Tatsuya id in hiding amongst the trees and shrubberies along with his units. They were armed with bazookas, anti-tank grenades, rifles, and various other ons. He, himself, was armed with a semi-automatic rifle as well as grenades and fsh bangs strapped around his hips.

  Unfortunately, he couldn’t wield his Silver Horn or use his magic. Otherwise, the unit of tanks and knightmare frames making their way towards Zero that he knew would go past his current position from the anime would’ve been annihited in seds.

  He closed his eyes as Naoumi Ihe sed in and of his squad, and several other members of his unit waited for their targets to e. Tatsuya expanded his senses, using his Elemental Sight, and grasped this entire part of the mountain with clear precision.

  He could grasp Lelouch’s movement, Karen and Yuuji’s location, elia’s position, and the movement and location of the rest of the Britannian army.

  The unit he was targeting was on their way towards Lelouch’s location, as he had expected. And there was also another knightmare frame unit, followed by several others, ing from the rear lines.

  He looked into the cockpit of these knightmares to see if he reized them.

  This is… Jeremiah, was it? Ah, there’s the silver haired woman and the man I recall to be with the purist fa. I’ll o report this to Satoru-san.

  He opened his eyes, stealthily messaged Satoru to tell him what he saw and to spare three out of the six knightmares for Yuuji to plete the mission. Then, he whispered quietly towards Naomi.

  “Get ready. They’re ing.”

  “Eh? Y-Yes!”

  Naomi quickly looked into her binocurs and saw tanks and several esc knightmare frames walking up the stoh beh them. And she quickly ordered the other members to get ready.

  “Ready the bazookas and the grenades!”

  The other members quickly readied their ons, and as the tanks and knightmare frames walked into their trap he wiser, they unleashed their attacks.

  “Fire!”

  Bazooka rounds pierced through the heavily armored tanks and knightmare frame and exploded as grenades and bullets flew through the air, decimating ead every single one in the unit.

  In just a few seds, all that was left was the remnants of broken tanks, destroyed knightmare fmes, fmes, and pieces of rocks and debris from the mountain and fmes and plumes of smoke rose into the sky.

  There were no survivors. Tatsuya had firmed it with his Elemental Sight.

  “Good. Let’s go to the location.”

  “Yes! Silver-san!”

  Tatsuya left from their ambush point, followed by the rejoig members of the Bights who had just pletely decimated a unit from the previously-thought uable army of elia.

  Hope aermination burned brightly in their chest.

  They could do it…! They could win this battle against elia!

  Meanwhile, Satoru, who had also been waiting in hiding iree lines along with his unit whicluded some infantry and two knightmare frames, noticed a text ing to his phone.

  He hadn’t given his tacts to anyone in this world, so the only ohat would have tacted him were only Yuuji, Lelouch, or Tatsuya.

  And for them to tact him during aio that it must be important. So, he quickly picked up his phone ahe message.

  Shiba Tatsuya: “Spare the three foremost knightmare frames from the unit ing your way. They are more skilled thahers. Let Yuuji and Karen hahem. Destroy the other three knightmare frames in the back.”

  Satoru’s eyes widened in shock for a moment. He… He didn’t expect Tatsuya to ask him to spare someone.

  But he aowledged it regardless.

  Even if he was way older than Tatsuya, Tatsuya was way smarter and more experiehan him in strategic battles. Satoru also trusted the genius young man, so he didn’t question him.

  Satoru quickly passed on the message to his unit.

  “Don’t eh the three foremost knightmare frames. Leave them to the Guren and Excalibur. We’ll focus ohree in the back.”

  eling his guild master and persuasive salesperson persona, Satoru, or “Ainz”, was able to vince his units to follow his orders, and they moved accly.

  Soon, the expected units sisting of six knightmare frames came as they expected.

  O the forefront sped through right in front of them, followed closely by awo knightmare frames.

  Then, the st three came, and Satoru immediately signaled for their attack.

  “Now!”

  They all fired their bazookas and threw their grenades while the two Burais opened fire with their rifles.

  Caught by surprise, the three Suthernds quickly fell as their legs, arms, and heads were hit and exploded by rockets and grenades, and its torso ripped apart by bullets.

  “Dammit!”

  “You cowards!”

  “Damn Elevens!”

  All three quickly uheir emergency escape meism and the cockpit flew away into safety as the rest of the knightmare frame exploded.

  “Phew… Alright. Good work! Now we’ll retreat and reveh Silver’s unit!”

  ““Yes!””

  Satoru began to move along with his unit through the trees, making sure they’re hidden from enemy units.

  I’ll leave the rest to you, Yuuji-kun.

