Chapter 9 – Truth in Battle: Gathering Storm (Part 1)
Hayate heard as the council chewed Lindy out, saying her a failure, a coward and an idiot for leading practically an entire fleet straight to its demise and reprimanding her even more when they found out that the planet Reach was not even the home-world but just another colony world, and the they had her demoted and told her to leave.
Hayate saw the pain in Lindy's eyes, the pain of losing so many people.
"It wasn't your fault," Hayate told Lindy, "no one knew the enemies strength or that the planet was another colony world, there is no one who could have known what happened."
"That's what makes it worst," Lindy said, "I should have figured it out, the destruction of our fleet over World 47, and the reports of the taking of three of our primary resource worlds should have convinced me of how strong they were, I would have pushed for more forces, or at least better ships and soldiers, but now."
Hayate brings Lindy into a hug, being gentle with her and no one was in sight so no one saw.
Lindy was surprised by this and tries to protest but slowly Hayate rubs the back of her head and Lindy is soon calm once again, and just as Lindy leaves she says, "Thank you, Hayate."
Hayate herself soon leaves, having to take care of several troop deployment papers in her office at the TSAB Ground HQ.
Elsewhere …
"Remarkable, truly and absolutely incredible, to believe that another such system exists, truly and utterly remarkable," Eternal continued, looking over the drives integrated into Nova's barrier jacket.
When Nova returned on the Horizon, not only with news of another Earth and an organization fighting against the TSAB, but also with some of the technology that was beyond what anyone had hoped for, many people were eager at the idea of allies in the war, ever since the loss of the 9th Fleet to a TSAB surprise attack, though the attack was beaten back by another fleet.
Lord Hood said that he and a small fleet would go out and find the ESF and/or Celestial Being and try to see if an alliance could be struck.
Nova herself would undertake an operation, the largest the AFS had thus far planned.
They were going to attack one of the TSAB's primary worlds, Administrated world #7, Menara.
Nanoha was going to go ahead with a small fleet to the planet, though the fleet was comprised of the elite marines, the new AFS mage marines, and ODST's, as well as SPARTANS, high ranked Jackal Snipers, Assault Hunters and Elite zealots, all led by the legendary Arbiter, Thel Vadamee.
Nanoha herself met Thel.
"So you are the mage that was given the right to use the power that they created, and it appears you found more," said the legendary Sangheili, "good, in battle, one must use all things to achieve the end, though how these are used and when, are for the individual to decide."
"Yes Arbiter," Nova says, addressing his title.
He nodded and headed for his troops, to prepare for combat, Nova headed to Eternal, who had information which he got from the GN technology they gained.
On Administrated World 7, a small group had decided to use their time relax at an outdoor bath house in the capital, and by strange design it was consisting of the TSAB Aces, who had been sent to act as a defense on planet while several TSAB generals are there .
"Ahhh, this feels good," said Teana as she was in the water, wearing nothing in the female bath house.
"Agreed," said her comrades, mostly the Combat Cyborg teams, being Nove, Dieci, Cinque, Wendi, and the leader Ginga Nakajima.
The others weren't in the mood, those being, Fate, Hayate, Vita and Signum. Reinforce Zwei, Shamal and Zafira were at the base, and Lindy was at her office.
They were resting, not really enjoying their time, though a few did, and silently wanted it to last.
That was not happening.
The TSAB cruiser, Artera, was patrolling above the surface, looking at its sensors as they continued on.
Then they got multiple whispers on their screens, which lasted only a brief moment.
The captain looked into the void of space as the crew worked, trying to find out what it was and ready to send an alert.
Then a brief glint was seen, no more than a half second ….
…. And the whole ship was torn through and explosions tore through the ship and soon, the whole ship was being blown apart, the bridge being claimed in mere moments, not one person surviving.
Three bureau ships were hanging dead in space, torn apart by MAC gun shots, and then multiple stealth fields disappeared, revealing the AFS fleet.
A fifty-ship fleet, all lead by three ships.
The first was a Tactical Destroyer, Shadow of the Moon, and the Reverence-class ships, Belief of Life and the Reconciliation.
The ships quickly settled into orbit, and soon the launch bays were open; however the first out were multiple HEV pods of both UNSC and Covenant design, along with both Pelican and Spirit drop ships, and also were large Albatross transports along with Covenant-type Corvettes.
