Fantasy Inbound: Volume 2 by Joe Takeduki

Author:Joe Takeduki [TAKEDUKI, JOE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Due to its location far off the coast, floating in the Wakayama Bay between Shikoku and the Kii Peninsula, Nayuta was relatively safe from Anomaly attacks. Or at least, it had been until two or so months ago.

Airborne and aquatic Anomalies were becoming more prevalent. The city had been discovered. And the masters of the portal-keeps, the archmages that Yu himself had faced, had set their sights on it—the Chosen Dharva, Scullchance of the Pride and Quldald of the Whirlwind.

Half-fish, half-man merfolk had invaded—anthropomorphic creatures coated in scales, with gill-like slits along their neck and fins jutting out from their limbs. Nearly two hundred of them were encroaching on Nayuta, wielding vicious-looking tridents, and they leaped gracefully from the ocean depths along the perimeter of the harbor. The unfortunate dock workers were the first fatalities. The merfolk skewered their soft flesh like shish kebabs, but the humans were swift and fierce in their response.

Militia volunteers rushed to the scene. There weren’t enough hands around Nayuta for the city to maintain a standing army, so in times of emergency, every resident in possession of a weapon was called to action. Participation would be compensated. The only permanent military officials on the island were executives like Shiba, and the settlement owed much of its long-standing safety to its brave conscripts.

Now it was their job to protect the city once more. A seemingly simple task against the merfolk, given their lack of firearms--but it wasn’t that simple after all. The scales lining the enemy’s body were tough as iron, possibly tougher. Standard firepower couldn’t put a dent in them.

“Guns don’t work!”

Exceptionally strong weapons, like high caliber rifles or shotguns, however, proved effective. Machine guns showed some manner of success as well, mostly in that there were more bullets to potentially hit an eye or gap in the scales. But anyone unlucky enough to have been equipped with a sidearm—or, heavens forbid, a bladed weapon—met with a gruesome death at the ends of the enemy’s three-pronged spears. Those even more unlucky were torn to shreds by their jagged, razor-sharp teeth.

Before long, the chaos was underscored by the low wailing of the settlement’s emergency siren.

Elsewhere in the harbor was the moored Naval Defense warship.

“Anomalies in the city!”

“Move, move, move! Rescue civilians! Hustle!”

The Izumo-class destroyer’s days of seafaring were over, but that didn’t stop what was left of the Defense, about one hundred twenty people all told, from making use of the convenient living space. Nothing was necessarily stopping them from living ashore, where there was functional, albeit limited, electricity and running water. Yet they chose to remain on the ship, purely out of distrust for the elves and their artificial city.

“Bet those elf assholes called ’em here!” one sailor spat.

“The hell’re they doing up in that tower? Can’t trust a thing those sneaky bastards do until they come clean and let the real leaders take charge.”

“They’ve even got the old Diet members in their pocket.”

“And our old superior officers. Scratch that, former superior officers.”

“Would you all zip it?” a tall young man interrupted.

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