High School Soldier
It's farewell, my friend

The ears of the Edera cat, Huvu, and the ears of the Ebal rabbit suddenly moved, then their faces turned quickly to where Nio was fighting against the Hero of Anger. Sigiz and Hevaz opened their eyes wide as they both felt the aura Nio emitted suddenly weaken.

The armored corps was finally able to suppress the enemy main force, and the entire army was finally about to finish dealing with the Alliance that destroyed Girinhi Fortress. The artillery continued to fire projectiles aimed at the main line of the Alliance forces at the border, but protected by powerful Shield Magic.

“Mr Nio?!”

Hevaz and Sigiz tried to feel back the cold aura Nio emitted, but the perceived remains the cold aura of the dead opponent's warrior.

Nio was seen trying to get back on his feet weakly, as if he had gotten a strong blow from the opponent.

Hevaz flew quickly to where Nio was, then saw the Hero of Anger approaching Nio calmly. He didn't attack Nio, but Hevaz felt he had to stay alert to the Hero. On the other hand, Sigiz and the rest of the 12th Team still had a huge feeling of fear towards the Angry Hero, even though they had wiped out many of the Alliance's soldiers.

Sensing Nio's aura still showing signs of life from the man, Hevaz uses his depleted magical energy to communicate, using his telepathic abilities.

“Master! Master Nio! Please wake up!”

But, Nio looked unresponsive, and still tried to get up with a suffering face.

Rio had to be careful not to kill Nio, but if necessary he was allowed to break one or two of Nio's arms and legs. Nio was bleeding heavily on the head, and with a vulnerable body trying to stand up. That's good, Rio might manage to make Nio unconscious for a few more minutes. He got closer to Nio, keeping his restraint.

“Finally,” Rio's mind is filled with joy. “I can finally beat you. We will fight together again. So, let's start by taking your brain, then filling it out that the Alliance is the party that should be protected.”.

The girls and the rest of Team 12 watched with horrified expressions as the Hero of Anger approached Nio. Tank and relief units are still in the process of clearing the Alliance's stubborn forces, and will still proceed with fighting enemy forces at the border. However, in the event of a battle between Rio against the Tank Corps and the 002 Relief Company, what happened was a one-sided massacre.

Zefanya felt blood, evident from her face showing a bitter expression. Apparently he had bitten his lips strong enough that his skin was torn off. He had a way to help Nio, after the experience of facing the Hero of Anger in the capital of Arevelk Kingdom. But Zefanya also knows that everyone will develop according to the situation at hand.

“What is there nothing we can do?” hassan said in his heart with an amazingly confused expression.

“Build Mr Nio! The effort to make you a Hero of Hope is almost complete! You don't need to desperately struggle with such ordinary abilities anymore!”

After Hevaz shouted like that, a screech rang out from the sky, making all the soldiers inside the forest turn their heads up.

Everyone had previously expected the headquarters to send aid, at least an infantry battalion. A large force of rescue forces might lure the Alliance into storming, crossing the border and triggering a much more deadly battle.

“Oh deepest apologies from us. We did not mean to arrive late.”

Those words came from Zariv, who was riding a Wind Dragon belonging to Sigiz. In the vicinity, there were dozens of Wyvern Arevelk and Yekirnovo rider soldiers, trying not to be outdone by dragonflies and iron dragons belonging to allied air forces from other worlds.

From above, he saw a number of Alliance rifle cavalry shooting at Nio's subordinates and Arevelk soldiers. But the opponent's efforts came to a halt after he ordered the tame dragon that he managed to control to burn the opponent's army with a burst of fire.Hearing the sincere orders of the owner's subordinates, the Wind Dragon opened both its jaws, and the, then spewing blue fire into the ranks of the enemy soldiers who harm.

“Fucking god!”

The entire cavalry army of the Alliance rifle shouted those words as they were about to be roasted, then sounded a heartbreaking cry as the blue flames of the Wind Dragon roasted them. And after burning, all that was left was the human body and the chariot horse wearing a red smoldering metal armor due to the heat of the fire that the Wind Dragon was emitting.

“We must finish this battle right now. Defend this territory with all your might, relax your muscles to finish off the damned Alliance!”

Now there was an excited shout from Lux, making the entire army of heavy cavalry Arevelk cheer.

The combat robot operator almost considered the Guild's relief forces an enemy, but an Indonesian contingent soldier chanted that they were comrades. The real enemy was a horde of giant armored monsters that blocked the movement of combat robots to help battle within the forest, then destroyed the Alliance troops waiting at the border.

“We must conduct a continuous artillery attack, if necessary fire all the remaining missiles to the area where the enemy is located.”.

“Sorry, isn't it..”

“Do you intend to bombard the 12th Team as well?!”

