268-The Value of Freedom (8)
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Episode 268-The Value of Freedom (8)
“I heard the main force has departed? “The troops of the Kingdom of Delos.”
“I did receive a call that preparations for departure were complete.”
“Good. I guess I can just tell him to clean up afterwards. Flaw…”
A middle-aged man who yawns lazily and has a bulging belly that is visible even through his uniform. He was a wizard named Roland who was appointed commander of the Imperial Army’s 5th Aircraft Fleet.
After receiving the report from his wolf-man adjutant, he was spending time yawning in the flagship’s office. He was uncharacteristically leisurely for someone leaving to go to war.
‘The world has become better.’
He chuckled as he looked at the blue sky outside his window. Because he was a veteran soldier who had participated in the Great War, he now knew how ridiculous he was behaving.
He himself, as well as most of the troops currently participating in his fleet, were too relaxed to fight a war.
“I guess I’ll have a lot of sightseeing.”
“No matter how well the elves shoot their bows, they will be able to reach this far.”
This was possible because they knew that they would not have to go down to the ground to launch an amphibious assault. Their mission is simply to fly through the sky, bomb the ground, and destroy the world trees of the Great Forest.
During that series of events, there was a strong belief that the elves on the ground would never fight back. This is because no existing weapon can hit a flying airship.
All means used by the elves, including arrows, catapults, and magic, are powerless against the overwhelming distance.
However, the magic bombardment they used from the giant magic stone used to power the ship was much more powerful and was able to sufficiently hit the ground.
“Tell them not to be too relaxed. “We must occupy the most important and key areas so that the army of the Kingdom of Delos cannot say anything else for no reason.”
“I understand.”
Roland used communication magic to contact the captains under him and tell them not to be too relaxed. In any case, they had to establish a groundbreaking major. Only then can we turn the forces of the Kingdom of Delos into sidekicks and disparage their achievements.
This was an order from above that must be followed.
“We will soon arrive at our destination. “The border of the Great Forest has already been crossed, Commander.”
“Look at those creepy green things. “Wouldn’t it be okay to erase it a little bit?”
They reached the great forest without any hindrance and crossed the sky without hesitation. They were confident that no one would dare stop them.
“These are the guys. Uh, when do we fire?!”
“Calm down! “You should never, ever be in a hurry and shoot carelessly!”
The exact moment when the imperial fleet entered the sky of the forest. There is no reason not to find them below, like foreign objects floating in the blue sky.
In the first place, the imperial army had no intention of hiding themselves. As if he knew what to do. And that was an opportunity for the elves who were in ambush.
“The moment we miss, we will be bombarded. “It takes a long time to reload, so you must never miss the first shot.”
Garon, who came directly to operate the super heavy artillery, took advantage of the opportunity while commanding the elves. Anti-aircraft guns that have already been deployed are aiming their barrels at the sky and are ready to fire.
The imperial army, unaware of the existence of cannons, was heading to the central city of Deneb, where the World Tree was located, without even dreaming of the anti-aircraft means hidden in the giant trees unique to the great forest.
‘Shoot a cannon and create confusion…And confusion…And then what?’
Garon broke into a cold sweat. The moment he invented this gun, he was confident that he could hit anything, but when he saw the fleet flying in the sky, he became nervous.
The order he was given was to shoot the cannon the moment he received the order to shoot down the enemies as much as possible and confuse them.
The problem is that I didn’t hear what happened next. The currently installed anti-aircraft guns will never be able to sink all ships. We even had to consider the possibility of going astray.
‘Is this really happening?’
So I couldn’t help but feel anxious. No matter how much I thought about it, there was currently no way for Eden to fight against that airship other than this cannon.
“What should I do?! “If the angle goes off like this!”
“Wait for instructions! There are still no instructions…”
And while I was thinking like that, the enemies were already getting closer and closer. When the elves, who were in a hurry, urged him on, Garon bit his lip and waited for his command.
I was going to think about shooting first. What happens next must have been figured out by others.
‘This!’
