Chapter 5: The Next 849 Years - Part 3

It took a year for the UGNE to finally accomplish the creation of a new weapon that surpasses in fire power the Beam Cannon and in close combat maneuvers the Thousand Blades Dancer. No Core Breaker or known formations were able match up to it and with that; the UGNE pushed back Kingdom Earth's forces with one and only drawback. The new S class weapon, suitable for long range and close range battles, "Victorious", operated only thirteen hours before the numerous formations could no longer cope with the smoke energy's resistance and were shattered, allowing the remaining twenty percent of the energy's original amount to eat through its container and ran out. Nonetheless, the UGNE converted eighty percent of its caves into labor caves, nine of which held great deposits of Peral metal.

Losing the war, there was nothing in Kingdom Earth's power to do. Even their special unit of seventeen Mist Users at the bottleneck of the Core Breaker level was powerless against one or two Victorious. Many first died on the battlefield, and as the UGNE pushed beyond Kingdom Earth's boundaries and took over their surrounding caves, a lot of Kingdom Earth's citizens that refused the rule of the foreign occupation also died miserably.

Year 5391. The UGNE subjugates the occupied caves, forty two in total, to constant search for Peral metal and Earth's Cores. On the outskirts of conquered cave number ninety two a battle is about to commence. Led by Dani Dan, previously one of the council of ten, a group of Mist Users that formed the "Kingdom Earth Resistance", giving everything they have got to perform altogether the "Ultimate Breaker's Soul Defense" formation in preparation to block the incoming wave of thirty Victorious. Behind them, enslaved citizens of Kingdom Earth escaping across the broken parts of their former machine guards, close range C class weapon IWJ, "Iron Whip Jailer", before the clash between the resistance and the Victorious reinforcements will take place.

"Commander Dani, the ten pillars are arranged around the work camp and the tunnel entrance, the eleven men channels has been set and the rest are prepared to pure their energy to the Ultimate Breaker's Soul Defense formation at your command". Dan's lieutenant, a bulky man named Rudolf Brie, spoke in a hurry. The Victorious legs were sharp like pen's nibs; they generated so much power that the machines moved a few centimeters above the ground and were less than five kilometers away from them and from that distance their one and only red eye was already visible, scanning its targets.

"Activate the formation". Dan gave the order with an expressionless face. Thirteen hours, that is how long they must hold on. Currently, forty three Mist Users operate the formation, half of which are Earth's Core holders. To his estimation they can keep the formation for nine to ten hours, but not too far from them another group of twenty Mist Users from the resistance help evacuate the rest of the captives and make sure all the IWJs were destroyed. If together, they will be able to sustain the formation for another two and a half hours, afterwards he alone will be capable to obstruct the Victorious until their energy will ran out - that is, as long no more will arrive.

While twenty one Mist Users concentrated on the formation's structure, twenty two raised their hands, two pairs of hands towards each channel, and released their aura. Dan sat with legs crossed and meditated. He was so close, a second? A day? A year? He could not clearly tell. Two years ago silvery particles have started to appear here and there in his mist energy, and when he released it in the form of an aura the dark white color was almost sparkling. He wished for the breakthrough now more than ever. Surpassing one's current level is a lot harder than reaching the peak of a new one, and Dan believed that if he will train hard enough and follow the instruction left by the Supreme Rulers he could reach the late phase of the Mist Master level in twenty to thirty years after the not so far away breakthrough and attain the power to fight evenly with the Victorious.

"Commander!" A cry for help awakened Dan from his meditative state. His eyes opened slowly, his faced turned to his lieutenant and he gasped.

"Hold on!" Dan ordered. Six hours have passed and the Victorious managed to break one of the pillars, resulting in one unconscious Mist User and a trembling Ultimate Breaker's Soul Defense formation. Dan had no time asking "How?" or "Why", he had to move fast to rebuild the pillar with his mist energy while using his own physical strength to support the formation. He could have instructed to recreate the formation from scratch, but then the Victorious would have taken the chance to strike back.

Now, the vile metallic beings already adapted to the formation's offensive effect – countering any close range attacks with equal strength in the form of a shockwave. By charging the barrels on their two bottom arms and constantly shooting orange beams at the formation's pillars they used energy based attack to assault from afar.

Dan felt as though he carries the formation's whole weight. Every time a new crack emerged on one of the other pillars he immediately increased the output of his mist energy to mend it.

Another hour passed. Two additional pillars broke down and the formation shrank, permitting the Victorious to either go above the defensive formation to pass through the tunnel after the escapees or keep shooting until the last layer of defense around the Mist Users will fall apart. Obviously, killing the Mist Users was a top priority.