Colonia Storm Tour

"It will take another two hours to reach the island, Your Excellency Hardman."

DEM staff provided accurate figures.

"Immediately relay the information about the cooperative airships of Ratatosk and Foehn Wind to Minister Messer. Everyone, prepare to take cover immediately and be alert for any possible magical artillery barrage."

Hardman made the right choice under the current circumstances.

However, just when DEM thought that Ratatosk and Fraxinus would launch their airships and intend to use beam attacks to wipe out the enemy, Ratatosk's Fraxinus did not launch an attack immediately.

"Your Excellency Alice, your people can now go and take over our construction and research facilities."

On Fraxinus, Supervisor Benjamin reports to Alice on the large monitor.

"it is good."

Alice nodded, then turned to Odin. "Odin, let's begin."

"Yes, Master."

Odin responded procedurally.

The nanofiber looms and nanoregeneration chambers located inside the island immediately released bright green and gray nanodrones and clouds of nanomaterials that poured into the deserted Ratatosk research and construction facilities through both underground and above-ground channels.

Now that the busy technicians and engineers are gone, the assembly workshop in Ratatosk, which used to look crowded, has become empty. The silence brought by this emptiness, the incandescent lighting, and the swarms of bright green and gray nanobots make the entire assembly workshop for building warships in Ratatosk suddenly look like a horror movie from a futuristic science fiction film. If anyone were still in this huge assembly workshop, which is like a square, they would definitely feel the deepest terror and despair as they look at the nanobots coming from all directions.

However, these nano-drones carrying nanomaterials are not meant to kill, but rather to temporarily modify and add equipment to the entire assembly workshop. If the goal is to build the upgraded version of "Fraxinus" called "FraxinusEX" within half an hour, this modification and equipment addition is necessary.

The Ratatosk research facility, which had previously been infiltrated by long-range drones, began to decompose the facility after obtaining all its internal data, with the swarm of nanobots covering it.

“Our research facility is like a pencil drawing on a blank sheet of paper, and those nanobots are like a full-fledged eraser, leaving no mixture of rubber, graphite, and paper fibers.”

Supervisor Benjamin used this analogy to describe the research facility that disappeared in the footage.

"Under the control of their master, the Fenfeng, these nanobots can be either creators or world-destroying demons."

Colonel Jack offered a mythical metaphor based on cognition and the words of Supervisor Benjamin.

However, not all of the materials dismantled by the nanodrones can be perfectly recycled and reused. There will be some unprocessable waste materials. The final use of these waste materials is to be sent into the exploding furnace to incinerate and add impetus to the creation of exploding gas streams, which are then transported to the exploding trenches to create exploding gas streams that can be ejected into the sky.

In fact, the Explosive Defense System, consisting of the Explosive Furnace and the Explosive Trench, is a replica of GDI's Firestorm System.

After the research facility is dismantled, the materials are first sent to the nano-regeneration chamber for "regeneration". Only the recycled materials that are converted into nanomaterials can be sent to various parts of the Fenfeng base. Materials that cannot be recycled are transferred to the explosion furnace for incineration.

Currently, aside from some being transferred to storage or base maintenance, these nanomaterials have been sent to the modified Fraxinus construction facility to be used alongside the earlier nanomaterials in the construction of Fraxinus EX.

In fact, judging from the data sent by the holographic projection Ratatosk, the only difference between *FraxinusEX* and *Fraxinus* is the appearance, which is due to the adoption of the latest display device. As for the changes in appearance... in the farcical love story that Lin Haiyuan and Alice hadn't finished before their time travel, there were no related concept art images provided at all, Emmmm...

Now we can finally get a direct look at the changes between Fraxinus EX and Fraxinus through holographic projection. However, without knowing the ending, it's best to just crush DEM.

At the very least, the problem it brings is DEM. Once the problem of DEM is solved, there will be no more problems caused by DEM. What will remain are the problems caused by romantic comedy, not romantic farce.

"The Fraxinus construction facility has been modified. What is it now called? Master."

At this point, Odin asked Alice for the name of the modified Fraxinus construction facility.

"Hmm?? We need to rename the construction facilities after modifying them? ... Ah, let's call it Fraxinus Engineering Bay."

