Colonia Storm Tour

"A discovery that's not a good omen? What exactly is it?"

Eileen suddenly raised her eyebrows and asked.

"As far as we know, the only non-national magician forces should be our DEM and the hostile Ratatosk Agency. Incredibly, I saw the unique shark symbol of the Foehn on Miss Artemisia and the female magician who used the modified CR-UNIT."

William Hanson felt that it was no longer the magician of the Ratatosk Organization, because the symbol of the Ratatosk Organization was a combination of half a leaf, runes, and Norse letters that everyone knew about DEM, and it couldn't be the shark symbol that no other faction in the world besides the Foehn had used.

“Miss Ashcroft did not switch to the Ratatosk Agency, but joined the Foehn Wind, whose whereabouts are still unknown. It seems that we have caught the Foehn Wind’s tail.”

Komir thought that Foehn and Ratatosk were currently sharing some bases or something.

"You're overthinking it. The Foehn Fleet couldn't have crossed the Pacific and arrived in the Atlantic in just a few days. It's probably just a base where Ratatosk and Foehn have established joint operations."

Eileen felt that although the speed of the Foehn Wind warships was beyond the range of conventional warships, a speed of 46 knots was not enough to make them fly, so how could they have arrived near the Virgin Islands in just a few days?

A reasonable assumption is that the Foehn's fleet is currently still sailing in the outer reaches of the Philippine Sea or in the Pacific Ocean.

“Minister Messer is right. I was being presumptuous. But the presence of Miss Artemisia means that our next attack may not go smoothly. We will not be able to break through their blockade in a short time to deal with the remaining Ratatosk magicians and thus dismantle their defenses and eliminate all the Ratatosk and Foehn personnel in the area.”

William Hansen appeared to be able to easily defeat Hua Zhizi, but only he knew how resilient his opponent was. It would take him a considerable amount of time to defeat her, and during that time, it seemed that Artemisia could easily rout or even kill Komir.

"Vice Captain William, are you belittling our strength?"

Cormier looked at William Hansen with hostility.

"No, that's not what I meant, Captain Cormier, you misunderstood. We need to consider practical efficiency. If we're not fast enough, by the time we deal with the other Ratatosk magicians, all the US Atlantic Fleet's planes responsible for clearing the island will have crashed. Therefore, I propose that we need an additional elite magician to reinforce us. That one can hold off that unknown Firewind elite magician, and Captain Cormier and I will join forces to eliminate Miss Artemisia."

William Hansen offered his opinion to Cormill and Ellen.

"Well... I need to inform you that U.S. Navy aircraft will not be directly involved in this battle."

Ellen then revealed some very unexpected news.

"Why won't U.S. Navy aircraft directly participate in this battle, Secretary Messer?"

William Hansen looked at Elaine on the monitor with a puzzled expression.

It was initially announced that the USS Truman carrier strike group would join the battle, so why aren't US Navy aircraft participating in this battle now?

Is it simply a matter of having the US carrier strike group blockade the sea area while the Arleigh Burke III and Virginia aircraft carriers bombard the area with Tomahawk cruise missiles and artillery shells?

"Because we wanted to make use of waste, the people at our DEM US branch in Montana, out of interest in battleships and cannons, collectively chipped in to refit three Iowa-class battleships..."

Eileen's lips twitched slightly as she recalled those American DEM executives and staff who had so much money they didn't know what to do with it.

“Oh! I see. No wonder I’ve been hearing staff from Montana lately exclaiming that Montana is finally not a poor child without toys.”

William Hansen suddenly realized.

“Ah, that matter… I remember several magicians from Montana also mentioned it to me.”

Komir now remembers that this happened.

"The USS Iowa, USS Conswell, and USS New Jersey will assemble on Great Cottage Island tomorrow and will join the bombing mission on Jost Vandak Island tomorrow."

Eileen gave them a businesslike reminder.

"I'm sorry, but I don't understand, Minister... We've already deployed the Iowa, Constance Star, and New Jersey. What's the point of having our Magicians involved? They alone are enough to level the entire island."

William Hansen asked, puzzled.

"We magicians didn't even need to be involved from the beginning. We could have just blasted the whole island flat with cannonballs and solved the problem."

Cormier's ideas were not much different from William Hansen's.

"You haven't had time to receive the latest intelligence yet. Our technicians have discovered that Ratatosk has deployed a random field on Yostvandak Island that resembles the Avalon Manifestation Device. I don't know why they are able to create a Manifestation Device with a 100% similar magical waveform. However, this is not something you need to concern yourself with. I consulted relevant experts, and the firepower of three Iowa-class battleships is sufficient to blast open that random field for us. Therefore, we can save the trouble of sending the Truman Carrier Strike Group and directly let the three nearby outdated battleships make the most of their remaining strength."

