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The Price of Power

THE BLACK VERITECH

Chapter 17: The Price of Power

Global had a lot of problems with Khyron's zentraedis attacks, even the zentraedi had managed to take Kyle and Minmei hostage, thank goodness Lisa came up with a good plan and they were able to rescue the two hostages with Rick's help, however, Khyron's fame grew and more and more zentraedis joined his cause.

Knight also had problems, but he solved them by restricting various civil rights of the population or by cheating, such as replacing each union or citizen association with parallel bodies that were subordinate to him.

He also bought up all the media and made sure to enact laws that only served to curtail those who opposed him, even created a paramilitary agency that could not be traced back to him, which served as an instrument of intimidation and shock, and made military and political bribery an art. Knight couldn't afford to waste his time repelling popular demonstrations.

In La Paz, the advance to fortify the city was 80% and the entire western and royal mountain range had bases that would repel medium zentraedis attacks.

Now that we have completed the fortifications of the mountain ranges, we can breathe a sigh of relief in the Peru Quadrant," celebrated Anatole Leonard, who had gone to the site to see the advances in the city as supreme commander of the Southern Cross Army.

"It is strange that they call this quadrant "the Peru Quadrant" because La Paz and the future base of the UN Spacy and the REF are in Bolivia."

"And you, Mollinedo, where part of the quadrant did you serve," Leonard asked.

"In what was once Bolivia, of course, the highlands represented a small part of the country then, most of it is in what is now the Zentraedi Zone of Control," replied the old colonel.

"You did a magnificent job, Colonel," Knight flattered him.

"Thank you, commander, I hope you will forgive me for focusing not only on the fortification of the city, but also on the cultural preservation of the city," Mollinedo told them as they made their way to what was once the old country's palace of government.

"Superb," said Leonard, "there are no more such buildings today, their baroque architecture is beautiful."

"Actually, it's neoclassical," corrected Knight and Leonard was uncomfortable.

"This structure has the name of "burnt palace"," Mollinedo said happily.

"Burned palace? And why is that?" Leonard asked him.

"An attempt was made to storm the palace, and when this was not achieved, it was set on fire in the 19th century."

The commanders entered the site and Leonard suggested that to celebrate the launch of SDF-2, a gala party be held there with several South American RDF and Southern Cross commanders, to which Knight agreed.

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On Christmas Eve, Knight received the sad news that Khyron had attacked Macross City, and it was a good thing that none of his friends were injured.

"Come on, come on," said Leonard, "let's put aside the sadness and celebrate the early launch of SDF-2."

Several waiters served fine drinks and Knight in his militar gown caught the attention of the commanders' wives and daughters in particular.

Knight was about to make a speech when he fell like a rock on the ground.

"Call a doctor, quick!" shouted Mollinedo.