[Hadra Tower] To the west of the kingdom, on the endless sea of mist, a strong divine light emerged, and the surrounding thick fog immediately receded at a speed visible to the naked eye...
Flags flying one after another emerged in the fog, followed by the huge treacherous pole and the hull, and then the entire fleet!
This is the empire's long-distance fleet. Each ship is the latest sail warship, with a length of more than seventy meters, like a terrifying giant beast chopping the waves on the sea.
However, this mighty fleet looked extremely embarrassed as it galloped along. Some of the warships behind were seriously damaged, and there were even flames on the sails.
The next moment, accompanied by bursts of gunfire, hundreds of cannonballs the size of a human head flew out of the fog, targeting the entire fleet!
Although these artillery pieces seemed to have no accuracy at all, most of them hit the sea, and some of the shells even landed directly hundreds of meters away from the target. Apart from exploding water columns, there was nothing. any meaning.
It’s just that the amount of artillery fire is too much. Even if only one-thirtieth can hit the target, it is still a huge threat...
Amidst the faint chants on the sea, invisible magical protection surrounded the sail warships, resisting the attacks of cannonballs.
Performing such a wide range of magical arts is obviously a big challenge for these priests and bishops.
What's more important is that similar attacks come almost every ten minutes, giving them no chance to rest and relax.
A warship that fell behind the fleet was hit by five consecutive artillery rounds. The magical protection covering the ship's hull exploded instantly. The priests on the sailing warship vomited blood under the strong backlash and could only watch the huge The shells hit the hull of the ship, making holes on the deck and hull.
One of the projectiles was insidiously blessed with explosive magic. It exploded immediately after hitting the ship. Flames and smoke pillars shot up into the sky. The huge hull trembled and swayed, overturned and sank to the bottom of the water... miserable. The screams resounded continuously, and the soldiers and priests on the ship could only jump into the sea to protect themselves, and swam hard to the nearest ship.
"These damn devil believers, minions of the evil god, they should be thrown into hell and have their souls destroyed in the endless baking of hell fire!"
In the center of the fleet, on a giant battleship, Cardinal Sirid cursed angrily, and the faces of the bishops beside him were extremely ugly.
Half a month ago, they were ordered to lead the empire's first fleet and prepare to set off at sea to directly raid the base camp of those wizards and destroy this illegal wizard organization that has troubled the Holy See for many years, hiding like mice in the fog, and showing up disgusting people from time to time!
But to their surprise, when the fleet was sailing halfway, it happened to encounter a fleet of wizards.
Judging from the opponent's direction, they should be rushing to rescue the Kingdom of [Hadra Tower]...the number of ships is less than one-third of theirs!
This was undoubtedly an unexpected gain, and the bishops were overjoyed. They rushed to meet it, intending to kill the wizard's fleet directly, so as to reduce the pressure on the kingdom's battlefield.
It was only when the battle actually started that they discovered that the enemy was not as weak as they thought, and was a completely tough opponent.
As soon as the battle began, the sharp artillery left a deep impression on Sirid and others. Their number and power were far beyond the comparison of the kerosene throwers loaded on their ships.
This thing is said to be a new weapon developed by wizards. The specific information is still in the collection stage, so they were caught off guard.
What annoyed Sirid the most was that just when the First Fleet decided to withstand the bombardment of artillery fire and forcefully approach for a boarding battle, the fleet of wizards actually turned around and ran away, with no intention of contacting them. Even attack with artillery while running.
After rough calculation, the artillery has a range of more than one kilometer. In comparison, the kerosene throwers equipped by the fleet can only hit about 500 meters even with the blessing of divine magic.
The remaining 500 meters was like a gap in the sky. The First Fleet chased for several hours and lost more than 30 warships before they suddenly realized that they could never cross this distance.
The speed shown by the opponent is actually far from reaching the limit. It just keeps giving them the illusion that they can catch up if they go faster, so that they can continue to consume the number of battleships.
After realizing this, the fleet gave up the pursuit under the order of the Inquisitor, turned around and continued to sail to the Wizarding Land.
However, the wizards' ships were like a group of cunning and shameless hyenas. They turned back and hung behind them, keeping a close distance. They relied on their speed and range to continuously harass and destroy them one after another. dozens of ships...
Only then did Sirid and others realize that they were in an embarrassing situation where they could not chase, hit or run away. They were like a living target standing on the sea, passively enduring rounds of shelling from the opponent...
Extremely frustrating!
Some bishops with bad tempers even fainted from anger!
It is not that Sirid has never tried to use the Cardinal's flying ability to directly approach and attack those ships, but the problem is that their flying speed is not as fast as that of the giant steel ship, and once they get close to a distance of two hundred meters, they need to face In the attack by dozens of magic crystal cannons, a cardinal was almost killed on the spot, and they could only turn back in despair.
The sound of gunfire continued. After this round of shooting, two more warships burst into flames and sank to the bottom of the water. The wizards' fleet finally came out of the fog.
At a glance, there were about a hundred ships. All of them, without exception, were not equipped with sails, but they were able to move quickly on the sea, running several times faster than their sail warships!
The most eye-catching thing is the four giant battleships in front!
Each one has a length of more than a hundred meters and a height of more than 30 meters. The outer shell is made of all metal. It looks like it weighs hundreds or even thousands of tons, like a mobile fortress on the sea. …
Sirid couldn't imagine what kind of powerful witchcraft those wizards had used to make the giant ship made of steel sail rapidly in the sea!
Seeing that the ferocious gun barrel on the steel giant ship began to adjust its position, and the next round of bombardment was about to come, Sirid quickly turned his head to look at the presiding judge, and spoke eagerly.
"Lord Joshua, you should be able to take action now, right?"
If the fight continues like this, the empire's fleet will only be exhausted under rounds of bombardment, and the enemy will not even be able to touch it!
(End of chapter)
