Chapter 5: The Ravens Strikes in the Sventiany Offensive

In the early month of August, Tsar Nicholas II declares himself as the Commander-in-Chief after forcing the Grand Duke to resign his post, confident that he will bring victory to for the Empire. The people heard rumors that the Lionheart is leading his men to fight against the Germans, all did not know his name, out of curiosity, the people wanted to know who he is. One of the Dukes in Russia was reading the newspaper, he is happy to hear this kind of events happening on the battlefield, his daughter Ellie is asking his father who the Lionheart is, he replied "a brave man my little princess, leading his troops to victory, with all of his will to fight for our motherland", Ellie doesn't know that it is her lover, motivates her to study and write more letters to Koba.

The Russian 10th army is now ready to mobilize for Sventiany in Lithuania, as General Kirov and General Ariandel are training their minds and strategy to win this battle. General Vilnius of the Russian 4th army is also ready to mobilize, as Luther is watching them and waving to them for good luck, The Russians who is assigned there are happy to see him cheer for them. The Ravens are wearing their battle gears, to be ready to mobilize as well, Luther looks at Koba, proud that he can survive without him, Oleg and Greg talks more about food after the battle, Nikita talks to Koba on what is happening to the people in russia, Koba is talking about changing the system of the government, to Nikita, it is impossible to change the motherland, to Koba says "not unless everyone tries, we will be able to change our ways to improve our system together". Nikita thinks Koba is a dreamer, but he likes his determination. Now the Russian 2nd Army mobilizes for Sventiany, all of them are singing while marching near the place. Meanwhile somewhere in Russia, Vladimir Lenin is forming a coalition known as the Bolsheviks or the majority of the people, to spread their words and plans to overthrow the Tsar and his government, he doesn't want the people to starve anymore, he will try his best to fulfill his communism dream to life.

In the early morning of the 26th of August, A large number of the 10th German Army are trenching the grounds, cleaning it to put their supplies there, preparing their heavy guns and artillery in position for the heavy blow as they wait for the Russians to make their first move. General Ariandel with the Russian 10th army plans to breach their trenches by bringing more bangalores, first the Russians must dig up a hole underground along with the celestial sensory group because they arrive earlier than the Germans. Now they are able to dig through their trench, they find huge amount of supplies hidden by the Germans, giving good news to General Ariandel and General Kirov, to take advantage against the Germans. The group steals the supplies for the Russians without alerting the Germans, then closes the entry with a biggest box in the underground area. Now they are giving the signal, its time for the battle to begin, the Germans begins bombarding with heavy shells, almost destroying a bigger hole, the Russians uses a camouflage to match with the grounds color, begins moving to the big hole on where the artillery shells hit, they are close to the trenches, the bangalores are set and explodes to destroy the barb wires, The Russians begins attacking them, as Germans surprised, fights back, many destroys the artillery using a bomb, also they use a machine gun, killing more Germans in sight. The Commander of the German 10th army did not know what is going on, as he see the trenches are over already in action, more Germans are reinforcing but the Russians form a position from the orders of their platoon leaders, to keep finding cover, then shoot them in sight.

After 17 to 18 days since the Russian 10th army is still in action, the battle became more intense as the Astral beings arrive in the scene killing multiple Russians, forces them to retreat, as General Ariandel knew the Germans are desperate move to send them there, General Kirov now makes their move to reinforce the 10th army, The Ravens arrive to push the Germans and the Astral beings back to the edge, the Astrals begin the assault by launching multiple energy blast, Oleg kicks 4 of them hard to knock them down, Dmitri and Gregory uses their energy to knock 49 Astrals down. Nikita, Koba and Luther takes on a high ranking officers who are also Astrals, thinking they will kill the three easily, but the three begins assaulting them at full speed, engaging in a combat, Koba kills the high ranking officer by stabbing him before he launches his energy power at him. Luther is impressed on how far his little brother can go, also his energy power is increasing fast while in combat. Luther then assist Nikita to kill 5 officers, which the low ranking Germans retreat at the scene. The German 8th Army with General Howitzer arrives hours later, knowing that the celestial group he fought before is there fighting 43 miles ahead. Howitzer is excited to fight all of them again, as the 8th German army arrive there, The Russians ambush them by the ropes to trip over, then shoot them, Howitzer is angry, begins killing them one by one.

Howitzer now wants a rematch, but this time it is The Ravens who he is facing, Howitzer releases his energy to transform into Astral Progress, his abilities now have increased, tells the opposing team that they are no match for him, All of the members of The Ravens responds, with all of them transforming into Celestial Progress all at once. This shocks Howitzer on how they are able to pull this, Luther says "through training, we can improve anytime we want", Howitzer calls in the German Astral beings to assist him.

