In a certain room near the harbor, a woman was being dressed up by two maids in front of a large mirror. Her hair was being groomed.
"Monika, how do I look?" asked Rosa to a certain woman.
That woman is Monika, Princess Rosa's Head Maid. As the woman of her position, she always accompanied Rosa for almost every time, only when the Princess didn't want to be accompanied by her or the other maids. With her short blonde hair and lively looks, of course everyone would feel warmth and chills at the same time when standing in her presence.
Head Maid Monika answered, "Yes, of course my Princess."
"Ah, nice to hear it."
"Do you need anything, Your Highness?" a second maid asked since the dressing was already finished.
The Princess stood up with her two hands and turned around facing Monika before saying, "No, it's okay."
Both of the maids nodded in understanding before distancing themselves from the Princess. Soon, the door was knocked several times before a voice could be heard, asking, "Your Highness, the native countries' delegation has arrived."
"Okay, I will be heading there soon."
As the ships that carried Leifor and Mirishial delegates docked, the delegates walked down the stairs that had been prepared by the Eruseans. It wouldn't take a long time before they finally can touch the Erusean lands, a small step towards the strangelands.
While they were walking down the stairs, they were amazed by the amount of warships patrolling the area. An aircraft carrier can be seen lying near the giant tower, and some aircrafts performing an aerobatics performance like they were greeted by them. However, those maneuvers weren't ordinary ones.
"How...how can their aircraft perform like that?"
The Milishian diplomat were stunned and amazed after seeing the performances of Erusean aircrafts in the sky.
After coming down on the shore, he checked his bags to make sure all importants items were in here and no ones were left. After that, he then turned his gaze into the front of him and seeing several man's dressed in formal attire and military uniform walked towards them. After reaching a certain distance, a man dressed in military uniform walked towards him. Looking into the medals, patches in the shoulder and ribbon in his chest, he can say that this man was a High Ranking Officer.
The High Ranking Officer then came forward and offered his right hand which he accepted before he spoke, "I am General Theo van Deventer of Erusean Royal Army," the officer presented himself.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Eoin Lynch," said the Milisihian diplomat.
After some chit-chat, the Erusean General then walked towards the other person. He remembered that this person was the supposed Leiforian diplomat. The Leiforian diplomats, after realizing that he was being approached, then immediately offered his hands.
"Greetings, my name is Erik von Haufenstein," he introduced himself with a wide smile on his face.
Theo, seeing it, also smiled widely although he doesn't know why he wanted to smile, then accepted his hands followed by introducing himself. After some chit-chat with both of the diplomats from Leifor and Mirishial, the General then brings them into the building north of the harbor.
There, a certain woman was waiting for them. With a brown hair, lively and beautiful face, it would make any person who meets her feel happy in no time.
"Good afternoon, delegates from Leifor Federal Empire and Holy Mirishial Empire. I am Princess Rosa Cosette D'Elise, sincerely greets your arrivals to our Kingdom on behalf of the King of Erusea who apparently couldn't come in person due to certain circumstances," the Princess explained.
The entire delegates were blushing. For unknown reasons, they feel like they really wanted to hear her voice once more, and the Princess has some kind of charming aura around her.
Meanwhile, the Erusean General, Theo, seemed like he began to understand why the Princess was sent here instead of the King himself. Since the Princess likely has some kind of angelic power inside of her, the government wants to make the meeting go smoothly and auspicious for them. And since many reports said that the Osean troops were somehow being a big fan of their princess, the government decided to send her here and it began to make sense for him.
"What a genius," he said inside of his mind.
"Well then, let me say this... Welcome to the Kingdom of Erusea!" The Princess said with a cheerful smile.
After seeing and hearing it, the entire delegates team were amazed and for an unknown reason, standing up then clapped their hands without being told with a pleasured face, then followed by the Eruseans.
Some minutes later, the General then replaced the Princess position in the stadium and explained their schedules for today and the next few days.
"...recalls what I just said before, we will visit the Selatapura National Stadium before then going into the prepared hotel," Theo said, which was followed by nods from the delegates as a sign of understanding.
"For transportation, we will be using a vehicle called a train," he continued.
Technical Officer Groza was surprised when the General mentioned a train. That vehicle, although the usage was pretty common nowadays, there were still several differences between each region. While in Mu, Philades and Rodenius the locomotives were fueled by coal or a certain type of wood, the Milishian continent already used some sort of energy called amber. The amber one was legit and didn't produce any black smoke when it was being used to power the train and was far than enough to just power it, giving some place for lamp and cooling device to both the passenger carriage and locomotive itself. Thus, giving a sense of advance in technology for the continent's population.