At that time, a faint and unique sound was heard from somewhere. A classic sound that elves use when exchanging signals. When the arrow blowing through the wind sent a signal, Garon reflexively raised the flag in his hand high.
“Fire!! And bounce!”
The elves, who had been struggling to aim while adjusting the angle, lit the wick as soon as they heard Garon’s words. At the same time, he covered his ears and lowered his body.
“Huh.”
An enormous shock erupted, causing Garon’s whole body to tremble as he stood there intently. However, his true power was shown not on the ground, where at best he only reacted, but in the sky.
“Not much has happened yet on earth…”
Commander Lucas, who was leisurely drinking tea, was unable to finish his sentence.
A huge shock struck the airship on which it was riding.
“Keuheook!”
He fell from his chair and hit his head on the floor due to such a huge impact that it felt like the ship would overturn. The adjutant standing next to him was also unable to hold on despite his excellent physical ability and fell.
“What the hell is going on!?”
“It’s an attack!”
Screams and shouts were heard in his dumbfounded ears. The adjutant, who perked up his ears, supported him with eyes of disbelief.
“Raid? “It can’t be!”
Frightened, he hurried out. And he was so astonished by the sight that unfolded before his eyes that he was completely entranced.
“…What on earth happened?”
Parts of the ship had literally evaporated. Troops sprawled on the floor were writhing, and numerous completely mangled corpses were also visible.
Fortunately, the power engines that were tilted backwards and protected by a magic shield were not injured, so the ship did not fall, but the bow section that the shell had ‘grazed’ was literally destroyed.
Without the bow or anything else, there were only fragments that had been completely shattered by the shock wave.
‘No, what is this?’
Under his eyes, as he could not easily come to his senses, he saw another sailing ship, unlike the flagship, having been completely broken in half by a shell hitting the part where the power engine was, and falling to the ground a few hundred meters below.
Those who were riding there. Of course, they all fell to their deaths or became mangled corpses.
Small ships were damaged by the shock wave and people died or crashed.
“I asked what was going on! “Is this an enemy attack?”
“No, I don’t know. “It happened suddenly without any mana response!”
Lucas called the ship’s garrison commander and scolded him. However, it is impossible to imagine that a piece of iron the size of a human body flew from the ground, which the garrison commander had not considered at all, and destroyed the ship.
“On the ground! “There are them!”
Someone, looking at the ground, noticed a gun barrel aimed at them and shouted.
“Ugh! “Avoid everyone!”
“But the cannon…”
The moment when the enemy’s navigation stopped after being bombarded.
Garon evacuated everyone in the battery to a tunnel prepared in advance. If the enemies aren’t stupid, they will naturally attack them.
‘The battery has no defense power of its own, so we need a way to supplement it.’
Garon was depressed as he watched the cannons that had been fired just once before his eyes being destroyed one by one by the magic fire of the enraged enemies. The plan was a success and we eliminated as many enemies as possible, but we still lack firepower.
Garon felt the need for a way to protect the battery from enemy attacks and fell asleep. He ran the game and found ways to improve. This kind of surprise attack will not work in the future if the enemy finds out about the super heavy artillery.
“It looks like they still have some strength left. “Even that huge sailing ship couldn’t drop a single one.”
“Now we have no choice but to leave it to others and pray to the heavenly god.”
They sensed that it was now their turn. It is up to others to crush the enemies that still have remaining strength.
But they had no doubt about it. In addition to their own abilities, as has always been the case, the God they believe in and follow has provided them with a method or means to overcome themselves whenever they face a crisis.
“Look, I can see something in the southeastern sky.”
Then one of them looked around the other side of the sky and noticed something. Right now it just looks like a black dot, but it is getting closer to them at an incredible speed. The speed was so fast that it could not be compared to the imperial airships.
“That can’t be right…”
Garon quickly took out the telescope and was slightly impressed. For a moment, he thought it was the enemy’s airship, but once it was born, it looked completely different from the airship.
It was a more familiar sight to those who knew about drones flying freely inside flower pots.
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