023. Frost-Pted District's Excellent Matg Meism
Li Aozi’s first stop in Grant wasn’t the capital directly. Instead, following Tianhuan's arras, he tacted the military attaché at the Tianhuan embassy, Jitsurō. The tter quickly sent a message direg Li Aozi to ect with the resistance anizatied by SCIA.
Li Aozi believed that with his strength, the mission’s difficulty shouldn’t be high. Frost-Pted's ret policies and plummetiation, along with the colpse of the Derby exge rate, had sparked widespread distent. Grant, long exploited by Frost-Pted, articurly enraged by the repeated grairas.
Logically, the Grand Duchy of Grant was like a rickety house; just one kick would bring it down.
However, upon finding the resistance anization, Li Aozi realized things weren’t quite as straightforward.
The first issue was the sheer number of resistance anizations in Grant. Among over 20,000 independence advocates, there were 42 different anizations, including more than a dozen religious leaders.
Relying on such a fragmented group to achieve independence would leave any new gover, at best, a precarious structure on the brink of colpse.
But that wasn’t the biggest issue. When Li Aozi discussed military coup strategies with this leaderless group of Grant citizens, he came to fully appreciate Frost-Pted District's "excellent matg meism."
Acc to a militant leader named Fran?ois, the Grand Duke held pace parties every Thursday, during which the Sulute Pace guards were reassigo maintain order. Fran?ois suggested that they could use gliders to infiltrate from above and shoot into the crowd to successfully assassihe Duke and his officials, thus ensuring the coup’s success.
Faced with this simple pn, Li Aozi casually asked a question:
“The artificial sun's height is 6,000 meters, limited by barriers, with most flights at an altitude of no more than 4,500 meters. What kind of aircraft fly at 4,500 meters without being noticed from the ground?”
This question prompted a silence more profound than Li Aozi had anticipated.
After sleeping on it, a militant group called Bermudes proposed an improved pn: they would use an advertising blimp to solve the altitude problem while ground forces unched an advaa the Sulute Pace with artillery.
This seemed more feasible, but one problem remained unresolved.
Who would assassinate Grand Duke Gamos Luwenqi Grant, who had a Gamma-tier strength?
Although Li Aozi khat Gamma-tier strength on Azure Star was somewhat infted, whether due ts or sheer luck, Gamma-tiers were still formidable. Without res to ons like fuel-air bombs—which couldn’t be used in a city—they couldn’t justify Frost-Pted military intervention.
The choice of assassin, therefore, became awkward.
In a try of 47 million people, the Grand Duchy of Grant had only thirteeier individuals. On the day of the mission, one was abroad, six were Frost-Pted Law IV agents, leaving six others, one of whom was the Grand Duke’s son, Marish Gamos Grant.
That leaves five, right?
Not so fast. Those five were the Grand Duke's personal guards.
Li Aozi couldn’t hold it in any longer.
Even though he was from Arnca, a vassal state of the Red Arrow Empire, it was clear that the matg meism of Frost-Pted District wasn’t as petitive as that of Red Arrow District. Arnca, despite its deficies, had 200 heavy fighter jets, 90 Beta-tiers, and 12 mobile armors statiohere—sidered g in military ethics by Red Arrow standards.
Li Aozi, who initially thought he was ing to py an easy game, realized that the Tianhuan people had brought him over to py babysitter.
SCIA likely saw the severity of the situation and didn’t want to i more effort, so they had Li Aozi step in to help.
Li Aozi pessimistically expihe situation to the resistance, early expining that Beta-tiers would massacre a ventional army. Even if only six Beta-tiers were present on the day, how could a mere 20 assault team hope to plete the assassination?
However, the Graance didn’t uand the role of the superhumans. In their view, humans couldn’t outrun bullets. One shot cripples, two shots kill, three shots make history. They believed their pn was already thh. Although Li Aozi's presence boosted morale, the Grant citizens still thought he, as a Frost-Pted native, didn’t uand Grant’s streets and only o follow their lead.
Iy, superhumans didn’t o outrun bullets; they just o outruime it took to pull the trigger. With a ton of armor, they could crush oppos into pulp. And when fag a Ranger-css firearm specialist, you might think you’re in a shootout, but the little pistol is firing on rounds.
Li Aozi was at a loss.
For a moment, he uood why Grant had been ized for so long. A resistance group with no unified anization, no iron-fisted leadership, and no clear uanding of the power disparity couldn’t save the try on blood and justice alone.
So, Li Aozi decided to adepely of the Graance.
He po elimihe Beta-tier strongmen one by one, acc to SCIA’s information, to ease the pressure on the resistance.
First on the list were the Frost-Pted agents. Li Aozi activated the Gravity Omega's [Mode Two: Distortion], boldly walked into the Law IV office, found two Beta-tiers, and without much versation, sheir necks with gravity, ied their bodies, a without alerting anyone.
However, after that, Li Aozi’s luck seemed to run out. He spent the entire night roaming, only to find that the Frost-Pted agents had returo report to the Frost-Pted embassy—an untouchable territory.
Sihe embassy was sidered sn nd, Li Aozi didn’t want to provoke Frost-Pted's mecha troops into invading, so he sought aarget.
Without alerting the guards, he infiltrated the Sulute Pad pnted bombs provided by the resistan the Grand Duke's office, but the Duke had left early, leaving Li Aozi waiting in vain for two hours. He abahe assassination attempt and turned his attention to the Grand Duke’s eldest son, Marish Gamos Grant.
Acc to SCIA’s intelligence, Marish was a notorious womanizer who often visited a vil arranged by his subordio indulge in pleasures, staying there for at least seven hours each time.
However, after waiting for three hours at the vil, SCIA agents informed Li Aozi that Marish’s wife had returned home. As a henpecked husband, Marish had happily gone home to be with his wife, and the couple was now shopping iy ter.
What happeo the pyboy? How did he suddenly bee the king of faithful love? Don’t back out now—your perverted soul is burning!
After all the fuss, SCIA, seeing how diligent Li Aozi was, invited him to the Tianhuan embassy for dihe afternoon before the operation to discuss strategies.
While Li Aozi was deep in versation with the SCIA agents, a on shot echoed down Silpaya Street, and Li Aozi and the Tianhuan representatives exged fused gnces.
A few mier, the Tianhuan ambassador awkwardly informed Li Aozi:
“It seems the resista the date wrong. The inal pn was to unch the coup on Thursday afternoon. But today, the guards were temporarily reassigo maintain order in the square, so they decided to act ahead of schedule.”
By the time Li Aozi realized what was happening, it was too te. Tanks and armored vehicles had already rolled onto the streets. The coup team, attag at the wrong time, stormed the Sulute Pace when few high-ranking officials were present. Instead, they ran straight into General Mobis Kolintara and his 29 Alpha-tier soldiers, who were there to discuss national defeh the Grand Duke.
Thus, Li Aozi’s first assassination attempt ended in an ued but unsurprising failure.
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