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Chapter 6: Magic Training part 2.

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351st Striker simulator room

Ekaterina told Lucifer to follow the four witches. Once the four witches and Lucifer entered the simulator room they found that Ekaterina was already waiting in the observation deck with Emi sitting in front of the screens that show the training simulation. The simulator machines were large round spheres with virtual reality striker units connected to the machine. The observation deck was designed similar to a control tower in the airport. The difference was that instead of radar detection devices it was equipped with two public address speakers outside and a microphone. In addition there were also fewer computers in the observation deck. There was also a mini fridge with sodas, coffee, tea, water, and juice. There were also the guns designed to look exactly like the guns that the witches use. There were also the guns that looks like the M107 .50 cal sniper rifle and the M16A4 Assault rifle for Lucifer.

When the witches and Lucifer entered the room Ekaterina said that the training was to simulate a Neuroi attacking the group if they encounter one during a mission. The witches and Lucifer grabbed the guns designed for the simulators then entered the simulators and put on the virtual reality strikers and the door to the simulators closed with a hissing sound. When the simulator's door closed the sphere's monitors came online and showed the inside of the 351st hangar. The sphere showed the four witches who were in their respective striker units.

Ekaterina who was watching the screen showing the simulators with Emi said "Simulation start."

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Amaya Chono said "Amaya Chono taking off." The virtual clamps on the striker unit released Amaya's striker and she was out of the hangar and airborne within minutes. The other members who were in the simulator did the same thing that Amaya did joined her in the simulator's sky. The striker units in the simulator also require magic power to operate although the simulator uses electricity to operate the striker units simulate the amount of magic power that is needed to use a specific striker unit. In the simulators if the witch or witches have any form of Inherent Magic that is related to detection will be rendered useless because even if the simulator recreates the neuroi they will not give out any magical energy signatures that the detection type inherent magic such as Magic Eye or Magic Antenna can detect. Inside the simulator the three witches and Lucifer were flying about one thousand feet above sea level and flying at mach 1.2 in diamond formation searching for the neuroi that was going to appear anytime. The four of them split up but stayed within range of their magically enhanced earpieces and covered a large area to find the neuroi faster.

Within about fifteen minutes of flight Chiriko reported in that she had found the Neuroi and then Amaya, Allaryce, and Lucifer joined up with Chiriko who was tracking the neuroi from a distance.

Amaya then said "Enemy sighted! Attack!"

Chiriko and Amaya teamed up and opened fire on the neuroi while on the move. Allaryce behind the Neuroi and fired her FIM-92 Stinger and damaged the neuroi along with Chiriko and Amaya. Lucifer who flew below the neuroi waited for the crosshairs on his visor to settle before shouting out "Fox 3" and the AIM-120 radar guided missile, rockets out of the striker unit leaving behind a white smoke trail and hit the neuroi's underbelly causing a dent to appear in its armor. The neuroi activated its laser beam compartments and retaliated shooting its lasers above and below like a battleship using all of its anti aircraft guns. The four of them activated their shields with Lucifer producing a magically weak shield due to having not experience with creating a magical shield. The simulator can create a virtual shield from the amount of magic that the witch or well wizard uses to make the shield and can simulate how the shield will hold from a neuroi laser beam. Lucifer's shield managed to hold off the beam for two seconds before he was saved by Allaryce firing two missiles at the neuroi and causing it to lose its focus. Seeing that the neuroi is currently stunned the entire team attacked the neuroi from all angles. Lucifer fired a small burst of .50 cal bullets into what he assumes is the neuroi's head and causing the neuroi to cry out in pain and anger.