Some members of the 002 Aid Company cut off Kim Baek-ki's orders abruptly and with panicked faces.

“I thought so, but I remember the ‘Ala America’ tactic that Lieutenant Nio said. He suggested that we carry out an attack to rain down on the enemy with the remaining ammunition if the battle is almost finished. We will carry out the attack to make an opportunity for the 12th Team and the tank battalion .. even if it is too risky.”

Hearing the sincere words of their commander, the entire artillery operator pointed the cannon barrel towards the west, where the enemy was. The range of artillery could reach the capital of the Luan Empire, but did not change the possibility of an error in firing so that high explosive shells fell into the forest area, then burned it.

An assault helicopter blindly opened fire on the entire Alliance force within the forest, and all the tanks followed suit. Bullets and rockets throughout the combat vehicle pierced through the metal armor of the opposing soldier, and the attack continued unhindered. All the relief soldiers continued to fire on the heavy infantry of the Alliance who were still roaming around. Meanwhile, every bullet that SP-1 fired from the Alliance's rifle cavalry was deflected by the armour of the infantry's carrier and combat vehicles.

“Zefanya, please find a place to shoot and help attack.”

The command of the replacement commander made Zefanya instantly aware. He is a 12th Team sniper, and realizes Hassan's plans without a second thought. As long as the effort could save Nio's life, the girl would do anything with zeal.

“We have to raid traitors manually –“

“Sergeant Major Hassan, do you think Heroes are just enemies who betray Indonesia? He's now an enemy of the Guild, you know?!”

Ro Ga-eun cut off Hassan's conversation abruptly, leaving the man close to shutting the young North Korean female soldier's mouth.

“You don't think our actions will harm Lieutenant Nio, do you?” ask Bima.

“I think all we're going to do is give the Lieutenant a chance to get up. He almost died to protect us, I don't want him to suffer anymore without losing my life. Commander ordered us to stay alive until the war is over.”

Hearing a serious sincere remark from Hassan, which led more to someone near tears, Hendra agreed to Hassan's proposal.

“Damn it, it turns out that the commander and the traitor both bother him,” Ratna said in a mocking tone.

For the first time since the battle began, Rio finally turned to face Nio's subordinates who were showering himself with full automatic fire. A bullet with a caliber larger than the 7.62mm projectile that SS20 fired all 12th Team personnel shot towards Rio's head, and was immediately stopped by the Hero Shield Magic that had been reinforced. After hitting the transparent red magical shield, the 12.7mm anti-material projectile from the sniper rifle exploded into small pieces.

On realizing the traitor – TNI's official call for Indonesians siding with the enemy – preparing to counterattack, Hassan shouted ordering all its members to spread out, each member is about 10 to 16 meters away.

The shadow arm on Rio's back slowly disappeared, after Rio's magical energy was drained while taking out one of his new magic. The flow of magical energy in the forest where the battle took place was extremely weak, and made Rio slow in replenishing his magic power.

When Rio was about to press the trigger of his rifle, Hevaz and Sigiz smashed their respective weapons into the magical protector of the Hero of Anger. They overlaid themselves with Tameng Magic using the rest of the magical energy. Hevaz's incredible strength cracked down on one of the protective sides, and further braced himself to cripple Rio.

Rio's left hand was raised, and directed the part of his palm that had brought out the magic circle to Hevaz as well as Sigiz who seemed to be smiling confidently could destroy his Shield Magic. A light javelin was slashed from the magic circle in front of his palm, but the two girls were done with their business.

Rio's attack missed, toppled a sixty-meter tall tree, and made him put on an annoyed face.

When that happened, Sigit and Ferdi approached the traitor and fired a number of explosive bullets at him. They aimed at Rio's stomach and head, and if luck sided with bullets expected to penetrate the rage Hero.

The two of them then moved places as Rio's back again let out two shadowy arms. Two elite TNI soldiers are indeed not comparable to the Hero of Anger supported by two additional arms, so Ferdi and Sigit did not open a wasteful consecutive shot.

The Zefanya filled sniper rifles with anti-material ammunition, shooting from the bush within 100 meters of the Hero of Charity, the, and finally the 3,000-meter-per-second delay of the 12.7mm projectile made Rio lose concentration and weaken his Shield Magic, resulting in the bullet damaging his protector. Gita and Ika fired a few shots, and managed to make a small advance with the cracking of several sides of Temeng's Magic protecting the traitor.

The 12th Team's anger towards the Hero's Anger and bloodlust are growing. Rio used some magical energy to increase the number of shadow arms on his back, until they were the same number as Nio's subordinate members.

Barista aka Hassan who was only 20 meters away from Rio was wrapped by one of the shadow hands, thrown and hit the Author or Arif who was trying to drag Nio.

“Two of you!”

