023 Frostplate Region's Excellent Matchmaking Mechanism

Upon arriving in Guland Li Aoz did not head straight for the capital. Instead, following Sky Ring's instructions, he contacted the military attaché at the Sky Ring embassy, Ji Ci'lang. Kijiro quickly sent Li Aoz a message instructing him to contact the resistance organization arranged by the SCIA.

Li Aoz felt that with his strength, this task should not be too difficult. Frostplate's recent policies and reputation had plummeted, and even the Derby exchange rate had collapsed, which aroused dissatisfaction among many people, especially the Grantian, who had long been the target of Frostplate's exploitation. They were extremely angry about Frostplate's repeated siphoning of their food supplies.

Logically speaking, the Grant Duchy is like a dilapidated house on the verge of collapse; it would fall down with just one kick.

But when he actually found Granter's resistance organization, Li Aoz discovered that things were not quite right.

The first problem is that there are too many resistance organizations in Grant. Among the more than 20,000 independence activists, there are 42 organizations that have split off, and there are even leaders of more than a dozen religious sects.

If we expect such a group of people to achieve independence, even if they succeed, the new government will be a crumbling building, if not shaky.

That's not the most important issue. Secondly, when Li Aoz discussed with this group of Grantian who couldn't even muster a representative leader how to carry out a military coup, he gained a deeper understanding of what the Frostplate region's excellent matching mechanism meant.

According to an armed leader named Francois, the Grand Duke holds a party in the palace every Thursday, and guards from the Surut Palace are sent there to maintain order. All we need to do is glide in from the air, spray the crowd, and we can assassinate him. Once the Grand Duke and the surrounding officials are killed, the coup will be successful.

Faced with this simple plan, Li Aoz casually asked a question, "The Artificial Sun is 6,000 meters high, but due to barriers, it can only fly at an altitude of 4,500 meters most of the time. What kind of aircraft can fly over at an altitude of 4,500 meters without being detected by people on the ground?"

When this question was raised, there was an unexpected silence from Li Aoz.

When Li Aoz woke up, an independent armed group named Bermudes had finally proposed an improved plan: they would take the advertised airships from high altitude to solve the altitude problem, while ground troops would launch an attack from the city in advance and shell the Surut Palace.

This is more reliable, but there's still one problem that hasn't been solved.

That is, who will assassinate Grand Duke Gamos Luvenchi Grant, who possesses Gamma Rank strength? Although Li Aoz knows that the Gamma Rank strength on Azure Planet is somewhat inflated, either through drug use or by chance, and he himself doesn't know how to advance further, the strength of Gamma Rank is still terrifying. After all, you can't use weapons like Cloudburst Bomb in the city. If you did, it would give the Frostplate Armed Forces a reason to intervene.

—Even if these 20,000 righteous men are brave and determined, the Frostplate Citizen can still come directly in their Mobile Armor and vividly demonstrate what a first-world country is.

Therefore, the choice of assassin became rather awkward.

The Grant Duchy, with a population of 47 million, only had thirteen Beta-rank individuals within its borders. On the day of the mission, one was studying abroad, six were Frostplate Law Three Special Agent, and six remained, one of whom was the Grand Duke's son Malise Gamos Grant.

Looking at it this way, aren't there five left?

Don't worry, these five are Grand Duke Gurant's personal guards.

Li Aoz couldn't hold back any longer.

Although he was from Alranka, a vassal state of the Red Arrow Empire in his previous life, the matching mechanism in the Frostplate Region was obviously not as competitive as that in the Red Arrow Region. No matter what, Alranka had 200 heavy fighters, 90 permanent Beta-rank personnel, and 12 Mobile Armor, which was considered lacking in martial virtue in the Red Arrow region.

Li Aoz thought he was there to make a winning start, but he discovered that the Heavenly Ring People had called him over to be their babysitter.

SCIA probably saw the dire situation and didn't want to invest too much effort, which is why they asked him to come and help.