Amaya who had been dodging lasers while firing her weapon was firing on one specific spot for a while. Unlike the other areas on the neuroi the area that she was currently shooting had armor that was the thicker than anywhere else on the neuroi. Thinking that she may know where the core is located she quickly radioed her team and told them what she's thinking. The other witches and Lucifer regrouped with Amaya although Lucifer had to dodge two laser beams. The witches agreed about Amaya's suspicion and Lucifer was aiming at the heavily armored part and fired an armor piercing incendiary round directly at the armored part. After the shot was fired the three witches fired two radar guided missiles each and the missiles impacted the neruoi's heavy armor and the core was exposed. The armor that had been breached was beginning to regenerate at a slow speed. Without hesitation Chiriko Miyafuji had seen the neuroi's core and opened fire with her gun while the neuroi was regenerating its wound. The bullet penetrated and destroyed the neuroi's core causing crystal like fragments to rain down when the neuroi was destroyed. When the crystal like fragments from the destroyed neuroi were raining down the screen showed a sign saying in capital letters were ENEMY DESTROYED.

351st Simulator's observation deck

Inside the observation deck Ekaterina and Emi saw the battle simulation while drinking ice coffee, and tea. Both of them were talking about what can be improved from the battle especially the new wizard. Both of them were debating and soon decided that Lucifer needed to improve his shield because if it wasn't for Allaryce distracting the neuroi the laser beam would've destroyed the shield within seconds. Then there was the teamwork between the four of them. They need to communicate more often between them and try to synchronize their attacks.

When they exited the simulators Ekaterina went down and said "Well to put it bluntly your teamwork was shabby. You need to communicate more often and try to synchronize your attacks." The witches and Lucifer had a small bit of disappointment that can be seen on their faces.

Outside of 351st main building

Since it was still daytime the three witches went to the hangar and put on their striker units and began flying exercises and Major Emi had pulled Lucifer aside to teach him how to use the katana that he had bought from Akira Hayashi's shop. Emi began to show Lucifer some basic exercises for Lucifer to perform which was pretty easy as when Lucifer was in grade 6-7 during school he joined a small kendo class that was near his house. His cousin who was a few months older than him also attended the same kendo class and she was one of the top students in the small kendo class. However as Lucifer had quit kendo class during the summer holidays after his seventh grade because of more work he had become rather rusty with using a kendo stick.

After more than thirty minutes of Lucifer practicing with the kendo stick Emi lead Lucifer into the kendo classroom that was relatively small and challenged him to a 1v1 fight. Major Emi asked Commander Ekaterina who had just entered the kendo classroom to referee their fight. Ekaterina raised one of her eyebrows in curiosity because Emi would never have a match with a new witch on the first day of training. Both Emi and Lucifer changed into kendo clothes with the helmet and went to their respective positions. Once Ekaterina shouted "Match start!"

Lucifer and Emi had circled each other for a short while then Lucifer had struck first. Instead of using dual katanas however both were using kendo sticks. Lucifer gave a low kick then a high kick followed by a horizontal slash. Emi jumped first then leaned back a little to dodge each kick. Emi parried Lucifer's slash and punched him in his face. Lucifer blocked the kick with his arms which made him wince a little at the pain and stabbed at Emi which she avoided by moving to the side. Emi then charged at Lucifer while holding her kendo stick tightly and swung it which hit Lucifer's ribs. After hitting Lucifer on his ribs Emi then moved her stabbed her katana at Lucifer at speeds that it was impossible for Lucifer to keep track of causing him to keep walking back until she stopped. After Emi stopped attacking, he rolled out of her kendo stick's way and slashed vertically at her which she blocked with her own kendo stick. Each of their strikes were causing echoes in the kendo room. The fight went on for five minutes straight without stopping. When the separated again Emi was panting lightly from the attacks and Lucifer was panting heavily due to him not having used a kendo stick for a long time. Before the match could start again Lucifer said the safe word "uncle" between pants to signify that he surrendered. When the match was over Lucifer lied down on the tatami mats that make up the floor of the kendo room. Emi walked over to where Lucifer was lying down, hovered over him and said "I have to admit you're pretty good. Not many new witches were able to last two minutes in a match against me." Lucifer didn't reply as he was tired after the five minute match.

After resting for ten minutes Lucifer and Emi walked to the shooting range where the Allaryce, Amaya, and Chiriko were practicing on firing their guns.

