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Hibiki left the front-line fight to the other Machina warriors. Hibiki had her own plans to take out key-figures leading the demon and heaven armies. That being said, Hibiki had only a bit of intel on the demonic forces stationed here. With Henry tenuously on their side he wasn't an immediate threat to the Machina either. She lacked the same information about Heaven's forces and suspects that she'll be seeing many new faces, so Hibiki would have to make sure to collect intel as best as she could.

One of the demon soldiers Hibiki knew was here was Victoire; she hasn't been seen in quite some time and it would be in her interest to take control of all the ancient and powerful warriors who once resided here. Not to mention the fact that the demons were defending this heavily fortified area would be perfect for a trapmaster like Victoire. Hence why Hibiki made sure to commission a protective barrier emitter that would withstand the effects of her roses. Having witnessed first hand how Victoire's roses turned the tide of battle, Hibiki made sure to be immune to their effects. Hibiki also would employ a device that would allow her to sneak among the undead known as "Zombie Musk", which effectively makes those with paranormal senses detect Hibiki as nothing more than an undead creature. Of course anyone with a brain could tell she was far to spry and intelligent to be undead, but this would be good enough for the masses of undead and demons who might have a passing awareness of Hibiki.

Another foe who Hibiki was on the look out for was the being known as Ghelgath Fenrir Calder-Berg, an ice based demon. Henry had mentioned him in his report and hasn't seen him in some time either, but from his portfolio Hibiki suspected that this "Lich King" may have an advantage fighting here too. His ice powers, along with the ability to create golems and soldiers from ice and possibly undead, was going to swamp their forces. Hibiki would need to take him out as soon as possible, less he start building his forces and overwhelmed the relatively smaller Machina faction.

And the last that Henry had mentioned was Fran. Hibiki was familiar with her as the demon who tried to offer some sort of an alliance to Shizuka at the Alchemist's Tower. She was a succubus with Illusion powers. Hibiki was rightful wary of such a power, knowing full well that illusions and traps can make for a dead combination. Hopefully Fran would continue to be careless and fool-hardly as previous reports have shown, but even animals can be cunning. However Fran was a low priority threat once her illusions were pierced, and nothing more than a regular demon soldier afterwards.

The name of the game was recon and air superiority. This battleground was far too large for ground forces to wander through aimlessly, and with the chance of undead coming out from the graveyard to attack their allies Hibiki couldn't afford to let their forces get bogged down. To that end she pursued aerial superiority and went back into her ADF-01. However instead of the previous nuclear payload, the ADF was equipped with a radar dish meant to provide live information about the battlefield below. Specifically it would be strong enough to scan and search for any activity below the surface of the battlefield; no doubt there were underground catacombs housing enemy forces. Aside from that the ADF was still equipped with the TLS "Excalibur", missiles, .80 caliber gyrojet rounds, and a rapid assault escape pod, when Hibiki will inevitable be shot down.

Hibiki arrived to the battle some time after most of the Machina forces had already began to engagement with the enemy. Hibiki was going to fly in fast and hot at Mach 2, her systems already locked onto enemy forces: Seaf and his company. She didn't expect heaven's army to employ more modern weapons, but that was not too much of a surprise. Perhaps they were rebellious insurgents from the Machina. Or possibly just intuitive enough to realize that heavy firepower doesn't need to come in the form of magic and Nexus nonsense. Either way when Hibiki was within 5000 meters fired her TSL at them before veering off to do another strafing run, also keeping eyes on Henry's fight with some sort of angel in case she needs to interfere.

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