Nova began to control the HEV's fall, looking through a sort of reticule.
The HEV's were not the old ones, they were made several times harder and tougher for the purpose of landing in enemy territory, and were equipped with a plasma deflection field on the bottom, and also a rather nasty surprise when it landed.
Nova guided it to land in the center of one of the cities, in the middle of a busy intersection.
She got a brief glimpse of the people, some staring stupidly at the growing lights, then watching as terror overtook them and they tried to run, but it was all too late.
The HEV slammed into the street and in that second, it activated a powerful pulse bomb on the outside of the pod, facing away from the pod, which blasted out, flattening everything in a three block radius, and blasting down many buildings, with the skyscrapers around the impact site tumbling down, falling onto anyone who could have survived the impacts, crushing them to death in the rubble.
All over the rest of the city, the same thing happened, whole buildings coming down all around, soon much of the city is reduced to rubble, with only a few large buildings remaining, and very few people left alive.
Then Nova opens her HEV, and steps out of the pod, Variance's sword mode in her right hand, and her left hand carrying a Gauss Rifle.
All around, pods were opening, and out of them came ODST's carrying BR-55's, M45 Multi-missile launchers (which had four tubes and rockets that split into four smaller rockets with target seeking function, for a 16 missile launch in one go), and newer Sniper Rifles with plasma imbued rounds, and the other regular equipment.
Other pods carried the SPARTAN units, carrying Gauss Rifles, Spartan Assault Lasers, new M99 Plasma Stanchion Rifles, and also for close range a new and rather nasty weapon at their disposal.
Also were Elite Drop Pods, and the Elites carried new Plasma MC Blades, which was a sword that was based off of Forerunner technology and could materialize a solid center blade that was also a molecular cutter, and the center blade would be surrounded by plasma energy, making it a very dangerous and potent weapon, and they also had Plasma pulse rifles, which was a version of the Plasma repeater that was a bit longer to use pulse technology which created a barrier over the plasma round, increasing its penetration power by having a shape-charge effect when hitting the target.
Nova was at the front of the large group, and saw as several Longsword's rushed through the atmosphere, dropping Plasma FAE's, which used energized plasma to increase the potency of the flames, which made the flames so hot that it could melt even high grade Titanium A armor, pretty much vaporizing a human being.
The bombs destructiveness was instantaneous, the city was engulfed in flames, there were screams of pain and agony from all over, but these were ignored as the strike force immediately rushed through the city, looking for any enemy mage forces.
Soon battles began to break out.
The group was still in the bath house when suddenly they heard what suddenly like distant thunder…
… or a distant explosion.
They began to get out of the water when a large gust of wind got them and blew some of their towels away, and they looked up to see what caused it.
They then felt like their hearts drop to the depths of their souls.
Several large fighter-like craft flew overhead, all in dark paint, powerful engines pushing them forward.
The same ones used by their enemies, the AFS.
Then a loud rumble also came up, and then it came into view.
It was a large ship, which was also black and blocky in structure, two large engines on either side of its gun-like center.
The words on it told them everything.
Alliance of Free Systems, Logos
Then a massive shockwave hit them and they felt like their ears were assaulted by hammers, and they looked to see the ship was firing its primary weapon, being it's central Electro-magnetic accelerator cannon, and then it fired three more times, knocking some of them down as it fired three multi-ton slugs in the direction of the base they were stationed at.
Then they saw as its weapon ports, mass-based and energy-based, fired into the city, large cannon shells and missiles blowing apart countless areas and blowing apart multiple buildings, and it also fired beams of energy which burned every area hit to glass.
It was then that they all finally left, and soon they activated their barrier jackets, transformed and soon took off.
Fate and Signum charged at the fighters, which soon saw them and they fired missiles first, with four missiles fired at one time and they streaked to Fate and Signum.
Fate used Photon Lancer and shot the missiles, blowing them apart, while Signum used her blade in snake form and cut the missiles to pieces.
Then the two fighters fired their large cannons, the post-sized shells carrying enough power to turn either of them into a bloody mist.
Fate was grazed by one and even with her barrier jacket, the round left her bleeding from her side where it grazed her, but she fired a thunder Smasher at the fighter, gutting the fighter and sending it crashing into the ground and exploding to pieces.
Signum also blasted the other one, but one of its shells almost blasted her arm off, and she was clutching her bleeding arm, though trying to not showing any expressions of pain.