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  “Lord Jeremiah! We lost Carlos, Gerard, and Hilda’s signal! They’re ambushed by enemy units behind us!”

  “Leave them be! We’ll kill them after we take Zero’s head!”

  “You f*g lunatic! Have you lost your mind, e!!!”

  (Jeremiah tio speed towards Zero, blinded by rage, revenge, and the desperation to recim his status and wash away his shame, as Kewell and Viletta followed after him.

  Soon, they caught sight of a group of burais encirg a slightly different one in the middle of the formation. This was the unit that the Carius unit referred to in their report.

  Meaning…There’s a high ce that Zero would be there!

  “Zero!!!”

  Jeremiah yelled in his Knightmare frame and immediately opened fire against the esc burais, felling two of them in an instant.

  “Tch…! It ’t be helped!”

  Following Jeremiah, Kewell and Viletta simirly opened fire and quickly dispatched the remaining four esc burais that surrounded Zero. Fortunately, they all mao save themselves by using their emergency escape meism aed their cockpit before they were riddled with bullets.

  “Is Zero here?! If he is, then face me!!! Fight Jeremiah Gottwald!!!”

  “Well now… It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You’re still in the army? Unfortunately, I don’t have time to py games with you now, my dear e.”

  “O…! Ora…! e…?! DIEEEE!!!”

  Overwhelmed by rage, Jeremiah charged with immense speed right towards Zero.

  Suddenly, a crimson knightmare appeared in a blur in front of him and knocked off his rifle with a dagger.

  “Wha-?!”

  The rifle of his Suthero the ground as Jeremiah immediately deployed both of the elbow-mouun Tonfas and readied himself against this strange, new knightmare frame.

  “Lord Jeremiah!”

  “Stay out of this! This is my duel!”

  “But I’ve never seen a knightmare like that before! Could the elevens have…?”“Heh, do you think elevens have that sort of teology?!”

  Jeremiah charged towards the Guren, swinging the Stun Tonfa horizontally at the crimson knightmare. But, the Guren caught it with its massive, cwed, silver right arm and pushed it away before using the dagger in its left hand to ssh at Jeremiah’s Suthernd.

  Jeremiah dodged and immediately swung at it once again. But to his and both Kewell and Viletta’s shock, the Guren leaped up into the air and shot its left chest-mounted ssh harken towards him.

  “What the-?!”

  Jeremiah failed to quickly react to the ssh harken that was u this melee, and it struck Suthernd’s left shoulder.

  Using it as its grappled anchor, the Guren burst towards him by reeling its ssh harken, and stabbed down to plus dagger directly to its torso.

  “Shit!”

  Jeremiah mao move slightly, avoiding a direct hit to the chest. But Guren’s dagger still mao dig into its right shoulders, causing it to go limp.

  “How…! How is it this fast?!”

  “Are you seeing this, Britannia?! At st, we fight you head on!!! With this Guren MK-II, our ter attack begins!!!”

  Karen yelled from within her cockpit as she began to lunge forward with her right hand.

  “Oh shit…! There’s something on its right hand! But if I keep my distance…”

  Jeremiah moved backward, f himself to create distance from the Guren even if it had to sacrifi arm.

  But suddenly, Guren's right arm extended and clutched the Suthernd's head.

  “What-?!

  It tried to move back, but Guren’s hold on it preve from moving anywhere.

  “Five me…”

  Karen whispered under her breath, and pushed the button to unleash her Radiant Wave Surger directly into the Suthernd.

  “What’s happening?!”

  Jeremiah’s Suthernd began to swell from the powerful microwave radiation that caused the liquids within the knightmare frame to bubble and boil.

  Electric pulses began to spark from within the cockpit as the maery was destroyed by the intense radiatiuren’s attack, striking at Jeremiah.

  “Lord Jeremiah! Eject!”

  “How I?! Zero is right in front of me! Zero is right there!!!”

  Jeremiah still forced the no longer funing Suthernd to move towards Zero, but after only barely raising a hand, the auto-eject fun activated.

  “Dammit! Don’t you dare activate!!!”

  Blood began to pour down his nose as the electrical pulses began to fry Jeremiah alive from within the cockpit.

  “I … I still get him…! Just a little more…!”

  The auto-eject fun activated, flying Jeremiah’s broken body within it away to safety. While the Suthernd fell onto its knees, its head ripped off from its torso by the Guren, and exploded.

  “I do it… I won’t lose anymore! Not as long as I have my Guren!”

  This was her first true victory… Not one she achieved by using tricks or numbers, but one she achieved with her own strength.

  This was the start… She won’t ever be as powerless as she was before.

  “She got Lord Jeremiah… Just who oh are these Bights…”

  Viletta mumbled under her breath as she stared at the burning fmes and remnants of Jeremiah’s suthernd.

