Summoning the Greater Axis Pact
Axis 1 - Qua-Toine
Principality of Qua-Toine, Skies of Qua-Toine, Two Weeks after the Black Incident
The skies of Qua-Toine was fairly clear, a sky blue ceiling that never has an end to it, the clouds of white, puffy as they can be, decorated it. A Dragon Knight was on a patrol basis in the Northeast Region of the Principality. There were not much to see in this side as it was only sea, sea and look, the ocean, it was never fun in most patrols.
With the recent tensions, the Dragon Knights had sent five more with the patrol to at least be able to fight back. Patrols were always necessary to detect and counter warships going off-course for possible surprise attacks, which explained why the patrol was in this empty, never-ending region.
"W-What the-!?"
The Patrol spotted something.
"Hey, you see what I'm seeing?"
"Is that...an iron wyvern?" They were supposed to be alone, but something else was there, in normal situations other than a friendly wyvern was unthinkable. Considering the distance from Rowlia to here was nothing to look down upon, a wyvern was incapable of such distance as well! While there are Dragon Carriers called the Dragon Mother, that thing should never be in this remote area, why would it?
The object started as a grain, before it was obvious that it was no friendly wyvern...nor a wyvern for that fact. It had two propeller-like things on each wing, with the front having a black window. "We are the Greater German Reich's Representative!" The object spoke as the five Dragon Knights were unsure. "We mean no harm, but we require you to stand down and meet with our Representative aboard our ships. We do not wish any needless bloodshed." The Qua-Toine Dragon Knights were unsure of what to do as the object soon raised the propellers towards the sky as it hovered.
"I will question my superiors first! Will that be alright?!"
"Preferably, we are not in a tight schedule! Our Escort Fleet wishes to meet your Leader of the Navy to negotiate First Contact, although the Fleet is a few kilometers away. Please inform your Leader of our presence."
"R-Right away!" The Leader of the Patrol soon pulled out his communication tool. "We have contact with a...visitor. They wish to negotiate first contact with the Admiral, sir!"
"The Admiral? Who is this visitor?"
"They are from the Greater German Reich, sir, they wish to meet us first hand for first contact."
"Negative, the Admiral is not present, the Vice Admiral is though, should I send him?"
"I will ask if that is alright with them." The Knight soon yelled. "Our Admiral is not present! Will our Vice Admiral suffice!?"
"Yes, he would suffice! Our fleet has just began movement, we will meet at this location!" The 'object' soon turned as it began to retreat back.
Unknown to them, the Patrol had just made it to the mark of history.
Rodenius Ocean, Qua-Toine First Fleet
The First Fleet of Qua-Toine made of 200 Wooden sail ships, were beginning their movement to meet the Envoy Escort Fleet, the ships looked like they came from a medieval age, but despite their number.
The Joint Escort Fleet had brought the KMS Graf Richthofen, IJN Sekiryuutei and the RMS Balbo with two Light Cruisers, both from Germany, the Germania-Class and two 1989-Class or the Kriegshund-Klasse, two of the Japanese Tatsumaki Class Missile Destroyers and one of the Italian Zodiac Class Destroyer.
With that in mind, the Horneisse and the Meermöwe fighter jets were all, but ready to launch. The Graf Richthofen had carried the three Diplomats from the three major nations. While they were being concerned by the people, the Fleet had been outfitted with High Explosive Rounds as the scouting jet, Schwarz Adler had found nothing, but wooden ships in their ranks previously.
"Have a Fa283T Meer Engel sortie with Rockets and Missiles loaded with two Fw665T Fafnirs with the same loadout, also tell the Japanese to send their A36M Jet Fighters with Anti-Ship load out." The Captain, Mathias von Krakow spoke as the Operator soon saluted.
"Jawohl, Hauptmann!" The aircrafts were soon launched with the Meer Engel loaded with a speaker. The Japanese's four A36M Fighter Jets were soon launched before making an arrow-head formation, the aircrafts began to close in with the Italian Aviation Battleship turning its guns towards the approaching fleet.
First Fleet Flagship, The Grendel
Vice Admiral Ainsworth had looked upon the sea before he saw the fleet coming in. 'So, that's the Envoy Escort Fleet before spotting three flying objects followed by what seemed to be four Steel Wyverns following them. Ainsworth couldn't believe his eyes, so they had them, he was skeptical about the existence of 'Steel Wyverns' in the Holy Mirishial Empire, but it appears that these...Germans also possess them.
'If we were to even declare war on them...we won't survive a year...no...not even a month!'
"The Alliance had come to negotiate on the deck of the KMS Graf Richthofen! Our diplomats will ensure that no bloodshed will be needed! Please comply and board the ship for the first contact." The flying object spoke its statement before the Vice Admiral sighed.
'We should not make any offense or anything that might end up in a bloody war, we do not need subjugation,' he thought to himself. "Fetch me a boat to get to the ship."
"Sir?"
"Did I stutter?"
"Y-Yes, sir!"
Principality of Qua-Toine, Governmental Meeting
In the midst of the First Contact
Ever since two weeks, the Principality of Qua-Toine, a Nation in the Continent of Rodenius was invaded by a strange black flying device of unknown origin. Prime Minister Kanata, the Prime Minister of the Principality had been very worried regarding the events that transpired that day. The reports said that the device had flew in impossible altitudes even for a Wyvern Lord, the device soon left after a few minutes of circling.
It was deemed too fast to even be observed as it left the dragons that were chasing after it. The craft from some witnesses were told to be pure black with no insignia, with a very otherworldly design that no one could guess where it was from.
The meeting had been postponed after calming the residences down, most were to make public speeches to ensure their safety. After those speeches, he had finally arrived to the Capital for the meeting. It was tiring, but a Prime Minister needs to do these tasks for the better of Qua-Toine.
The Prime Minister looked at the given report, it was highly unlikely to be a nation from around them. "Well then...what do you think about this report? How should we...interpret it?" The room went a bit silently than usual. Obviously acceptable with this foreign thing invading with speeds unknown to any of them.
A Representative of the Intelligence raised his hand as he soon took some papers. "According to our intelligence, Mu, the second largest country in the west and part of a major civilization, has been developing a flying device that resembles this unknown flying object. But the information of the device is only said to only reach 350km/hour whereas the object from the incident was...rumored to have breached 600km/hour. However..."
"...Go on."
"There are reports of an emerging power to the far west of Mu, outside the Major Civilizations' regions, subjugating neighboring countries and rampaging about. They've named themselves the Eighth Empire and have declared war on an alliance of countries belonging to the Second Civilization, upon the same continent. According to our Intelligence a few days ago, their weapons are completely unknown to us."
Some laughter came in from the occupants of the room, declaring war with a continent overseen by the Second Civilization, this emerging power had made enemies of 2 of the 5 great powers within the three major civilizations. The thought itself was far beyond their imaginations, their courage and their common sense.
"But, the Eighth Empire is far to the west of Mu, even considering the distance from Mu to us, that's more than twenty thousand kilometers. There is no possible way to travel that far even for a nation like Mu."
The meeting continued on with no real information being poured in, only speculations. The sudden tensions with the Rowlian Kingdom continues, forcing their nation to go to a constant semi-emergency state in force to prepare for a possible invasion.
This incident just added another headache and annoyance for the leadership, but if it were an ally, making contact would be sufficient, deliberately performing a hostile act like invading their space would mean an observation for a future invasion.
Then a young official from foreign affairs burst into the meeting, panting after his journey to come to the room. Normally, such actions would be unthinkable, but it was clear that something had happened to make him do such action.
"What's wrong?"
"Reporting in!" The official stated. The official soon gave his reports, which followed.
This morning, off the North Coast of Qua-Toine, a massive sea craft of over 330 meters in length had appeared. According to the navy, they met an envoy from a country calling itself "The Greater German Reich," who communicated and ensured that they had no hostile intentions. After thorough investigation, the following was recorded. These are the statements from the envoy.
- The Alliance known as the Greater Axis Pact had been suddenly transferred or summoned into this world.
- Each nation had sent a scout aircraft to scout, on this occasion, the patrol from the Nation 'Argentine Reich' or simply known as 'Argentina' had found this land mass.
- In the course of the patrol they had unknowingly and unlawfully entered your country and invaded our airspace, they offer their most profound apologies for the Nation in question.
- They proposed diplomatic talks with Qua-Toine.
- They have also requested our talks to be settled in their Capital, Germania in the Greater German Reich
Hearing the report and the...outrageous story, everyone in the meeting room appeared incredulous, but it was undeniable that yesterday there was an invader in the nation's airspace and they couldn't simply ignore the 330 meter long ship off the North Coast.
For an Alliance transferred or summoned into this world from their own, sounded something like a myth; nothing similar was possible, but the power held by this alliance had been confirmed and so, they had to meet the Alliance's envoy.
The Prime Minister and his fellow colleagues were flabbergasted at the ship that claimed to be of 330 meters. They were not expecting it to be true. The ship itself was gray in color, with blue and black stripes, a red paint covered the underside that was covered by the blue seawater.
The ship sported cannons of massive sizes on what seemed to be compartments, a massive building in the center with other cannon-housing compartments, the oddest thing was that it had no sail. "What...What kind of Alliance are we facing?" He asked with a manner of shock.
"S-Sir, the envoy has arrived." True to the fact, a man with black hair, brown eyes and fair skin, he wore a uniform of black.
"Greetings, I am the envoy of the Empire called the Greater Empire of Nippon or Japan if you will." The man stated with a smile. "Let us make a better relation for a better future."
That contact soon changed the life of Qua-Toine.
After that, the Principality of Qua-Toine was introduced to the German and Italian Envoys who arrived soon after. The whole Alliance was consisted of three major powers with integrated puppets, puppeted government and aligned nations.
The Germans had requested an absurd amount of food for the fact that their food storage had been depleted due to a natural disaster and it would seem to be a good start for a relationship. In return, instead of money they acquired infrastructures that were a step beyond cobblestone, a path they called asphalt, seemingly a pure black path that weren't pieced in piece by piece, but by a black liquid that soon hardened into a path.
The Italians had also requested some food for their colonies, they began exporting railroads to have some variety in infrastructure, while the Qua-Toine did ask for some more technologies, the Alliance had what they called a "New World Technology Export Restriction Act", an act to restrict the technology that was deemed unsuitable or were too important for them to just give away.
Some export of weapons were banned by them. Mostly because of the possible use against them. But rest assured that they would not be harmed if they did not provoke them.
Principality of Qua-Toine, a Day after the Envoy left
Yagou had been very much excited in the proposal to be sent as one of the diplomats to Germania, he had heard that the nations were of powerful navies with only 440 Ships-of-the-line as they were informed of, some of which are going to be retired and be replaced by a better and bigger ship or so he was told. "Hey Yagou! I heard you were going to one of the Major Nations of the newly rising Alliance! Man, I'm so jealous of you!" He remembered his colleagues literally shouting at him for being one lucky ass, the people were nice, although some were pompous assholes, he won't lie.
It was lucky for him, but the weight was massive as the dispatch of diplomatic missions to another nation, country or whatever it is, was commonly done, in this world, in which many countries exist, ruler replacement and rise along fall of nations were common occurrence for decently-sized nations, but for large ones, many separatist movements caused the country to fall into many small and medium sized nations.
In that sense, the stability of the countries were never stable or determinate.
There were many nations where the public order worsened when the national policy was restructured and there were places where the standard of living was worse than what Qua-Toine was used to. Many things went bad with deaths of people, the sanitation became absolutely shit, the work of a diplomat was always...always looked down upon by everyone because of this.
There were many major powers that could just call them Barbarians after the fact that they had lesser standards than them, but perhaps, the fact that these nations, this...Alliance that just emerged, might be easily the superpowers, perhaps, the idea was not too far off with what he had read.
330 meter long Flagship, a black bird that flew in an impossible altitude and impossible speeds, they were nothing that they have seen or heard before.
"Do not underestimate or be discourteous against these nations, we do not wish to make an enemy of them, they might be willing to help us in the time of need." The words of the Prime Minister echoed.