Ellen answered the questions of the two elite magicians.

"Your mission has now changed. You no longer need to break through the enemy magicians' defenses, but to intercept the magicians of the Foehn Wind and Ratatosk Agency and prevent them from damaging our battleships that are bombarding the island."

Ellen announced.

Yes! x2

William Hansen and Cormier both straightened their backs and answered simultaneously.

"Mr. Hardman will coordinate the command of the three battleships. You just need to focus on dealing with the magician and get on with your work."

After Ellen finished speaking, she ended the communication and prepared to tell Isaac the news that Artemisia and the unnamed Wind Magician had appeared on Yostvandak Island.

No matter how you look at it, Ratatosk's cooperation with Foehn is deeper than imagined, and the possibility of internal traitors is also troubling her.

Emmm... I finished the second update early. The breakpoints are easier to find now than before, unlike in the past when I had to write over 8000 words to find one.

More settings for the Foehn wind buildings will be updated in the setting book later.

Chapter 5 Plasma Fortress Cannon (I)

While DEM was planning to use the Iowa, Conswell Star, and New Jersey as veterans to break into the arbitrary domains of the Golden Palace display device, the Foehn Wind Base on Jost Vandak Island had finally been completed.

The massive, four-legged, square-shaped fixed base, with the same area as the construction site, and the turret and pincer-shaped cannon barrel, which are larger than a mastodon tank, reveal an unusual pale blue section inside the silver-white pincer-shaped cannon barrel. This pale blue section also has four pipes on the left and right sides of the middle of the turret. Needless to say, these are all related to the destructive energy of the plasma fortress cannon.

These three ultimate ground defense facilities, known as "Plasma Fortress Cannons," were ultimately installed on the high ground of the protrusions on the left and right sides of the island's port. They were used to destroy any enemy forces that dared to enter their firing range. Even magicians would be targeted and vaporized by the ultra-high temperature plasma if they remained within the negligible firing range of the "Avalon" super plasma railgun.

The last plasma fortress cannon was installed on the facility built inside the mountain in Ratatosk, which is part of the "Fraxinus" game, to gain a more direct shooting view and firing height.

Both plasma fortress cannons and the plasma railguns used by the Mastodon tank are direct-fire cannons. So if the target they want to aim at is higher than their firing height or is blocked by some natural obstacle, they are helpless. Therefore, plasma fortress cannons are often seen placed on high platforms to obtain the best detection, locking and firing line of sight.

Fortunately, there are no natural terrain obstacles higher than the contour lines of the island's main peak around Jostvandal Island; most of the area is just an endless expanse of sea with only a few undulating waves.

Therefore, the plasma fortress cannon can effectively instill fear in the minds of every enemy it targets. Of course, there is no way to deal with magicians or fighters that fly higher than them. They can only rely on their own magicians or shrikes anti-aircraft drones and thunderbird unmanned anti-aircraft vehicles to deal with those air forces that are beyond their reach.

These three plasma fortress cannons were built in a single night. When the sun shone on the island and the sea the next day, these three magnificent plasma fortress cannons shielded people and objects below them from the sunlight in the shadows they created.

"That cannon is fucking huge..."

Colonel Jack, biting a quietly burning cigar, looked up at the Plasma Fortress Cannon—a cannon that was not only large enough but also tall enough for any human on the ground to look up at this ultimate weapon.

"This is the third time he's said something really damn big since yesterday."

Benjamin looked up at the plasma fortress cannon.

“Benjamin, this reminds me of the Gustav railway gun and the Dora gun that the Germans once built, but this thing’s caliber… is much larger than those two, but this gun doesn’t have any barrels.”

Colonel Jack said, making a pincer shape with his hand: "Instead, there is only one huge pincer. I don't think the way this cannon attacks is by launching this pincer and then clamping the enemy and crushing them or dragging the unlucky guy who was hit back."

"If you only want to create that kind of weapon, you don't need such a complicated turret and fixed base design. Just from its name, Plasma Fortress Cannon, you can tell that it fires plasma projectiles as a means of killing. What I don't understand is why it uses this pincer-shaped barrel design. A conventional hollow cylindrical barrel would be more suitable for shaping and firing plasma projectiles."

This is something that Benjamin, the supervisor, found quite puzzling.

However, Alice and Lin Haiyuan, who were listening in, did not intend to explain too much to the people from the Ratatosk Agency, because they would understand once they saw the plasma fortress cannon fire once.

