Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 309: Have you made a battle plan?
An emergency meeting is being held in the combat conference room of the Earth Witch - Scarlett Johansson. The participants include the Grand Inquisitor of the Balance of Order, the direct judgment body of the Inquisition, Scarlett Johansson, the Deputy Inquisitor Melquiades, and four ship officers: Chief Ship Officer Asherila, Second Ship Officer Duhalar, Third Ship Officer Conrad, and the Fourth Ship Officer Ronning Ravel who has just joined.

Finally, there was the secretary in charge of recording the meeting, Minte, a serious-looking girl with short black hair who looked only in her teens. She was wearing a white secretary's uniform that was obviously ill-fitting. She held a silver pen in her hand and had a thick meeting notes book spread out in front of her. She sat upright, fully focused, ready to record every word spoken in this important meeting and keep it on file as important information.

As a result, Fei'er's first sentence made her unable to hold back: "Those stupid believers of animism are always thinking about these anti-human terrorist attacks. Not only do they not take their own lives seriously, but they also want other innocent people to sacrifice for their cheap beliefs. I really want to hang them all on the deck bridge and shoot them 18,000 times with magic guns to vent my anger!"

Fei'er cursed and slammed the table, making bang bang sounds that echoed in the conference room.

Minthe looked at Melquíades, who was sitting next to her, somewhat at a loss. Melquíades gestured to her, indicating that this sentence did not need to be recorded. Then he said to his immediate superior in a calm tone, "I understand your feelings, but as to how to deal with or tighten the blockade of animists, this can be discussed later. Now let's consider the most important thing first, Lord Fei'er."

"Tsk." Under his persuasion, Fei Er reluctantly gave up denouncing the animists and said with a snort, "The most important thing is to rush to Nimsher City as soon as possible and destroy the imaginary god that is about to descend. But the question involved is whether we can catch up in time. Conrad, report the current position and speed of the Fei Ye Men Te."

Conrad, who was elegant and scholarly, had already prepared a plan, and he reported without hesitation: "Lord Fei Er, so far, the location of the Fei Ye Men Te is in the mountainous area south of the 'Desolate City' Angotel, and the travel speed is 120 knots per hour. At the current speed, it will take at least a day to reach Nimsher City - or in other words, to ensure that Nimsher City is within the range of the Judgment Cannon."

One day, 24 hours, the city of Nimsher was already cold.

"120 knots?" Fei Er frowned slightly: "What if we go at full speed?"

"Full speed ahead..." Conrad calculated in his mind and quickly replied, "If we maintain the maximum speed of 360 knots per hour, we can shorten the time to less than 6 hours."

"It's still too slow." Fei Er shook her head. "I need a plan that ensures we can reach Nimsher City within half an hour, or at most one hour. Conrad, I know you can do it, so don't hold back and just tell me."

360 knots of power is the upper limit of the operation of the furnace array, including the energy of the magic furnace itself being overloaded. Therefore, what Conrad said about "720 knots of power overload operation" is actually the magic power in Fei'er's body being overloaded - the energy released by her overload alone is enough to double the power of the power engine.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the third ship officer Conrad. The scholar who aspired to be known as "Washington" smiled gently, but his smile was somewhat helpless: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from you, Lord Fei Er - in fact, if the power engine of the Fei Ye Men Te is overloaded at 720 knots per hour, and it does not make any detours and only goes in a straight line, it is not difficult to reach Nimsher City within half an hour. But there are two difficulties. One is that overloading will cause great damage to your body..."

It not only includes your safety, but also my own safety.

However, as he said, this is too damaging to the body. If the magic furnace is overloaded, it will fall into high temperature and even be scrapped. It is impossible for the human body to be overloaded and bear the magic power equivalent to the entire furnace array without any side effects.

The power engine of the Scarlet Night Gate is composed of a "furnace array" composed of 360 magic furnaces, including the most advanced fifteenth generation XII type magic furnaces. The core metals used are also the X-level magic crystals with the largest storage capacity, which is enough to support the daily operation of the Scarlet Night Gate.

"It doesn't matter." Fei Er interrupted him and said seriously, "This kind of thing doesn't matter. As long as you don't die, you can still hold on. The key point of this incident is not to allow the conceptual god any chance to endanger the social security of Nimsher City. Therefore, in addition to minimizing the casualties of citizens, no other factors need to be taken into consideration. Do you understand, Conrad?"

However, everyone knows that the real core of the furnace array is not these magic furnaces, but their immediate superior, the Chief Judge, the Witch of Dread, Scarlett herself. She uses her nearly endless magical power to support this most magnificent and shocking war machine in human history, including the firing of the Cannon of Judgment, which is essentially just firing after gathering her magical power. The Scarlett only serves as a turret and positioning unit.

The conference room fell into silence for a moment, and then Conrad nodded silently. Minte, who was writing furiously on her conference notebook, quietly raised her head and glanced at Lord Fei'er sitting in the main seat with an expression of admiration and longing on her face. No matter how many times she had seen Lord Fei'er, her firm and decisive demeanor always made people feel deeply fascinated.

