Raiders of the Gods

Nieder Hogg, a birthday present for Brecht when he was 19.

When his family asked him what he thought of the mecha, Brecht said it was fine, but he carefully put the mecha away in his space on the spot.

"Do you want to give it a name?" The family asked with a smile.

"of course."

Brecht stroked the space button hanging around his neck, and a suitable name instantly appeared in his mind.

"Oh... is it the legendary evil dragon that gnawed at the World Tree?"

The family did not approve or deny it. Brecht just drove his mech and won victory after victory in the universe.

To this day, whenever Nid Hogg appears in space, it heralds the opponent's defeat.

After Jiang Tingyuan graduated and returned to Erbita, although he became a mecha gardener, his practice never stopped.He goes out at 10 o'clock every morning, warms up and runs for [-] minutes, and then has a fighting class against the intelligent robot.After the preparatory activities are over, he will go to work at nine o'clock, driving his little gray mech to mow the neighbor's lawn.

After cutting the lawn and getting today's pocket money, Jiang Tingyuan looked at the energy consumption of the mecha and flew to the giant tree forest in Elbita.

At the top of the forest thousands of meters high, only Jiang Tingyuan has the patience and perseverance to carry the high pressure every day to trim the excess branches and leaves.And the tool for pruning those strong and tenacious branches and leaves is his mecha lightsaber.

"I'm sorry, but I will trim you beautifully today too."

Slashing, stabbing, and slashing, Jiang Tingyuan has been pruning the endless forest for five years purely with swordsmanship.

For others, it may be useless work that has nothing to do with mechs, but Jiang Tingyuan knows that this is a suitable training method for him.What he has to learn is the method of attacking without mercy, instead of retreating and avoiding like in the past.

As soon as Jiang Tingyuan got on the mech, he sprinted forward at full speed.Jiang Tingyuan's mecha was smaller than Ned Hogg's, only half the height of Ned Hogg's.Therefore, when Jiang Tingyuan stepped forward, he took advantage of the visual difference and kept short to avoid Nid Hogg's field of vision.

Jiang Tingyuan instantly pulled out the built-in lightsaber from the waist of the mecha, and slashed at Nidhogg's leg joints.

All the actions were completed within a second, but Jiang Tingyuan's heart skipped a beat suddenly, as if he was being targeted by some vicious and ominous monster.

Jiang Tingyuan subconsciously raised his head to look up. The giant dragon mech that seemed to be entrenched in the abyss lowered its head slightly, and two red flashes flashed suddenly in the eyes of the black dragon head.

Jiang Tingyuan immediately wanted to turn around and back up, but he couldn't move for some reason. He could only watch Ned Hogg stretch out his huge claws towards him.

"Next, return to Xiandar immediately."

Isaac, who was full of food and drink, had been working on the bridge for a while. Looking at the items listed by the general today, at a quarter past ten, he gave the order to return on time.

"Colonel Isaac, may I ask the general..."

A liaison officer ran up the bridge anxiously, the small communication light screen in front of him was constantly flashing.

Isaac took a look, and there seemed to be a golden dragon print pattern on the light screen.

"The general is busy and temporarily refuses to accept all communication requests."

"But... this is from Ansel's Palace..."

"Same, refuse."

Isaac asked the liaison officer to step back with a smile, then pulled his shirt collar and let out a sigh of relief.

"It's true, the general. Leave all the troubles to his subordinates. If I am retaliated by that side, I must push the general to stand up."

Isaac turned his head and looked at the corridor deep in the bridge, as if he suddenly remembered something, he looked down around the bridge.

"Who saw... Rusty?"

On the long metal corridor, the beautiful-looking Rusti was walking slowly, and Rusti looked around curiously.

"Mr. Jiang should live near here, right?"

Familiar footsteps sounded suddenly, Rusty stopped and subconsciously stood against the wall.

When the footsteps turned around the corner, Rusti saw Brecht... and Jiang Tingyuan who was holding him in his arms.