"...Unbelievable..." He muttered out after thinking back, the wyvern was an expensive weapon. Dragon Knights were elites amongst elites; the supreme ruler of the sky, who wouldn't dream to become one? It was like how Cavalry Knights were to Infantries, but the difference was that the Dragon Knight was superior to both of them, a single wyvern could easily destroy and wipe the land with the corpse of a whole battalion of Cavalry Knights.
Flying in the speed of 230km/hour with an altitude that couldn't be reached by a measly bow, making it a devastating opponent without any flying units, the wyvern was capable of magic and create a concentrated fireball that couldn't be mimicked by a human and has a power that surpassed any weapon that man has created, with scales of steel that were able to resist steel arrows and tough enough that antipersonnel blades couldn't pierce through or dent it deep enough to reach the bones.
The only thing superior to it was the next breed of Wyvern Lords which were from the Three Civilizations that were successfully bred and raised in a small amount.
But including the ones that humans can't control. There were creatures that can never be reached by wyverns like the older dragons, the elementals, the elders or the divines. To think that humans would be able to control them...
For even an object to rival them, furthermore with similar sizes, it would be impossible for even Mu from the Second Civilized Land.
Repeating that in his head, for a Dragon Knight to be outclassed in altitude and speed, that black bird would be far ahead of them, how could such a being exist?
Thinking about it, that was what made him interested, how could such nations exist? If Argentina was an aligned nation then what did the three majors had in store for them? 'Perhaps in this time, I might have my named chiseled in the history of the Principality of Qua-Toine."
But he was left off when the meeting was to be assembled. "Let the meeting begin! Participants assemble!" Within the small conference room, the Chief of Diplomatic Mission began his explanation.
There were five people for the diplomatic mission, everyone who was sent held a significant position as a foreign affairs official, aside from the General from the military, General Hanki who was temporarily transferred to the Foreign Affairs from the Military Affairs.
"Our primary objective this time is to judge whether this alliance is a threat to our country. As you gentlemen had already been briefed, Argentina's black bird had easily penetrated our country's air defense network. In this time, our nation does not have any means to counter said black bird. But they had told us that their intentions were to establish a diplomatic relation with our country, but they might conceal the fact that their alliance is a hegemony-seeking one or have an extreme discrimination against the demi-humans just like the Kingdom of Rowlia." The Chief cleared his throat for a bit.
"But for what reason would they want to establish a diplomatic relationship with our country? It is necessary that we investigate their interests and intentions."
The men soon nodded in agreement.
"How high is the Alliance's development degree is unknown, but we have known that Argentina has no doubt a high technological strength and perhaps a high military strength nation. I think all of you should understand that not only do you need to interact with them with firm attitude, but pay consideration in your wording and to not provoke the other side. But I would also want you to investigate the strength and weakness of this Alliance and search for a field where we are more advantageous than them."
A member soon raised his hand as he cleared his throat. "I do not believe that finding a field of advantage would do us much good with the fact that their black bird could already penetrate our defenses without much effort."
"..." The Chief sighed. "Then we should at least make it very costly for them. I would not deny that our chances of survival is rated below than just a percentage..." The men soon whispered amongst themselves. "But we are not here for a conquest, but for a diplomatic relationship and to find their true intentions. Moving forth, I want everyone to take a look at the distribute guideline the alliance had given us."
The members soon looked down before their expressions were turned into one of confused and dumb-founded.
"...The entire alliance was transferred via a disaster?"
As everyone took notice with some confusion and whispers, the chief began to explain. "According to them, one day the whole alliance was suddenly transferred, they had no ways of communication until the first week when communication was re-established. Do note that the claim is not ascertained yet by the nations of the Alliance, and bear in mind to refrain from any doubting manner to not provoke the other side."
Everyone nodded as some of the historian enthusiasts, which included Yagou had something in his mind. 'An alliance to get transferred, it is the same as Mu's myth, although they were alone...'
A myth of the Major Nation of the Second Civilized Land, Mu, was similar to what was being done in this time. 12,000 years ago, a huge transfer of the continent was made through a disaster, although it was unclear. Since the official government record from that time still remained, the people of Mu had believed in it, while other nations treated it as just a fairytale of sorts or just blatant lies.
"As stated, the Empire of Greater Germany will provide the security, while Argentina as an apology had sent their transport, the arrival time will be at noon one week from now, so please finish your preparation properly. After the arrival, you will arrive in one of the ports available to receive as of now, they had been damaged for quite some time. And speculating the damage, they would have to use one military port to compensate other ports. But bear in mind that the two Majors, the Japanese and Italians also gave us immunity meaning you cannot be harmed by the Germans, but if you harm them, you would be seen as the perpetrator."
"So basically, they may not harm us and vice versa. And the consequences?"
"Diplomatic issues of apologies, the death of the perpetrators." The men were quite scared by those consequences were they to do any harm. "For both sides as consequences. The voyage will be around two weeks, you will then stay for two nights in one of the port cities. During that, you will be taught about German etiquette, a small history lesson and an addition to common knowledge, I was told that all of you should not walk around as you please and please use the path of grey and not the path of black, in the possibility of being 'run-over' by a transport vehicle one may call an 'automobile'. After the two days, you will depart to the capital, Germania, using a transport system they called a 'Railway', at the evening you will arrive and in the next two days a meeting conference with the people of the German, Japanese and Italian Government, some were wanting to participate, but to some unrest, they are incapable of doing such."
"...What?" The men soon whispered in confusion. It was strange. Too strange.
The distance between Argentina and Qua-Toine had been recorded more than 13,000 km. This was not a distance that could be covered in less than two weeks and the distance from one of the port cities to Germania was more than...300 till 500 km! They were saying they could close the distance in just a measly two hours or less by land!?
It would be understandable if it was the black bird that appeared before their country, but there was an explanation that this 'Railway' was a land vehicle. Perhaps that it was a vehicle that consumes considerable amount of mana?
'...I don't think we can ever apply our common sense to this country.' The questions that appeared soon after another were then abandoned, there was too much to ask and little to no answer!
The conference soon ended.
The diplomats were making their way to the docks of the coastal military port of Qua-Toine, Port Maihark, to board the Argentine Cruise Liner as they were informed of. The Germans had sent a 1989-Class Destroyer or better known as the Kriegshund-Klasse Destroyer. The Argentine Cruise Liner, the Seaborne, was a massive ship for a cruise liner, it was said that it was built for the celebration of their Greater Empire, or so they called it, the Cruise itself was more than thirty years old, but was modernized to keep up with the present Cruises.
They were soon greeted by a man with a black uniform and a red tie. "Greetings, I am Diplomat Aleksander Fischer von Kiev, it is my pleasure to receive the mission delegation to the Greater German Reich, if there is anything that is inconvenience please inform me or the staff without any reservation." The man smiled as he soon led the diplomats towards the port.
The surprising thing was that the diplomat didn't seem to be bothered, but that was mostly because the contact he had to make with other delegations from the Alliance.
"A boat trip..." General Hanki spoke slowly and sighed. "Why a boat trip...?" He lamented.
"General, are you alright?"
"Sir Yagou, please refrain from calling me General, I've been transferred to the Foreign Affairs Ministry for this diplomatic mission." The General sighed.
"...I understand, but is there something in your mind?"
"No no, it's just...I never liked being a boat after the trips I've been in, we don't know when it will capsize, the dark and gloomy lighting inside the ship, the damp and smell, once there had been so many sick people in one of my journeys, it just sickens me, and for the food to be all salty...there is never a good way to secure enough water when you get thirsty."
The face of the General was soon understood when Yagou thought about his own boat trips, albeit much shorter than the General's when he read about it. "Yes, the thought does give me some bit of...distress to be honest..."
"Well, like it or not, the travel will be a long one with more than a week to just reach their port, if I endure it, the travel won't last that long, but...it would be, considering the time, but I've been expecting it to be longer even with their technology. There is no way that we can sail there in just more than a week with that distance."
"I have to agree, our timetable is a bit...too compact to be honest. But if a nation could launch that black bird, then their speed is beyond our common sense." Yagou spoke.
Upon reaching the port, the diplomats could barely close their mouth shut, the cruiser of Argentina, the Seaborne was a massive white cruise liner with the size of an island, upon the body of white was a calligraphy colored in blue, reading Seaborne, next to it was a grey ship with twin cannons in the front compartment, the length of the ship itself was 155 meters, while shorter, it was not a Flagship, it was merely a Screen Ship. But to be 155 meters for a mere screen was highly remarkable.
"I-It's huge!" Yagou couldn't help, but stuttered. All the colors draining out of his face.
Hanki couldn't comprehend the island known as a ship. "T-There's no sails on it."
The ship was currently off-shore as the Diplomat Aleksander clapped his hands. "As you all know, the ship will be departing towards the German Fatherland, we will be boarding it, however due to the lack of space for an aerial lift, we are forced to be transported via boats. Apologies for the inconvenience." The boats that were laid by the grey ship soon moved towards the port, without sails.
The boats themselves were speeding in unimaginable speeds. The General couldn't help, but ask. "Sir Aleksander, that...those ships, there are no sail can be seen. How does it move? Where did those small ships come from? I-It doesn't have any oar, but how could they travel at that speed? C-Could it be that...they are something like the magic ship from the First Civilization!?"
Aleksander blinked at the questions, perhaps, they were very primitive, given the era they were coming from, the man simply chuckled. "I am unsure of what ship the magic ship you are speaking of, but our ships are moved by diesel engines."
"Disel...enjin?" The Diplomats were quickly intrigued by the words.
"Yes, diesel engines, they power most of our vehicles."
"How...does it work?"
While his orders weren't restricted to share what he knew of, Aleksander knew he was to not do anything of spoiling the beans, the chances of them reverse engineering and having some insights of their technology would cause some distress for the Higher ups. "I apologize but I am not able to tell you from explaining, but I think my higher-ups would be able to answer your question...albeit a bit restrictively..." Aleksander bit his lips.
Hanki merely sighed, getting such insight was something he wishes to know, their fleets would be legendary or almost mythical if they didn't need any wind for movement. But...why would they tell them anything?
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Yagou's POV
The Cruise was somewhat late as the ship soon arrived in two weeks with the help of the Super Carrier's help to refuel the German Destroyer Escort, the Envoy Escort Fleet was allowed to escort them as the ship of Japan and Italy soon parted ways to return to their nations when they reached Gibraltar.
The Germans had some more of their navy ships to escort them as they soon reached the Port of Wilhelmshaven. "Right then, everyone! Hamburg has just came into view! You can see the Deutsches Reich's Statue of Karl Donitz, the second Chancellor of the German Reich." We could see a statue of stone, chiseled to the form of a man saluting, having a cap on his head.
"Amazing,"
"For a bit of insight, he was one of the most decorate Navy Admiral, the Reich had, he soon retired and led the Germanic People to a prosperous age before he passed." Aleksander smiled at us, while explaining. "The statue was made in honor of him, then we can see the Wilhelmshaven Beach Hotel where we will be staying for two nights."
The Beach Hotel was a sight to see, its unparalleled height and its somewhat unusual design made us at it with awe. Surely, the Germans had some sort of liking to unusual designs. "We will be arriving in the Port in a few more minutes. Although it seems our Escort needs to be elsewhere." The Escort had soon left our ship alone as we soon docked into one of the recently repaired docks, but what surprised us was how they were currently repairing a dock.
"H-How incredible!" Workers were working on one of the docks on what seemed to be metal frames. They didn't wobble as men moved, the men themselves weren't looking a bit worried. Proficiently, these men would be great soldiers in Qua-Toine. "What are those...frames?"
"Ah, scaffoldings, basically metal...pipes put together without any sort of sticky substance, making for a quick assemble and disassemble."
"But won't they fall?"
"Ah, such tragedies did happen, but many of them are used to it, we have been applying fall cushions to soften their fall, although integration of such objects are a bit expensive with the order being very high. But the Reich had also funded and paid for most of them." So they care very dearly for their own people's life. A very interesting premise for a powerful nation.