The German Adversaries send a shocking news, it terrified the Kaiser, knowing that the Astral beings aren't the only beings that they can transform, there is more. General Bloomberg wanted to enter, but the Kaiser says that he is not able to fight because of his lost arm, it angers him, telepathy messages Howitzer to plan a dirty offensive against the Celestials in front of him, Howitzer says he will pretend to be defeated, begging for mercy, he will bring two strong Astral beings, if they are in defeat, he will release the chemical weapons to their faces as he will watch them suffer, Bloomberg likes the idea and tells him to go for it.

As the battle begins, the officers perform a formation, meanwhile Oleg and Gregory blinds them by blasting energy beams at the ground. While they are unable to see, both of them kills them with a bayonet. Nikita and Dmitri uses stealth, continues to eliminate the remaining officers with a rifle at long range without detection. The officer finds the two is about to use a Energy blast, but they both react quickly and jumps off the covering ground, then proceeds to kill him. Luther and Koba uses their physical prowess to overpower 13 officers, incapacitating them, begging for mercy, but Koba uses his new skill, Celestial Flamethrower to burn them, screaming in pain as they die slowly, now Howitzer has only normal German soldiers left to protect him, orders them to kill them, but they are too scared to fight, now Howitzer with the transformation progress, goes to them at full speed, Oleg and Dmitri manages to pin him down, Howitzer gets back up to Kick their faces to the air, Nikita shoots Energy blast while Gregory uses Iron Fist to give Howitzer more pain, begging for mercy, The Ravens refuse and they are about to kill him.

Howitzer use his hand signal, bringing the two Astral Beings out, one is Major Erwin Rommel aka "The Desert Fox", the other one is Major Erich Von Manstein aka "Backhand Blower", now The Ravens begin to split up to fight in the other front, Koba and Nikita will face the two in combat. Erwin uses his heavy strikes against Koba, he keeps blocking but he is feel more pain from the punches, while Erich is launching his speed and knocks Nikita down, Koba is about to help him but Erwin punches Koba in the face, satisfying General Howitzer to his happy extent.

Luther is in a hurry to save the platoon from 10th Russian from the heavy artillery shells, Luther begins to blast the all the artillery in area, begins to explode one by one. The Russians thank Luther for his assistance and continue to shoot at the Germans. Oleg, Dmitri, and Gregory assists the platoons to go straight forward to push the Germans back, The Russians screams and run towards them, killing them even more to scare them off.

Koba struggles to get up against Erwin, keeps on punching his faces, until he slows down, as Erwin taunts Koba to hit him back, now is the time, headbutting that causes Erwin get stunned, then Koba is about to use his ultimate skill for the first time since he saw his brother perform it, as he screams "PROMINENCE CANNON!!!" as it going towards Erwin, about to see a large beams of light coming to him, screams "AHHHHH". Erich is shock to see his partner defeated, now Nikita uses a submission hold to make him surrender, 45 seconds later, he yield to him. Both are now heavily incapacitated, Howitzer desperately about to throw the chemical weapon at both of them, Koba catches it and crushes it with his bare hands, Howitzer says "IMPOSSIBLE, YOU CAN'T JUST CRUSH IT, YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO DIE FROM IT!' Koba replies "No, the celestial energy will always protect me from harm, so this is it", Koba swings General howitzer in the air and throws him far away to reach at the commanders tent. As Howitzer lands, few commanders saw him injured, tells all of them that it is not funny, as the medics bring him to the medical tent to treat his wounds. Koba tells Erwin and Erich to get out of here, both of them were grateful for the fight, wishes for a rematch after the war, both Nikita and Koba says "sure". As they retreat, now they return to assist the 10th and the 2nd army to finish the job.

Heavy cavalry reinforces the 10th German army to sweep the Russian army to their knees, the Ravens and the Russian 2nd Army arrive on time for a final showdown in Sventiany, The Russians destroys the infantry and their artillery support for many hours, now the Germans are weak, they are forced to be push back, as the Russians continue to chase them like bears to stop the fighting. This battle results as a Russian Victory in Sventiany in the 2nd of October 1915, now that the soldiers are ordered to bury the dead to respect their honor after the battle, Koba weeps in tears as he saw many of his comrades had fallen, he still cannot bear to control his tear, burying them one by one and putting their names in it, including the German soldiers.

At the end of the day, Koba is left with so much depression, knowing he cannot save his comrades from dying in battle, asking question to himself that if he could have time to save them all, Nikita comforts him, saying that "it is part of the war, every soldier in battle is never expected to survive the outcome of it", Koba calms down a bit, thanking Nikita for the advice, now thinks about Ellie and falls a sleep in a tent. Meanwhile Ellie heard about the news that Koba was a part of the Sventiany Offensive, she is worried and never wants to believe that koba is dead, she wishes to read his mind someday, on how much he feels about her soon, she continues to study for their future together.

In Berlin Germany in August 4, 1915, the Kaiser is furious about the loss after the battle, now the Allied Forces in the western front is also destroying Germany, Howitzer explains about the outcome, but tells them to do something before they get stronger, Bloomberg now has a bigger plan to kill the Ravens, Howitzer agrees to train for revenge.