As Pliny spoke, she took out her smartphone and fiddled with the real-time recording of the camera shared by the media king for the convenience of combat.
On the screen is a scene where the president and others are meeting to discuss the next strategy.
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Lanai, shooting bar, riot camera footage——
While the President and Birdseye were analyzing the situation, Touma tried to take care of Accelerator, who had been bathed in black light and fell into a weak coma. Touma heard Birdseye say that it was a magic in the Yugula technique that could directly neutralize the vitality, so "reflection"
"It doesn't work. If there were no black wings, he would probably die on the spot. But as long as he didn't die on the spot, he could basically recover without leaving any sequelae with the help of healing magic.
Just as he was breathing a sigh of relief, President Robert, who was looking at the laptop screen of the "Empire Center", burst out in a voice that sounded like he was stepping on stool: "Wait, wait, damn it! That guy Luo Zilin can't be forced into a corner and get angry out of humiliation, okay?"
Touma and Mikoto were shocked.
"What, what are you doing?!"
"computer is broken?"
The president said that in order to save the situation, the US military is about to kidnap Lindy Bruschak, the child of the media tycoon Ole Bruschak who lives on a nearby island, for "negotiations."
As for why the child of the mastermind behind the scenes would live near the battlefield, the answer is simple and a bit ridiculous. The man was divorced. He didn't want to involve an influential boss in economics and politics, so he lived incognito in Hawaii, which is far away from the mainland and not abroad.
Already.
The kind-hearted students' faces were ashen.
The child has not made any mistakes, and there must be something bad going on in the family divorce. They have already suffered, and the person related to them who is the culprit must be arrested.
This is unreasonable! Isn’t it a crime to do this?
So Robert typed on the keyboard to call up combat images taken by US military helicopters.
This is an image from half an hour ago: Near the sea level, dozens of warships were shelling horribly. Missiles passed by from time to time. The port was plunged into a sea of fire. US warships were sunk indiscriminately regardless of whether they arrived or had time to lift anchor. Most of the aircraft were destroyed by volcanic ash.
Unable to take off, but even if it tried to move, it was destroyed by the anti-aircraft firepower network of surface-to-air missiles and purple light bombs. The tank that climbed ashore from the sea ran over barbed wire fences, bunkers and temporary piles. The model was obviously half a century behind, but it was
The bombardment of missiles and artillery shells, and the attacks of the most advanced tanks and armored vehicles of the US military were unable to destroy the opponent, but they themselves were destroyed one after another, and then were captured in an inexplicable way, joining the attacker's formation, and followed like locusts, firing a hail of bullets to kill the US military.
Soldier.
The U.S. military suffered heavy casualties and was forced to continuously compress its front lines.
This reconnaissance helicopter was never destroyed, perhaps as a means of pressure from the enemy.
The burning and destroyed buildings, facilities, streets, and bloody scenes made Touma and Mikoto extremely uncomfortable for a while.
"If this continues, the fighting will inevitably spread to the city, a large number of people will be involved in the war, and the crime of kidnapping the children behind the scenes will be burned out." Robert said.
"It's on Kauai, right? Can you pull up the photos and detailed residential address?" Touma asked.
"what you up to?"
"Rescue Lindy Brushack!" Touma's attitude was decisive, "Let her take refuge anywhere. She can only hide first."
"Wait a minute!" Robert, as an adult, can understand this feeling, but as a national leader, he naturally needs to think a lot. "In other words, do you have to suppress the US military on a mission, that is, to help the enemy?"
"So what! We really need to make a break with the mastermind behind the scenes, but what did the child do wrong? As long as he has a relationship with the mastermind behind the scenes, he can use it at will and even take his life. This is absolutely wrong!" Touma's voice
Revealing sincerity.
Robert agreed and immediately listed Lindy Brushak as a government emergency protection target.
Of course, this is also a relationship that will be useful in the future. For example, after controlling Lindy Bruschak, he used the power of the government to cancel the household registration of the mastermind through the back door, allowing Lindy Bruschak to directly inherit his "legacy".
It can seize the initiative. Although it is impossible to obtain criminal evidence of the mastermind behind the scenes, even if he is arrested, he will be exonerated with the help of a team of lawyers, but it can be lost by transferring a few more layers of connections and assassinating him at the hands of foreign enemies. This is the country's
practice.
Of course, you wouldn't tell kind-hearted students about this.
However, the direction of action is the same. They set out to save the child behind the scenes, Lindy Bruschak, and entered the battlefield.
Although the US military has gone berserk, Robert, who cannot easily mobilize the troops himself, can only use the ability users and magicians around him as bodyguards to carry out the operation.
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"From now on, the president's death will be of great benefit to us. Dora, can you execute him?"
Dora closed her eyes, checked the earth veins, and shook her head: "It seems that Bai Dewei is on guard. There happens to be no earth veins there. Maybe they will choose a route without earth veins in the future, especially if they reach the sea or the air."
There’s a solution.”
"Really, I also hope that the president will die without dirtying his hands." Pliny said, opening a huge magic circle. After a moment, the magic circle shattered, and she made a "tsk" sound in her mouth,
He muttered: "A mere ordinary person actually needs to pay such a high price. Is it because the president's death involved a wide range of things? The results collected by battleships and chariots in this battle are not enough to pay for it."
"Did Lady Pliny fail in her attempt to assassinate the president with magic?"
"Not really, it's just...well, I want to 'curse' him remotely without leaving any trace, and the price I can pay is a bit insufficient. Hmm..." It's not that Pliny can't afford it, but she can temporarily let herself level up.
Descending something like this is something you don't always want to do in combat.
"Cursed killing? Under the nose of "Scarlet Sunshine", even Lady Pliny, I don't recommend it." He lowered his head and asked for advice.
"So it needs to be a sufficient price." Pliny pulled out the popsicle that had become tiny in her mouth, put it in front of her mouth and licked it back and forth with her tongue, but she didn't finish the sentence.
But Dora immediately understood, knelt down on one knee, and said solemnly: "In this battle, there are one hundred and ten members of "Snowfield Dawn", ten members of "Darkness Before Dawn", and six hundred members of "Trident" participating in the battle.
Magical grassroots soldiers are willing to sacrifice their lives to assassinate the president. Is that enough?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter if you make the decision for other cooperative organizations?" Pliny shook the popsicle playfully.
"It doesn't matter, other organizations have already learned that you are very happy to take me with you. In addition, although I am the leader, I am doing it for magic and there is no necessary official business. Therefore, after informing me of their bottom line, I have full authority.