Colonia Storm Tour

Alice made a sarcastic remark, sounding quite convincing.

"Wow, these welcoming fireworks are so intense! Even the random field can't effectively deflect or block them."

You Huazhizi saw that the main display screen showed almost entirely firelight formed by clusters of thermal energy hitting random areas.

[Report: The area directly in front of the first-tier defensive random zone, as well as the port and starboard sides, has been reduced by 80%. Enemy attacks deal extremely high burst damage; immediate maneuver to evade is recommended!]

The ship's AI immediately attached the damage report and suggestions to the screen. This report was not much different from what the magicians like Hua Zhizi had thought. They all said that the first layer of the random domain was almost destroyed in an instant.

"Warning! FraxinusEX is now within range of enemy anti-aircraft fire! Maneuver to evade immediately!"

As soon as Odin spoke, the Gatling guns on the ground raised their 35mm twin Gatling guns and fired at the first speed at the "FraxinusEX" that appeared in the sky, forming a fire net with dense tracer bullets.

Even though the first layer of random space had shrunk to only 20% of its original size, it still managed to block the almost endless 35mm machine gun shells from a distance.

The high-speed collision of the warheads sent sparks flying across the area, along with tiny explosions, replacing the dissipating heat waves as a concentrated burst of heat engulfed *FraxinusEX*.

"Use the magic to support the first layer of the random field for stealth camouflage and automatic avoidance. The range of the first layer of the random field is set to starboard. Turn the rudder to starboard at full speed."

Lin Haiyuan calmly gave the order, but turning to starboard to face the anti-aircraft fire would limit the main guns' firing.

"Yes!"

The first layer of the Fraxinus EX's free domain was formed entirely on the starboard side of the warship after a flash of light. She also displayed a flexibility that was different from her huge body, turning right on the spot and circling the Epsilon base at full speed.

For some reason, according to the official MO promotional images, the Infernal Air Defense Platform in the upcoming mission won't be carrying the Evil Interceptor. Instead, it will be equipped with weapons similar to Antares or Hellfire Towers. I feel like the Evil Interceptor is flying on the moon without any problem.

"Figure" doesn't mean leader; it means graphic or graphic image. When used with a certain type of object, it means the shadow of something, so "shadow of a wolf pack" is correct.

Chapter Fifteen: The Shadow of the Wolf Pack (Part III)

Transforming the first layer of the Random Domain into a shield placed in front of the starboard side is more effective than a simple sphere. However, calling it a shield is somewhat inaccurate, as there is a process that seems easy to understand but is actually a bit complicated. First, let's talk about the Random Domain's ability to block attacks. Generally, a green lattice shield would intercept the attack, resulting in a projectile effect corresponding to the weapon type. But in reality, it's not that simple. Instead, the moment the attack hits the Random Domain, a white magic circle with several circles unfolds to block the attack... The whole scene is strangely magical.

However, since none of them had seen this before, they all calmly accepted watching the thermal energy clusters and machine gun shells being blocked by the magic circle.

As the Fraxinus EX rapidly turned right, flashes of explosions and fire appeared incessantly on its starboard side, with thermal clusters and machine gun shells bombarding it almost non-stop.

"Chief Alice, it seems we've run into the edge of a heavily fortified base. The anti-aircraft fire from the out-of-control base has been very strong."

Lin Haiyuan reported.

"Our Uranus satellite system can't help you right now. Create some distance and use your main and secondary guns to break through the defenses."

It's impossible for Alice to have the Uranus satellite system change its orbit and direction to attack anything on the moon.

[WARNING: Shipborne radar detected 20 unknown large targets and 1 unknown very large target at 12 o'clock!]

The warning message from the ship's AI at this moment seemed to make matters worse. What appeared on the display was not some unknown large target, but the real air fortress Ilicara and the Salamander warship.

Looking at the aerial fortress Ilicara, nicknamed "Big Disk," on the monitor, all the magician crew members were amazed by this alien spaceship that seemed to rival "Fraxinus EX."