“I'm alive, just relax.”

“Sama.”

Ratna felt free to worry about the two colleagues, they were difficult to lose because of the influence of their commander.

“Do not let your guard down! He will attack again!”

By the time Hassan warned his comrades, Rio had locked onto the target. He had no time to escape. The barista became frightened and his face showed an angry expression. But, suddenly the Enraged Hero was shocked at something, and the Eternal Bullet he shot instead smashed a stone as big as an adult man.

Zefanya prevented Rio from shooting the deputy commander of the 12th Team, and made his opponent turn towards her with an angry face.

“You're still intact, aren't you, Barista?”

Hassan replied to an unnecessary question from ‘Blue Eyes’ aka Zefanya, “Ya, I owe you my life! But, move the place shooting now. If the team's important sniper is killed, I don't know if I can still look the commander in the eye.”

Then, there was the sound of the commander of the 002 Relief Company from the loudspeaker, “One of the artillery failed to fire perfectly. Please prepare for impact, 12th Team!”

The impact of the explosion can be calculated in seconds, and the impact of the cannonball produces a shock wave within 3 seconds of notification.

The whole person managed to take refuge behind a large sturdy tree trunk, partly coated in the Shield Magic of the Arevelk witch.

However, suddenly dozens of laser aiming from several infantry assault rifles aimed at Rio, who was now standing 6 meters away from Nio.

When the Hero's magical energy was about to run out, he would become somewhat weaker than before. He could not feel what sort of attack would be unleashed for him, yet he had ordered his subordinates to join the combat unit in the main battle. Now, he wanted the battle to quickly end, with orders on his troops to massively raid the Guild troops. Taking the Hero of Hope was the goal of this battle, which was why when dozens of warriors surrounded him, Rio felt himself late.

As one of his shadow hands stretched out to grab Nio, Nio suddenly stood up as if returning to normal after having a brief death.

‘Life's Life Life Life almost rose completely, and now standing in front of him Rio ordered the shadow hands on his back to ensnare Nio.

Nio's left eye did not want to open completely, making his vision very poor with just one eye not functioning normally. Nio felt his entire body numb and slow to react, every effort to move made Nio have to expend extra energy. His gaze was still blurred, and trying to do anything was very burdensome.

Nio stood staggered, then held his head as he looked up when he realized the sky on the battlefield had turned reddish, as a result of the flames of battle. Apparently, his bionic right hand suffered minor damage, but could still be useful for carrying a rifle.

The shouting of the many people who asked him to get up made Nio regain consciousness, but the impact effect was still very torturing for him. Nio did not understand why he was still alive, and he did not know what was happening now.

Only two things could still be known of all the people fighting in the forest;

The 12th Team seeks to fight the Hero of Anger, the undead who was previously nearly defeated, and Nio's awakening to fight the traitor before his eyes.

His left hand was still numb to support the rifle, and the metal index finger of his bionic hand was having minor problems, difficult to control by Nio's somewhat disturbed brain.

“Nio... join me.”.

He could hear a subtle whisper from Rio, in the middle of this battlefield. Rio's voice sounded along with the heartbreaking scream of the soldier who met his end, and made Nio's decision to defeat him even more powerful.

“Nio... fight with me again.”.

Nio's face showed a bitter expression. He recalled the joint struggle of Rio, Jonathan, and the military training students when the war had not long started. Rio said he will fight until the war is over, with Nio and all his friends.

Now, it was possible for Rio to kill Nio, but Rio still held back for the main task, which was to bring Nio alive. Even if he managed to bring Nio in a lifeless state, the Alliance would hold a ceremony to resurrect him from the dead. Actually, it was easier to bring Nio to death, but Rio preferred to see the development of Nio to this day.

Bringing Nio in a lifeless condition made it easier for the Alliance to give him a new identity, and use him as a weapon in the future.

But, Nio is not an amateur soldier anymore, he will not forgive the mistakes of all Indonesian enemies.

He had already made peace with many things, but not with what the traitor in front of him had done during this war.

“Nio... achieve glory as a hero with me, yes?”

The sweet words from Rio tickled Nio's ears, but he was not consumed by his opponent's seduction.

The enemy is just a bunch and a pathetic person who will do everything in their power to win. All the Alliance did was shout, fight, without considering the strength of the opponent, then cry out of regret.

However, the Alliance soldiers believed that it was better to lose lives than to lose a homeland.

However, in front of Rio was the one who had seen many wails of ghost warriors, and still had a strong desire to continue fighting with him.

Nio and Rio aimed the barrel end of the rifle simultaneously, placed the index finger on the trigger within the same time – and aimed at the same spot.

“This is farewell, my friend..” said Nio in a soft tone.

They both smile, then pull the trigger together – with many pairs of eyes to witness.