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"Off you go!" Fay shouted from her seat, right as Claudy - on his trembling legs - pulled the lever down.

Feeling the slack, I pulled on the belt and dragged a small yet extremely heavy package along the floor of the hovercraft and then its ramp.

"Lean in a little, would you?" I called out once I dragged the package far enough while already moving down to my knees to flick a selection of buttons and switches on the package.

A universal bomb. A self-assembling device that allowed its owner to array charges in all sorts of ways to achieve all sorts of different purposes.

When it came to me, however, someone with merely two days of military training given by the maglev's pilot, I stuck to the simple setting.

There was no need for us to break any walls or defeat great monsters. And for the crowd below us, a simple anti-personal bomb would perfectly suffice.

"I'm ready!" I called out as soon as a single, green diode flashed on the main screen of the modular bomb's panel.

'I wonder how it could arrange everything so quickly…' I thought, looking at the baseball-sized cube with a hint of awe. 'From what I remember, those packages are not that small, so to move them around so easily and quickly…'

"Hang on, I'm putting us into a tilt!"

In theory, Fay could just will her thoughts to me to coordinate… But with Claudy barely able to operate with how terrified of flying he became, it was better to give the scared supreme a heads-up, lest we wanted to risk him falling out of the maglev.

"Got it!"

The ships turned in the air.

It remained motionless, yet its bottom perked up while its front took a dive, as if the entire thing was trying to roll over.

With the bottom of the ramp now shielding me from the fighting below, I hooked the belt attached to the modular bomb over the upper edge of the ramp's slot before dragging myself back inside while pulling on the belt.

Did I mention that this box of modular explosives was quite heavy? And while my strength now went beyond the level of a supreme, with the unsure footing of the angled deck of the maglev I simply couldn't anchor any of my power, making the task of lifting the bomb quite the challenge.

Still…

"It's done! Tilt back!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

As commanded, the maglev shifted again, returning back to its perfectly even position.

Hanging off nothing but the simple belt, the bomb swung away from the edge of the ramp. The very moment its swinging momentum started to die, I let go of the belt, allowing it to slide out of my hands.

Deprived of the force holding it up, the bomb instantly plummeted down. The resistance of the air had nothing on its extremely condensed weight.

The very moment the bomb went below the level of the currently opened ramp, Fay pushed all the juice of the maglev into its hypermagnets, jerking us as far away from the scene as fast as she could.

The bomb took only two seconds to drop down from the height we were hovering at, barely allowing us enough time to escape the blast radius. And the very next moment…

CracaBOOM!

The sound of the explosion was unlike any other I've witnessed thus far. It didn't sound like neoguns, with their mix of the electrical hissing of the high-powered rail and afterburner explosion. It wasn't like any of the bigger guns or mortars I've witnessed since coming to this world.

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The very instant it went off, it sounded like a bunch of strong… fireworks. It was only a split a second later, when the priming explosion sent all the modular explosives flying all over the place, when the proper and familiar boom reached my ears.

"Did it work?" Hearing the explosion, Claudy fought off his terror and even attempted to look over the ramp…

"Hang on!"

Before I could even think about answering, Fay shouted again. This time, her voice was full of urgency, though.

The hovercraft shifted again, this time off to the side and then upwards, only to fall on a gentle arc, returning right back to where a set of explosions just went off so precisely at the same time, their noise combined, making it seem as if there was only one shockwave.

I raised my eyes just in time to see a bright pillar of disgustingly crimson light come into existence, growing from the very ground and all the way up to the skies, cutting at an angle at the spot where our maglev was in just now.

'All within expectations thus far,' I thought, gritting my teeth to silently suffer through the pain when Maglev's sudden movements nearly made me dislocate three of my fingers.

Still, eager to confirm the results, I carefully took a sneak over the ramp…

Only to quickly retreat back into the vehicle and pull on a lever, closing the ramp back up.

"Did it…"

"Yeah," this time, I replied before Claudy could even form his question. "It worked as well as I expected."

The maglev was outfitted with all sorts of things that might prove useful during our perilous adventure into the unknown. And modular explosives were just one of them, one of the tools we could use to solve the problem at hand.

A problem that the young woman we picked up told us all about before offering us terms we would have to be stupid not to accept.

"Now that things are about to calm down a bit," Fay threw in a much calmer voice while looking over her shoulder, strangely relaxed even though we were well within the range of the supremes of the force we just bombed. "Do you want to fuck her?"

I raised my face and gave Fay a shocked look.

"Wait, did you really think…" I muttered, blinking my eyes a few times before putting on a small smile and shaking my head. "Fay, dearest, you should know there is no one else in this world that I can adore even remotely close to how much I adore you," I assured her with a confident smile.

Long gone were my naive, childish dreams of a harem. Being around Fay was infinitely more amusing and happiness-inducing than just having some mindless sex with some random girl.

"I agreed to her terms only because they are just what we want, not because I'm stupid and horny enough to have eyes for anyone but you," I assured while walking up to Fay's seat only to wrap my hands around her and giving her a hug from behind.

"So you really do want to fuck her," Fay sighed… Only, there wasn't as much as a hint of sadness, disappointment, or any other feeling that I would normally associate with a conversation like that.

I didn't know how she came to this conclusion either, so, being the stupid and oblivious man that most of us are, I did the next best thing that I could think of.

And it was to ask.

"What makes you say so?"

Fay leaned her head back to give me a mildly amused stare.

"The fact that her offering exactly what we want and need didn't raise any flags for you," she revealed with a small, mischievous grin before turning her face back to the maglev's displays and looking out.

"I guess this topic, we will have to leave for later," Fay sighed when her eyes locked in and then tracked the movements of a familiar figure at the top of the contested wall. "We can consider her intentions later, but for now, we need to pull our own weight first to be in a position to make demands later."

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