V2 Chapter 15

V2 Chapter 15 - The prince has drowned

The Duchy of Suvarna is generally located at three thousand feet above sea level. The highest mountain in the country is Mount Rakaposhi with a height of 21800 feet.

It is an agricultural country in the mountainous region, and the capital of the country is Siri Sunda, home to the Royal Palace and the Silver Moon Lake. The area is only 9,000 km, so it is slightly smaller than Kayah/Kareni State of Burma.

The main district is divided into three regions, the royal territory of Sandalamin District, Shanyang District, where most of the Tibetans and Manchus live. Pahalot district is the main area where Indian tribes live.

The current population is only four and a half million, and the industry is weak. The country's GDP is 7.14 billion US dollars. As a mountainous country, it is not bad.

When the Madanas arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the first thing they saw was the local army that was there to greet them. They rode on giant ants and held spears and wooden shields in their hands. They had guns, but only single-shot rifles, like World War I remnants, were easily carried on their backs.

"Minister, what is this hunting force doing at the international airport?" Madana couldn't help but ask.

As for her, she didn't think that such a ragged force would be the country's army. And even Bhutan, a country similar to them, can equip their own defense forces with automatic rifles, right?

Minister U Maung Maung smiled at the royal princess and said, "Welcome from the Suvarna Kingdom, they are the 4th Battalion of the Suvarna Army. They have been called here as an honor guard and as a bodyguard."

"....." Madana was stunned. Are they really a self-defense force? She couldn't understand how Suvarna managed to stand undefeated among the three great nations. And they were riding ants. Medana thinks she has no competition in the world because she is a robot dog riding hero, how could she think the Suvarna brothers would be more stylish?

Fralita approached the ant soldiers and tried to knock the body of a giant ant with her hand.

"These guys are Titanant-type mutant creatures, aren't they? Even though they're C rank, normal gun bullets can't penetrate them. There are still too many of them."

Minister U Maung Maung, who was listening from the sidelines, said proudly.

"We have a whole nest of titan ants. In mountainous areas where tanks are not suitable, these guys are living tanks. It was because of them that we didn't lose Suvarna in the Four-sided War."

Fralita was interested and kept asking one after another. "Are there flying dragons? Aren't they warrior ants? Workers? Are your air force with them?"

"Ambassador Viscount Pendragon, flying ants can only fly at low altitudes, so they are not suitable for use in the air force. But the police use them as hopper bikes. The air force uses normal airplanes and large butterflies."

As they walked past the honor guard, the soldiers threw their spears into the ground like Spartans and shouted a war cry. After that, they took off their guard and changed their war marching style to protect them.

A little while later, a black car arrived that seemed to have been specially designed for royals. It's a Mercedes, but it's pretty old. The territory does not seem to be very wasteful. They spend as much as they need. This is one thing that is very different from the European nobles.

On the way, Fralita kept asking one after another. "How do you preserve these mutant creatures? Is it because the warriors have special mutant powers? Or is it something done with science?"

Minister U Maung Maung is still answering patiently. "Actually, the members of our royal clan have signed a contract with the ant queen. The royal heirs are only those who continue to carry on that responsibility. In other words, it's a kind of compromise. Even the current royal duke have to sign a contract to sing to the ant queen every day."

Medana was shocked to see the image of her grandfather singing hip-hop to a giant ant. She will also become the heir to the throne, so does she have to do something like that? U Maung Maung noticed Medana's facial expression and told her not to worry.

"Actually, every royal heir doesn't need to sing. The contract depends on the ant queen's state of mind."

The group got into the VIP car and slowly drove towards the city. The road is a rocky road. According to U Maung Maung, the roads here cannot be used if they are in the rain. It must be said that coming to Suvarna near the end of November, which is the winter season, was the right thing to do.

Snow was already falling in some places, and they could see the white mountains. Sandalamin District, which is established near Suvarna's valley lake area, is cold enough to freeze in the morning.

After half an hour from the airport

They arrived at the entrance of the city, which was already covered in snow.

Almost two hundred thousand people live in the small city. Suvarna has a relatively small urban population of almost 800,000. The rest of the population lives in the villages. Apart from the capital Siri Sunda, there are only two other district capitals and these cities are more sparsely populated except in the mountainous areas. Most of the urban class are employees and traders. Being a mountainous region, Suvarna suffers from the problem of salt scarcity, and most of the wealthy merchants are salt merchants. Other timber industry Although there are mining operations, not to the extent of damaging the environment.

Why is it that the GDP is higher than the average mountain countries, because the tourism industry has developed because of the peace in recent years. About 46% of the country's GDP comes from tourism.

As they entered the town, some children playing on the side of the road waved to them. No one is afraid of the ant army. Some of the children are still playing with baby ants, the size of their palms. Although no one gave it, U Maung Maung still explained.

"In Suvarna, children who can make contracts with ants from a young age are considered outstanding. Like in other countries, children who awaken to the power of the mutants are being proud by their parents. When they grow up, they can be selected as officers in their own forces."

Most of the houses in the city are wooden houses, and there are not many houses. It is a country with abundant timber. However, because there are too many restrictions on commercial logging, the problem of deforestation has not yet been encountered. They are also facing the problem of scarcity of fresh water and the only main source of fresh water is Lamin Sanda Lake.

After passing through the downtown plaza, they saw a large palace shining silver under the sun from the Moon Sun Lake.