Rusti has always counseled Brecht. Although he often talked to him with a playful smile, in fact, no one in this starship dared to make fun of Brecht.

"General."

Rusti saluted Brecht, looking straight ahead, not daring to glance at Jiang Tingyuan.

Brecht nodded slightly and walked past Rusti.

After Brecht walked away, Rusti rubbed his face bored.Just now he spotted Jiang Tingyuan out of the corner of his eye, tightly hugged in Brecht's arms, his face was a little pale, as if he had passed out.

But this is secondary, the key point is Brecht's expression looking at Jiang Tingyuan.

Rusti joined Brecht's fleet five years ago, and he thought Brecht was "the general who doesn't laugh."

The general is a bone knife made of jade, which looks gorgeous but is actually icy cold.

Rusti once wondered if Brecht was of mixed blood from a foreign race or an alien domain, because Brecht seemed to be born with a lack of expression of human emotion.

Rusty quietly told Isaac his guess, and Isaac laughed three times.

"Please, you squatted on the ground and played with mud while the general was playing."

Rusty didn't believe it before today.

"It turns out that it can also show human expressions."

Ruth groaned, feeling that it was boring.

Obviously...he was the one who saw Jiang Tingyuan first.

"But why did Mr. Jiang faint?" Lusti looked at the end of the corridor suspiciously.

Jiang Tingyuan, who woke up on a soft bed, could explain that he was beaten by Brecht.

Brecht didn't feel at all that the opponent was a non-mecha combat specialist, so he had to show mercy.He even let out an impatient "tsk" when Jiang Tingyuan was too late to dodge and was hit.

Far from being angry, Jiang Ting felt ashamed.Yes, why couldn't he avoid Ned Hogg's attack? _(:з)∠)_

This time in less than 10 minutes, he still lost.

The red warning lights in the cab came on one after another. Nigelhod didn't even pull out the "World Tree". He simply competed with physical skills, but his huge body threw Jiang Tingyuan into the training with a series of high-speed and dexterous combos. room wall.

Before Jiang Tingyuan fainted in the cab, he vaguely heard Brecht asking him.

"Where's your own mecha?"

"……lost."

After Jiang Tingyuan said this, he completely lost consciousness.

When Jiang Tingyuan struggled to get up from the soft bed, he found that he was in a strange room.This is like a suite, the walls and floor are painted in blue and white, and the color combination looks very comfortable.

Jiang Tingyuan pressed the back of his neck, and there was still some dull pain there.Jiang Tingyuan stepped on the soft carpet and walked towards the window. After he brightened the corrugated window, he saw the scenery outside the window.

Xiandal, the federal capital star.

The most prosperous human city besides the imperial capital of Ulanlia.Unlike Ulanlia, which retains green vegetation and ancient buildings, Xiandar prefers gray and white alloy buildings because it is adjacent to an alien field.The towering cocoon-shaped buildings stood one after another on the metal ground, and the neatly arranged windows lit up one after another on the walls of the buildings, and the bright white light illuminated half of the sky at night.

Numerous small shuttle ships and airbuses were driving quickly on the transparent track in the sky. The shuttle ship that just flew over Jiang Tingyuan's head flew to a place that Jiang Tingyuan couldn't reach with the naked eye in an instant.

Jiang Tingyuan was at a very high place, he lowered his head slightly, and could hardly see what the ground below looked like.Only the cool wind with the smell of rain blowing at night, and then the dark zenith began to rain.

"you're awake?"

Jiang Tingyuan turned his head, and Brecht had already taken off his military uniform and put on his regular clothes. The soft beige knitted jacket and trousers made Brecht's eyebrows look gentler.

Jiang Tingyuan nodded and saw Brecht walking towards him.

"When you fainted, we had already returned to Xendar."

"How long have I been asleep?" Jiang Tingyuan asked.

"three hours."

Brecht dimmed the corrugated windows and put his finger on them to turn on silent mode.

"Three hours, you are really merciless..."

"You need to exercise," Brecht replied.

"Well, I know I'm particularly bad right now."