"What's even more puzzling is that we all know this cannon has a range of 210 kilometers, but the problem is that the combat radius of the US Navy's carrier strike groups is more than 1000 kilometers."

Colonel Jack doesn't understand gun barrel design as well as Benjamin, and he certainly doesn't understand why this cannon is installed on an island, when your enemies are all beyond your firing range.

"Colonel Jack, the intelligence you have is outdated. This time, the enemy we are facing is no longer just the American carrier battle group."

Lin Haiyuan, using Artemisia's body, descended from the sky together with Yuhua Zhizi.

"Why do you say that, Battalion Commander Artemisia?"

Colonel Jack looked at them with a completely bewildered expression.

According to the intelligence currently available in Ratatosk, apart from the two heavily damaged warships, Notoria and Picatrix, which were returning to port, all of DEM's warships were instantly annihilated in the sea off Keelung.

Now that the DEM's fleet strength has been weakened to the point where it is unable to launch proactive attacks, are they going to rely entirely on their own magicians and Bondskis to loot and plunder instead of using the American fleet to do odd jobs for them?

"According to our satellite confirmation, none of the 2nd, 8th, 10th and 12th groups of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet have been detected heading towards the Virgin Islands. Instead, we have spotted some unusual warships in the nearby waters."

Lin Haiyuan said.

"Unusual warships appearing at sea? Are DEM's Notoria and Picatrix planning to join the fun with marine life underwater?"

Colonel Jack made a harmless joke.

However, the phrase "join me in the water" reminded Alice and Lin Haiyuan of Shirata, the old lady from the Empire of the Rising Sun, of her opening line to the Commander in RA3: "Commander, why not join me in the water?"

"No, according to the radio waves we intercepted and deciphered, it was confirmed to be the Iowa-class battleships USS Iowa, USS Constance, and USS New Jersey."

Lin Haiyuan gazes at the distant horizon where the sea meets the sky.

"what?!"

Colonel Jack was startled and dropped his cigar from his mouth for the second time. Benjamin Fletcher caught the cigar for his friend.

"…………"

Upon hearing the news, Supervisor Benjamin Fletcher was at a loss for words and could only turn his gaze to his stunned friend Jack.

“Well, DEM has gone increasingly insane since creating the Lord of Memories and the Tower of Babel, so it wouldn't be surprising if they did something even more unimaginable.”

Colonel Jack took the cigar Benjamin offered and put it back in his mouth.

“Since DEM has sent its renowned battleships, they will definitely bombard all our facilities on the island with their cannons. Our Golden Palace Manifestation Device will certainly have to deploy its arbitrary domain to protect the entire island. However, under the firepower of three battleships, the arbitrary domain deployed by the Golden Palace Manifestation Device will not be able to withstand that powerful firepower for long.”

Supervisor Benjamin was well aware of how much damage the arbitrary domain of the Avalon/Golden Palace display device could withstand.

"In this way, all the defensive strategies we formulated yesterday are now null and void. Our magician forces can no longer form a defensive line around Ellington Piris Island. Instead, we must take the initiative to attack. If we don't stop those three battleships, even if we repel the DEM magicians and Bondsky's attack, everything behind us will be finished and meaningless."

Colonel Jack instinctively thought of using a magician to defeat his opponent.

Lin Haiyuan smiled slightly: "No, Colonel Jack, we don't need to take the initiative. We can just continue to maintain the original plan and form a defensive line against Ellington Piris Island."

"Then, Battalion Commander Artemisia, can you tell me where those three battleships have moved to?"

Colonel Jack inquired.

"This is the Arctic Witch. Calling Brunhilde and Eureka. The DEM magicians of Ellington Piris Island have been mobilized. Please proceed to your battle stations."

Alice's voice entered their minds directly.

"We have just received news that DEM's magician forces have been deployed on the route from Great Cottage Island to Ellington Piris Island. Inspector Benjamin and Colonel Jack, please go to the command post to direct and observe the battle. The front lines are not suitable for you to get involved."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he displayed the weapon charging command in his mind, and the Heroic Spirit War Maiden's spear blade was quickly formed by sufficient magic power.

"At that time, please ensure that the Ratatosk Magician is in command and does not obstruct the firing trajectory of our plasma fortress cannon. Colonel Jack, Chief Benjamin."

The green blade of Aroundight, held by Gardenia, also appeared with a whoosh.

"Understood. Good luck, Valkyries."

After saluting Artemisia and Gardenia, Colonel Jack and Supervisor Benjamin turned and left the defensive position, running towards the command post inside the research facility.

"Let's go, Gardenia."