Then a powerful and massive beam of white energy launches from the sky and smashes in to the side of the enemy ship, Logos, and destroys the engine on the ships side, and explosions quickly go through the ship and it goes nose first into the ground, splitting in half at the center.
Then its reactors overload, and Fate and Signum are hit by a powerful shockwave that pretty much flattens everything in two miles and sends the both into the ground.
Fate slowly crawls up from the ground, and is sore all over, and her barrier jacket is at only half its power, Signum herself also injured but in better shape than Fate and helps Fate walk, just as Hayate, who used her attack Ragnarok to shoot the ship down, lands among them.
Then they see as three more ships of the same type come down from the atmosphere and one of the ships turns its main weapon to them, and they flee just as it fires, annihilating the place they were just a moment ago, and releasing a shockwave the size of a large bomb, blowing them away.
Then the ship fires five more times, and a large portion of the city it fires at is reduced to rubble in an instant, the ship releasing what appeared to be drone-craft and sending them on bombing runs.
The city soon becomes a burning inferno in mere minutes, Fate, Signum, Hayate, and the recently arriving Vita, Zafira and Shamal can only look as the city soon becomes a ruined memory.
Then they see a large squadron of drones turns to face them, and they all soon snap out of their shock and engage as well, followed by the air mages from several nearby bases.
The sky soon lights up with explosions, beams of energy, tracer fire from cannons and more.
In space, several AFS ships were pointing their MAC guns to the planets surface, and were charging them to full power.
While several Covenant-class Carriers released their payload to the surface, which would arrive shortly, along with a drop from the UNSC-class Carriers, also to hit the surface soon.
Nova ripped through a TSAB aerial squadron, flying among them and shooting them to pieces using the Gauss Rifle, and cutting them to pieces in one swipe with Variance, the potent energies cutting the mages to shreds.
Then Nova saw several TSAB drop ships coming down, all preparing to release their mage units.
Nova and five SPARTAN's with her had other idea.
They pulled out their SAL's (Spartan Assault Laser's) and then fired, the red ultra focused, compact penetrating beam lanced out and they hit the drop ships and the transport helicopters, and the beams tore clean through the fields, barriers and straight through the hull and into the craft, the beams burning the mages and crew aboard, all of them dying in an instant.
Nova watched as the drop ships fell to the ground, smashing down and blowing up, leaving only twisted and melted metal and the remains of burnt bodies.
Then the comm. rang out.
"Nova, there are several high ranked mages attacking several Frigates that are supporting the ground forces, already the frigates Logos, November Night, New Faith, and the Rebirth have been destroyed," said the voice of Admiral Gale Farrence, "the destroyers Razgriz and Archer are holding them off but for how long we don't know, get some support over there."
"Roger," says Nova.
She sped off as a Pelican and two Spirits picked up the SPARTANS and Elites, and they soon flew to the battlezone.
Nova prepared to use the Gauss cannon and decided to tap into the GN drives and soon the Gauss cannon hummed with greater power than before, and then the GN drives began to disperse large amounts of particles and these spread out and caused a communication problem.
However that problem was quickly corrected as the data of the ship explained the jamming effect and also how to counter the effect, and this was prepared beforehand thanks to Halsey and several AFS scientists who studied the effects and created the countermeasures.
While their communication was no longer having any problem, the TSAB however …
In an instant communications throughout the battlefield were going well, and the aces and cyborg teams along with other units, supported by the logistics teams, especially through the work of Shamal and her device Klarer Wind, the enemy movements were being deduced, though casualties still mounted and the two large destroyers were continuously forcing them back, but the plan was to buy time until a TSAB fleet came in to support the ground and air teams.
Then, in an instant, all communications, magic based, regular, even magic telepathy were completely jammed.
"All units come in, I repeat come in," Fate finally gave up after realizing it was useless.
Signum and Hayate soon joined her along with Vita, all of the finding that the comm.'s were jammed.
Then they noticed the energy particles floating around them.
Fate tried to analyze the energy, but Bardiche couldn't come up with anything, not even a way to even minutely counter the jamming, and Zwie (who was unisoned with Hayate) could not get any sort of read on the particles, saying that the complexity of the particles would take far too long to analyze, in fact it would be next to impossible without access to the process that made the particles.
