Year 450 Cycle 2 - Missions
[4th Division Chief Commander] Talaros Braern: "Commencing operations. 4th Division, deploying ARMs. Targets: D-Class Spectres."
[4th Division Chief Operator] Lia Valie: "Focus, and remember your training girls."
Team Scarlet Star
Mission: Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Messenger
Location: Yellow Area G16Location: Yellow Area G16
Danger Level: Medium
Difficulty Range: 6-10
Reward: 10000EC
Goals:
- Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Messenger.
Phase 1: Destroy the Spectre's Barrier.
Phase 2: Destroy the Spectre's Phantasmal Core.
Main skills:
1. DEFENDER
Useful skills:
1. CASTER and INVOKER
2. AID (SOUL)
The ARMs from Team Scarlet headed for Area G16, uneasy but also excited to prove themselves. During flight, Baretta couldn't help but slip out her uneasiness.
Baretta Scarlet:
"Our first Spectre..."Capella Scarlet:
"It will be okay Baretta. We are a team!"Capella held Baretta's hand. The warmth of her partner was reassuring.
Baretta Scarlet:
"Thanks Capella. You are right, we can do it."They arrived at the location, a mountainous area where the incubating Spectre had been spotted inside a valley. The ARMs confirmed a visual, the Spectre hadn't moved since the report. D-Class, Type Messenger... this one was humanoid shaped, semi-transparent but still clearly visible. It had countless veins of pink and blue coursing through its body, and they all traced back to the Core that was in its chest. It had no eyes or mouth, only a hole where its face should have been.
Capella Scarlet:
"Target confirmed! Team Scarlet Star, assuming anti-Spectre formation! ARM Capella Scarlet will assume Focus position."Baretta Scarlet:
"Roger! ARM Baretta Scarlet, providing support!"Danger: Medium (Focus) Low (Support)
Difficulty: 8 (Focus) 6 (Support)
Type: Individual
Skill: Highest Combat Skill
Baretta Scarlet (Support): 7 = [6]+3(Invoker)-2(Spectre)
Capella Scartet (Focus): 9 = [5]+3(Defender)+1(Courage)
Capella has taken 1 Love damage (1/2)Capella accelerated forward, drawing the Spectre's attention. Phantasmal energy surged, and the Phantasmal Entity grew in size, now as tall as a hill. The ARM swiftly moved left and right, deploying powerful barriers to block the attacks of the Spectre. Meanwhile, Baretta had summoned Gelato to provide fire support.
Baretta was focused on the Spectre and Capella, who had managed to get close to enough for her Heart Field to affect the Spectre. All the unease of before had disappeared, the confidence and bright form of her partner getting to her.
Baretta Scarlet:
"Now, Gelato! Full volley!"Spectre Barrier destroyed!The Phantasmal Avatar fired from its conjured revolvers, breaking down the Barrier of the Messenger. In a super display of coordination, Capella immediately projected her Heart Field covering the entire Spectre. Its Phantasmal Body started to crumble under the magic power of the ARM. Capella reached out her hand, grabbing something invisible, and crushed it. As soon as she did that, the distant Core of the Spectre shattered into pieces. Phantasmal Levels lowered sharply, and all trace of the Spectre vanished.
Spectre Core destroyed!Baretta Scarlet:
"You did it Capella!!!"Capella Scarlet:
"Ha... ha... I really did it? No way, we won! We won our first Spectre battle!"Baretta Scarlet:
"W-what are you saying? I thought you were sure we would win!"Capella Scarlet:
"Eh- whatever! We won! We are the best!"Capella hugged Baretta with joy, exhilarated by the victory.
Baretta Scarlet:
"Team Scarlet Star reporting! Capella Scarlet has eliminated the target, the mission is a success!"[4th Division Chief Operator] Lia Valie: "Well done girls. But do not drop your guard, you are still in hostile territory! The rejoicing can wait when you are back to base."
Capella Scarlet:
"Y-yes sir!"Mission completed!Team Green
Mission: Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Apprentice
Location: Settlement H22 - OutskirtsLocation: Settlement H22 - Outskirts
Danger Level: Medium
Difficulty Range: 6-8
Reward: 10000EC
Goals:
- Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Apprentice.
- Eliminate the Apparitions.
Phase 1: Eliminate the first wave of Apparitions.
Phase 2: Destroy the Spectre's Barrier.
Phase 3: Destroy the Spectre's Phantasmal Core.
Main skills:
1. STRIKER
Useful skills:
1. CASTER and INVOKER
2. AID (MIND)
Raven-621:
"ARMs now entering combat zone."Malakim-12:
"Apparitions detected, we are moving to engage."Team Green wasted no time with chitchat, heading straight for the Apparitions that had gathered around the anomaly. There was no sign of the Spectre yet, but the ARMs could sense it would soon appear.
Danger: Medium
Difficulty: 4
Type: Individual
Skill: Highest Combat Skill
Malakim-12: 10 = [6]+3(Caster)+1(Harmony)
Raven-621: 6 = [2]+3(Caster)+1(Harmony)
Just like they had done in the previous mission, Malakim-12 and Raven-621 quickly cleared the wave of apparitions with their magic powers. Raven-621 immobilised the Apparitions with her chains, while Malakim-12 pummeled them magically with her tonfa spells. Then as if to respond to the threat, the anomaly pulsed, and a Spectre manifested.
Malakim-12:
"Phantasmal readings increasing! The Spectre is manifesting!"Raven-621:
"Team Green, assuming battle formation. Raven-621: Focus. Malakim-12: Support."The Spectre looked like a gigantic octopus as tall as a four-story tall building overflowing with Phantasmal energy.
