Assault and Infiltration

Inside the combat briefing room of the Stealth-class ship;

It was suffused with cool-toned blue light, and the air drifted with the metallic scent characteristic of nano-filtration systems.

More than twenty special operations group members from the Investigation Department sat in fixed metal chairs, their nano combat suits displaying a flowing, matte black in the dim environment, as if they could swallow all the surrounding light.

Encrypted data streams jumped across everyone's helmet screens, projecting mission parameters directly onto their retinas.

The holographic projector at the front of the briefing room was building a three-dimensional map accurate to the millimeter.

The blue image of Earth-18 slowly rotated, then rapidly magnified to the European region, and the full view of the United Earth Directorate (UED) headquarters building complex gradually became clear.

It was a complex composed of seven diamond-shaped towers, with the central main tower reaching a height of twelve hundred meters, and its surface covered with smart glass that would change color with the angle of sunlight.

Three kilometers around the perimeter of the buildings, pulse field generators were deployed, with an automated sentry turret every hundred meters.

"Pay attention to the northern forest area."

Standing at the front of the briefing room, Leon spoke, delivering his words into every team member's ears.

His finger tapped lightly on the holographic interface, and the image immediately focused on the thirty-square-kilometer coniferous forest located on the north side of the UED headquarters.

Meanwhile, the fibers of the nano combat suit gleamed slightly on his well-defined muscular arms as he continued:

"This will be our point of entry."

The hologram switched to a stereoscopic scan of the forest.

Numerous pipelines linking to the UED headquarters were hidden among the pine trees, some of which had a diameter that seemed just wide enough to