Colonia Storm Tour

If Fraxinus is like a pair of sharp surgical scissors with branches on its rear end, transforming into a standard, sleek sci-fi fighter jet, then Fraxinus EX is significantly different from the original model. The most obvious feature is the absence of the branches on its rear end, making the overall lines sharper. Of course, the absence of the branches does not mean they have disappeared; they are simply stored away by the transformation mechanism.

Besides the retractable tree branch behind the rear, the unfoldable "wings" have flaps and ailerons, and two slender wings stand upright above the inner edges of the two wings. These two wings, which can be considered ailerons, are no less complex in terms of lines than the original two wings.

The core of the warship not only has a more complex design, but also two parallel tail fins that look like they were made for show. It seems like they could easily fit a particle impact fuel cell inside. Compared to the Convergence Magic Cannon, which is limited by its power design, and the Elf Spirit Cannon, which is a headache to play without the help of elves, if possible, Burning Wind would keep the Convergence Magic Cannon and abandon the Elf Spirit Cannon, replacing it with a particle impact weapon that fires particle projectiles.

The two particle projectiles fired by the Vanguard Gunship have only a numerical advantage over the particle impact projectiles fired by the mechanical creations, while the particle impact projectiles of the mechanical creations have advantages in both power and range.

The equipment and space on FraxinusEX are sufficient to support the firing of particle impact projectiles at the level of mechanical constructs, and also allow for a relatively short charging time before firing.

However, considering the intention to preserve the prototype warship, these modifications will not be implemented on the newly created "FraxinusEX".

Now let's talk about how Fraxinus EX is more powerful than Fraxinus on paper.

To cope with the increasingly powerful combat situation, FraxinusEX was equipped with four auxiliary magic cannons called "Blutgang" and "Brionac" interceptor missiles.

Four auxiliary magic cannons are installed under the hull of the warship. Whenever needed in battle, the shields can be removed to extend the cannon muzzles, which can be used for air and ground attacks.

Blutgang can be transliterated as 赫而不特根, while Brionac is a more complex name. Therefore, we chose the more easily understood "轰击五星" (Bombering Five Stars), a name derived from the Type-Moon series.

Compared to the ambiguous Bürtegen, the "Bombardment Five Stars" missile is more similar in shape to the Blizzard of the Mage in Warcraft 3. Just like the mythical weapon implied by its name, these comet-like missiles do indeed have a terrifying Mach speed.

Regarding the length and width of the battleship, the original Fraxinus was 252 meters long and 120 meters wide, while the Fraxinus EX was 255 meters long and 115 meters wide. It was slightly longer and narrower than the ASS-004 Fraxinus and ASS-004-2 Fraxinus EX. However, the Fraxinus EX we see now is not all that she possesses. Her full power can only be seen after it is fully deployed.

Inside FraxinusEX, Lin Haiyuan was sitting in the captain's seat, while Hua Zhizi, who was temporarily serving as the vice captain and political commissar, stood beside him. They were both in the CIC, which was actually used for combat.

"Commander Artemisia, how is FraxinusEX doing?"

Alice smiled as she looked at the black warship rising in the holographic projection. From then on, not only DEM had eerie warships, but also the Ratatosk, a flying warship with a strange paint scheme that resembled a forward-swept wing fighter after transformation.

Now, there are also warships painted with low-visibility foehn shark symbols and Colonia flank flags, and they used the advanced Fraxinus model, FraxinusEX, even before Ratatosk!

"All systems normal, Where do you need me?"

Lin Haiyuan uses two lines from Da Tou's dialogue as a response to Alice's question.

-The muzzle of Fraxinus can serve as a reference for the muzzle of Fraxinus EX; more details will have to wait until the third season of the anime.

There will be a second watch tonight.

The reason it's still called Fraxinus EX and not something else is because a qualified captain, political commissar, and crew haven't been appointed yet. Don't worry, they will be appointed later.

Modifications complete.

Chapter Twelve: Stormbringer (RYUSA MIX) - 5

"You guys pick your own targets. Our allies in Ratatosk have already taken out the oil barrels and tents for us, pfft..."

Alice covered her mouth and laughed as she spoke.

The scene of Ratatosk's "Fraxinus" blasting oil barrels and then engulfing the entire DEM fake position in flames looks exactly like a lightning storm splitting oil barrels and tents.

"Understood. Let's give DEM on the island a grand farewell ceremony and unfold the World Tree Leaf."

Lin Haiyuan commanded: "Deploying the World Tree Leaf is essential for both Fraxinus and Fraxinus EX. It can also release the independent CR-UNIT World Tree Leaf for communication. However, judging from the original work, this independent CR-UNIT, which is designed as a relay communication device, is more often used as a floating cannon or Mag's Thunder to attack people."