"Err, how many wars had the Reich participate in?" A member questioned, probably out of curiosity, but it did intrigue me on the answer.
"Ah, wars, a touchy subject for many veterans. Yes, err, I'll just briefly explain that part." Sir Aleksander began to explain about the Great War, a War between their former Empire, the Second Reich, Austria-Hungary Empire and the Ottoman Empire against what seemed to be impossible odds, against a Tsarist Russia, Republic of France, Great Britain or United Kingdom alongside her subjects and the United States of America. Others participated, but they were the majors of such war.
They surprisingly lost and had been stripped off so much land, the Third Reich, soon led by a man of Great Ambitions, but some rotten morals had taken the position of leader, bringing back the country to his feet once again with reclaiming of German Lands, these lands were annexed by the Germans, aligning Kingdoms, Hungary and Romania, then subjugating the Benelux as they called it, the Republic of France fell within a month. But the first victim was actually a nation called Poland, which had been made a puppet for the remainder of the war, the next was Britain, a costly naval invasion, but despite the odds, the war was won in a swift motion, while not as big, they had done what the Second Reich had done just like that with a span of a year.
A tremendous achievement with less time spent and less manpower lost, the war had ended with the next target Russia at hand, they had ceded lands to the Soviet Union, a massive superpower, but with an Officer's Purge going on, they took advantage and went to war earlier to use the max extent of the Purge, they purged their way through the Russians and by less than two years with the help of his allies capitulated the Communists or Reds as they call them.
The Alliance soon extended to the whole world, but by far, the Germans had fought on nine wars, including conflicts, the Spanish Civil War with Legion Condor, Japanese-Sino War with Legion Drachen, the German-British aka Second World War, the German-Russian aka the Great Eurasia War, the American Campaign and the German volunteers to Argentina and Venezuela, the Volunteers, Legion Fox and Lynx.
The ninth was their own Civil War, one we did not expect with the sudden murder of the leader and the imprisonment of the Unit they call the 'SS', an Independent Army present for the Political Party, the NSDAP, that would soon clash with the Wehrmacht, the official Army and the Legionnaires, the Waffen-SS. That was already nine major wars and conflicts that they had attended at the first twenty years of their birth.
That was not even counting the minor conflicts that were in their colonies.
A massive rise for a nation like themselves to be nearly instantly thrown into conflicts and came out victorious.
After we arrived, we could see much closer that the German Docks were brimming with similar ships to the Seaborne, white vessels and those which are grey and massive black. The white being Luxurious Cruisers, the grey being mostly fishing boats and the black being Oil Tankers, oil was apparently something that is worth researching about. "Here is the Docks of Wilhelmshaven," we soon got off the cruiser via a bridge that aligned itself with the exit, apparently something of the sort was a common thing.
"Alright, we have arrived by the terminal." The Terminal as Sir Aleksander had spoken about was a massive building, glass decorating the wall, in fact there wasn't a wall of bricks, they were purely frames of metal with glass filling the gaps.
"Astounding, we would be charging a fortune to even have such a building." A member of the team spoke, I can't help, but agree, this is something that the Qua-Toines can't afford in a regular basis.
"How can you afford such a luxury?"
"Ah, we have been industrializing ourselves very heavily, so we have many quirks in building." The guide smiled brightly. "Anyways, welcome to Wilhelmshaven, we will leave by a military escort, we will be escorted to the hotel first, rest for a few hours then we will go to the first place of interest, the museum, but since you aren't interested in mostly history as in thousands of year old relic, we believed that we will go to the more...exciting museum. Now, let's move onwards."
A more exciting museum? Perhaps, this journey would be far more fascinating.
The trip was not even an hour when arrived by the hotel, true to his words, there were six soldiers of similar uniform, colored in green, tan and blue walking alongside us, as escorts. The Hotel had apparently been built since 1981 according to calendar, that was about 19 years ago. It was a young building, but was exquisite in its design. With a frame of concrete and glass on the gaps, we could easily see that each glass represents a room and the room we were given was the Penthouse, the most expensive room of all. "This is the Top Level on Floor 88. The Penthouse." The room was incredibly spacious, decorated with a lot of alloys, it was easily the most lavish room I've been in, compared to the one I've been in the Cruise, the 'Air Conditioner' was a work of wonder to keep a room cold or fairly warm if one wishes for it.
There was also a balcony that looked over the whole city of Wilhelmshaven, we could easily see that there were numerous amounts of flying machines that roared above us. Deafening roars filled the skies as the members gaped. "Ah yes, the nations had been in unrest, feeling very unsafe with the current events." A pair of Iron Wyverns flew above the city we laid our eyes on.
Another pair of different Iron Wyverns escorted a massive Iron Dragon, accompanied by two others of different origins. We could be simply amazed as none of us had never seen such machines in our lives. "Just how many iron wyverns does your nation have?" The German lifted an eyebrow.
"...Ah, you mean our aircrafts, that information is sadly classified." The man nodded his head, it was unfortunate that we couldn't get any numbers on how much they had. "But please, do make yourself feel at home, I will wait for you all in the lobby when you are all finished with your business." The German Ambassador soon left as the men could only gape at the view of the city of Wilhelmshaven.
We all had a similar thought. 'What nation have we stumbled upon?'
The trip to the Deutsch-Weltkrieg Museum in Wilhelmshaven was far from boring with the automobiles called cars, the one we were riding was apparently called a limousine and was usually reserved for wealthy people. We arrived upon the museum to find two massive machines that they would've called Iron Land Dragons, we stand corrected, apparently they were vehicles of war, that they like to call Panzers.
"The two that are present are the fruits of the German Engineering and Labor, the King Tiger and the Smilodon, the heaviest tank present in the Second Weltkrieg," Aleksander explained to us, I and the other diplomats couldn't hold our curiosity in and marveled at these...beasts. "These were made around sixty years ago."
"S-Sixty years ago? A-Amazing." I couldn't keep my mouth shut as I and the other members continued to gape at the sight.
"How many of these did you have?"
"Historically, including prototypes, we built...around two thousand of the King Tigers and around eight hundred Smilodon," Two thousand.
That was no ordinary number. They were massive in size, to even produce two thousand of these beasts. "How did you build such a wonder?"
"Well, German Technological Engineering is more advanced than the other nations, we are by far the most technologically superior." To even build such weapons was a wonder, then if it is true then they have to be allied or are the 'Emissaries of the Sun'. Such was the legend of legends. "Moving on, we have many things to learn about and at the end will be a Military Parade, as well as a speech from the Chancellor."
If there was one thing I feared most in my life, I will need to discard it, Germany, no, the Greater Deutsche Reich had crushed that fear into nothing. Nothing! They had shown their own prowess, any doubts of them defeating nations far greater than theirs, Soviet Union, France and Britain had all washed my doubts away. They were all real. The UK had confirmed this. Or what was left of it, it had been torn into four States, Britannien or England herself, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. All of them had been once the United Kingdom or was mostly, since Ireland wasn't part of the Kingdom.
They had sixty years to progress their Army, Navy and Air Force, sixty years of progress caused them to grow into a Super Power, alongside Italy and Japan. Japan had been one of the more...
Stranger ones, they had the Emissary of the Sun's flag on each of their aircrafts. All of them similar to the legends. They all had the same weapons, or similar to each of themselves. The Axis had been dictated by Three Super Powers, these were the three, Germany, Italy and Japan.
We are but ants to them. Pray to God that we do not go to war, since as I expected that it will never last a year or a month of combat. The only thing that surprised me was that they did not possess magic. Is that a blessing?
Or is that the sign that they without magic can and will progress even further than those with magic? Peace must be maintained, otherwise we are all doomed to annihilation.
End of 'Diary of my German Journey'
1st September 2000
The exact date the war against Poland was declared, the beginning of the Blitzkrieg Era. The Blitzkrieg had ended in a decisive victory for the Axis. The members of the Delegation had just been invited to a Blitzkrieg Anniversary March. The 61st Anniversary after the Declaration of War. Yagou and Hanki had been curious in the military that were going to participate in this Parade.
"Good morning everyone!" The booming voice of the commentator boomed as the people cheered loudly. "A great morning to see everyone here today for the Blitzkrieg Parade! As we all know that while we are all in...a tight situation! The Show must go on! That is what the soldiers in the Zweite Weltkrieg did! And that shall happen today as well!" The people cheered as Hanki can note how beloved the military is.
"For the Opening, the newly chosen Chancellor, Chancellor Victoria Friedrich von Prussia has an important announcement to make!" The man quickly allowed the female Chancellor, who was by now at the age of twenty six, the youngest of all Chancellors and a female nonetheless, having been from the lineage of the late War Hero, Adalard Reichs von Rhineland.
"Good morning everyone, I...thank all of you for your kindness and willingness to...watch the Parade! I thank all of you for your participation in the Anniversary where many men gave their lives so willingly in the midst of chaos." The people clapped as Victoria smiled, when the clapping ended, she continued. "I am pleased to announce that while we are...in a different world, we are accompanied by our allies, our beloved and trusted allies in the Alliance of the Axis Pact. I cannot show more gratitude for all of your participation except that I can assure that we, the leaders will try our very best to protect the citizens of this Pact. No Nations of unknown will force us into submission, I can assure that the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, the Russians, the Americans, every single allies will watch each other's back, not into more pointless wars that the First Fuhrer had started. Thank you all!" The lady bowed as the people cheered and clapped for their leader.
"A touching speech, milady, nonetheless! We will start by the German Army, the Wehrmacht!" A tune played as by the first column stood the son of Heinz Guderian, Wilhelm Guderian, a man similar to his own grandfather, standing in the cupola of his Standardpanzer X, the Schwarz Panther. He made a Christian gesture before ordering his whole tank platoon to move forward.
"Forwards!" The tanks began their parade with the song of Panzerlied coming alive. The Orchestra that was placed by the Parade lane began to play their instruments with the choir following the song.
"In the first is the Panzer Platoon led by Wilhelm Guderian, the decorated General after his late Grandfather, Heinz Guderian, the Founder of Blitzkrieg! A round of applause please!" The people cheered as the Commanders gave their salute, the other crew members smiling to the crowd. "What they are on is the Standardpanzer X, the tenth Generation Standard Main Battle Tank of the Wehrmacht, armed with a 128mm KwK Kanone L/44."
Hanki and Yagou were quite...flabbergasted and surprised at how different they were compared to the King Tiger and Smilodon. Having a lower hull as they were called and a much bigger compartment. "Sir Aleksander, this is how much the Panzers had progressed?"
"For now, yes, they are our current panzers, we've developed them in 1996. But there is no telling where we will stop however." Aleksander smiled.
"And please welcome the Deutsch-Grenadiers!" The Deutsch-Grenadiers were men with green uniform, the modernization of Stahlhelms, the men carried with them SturmGewehr 98, a few carried an MG78 by their shoulders, all of them were grinning and smiling to the crowd, the front guards carried the flag of the German Wehrmacht, a flag of white with a black stripe going vertical and horizontal, the left top was given the Black, Red and Yellow flag with a Cross on it, a circle in the meeting of the stripes was given a black eagle on it. The Leader saluted to the citizens as they continued their march. "The Brave men had done their deeds from many years, they continue to impress us by their tenacity and ferocity in combat, coming in the next is their Armored Counterpart, the Panzergrenadiers!"
By the back were Armored Personnel Carriers, the Leader saluting from his leading vehicle, Grenadiers walking by the APCs as they marched together. "Having seen a lot of fronts, they are one of the more seasoned veterans of the Wehrmacht."
The diplomats can only gape as more men began to march. "Next are from Novus Imperium Italiano! The Italian Army! The Regio Esercito! The Alpini Mountaineers!" Next were men in tan and green uniform, having helmets, goggles on top of them, ARX-200s on their hands, compared to their low quality weapons back in the old days, the Italians had begun massive funding on their military equipment nearly immediately after the Zweite Welt Krieg. "They are men of great origins, great ambitions and they are one of the best Infantries of the Axis Pact." A flag of green, white and red colored vertically, with a blue shield, colored red in the inside with a cross of white, behind was an eagle wearing a crown on its head, the men continued their march, lips in the form of a grin.