"Is this really a creation of the Foehn winds? This alien flying saucer, with its shape and size, looks like an alien mothership!"

"Ilicara is watching the rotating aerial fortress and complaining," said Hua Zhizi.

"This is exactly the alien mothership that humanity faces as the final enemy in those movies about fighting alien invasions, but the alien mothership in Independence Day that I've seen looks bigger than this."

Charlotte could still discern the appearance of the aerial fortress Elikara and the awe it instilled in her opponents upon its arrival.

"Not only that, but next to that giant flying saucer, there are also aerial warships that look like giant lizards! And there are a total of 20 of them!"

"The magician crew shouted."

"Large-scale basic manifestation devices 3 and 4 are responsible for magic generation. Deploy the second layer of the arbitrary field! The range of the arbitrary field is limited to the port side. Large-scale basic manifestation devices 5 and 6 are responsible for magic generation. The third layer of the arbitrary field is limited to the front. Retract the magic cannon - Silver Scythe, prepare!"

Lin Haiyuan knew he was in deep trouble when he saw the Sky Fortress Ilicara and the Ascension Fleet composed of fire lizards.

While blocking thermal cluster weapons and Gatling guns is not difficult for FraxinusEX, the firepower of the Ascending Fleet is not to be underestimated.

Fortunately, both the fire salamander and the large plate are incredibly slow, so you can deal with these slow and troublesome opponents before you can be beaten into a sorry state in Fraxinus EX.

Looking at the fire lizards and large plates ahead, Alice began to wonder if she had gone to the moon to fight a challenge of ascension and illusion. First, there was the completely hidden Epsilon base, and now there was the ascension fleet.

From the outside perspective, FraxinusEX is not in a good position. Putting aside the ground-based anti-aircraft weapons that have been attacking since the beginning, the most important thing is that the range of the Salamander and the air fortress Elikar is farther than expected.

The pair of ARO launchers at the bow and the pair at the stern of the Salamander airship have been firing those red, meteor-like rockets called "toilet plungers" almost nonstop.

The simultaneous firing of 20 Salamander airships was clearly awe-inspiring, with ARO rockets raining down on the front of FraxinusEX like a storm.

Fortunately, no confusing rays or confusing force fields appeared. Otherwise, if the random field were broken and the confusing rays hit the warship, chaos would inevitably occur. Lin Haiyuan secretly rejoiced.

These extremely fast ARO rockets quickly rained down on the defensive random field of view in waves. The yellow light caused by the explosions of the ARO rockets on the random field of view quickly obscured the optical observation field of both sides.

Next, the air fortress Ilicara joined the attack. The twin dissolving rays fired from her three horns could effectively dissolve any human body and armor. Although the single shot of this vicious ray was not very powerful, thanks to its high rate of fire, even the most resilient giant killer among the infantry could not withstand it for long. Moreover, this ace of Epsilon against the Centurion Siege Machine could also fire a group of three slow but powerful implosion bombs in succession.

The random field directly in front of Fraxinus EX suffered its most intense attack ever, with the almost non-stop attacks increasing the pressure on the random field.

[Warning: The third layer of the arbitrary domain has shrunk by 15%! The range of the third layer of the arbitrary domain is only 85% of its original size!]

The shipboard AI dutifully reported to the magician crew members on the warship.

Fortunately, the magic cannon had already been fully charged by this time. The moment the golden magic circle disappeared, a golden beam of light shot out from the cannon muzzle through the two blade-shaped wings and swept across the frantically attacking fire lizards.

These fire salamander airships immediately began to evade the heat source amidships of the Fraxinus EX, but the biggest problem with fire salamanders is their slow speed, so slow that they can even sail alongside Elikar without needing to slow down much.

The Salamander warship is indeed very sturdy compared to traditional anti-aircraft weapons, but its sturdiness against pure energy weapons is questionable, especially when the width of the incoming beam of light is greater than its cross-section.

"Turn the warship to port 104 and strafe down as many airships as possible."

