Invasion Wars 1: Crimes of War
blasted loud enough to push away the dust around them. A second one. A third.The rest of his bullets went down into the Niflheim’s mouth, having purple blood come back up.
    With an empty click and a motionless Wotan, Hauser threw the rifle to the side in anger. It was their fault he was like this. He was a freak because of them. He had to join the UMA under a false name because of them. His past of being Emich Aumeier was gone because of them.
    Dropping to his knees, he stayed there in front of the dead Niflheim, motionless, until reinforcements arrived.
     

Chapter 7
     
    Nuclear weapons never saw the light of day, ever since their creation that demonstrated its destructive power. The cold war stayed cool because of the immense fear that a nuclear device could have on its people. The power to destroy entire cities within seconds. The power to leave impact area uninhabitable for hundreds of years. The superpowers of the world able to mass produce these weapons.
    All useless against the Niflheim.
    Radiation is one of the most deadly things to man. It burns like a fire that stays and crawls into the body to swell and grow, until there is nothing left but a cancer-filled corpse. Anyone who survives is doomed to have children with crippling birth defects; their own life nothing but pain and disfigurement. Mutation in humans are almost always fatal — uncontrollable and to no end. It’s something that nobody wants to have and no country would want for its citizens.
    As for the Niflheim, they lived on radiation and grew more powerful because of it.
    Emich was in the middle of training when the news of the first nuclear missile being used, one that was dropped near his home city. Everything around the area was already gone and the Niflheim ETO didn’t have any countermeasures against an ICBM. At least, none that would prevent the nuclear attack. It hit with success, directly on the ETO’s Citadel — the very center tower that is surrounded by its four attached spires. Enveloped by a mushroom cloud, the results showed the ETO was partially destroyed.
    Because of the radiation, it reconstructed itself and grew bigger, the Niflheim inside mutating more powerful as well. What was to be believed as a success only ended in catastrophic failure. The ERA learned their lesson and payed for their mistake dearly. Once the following Second Spear had to be ended the hard way, Northern America united with the fully destructed lower Americas to create the financially superior UA in 2341. The only thing that changed was now they owned the resources of the south, instead of having to buy them.
    All of that land and all of those profitable goods were just a well made investment on the UA’s part.
    Both Europe and South America were stuck in healing fresh wounds, leaving little for the war effort. The Trident War would have ended horribly if Sindri Corporation never came into the picture. Its new owner created a new version of the Beowulf Exoframe that could become mass produced and given to every soldier as a standard kit. Nobody knew how and nobody questioned it. Everyone just suited up their soldiers, gave them their training, and sent them off to fight the Niflheim on three fronts.
    The front Emich was sent to was the homefront. It was the one he preferred. The final days of the Trident War were some of the hardest. It was a risk, but it was the only choice. Operation Thunder Gauntlet was a three way massive strike.
    The plan was to attack the landed Yggdrasil ships from land, sea, and air. It would be the biggest single operation in the history of human warfare. Every active member across the globe participated. The last push. The one move that would decide if humans should be the dominant ones on Earth or not.
    Master Sergeant Emich Aumeier checked his MBC3, already suited up and ready for action. The equipment rooms to store and repair Beowulf Exoframes took up more space than a normal soldier would, so each transport ship could only

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