace. They were the troops previously ordered to stand guard at the fortress. Herlina who was running, looked at Nio who was in a state of wounds, and blinked one of her eyes as if to say, “Start from here, leave it to me!”

Nio then looked up at the sky, where Sigiz who had chopped off all the dragons belonging to Zelev was fighting with the dragon girl.

Nio reflexively yelled at Sigiz who was trying to chase after Zelev who was approaching the Artillery Unit.

“Queen Sigiz! Don't chase!”

“Mr Nio, what are you saying..?”.

Looking down after Nio's shout, Sigiz saw dozens of cannons and rocket launchers pointing at him, precisely the wind dragon king who was seriously injured. The wind dragon king had already weakened, it was a great opportunity to defeat him.

Sigiz tried his best to defeat Zelev before watching the Artillery Unit defeat the wind dragon king. He tried to stay away from the firing zone, otherwise he would have been hit by artillery shells and died.

Sigiz was a queen who worshipped the God of War and the God of the Holy Woman, and fought like a graceful and brave woman amidst the madness of the battlefield.

A few unfortunate fellow soldiers were killed by Zelev, but their deaths were not in vain, they died and became heroes.

Two rockets slid towards Zelev, who was flying as fast as a fighter jet, with Zelev's large scythe splitting the rocket and flying rapidly to avoid debris from the rocket explosion. And finally, he stayed face to face with Sigiz without any hindrance. In a one-on-one fight, Sigiz was confident he could kill his opponent.

Sigiz shouted and swung his spear, and scratched Zelev's right wing. Dark red blood dripped from the slashed wings, and dripped onto the burning ground.

“Next!”

Sigiz landed on the ground, due to his limited hovering ability. He leaped again quickly towards Zelev who was flying by flapping her wings.

In response to Sigiz's attack, Zelev quickly slashed his scythe and hit Sigiz, slamming it to the ground.

However, when Zelev hit, Sigiz threw his spear at Zelev's body. The goal was that if his spear throw that was already accompanied by acceleration magic hit Zelev's body, the enemy's fighting ability would be reduced.

The spear Sigiz threw pierced through Zelev's left wing until it was burned by the magic that coated the spear's eye. Zelev's flight balance was disrupted, and he fell hard to the ground with his head hitting the ground first.

Then, Sigiz recaptured his own spear that could fly back to its owner like a boomerang.

“It's finally!”

Sigiz ran at full speed with a spear whose eyes lit up in red. Zelev groaned in pain with a bloody head, but his left shoulder was pierced by Sigiz's magic spear, the attack made Queen Sigiz laugh happily.

“You feel pain? Then I'll make it even more painful!”

Sigiz pulled his spear into Zelev's shoulder, and thrust his spear back into Zelev's chest. As the spear struck, bloodstains hit Sigiz's battle clothes.

Sigiz laughed happily, having defeated Zelev. This victory he presented to Nio and the Kingdom of Arevelk, as well as the Expeditionary Force.

**

Meanwhile, the Armored Corps that was preparing for the bombardment was still unaware of the current situation. Then, Team 1 explorer informed the current situation through the radio channel.

“The creature called the king of the fire dragon is already weakened, and the controller of the creature has already been killed!”

“Understanding!”

“No change of plans, accelerate bombing as planned!” Herlina ruled decisively until the veins protruded on her forehead.

The last time Herlina yelled so loudly was when the welcome of the new member of the Company 406. Back then he happily whipped Nio and the young warrior who was about to join this army.

“Thanks to Queen Sigiz, the wind dragon king controller has been killed. Next, we give our friend time to defeat every enemy!”

“But we may be defeated..”

“It is okay, if the team of friends can survive, and avenge our fallen comrades.”

Herlina's words instantly calmed the soldiers who heard it, especially the 1st Cruiser Squad.

“The chance to defeat the wind dragon king is already wide open! There are many lives to protect!”

The soldier who heard instantly turned pale, but Herlina's words were indeed true.

“Captain Herlina, bombardment preparations are complete!”

Herlina kept silent for a moment before saying, “Shoot...!”.

The 10 main battle tanks with railgun cannons fired 105mm bullets at the speed of sound. Five missiles with the same explosive power were also launched, and would cause immense destruction to the fire dragon king.

“Shoot as many as you can! Tell the rest of the world that killing monsters is TNI's job!”

The sound of gunfire rang out continuously, all the vehicles and combat equipment continued to fire all the weapons. Dozens of tank bullets flew towards the wind dragon king, and created a huge explosion after the missile also hit the body of the giant lizard.

The wind dragon king desperately received all the swift attacks that hit him, he did not spurt out his hot flames when attacked like this.

No matter how powerful the wind dragon king's flame was, it was still impossible to withstand the speed of missiles and tank shells fired from the railgun cannon at the speed of sound. The entire weapon shattered the scales of the wind dragon king, and the flesh exploded one after another after the second and third shots.

To Nio, this was an unimaginable sight. Although several shots missed, but the entire tank and missile shells that hit the fire dragon king made a huge explosion and made the flesh of the dragon king wind splattered onto the ground.

Minutes later, most of the bullets were fired, and the wind dragon king who was hit by a barrage of tank shells and missiles died. Half the body of the wind dragon king had disappeared, and had been transformed into a disgusting lump of flesh.

“Finally, we won. Right ‘kan, Mr Nio?”

Sigiz who walked over to Nio until their shoulders touched muttered. One main battle tank fired one more bullet as an anticipated attack. There was no reaction, which signified the wind dragon king was dead.

“Finally..”.

Soon after, cheers echoed from all the surviving soldiers.

**

Funfact#9: cigarettes consumed by Nio