Although, she usually doesn't seem very reliable.

"Then," Conrad adjusted the frame of his glasses and continued, "The second problem is that if we don't make any detours and just go straight, we will encounter more fragile terrains, which requires the Orbital Corps to clear obstacles and lay tracks in a timely and efficient manner. This is a difficult task." The Scarlet Night Gate can adapt to the movement and climbing of most terrains, but because of its huge size, sometimes it is not the terrain that needs to adapt to it, but the terrain that needs to adapt to it. Terrain that cannot withstand its size and weight is called fragile terrain, such as swamps, river beaches, canyons, sandstone areas, etc.

In order to protect the local natural ecology and environment, the Scarlet Night often bypasses these fragile terrains, but sometimes, like now, it has to go in a straight line. At this time, a special rail corps is needed to set up temporary magic-conducting metal rails on these fragile terrains. A "repulsion generating plug-in" is activated on each rail to form a simple gravitational repulsion field, reducing the mass of the Scarlet Night so that it can smoothly ride the rails and cross these fragile terrains.

The full speed of 720 knots puts extremely strict requirements on the speed and efficiency of the Orbital Corps in laying rails. Fei Er turned his eyes to his second ship officer, Dulahar, who is the commander of the Orbital Corps. Seeing this, Dulahar, who is sturdy and looks like a small giant, raised a thumb and showed a simple and confident smile on his face: "My soldiers and I will never let you down, Lord Fei Er."

"Very good." Fei Er nodded gently, and then said: "I will also dispatch Lang Ning's mobile corps to assist you in your work. Lang Ning, what do you think?"

The Scarlet Night Gate does not rely solely on the Judgment Cannon to carry out the trial mission, but also has an attached mobile corps equipped with the latest magic devices and even constructed mechas, which can be called elite. Originally, this mobile corps was led by Fei Er herself, but later she found it troublesome and handed it over to others. Langning Lavelle, who was transferred to the Scarlet Night Gate, was the one she blamed, and nodded calmly: "I will do my best, Lord Fei Er."

"I look forward to your performance. Besides that, Conrad, if you have any other questions, please let me know."

"Yes, Lord Fei Er, there is one last question, but it is much simpler than the first two. If the Fei Ye Men Te takes a straight line, it will encounter three small and medium-sized villages and towns on the route. It will take a lot of time to bypass these villages and towns. Therefore, my suggestion is that the Orbital Corps and the Mobile Corps directly violently demolish the buildings in the villages and towns, and lay rails on the cleared ground."

"It's really simple. I'll do as you suggest." Fei Er turned his eyes to his first ship officer, Asherila, who was also the diplomatic spokesperson of the Feiyemente. Because she often had to go in and out of the country to perform trial tasks, this position was often indispensable. Asherila had been trained for many years and had become so experienced that everyone had forgotten that her original position should be the chief mechanic.

"Ashelia, take your men and rush to these towns as quickly as possible to negotiate with the local government and ask them to cooperate with us and relocate the residents to a safe location as soon as possible. If the residents are unwilling to relocate, tell them that after this is over, you will give them five times the compensation and an identical town, with no difference in the furnishings and furniture in the house. However, if they are still not satisfied and want to bargain or fish in troubled waters, you know what to do."

"Yes, Lord Fei'er, but I'm worried that the Leisenburg government will not agree to this compensation plan. Apart from building a villa for themselves, they have always been very stingy."

Fei Er curled her lips and said, "Who told you to ask them to pay? Since it was the cult that asked them to move, the cult should pay for it. That way, they won't have anything to say, right?"

Melquiades, the adjutant and financial officer of the Scarlet Night Gate, heard this and his eyes twitched. "I need to remind you, Lord Scarlet, that due to your unbridled expansion of the magic armory in the first half of the year, the financial allocation we received from the Resource Integration Agency is almost gone, and there are still two months before the next funding application..."

“Uh, uh, uh, my signal is not very good here. I did not hear what you said. If there is nothing else, I will go to the power room to cooperate with them to overload the engine. Just follow Conrad’s plan. The command and dispatch tasks during this period will be handed over to you, Melquiades. Others, please work hard too. Let’s work together to kill all the animist bugs! Oh, by the way, Minte, don’t remember this sentence. I will give you candy when I come back…”

The Grand Inquisitor of the Balance of Order, the Supreme Commander of the Scarlet Night Gate, the Witch of Fear that terrifies the aliens and false believers... She slipped away without even announcing the end of the meeting, leaving everyone with only a swift back.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Melquiades. The diligent adjutant's eyebrows were bulging with veins, but he finally calmed down and turned to the others and said, "In short, that's it. The meeting is over. Everyone, please take your positions according to Lord Fei'er's instructions and start your mission."

"Also, Minte, rewrite the content you just deleted. I will submit it to the leader during the next mid-year review."

“Ugh!!?”

　I wanted to wait until I won a game in Shadowverse before updating, and then I played for two hours and won a game, so this chapter should have been updated two hours ago. In a word: don't play Shadowverse.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)