Now, he wondered what kind of train the Erusean used?
"Ah sorry, what I mean is tram. Sorry for the mistake."
Although disappointed, still, he wondered what kind of tram that the Erusean would use since, well, there were differences between the one on Mu and Milishiant continent.
"Since we are on harbor, we will take a bus to go into the nearby station."
Right after the general finished explaining, the bus had already arrived. A single yet large enough to bring all of them. Lynch was surprised that the chair were soft enough and he could saw some small lamps on top of it. And when he looked at what's above him, there were some small holes that when he moved his hands into there, cold air was coming out from those holes, indicating that there were cooling devices inside of this bus.
"Amazing, as expected from a country that was predicted to be the Ancient Sorcerous Empire itself," he said with a small smile on his face.
Groza the Technical Officer, although he was also amazed by this quite advanced technology and how the Erusean applied it, he was unsure how they powered it. Was they using something similar with Amber or, maybe also fossil fuel?
After all the delegates entered the bus and took a seat, the bus began to move. Smooth rides for Milishians and they generally compared it with the ones they had on Runepolis.
"I remember that RBT also used to have a bus like this one, which was really convenient," said a delegate member to his colleague who sat on his side.
"Yeah, sadly they replaced it with the flying one. Although it looks cool, I remember it was quite unstable back then."
"Right, I wonder if it's already fixed or not."
"Probably already fixed one year later, it would be a great shame for the city...wait no, but the entire nation!"
"You're right."
While the Milishians compared it to their so-called older models of RBT, the Leiforian ones were left to wonder what this thing is.
Erik, the Leiforian diplomat, was amazed by all of the incredible things that this vehicle offered. Soft chair, cold air although on outside it was so hot, and smooth ride. Even back in their capital, Leiforia, there was nothing like this. Although, he remembered that one of his friends who was working in Leifor Embassy in Milanum, Mu was talking about a public transport vehicle that was using roads to move, not tracked.
"Maybe, this is what he was talking about..." he wondered.
After the bus finally arrived at the said station, Groza noticed something on the back of the bus after he was outside of the bus. Black smoke came out from a small cylinder tube on the bottom back of the bus.
"So they're still using fossil fuel..." he said in a disappointed tone.
But when he remembered about those lamps and cooling devices, a question appeared in his mind. How could they have managed to power those things?
"Did they...find a way to use it efficiently?" He wondered.
Then, they went into the station that was located on the top of roads, meaning that it was a type of overground tram, something that only exists in northern Mirishial. Not long after while he was still busy looking at the tram track that was nothing but a single cement block in the middle, the tram finally arrived. It was empty, but that was not his focus of attention. He noticed the lack of wheels or tracks on this tram and driver which means, this tram was automated. The smooth chair, lamps, cooling devices and smooth ride made him nod and write a note on his notebook.
"Erusea, they have a decent and very advanced tram but outdated bus in some aspects. Yet, they probably have great efficiency in energy usage since that outdated bus apparently has cooling devices and many lamps inside."
The Leiforian, once again, only can be silent since their trams were nothing compared to this. Even for them, Mu's most advanced and new tram that appeared in the newspaper several weeks ago couldn't be compared to this amazing train.
"Damn, I don't understand what's happening actually," Erik said while looking at the floor and placed his right hand on his forehead.
Seconds later, General Theo who was still standing then explains.
"The tram we are taking now is a kind of Light Rapid Transit system built by the Selatapura city government back a decade ago. I'm sure that both Leifor and Mirishial also have trams in their cities so to make it simple, it is the faster, smoother, and modern version as we can see."
Groza nodded, continuing to write a note regarding what the General just said before.
"The tram also use rubber-tired metro, which was a kind of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology. The tram is..." the General continued his explanation while the delegates listened to it.
And after that, Groza just realized that this tram has wheels and track too.
After a while, the tram finally arrived at their destination, the Selatapura National Stadium. The only stadium in the entirety of Selatapura and one of their widely recognized landmarks, aside from the International Space Elevator that stands not far in front of it. After some basic explanation about it, the delegates were guided to enter it.
"Woah, so big!" exclaimed a Milishian delegate after they finally reached the row of seats.
He then began to compare it with the Milishian biggest stadium in Runepolis. Somehow, he felt that it was smaller than this stadium, or maybe similar in size due to the big rooftop making it look smaller?
"This Stadium is one of our main stadiums, the fourth largest stadium in the entire Kingdom," Princess Rosa explained again, moving her right hands too to make the attention focus on her.
"I hope you enjoy our special show!" said the General.