Then a glint of light appeared on the horizon …
… and then a beam of dark pink energy lanced out, surrounding a mass-based round, and it instantly tore through several mages in an instant and then hit in the area of several ground mages, the blast causing the round to fragment and the pieces tore through the ground mages at super-sonic speeds, the explosion claiming the mages as they died.
The group turned just as three more blasts of the same type, only without the round lanced out and blew through several Aerial mages, and they saw her, the mage they fought back then, holding a rifle of some type, the barrel glowing from the energy used.
Then the woman charged, and Signum immediately rushed to attack along with Fate.
Nova immediately summoned a second GN Rifle, which was basically a scaled down yet still very potent version of the one from a Mobile Suit called the Kyrios, and having learned the dual-wielding techniques of the Spartans, fired at seven air mages.
She fired at them, the attacks ripping through four mages and blew them apart, the others got in close, but Nova fired twice more to blow the heads off of two more mages, and the other two immediately fired binding rounds, but then Nova switched the rifle to a Plasma Saber and sliced both shots, and then she charged in and in one swipe cut both mages in half, both of them falling to the ground.
Then she just barely saw the attack coming before raising the plasma saber to block, just barely stopping the attack looking at the attacker, which was Signum.
Signum was pushing with all her might, and Nanoha realized that she was starting to lose ground, which was incorrect as they were in the air, and then she barely saw as another attack hit, this time it was from Fate, and it was a powerful slash from Bardiches Zamber form, which struck in full.
An explosion lit up the sky and something smashed into the ground.
Fate was breathing hard as she floated in the sky, looking at the area where the impact happened as smoke rose from it.
"That should have done it," said Signum.
"Lets hope s-," then Fate saw her blade.
It was cracked in many places, and looked like it was about to completely break from just a slight mo-.
BOOOOOOOOMMMM
Two dark pink beams lanced out slammed into them in a tremendous explosion, the explosion sending them both crashing into the ground.
They managed to get back up and then they saw as the smoke cleared from the unknown mages crater, and they saw her surrounded by a gold shield that appeared to be made of hexagons and two Rifles that had the barrels glowing a bit from a firing.
They got back up as the shield fell and then saw the mage fly at them both, and this time a regular gun was in her hand, and then the mage cut loose, unleashing untold numbers of bullets, all of which slammed hard into their barriers, and the shields they used were not able of holding themselves up for long, especially with them charged with magic that formed a penetrating barrier around the bullets.
The bullets pounded Fate and Signum and soon, three bullets drilled through the shield and penetrated the barrier on Signums left leg, punching through and causing her to go to one knee and then another bullet slammed into Fates arm, the head of the bullet lodging itself in her arm, causing great pain, and the barrier jackets (and in Signums case her knights armor) began to signs of extensive damage as the bullets continued to pound them.
Then the mage immediately darted out of the way as Vita's hammer came down, and left a large crater in the ground, but the mage then got out another rifle that looked more angular than the other and had a bit of a longer barrel and a scope, and she fired the rifle at Vita, and though it fired single shots, the rounds of the gun had the same principle of a tandem warhead, the bullet slamming into the target and the exploding, causing a second smaller, more dense bullet to punch into the weakened area, and the hammer wielding knight was forced back by the attack as her barrier was close to failing.
Then a powerful shot from an energy cannon came in, and the mage created a blue energy barrier of an angled design, causing the blast to instead go straight into a building a good distance away that had several mages inside, the building falling and killing the mages within, and then the mage got out of the way of Ginga's attack as she barreled in, but then Nove came up and delivered a fierce kick to the mage, sending the mage down, but the woman landed easily and looked no worse than before.
Then several knives appeared in the air, all aimed at the woman, but the woman released another shield that deflects the blast away, and then drops it just as another swing from Vita almost kills her, and just barely manages to get away from a bind by Teana.
Then a large squadron of mages incoming to back the Ace's up, and the unknown mage's fate appeared to be sealed as the squadron closed in.
Nova saw as the group closed in, but then realized that she needed to take them out, and take them out fast, the problem is that she needed to do it in an instant.
The mages were grouped together, likely to combine their fire on one target, the target being herself, but that also meant that they would be close enough together that one attack would do it.
Then Nova realized that a regular attack with the weapons would not be fast enough, she only had one option that she could currently use …
… a spell.