Jiang Tingyuan murmured, looking at Brecht's actions, he couldn't help being a little confused.

"Don't you like the rain?"

Brecht signaled Jiang Tingyuan to follow him and walked out.

"I hate the sound of rain."

Then Brecht was speechless. Jiang Tingyuan was most afraid of the sudden silence of the air. He coughed and tried to find some topics.

"When I was a child, I liked the rain very much. My mother would wear a raincoat and rain boots for me, and let me take a small umbrella to tread water in puddles outside the house."

Brecht seemed a little interested, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Tingyuan very seriously.

"How old were you then?"

"Five, five or six years old."

Jiang Ting compared his size by far. When he was five years old, he was only a little above Brecht's knee. He used to be relatively small, and his mother worried that he would be short in the future.

"I almost fell into the river and drowned when I was five, so I don't really like water."

Brecht reciprocated with Jiang Tingyuan and shared about the past.

Jiang Tingyuan said... _(:з)∠)_I can't talk anymore today!

"Ah...that's really dangerous."

Jiang Tingyuan answered with difficulty, while Brecht nodded as if enjoying it.

When Brecht opened the door of the suite, Jiang Tingyuan followed Brecht into a study.The study room is still old-fashioned, full of tall wooden bookshelves and full of paper books, with a large desk in the center.All kinds of scrolling light screens kept appearing on the desk, and it seemed that there were many official duties that Brecht needed to deal with.

Brecht turned his head and glanced, and said something in a flat tone.

"Ansel made nearly ten urgent calls while you were unconscious."

"Hey?!"

Jiang Tingyuan looked at Brecht in surprise, and then at the information light screen that flashed across like water, maybe there was a call from Ansel on it.

"As I said before, where I am, even Ansel cannot be offended."

Brecht looked at Jiang Tingyuan and said very bluntly.

"Do you want to thank me?"

"Of course, thank you."

Brecht nodded as he listened to Jiang Tingyuan's thanks, and asked again.

"How will you repay me?"

"repay……"

Jiang Tingyuan thought about it. He was rescued by Brecht when he first came to the Federation galaxy. Whether it was for the mission or personal feelings, of course he should repay due to the situation and reason.

It's just that the only thing he can do is to use the mecha...to cut the lawn, of course, it is also possible to repair the top of the tree. _(:з)∠)_

"I……"

Jiang Tingyuan tried to speak, but Brecht raised his hand to interrupt him.

"I still need a servant by my side. The Federation has a temporary mercenary system, so you can repay the favor with your labor."

Brecht opened a light screen in front of Jiang Tingyuan. On the light screen was a series of contracts. Jiang Tingyuan only needed to press his handprint under the light screen.

Under Brecht's powerful eyes, Jiang Tingyuan pressed his handprint honestly.

Brecht put away the light screen and opened the door to the side of the study.

"That's where you live. You can go outside here. If you don't know what you want to do, ask Isaac."

"Where is it?"

Jiang Tingyuan pointed to the opened room, which vaguely looked like an audio-visual room?

Brecht signaled Jiang Tingyuan to go in. Jiang Tingyuan felt as if he was being led by Brecht all day today. What else should he see?

When Jiang Tingyuan stood in the audio-visual room, he only had three words in his mind, "Thank you, that's enough, goodbye".

Brecht looked as usual, as he usually does when he stands at a meeting of senior federal officers to deliver a resolution.He pointed to the various colors placed on the shelves in the audio-visual room, whether they were old discs or new audio-visual mirrors.

"It was my fault for knocking you out, so please allow me to apologize."

"Isaac found it for me, you should like it."

Brecht spoke word for word.

"These, pornographic pieces."

The federal fleet under Brecht's command all lived in the fixed area of ​​Xiandal.Most of the dozens of cocoon-shaped buildings are fleet dormitories.A soldier whose family is in Xiandal occasionally asks for leave to go home to visit relatives, but most of them are in the dormitory for training or cooperative tasks, or waiting for Brecht's instructions at any time.

