Arc was in his office, he just finished his daily training regimen, and was thinking about the urgent mission he got. 250 days is both short and long depending on the situation but for him, it's quite short as he wants to finish his last previous mission on taking over a country before he left Earth. So he was conversing with Eve about it, he will give about 30-50 days if the mission is not completed by then he will leave and complete his urgent mission with or without it being completed.
Arc, Oda, and Ruby, and the rest are having a conference meeting for the first time, for the mission, this time needs both the Army and Shadow Unit to move together as one. This is the first mission they are required to do.
There are quite a few missions before that required a Shadow unit and Army to move together like the mission on enigma city, but those are mainly the Army just looking for a little help from Shadow Unit, and vise versa. This is the first to for them to fully move as one Unit.
Eve and Arc, are looking at the possible Country to conquer Arc's first choice is the Emerian Kingdom located at the border of UG, it's a medium-size kingdom with a population of 50 million and has 4 cities under its name.
But because they are pressed for time they can only choose a small country for now.
And he has 3 candidates for it.
No1: Basko a small county located in the center of three Seas, it is a Port country with a relatively good size of lands only most of it is polluted with high radiations. It only has 2 cities under it and only has about 40 million in population. That's about the same population of Enigma city.
No2: Sword Country another small country it's located near the Pan Asian Alliance or PAA, this country used to be called Japan, and during the previous war it's one of the targets of many nuclear bombs. And now only a small part of it is a livable Sword Country only has 1 city under it besides the capital. And only have 10-15 million population the problem is that countless Wild Beast roams those lands and Sword Country is located underground it is one of the few underground countries in the world. Even the City under it is also underground. And that goes the difficulty of attacking it, but to Arc, it's only a minor inconvenience as they have the most advanced machine that can drill very fast. So this country is his most likely target.
Having the country underground has its merit like attacking them wouldn't be noticed by any power on earth. So he likes this one, but Eve suggested another one.
No3: Maharlika Country it's another underground country but unlike others, almost every part of its surface land is polluted by high radiations, as during World War 3 this is one of the strategic lands in Asia, so it was heavily fought over during the war. And was also one of the few small countries that suffered the most in that war.
The country is shaped like an animal and mostly consists of small islands was many of them are sunken or destroyed during the war.
Maharlika only has a single capital and only has about 5-10 million populations, according to Eve the country is quite isolated and only trades once in a while, and don't accept any visitors from the outside. And one more thing the country surface is covered by a perpetual Mist making it one of the most dangerous places to visits the only good news is that the radiation level is relatively lower compared to other wilderness.
These are the three targets of Arc's Army.
They are discussing how and what is needed to complete the mission in the fastest way possible. And this time Eve will not be participating but it's Gaia instead who would replace Eve in this operation Eve already shared all her knowledge with Gaia, so Arc didn't see any problem with it.
As for the Army, they will have to get used to Gaia's presence in all their future mission, a communication device that directly connected to Gaia is already in production and will be given to everyone in the Army, Gaia will be their personal assistant and source of intel in the future, of course, their access level will be different depending on their ranks and specialty.
At the conference, Gaia is the one leading the analysis and calculation on the mission. Eve was only an observer this time and her main goal and priority are to support Arc's personal affairs.
So after long deliberation and consideration, they choose to invade Maharlika as its condition and circumstances served the Grand Army better in the future.
After deciding, Arc no longer participates in the Conversation and left as he was about to go back to space to make preparation for his future travel, he needs to prepare the Specter for it. So a massive upgrade is needed, he even asks Vealir of Crimto race for advance payment on the solutions as he needed the blood steel to upgrade the Specter. Vealir, of course, has no problem with it as the contract under the first bank has already been signed.
Arc also brought a large number of Materials with him as he plans to incorporate a mother drone into Specter it was Gaia who suggested it as it is far more effective weapon than any mecha or drone ship ever was.
After listening to Gaia's explanations he agrees, so he asks both Eve and Gaia to give him a plan or design to do so as Specter no matter how flexible it is it's not easy to simply modify it without any plan or design at all.
After leaving the conference he went straight home to inform his parents and siblings who ask for a leave of absence from school to accompany his parents during this time. As Arc is busy in the past few days he spends a relatively small-time to accompany his parents which he felt guilty about but his parents and siblings understand it.
Back home he told his parents about him leaving for space and apologize for not being able to be with them in the past few days and with this trip he wasn't able to accompany them again for some time.
But his parents and siblings reassured him it's fine, and they understand making him feel warm inside. He told his parents and sisters to travel around the world and try to enjoy themselves as much as possible. Making his sisters very happy and started planning already, making him speechless and his parents laughing nonstop at the two sister's antics.
The next day Arc was already on his way to HFA space Elevator he would be spending about a week or so on space this time.