Lin Hai originally wanted to bombard these slow-moving fire lizards in large numbers as much as possible.

The Fraxinus EX maneuvered to the left, and the golden beam of light, not yet fully fired, turned left along with the warship. The golden beam of light easily turned the fire salamanders that were directly hit into ashes, while those fire salamanders that were turning and maneuvering were cut in half and finally detonated the natural gas engine that generated plasma, causing a violent explosion. Like the Venomous Lizard airship, the fire salamander also uses an advanced natural gas engine to heat natural gas to generate plasma to propel the warship. However, the Venomous Lizard airship also uses advanced plasma shaping technology and electromagnetic fields to shape plasma waste into plasma cannonballs for long-range bombardment of ground targets.

The fire lizard warships were like moths drawn to a flame, instantly annihilated or cut in half by the golden beams of light fired from the converging magic cannons. After the golden beams disappeared...

[Report: The number of enemy airships on radar has decreased from 30 to 20; the number of giant UFO targets remains unchanged.]

The shipborne AI's report confirms that the previous main gun salvo destroyed 10 Salamander airships.

[Report: The first layer of arbitrary domain has been reduced to 50%, the second layer to 95%, and the third layer to 65%!]

"Warning: More anti-aircraft vehicles controlled by the out-of-control base have entered the battlefield. Beware of these rudimentary six-wheeled vehicles, called Oxidizer Anti-Aircraft Support Vehicles! The strong oxidizing rays they emit will severely embrittle armor and human bodies! Their corrosive effect on random areas may be mediocre! This is an anti-aircraft vehicle we developed when project funding was fluctuating!"

Odin warned.

"How could they develop such an impressive-sounding anti-aircraft weapon when research funding was so inconsistent?!"

One of the gardenias complained that she had never heard of strong oxidizing rays in her knowledge.

Have the Scorpion Organization's air defense units also entered the fray? According to Odin, the strong oxidation ray seems to be quite effective against random areas. We can't fight head-on now; we need to find a way to escape first.

Just as Lin Haiyuan was thinking this, Ou Ting's warning came again.

"Warning: More anti-aircraft vehicles controlled by the out-of-control base have entered the battlefield, and Inferno anti-aircraft platforms using mini Antares weapons are pursuing us!"

Odin once again warned everyone on FraxinusEX.

"FraxinusEX, leave one control display device behind, and use the rest to generate magic. Switch FraxinusEX to manual operation mode. Gardenia, hand me the headset transmitter."

Lin Haiyuan frowned and said that with more and more anti-aircraft weapons entering the battlefield, it is becoming more difficult for the Fraxinus EX to leave the battlefield unscathed.

The arrival of over a dozen Oxidizer anti-aircraft support vehicles and the Purgatory anti-aircraft platform on the battlefield was quite alarming. It's important to know that the strong oxidizing effect of the strong oxidizing ray can be stacked. Although Odin said that the effect on the Random Domain might be average, she dared not take this average assessment as confidence that the Random Domain wouldn't be destroyed in seconds.

"Ok."

Youhua Zhizi immediately took a pair of red and black headphones that looked a bit unique and handed them over.

"Everyone, hold your ground."

Lin Haiyuan put on the headset without hesitation. This headset is a display device that helps people control the warship with their brainwaves.

Using this thing feels just like using a CR-UNIT; there's not much of a sense of unfamiliarity or strangeness. Now, the entire warship feels like an extension of her body, allowing her to control it with ease.

Lin Haiyuan immediately controlled the magic generated by the large basic manifestation device to form three layers of arbitrary domains. The first layer of arbitrary domain covered the inside of the warship, the second layer enveloped the warship, and the third layer was adjacent to the second layer of arbitrary domain and then came into contact at high speed. In the short time that the two layers of arbitrary domains came into contact with each other, everyone sitting or standing on the warship felt as if they had lost the pull of gravity and floated up.

The images on the main display screen at the front of the assassin's warship were changing at an extremely terrifying speed, proving that the warship had gained an extraordinary acceleration in an instant, resulting in a sudden increase in speed.