She remembered one of her old spells, the spell Divine Buster, a focused and powerful beam attack, though alone the attack would not be very effective against magic shields, but the GN drives on her back pulsed with power and she realized that implanting the power into the attack would get rid of the problem of the defense.
She knew that there was another problem, the problem was that she had to say the spell, with her own voice, a voice that any of them would easily recognize.
She had no other options, and she launched four missiles and the all used a time-delayed fuse to blow up near the Section 6 team, before aiming the blade and then …
… she spoke.
Fate was getting back up from the missile attack, along with the Wolkenritter and the Combat Cyborg team, and Teana was up, preparing to attack when they saw the mage preparing a spell.
Then they realized something, something rather important about the mages posture.
The sword had become a sort of beam gun (a thinner, more compact form of Virtues beam gun and modified to have a longer frame and the grips positioned in a way that made them similar to Raising Hearts blaster mode) and energy was gathering at the tip, magical and unknown, but the weapon was made to have a grip just behind the gun barrel of the cannon, and the stance was with the right foot forward and the left in back to get enough balance, but the thing was that they had seen such as stance of the exact same type.
It was just too familiar to ignore.
Then they saw the energy gather at the end of the barrel, and realized that there was one spell, and only one that was made with that attack pattern.
'No, it can't be, how does she even know that spell,' then a rather dark thought came into Fate's mind, 'she knows what happened to Nanoha, she somehow got her spells, I am going to torture her until sh-."
Then the attack was ready, and Hayate had just arrived and was preparing a spell, but just as she was ready to cast, the woman voiced the spell, and then she spoke …
… and everyone froze, as though their bodies had turned to ice, as the mage spoke the words of a very familiar spell, in a very, very familiar voice.
"DIVINE BUSTER"
A powerful beam of powerful, lethal magic energy mixed with the unknown energy in its lethal form lanced out, a beam of dark blue, and dark pink energy (Nova's magic color also changed from the Arc-en-Ciel exposure), and the mages were vaporized as the blast turned them to dust in an instant.
The attack was done and the mages had been vaporized, but instead of attacking, the others were very much frozen in shock, now knowing who exactly the person in front of them was.
"Na … Nan … Nanoha," Fate managed to stutter out, still in incredible shock.
The person in question said, "I guess I have changed a lot, huh," said the woman in the exact same voice as the person they knew.
"Nanoha, what happened to you, we thought you died," this time it was Vita, though her choice of words was not good.
"Yes, I pretty much did die, I was torn apart by Arc-en-Ciels, I was to the point where I should not have even lived, but I was saved and brought back, but not the same," she said as a frown was now on her face.
"I am now fighting with the Alliance, I want the galaxy to be allowed their freedoms while still being protected, and not just Administrated worlds, I wish to see all the worlds safe, but not the way the TSAB wants, where they brutally oppress and threaten the worlds, keep all the power and privilege for themselves, and believe themselves saviors when they are nothing but dictators," said Nanoha.
""I intend to stop them, I will fight against them, no matter what, and fight for the freedom of all worlds, because freedom is the right every living thing shares, and if it means I will have to fight you, so be it," she then armed her device and turned it into a rocket launcher.
"And another thing, my name is not Nanoha, not anymore," she said as she aimed the device and armed created the newer rocket launcher, "its Nova."
The group just stood for a bit, but then they prepared their devices.
"Just like you, we also fight for everyone, but we fight to keep others safe, to allow others to live without fear in their lives," Fate said, her eyes now shadowed, "but ever since then, when we found out of the corruption, of how warped the bureau truly was, we saw no other choice, we had to do things no one truly wished to happen, so that everyone could be safe."
"We pledged ourselves to that dream, that goal," said Ginga, as she prepared to attack.
"We follow our mistress, for the sake of peace and security for all people, and no one not even you Nanoha, will stop us," said Signum.
"We will fight, we will bring peace to everyone, and stop tragedies and wars from happening, and you are alone in this fight," then Hayate, who was speaking, stopped talking, when she heard Nova chuckling.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh nothing, just the fact that you thought I came here to fight alone," then Nova had a smirk, "I didn't come alone, I just got here first."
Then Nove was hit by a missile, and was blasted back a very large distance, smashing into and almost through a wall, nearly dying from the impact, but was grabbed by Wendi who was on her riding board.
Then Signum promptly blocked a strike from a plasma saber, only to be brutally hit in the gut, and sent right into Vita, both tumbling to the ground.