Danger: Medium (Focus) Low (Support)
Difficulty: 8 (Focus) 6 (Support)
Type: Individual
Skill: Highest Combat Skill
Malakim-12 (Support): 7 = [5]+3(Caster)+1(Harmony)-2(Spectre)
Raven-621 (Focus): 8 = [6]+3(Caster)+1(Harmony)-2(Spectre)
Raven-621 has taken 1 Harmony damage (2/3)Immediately Raven unleashed a rain of chains upon the Spectre to attract its attention. The Spectre's tentacles coiled, and firing beams of Phantasmal energy as they uncoiled.
Raven-621:
"Tch! It is countering my spells!"Malakim-12:
"Let's see it counter this!"Malakim-12 focused all her magical power into a charged tonfa-spell, pulverising the Spectre's barrier with one clean strike.
Spectre's Barrier destroyed!Staggered by its barrier shattering, the Spectre's barrages saw a slight drop in intensity. Raven-621 felt a chance, and increased the intensity of her attacks to overwhelm the Spectre. Hundred of magical chains kept raining down, keeping the entire Spectre's attention away from the fallen chains. They twisted and gathered to form a great link, which shot upward to pierce the exposed Core of the Spectre.
Spectre's Core destroyed!Malakim-12:
"M-mission accomplished. Did we really do it Raven?"Raven-621:
"Spectre signature... silent. It's our victory. Reporting to Command, mission complete."Raven-621 fell to her knees from exhaustion. She still couldn't believe they had won, but they really did.
[4th Division Chief Operator] Lia Valie: "...Outstanding work girls. We can let the Guardians take over from there, return to base."
Mission completed!Team Gunmetal Rose
Mission: Find and Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Apprentice
Location: Green Area H32Location: Green Area H32
Danger Level: Medium
Difficulty Range: 6-8
Reward: 10000EC
Goals:
- Eliminate the D-Class Spectre, Type Apprentice.
Phase 1: Find the Spectre.
Phase 2: Destroy the Spectre's Barrier.
Phase 3: Destroy the Spectre's Phantasmal Core.
Main skills:
1. STRIKER
2. SENSE (SOUL)
Useful skills:
1. CASTER and INVOKER
2. AID (MIND)
Carla and Jeannie Xian landed on top of a an abandonned tower. The ruins hadn't changed much since their last incursion, the place was silent as ever.
Carla:
"November Rose reporting. We will start looking for the Spectre."Jeannie Xian:
"I didn't think we would be back in there so soon. Ah well... How about we go check around the stadium first Carla?"Carla:
"No issue with that. Let's stay together."Danger: Low
Difficulty: 6
Type: Teamwork
Skill: SENSE (SOUL)
Carla: 6 = [3]+2(Sense)+1(Love)
Jeannie Xian: 4 = [1]+2(Sense)+1(Love)
The two girls returned to the stadium where they had first detected a Phantasmal fault in the previous mission. The first fault was gone thanks to the efforts of the decontamination team, but worryingly another fault had appeared nearby.
Jeannie Xian:
"No way! There is another one!"Carla:
"Wait. I'm picking up something... Like a trail. Follow me Jeannie."Carla could sense a faint trace of Phantasmal residues going from the fault. It led to an even more ruined part of the area, that must have been an industrial zone in the past. The residues suddenly it stopped in the middle of an old factory.
Carla:
"I have a bad feeling about this."Jeannie Xian:
"Carla, I think we should get out of there..."Just as Jeannie said that, Carla sensed a Phantasmal surge. She grabbed Jeannie Xian and bolted out of the factory right as explosions collapsed it.
Jeannie Xian:
"An ambush?!"Carla:
"We are under attack! Spectre signature detected, team Gunmetal Rose will engage the Spectre. Assuming anti-Spectre formation! We will both focus the Spectre.Jeannie Xian:
"R-roger!"Danger: Medium (Focus) Low (Support)
Difficulty: 8 (Focus) 6 (Support)
Type: Individual
Skill: Highest Combat Skill
Carla (Focus): 6 = [4]+3(Invoker)+1(Love)-2(Spectre)
Jeannie Xian (Focus): 5 = [3]+3(Caster)-2(Spectre)+1(Harmony)
The Spectre looked like a floating rag that twisted and floated at incredible speeds. Everytime it casted a spell, needles emerged from its folds and fired Phantasmal energy. It was fast and knew how to use its environment, deftly avoiding the attacks of the two ARMs.
Jeannie Xian:
"Take this you damn Phantasm!!!"Jeannie blasted the entire area with a suppressing fire from her conjured gatling guns, turning it into the dust. Yet she still couldn't squarely hit the Spectre which was engaged with Carla.
Jeannie Xian:
"It's moving too much, I can't hit it!"Carla's Phantasmal Avatar, Warrior, was fighting against the Spectre. It couldn't land a hit with its massive spear, it was like trying to pierce a falling leaf. Then the Spectre coiled, and fired a new barrage at the two girls.
Carla has taken 1 Harmony damage (0/1)
Jeannie Xian has taken 1 Harmony damage (1/2)Carla:
"Damn it- Raaah!"Jeannie Xian:
"C-Carla! Are you okay?"Carla:
"I have suffered light damage, but I can still go on. This is not looking good, this Spectre is not going down as fast as I had hoped..."Jeannie Xian:
"Commander, we are taking heavy damage! Requesting orders!"<Commander orders pending...>