Chapter 25: Chapter 25 – The November of the Fifth (4)

Yotsuba Clansmen slowly crossed the walls of the Imperial Palace and entered the area while silently killing the guards here and there. They weren't using magic in this operation, just old-school assassination skills, as those cannot be tracked. In contrast, with magic, there could always be a way to tell which spell was used to kill the target.

Kiritsugu, contrary to others, went directly to the inner parts of the castle as he was searching for the Emperor; more precisely, he wanted a key to the hidden library. The secret library apparently hid many precious books about ancient magic and many other forms of magic. Some would prove to be very useful for Yotsuba, while some not be that users could be traded to others who would pay a generous price for them. And, of course, part of those books would be gifted to the Genryūsai-dono as a sign of goodwill.

He was walking through the corridors of the castle while somehow admiring the noble atmosphere that was there. Many art centuries old were decorating the walls of the Imperial Palace while it was almost empty. Apparently, guards responsible for the protection of the Emperor were already moving him to the underground shelter, so he sped up so he could intercept them.

Fortunately, they were not in the shelter, and he managed to find them before they entered one of those hidden passages, and that would be a pain in the ass to find them again. Around the Emperor, there were more than ten guards, of whose five were magicians, and the other five were genetically enhanced humans.

'Hmm... troublesome. Still, thanks to the Mental Interference Magic from Yotsuba, they didn't notice me, so I can still ambush them.'

Thought Kiritsugu as he observed those bodyguards and soldiers escorting the Emperor while listening to some occasional sounds of the fight from inside of the castle. Apparently, the rest of his squad has also found their targets.

'Time Acceleration: Quadruple Accel'

Cast Kiritsugu his spell to his most limits in regard to acceleration type, as he grasped two combat knives in his hands as he rushed at those bodyguards. They were his targets, as Emperor was only a feeble middle-aged man without magic or even combat training, so he wasn't that threat compared to magicians and genetically enhanced soldiers here.

He was dancing between the bodyguards while slicing through their necks, and within several seconds he killed nine of them while throwing one of those combat knives at the last of them, piercing his head.

As the magic ended, he was a bit tired, as higher tiers of acceleration or deceleration magic took a severe toll on his stamina and body. His psion reserves were almost depleted for prolonged use of high-tier time acceleration spell.

After he quickly killed the Emperor, he took the key to the hidden library of the Imperial Palace and quickly went to the location. He passed through several rooms and even killed some people that were in his way, mostly personnel working in the Imperial Palace; as orders were clear, there were no survivors.

After five minutes, he finally arrived at the place and entered the hidden library. It was a small room behind the actual Imperial Library, and there weren't many books stored there. He started browsing through them and soon found the first one about Ancient Rituals. Then he found around ten books that were describing some experimental magic that could strengthen the human body or even increase psion reserves... pretty precious things.

It was understandable as the Imperial Family existed for more than 1,500 years; while not interfering with the government of Japan for most of that time, they still collected a huge amount of resources and precious magic books.

After securing the position, two of the Yotsuba Clansmen came and started helping Kiritsugu transport those magic books. They were putting them onto a moving transportable vault that was created for the transportation of precious things for short distances. There were hundreds of magic books in the hidden vault, but most of them were not that important.

They were taking only those about Ancient Magic, Psions reserves, enhancement rituals, or forbidden magic. Mainly because they had no capacity to move all of them, and as mentioned, most of them were rather useless.

"Everything clean. Let's go. How is the situation out there?"

Asked Kiritsugu as they were leaving the hidden library.

"We have killed our targets inside the palace. Squad Dragon has secured the perimeter and managed to kill some people that attempted to escape. At the same time, Squad Ichijou started clearing hidden spots in the area."

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Reported one of the Yotsuba Clansmen.

"Good. Go through the entire Imperial Palace once more, afterward lit it on fire, be sure the entire place is destroyed."

Commanded him as he looked at the transportation vault filled with magic books. As one would say, knowledge was power.

Most of these books would come in handy, especially those about rituals, as there was research going on about strengthening the human body.

Their mission here was now complete, with the death of their last target. Right now, they only needed to transport their loot to a safe location back to the clan, and everything was done. Rest would be done by the army and Ten Master Clan forces that were currently taking over Tokyo and the rest of the strategic places across Japan that weren't under their immediate control.

In Tokyo, the entire city was in a state of panic and chaos. As soon as the building of the National Diet exploded, the National Defense Forces and forces of the Ten Master Clans and the rest of the Number Family System entered Tokyo and practically locked down the entire city. The district where the parliament was located was under the heaviest lock-down. There wasn't any official announcement towards the country as a whole, as nobody had time for that.

Approximately one hour after the terrorist attack on the parliament, another thing happened that shook the entire society was another terrorist attack on the Imperial Palace, which was under fire.

When National Defense Forces got there, it was already late as all members of the Imperial Family, including the Emperor, were killed; not even servants and other personnel survived.

Across the country, similar incidents occasionally happened as some people were too assassinated or met with lamentable accidents. Only after one day later, the situation was already under control, but with the entire parliament dead and also the whole government being deceased, there was a massive power vacuum in the nation.

Because of that, top brass of the country met on the following day. That consisted of patriarchs of Ten Master Clans, Commander-in-Chief Marshall Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, and several other prominent military generals to discuss the situation and establishment of the new nation.

Officially in the news, the Great Asian Union and fanatics of Dahan took the blame for the series of terrorist attacks, which wasn't entirely wrong. Just they would never get the opportunity if not for Yotsuba Clan and National Defense Forces allowing them from the shadows to enter the country, but that was, of course, omitted from history as people aware of that could be counted on one hand.

After the lengthy discussions, soon enough, the new government was established, and an era of the monarchy in Japan came to an end. Ten Master Clans and National Defense Forces jointly established a new strong and united government in times of war, and even the name of the state changed to the Japan Imperial Hierarchy. Ironically the one responsible for announcing this news to the nation was Marshall Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.

A week later, the position of the new government was heavily fortified, and all other countries were just looking from the sidelines that the first pro-magician nation was established on the Earth, which created envy from magicians of other countries as most of them were still only used as weapons albeit their privileged they held many responsibilities and heavy restrictions. This also resulted in the displeasure of many magicians against their respective governments and nations.

On the other side, many nations, especially the USNA, New Soviet Union, and Great Asian Union, were wary of the newly formed Hierarchy and decided to invest more resources into training magicians and to increase their magical population.

As it was the year 2065, more precisely, the year 2065 was coming to an end, and it was apparent that soon enough, World War III would end. One could say that the establishment of the Japan Imperial Hierarchy was a great signal to stop the war and focus on recovering the lost strength during the war that took almost 20 years.

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