Chapter 20: First Contact

Province of Albion, Village of Redsprings

Outskirts of the Village, A massive army of the reconquista began march out from the woods, only 500 Footsoldiers armed with lances, 200 Musketeers, 150 mages and 55 Cavalry are on their position, plus 20 dragonknights above them, on front of the army of the reconquista, was a high-ranking noble named, Maurice de Montagu, was utterly surprised by seeing a foreign ship floats above the village redsprings, This ships was covered entirely with a mixture of Steel and Iron, also with some wierd and advanced cannons, The noble send one of his messenger to the village.

Meanwhile in the Village, The Sky marines were on the roofs and saw the entire army of reconquista soldiers, they aimed their rifles, however, saw a single armed knight came along with a banner with him and stopped on front of the village entrance.

"Greetings, I am a messenger from the Reconquista, under his highness, Emperor Cromwell!" The knight spoke out loud. "I came here to speak."

The Sky Marines still aimed their weapons to the knight, however, Mark Hiraga told them to lay down their weapons.

"I will speak to this guy." Mark said with a dark glare on his face.

As Mark passed through a group marines, he walked towards to the knight and stopped his tracks on front of the knight, the knight stared to the uniformed man, he unsheated his sword and pointed towards Mark.

"Foreigner! Under the name of the reconquista." He spoke. "Adress your name!"

"Greetings." Mark saluted in a military manner. "I'm Mark Henderson, Vice Captain of the ship Colombus."

"May I say something with you, foreigner, what did you do to our soldiers we send and where are they?"

"Soldiers?" Mark's memory came into his mind, as he realize that this knight demanded for answers, afterall, he learned the corrupted society of the nobles in this continent of Halkeginea from the villagers they told them since three days ago after saving them.

"I appreciate, that...We...Killed them while saving the village." He told the knight the truth.

"Wh-What!?" The knight stuttered in schock, staring to the person.

"May I ask why did your leader demanded to destroy a village...for what?" Mark said in a cold voice. "I have seen many people died innocently without any reason, It's because they did not accept your rules? Then you will slay them and their children? Strip out their freedom and rights? What kind of a leader is that?! From what youre leader is doing, is to kill it's own people!"

"F-Filthy Commoner!" The knight snarled as he unsheated his sword and pointed towards Mark. "You Foreigner...How dare you bring an insult to our future emperor Cromwell, I will show you how our powerfull the Reconquista was!"

After that, the knight rode back to the cavalry formation and spoke to the noble about the insult that spoken from a foreign, common man, Maurice clenched his fist as he unsheated his sword wand and pointed towards the village, he has one word to speak out.

"CHARGE!"

At this moment, the reconquista soldiers began to charge against the village, then on the sky, the Dragonknights are heading for the ship, hoping that they would burn it down, however, a loud bang was heard from the ship, causing a large explosion as it directly hit on the musketeers position, killing 30 musketeers, then 3 explosions erupted on the fields, taking effect on both footsoldiers and cavalry.

Ship Columbus, Upper deck.

A squardon of 20 Dragonknights started to advance further to attack the explorer ship, Columbus, however, the Crew members started to run around as they began to arm the AA-Turrets.

"Get those AA-Turrets in active mode!" Yelled one of the elven officers.

"Yes sir!" Said the human sentry.

Moments later, Flak and explosions filled on the air, 3 fireballs which they come from the dragonknights hit directly against the ship, but however, it did not caused damage, only what they hit, was a large armour out of steel, But in a sudden, 5 dragonknights fell from the sky, the AA-Sentries saw their sights, aim their turrets and pulled the trigger as a hail of 29mm bullets killed 10 dragonknights in a row, only four of them left.

"By the Founder! Pull back!"

As the remaining dragonknights began to retreat, the Anti-Air units were still shooting them down until none of them survived.

Outskirts Redsprings, On ground.

The Reconquista army were nearing the trenches of the Alliance, however, they were pinned down by marine's heavy maschine gun from the trenches and mortar support from behind, Maurice looked around it's suroundings that his soldiers and mages were killed in an instant, their numbers began to decrease itself plus their morals were getting low, but suddenly, he saw one of the mages reached the trench and began to chant a spell, however, a Sky marine saw the mages sight, he shot a hook from his 5-Dimensional Maneuver Gear and hit it on the Mage, he unsheated his sword as he pulled the hook, together with a mage, thus finished him off while impaling a sword on it's chest.

'By the Founder, what enemy are we fighting against it?' The noble gave a deadpanned reaction on it's face. 'This can't be! What kind of muskets do they have!?'

A line on musketeers began to aim their muskets against the trench, the marines knew that tactic.

"In Cover!" Shouted one of the Marines

After that, the musketeer shot directly against to it, but the marines got up from their cover and fires their heavily armed maschine guns, thus they fired back, the division of musketeers began to fall back as soon the reqonquista cavalry led by the same leader, as it now takes it's charge, but suddenly, a large explosion caught their attention, the noble, Maurice de Montagu was killed in Action by the explosion, as the soldiers noticed that their leader was dead, they began to retreat.

"Sir." The marine spoke to mark. "The enemy seems to be retreating."

As mark saw the remaining hostile soldiers, running away from the battlefield, he noticed that their leader was dead, he knew the medieval tactics back in their time, officers killed in action will decrease the morals of the soldiers, also, once a Leader is found dead, must surrender or retreat, Mark smirked.

"Alright lieutenant, tell them to cease fire." Mark told to the soldier to his right side.

"Cease fire, soldiers, cease fire." He spoke to the radio,

In a moment, the firing and the explosions stopped, hours passed by, thus then a marine found Maurice's dead body, Mark and the Captain of the ship, came up with the inspection along with the villager beside him.

"Sir, who is this person?"

"That is Maurice de Montagu, one of the trusted commanders of the reconquista." Answered the villager.

"I see.."

"Sir, One of our scouts spotted a town nearby." Spoke a marine. "It is under Reconquista control."

"Well...I guess it is time to help these villagers." Spoke the Captain. "We should start a war against them."

"Why is that, Captain?"

"Come with me, I have discussed more about these Reconquista along with the village chief."

To be Continued

Chapter End

Authors note: Sorry for the long wait guys. (;-_-)