Day of Suffering

Meanwhile, in Cairo, a teacher and student were locked in an unavoidable battle due to their conflicting ideals.

Several hundred kilometers away, a hunt by the Decepticons had begun as well.

Lightning took the lead. Relying on sustained supersonic cruising, he was the first to reach the skies above the Mediterranean Sea.

On the frigates of the joint fleet's outer escort force, anchored just over forty kilometers from the Nile River's mouth, radar alarms immediately began to blare.

"Enemy attack!"

The warning from the outer warships immediately threw the joint fleet into chaos.

That chaos instantly exposed the current quality and strength of Europe's various navies.

Old Europe had enjoyed peace for far too long since the end of World War II.

Even before the Cold War ended, when they had faced the threat of the Soviet Union, it was still NATO's leader—the United States—that stood at the forefront against the Soviet Union.

Compared to them, the German soldiers who had once made the world tremble had long since degenerated into flabby office-worker soldiers with severely excessive body weight.

Their combat effectiveness was probably not even on par with the Italy they had once looked down upon.

The Brandenburg-class Frigate was currently Germany's main surface warship. It was an anti-submarine-focused frigate, and since the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed when it was designed, its primary purpose had been to guard against Soviet nuclear submarines operating unpredictably in the North Atlantic.

Because this class of frigate had received some technical support from the United States, its air-defense capabilities were also quite respectable despite its focus on anti-submarine warfare.

However, their combat experience and crisis-response capabilities were truly abysmal.

After all, Germany had been a defeated nation in World War II, and its defense and military systems had been severely crippled