Alice, being very opportunistic, simply changed the prefix of the Redeemer Project Bay used in the game "Bald Man's Wrath" to build the Redeemer mech and used it.

"Yes, Master, construction of Fraxinus EX has begun in Fraxinus Engineering Bay..."

Odin reported.

Upon receiving the construction orders, the newly formed Fraxinus Engineering Bay began constructing Fraxinus EX at a speed that far surpassed the capabilities of the previous Ratatosk technicians, engineers, and construction machinery.

With nano-drones replacing technicians and engineers, and nanomaterials that are easier to combine, and with highly precise blueprints and AI-controlled construction, FraxinusEX gradually took shape.

If you feel that this process is not intuitive enough and you need a more direct and dynamic process, then you can imagine the super fortress nanocore unfolding into a super fortress during the uprising.

FraxinusEX unfolds its basic structure amidst swarms of condensed nanodrones, gradually building up its architecture. However, compared to the somewhat unbearable green of the Empire of the Rising Sun, the near-white light green of the Fraxinus is more soothing and pleasing to the eye, much like constructing a standard Fraxinus battlefield building.

However, this construction method cannot produce a creature that is very different from the big head in just a few minutes; as mentioned earlier, it takes less than half an hour.

When Alice opened the EVA interface, she could see a Fraxinus EX icon on the screen with a white curtain that was slowly descending and disappearing, and the construction percentage was displayed in the middle.

In traditional CNC, the construction image on the display unit icon disappears slowly, like the hour hand on a clock, rotating clockwise as the construction progresses. However, in MO, it changes to a top-to-bottom motion, like water draining from a tank.

Supervisor Benjamin and Colonel Jack watched as the previously open hatch slowly descended and closed with a deafening mechanical roar. At that moment, they knew the facility was now entirely under Foehn's control.

"Are we just going to sit here and watch our Foehn friend for half an hour while its sister ship, Fraxinus EX, comes out?"

Colonel Jack looked at his friend Benjamin.

“Of course not, Jack. Let’s use these DEM bastards who dare to interfere with our work as target practice.”

Supervisor Benjamin gave a malicious smile and raised his right hand, pointing upwards to the ceiling as he issued the order.

"First, unfold the leaf of the World Tree!"

Supervisor Benjamin basically used the DEM facility on Ellington Piris Island as a target.

Behind the chrysanthemum in Fraxinus, something resembling a bare branch extends, and from those branches, like branches sprouting leaves, many rectangular crystals grow.

To Alice and Lin Haiyuan, two Command & Conquer players, this was like seeing a Tiberian plant bloom, producing Tiberian crystals.

However, unfolding the World Tree leaf does not mean that Fraxinus can immediately begin to act. Thanks to its design, it still needs to transform further, like a super fortress.

"Prepare to fire the Convergence Magic Cannon 'Mistilteinn'. The target is those oil drums and tents, where DEM bastards are hiding and spying on us."

Mistilteinn translates to Silver Oak Sword, and its transliteration is Mistilteinn. In Norse mythology, the god of light was unlucky enough to be killed by his own fully-fledged StarCraft player brother, the god of darkness, with this very weapon.

Before launching an attack or entering a state of combat readiness, the airship in Fraxinus must first deploy its "wings." That's right, the "blade"-shaped hull on both sides of this thing can transform. A good reference is the Great Cat, which uses forward-swept wings, or the VF with its saddle-shaped wings.

The hull and wing transformation effect in Fraxinus is obviously more complex than any variable sweep wing fighter. You can see that the wing seems to be a single piece of aircraft divided into three sections that unfold to both sides simultaneously. The main shipborne weapons are all there, such as the most commonly used convergence magic cannon and the less commonly used spirit magic cannon. The latter is unusable without spirits and can be used as a redundant system.

Four claw-like appendages popped out from around the muzzle, and then the inner part of the cannon, shaped like a flower core, began to gather dazzling golden light while simultaneously unfolding a fantastical golden magic circle, all within a few seconds.

The cannon's muzzle gathered an incredible amount of magic power, which was then confined into a golden beam that shot towards the fake position on Ellington Piris Island.