As Hayate and Fate were distracted Nova created two grenade launchers and fired, the attacks slammed into Fate and Hayates barrier jackets and blasted the both of them into the ground.
"I believe that it is time we announce our presence," said the newly arrived creature, which was far taller than a human, and had reptilian features, and its mouth was instead a set of mandibles, and it wore resplendent silver armor and had an energy sword in its large hand.
"Were here to put an end to the oppression of the TSAB," said Spartan II Fred.
"Right now, I suggest surrendering, if I were you," said the SPARTAN II Linda, pointing a new compact Stanchion electro-magnetic rifle.
Behind them were three platoons, one consisted of Elites, and the other two were a mix of SPARTAN's and ODST's, and behind them was a battalion of AFS mages, all armed with heavy weapons and ready to fight.
"So then, let's see whose resolve is greater, yours," Nanoha is now holding a beam rifle in her right hand and a plasma blade in her other hand, "or ours."
Fate sees this, and the switches Bardiche to Zanber form, then as she along with Hayate, faced Nova, Signum faced Thel Vadamee, better known as the Arbiter, the Wolkenritter faced the Elites, and the Combat Cyborg team, faced the SPARTANS, Ginga would face Fred, Teana was against Linda, and a new squadron of TSAB Aerial mages had just arrived, and would fight the AFS combat mages.
In an instant the battle started, Hayate prepared to use her attack bloody dagger, while Fate charged at Nova, who now had both beam rifles aimed and were charging to full power.
Signum charged forward with Leavantien, and Thel charged forward with his Plasma saber, and both then clashed.
The Wolkenritter charged the Elites, all of whom were members of the elite guard unit of the Elites, the "Lights of Sanghelios" all using regular plasma swords, plasma sabers, and were armed with the Plasma-Gauss rifle, which basically took the concept of the Gauss gun, merged it with the design of the plasma repeater, and created a potent plasma charged, gauss round that could penetrate medium armor with ease and leave a deep dent in heavy armor, and rip easily through most personal energy shields.
The Combat cyborgs charged the Spartans and ODST's, the combat cyborgs weapons being enhanced for battle, and the Spartans used new plasma knives and Gauss rifles, along with the new Spartan Assault Lasers, and the ODST's used new BR-75 Plasma enhanced rifles, and the M45 MMS's (Multi-Missile System's), and the new grenade/micro-missile devices, the GPG671 Guided Plasma Grenade, which was basically a small missile with a powerful explosive blast.
Ginga charged at Fred, preparing to use her device Revolver Knuckle to prepare to punch Fred with the powerful gauntlet, but then Fred activated a gauntlet like device on his arm, and it was a powerful device, called Variable Pierce, based off of the working of a pile driver (based on the armored core arm unit, the one with the twin pile driver spikes, and the system similar to the pile junker from lost planet 2), it used to powerful piercing spikes, charged at the tip with plasma energy to rip through anything that it hit, even the armor of a heavy tank would break from the hit, and soon Fred and Ginga both clashed, the both of them trying to get through the others defenses and take the other down.
Teana engaged Linda, using her device Cross Mirage to prepare her crossfire attack against Linda, but Linda put away the Stanchion and pulled out two specially modified DMR's armed with plasma enhanced rounds, made to be reloaded easily and made lighter and more balanced, allowing Linda to dual wield the weapons, as they were made for her, and with the two weapons, she aimed at Teana, the two shooters preparing for a shooting fight.
Then the TSAB aerial mages prepared to face the AFS combat mages, both preparing and aiming their weapons at each other, the mages preparing magic energy and pointing down at the mages on the ground, but did not know that the mages below had prepared their shots, and were using deflective shielding, all the while their weapons, which had the ability to change into different weapons like Variance, though limited to only five modes, being the standard rifle with a grenade launcher, a sniper rifle mode (similarities to the rifles of Mass Effect, though only the standard models), plasma rifle mode in which its form is that of a more angular Plasma Repeater, a heavy weapon mode which was the Spartan Assault Laser for more powerful attacks which were on par with a Divine Buster attack along with a penetrating effect, and finally was the Energy Saber for combat at close quarters, as the mages were trained by the Elite's to outstanding levels, both sides were ready to fight.
The two sides immediately clashed, leading to what would be one of the most major battles of the entire war.