Lucifer picked up the M107 .50 cal sniper rifle and the M16A4 which he was very familiar with as he used to own them back in his world. He looked down on the M16A4's iron sights as he aimed the M16A4 at the target. He let out a two second burst of the M16 and out of the five bullets only two were close to the target's center. He then switched out the M16A4 for the M107 barrett. He fired the barrett five times and three shots were at the center and the other two shots were five centimeters away from the center shot.

Lucifer's dorm room.

After the training Lucifer went back to his dorm to take a nice cold shower as it was around three in the afternoon. They had spent a couple minutes doing flying exercises and practicing on casting a magical shield to block incoming magic infused rocks that were thrown by both Emi and Ekaterina. He opened the door to his dorm room while drinking from a large water bottle that was from the kitchen's fridge.

When he came out of the shower after a really relaxing ten minute cold shower, he was wearing a black tank top and yellow colored boxers with black stripes on the sides with a towel hanging around his shoulders. He saw a couple of documents on his dorm's large home office desk. The documents were information and history of this world including world maps etc. The documents also reminded him that he needs to get another passport, visa, and other items of importance soon. Lucifer took his windows 7 ultimate laptop with him to his bed along with the documents and decided to read up on this world while doing some other work online. Halfway through reading the documents he fell asleep on his bed because he was pretty tired and he slept for about two hours before waking up due to the base's alarm ringing which signifies that there is a neuroi that just entered the base's airspace.

A person from the control tower said "We have an inbound unidentified infiltrator forty miles out. 351st send out a team of four strike witches to take out the neuroi. Heading 250 to intercept bogie's forty miles out northwest."

When Lucifer heard the announcement he quickly woke up and ran straight to the hangar where the rest of the 351st strike witches were.

351st Hangar

Ekaterina said that the four witches who would be intercepting the neuroi would be Captain Emi Kawashima, 1st Lieutenant Allaryce V. Litvyak, Master Sergeant Chiriko Miyafuji, and 2nd Lieutenant Amaya Chono. The witches that are to be on standby would be Master Sergeant Lucifer Ambrose, Major Irina Christel, and Commander Ekaterina Petrenko. The four witches who were chosen for the mission jumped in the air and landed their legs in the striker sockets and a magic circle formed on the floor under the strikers.

"Allaryce V. Litvyak taking off." The clamps released the striker unit and she was out of the hangar and airborne.

"Emi Kawashima taking off." Like Allaryce the clamps released and she joined Allaryce in the air and the remaining two witches followed shortly after. After taking off it took around ten minutes to locate the neuroi. The neuroi was a hybrid between a medium and large type neuroi. The neuroi has the size of a medium neuroi but the front of the armor was that of a heavy type neuroi. When the group of witches spotted the neuroi that let loose a volley of medium range AAM-4s, and R-77. The missiles impacted various areas on the neuroi with two AAM-4s hitting the area where the lasers fire putting two of the neuroi's armament out of commission. In retaliation the neuroi focused its fire on the witches and bared the thickest part of its armor to the witches which for a new witch would look quite menacing. Once the neuroi faced the four witches it let loose a barrage of lasers causing the witches to disengage and split up to attack from different angles. The neuroi then instead of concentrating on one target decided to fire his lasers everywhere causing the witches to put up shields and firing their weapons to harm the neuroi. The bad thing about using automatics with one hand is that the shots will be inaccurate due to the force of the recoil. Allaryce fired a Stinger missile on the top of the neuroi and manage to put a dent into its armor. When the neuroi realized that it was not going to be able to kill the witches, the neuroi split in two with the largest part attacking the witches and the smaller, much faster part sped off to the 351st base to presumably destroy the base. The larger neuroi then began repairing it's armor at a slow pace while the smaller neuroi who has spaced armor to make it harder to kill sped off towards the direction of the 351st base.

In the hangar with Lt. Col. Ekaterina, Maj Irina, and Master Sergeant Lucifer the radio crackled to life and Emi said "The neuroi split in two parts. We're busy handling the larger one but the smaller part split off and is currently heading towards the base. It's going really fast as well."