Li Aoz explained the situation to these people with a pessimistic attitude, and earnestly explained to them that when Beta-rank superhuman encounters an ordinary human army, it is a massacre. Even if there were only 6 Beta-rank beings on the day of the incident, your mere 200-person attack team still thought you could complete the assassination?

However, the Grantian truly did not understand the role of the superhumans. In their minds, humans could not outrun bullets; one shot crippled, two shots rendered useless, and three shots sealed their fate. They believed their plan was already perfect. Although the arrival of Li Aoz boosted morale, in the Grantian's eyes, Li Aoz was still Frostplate Citizen, unfamiliar with the layout of Granter's streets, and his only responsibility was to follow the charge.

In reality, superhumans don't need to outrun bullets; they only need to outrun the speed at which you pull the trigger to be able to withstand a ton of armor and smash you into mincemeat. But when facing a gun expert like a Ranger, you feel like you're fighting a gunfight, while what comes out of their small pistol is a cannon.

Li Aoz was speechless.

For a moment, he understood why the Grantian had been colonized for so long. A resistance group without a unified organization, without iron-fisted leadership, and without a clear understanding of the generational gap in Combat Power could not save the country with passion and justice alone.

Therefore, Li Aoz decided to break away from the Gurant resistance and go it alone.

Following the information from SCIA, he planned to eliminate the Beta-rank powerhouses one by one to relieve pressure on the resistance members.

The first to be targeted were the Frostplate agents. Li Aoz activated the Gravity Aura's [Mode Two: Distortion], walked openly into the Law Enforcement Division Three office, found two Beta-rank, and without saying a word, directly used gravity to snap their necks, then burned the bodies to cover his tracks, all in one swift motion without alerting anyone.

However, Li Aoz's luck seemed to have run out. He searched all night and found that the Frostplate agents had returned to the Frostplate Embassy to report on their work—there was nothing he could do about it.

An embassy is equivalent to national territory, Li Aoz didn't want Frostplate mech legions to intrude into this land, so he had to find another target.

Without alerting the guards, he sneaked into the Surut Palace and planted a bomb provided by the resistance in the Grand Duke's office. However, the Grand Duke did not work overtime that day and went straight home, leaving Li Aoz to wait in secret for two hours without seeing him. He had no choice but to abandon the assassination attempt on the Grand Duke and instead went to see the Grand Duke's eldest son Malise Gamos Grant.

According to SCIA intelligence, Malish was a lecherous man who frequently went to a villa arranged for him by his subordinates to indulge in pleasure, playing with beautiful women for at least seven hours each time.

However, after waiting in hiding in the villa for three hours, the SCIA agent told him, "Malish 'Li Aoz wife is back today. As a henpecked husband, Malish happily went back to be with his wife. The two are now shopping in a mall in the downtown area."

So much for being a playboy, how did you turn into a pure love warrior? Don't be a coward, your lecherous soul is burning!

After much effort, SCIA, seeing how diligent Li Aoz, invited him to dinner at the Sky Ring Embassy the afternoon before the operation, to discuss countermeasures.

Just as he was having a lively conversation with SCIA, a cannon fired down on Speria Avenue. Li Aoz and the envoy from Sky Ring looked at each other, both completely bewildered.

A few minutes later, Sky Ring awkwardly said to Li Aoz:

"It seems the resistance groups got the date wrong. The original plan was to carry out the coup on Thursday afternoon, but today the guards were temporarily reassigned to maintain order in the square, so they decided to move the operation forward."

Even if Li Aoz rushed over at this point, it would be too late. Tanks and armored vehicles were already on the streets, and the coup forces launched their attack at the wrong time. There were no high-ranking officials in the entire Surut Palace; instead, they ran into General Mobis Corinthala, who had come to discuss national defense with the Grand Duke, along with the general's 29 Alpha Rank subordinates.

Thus, Li Aoz's first assassination attempt, unsurprisingly, went awry and ultimately ended in failure.