Next were the Japanese soldiers. "Next are the Yokohama Rikusentai or otherwise known as the Marine Infantry of the Imperial Japanese Navy!" The soldiers with green, brown and yellow uniform, Type 78 Assault Rifles in hand, they marched with grins. "Men of elite status in experience, seasoned and veterans of the Naval Infantry." The flag they held was a white flag with a red circle with sixteen rays coming out of it. That alone had flabbergasted the diplomats.
"T-That's the same as the flag of the Sun's Emissaries."
"Then if it's true..."
"Then Sun's Emissaries came from Japan?"
"Oh God, no, we do not need a war against the Sun's Emissaries." The diplomats were whispering amongst themselves.
"And above the skies are the Deutsch Luftwaffe!" Three aircrafts, an Me365 Adler, an Me367 Falke and an Me368 Horneisse flew above the skies with black, red and yellow smoke coming out of their rear respectively. "The Adler, the Falke and Horneisse are the most common of aircrafts used and is some of the best the Axis Pact has to offer!" The three aircrafts soon split and created a dynamic airshow before leaving the area.
The Parade continued on and the diplomats were far more convinced that they were far weaker than they thought before.
As the diplomats came back to their temporary residence, they were discussing about the Parade. "I...do not have words to express how shocked and...surprised I am." Some of them nodded as Yagou spoke up.
"The Japanese and the Sun's Emissaries..."
"They are of the same origin, it is truly a wonder of what is to come if we declared war on them." A diplomat laughed pitifully. "We must not let our egos cloud our logics, the Axis Pact is possibly the most dangerous of all Alliances to anger."
"They didn't even mention how many nations were even in the Alliance."
"No matter how little, each one can cost us a lot of casualties despite not being German, Japanese or Italian as they are simply aligned and are allied for a while." Roughly half a century of an alliance was considered short by many, but in the Axis is considered pretty long, because of how many nations came and fell. "We must not make an enemy of these people."
"Agreed." The diplomats nodded before their door bell rang. Hanki quickly got up from his bed and opened the door.
"Yes?"
"Ah, sorry to be a bother, sir, but Herr Aleksander had invited all of you to a dinner service in the lobby," the woman, a waitress with white and black uniform informed.
"Oh, err, I see, thank you for delivering the invitation."
"No problem, herr, have a nice evening." The woman soon left as the General closed the door.
"Who was it, Hanki?" A diplomat asked.
"A waitress, she says that Sir Aleksander had awaited us for a dinner service."
"Ah, should we go there now?" Yagou clapped his hands. "It will be rude if we do not arrive in time."
"Alright then, everyone! Please get ready!"
Aleksander had simply waited by the lobby as the hotel was surely defended by German Official SS or Schutz-Staffel, a term used for the German NSDAP Paramilitary force, which soon was integrated as a National Paramilitary Force against Terrorism and as an escort. The Divisions inherited were downsized by a massive margin with some Divisions transferred to the Reich-SS. 1st SS Division 'Leibstandarte Victoria', formerly known as 'Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler' was one of the more renown Divisions of Elite Paramilitary of Nationalists and Ultra-Nationalists.
An interesting point was the Leibstandarte Victoria had despised some of the aspects of this world including the foreign nations that called them barbarians. The SS are numbered around twenty Divisions or rather called Brigades. Each having their stations in foreign nations' German Embassies, they were all armed with basically military-grade weapons with some inheriting the Sdkfz 251 Half-Tracks which were modernized into Sdkfz 251-Drei Half-Tracks, possessing thicker armor, better engine and a 20mm Autocannon in place of the Heavy Machine Guns that were the MG34 and MG40.
The Qua-Toine didn't even know that the SS even existed, so that might be useful for a future endeavor. Aleksander soon saw the diplomats arriving by the lobby. "Ah, so you came!" The German-Ukrainian man smiled at the diplomats. "I think that all of you are already starving, so I had a buffet ordered by five, please follow me to our designated spot."
"Ah thank you, sir Aleksander."
"It is of no problem, you're the nation's Guest of Honor, we are delighted to have such people, since we lack them for so long!" Aleksander continued his smile.
"Your people are truly generous."
"Well, it is of our moral codes, after all, we treat everyone like a family." Aleksander spoke with a bit of joy. "We don't do mistreatment, we've long gone pass the line of racism with a few repercussions for our nation." One thing that many Germans hate was racism, while the ethnicity of the Germany now would've angered the German Fuhrer in World War Two, the Germans outnumber the non-Germans by a landslide, although racism was...quite rare.
Their ideals of a better Germany had quickly taken toll to tolerating others, inter-ethnic marriages and inter-religious marriages were not of the common sort, the one thing they hate is basically...well, the so-called 'Non-Functional', not the autistic or disabled mentally people, but the ones that feel entitled to themselves. The fact that German people, whether German, Half-German and even Non-German hated people who are basically 'Entitled', the Government themselves had received multiple complaints about the 'Offensive' War Memorials.
Easy to say, they were quickly sent to somewhere else effectively and when everyone, and that meant every NATION didn't want them, they were quickly sent to some remote Island without any care whatsoever, many would call this negligence or ignorance, but many schools had been teaching 'non-entitlement' as an actual subject to rehabilitate some 'entitled' people and even sending them to the military for disciplinary actions. The exiling of entitled people obviously was the last thing the nations could've done.
The diplomats soon arrived in a lavish room with a large round table of glass. "Sir, this table is..."
"Made of glass! I never expected someone to do something this...well, pardon me, insane."
"Ah yes, the concept had been going on for some time, but our people enjoy having glass tables due to...well, preferences." Aleksander himself didn't know why the people loved this sort of thing when you could have wooden or even stone tables, maybe for modern-looks or such?
"The love of glass feels really real." A diplomat commented.
"You have no idea." Aleksander can only smile with a twitch of his lips. "Sometimes I call myself a bit crazy when seeing buildings made of glass, the usage of glass is highly extensive even for my liking."
"Ah! A man of culture I see!" Another laughed, the diplomats soon sat down as they were given napkins to provide cover from the food were they to fall or for if something were to happen.
The buffet was extraordinarily cooked, the first course was a massive turkey, a bowl of fish soup, chicken schnitzels, schweinshaxe, some chowder and other such food. For the German diplomat, it was delightful to taste them again after a long time he had been here, for the Qua-Toines, they were absolutely out of this world literally, they were in a nation that came from another world obviously. "Extraordinary, this is some amazing food."
"We still have deserts, so please don't fill your stomachs too much." Aleksander chuckled. The next that came were basically cinnamon rolls and some pastry with apparently ice cream and some milkshakes. Apparently America had some delicacies that the Germans can't resist.
Two days came and went, the diplomats were going to Germania, the Capital of the GDR, formerly known as Berlin, the ride would be by Bullet Trains, a fast transport that is able to carry many people at once. There had been locomotives, but they were now used for mostly transporting items of heavy weights. "Right, we will arrive in Germania in about...two hours, but thankfully, we are in a Bullet Train meaning that this would take faster than usual." Locomotives were soon turned into a luxurious ride, having many facilities installed as their longer run would make some beautiful moments in one ride.
Similar to that of a Cruise, but on land. "Excuse me, sir Aleksander." Hanki came in. "But the schedule said we are going to arrive in 1040, is every ride going to be counted to the minute?"
"Yes, we have been rather accurate with our judgement of arrival, although sometimes we would miscalculate by a few minutes." It was very much impossible to apply Conventions of Qua-Toine to the GDR, everything was far more superior than what Qua-Toine has.
The team of diplomats were crossing the street until the sound of screeching tires could be heard. "Look out!" The sound of a person scream quickly took the people's attention to see a man grabbing a woman out of the way of the car that went quite out of control. The woman while suffering no injuries was in shock while the man was currently hissing in pain with a part of his leg being scratched open, apparently having saved the woman, he had also suffered some major injuries.
"Call an ambulance!"
"We have to help him!" Yagou yelled as Aleksander held the man's hand.
"An ambulance is already coming! They will take care of it, herr Yagou!"
"But still!" Yagou shook the diplomat's hand away before rushing to the scene. The man was slowly weakening with the blood from the wound continuing to profusely bleed extensively. "This is horrible." He then extended his hands over the wound before he began chanting a healing spell.
"Ah magic, a work of wonder." Aleksander paused from his attempt to rush towards Yagou, having been mesmerized by the work of magic. The wound of the man began to close as people began to record the event unfolding.
"O-Oh mein Gott, my leg..." The man moved his leg. "Thank you so much." He thanked Yagou as the people began to cheer and praise the Qua-Toine diplomat.
"It was...only magic." Yagou whispered to himself.
"My word. I've heard about magic existing, but even then I've never seen one directly in front of my eyes." Aleksander mused as Yagou was currently being discussed over in the internet. The team was already in the bullet train to Germania as they spoke.
"Is it truly that amazing? Compared to what this country has to offer, my magic simply seems dwarfed."
"Believe me, herr Yagou, no one in this Alliance has ever utilized magic, we all thought it was a fairy tale until today." Aleksander smiled.
"You...don't have magic? Then how did all of these things work?"
"Everything we made, everything we had our hands on are simply nature or scientific progress as I said we have never utilized magic our entire lives, magic was a component for stories of old, but never proven to be true. Fascinating, perhaps, we can have some exchanges than I previously thought."
"So all of this is...the work of science?"
"Yes, all of it, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computing, everything related to technology, we have few things to even discuss about magic, the only thing we know about magic is that it either exists or not with the theories going to it being non-existent with lack of proof and that magic that is performed are often tricks that can be done by equipment." Aleksander explained.
"I...see." The diplomats were already talked about the nature of Technology and that in the Cruise they were mostly taught about the basics of how things work and basically a Question and Answer Program.
"Ah, you made it real big to the community. 'Foreign Diplomat uses magic to heal injured hero', you're being praised by the people of the alliance, if there was something that went viral very quickly, it's this I believe." The German spoke with a grin.
"A-Ah, but it's only magic."
"Something that we have no knowledge and no belief of until now it seems. Huh, funny and I used to think all fairy tales are made up, but apparently there are bits of truth behind those wording." He chuckled.
"Well..."
"But, I think this would bring us to some better terms with the people having believed that Qua-Toines are generally good people."
"Ah, that's nice of them."
"People are generally akin to First Impressions, you did a great mark on that one. Going out of your way to help him even if you could've easily ignored it." Aleksander quipped. The ride soon continued with the Diplomats talking about the nature of science and how some more things came to being and how their technology works albeit the answers were limited due to the Act.
"This Train Ride is very smooth, sir Aleksander," Hanki remarked as Aleksander chuckled.
"Yes, the Japanese and Americans had been developing this for well over a decade, it was proven that Bullet Trains are one of the most safest vehicles in the world, despite their speed record."
"Ah, now that makes me worried about having an accident to be honest." The German laughed.
"You're correct, at first I was also questioning on when this thing goes south, yes, you reminded me of myself there, herr Hanki."
'Diary of my German Journey'
Yagou's POV
The Bullet Train ride as said was fairly accurate, the cities of Germania were completely different from the Port City of Wilhelmshaven, they had completely taller buildings, some reaching the height of 350 meters named the Reich-Tower, apparently being inspired by the Tower of Eiffel in a puppet nation called France. The nation was very beautiful from what sir Aleksander described even to showing me some 'photos' being pictures of high quality taken by a device called a 'camera' although his 'phone' also had one, although lower in quality.
But while impressive at height, one of our mountains, Eyjey dwarfed it with its 539 meter height. Astonishingly however, they had a mountain going upto 2962 meters above sea level! It is astounding that such a mountain exists! I had to admit, I would love to work in a country where people are respectful to each other most of the times, since Qua-Toine isn't known to be much of a country of respectful citizens, although they are somewhat friendly to demi-humans.