"It's Siri Sanda Palace, it's two and a half hundred years old."

The royal palace is the only castle. There are no wall or sub-villas like real palaces. Although there are other offices nearby, it is not built in the style of a palace.

But when they got to the edge of the lake, they were surprised again. There is no bridge to go to the palace.

"Isn't there a bridge here? Do we have to cross by boat?"

Foreign Minister Suvarna, who was acting like a tour guide all the time, was nodding his head.

"Well, we have to wait for the royal boat from the port."

So their group sat and waited in a royally made wooden hut at the marina. But the boat was not seen until two hours later.

"Minister, do they know we're here?" Mom asked because she couldn't wait anymore. The lake is big, but it shouldn't take 2 hours to get here by boat from the island in the middle of the water, right?

"They know, they must be late because of some issue. Hehehe..." The minister laughed dryly.

Lolita is still busy with a see-through phone. Medana came over and asked, being bored with nothing to do.

"What are you doing?"

"Let's send out a small drone and fly it over the lake." As she spoke, Fralita pulled out a small pigeon-like drone robot from her bag.

"Reconnaissance drones, but drones are not allowed to fly near the Suvarna Palace, right?"

In fact, the Suvarnabhumi District is the same as the White House in the United States. So there is no permission to fly drones. Minister U Maung Maung wanted to immediately arrest Fralita and send her to the police station if possible, but she was accompanied by a royal princess, and Great Princess Thita also pretended Fraliata as future wife of their Princess, so it was difficult to say.

"Heh... You guys even have an aerial surveillance radar on Suvarna? Even if they did, they'd think this drone was a migratory bird."

Foreign Minister U Maung Maung couldn't stand it any longer because of the British lolita showing off the nation.

"In fact, we have radars. Up to four Russian-made S400 missile systems are already installed."

Although the S400 systems were first released in 2007, they are still very useful today. In reality, even an advanced air suit like Archmega is not easy to withstand. Of course, First you need to overcome the stealth system and find it location.

"It's impressive, isn't it that your enemy India only has 5 of these?"

In fact, Medana himself could not understand where and how they got four air defense mission systems worth three hundred million dollars in Suvarna, a small country. Minister U Maung Maung explained.

"Our country is one of the countries with the largest output of Zect metal. Although we do not have annual mining permits and projects, if we need money, we can sell the stockpiles urgently. We sold thousands of tons of Zect during the Four-sided War, and they are there."

"Really... I'm a royal princess, so it's okay to use a little, right?" Even after hearing that his country is a metal rich, Medana immediately became active. Then her power will jump up again.

....

On the other side of the lake is a short distance from the marina. The crew of the Royal Longboat were screaming in fear at the 12-year-old boy who was sitting on the bow of the boat and playing the flute in anger.

"Royal Prince... Please don't bother us anymore. The boat is about to capsize."

The entire surface of Lamin Sanda Lake was full of giant fish, blocking the royal boat from moving forward. Because the boatmen were too frightened, Help us sea deity, they shouted. Unfortunately, the country is a landlocked area in the mountains, so no one can ask for help from the ruler of the sea.

The short boy with black hair and brown skin looked at the boatmen and said in a stern tone.

"If you don't go and fetch that fake royal princess, I will let you go."

"Prince, the duke himself ordered you to fetch the princess. Don't make our heads to be cut off."

The boatman said apologetically. Suvarna said that even though there is a cabinet, it is unforgivable if the government order is avoided according to the constitution. If the duke gets angry, they will not escape even if they runs to the ends of the earth.

Hearing those words, the rascal didn't pay attention to anything, but focused on the flute and played a more lively song. Fresh water fish also became more and more violent than before.

Dipa, the adopted son of the third royal prince, possesses the sound type mutant power 'rain music' and is able to control even the wildest beasts with various kinds of music. Although he is still young, he is already an apprentice officer in the Suvarna Imperial Territory's Self-defend Force, and is classified as a B+ hero by the Suvarna Hero Association.

Currently, there are no A-level heroes in the country, so Dipa is one of the three most powerful heroes in the country.

However, the people of Suvarna named him the King of Bad Children because of his jingoistic spirit and his tendency to be a bad boy.

And now, he doesn't seem to recognize the famous princess who has returned from the United States, but is campaigning to oppose others with her. Unfortunately, there was no one who wanted to kick out Medana except him. Even tribal leaders, including senators from the left and right, did not want to reject Medana. Therefore, the little boy was left alone.

"You are the proud citizens of Suvarna. Why don't you let a fake woman who has abandoned herself as a man rule the country? I absolutely can't let it go." (Note: Yes, I also feel like this brat have Transphobia after writing this chapter. Please bear with be a bit.)

While the boy was shouting angrily, the royal boat hit a rock protruding from the lake and capsized. Because the rascal was on the bow of the boat, the first flute and other people fell.

"Ah... the royal prince fallen into the water." The boatmen tried to grab the prince, but unfortunately, the royal boat's belly, which was made of wood, had already opened from the collision with the rock, and the water gushed out, and soon their boat showed signs that it was about to sink.

"Put the water out of the boat, hey."

"I can't, the belly of the boat is already half full of water. Leave the boat before it sinks, otherwise a whirlpool will appear and everyone will die."

Then the boatmen, including the chief, could no longer care about the prince, so they jumped into the water and ran to the nearest shore.