"What do you mean by special show?" Haufenstein asked since he couldn't see any people or even equipment to perform a show in here. Not inside or even on outside of the stadium.
But then, moments later, they could hear music out of nowhere being played. And whether it's a coincidence or not, the music was the same as the one that they heard when a jet fighter popped out from behind the stairs to the sky, now known as Space Elevator and then doing an unexplainable movement.
"Why do I think that something bad could happen to us?" Groza said.
Right after he said that, they could hear jet engine noises coming from the opened stadium roof. And for sure, they saw the previous jet was flying towards them from the direction of the Space Elevator.
"Wait what, are you crazy? We are gonna die!"
The plane continued to fly in their direction when the doors leading to the stadium's seats were closed one after another, as if trying to prevent them from escaping. The panicking delegates started to bolt in all directions in an attempt to find an exit, but unfortunately for them there was no other way than jumping straight from the top of the seats. Even if they did so, it's already too late as the plane was almost there, its loud noise mixed with the screams of panic and fear from all over the stadium.
At that moment, Eoin noticed something really strange happening. The Erusean diplomats, even the Princess, seemed unperturbed with this thing and even looked relaxed, verily so. And as he observed the incoming jet, the plane seemed to slow down and pulled its nose upward.
And he was right; the plane suddenly stopped right in the middle of the stadium before suddenly climbing, entering a stall and somersaulting before swiftly rolling to the level flight and flew away from the stadium. What's even stranger, the seats, having been showered by the exhaust gas, somehow undamaged.
Seeing the jet flying away, Eoin stomped at the Princess and yelled, "You just almost gave us a heart attack, honestly!"
The other delegates also complained at her, making the Princess who just did as ordered looks confused and distraught. Not long after, while the Erusean diplomats were trying to calm them down, she then spoke, "We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by our show. We will...make sure to not do something like this again in the future," she said with a face that was trying to look strong, although everyone can tell it was not the case.
Looking at it, everyone then began to calm down and ceased their complaints. Theo, after realizing what just happened then immediately said, "Let's go to the hotel prepared for your delegates teams."
Everyone agreed which relieved him since he was already confused about what he should do. 'Those delegates were supposed to be trembling and feared seeing the mighty Belka-ahem, I mean Erusean technology. But, it seems to have gone wrong,' he pondered to himself.
"Also, what those Milishian are talking about, looks similar?" he wondered. Because if that's true, then a direct visit to Mirishial would be a good step for better understanding this world.
Regardless, he needs to write a report about this as soon as possible. And for it, he hopes that the higher ups would take consideration about it.
555th Air Force Base
An aircraft powered by jet engines was seen to be landing on this base. A base that was built by the International United Nation Peacekeeping Forces, or shortened as IUN PKF. The base was taken by the Royal Erusean Airborne Forces in the early opening hours of the invasion with minimal casualties. Later on, it was used by 37th Air Division although it saw limited service.
But, this aircraft wasn't from the said regiments, but instead, from a special unit.
The aircraft was a Su-30SM multirole combat aircraft, a very limited aircraft in Erusean service. And then, with the EASA word marked on its tail, it was very easy to guess who piloted it. The pilot was no one but the legendary Erusean Ace, Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas Archangel Shilage, shortened as Mihaly. A. Shilage, which was also his nickname.
A very long full name, which was common after knowing that he is coming from a noble family. But he wasn't a legendary ace just because he was a noble, instead from his combat records during the previous Monarchy and Republic regimes. Added to that, he also trained the yet another Erusean ace, Yellow 13. Even during his ages right now, he encountered the currently famous Osean pilot, known as Trigger during this recent war. After he downed a female Ocean pilot, the Osean pilots then gave him a nickname called, 'WomenSlayer69'.
"Ah, the living legend finally arrived!" exclaimed a base operator who then quickly picked his phone to record the Legendary Ace's landing.
The runway has been cleared for his arrival. A dozen men are waiting at the end, dressed in their pilot suit. They fall back behind the plane when it touches down, while one of them goes to open the door. The ace steps out first, followed by a small group of pilots who rush forward to help him along. After this, two more men step out and surround him, one of them was dressed in white lab coat and also, wearing glasses.
"Are you okay?" Ask the man dressed in white lab coat while fixing his glasses position.
"Yes, I'm o-ugh," while trying to look strong, Mihaly's body couldn't lie to him. After coughing for several times, he would already fall to the ground if the several pilots didn't hold his body.
Realizing his bad conditions, they quickly bring Mihaly into the infirmary to be taken care by his personal and their base doctors. The scientists, on the other hand, still standing there and looking at Mihaly Su-30SM before said, "With this situation, I wonder if the program could still continue..."