Demi-humans in the Axis Alliance isn't even a thing, quite weird, but they did show some fascination when we told them about Demi-humans in Qua-Toine, even saying that it would be nice to have Demi-Humans living in their country, although they have to get some more living space or as they say 'Lebensraum' for them to live in, the Alliance has many things to offer. The other reason I would've worked here is because of the technological superiority it had, they are even willing to give me a citizenship if I lived and serve three years in the Volksheer or People's Army or as most Kingdoms call it, 'Militia', apparently we just needed to know the basics of defending the country since it is a rule to be followed.
I must do my best to advance Qua-Toines and the Axis Pact's relationship even further, I'm lucky to even be here, it's a fortunate thing that I am even born when I thought I would become a nobody in the Diplomats Team of Qua-Toine. Apparently that had been proven wrong with me being suddenly famous for an act that was called selfless and possibly becoming a figure of history.
End of 'Diary of my German Journey'
Reichstag Building
Qua-Toine and Axis Conference
The next day was a day of the Conference, nearly immediately. Yagou, Hanki and the other diplomats had came into contact with diplomats of Germany, Italy and Japan as well as some others that observed. "Good morning to all of you, gentlemen, my name is Heinz Dresden von Keitel, the Minister of Agriculture of the Axis Pact, please forgive my straight-forwardness, but we are desperately in need of food, some of the nations in our Alliance had crops fail and are facing against famine, we need as much food as you are willing to export."
"This is..." Basically the report had immensely requested for nearly four hundred million tons of food per year, although with the next harvest being able to produce some crops, the world wasn't ending...just yet, but they were in need of food stock. "I...Your Alliance needs four hundred million tons?!"
"Yes, I heard that your country produces an extraordinary amount of food per year and while this might be really hard, while the amount itself would exceed perhaps a sufficiency rate of 100%, we are naturally doubting that you can provide that amount of food, so we wish to first learn how much food you can export to us for now."
Yagou looking at the list of food, had his eyes reading the list as fast as possible. "Well, seafood items are definitely something we are having some difficulty to do, but with things like these 'coffee beans' and 'tea leaves', I believe our country can at least provide half of what you need, but..."
"Yes?"
"I do not believe we have the means to transport such amount of food to your Alliance, considering that a trip to Argentina, the closest neighbor from your faction to us would take some time. I don't think we have any thing that are able to transport or reach other parts of the Alliance, it would be simply impossible. Not to mention that we lack the infrastructure to even transport that much food from the farm to the port. I am sorry for being very...upsetting, but I do not believe that we can provide what you need without necessary infrastructure and ships." The Minister looked a bit...relaxed?
"Per say, if all of those problems are non-existent, would you send the requested amount of food?"
"We'll need to confirm with our government first, sir, but it would be possible to do so speaking theoretically." The Axis' side began to work on some things on their side with a few about to explode before calming down. A woman came about, having young complexions for even a Minister.
"I'll introduce myself first, my name is Willow Strife, I'm with the Foreign Affairs of the Axis Pact, the Axis is willing to help develop the infrastructure of Qua-Toine from Port Cities to the Granary Regions alongside the Construction of a Railway system, we can also discuss about the funds about maintaining it as well as some products to export, although limited."
The Qua-Toines now began to chatter excitedly, food and water were some of the things they had excessive amounts of and nearly no value to them, this might be a huge step into a golden age for their country. The Axis had agreed to help build a Railway System even if it wasn't the Bullet Train System, but such system is far more expensive, a Railway would prove more usefulness than the Bullet Train System and with their help, would build more infrastructures to support such exports. This might've been one of the best conferences in Qua-Toine history or by far the best there will be.
A few weeks after confirmation
The cooperation agreement of the Principality of Qua-Toine and the Axis Pact consists of the following terms:
- Qua-Toine shall export half the firstly proposed food to the Axis.
- Axis Nations such as Argentina and Sudamerika shall expand the Port of Myhak and develop Infrastructure between Myhak and the Granary Region. All shall be funded by Germany, Italy and Japan.
- Axis and Qua-Toine will need to continue relations in order to establish diplomatic ties.
- The currency exchange rate shall be established with urgency and as soon as possible with the urgent being Reichsmark(Germany), Lira(Italian) and Yen(Japanese).
- In exchange for receiving food of the required and expected amount in bulk from Qua-Toine, the Axis will maintain the infrastructure of water, electricity and gas in Qua-Toine for two Years.
- After that period, food will be purchased using the established exchange rate.
- This Cooperation Agreement is at once a Non-Aggression Pact between the two sides.
The Qua-Toines had obtained an extremely favorable trade conditions while establishing a harmonious relationship with the Axis Pact.
The technologies that the Axis Pact had shared were simply marvelous, technologies worth of hundred years to clean dirty and undrinkable water, devices that light up the night as bright as noon, with technology known as electricity, cookers, fridges, Air Conditioners and other such miracle-like appliances.
"What a wonderful place those nations are. They're clearly above the Major Civilizations in terms of standards, no, this is far superior than theirs!" Prime Minister Kanata relaxed before he remembered his talk with his secretary. "It's a relief that they are mostly pacifists, even having some laws on 'declaring war' upon other nations, going against them would only lead to our destruction."
"Yes, but despite that, it is disappointing that they are unwilling to export weapons to us, if we had those, we could have stand a chance against those Rowlians." Kanata soon realized what would soon ensue after this. He could only regretfully think about the distant future for Qua-Toine with the Axis being unable to send them any forms of weapons and such.
Kingdom of Rowlia, Royal Capital Jin Hark, Castle Hark, Royal Council
It was a cool autumn evening with a beautifully shining moon. Torches lit up the dark room where the future of the nation was being discussed before the king.
"King Rowlia, preparations are complete."
A man in silver armor knelt in front of the king and gave his report. He was a black-bearded man in his thirties and muscled to the point that it was noticeable even through his armor. His name is Patajin, a General of the Rowlian Army.
"We will be facing two countries. Will we win?"
So asked the 34th king of the Rowlian Kingdom, 34-year-old Hark Rowlia, a pretty unexpected co-incidence that he was going to invade two countries to celebrate something trivial like this co-incidence.
"One of them just has some farmers, and the other has even worse off, peasants who can't even farm in that barren land. Either way, with so many demihumans mixed in, we could never be defeated."
"Chancellor, what information do you have on Argentina, that nation that contacted us about a month ago?"
Argentina had also reached out to Rowlia, but, because they had already established relations with Qua Toine and Quila, they were considered hostile and turned away.
"Argentina is located about one thousand kilometers to the northeast of the Principality of Qua Toine. Because they are so far away, it is inconceivable for them to have any tangible influence. Furthermore, they were astonished to see our army's wyverns. They appear to be some barbarian nation with no dragon riders. We have no other relevant information on them."
An army with no wyverns lacks the air support they provide, which means they are weak. While aerial bombings won't single-handedly defeat a cavalry unit, being constantly subjected to the awesome power of dragonfire without viable countermeasures will damage enemy morale.
"I see… Behold, we are now so close to uniting all of Rodenius. The thought of finally eradicating the abominable demihumans truly raises my spirits."
"Your Excellence, the unification may be imminent, but please do not forget your promise. Hehehe…" a man robed in black reminded the king in a skin-crawling whisper.
"Of course not!" he replied angrily.
'Tch. They're just some barbarian idiots that aren't even part of the three civilizations. Once Rodenius is under our rule, Fillades is next.'
"General, outline our strategy."
"As you command! Our army is five hundred thousand men strong. For this mission, we will send four hundred thousand to Qua Toine while the rest defend our mainland. Just inside the Qua Toine border, there is a town, Gim, with a population of one hundred thousand. We shall conquer it first. There are fields and livestock everywhere in Qua Toine, so we will procure all our supplies locally.
After taking over Gim, we will march two hundred and fifty kilometers east to the capital of Qua Toine and suppress it with our numerical advantage. Unlike our country, they do not have anything surrounding their towns to use as ramparts. At best, they might have a castle within the town. If we just lay siege to it, their supplies will quickly dry up. Their air force can easily be countered with our own wyverns.
At the same time, we will mobilize our fleet of forty-four hundred ships, route them north, then land on the north bank outside Myhak to take over their commerce hub. Because Quila is completely dependent on food imports from Kua Toine, once we stop trade from Myhak, they should quickly capitulate. Next, concerning Qua Toine's forces, they have at most fifty thousand soldiers, but they can only mobilize about ten thousand quickly. Any clever plans they think up would simply be crushed with our overwhelming numbers. Soon, our six long years of planning will bear fruit!"
"Is that so… heheh, hah hah hah, AAAHAHAHAH! This is the greatest day in my life! The world shall approve of our war with Kua Toine and Quila!"
Cheers rang out. The royal castle became filled with boisterous celebration.
Germania, Capital of the GDR
0914
A man sat on his seat upon the Head Security of the Axis, his face filled with discomfort. A knock on the door came in as a woman with long silver-blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes in a RSS uniform, consisting of a field grey cap, an apparently tight grey and black uniform, wearing a knee-length skirt with black stockings and black shoes entered. "Adler?"
"Erika? What are you doing here?" The man in question had brown hair, blue eyes and fair skin, which was plagued by scars with his left eye getting a vertical scar with a similar uniform, while having grey leggings, white socks and a pair of black boots.
"Nothing much, I just haven't heard from you so I thought to check up on you." Adler looked at her before sighing.
"Oh...oh, that's awfully nice of you."
"Is there something on your mind?"
"A simple intelligence from our spies and the delegates of Argentina shows that the neighboring Kingdom Rowlia is planning on invading Qua-Toine and Quila, though we haven't made contact with the latter, I believe Argentina had." The planning of Rowlia's invasion schemes weren't going unnoticed as Envoys had heard of the situation. "We had 1st Kriegsmarine Fleet 'Das Pakt' to be stationed by South America. Although we are uncertain of what will happen in the future."
"Hmm, seems to be a major problem huh?" Erika asked as she sat on his guest's chair, the man looked at the window, thinking about it.
"We wish to help them, but the Act that was issued to hide our presence is hindering that. But I cannot say that I would not agree to the Act as we are surrounded by enemies of unknown eras." Adler spoke with a hint of worry.
"Hmm, troublesome indeed. But, what is hindering us from making a Guarantee of Independence to them?" Adler snapped out of his stupor. "I mean, they don't need to be in the Pact, a simple guarantee would just simply." A flick of her hand with a smile came to her face. "Let us declare war on them and allow an invasion to take place."
"...Perhaps, but I am unsure for the safety of the people." His wife was right and if it was one thing, she was crazy scary with proficient ways to bypass some laws.
"War showed no mercy to your grandfather, Adler. You do realize he blamed himself for the death of more than a million men on his plans to invade the United Kingdom back then." Erika raised a point for him. "Casualties are mandatory in war, without it...what point is there in war?"
"To win a war without a casualty...a hypocrisy at its finest." For all the wars, there is none without casualty. It is either kill or be killed, there will always be a victim and a casualty.
"Right, you just got into the chair, so do not blame yourself for a mistake, father Adlar would also do the same. Think before you act. I will see to my Unit, alright?" Adler nodded as the woman soon exited.
"..." He stayed silent before he got to his desk and dialed the Greater Axis Command. "Get me in line with the Grand Leader of the Pact. This is urgent." Simply put, some people just forget Guaranteeing Independence of a Country is a thing, they needed to be reminded of it. Erika was a work of God to be sure of, but if all, the Rowlians had already made their first move.
Kingdom of Rowlia, Eastern Subjugation Army Command Tent
There were countless magic communication requests from the Qua Toine Ministry of Foreign Affairs to withdraw their soldiers from the border. All of these requests were ignored. War was coming, and there was no stopping it.
"Tomorrow, Gim will fall."