From this point, the huge difference between Fraxinus EX and Fraxinus becomes clear. Fraxinus EX's transformation effect is completely opposite to and more complex than Fraxinus. The wings that should have swept back did not sweep back. Instead, the short wings on both sides of the core part unfolded in a surprising way. First, the transformation mechanism popped out and the wing parts that had been retracted were exposed. Then, the wings quickly unfolded forward and became wider forward-swept wings.

But that wasn't all. The World Tree branches that were originally supposed to be behind the rear end extended from both the rear end and the back of the two forward-swept wings, and then crystal-like "leaves" sprouted from the branches.

The World Tree branches on the wings extend outwards more smoothly than those on the central tail. The branches at the rear of the warship are denser, and the two parallel tail fins, which originally looked pretentious, have been raised 45 degrees from the rear.

This raised, parallel tail fin is reminiscent of the Winged Hussars of the Great Wave, or, to put it more elegantly, the feathers on either side of a Valkyrie's helmet.

The original blade-shaped wings were not completely still; they moved slightly to the sides. Then, the movement of the two vertical ailerons on the wings caused the man to fall. The right aileron descended to below the warship, flipped up and down, and finally stopped below the axis of the main gun muzzle. The left vertical aileron moved above the axis of the main gun muzzle. The main gun system then popped out slightly, instead of fully popping out from amidships as in the original model.

This shows that the four claw-like wings that originally surrounded the cannon muzzle were directly incorporated into the original wings by the designers of Ratatosk.

Lin Haiyuan and Alice both thought to themselves that the designers of the Rising Sun Empire would definitely like Ratatosk, a designer who shared their language and was capable of making such a complex transformation mechanism.

Although the entire process of transforming into battle mode is quite complex, it takes a little less time than in Fraxinus.

Finally, when the heavily armed Fraxinus EX, with its unusually intimidating and oppressive black paint scheme, low-visibility Foehn shark emblem, and Colonia flank flag, distinguished itself from the Fraxinus, all the DEM personnel present who could see the Fraxinus EX realized that this warship belonged to the Foehn!

"Prepare to close the magic cannon. Target: DEM base in area D-1. There are people there who are still wearing suits even when they're on the battlefield. Taking care of them should cause chaos in the local DEM command."

Lin Haiyuan has already selected the most valuable target.

“Eh, is this Battalion Commander Artemisia? Our warships are currently in a position where we can’t directly hit the target with the convergence magic cannon.”

Charlotte reported.

"It's alright. Now adjust the hull, tilt the bow down at 45 degrees, and we can fire the convergence magic cannon to destroy the target."

Lin Haiyuan immediately offered a solution: if the main gun fixed at the bow could not aim at the target, then the entire warship could simply be rotated to aim at the target.

"Yes."

The other magician crew members quickly began operating the control consoles—these magician crew members were much faster in operation and reaction than ordinary human crew members.

To the unsuspecting, a truly terrifying maneuver occurred: the black Fraxinus EX tilted its bow downwards at a 45-degree angle while still in place.

Those who saw the bow of the Fraxinus EX warship tilted downwards at a 45-degree angle, especially senior DEM personnel like Hardman in the field command post, immediately realized something was wrong.

"Get under cover quickly!! The enemy is about to fire!"

Hardman shouted that he and the others should immediately and orderly flee towards the nearest cover to avoid the magic cannon fire.

The main cannon muzzle, surrounded by four sharp blade-like wings, had a flower-shaped structure. Inside, golden particles resembling will-o'-the-wisps contracted towards the muzzle, while a golden magic circle unfolded at the muzzle.

The cannon, having completed its charging process in a short time, unleashed a golden beam of light from its muzzle and a magic circle, sweeping towards DEM's battlefield command post.

Those who couldn't dodge the magical barrage were like pikemen facing the Colossus's heat ray guns, screaming and turning into dust in the magical torrent that was actually a beam of light.

Since the field command post, which is not protected by any domain, is not an underground command center for dealing with nuclear war, it can be seen that the beam of light fired by the entire DEM field command post was completely wiped off the ground. The beam of light formed by the binding magic fired by the converging magic cannon is not only able to last for a short time. On the contrary, it can move along the designated coordinates to form a line for a short period of time, just like the particle beam fired by the particle ascending cannon in General or Final Hour.

"Art of destruction," Lin Haiyuan thought to himself as he watched the DEM battlefield command post being annihilated by the magic cannon fire, uttering the attack lines of the Pteranodon.

"The DEM base in the D-1 area has been confirmed to have no survivors, except for a small number of magicians and people who escaped the shelling or were not within the shelling range."

Charlotte replied.

"Well done. The ship is now at level. Let's prepare to leave. Contact Ratatosk's Fraxinus."

Lin Haiyuan looked at the holographic projection display in front of him and said.

"Yes."