Once the transmission ended, the witches and Lucifer who were on standby scrambled to their striker units as quickly as possible. The three of them ran and jumped in the air and landed their legs in the striker sockets. When their legs went in the striker sockets a magic circle activated under the striker units and the striker cradles opened its weapon compartment and all three of them grabbed their respective guns and rifles then the clamps on the cradles released and all three of them took off. Lucifer and Irina flew to either side of Ekaterina and waited for Ekaterina to give orders. While they were flying Ekaterina said "Since the neuroi is fast our best chance to kill the neuroi before it reaches the base would be to snipe the neuroi and try to penetrate the armor and hopefully destroy its core. Due to its speed it may also be too fast for our radar guided missiles to get a lock on the neuroi."

The witches and Lucifer then hovered in place while looking through their binoculars and listening to the radar in their striker units. The radar in the striker units acts like the onboard radar in fighter jets. However although it can detect neuroi the neuroi has to be within a certain range as the magic that the neuroi uses acts as a cloaking or stealth device. Soon enough Lucifer heard something thanks to his familiar being a dire wolf his hearing is similar to that of the canine family. He turned to where he heard the neuroi approaching as while the neuroi doesn't give off engine noise but there will be a slight difference in the air surrounding the neuroi while it is in flight. He looked through the binoculars and saw the neuroi and alerted the commander and major. Both Ekaterina and Irina turned to where Lucifer was pointing and saw the neuroi through their binoculars. Since none of them currently has the magic eye ability they will not be able to tell where neuroi's core is presuming that the neuroi has a core as it is known in the past that some neuroi will dispatch a smaller and faster neuroi to destroy the base and the smaller neuroi either will not have a core as the core will be in the neuroi that dispatched the small neuroi or if the small neuroi has a core it isn't the true core. Ekaterina said to Irina and Lucifer that due to the neuroi's size its core may possibly be in the center of the neuroi presuming of course that the neuroi does have a core and is not a drone.

When the neuroi saw the three witches it opened fired on them from the red pentagons on its armor. The neuroi's flaw was that the spaced armor was only on its sides, underbelly, and rear leaving the top and frontal part of the neuroi exposed. The three of them casted a shield by instinct and did not take any damage yet. Lucifer took out the M107 loaded an armor piercing incendiary round, looked through the rifle's scope and aimed at the center of the neuroi and fired. The bullet instead hit the spaced armor on the side and exploded and the neuroi only had insignificant damage. While Lucifer re-cocked the rifle's firing mechanism Ekaterina and Irina opened fire on the neuroi's frontal armor hoping to damage or even expose the core. Once Lucifer re-cocked the M107 he alerted the two witches who were attacking the neuroi with their machine gun and they attacked the spaced armor on the sides instead of the frontal armor. This time he fired a M20 API-T at the neuroi's frontal armor and this time the bullet pierced the neuroi's frontal armor and the front of the neuroi looks like a gun barrel had imploded on itself and the core was visible on the neuroi. Lucifer quickly re-cocked the M107 and fired a armor piercing incendiary round at the core and this time the round not only buried itself in the core but it also exploded once it was embedded in the core and destroyed it.

Once the core was destroyed the neuroi also exploded into small crystallized neuroi pieces. At where Emi's group is the neuroi that they were facing also exploded into small crystallized neuroi pieces. Emi radioed Ekaterina and asked if her group had destroyed the neuroi's core to which Ekaterina gave an affirmative. When Emi asked who had finished the neuroi Ekaterina said that it was Lucifer who shot the neuroi and killed it. Ekaterina and her team landed back at the base. While both the Commander and Major did a perfect landing Lucifer's landing could still use some work as while he did land, he overshot the runway and came to a stop inside the hangar. When Irina asked Lucifer if he worked on his landings Lucifer said "Well at least I didn't crash on a tree branch this time." Which earned him two bemused expressions from both Irina and Ekaterina. The three of them waited for Emi's group to arrive and land at the base. Emi's group arrived in seven minutes and landed in a diamond formation.

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End of Chapter 6

Hi guys. Sorry if you waited a while for the update but I ran into a bit of a writer's block