Without the buffer of the first layer of random domain generated by Lin Haiyuan, the G-force generated by this action, which was almost like teleporting a warship, would have been enough to make the girls in the CR-UNIT who were still in standby mode cough up blood.

From the outside, the entire Fraxinus EX looked very strange, as if it had been launched by something, and instantly dodged a large number of ARO rockets, thermal beams, strong oxidation rays, dissolving rays and implosion bombs by moving directly to the left. However, the AI ​​controlling the Epsilon base did not show any surprise, and simply continued to assign air units capable of anti-air attacks to pursue the warship according to the program logic.

Having temporarily evaded most of the anti-aircraft attacks, Lin Haiyuan continued to control the warship, gaining a greater speed advantage and moving away from the anti-aircraft fire zone of the Epsilon base.

To gain a direct understanding of warship attitude control, imagine the warship being pulled by an invisible hand, performing unconventional maneuvers.

"Invisibility camouflage and automatic avoidance, activated."

Lin Haiyuan uttered a sentence, and the bow of the warship began to disappear into the lunar sky like a mosaic, while the fire lizard warships and the air fortress Ilicara, which were still slowly chasing from a distance, instantly lost their targets.

After discovering the target had disappeared, the AI ​​at Epsilon Base, instead of blindly dispatching troops and reconnaissance units to pursue it, turned around and headed back.

The Epsilon anti-aircraft vehicles that were originally pouring out one after another also entered the range of the mind illusion device and disappeared from human eyes and radar.

"FraxinusEX, switch back to automatic operation mode."

Neither Lin Haiyuan nor Alice gave the ship's AI a name, but instead used the ship's name "FraxinusEX" as a temporary reference for it.

[Report: Operation mode switch complete, now in automatic operation mode]

The ship's AI switched operating modes in the next second, and Lin Haiyuan took off the red and black headphones he was wearing and handed them to Youhua Zhizi next to him.

"I didn't expect that we would be using manual operation mode so soon after boarding the warship."

Lin Haiyuan sighed. All those maneuvers she had just performed were learned from Shen Wuyue and then applied on the spot. If it weren't for Artemisia's experience and her corresponding qualities, she really wouldn't have been able to perform those incredibly complex maneuvers.

Is switching to manual operation mode too strenuous?

A gardenia held up a headset transmitter.

"I wouldn't say, but the burden will become heavier over time. For you... the precision of the arbitrary domain you can control is not up to standard. Only Political Commissar Zhi can do the same thing as me."

Lin Hai didn't believe that the magicians who weren't originally from the Second Execution Department of DEM were capable of doing this, and that manually operating the warship was only something they did as an emergency.

"Judging from the probing just now, our out-of-control base has used the equipment and resources it carried to manufacture our ultimate weapon and establish a large, heavily fortified base."

Alice then interjected, saying that everyone could see the aerial fortress Ilicara and the Salamander airship that had just been captured on the main display screen.

"Yes... Speaking of which, Chief Alice, those airships and giant alien flying saucers we just saw should all be products of Project 9991, right?"

Gardenia looked at her in the picture with a puzzled expression.

"I think you must all be wondering, since we, the Foehn Wind, have the ability to create unique aerial warships and giant alien flying saucers, why do we still need to ask Ratatosk for the technical data and construction facilities of FraxinusEX? Let me first introduce these two aerial weapons created by us, the Foehn Wind."

Ellie, without the slightest hesitation or disrespect for Epsilon's opinion, categorized the entire Epsilon as a masterpiece of the Foehn winds.

"First is this airship that looks like a giant lizard. This airship is called the Salamander. You've all seen its attack methods and speed. Although the ARO rocket attacks are very fierce, this airship moves very slowly. And fortunately, thanks to the complete technological division, the Salamanders produced by the out-of-control base are not equipped with confusion ray emitters and confusion force field generators. Otherwise, the upcoming battle would be quite dangerous."