Following the feat of using a lightning storm to blast oil barrels and tents, Ratatosk accomplished the extraordinary feat of using a converging magic cannon to blow up oil barrels and tents. Perhaps one day we will see oil barrels blown up with an elven magic cannon.

BOOM!!!

As oil drums, human remains, and tent wreckage were blown into the air, the entire DEM camouflage position was instantly engulfed in a raging inferno caused by the intense heat from the oil drums and magic cannons. During this time, several "FlameGuys" screamed as they ran out of the inferno and jumped into the sea to seek relief. Several DEM magicians also escaped from the inferno and the exploded dummy position in a disheveled state.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Supervisor Benjamin, oblivious to everything else, slumped over the captain's chair armrest and burst into laughter.

"…………"

After witnessing this scene, Colonel Jack resolved to always keep a close eye on the base and never allow any oil drums or ammunition boxes to be left lying around, lest they cause a chain reaction and lead to disaster.

"Report the operational status of all systems!"

After a brief moment of uninhibited laughter, Manager Benjamin returned to normal.

"The large-scale basic display device AR-009 is operating normally from Unit 1 to Unit 10."

"The leaves of the World Tree are functioning normally."

Meanwhile, Bean Sprout, who was on the transport plane, learned the unfortunate news that Ratatosk and Foehn had jointly built an airship.

"So that's why they didn't leave after the leak, and why the magician from Burning Wind was also present... Did they catch a big fish this time?"

While Ellen Mira Messeres was saying this, she wasn't actually confident that she could take down an airship without her personal battleship, Goetia, in the meantime.

After all, the Caledfwlch in her hand was not something that could be used as a ship-slaying sword!

"Minister Messer, latest intelligence: the warships jointly built by Ratatosk and Foehn have destroyed our decoy positions using two different types of magic cannons, and have also repelled the reconnaissance magicians with missiles."

A crew member wearing headphones and a tight-fitting combat suit reported this.

"Functionally similar to our warships, do the Ratatosk Agency and the Foehn intend to attack Ellington Piris Island with their new air warships?"

Eileen pressed the crew members in front of her for answers.

"Judging from the fact that their warships continue to bomb our decoy positions, they seem to be planning to launch a counterattack and annihilate our troops on the island in one fell swoop."

The crew members replied.

"Tell Hardman to equip all capable magicians and prepare for battle, fighting and retreating, and not to be repelled by Ratatosk and the Foehn, but to lure them deep into the archipelago."

Eileen was planning to use the flanking or rear-end battlefield to create her first victory of the day.

"Yes!"

After saluting and accepting their orders, the crew members continued to the front of the cabin.

Just then, as Odin had said, Fraxinus Engineering Bay completed the construction of FraxinusEX within half an hour.

"Unit ready."

Odin delivered a classic EVA report to Alice.

"Okay! Open the hatch! Odin."

Alice immediately switched to the communication channel and called out: "Valkyrie Battalion, all personnel, proceed to FraxinusEX!"

"Yes!"

After responding to the command in unison, Lin Haiyuan, along with Hua Zhizi, Charlotte, and other magicians, immediately turned and flew towards the opening exit of the warship.

"Hey, Benjamin, the hatch in the warship construction facility is open."

Colonel Jack even raised one eyebrow to remind Benjamin beside him.

"Oh? The hatch is open? Report how long it has been since Foehn received our facility?"

Supervisor Benjamin shouted.

"Ten, ten, five minutes, supervisor!"

A temporary crew member from Fraxinus revealed an incredible timeframe.

"What?! Fifteen minutes?!"

Although Benjamin had already prepared himself mentally, the number 15 minutes still surprised him so much that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"This is simply amazing! The Fraxinus EX was built in just 15 minutes!"

The temporary passenger ship crew stared in disbelief as the Fraxinus EX rose from the hatch.

Meanwhile, the observers and magicians from DEM witnessed a truly devastating scene.

An aerial warship, bearing a clear resemblance to the game "Fraxinus," rose from the sky above the mountains of Yost Fandark Island, its standard foehn black paint scheme indistinguishable from the surrounding landscape.

Compared to the original Fraxinus, the Fraxinus EX's appearance changes cannot be explained by just a few words in the original work.