Geek Mob Mercenary (LIGHT NOVEL VERSION) Volume 1 Chapter 9

Mob #9 “Captain Uzoss. I have unfortunate news… I’ve found… my destiny…”
 

Lord Albert Circlewood.
 
One of only 12 people at King rank, the highest in the entire Mercenary Guild.
 
I didn’t expect someone so famous to appear.
 
Handsome with a tall build, of course, and nicknamed things like [One Man Fleet] and [Jet Black Devil] for his power.
 
Rumor says his ship is a monster craft experimentally produced at a shipyard that no one but him can pilot.
 
With someone like that here, this operation to secure a foothold for the raid on the Cadeceus Pirates’ base has high chances of success.
 
Maybe Captain Hyliat secured his cooperation before formulating this operation.
 
Right after that, the strategy explanation began.
 
First, assemble at the designated points by the time for each planet.
 
After that, the mercenary troops besiege then annihilate the interceptors.
 
Then the military imperial guards charge in and take control of the base.
 
It’s an extremely orthodox and overused strategy.
 
Naturally it assumes base bombardment and resistance from the interceptors. And of course, the likelihood of mercenary attrition.
 
That’s fine. Mercenaries undertake work prepared for things like that.
 
But the problem is the imperial army guys who will charge in and take control of the base.
 
Rather than the imperial guards, the expeditionary fleet from the central fleet or planetary defense fleet should be more suited.
 
The imperial army imperial guards are troops for the empire’s leader, the empress. Not troops to mobilize for subjugating pirates.
 
Yet forming the backbone means it’s likely some form of military demonstration I’d like to think.
 
So while high caliber troops will of course be dispatched, if this was an opportunity for those untouchable bigshots to flaunt their power, rather than double effort it might take 8 times as much from blunders, and they’d likely pin the blame for failure on us.
 
How are we interfering when we haven’t even entered the base!?
 
Frankly it’s beyond irritating.
 
Well they probably can’t play around too much with famous people here this time.
 
We’ve also got Miss Rosweisse, the hero guy, and Miss Fialka, after all.
 
[With reinforcement this powerful assembled as well, let us be sure to succeed in this operation for the empire’s peace!]
 
Following Captain Hyliat’s theatrical words concluding the briefing,
 
“All officers gather at the designated space sector by 20:00 galactic standard time!”
 
With the firm words of a veteran soldier, operation preparations began.
 
With fuel and ammo already fully loaded, combat craft began departing one after another from the spaceship docking site.
 
I’m leaving near last as always, of course.
 

 
Arriving at the designated space sector after around 1 hour of travel, we mercenaries besieged the Cadeceus Pirates’ hideout.
 
The area around was crammed together with various combat craft, like a trade show for combat craft.
 
Standing out amidst them were,
 
Albert Circlewood’s craft with entirely black body and just a small simplified devil illustration drawn on the fuselage.
 
And the silver and yellowish-green craft with a helmet emblem ridden by Loudmouth aka Lambert Riagrades courtesy of Miss Rosweisse.
 
Just seeing those two, they look like nothing but top aces.
 
And then the imperial guard fleet arrived behind that group, followed immediately by a broadcast to all ships.
 
[All officers and soldiers! I am Galactic Empire Army Imperial Guard Commander, Keirekt Yrundiver! I hold the supreme rank of Grand Marshal as well as the noble title of Duke!]
 
A handsome man looking as if to say he was a prince appeared on screen.
 
I heard he’s the current Empress’s cousin, and there’s talk in certain circles about making him the next emperor instead.
 
[The success of this operation to annihilate the vicious Cadeceus Pirates depends on your shoulders! Let us be sure to crush this existence threatening the empire’s, no, the world’s peace!]
 
While everyone was pumped up by the Grand Marshal Excellency’s words, some guys were surely raising voices of anguish like [Explode with handsomeness!].
 
Anyway, the Operation to Annihilate the Cadeceus Pirates began.
 
The Cadeceus Pirates’ hideout was a fortress made by remodeling a massive asteroid.
 
In other words, an amazing version of the asteroid residence those uncles were captured in some days ago.
 
With this many ships getting close, beam firing ports obviously appeared from the other side.
 
[Visual on beam firing ports!]
 
The moment I heard that report, I shifted my craft away from the firing ports.
 
I figured I should minimize barrier consumption even with it deployed.
 
Other mercenaries did the same, the non-rookies lightly evading.
 
Lord Albert Circlewood and Miss Rosweisse smashed one firing port after another while evading beams.
 
As expected, the [Jet Black Devil] and [Sentient Superweapon] are on another level.
 
“They must have thought it was dangerous too, as small manned combat ships to super-small unmanned combat ships appeared in a swarm.
 
It seems they can’t release pirate ships, after all.
 
Now, it’s time for work, work!
 

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And so, the battle began, and it had only been 30 minutes.
 
Already, over half of the enemy combat ships were in ruins.
 
Mainly thanks to Rosweisse-san.
 
She was drawing orbits that would be impossible for a human, with incredible speed, shooting down enemy combat ships one after another as they passed by.
 
Even the [Pitch-Black Devil] couldn’t compete, and although they were doing the same thing, Rosweisse-san’s pace and orbit were about one-third of what a human could achieve.”
 
I wonder if Loudmouth aka Lambert Riagrades riding Miss Rosweisse is okay?
 
But this undoubtedly made Loudmouth even more of a prospect for attention.
 
He’s probably fainted though.
 
No, he’d definitely faint with that!
 
But thanks to that, damage on our side was minimized.
 
Minimized doesn’t mean none. There were still casualties.
 
Not long after that, all enemy craft outside were shot down and the artillery fell silent.
 
[Good work mercenaries! Leave the rest to us!]
 
Following Grand Marshal Excellency Keirekt Yrundiver’s order, the capture troops infiltrated the hideout.
 
Now we just have to capture or shoot down any guys escaping the hideout.
 
If there are none, we can just relax until the capture operation ends.
 
I took out the coffee in a paper box I’d stashed and the paper book I just bought.
 
Digital books on multi-purpose terminals aren’t bad for not taking up space, but for some reason I prefer paper ones.
 
At that time, I got a transmission from Miss Rosweisse.
 
Figuring it’ll be nonsense but I’ll hear her out anyway.
 
“Hello? How may I help you?”
 
Miss Rosweisse then appeared on screen with a grim expression.
 
[Captain Uzoss. I have unfortunate news… I’ve found… my destiny…]
 
Yup, it was nonsense as expected.
 
But since I anticipated this,
 
“Lord Albert Circlewood? Or Grand Marshal Excellency Keirekt Yrundiver?”
 
I replied, to which,
 
[That’s right! How could there be not just one but two such wonderful, charming men here beyond you! I can only belong to one of those two now! You should have switched over to me sooner. How regrettable♪]
 
She spat out bitchy lines with a beaming face.
 
I knew she’d have said the same thing if I did switch over. Declining was definitely the right call.
 
[Hey! Who do you think I should pick? Partner in combat with Lord Albert? Or absolute protection for Lord Keirekt? What do you think~♪ Ah, but─]
 
I just left the babbling Rosweisse as is and started reading a light novel.
 
Figured this was best since she’ll likely go on.
 
Now to just wait for the capture troops to finish up.
 
Makes sense Miss Fialka would ask about Loudmouth after that great piloting demonstration from Lord Circlewood, but choosing based purely on looks and status seems precisely like Miss Rosweisse.
 
Even superweapons are into handsome guys…
 


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