B-class General Pandour was leading the advance force of thirty thousand to take over Gim. 20,000 infantry, 5,000 heavy infantry, 2,000 cavalry, 1,500 specialty soldiers (soldiers specializing in siege weapons, projectile weapons, and other special operations), 1,000 guerilla soldiers, 250 beast tamers, 100 mages, and 150 dragon riders. While he had a lot of infantry, a squadron of ten dragon riders had the ability to deal with 10,000 enemy infantry.
Pandour smiled widely as he surveyed his troops. Wyverns were expensive weapons. Even if you gathered all the other continent's forces together, 200 wyverns would be their equal. But in this war with Qua Toine, there will be 500 wyverns participating. There was a rumor that they were receiving assistance from the Papaldia Empire, a country in Fillades and a member of the Third Civilization. This rumor was unsubstantiated, but… either way, Pandour was happy with the excessive firepower of 150 dragon riders he had for the initial invasion.
"What should we do with the spoils from Gim?"
Lieutenant General Adem called out to him. He was a ruthless knight. Rowlia had conquered numerous small countries in its zealous expansion, and the rumors of his exploits in occupied territories were unspeakable.
"I'll leave you in charge of that, Lieutenant General."
"Understood."
Adem bowed, then immediately turned to his men and barked out orders.
"Looting in Gim is allowed, do as you like. It's fine if you want to have fun with girls, but don't forget to dispose of them when you're done. Leave no survivors. Communicate this to the rest of the army."
""Yes sir!""
Adem's men made to leave the tent, but were stopped when Adem called out.
"Wait! Well, it's fine to have some fun, but let's leave about 100 people alive to spread fear and panic. And if you find any knight families in Gim, make their disposal especially gruesome."
Ordering them to spread fear… Adem truly was monstrous. With that thought, his men left the tent in order to spread the word.
Principality of Qua-Toine, Axis Embassy
"So, as you can imagine, we may be unable to export the previously-agreed amount of food to your nation."
There had been many Rowlian soldiers gathering in camps at the Border of the two nations, Qua-Toine had predicted that war was inevitable, had been explaining the situation to the officers.
"We are sorry for what affairs you are having, but with the Act still in motion, we are incapable of giving you much help as the Alliance has strictly forbid us to allow any nation to join the Pact and that foreign relations are not to be trifled with."
"But please, there is a high chance our food exports will be interrupted, I do not wish to comment on the domestic affairs of your nations."
"I know of what is to come, but the Pact had began receiving incomes from the other members as well, but we are incapable of sending aid to your nation without you being in the Pact."
"Sir!" An officer came in with a phone in hand. "The Grand Leader of the Pact wishes to speak with you!"
"Is it urgent-"
"Yes, it's urgent, dummkopf!" The officer yelled as the envoy soon took the phone.
"Yes? Grand Leader! Sir, I-huh? Are you sure? Would this not-...Reich-SS would-...u-understood, sir!" The man soon gave the phone back to the officer before looking back at the envoy of Qua-Toine. "It seems that lady luck is on your side. The Axis Pact has guaranteed your nation, but to the extensive use of only Legionnaires of the Reich-SS."
"Reich-SS?"
"A Defensive Force that comes into play for the entire Alliance, they are mostly garrisons, but are completely able to outmatch some of the Armies. We believe that we can ensure your independence."
"A-Are you sure!?" The Qua-Toine representative questioned.
"The Argentine Reich-SS Legion shall arrive with aid from the Naval Fleet, Kriegsmarine 1st Fleet 'Das Pakt'. We request land to build a base, the Argentines will soon camp there and ensure that none shall pass the border."
"Thank...Thank you." The man soon bowed his head. A stepping stone to the future indeed, but it was a bit too late.
The Argentine Reich-SS 1st and 2nd Division, 'Herr Zweite Reich' and 'San Martin' began to ride the ships to Qua-Toine, the leader, a General, General Lucas Lopez had been entrusted with the two Divisions. He was a fairly decorated General with some experience in countering Guerilla Warfare in the Argentine Rainforest against the Communist Uprising in Chile and Brazil.
This time they'd be dealing with an unknown enemy. Even then, the morale had been quite low after the disasters. "Cheer up men! We are going to help a fellow nation! Why the grim look!? Are we not supposed to be the proud soldiers of the Argentine RSS!?"
"That's true..." A few men began to open their eyes despite the disasters that struck.
"Who will fight when we are all not in the frontline!?"
"No one-"
"EXACTLY! That! That is the reason we fight! We fight to protect they who are innocent! We are the barrier that separates invaders and the innocent!" Men began to stand up as the Argentine General began to sing.
"SS marschiert! In Fiendesland! Und Singt das Teufelslied!" More began to chant as the troops began to sing louder. The lyrics might've been German, but the whole melody had been taken from the Scandinavian RSS. The men began to sing louder and louder.
As the song began to close, the General raised his hand. "Who are we!?"
"DAS HERR ZWEITE REICH'S SCHUTZ-STAFFEL!"
"Who do we fight for!?"
"DAS VOLKS!"
"For what is our cause!?"
"FUR DAS UNSERE REICH!"
"One people. One cause. One Alliance!"
"WIR SIND DAS SCHUTZ-STAFFEL AUF DAS AXIS PAKT!"
Principality of Qua Toine, Western Region, 20 kilometers from the Border, Town of Gim
Western Knight Order, 1st and 2nd Dragon Squadrons
The Captain of the Western Knight Order, Moiji, felt uneasy.
The western forces consisted of 2,500 infantry, 200 archers, 500 heavy infantry, 200 cavalry, 100 light cavalry, 24 dragons, and 30 mages.
Kua Toine had many combat-ready soldiers since they were in a semi-state of emergency, but the enemy forces that they could see all along the border surpassed them. What's more, all of their communications continued to be pointedly ignored by Rowlia.
Some of the citizens had already started evacuating from Gim, at the government's urging.
"Still nothing from Rowlia, huh?" Moiji asked a communications mage.
"Our messages should be reaching them just fine, but we still haven't received any response back. I can only conclude that they're ignoring our communications."
With a small difference in numbers, a solid strategy could be used to avoid a route. However, with these conditions, it was going to be a slaughter. What should be done…?
"What did HQ say about our request for reinforcements?"
"We've repeatedly tried contacting HQ, but the only answer we get is 'we are currently in an emergency conference,' they won't tell us anything more specific."
"Fuck! This isn't a picnic! If we have to fight with only the soldiers we have here, without any hope of reinforcements, Gim is already lost! Damn it all…!"
With various thoughts swirling in their minds, time passed clouded in uncertainty.
20 kilometers from the border, Town of Gim
The next day, it was hell over Qua-Toine when all of a sudden, red smoke began to rise up at the national border west of Gim. At the same time, a panicked message came in via communication magic.
"A huge number of Rowlian wyverns have invaded Gim! And… thousands of soldiers are pouring in over the border! The invasion has begun! I repeat…! Run for your lives—! Gahh…! …"
The call ended. Captain Moiji, after seeing the red beacon signifying Rowlia's invasion of Qua Toine, roared out orders.
"1st and 2nd Dragon Squadrons lift off, engage the enemy wyverns! Light cavalry, scramble to the right flank and disrupt them! 200 cavalry, prepare to raid, standby for orders! Infantry, form ranks with heavies in front! Archers, set yourselves up in the back lines and offer support at maximum range! Mages, if you don't join the offensive, just keep the winds favorable to our position."
The dragon squadrons took off, twenty-four fully-geared wyverns rising up into the sky. They split into two squadrons, with one staying near the ground while the other ascended to maximum altitude.
Soon after, the skies in Rowlia's direction became peppered with black dots. After seeing the huge number of growing enemies, Qua Toine's dragon riders felt their hearts freeze.
Kingdom of Rowlia eastern subjugation army, advance force
1st Dragon Attack Wing, size: 75
Qua Toine's dragon squadron bravely and boldly flew forward to meet Rowlia's dragons. Rowlia's seventy-five dragon riders had them in their sights.
"We'll take advantage of our air superiority. Prepare to fire."
The leader, Dragon Rider Captain Aldebaran, intended to wipe them out in one fell swoop. All seventy-five wyverns lined up and opened their mouths. Within, fireballs took shape.
"In five…four…three…two…one…Fire!"
All seventy-five wyverns fired simultaneously. By adding rotation to their fireballs, firing from inside the mouth would drastically increase the range compared to when fired outside the mouth. Using this trick, they were able to fire before Qua Toine's dragons could even get into range. The twelve Qua Toine dragons suffered direct hits and fell from the sky.
"They've split their forces in two… be on guard."
Shortly after Aldebaran made this order, twelve wyverns in a row came out of the sky from the sun at his back. They attacked as they passed, taking down three Rowlian dragons. The two groups engaged in a melee. Rowlia had five times as many wyverns, so Qua Toine's wyverns quickly fell one after another. It only took a few minutes to completely annihilate them.
"We will now assist the ground forces. All units, provide supporting fire."
The dragon riders descended upon Qua Toine's army.
"D-damn! They have more wyverns, and their riders are more skilled than ours!" Moiji cried, punching the wall. "Our dragon riders have already been wiped out…!"
The enemy wyverns focused on the ground army, raining fire down on them. The losses were devastating. They only had one way to counterattack: use wind magic to facilitate longbow attacks. Unfortunately, magic power was fundamentally difficult to build up, so not that much was available. They could only manage ten shots, and they wouldn't be able to help guide those shots.
A longbow fired into the sky. Unfortunately, in this world, anti-air attacks basically never hit and were largely for appearances. In the three major civilizations, there were apparently some more effective weapons…
Qua Toine's knight order suffered heavy losses from the mob of wyverns harassing them. Their numbers were already reduced by a third. Right then, twenty-five thousand infantry in Rowlia's advance force joined the battle. Within thirty minutes, the Qua Toine knight order was completely annihilated.
Captain Moiji, hands tied behind his back, was now a prisoner of war, while the advance force was now encircling Gim.
"So weak! With these numbers, even Moiji couldn't possibly put up a fight. We didn't even get to use our beasts!" Lieutenant General Adem gloated over Moiji. "Oh, that's right… your wife and daughter live in Gim, don't they?"
"What's that supposed to mean!?"
"Hey," Adem called out to his men, "bring Moiji's wife and daughter here. After they've been shown a good time in front of him, we'll feed them to the beasts."
"You fucking monster!" Moiji screamed as he tried to jump at Adem, but he was easily subdued.
"Don't worry. After you've watched the show, you can join them as beast food."
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
Adem's terrible orders were carried out that day. The town of Gim was filled with murder, looting, rape, and destruction. The Modim family was not spared from its tragic end. One hundred townspeople were set loose to spread fear to the surrounding towns.
However, once the Axis Alliance got a hold of this, a new order had been settled permanently.
"Prime Minister! I bring great news!" The Qua-Toine Representative burst into the meeting room. "The Axis Pact, they have agreed to send reinforcements." The occupants quickly burst into joy with the aid of the Axis, they would surely win. "They had given this report as well." The man gave it to the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Kanata quickly opened the report.
Upon the closer inspection, the Greater Axis Pact cannot stay quiet in the brink of a war of a neutral country, we cannot simply invite you to the Pact as our people are very doubtful in who to trust, but the Reich-SS and the GDR has agreed to send an Expeditionary Force of the 1st and 2nd Argentine Reich-SS Panzer Legion Division that departed early for garrison, but was apparently too late to land on Qua-Toine, they will be followed by Expeditionary Force Rommel and Expeditionary Force Werner.
The Kriegsmarine 1st Fleet of 48 Ships, of which are composed of two Super Carriers, an Aviation Battleship, a Super Missile Dreadnought, four Light Carriers, seven Heavy Cruisers, ten Light Cruisers, three Battle Cruisers and twenty Destroyers will face off Rowlia's Four thousand four hundred ships that will be attacking Qua-Toine. But mark these words, Rowlia will be nothing, but rubble upon the time we strike them through land. We request that you do not get in the way of the Legions when they attack.
48 Ships. 48 Ships!? The Prime Minister read it thoroughly and again and again, did he read it. Was this for real!? "48 Ships? They plan to destroy the fleet with 48 Ships."