In the fleet training ground, Isaac is conducting daily training with Rusti.

Rusty kicked Isaac across the railing.

Isaac jumped up in an instant, lightly stepped on Rusty's calf, and fell back to the ground of the training ground with his strength.

Rusty punched him in the face the moment he landed. The force was so strong that the hair on Isaac's head was blown by the wind from so far away.

Isaac was about to turn sideways to avoid it, but found that Rusty took a step forward. Isaac couldn't dodge it in time, so he had to grab Feiluo's fist.

The sound of skin and flesh hitting was clear, and Isaac gasped in pain and shook his hand.

"Wow! You're very angry today? Are you broken in love?"

"...Fox, don't you know everything?"

Rusty pressed his knuckles and made a crisp sound.

"Little Prince," Isaac took a step closer to Lustie, "If there is a chance, out of humanitarianism, I would like you to save the princess who is trapped in the dragon's lair."

"What do you mean?" Rusty asked confused.

"Starting today, I feel sorry for him," Isaac sighed as he thought about the preparations he had made before, "Our general has a bad habit—the more he likes, the more he bullies."

"It's wearing a dignified appearance, but has a bad personality. It's a veritable shake|S."

Outside the fleet dormitory, a shuttle flew over the top of the fleet dormitory building at an extremely fast speed, heading towards the federal parliament.

Federal Parliament Building, Speaker's Office.

Song Sizhao, the speaker's secretary, was lowering his head to report to the speaker who was sitting in the dark office.

Even though he has been working with the speaker for nearly three years, every time he talks to the speaker alone, he is very nervous.

He is obviously older than the speaker and should have more work experience, but he can't show a corresponding steady attitude, which is really embarrassing.So is it because the speaker has been wallowing in such an environment since he was a child, or is it because of rumors about the speaker's family...

"Are there any more?"

In the dark room, suddenly there was a clear and powerful voice like the cry of a crane.The voice is recognizable, gentle, powerful, calm and infectious, the voice any leader aspires to have.

Song Sizhao came back to his senses, and hurriedly said.

"General Brecht has returned, and he is still in the fleet building under the ban and has not gone out."

"I heard...he brought someone back?"

"The general captured the star robbers outside and rescued the citizens of the Federation. They should have sent them home... As for whether there are any left behind, this, this, I don't know."

Song Sizhao wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked down at the light screen in front of him. There was indeed no relevant news.

But the speaker, who made Song Sizhao nervous, didn't continue talking about this topic.

"Do you know that I used to study in the Mecha Department of Abel Comprehensive College?"

"Yes?"

"Abell Comprehensive College holds a mech battle ranking competition every year, and the rankings will be announced in the whole school. Only the top [-] people can continue the next school year's courses, and those after [-], or transfer to another school, or transfer to another department .”

"It's a matter of employment and future. The students of the mecha department are very cautious about the competition. In order to win, they need a lot of learning and practice. Therefore, the learning atmosphere of the mecha department is comparable to that of the scientific research department. They can be called civil servants of the combat school. major."

"If graduates of the Mecha department don't work in mecha-related jobs after graduation, what do you think is the reason?"

"Because..." Song Sizhao pondered, "Have a new direction after graduation?"

"Heh." The speaker's clear and pleasant laughter sounded, "It's more likely that someone has destroyed the will, so hurry to escape from that terrible thing."

"No matter how many years old oysters have been, humans still feel delicious. In order to eat the delicious meat hidden in the shell, there is no way to use some brute force."

After the speaker finished speaking, a pardon suddenly appeared on the light screen in front of Song Sizhao.

[Brecht Fass's ban on going out was lifted by the chairman of the Federal Supreme Council at 9077:9 pm on September 28, 3 in the cosmic calendar]

"I forgive him, let the general come out and walk around."

The speaker chuckled, as if looking forward to meeting someone again.

The author has something to say: Brecht: It’s only getting interesting today~

Jiang Tingyuan: I don't like this!I—(sneaking glances) You forced me to watch it!

Speaker: Looking forward to seeing you again~