58 Chapter 58

Bach had a tendency to attack during the night when the human body was most sleepy and tired from a grueling day's work. So it was a given that he would most likely he would attack the mining area in the middle of the night, allowing his forces to fully suppress everyone at the border.

Ajax wanted to exploit this time difference, therefore, he had to rush over and do his attack before the Hell's League could launch theirs, or in other words, attack while the Hell's League was unprepared and resting. It was five o'clock in the afternoon by the time Lily woke up. Although Erica had attempted to wipe off the blood from her face, some of it had dried and stayed on her face.

"Big brother Ajax, my mother is... gone... no one will be taking me to study..." This was the first thing Lily said when she saw Ajax as tears started to well up in her eyes again, sliding down and dripping along the dried blood.

Ajax didn't know what to say, so he just sat quietly beside Lily and kept her company. He didn't quite understand what it felt like to lose someone you loved, because he had never had someone to love. Hell, he didn't even know his parents' names. It was as if he had been dropped on this planet one day with no clues as to who was his family.

He grew up seeing other children walking down the street holding hands with their parents, and he envied them. How could the world be so cruel, where were his parents? He longed to experience that feeling, but as time passed, he grew older, he grew colder, and he slowly got used to being alone.

Lily seemed to calm down after a little while of crying and wiped away her tears. "Ajax, can I follow you? You are the only person left who treats me nice." Lily's words were blunt, she was a child, after all, she didn't really know how to interact with adults or break down such requests.

"Yeah, don't worry," Ajax responded without any hesitation, "I'll be making our enemies pay a steep price tonight. And although killing the enemy won't bring your mother or your father back to life, it will be something that will make you feel better."

"Really? Okay!" Lily said as the sense of hope could be felt in her words. She and her parents had been forced to flee to the border when she was six years old. Although she hadn't been out of the camp much in the past three years, she had witnessed many deaths and in a fucked up way her psyche had been affected making her indifferent to the deaths of others she didn't know.

As the sun started to gradually set, Ajax quietly left the mining area with the team that would be attacking the headquarters of the Hell's League. There was no big show of mobilizing troops, no crowds, no convoys, each car was separated by hundreds of meters and they drove with their lights off, embracing the cover of the night.

This minimized the chances of raising and alarm and prevented them from being discovered by the scouts from the Hell's League. In addition to the three most important mechs, the Reaper, the Thorny Rose, and the Cherry Blossom, there were also two Parallax-Level mechs, twelve Knight-Level mechs, two Knight-Level tanks, one Knight-Level Protection-Type jet, and 500 operators.

*TN: Erica's mech name changed from "Sunflower" to "Thorny Rose" because it fits more considering the mech is red.*

As for the mining area, Ajax left two damaged mechs and over a hundred wounded operators. All the people were still inside the mine, with only patrols of twos and threes coming outside with no light at all. Ajax had also given he order to fight to the death. If the enemy attacked, they could not retreat and must defend the entrance of the cave with their lives. entrance.

At 7 p.m., Ajax and others had rendezvous about 2 kilometers away from the Hell's League camp. After almost everyone had arrived, Ajax decided to take advantage of the night to scout by himself.

It was noticeable that Bach had gone all out and spared no expenses on this camp. There were six-meter-high thick walls on all sides, a large number of watchtowers and sentry posts, and only one entry and exit point, a gate that made things easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, the defense of the gate of the camp didn't appear to be too tight. There were only a few hundred regular personnel and seven or eight mechs guarding it. Having just achieved a victory could be inferred to be the reason why their security was relatively lax.

But Ajax was not one to be fooled by appearances. He could see through the lights that many heavy defense points were wrapped in dense barbed wire. Once the gunshots rang, it was estimated that a large number of mechs and personnel of the Hell's League would arrive here within minutes.

What Erica had said before was correct, they could not enter the Hell's League camp by force with just their strength alone. However, Ajax had no intention of making a direct from the very beginning.

After returning to the team, he asked all the operators and mechs to wait in place and made his way to the Protective-Type jet parked to the side next to them. After the camp was surrounded last time and the first jet was destroyed, Bach spent a lot of money to buy another one and put it in the mining area.

This jet was the most critical thing and the key to victory for tonight's. After nodding to the pilot inside the jet, the magnetic energy engine started, making a slight noise, and the jet's VTOL system was engaged, slowly rising from the ground.

It then dropped 2 straps with hooks which Ajax used to hook himself onto the jet, letting it take him up into the air, and quickly crossing the high walls of the Hell's League camp. There were dense buildings as far as the eye could see, this camp was at least twice as large as that of the Lazoole Society's previous camp. Many places were brightly lit, and people walking around could be seen everywhere.

"We're under attack! I repeat, we're under attack!" The patrol personnel of the Hell's League quickly shouted and raised their guns, firing a burst. Their response was quick as they knew that their two jets hadn't taken off, so it must be an enemy jet. However, most of their operators were still asleep or had just woken up, delaying their actions to defend.

"Drop me on the tarmac!" Ajax quickly ordered when he saw the place where the Hell's League's jets were parked.

"Copy that, Sir." The jet accelerated and was about to drop him and when it received a shot to the fuselage. Ajax stopped holding back and opened fire on the patrol personnel who had fired at him, making a sweep to cover the landing of the jet. When only a dozen meters away from the ground, the pilot unhooked Ajax and he dropped down.

Just before he hit the ground he used his thrusters to stabilize himself and soften his landing. The jet had completed its mission and quickly got out of the engagement zone, only returning to drop Lily and Erica off.

When the ordinary people from the Hell's League saw the sudden mechs being airdropped into their camp, their faces turned pale with fright, and they all shouted and fled in all directions. Ajax ignored these people, walked straight to the two jets, and fired two shots at them, destroying their cockpits.

This was purely by coincidence, he hadn't expected that the jets of the Hell's League would be left in the open rather than be stored in hangars or underground, something that allowed him to deal with the jets first and mark the start for the raid.

After he did so, operators from the Hell's League started to rush over, guns blazing. Ajax wasted no time and swiftly dispatched the attackers. Ajax didn't halt his advance and continued to charge forward, his weapons raining down bullets on buildings and vehicles indiscriminately, creating chaos and drawing attention to their attack.

In an attempt to evade the hail of bullets, many members of the Hell's League sought refuge inside the buildings, securing the doors tightly behind them, not willing to venture out into the deadly firefight.

At the same time on the other side of the camp, Bach was sleeping soundly before being awake by loud banging and shouting at his door. "Sir! Sir! We're under attack!"

Having only returned to camp at 1 pm, Bach had been tirelessly occupied with tasks until 6 in the afternoon and had barely gotten a few hours of sleep over the past two days, exhaustion weighed heavily upon him. He struggled to open his eyes, his body fighting for rest as the clamor outside insisted on his attention.