The room went silent before the representative gulped with a nervous look. "Prime Minister. The Germans had only agreed to a limited aid, they have little to no reason to actually help us. The fleet is scheduled to arrive tomorrow."
"...Fine then, but to also send an observer...we will see tomorrow."
"Prime Minister!" Admiral Pancarre stood up. "I shall volunteer-"
"No, Admiral Pancarre is far too important for Qua-Toine to lose!" Executive Officer Breweye rejected, having stood up in the room. "I will volunteer!"
"But Breweye-"
"Admiral, do you not have confidence in me?" Breweye asked his superior officer. "I am one of the best fighters you have, and I will not die easily in midst of battle, so permit me to observe what the Fleet of the Pact has to offer! With their massive ships, they aren't as suicidal as any of you would think."
The room went silent as Kanata regretted his choice of words. The Pact had surprised them through and through, they had doubted them too much even after the show of their Naval Powers.
"...I am sorry for the doubts and worries...I will leave it to you, Executive Officer." The Officer saluted.
"I won't let you down, sir!"
As promised, the 48 ship fleet had arrived although the ship in question was the massive 330 meter with a similar ship with the size of 348 meters, far longer than its cousin, the ship had a flat deck on the rear with flying devices, the front had two compartments with three cannons each, the deck itself was an Angled Deck which the natives didn't have knowledge of.
He was given two sheets of information about the ships, although only what was considered harmless to know was written on them.
- Hindenburg Class Super Missile Dreadnought(Comparable to the H-43 Battleship, but given some better armaments and some Missile Batteries)
- Official Displacement: 131,000 tons
- Length: 330 meters
- Construction Cost: 15 billion Reichsmark(20 billion Reichsmark fitted with ammunition)
- Adalard Class Aviation Battleship(Comparable to a H-41 Battleship with all Secondary Guns and AA Guns removed and given a deck of a Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier, AA guns are placed along the Bridge)
- Official Displacement: 151,000 tons
- Length: 348 meters
- Construction Cost: 13,5 billion Reichsmark(25 billion Reichsmark with planes)
He was told that the reason the smaller was far more expensive was for the armaments it carried, bigger guns and missile batteries, whatever they are. The latter had more cost after being build, mainly the Aircrafts. The total would far exceed the Hindenburg if the Adalard was fully equipped.
Soon after, two large ships of around 349 meters in length(Comparable to the American Gerald R Ford OTL Aircraft Carrier), were spotted with other ships out on sea.
"What ships." Kanata couldn't help, but say in awe and surprise.
"Prime Minister." A man in a black uniform and a white cap saluted at the Prime Minister. "I am Admiral Karl von Blütz, Commander of the German 1st Kriegsmarine Fleet, Das Pakt and Captain of the Admirable Kriegs Marine Schiff, Der Hindenburg."
"Pleasures." Kanata said as Breweye marveled at the sight.
"So this is the Observer I suppose?" Karl asked with a raised eyebrow as the Officer soon turned his attention.
"Yes, I am Executive Officer Breweye from the Second Navy, I shall be at your care."
"Hmm, very well. We shall depart this morning. I believe that would be alright?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
Breweye couldn't help, but feel surprised and shocked, despite weighing an incredulous 131,000 tons at least, the Super Missile Dreadnought named after a General from a war of theirs had been going around 50km/hour constantly!
"Enemies had been spotted by the Patrols. They are currently going towards us with about...five knots towards us." The Admiral stood confidently as his face was laced with no arrogance nor any emotions.
"Sir, Graf Richthofen is asking whether we should send the aircrafts."
"...Permit them a pair of Stuka and Horneisse to take off. We shall wait the next."
"Understood, sir." Brewery could soon see that one of the flat tops, one of the two massive ones, the KMS Graf Richthofen he heard, had eight aircrafts that began their sortie.
The aircrafts were of foreign looks, but they were often called the Horneisse and Stuka by the Germans as he was informed of.
The Aircrafts soon took off, circling and escorting the ships with minimum speed, which still exceeded the ships.
"Enemies 12 o'clock." An Operator spoke. The Admiral tipped his head.
"Permission to engage, sir?" The Operators looked at the Admirals, Brewery could feel the tension of the whole scene.
"Have the Loaders load High Explosive Shells, order when ready, to fire on my mark." The Operators soon began their work. "Order all ships to halt their advance."
The ships soon stopped as the Destroyers(Comparable to Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers) halted their movements, twin rapid fire cannons on the ready.
The Light Cruisers with their two triple rapid fire cannons on the front lined their shots. The Heavy Cruisers and their heavy weaponry had waited for the signal alongside the well-equipped Battlecruisers.
The Battleships had been more than ready as they had finished loading the shells in under fifteen seconds. "We shall destroy their fleet in a single battle. Leave one to come back to their base, we will soon rain fire upon them." The man said coldly.
"Sir, the High Command has sent an Aircraft Missile Cruiser, they are armed with Napalm Warheads."
"Napalm huh? Permit their assistance,"
"They had just arrived." Brewery could see another flat top ship joining the formation. The ship was easily 305 meters long, with aircrafts that lounged by the deck with people doing tasks.
"Good. Are enemy ships in our sights?"
"They've just entered our Cruise Missile's Range, sir."
"...Wait until they arrive in Gun Range, halt all ship movements." The ships quickly stopped. "Use the Secondary Battery of this Ship, show them the side."
"...Yes, sir." The Operator soon began to order the ship to be turned sideways. The sides of the ship had been upgraded to twelve dual-purpose 88mm AA Guns on the side, six twin 12.8cm secondary batteries and four twin 15.2cm secondary batteries.
He had been astounded by the Main Armament however. Eight 48cm cannons, they even planned for something larger than this ship to be built, two of them nonetheless. "The ships had entered our range, sir."
"Fire at my command."
Eastern Rowlian Subjugation Navy
"What is that?" The Leader of the Fleet, Vice-Admiral Schaukun asked as islands of grey blocked his path of 4,400 ships strong.
"This is the German 1st Kriegsmarine Fleet, turn back immediately or we will fire!" A loud booming voice came from the ships. "I repeat, turn back immediately or we will fire!" A pair of large ships were sent, for some reason.
"Turn back? Turn back!? With few ships? Attack them when they are in range." Upon reaching 200 meters, the archers fired their arrows, the ships quickly turned as the arrows bounced off.
"Hahaha! Look at them run!"
"We've taken hit. Begin Operation Fall Schwarz Zweite."
As the enemies jeered, they heard loud booms from the large island, black smoke rising. "Did they just blow themsel-" Massive explosions destroyed a dozen ships in the range of more than a kilometer. "W-What!?"
"All ships, you are cleared to fire at will." The other Islands soon fired as more ships were torn apart.
"T-This isn't good! We're barely in Wyvern's range, but...communications! Request for Wyvern Assistance! We've engaged the enemy flagship!"
Rowlia, Wyvern Headquarters
"Sir, communications from the Eastern Subjugation Navy, they have encountered the enemy flagship! A giant metal ship from the seems of it!"
"Hmm? Enemy Flagship? Hoohh, interesting, send out three hundred and fifty wyverns, fully equipped to assist." The Wyvern Marshal ordered his lower-ranking officer.
"B-But sir, the Advancing Forces had taken a hundred and fifty wyvern-"
"Officer, we have encountered the enemy's flagship, besides, this will be a swift battle, the Main Force can wait for the wyverns to arrive with a bit of a delay and they are mobilizing slowly as of now. So we have the time on our side."
"U-Understood, sir! Three hundred and fifty wyverns! Wyvern Force 4 till 10 are to sortie, fully equipped, the main target will be an Enemy Flagship!" As the Force began to sortie their wyverns, they were already being watched.
KMS Hindenburg, Bridge
"Launch all aircrafts, we have detected 350 unidentified flying objects, most likely to be wyverns." The Admiral spoke as Breweye soon saw a part of the flat-ship's move downwards to an open gap, an aircraft soon got onto said part and began to rise upwards.
'These people...these people are highly talented in magic that they can move their ships' compartments?!' Breweye soon looked upon two wings taking off in rapid successions. The other smaller-flat-ships sent out their wings as well as soon the skies were filled with a fleet of aircrafts. If this was what they were going to go against if they didn't accept the offer, they'd be doomed for sure.
"And do we continue the attack, sir?"
"I see why not, we just delayed our firing sequence to just fool them in thinking of our slow reload time. Oh and do fire our main batteries." Breweye stared in shock when the entire ship was shaken by the full brunt force of eight firing 48cm cannons.
"W-What power!" The Admiral and the Hindenburg's crew could only grin at the Officer's shocked expression as the eight 48cm shells left the batteries.
As the Eastern Subjugation Navy closed in, they were quickly attacked by eight flying shells that decimated four ships each. The whole impact caused a massive shockwave of air and water as the waves soon had the ships hitting each other. "T-This is not what I expected...this is outrageous!" The wyverns soon began to fly over them with the intent of destroying the enemy flagship. "At least we have air super-" He jinxed it.
That was what could be said as cannons fired into the skies and caused one by one, wyvern casualties in immense numbers. "W-What?" A crew member gaped at the sight of wyverns being downed by explosions, the previously sent out Horneisse and Stuka quickly began making quick work of the wyverns afterwards with additional support in the form of Meermöwe and with more Horneisse lifting off.
"Alright, kameraden! This shall be the day we mark our first victory!"
"Jawohl!" The jets soon fired their autocannons with the Stukas going below and fired their 30mm Mk VIII Autocannons, the rounds over-penetrated as they soon flew high and dropped some Cluster Bombs. One of the cluster bombs went off with one sinking more than a dozen ships.
"Damn! Who dropped that!?" A Stuka pilot questioned.
"Yeah, my bad! Think I did some kill-stealing!" The pilot snickered.
"Ah fuck you, Hans! Taking our kills!" By the Fighters, the Horneisse fired their 20mm autocannons, ripping apart some of the wyverns. A Horneisse just shot down a wyvern before being chased by one.
"Scheiße! I'm being tailed by a bugger!" The fighter soon did some maneuvers to avoid the wyvern's fire blast.
"I got your back!" A Meermöwe quickly dove from above and shredded the wyvern into pieces by its 20mm autocannon. "And a kill for me!"
"Thanks, kameraden."
"We watch each other's back, no worries." The Dogfights continued the seven Heavy Cruisers and three Battle Cruisers were allowed to engage the enemy fleet, the Heavy Cruisers were actually Panzerschiffe, which were heavily armed and armored cruisers, the CAs and BCs quickly aimed their guns before firing off their massive payload of tungsten-tipped shells, exploding the majority of the enemy fleet.
The Panzerschiffe's massive armament of three triple 203mm cannons opened fire, the Battlecruisers following up with their three triple 283mm cannons. The combined amount of basically 63 203mm shells and 27 283mm shells were fired into the distance. All the Dragons that flew were soon outmaneuvered, outpaced and outnumbered when their number went down drastically. No German aircrafts were getting touched even the slower Stuka was proving to be far more agile albeit less maneuverable than the Dragon Knights.
Breweye can barely watch the slaughter that was happening right in front of him. The Kriegsmarine 1st Fleet 'Das Pakt' had exceeded his expectations. 'And they had more fleets of the same size?', he asked mentally and a horrified look gave its way to his face. 'And they are the second Best Navy in the Alliance. If we were to anger the Empire of Japan...we're doomed, we're all doomed...'
"So, does the sight meet your expectations?" The Admiral smiled genuinely at the man. "I heard from some of the officers that your people thinks that my Fleet would fall before Rowlia's four thousand, apparently."
"W-...I-It exceeded my expectations." Karl nodded in satisfaction. "A frightening sight of this whole...show of power."
"This is not a show of power, this is merely a show of superiority. If we wish, then the show of power would decimate them without any question and destroy their Capital." The Admiral adjusted his cap. "I believe that this show shall make you think twice if you try to betray us, correct?"
"T-That's an absurd claim, Admiral! The Qua-Toines aren't known to backstab and even we do, your forces would just crush us." The Admiral looked at him with a smile.
