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Chapter 53 - Deterrence

In the original world, the Kiev class might be called a deformed product caused by a wrong theory. As it is a combination of both a cruiser and an aircraft carrier. In the Soviet Navy, this class of ships was specifically designated as a "heavy aviation cruiser". However, it is no different in Astalia.

Some supported and logistic ships followed behind them, collecting the corpses of the sea monsters. The Soviets considered them a new species and should bring them back for research.

In the Kirov-class battle cruiser, Admiral Gorshkov raises his binoculars, watching what is happening around the fleet. He came here by himself, coordinating the cooperation between the original black-sea, Baltic and Northern fleets. 

More importantly, Moscow gave him full authority to be responsible for everything happening here, he got the right to decide what to do to show the USSR's domination.

An adjutant came beside him and reported,

"Comrade Admiral, as you ordered, our delta-III submarine launch three RS-29 ballistic missiles on the Karak, one will cross their whole country and drop on their border with the orcs, one will drop on the King Palace in Karakum, and the other carry with nuclear warhead will then be detonate after reaching above the biggest lake of the Karak."

"Great, let our men inform King Aric, let him get himself prepared."

Adjutant nodded his head and left. Gorshkov continued to watch his fleet exercise, even though Andropov suggested he conduct a few nuclear tests in the sea lines, he felt this was not deterrence enough, only conduct in a place, where most of the people in Karak could see, can maximize the deterrence and fear in them.

By that time, all the commissars that enter the Karak can do some speech on the explosion, and the infiltration of the ideology can again be boosted.

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Karakum, 

Due to the geographical location, the city sky is not yet fully lit at this time. It is far from the New Port. Aric just finished his breakfast and was ready to deal with the kingdom's affairs. By this time, a squad of soldiers rushed into his palace, without saying anything or greeting him, picked him up and walked out. 

Before he figured out what was happening, the head of the squad explained.

"My Lord, we have just received a notification from the Soviet military attaché, Colonel Makarov. The Soviet Navy was attacked by a group of Sea monsters, and one of their submarines was seriously damaged, what is worse is, that three of the ballistic missiles in the submarine were accidentally launched. And one of them is coming to our city, we will bring you to the underground bunker."

One of the similarities between Karak and the Soviet Union is that they both built underground bunkers, the Soviet Union used them to hide from enemy countries' nuclear attacks, and similar to the Karak, they used them to hide from meteorite Attacks.

After listening to the words, Aric head was in confusion, why did the Soviets want to do this, do they want to start the war with them, it would make no sense to inform him to hide, and they had just signed a peace agreement with the orcs.

The city now is also in chaos, with law enforcement maintaining order and evacuating citizens to the nearest bunker, some try to take advantage of the situation, robbing stores and wealth in the street. All these people will be killed at the moment they are caught.

Aric brain was still blurr by the moment he entered the underground bunker. His chancellor, general was already waiting for him here. Everyone was looking seriously in a direction, Elowen was projecting the image of the sky near the city. Beside the image project by him, is the image of the city and palace. 

As the capital and the place where the king lives, of course, it will have the highest level of security, giving the guards surveillance all day.

Aric didn't say anything, sitting in his place, watching the image silently like the others.

They did not wait for long, 5 minutes later, they saw three flying objects with flame tails appear in the image. Almost instantly, they lose their view of it, and the next second they see it is on another image.

Suddenly, one of the flying objects split into a few parts and flew towards the city. The next moment, a few loud explosions come from outside. Making some dust fall from the top of the bunker.

Aric by this time breathed a sigh of relief, at least the missile power was not as big as he expected. But not long later he again took a deep breath, he saw the rest of the other two missiles spread flying in different directions, one of them flying toward the south of the Karakum, by there, was the biggest lake in the kingdom and also where the majority of the population lived. And another one flies towards their border with the orcs.

"What does the Soviets want to do ?" Doubt and fear surrounded him.

His marshal, Thomas seems to see his doubt and come to him.

"My lord, no matter what the Soviets try to do, I have already ordered all our troops to prepare for war, as long as one Soviet Army is raising their flag on our territory and declaring it is theirs, our army will charge them bravely, no matter how small the chance of us winning, we still need to do that."

Aric nodded, not much seemed to be done now, sees what would happen later. He continued to look at the image that kept changing and wanted to know what these two missiles would do.

Again, this does not take long, five minutes later, he sees the one fly towards the border spread to a few pieces like how it did above the Karakum. The missile landed on their military camp, causing some explosions and casualties. 

Just as he thought the other that fly south would do the same thing, what happens next hangs his thoughts.