  “Tch…! That disgrace! To think he’d lose to an Eleven! I shall not stand for this embarrassment to the empire!!!”

  “Lord Kewell!”

  Kewell aimed his rifle towards the Guren. But just before he pressed the trigger, he noticed something from his periphery. And his eyes widened in shock.

  “No… That knightmare frame… That’s impossible… There’s no way…!”

  His face paled as he stared at jet-bd crimson knightmare a few distance away from him that suddenly appeared in his periphery like a ghost.

  Although it was not of the same color, there was no way he would mistake his te revered lord’s greatest creation and masterpiece that was said to have been lost…

  “How… How could you have that?! How could you have the Excalibur?!”

  He yelled from the top of his lungs at the jet-bd crimson knightmare, his voice amplified by his Suthernd’s speaker and reverberated throughout the forest.

  But the jet-bck Excalibur stayed silent, unmoving.

  “Kkkhh! You are not worthy of even toug the lord’s greatest work! How dare you sully it!!! Die you filthy wretch!!!!”

  Kewell aimed his rifle towards the Excalibur and opened fire.

  But the jet-bightmare frame suddenly burst into high speed from no motion, avoiding his hail of bullets.

  “Wha-?!”

  Kewell tried to follow its movements and aim at the rapidly moving Excalibur. But before he k, his rifle was knocked out of his hands by something. And only when a ssh harkeuro the side of the Excalibur’s chest did he realize that it knocked his rifle away with that.

  “Filthy fiend!”

  Just like Jeremiah, Kewell tried to brandish both of his elbow-mouun Tonfas. But before he could, two ssh harkens had struck the joints of both of his shoulders before he realized it!

  “Dammit!”

  With both of his shoulder joints destroyed, Kewell could no longer move the Suthernd’s arms. And to make it worse, Excalibur used the ssh harkens stu its shoulders as an anchor to pull itself towards him.

  “Die!”

  Kewell shot both of his chest-mounted ssh harkens towards the diamond-shaped ter of the Excalibur’s chest.

  At this distahe speed in which his ssh harkens were shot in, and the fact that the Excalibur was lunging at him with such speed, he was assured that it would hit the sullied form of his lord’s masterpiebsp;

  But to his shock, the ssh harkens he had shot were caught by the Excalibur.“What…?”

  Kewell froze in shod fusion.

  How? How was that possible…? No, was it even humanly possible? Although slower than bullets, the ssh harken was still extremely quick. In addition to the fact that they’re extremely close and that the Excalibur was lunging at him, there should’ve been no way he could’ve caught it…

  Kewell stared as the Excalibur stared right into him and crushed both of Kewell’s ssh harkens into pieces with its bare hands.

  And soon, the shock was repced with immense anger, disgust, and boiling rage.

  “You monstrous fiend!!! I will kill you… I will definitley kill you!!!”

  Those were his st words before the Excibur drew his twin swords, and cut off both of his arms, legs, and head.

  The limbless torso of the Suthernd fell onto the ground, and Kewell ejected himself out of it, flying far away from the battlefield.

  “What… What was that…? What just happened…? What is that thing…?”

  Viletta froze in her cockpit as she stared at the jet-bightmare frame.

  Everything happened so fast… So fast that she almost could’t follow what had happened.

  The bightmare frame shot the left ssh harken on his hips onto the ground right when Kewell began firing, and used its recoil to shift to the right and immediately gain immense speed to dodge Kewell’s bullets.

  Then, it shot its right ssh harken on his hips to knock away Kewell’s rifle before using both of its chest-mouo strike at Kewells shoulders and used it as an anchor to pull itself towards him.

  Kewell shot both of his ssh harkens, but with an ungodly rea speed, the bightmare frame caught both Ssh Harkens aroyed it with his bare hands.

  The off both arms, legs, and head in an instant.

  It all ended before she k…

  It was… terrifying. It was just like a bck blur that would suddenly cut off someone’s head before they k.

  “Just like… a grim reaper…”

  Viletta snapped out of her daze, and saw the Excalibur already in front of her.

  “Dammit!”

  She quickly activated her escape meism to eject herself out of her knightmare.

  And as the boost in her cockpit activated for the eject meism went into motion, the Excalibur cut off her Suthernd’s head, arms, and legs.

  Her cockpit flew away just as the rest of her knightmare crumbled onto the ground.

  “That’s amazing…”

  Karen stared at Mordred and the Excalibur in awe as it looked into the distant with the remnants of two knightmare frames on the ground before it.

  Then, she snapped out of her daze when the Excalibur turowards her, and then towards Zero.

  “Good work. Now, all that is left is to find elia.”

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