"Well, your admittance that the Qua-Toines can't win against us is quite admirable, I respect that." The battle soon ended as the last Fighter Jet landed on the Aircraft Carrier and the last ship of the Rowlian Navy came back in tatters, losing nearly half the men they had before onboard said ship.
"...Have the Destroyers rally the survivors and put them in Argentina as Prisoners of War..." The Destroyers began to make their move, boats of small sizes were dropped as they began picking up sailors of what was left of the Subjugation Fleet of Rowlia.
The Kriegsmarine 1st Flotilla 'Das Pakt' had returned to Argentina, where they had to refuel first as they had rushed to Argentina from Europe, the Fleet was notified to arrive earlier than expected with the four thousand Rowlian navy. The city of San Antonio, a flourishing city on the Protectorate of Chile which can be assumed as an Argentine territory was what amazed Breweye.
There were more ships than expected, while not as large as the Germans, they were in similar size of those which he recalled as Battle Cruisers. "Admiral Karl." A man in a similar outfit as the Admiral came up.
"Admiral Antonio, great to see you." Antonio? Was he perhaps the same man that city was named after? "This is Executive Officer Breweye from the Principality of Qua-Toine, he is an observer for the Battle of Rhodenius."
"P-Pleasure to meet the man the city was named after-!"
"Hold that thought. You hadn't tell him about me?" Antonio asked with an irritated raise of an eyebrow, the Admiral laughed at the misconception.
"Why should I?" Karl questioned his friend. "Officer Breweye, Admiral Antonio is not the man who founded the city or was the base of the name, San Antonio, it is merely a coincidence he was named after the city since he was from Chile."
"A-Ah, apologies for the misunderstanding."
"Qua-Toines are very polite people huh? Maybe I will take a vacation there with my family." Antonio chuckled. "Well, the prisoners shall be escorted to the POW Camp and we will get your fuel going."
"Thank you, Admiral."
"Not another thanks after your Empire brought us some glory as well, but between you and me, the Reich was thinking about releasing Chile as a Reichskommissariat instead of its own land. Think that's a good thing."
"That's wonderful news for you, do you keep the Navy?"
"They intend to loan my Fleet for a while until the Chilean Government could afford its own Navy."
"Awfully generous."
"They might be scumbags at times, but the Argentine people are generous people." The Admiral smiled. "Well, I need to head back, a pleasure, Officer Breweye. Come visit us any time you wish! We have many things to discuss if you are interested in our Navy!"
"Maybe after they join the Axis, Admiral."
"Ah yes, I shall look forward to your people's membership of the Axis." The Admiral soon left.
"He was...nice." Breweye tried to form his words.
"Eh, he's like that since we met, so yes, Officer. Is there anything you wish to inquire?"
"No, not much except how you could afford such a Navy."
"It's simple, we have some Colonies that loan us money for the Infrastructure and aid we give them and we use that money to build our Navy slowly and steadily, we had been using some outdated ships until these ones come and decommission the old ones as museum ships."
"You have...colonies?"
"Yes, but we treat them as our own and help them, helps keep their temper down from the War before." The Admiral shrugged. "But I think I might've spilled too much beans. But anywho, we are going to depart in a day. I believe our quarters will suffice?"
"They...are actually akin to expensive inn rooms, albeit smaller and far cleaner." The Admiral chuckled.
"Good to know." Breweye could see the survivors of the Fleet being handed to the Argentine soldiers, the soldiers wore black uniforms with those...weapons of unknown names and origin, the survivors were soon escorted to the 'POW' camps, although it was surely not as pleasant as his accommodations.
Principality of Qua-Toine, Governmental Meeting
Two Days after the Battle of Rhodenius
Officer Breweye had just concluded his absurd but somewhat justifiable report as he had given them the magical recording of the battle from the KMS Hindenburg, the Admiral had asked him to record anything that included magic, which somewhat surprised him when he was informed of such, but came to terms with it in before the start of the battle. He was allowed to do so with not much complaints or anything but some questions that the Operators questioned when they were in leisure.
"You're telling us...that the Germans had destroyed all, but one ship of the Rowlian Navy, three hundred fifty wyverns...with forty-eight ships?"
"In all honesty, they had help from a newly commissioned ship as it just came out a few days ago without any reports but a sudden message, so they had forty-nine, but I understand your...exasperation as I had seen so first-handedly and feel how powerful the German War Navy is with my own body." The sudden shaking of the eight cannons had made him feel what power the German Kriegsmarine had. The Warships were also docking in Argentina with the KMS Graf Richthofen housed in Qua-Toine for additional support with the KMS Prinz Eugen Heavy Cruiser as her escort.
"...If you were telling me this as a fairy tale, I would say that this is outlandish and far too absurd, but...after given something that the Germans call 'Internet', I can safely say that...I can believe your report." Kanata spoke with some somber voice. "I had seen some documentaries that they gave out, some information of their past Navy exploits, I can assure you what they would have done would be far more horrifying."
"Prime Minister...what can be more horrifying than the massive ship they called the Super Missile Dreadnought?! The ship had destroyed the Navy of four thousand!" A member yelled.
"...They have tactics, that can be called underhanded, but highly effective, they are legends of their war, they are called the Wolf Packs, the ships could...submerge from the surface and kill ships without them realizing they're in danger." The whole room was silent as some tried to laugh it off as a scare tactic. "I do not blame you if you do not believe me, but from the reports, they had destroyed countless convoy ships in the previous war, some numbering hundreds that their enemy had to build more convoy ships than ever before. Yet...they still failed." The room fell silent. "I do not know if this is an actual part of their Navy, but I do not wish to declare war on them as of now, nor ever."
"So...we're hopeless in a fight against them."
"They do not wish for war, they wish to colonize or basically expand their influence and trade, war is made pointless in their point, but if it is a war declared against them, they will say there is a point, that their homeland is being threatened and the people are in risk of a slaughter, we wish not to do so against a might far beyond our knowledge." The room can simply agree with him.
"But what of the Ground Force?"
"They had requested a military base, two kilometers from the frontline, they had wish to start an offensive against them, the Germans had joined the war as a legitimate participant, although in defense of our country and that their intention is to rehabilitate and re-educate them, making them a colony of sorts. We are also being considered by the Alliance whether or not we are allowed to join." Some of the people breathed in relief. "But they warned us that the way to join was if we are to align ourselves with the three Empires and be what can be called a puppet government where the Ministers would still be the same, but that an additional Minister called the Axis Minister would oversee what we do."
"And we are to agree with them?!"
"The Puppet government would only last two years, they also consider to lend us some weapons that they call outdated, but perhaps useful for us." The room was filled with arguments after those words. A side wishes to join as a puppet, for even if they are puppets of an Empire, they would still be in charge and would be given weapons. The other simply considered being independent and true to the culture was far better than being a puppet. "Enough! The Germans had been considering this hard, the Japanese and Italians would simply wish for five years of being a puppet with some Ministers exchanged where the Germans are considerate enough to lower them to extreme degrees. Might I remind you all that we will be forever protected by the Germans? They will only satellite us and then release us as an independent nation that is aligned with them and given freedom and technology currently out of our league?"
The room fell silent as the Ministers soon began their vote if they were given the chance. The votes won by they who voted to join as a puppet for two years with twenty more than the number of those who refused.
2km from the Borders of Qua-Toine and Rowlia
Three Days after the Meeting
The Argentine Reich-SS Divisions had built their campsites, a few kilometers from a starving village that was suffering badly after their crops being mostly taken by the military to fuel the troops. This was one of the reason they wish to be a bit more closer to the border than advised. The Generals had allowed them to do so with some resources being redirected with some homemade cooking and some clean water. The Divisions were given arms of Mechanized Rocket Artillery Battalions.
They were ordered to be a rear guard, but with the Generals refusing, they were to fight with the most effective combat doctrine, the Blitzkrieg Tactic, the Argentine-Germans learnt from their German comrades about the tactics, they had German General, Heinz Guderian train their loosely-built Panzer Corps to a far more formidable army after the American Invasion, the Reich-SS built was also led by Heinz Guderian to oversee their combat effectiveness, the Reich-SS became a mandatory thing with at least 500 men to form, needless to say the Argentines were far too enthusiastic that they managed to build up two Divisions.
Of which was a Panzer and a Mechanized Division, these were soon to be the best Argentine Military to be built, they were given to The Argentine Reich to defend themselves but with more Divisions trained, Argentina can let them loose in the battlefield. The Panzers they had were mostly imported from Germany, with the Standardpanzer IV Hirten Leopard, which were lightly-armored tanks with high mobility and a 105mm Rifled Gun, a better choice for the Argentines of which was better to deal with Infantry and others, the Smoothbore was far more ideal to be used against other tanks, they also couldn't waste the use of British-made HESH Rounds which yielded far more penetration power than the average HE Rounds.
They were not fighting against tanks, but against infantry and the jungle had more use for infantry than tanks in their defense of the fatherland. The tanks themselves were painted camouflage green and tan, the mechanized were in the forms of Sdfkz 285 Lang, the APC was given a 20mm autocannon, with 8 passengers including the crew at most.
There were some exchanges with the Qua-Toines, but mostly were verbal, basically the Qua-Toines insulting them before being smacked hard by the Argentines with their rebukes. But generally, they were started by the Qua-Toines. "Damn these assholes can't keep their rod out of their ass." An Argentine muttered.
"Yeah, fucking morons can't even do shit. If they could we wouldn't even be here!" The Argentines began to speak amongst themselves, mostly joking until one of the General of the Qua-Toines, General Nho, which they usually joke about came up. The General of the Divisions made himself known. "General Nho," some of the onlookers snickered at the name. "What brings you to our camp?"
"I have reports of complaints against your soldiers...verbally abusing them."
"Verbal abuse? Are you serious? Then if they complain they shouldn't have come around, General! We are built for war, not to handle complaints of fucking morons. If you want complaints to be answered, then make those complainers no brainers come around and speak to the guys, not send their higher up to deal with it." The Argentine snorted with agitation. "We are here for your aid, not to be your daily complaint listeners."
"...Hmph, then I guess you barbarians don't know your place."
"And you stupid cunts don't know where your brain is I suppose." The Generals exchanged glares before the Qua-Toine left.
"Yeah, nho, nho, nho, you just verbally abused my men. That guy's a fucking asshat." An officer commented with the others snickering. Lucas sighed with a snicker coming out afterwards.
"You boys know what to do, when the enemy is sighted by the helicopters, bring them the pain of the Argentine Reich-SS' Wrath!"
"OORAH!" The men cheered with their faces given a grin. The Plan of an Assault to Rowlia had been planned, German Wehrmacht Troops of the ranks of Victoria Rommel, grand daughter of Erwin Rommel had been sent with two Panzer Divisions and three Panzergrenadier Divisions.
The Tables had been turned and none knew of it asides Qua-Toine and the whole Axis Alliance.
Trivia:
Aircraft Missile Cruiser - Graf Ramcke(Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke) Class - OTL Counterpart: Admiral Kuznetsov without Skii Jump and longer deck
Standardpanzer IV Hirten Leopard - OTL Counterpart: Leopard 1A4
Welp, this is a lot more than I expected, but...well, I'm not gonna complain to be honest. Now, that Qua-Toine has been acquainted to the Axis Pact, the Germans and Argentines had joined the war in the favor of Qua-Toine against Rowlia, with the destruction of basically of four thousand ships, think we all know where this is going.
Reviews:
foxtrot813: Thanks for the review and the interest.
Guest: Well, I'll try...no promises though.
WarGlory: I mean...I think that's the point of the story to be completely honest, unrealistic scenarios and a gag of probably unfunny things, complete violence in the future, and I mean there is a Disclaimer that it's not really trying to be realistic or something and is more akin to Hearts of Iron than an actual Alternate Historical Timeline.
Next Chapter would be the time where Rowlia would have his ass beaten. Probably in the most gruesome way if you know what I'm saying.
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