The other Magician crew members replied that the Fraxinus EX, which was originally tilted at 45 degrees, gradually returned to a horizontal position. The spherical holographic projection inside the CIC showed the tilted Fraxinus EX model rapidly returning to a horizontal position.

The Fraxinus communication from Ratatosk was quickly connected.

"Battalion Commander Artemisia and Deputy Battalion Commander Youhua, the skill and technique you displayed in operating 'FraxinusEX' amazed me. It's hard to imagine that someone who has only been on board for a few minutes could do this."

Benjamin Fletcher's voice appeared within CIC.

"You flatter me, Mr. Fletcher. We are all magicians, with an advantage over ordinary people in terms of manipulation and reaction speed."

Lin Haiyuan modestly declined.

"If what Battalion Commander Artemisia said is true."

You Huazhi continued speaking, following Lin Haiyuan's words.

"Haha, in that case, your Valkyrie battalion is full of amazing girls. Not only are they very strong as magicians, but they are also excellent as crew members of an air battleship."

Supervisor Benjamin Fletcher laughed heartily.

At this moment, under Odin's control, Alice entered the communication channel of the two airships, and the two communication screens were proportionally reduced and separated to the two sides.

"Mr. Fletcher, Colonel Jack, have you been amazed by our speed of the Foehn winds?"

There was a clear sense of smugness in Alice's voice.

"Your ability to condense warships that take months to build into warships that only take minutes is enough to prove that you will never lack equipment in any war you win in the future."

Colonel Jack remarked.

"It's not just eye-opening, it's a bolt from the blue. We fully realize that Ratatosk is lagging behind in construction technology. I think we need to learn from Foehn how to use the most advanced construction technology to complete the construction of a warship in 15 minutes, and then use a sea of ​​warships to let the DEM bastards experience what it's like to be overwhelmed by numbers."

While Benjamin, the supervisor, was saying this, it was actually almost impossible. Doing such a thing would not only mean a huge change in the production line, but also an unusual transformation within Asgard Electronics to support this highly efficient construction method. Not to mention the money consumed, the cost of crucial technology research and deployment alone would be enough to make the entire Ratatosk tremble.

As for construction techniques like the Firewind Exchange... Ratatosk didn't know what else could attract this shark besides handing over the elves.

"This is Ulmus. Have the Foehn warriors completed the construction of FraxinusEX? That's truly astonishing."

Elliott Baldwin Woodman stared in surprise at the black "FraxinusEX" on the monitor.

"It's faster than we imagined."

Karen stood to the side and said.

"This is the speed of the Foehn wind, and we can do even bigger and better in the future. Has Ulmus already reached the Virgin Islands?"

Alice was not at all surprised that Woodman had interrupted the communication.

"We are still in Anguilla and have not yet approached the Virgin Islands. Does Your Excellency Alice perhaps have some daring plans?"

Woodman's bold idea here is to combine three airships with the help of magicians to completely wipe out the DEM forces on the Virgin Islands.

“If DEM’s Executive Director, Ellen Mira Messeres, doesn’t arrive with a squad of magicians, we’d be happy to wait for Ratatosk’s flagship, the Ulmus, to be in position before launching an attack together.”

Alice's words indicate that Foehn is about to leave the Virgin Islands.

As a sign that Fraxinus was about to withdraw from the Virgin Islands, the entire Fraxinus Engineering Bay was dismantled by nanodrones and sent to the nanoregeneration chamber for processing. At this time, all the buildings that Fraxinus had installed on the islands began to decompose into many nano clouds under control and were then recycled back to the Fraxinus construction site, including the magic turret facilities left on the islands by Ratatosk.

Then, under the action of nano-drones, the foehn construction site was repackaged into a foehn motorized construction vehicle, which was then transported back to the warehouse of the last fortress underground base in Antarctica via a series of hyperspace teleportations.

On the entire island of Jostfandark, there are virtually no human structures left. The only evidence is the mountaintop with a large, flat hole cut out as an entrance and the hollowed-out interior of the mountain, which proves that humans once existed there and carried out extensive construction on it.

"Hmm, she brought the team? I understand. Do we need to meet up with our 'Ulmus' team first before deciding where to go?"

Woodman asked.

"In order to further test the performance of FraxinusEX, we plan to temporarily leave the atmosphere and head to outer space. We do not intend to stay in the atmosphere for the time being, and then we will rendezvous with the fleet."

Alice politely declined Woodman's request to join the voyage.

"Really? What a pity. I thought I would be able to see three airships of the same class sailing in the air at the same time."

Woodman expressed his deep regret.

“We will have time to have FraxinusEX sail alongside your airships later, Mr. Woodman.”

Alice clicked on "FraxinusEX" in the EVA interface and said, "Commander Artemisia, 'FraxinusEX' is now beginning its journey into space."