Colonia Storm Tour

The disengaged flight mentioned by Walker.com was also Lin Haiyuan and Alice's idea, with the aim of ensuring that the Colonia's flank air base would no longer be detected by anti-stealth devices.

With a pleasant notification sound, the radar map and battlefield view on the EVA interface continuously switched to the sea areas to the northeast, southwest, and southeast of the sailing Mechdon fleet.

"It is expected that DEM's armed ship force will cooperate with the magician and Bondsky to attack the fleet from three directions. The mechanical whale fleet is protected by the Colonia's flank air base, so there is no need to worry about enemy forces attacking from behind for the time being."

After Walker.net AI finished speaking, the battlefield view shifted back to the flagship Black Whale and White Whale of the Mechanodon fleet.

"Battle Control Online."

The two AIs jointly announced the start of the battle control link.

"Time start. The first wave of attacks from DEM's armed ships and magicians is expected to enter the waters where the Machinist Whale Fleet is located in 3 minutes."

Both Walker.net AI and Odin displayed a countdown to the arrival of the first wave of enemy attacks below the EVA interfaces of the two commanders.

"Comrade Xiao Yuanxun, the fleet, prepare for battle! Sound the battle alarm! Level one alert!"

Lin Haiyuan gave the order.

"Yes, Commander Lin!"

After receiving the order, Xiao Yuanxun repeated Lin Haiyuan's command, "All ships, sound the battle alarm, level one alert!"

The piercing alarms blared from the Swordfish frigate to the Flat Shark support submarine and then to the Leviathan mothership. Upon hearing the order for the highest level of combat alert, all personnel on the warships and submarines focused intently on the multi-function displays and equipment in front of them.

"Alice, I'm entrusting the fleet command to you. I can't afford to be distracted by the fleet's combat command."

Lin Haiyuan actually wanted to command his fleet in a naval battle, but he was currently facing a special battlefield environment that forced him to use Artemisia's body to be on the battlefield instead of focusing on commanding the battle. This was mainly due to the threat posed by the DEM magicians, as well as issues such as commanding the fleet and the air base on the flank of Colonia. It was impossible for him to have time to teleport to Antarctica and spend a month returning to his original body.

"Leave it to me with peace of mind, Lin the Madman. You can go and deal with the enemies on the battlefield."

Alice straightened her chest, which didn't move much.

"That's good."

The nanobot Lin Haiyuan fell silent, while Artemisia, who stood like a gatekeeper holding a long spear at the entrance of the Leviathan mothership's island, opened her sky-blue eyes.

"Have you finished explaining, Misia?"

Gardenia, who was standing to the side, turned around and looked at her, asking a question.

"Yes, with Alice commanding the fleet in battle, we can focus on fighting the enemy."

As Lin Haiyuan spoke, he charged the Heroic Spirit War Maiden in his hand, and the white-hot spear blade slowly formed under the gathering of magic power.

"That's really reliable. Shall we take off now and prepare for combat?"

A gardenia asked.

"Let's wait for Chief Alice's orders before making a decision. All personnel, charge your weapons and prepare for takeoff and combat."

Lin Haiyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, indicating that Hua Zhizi had already entered the role of Artemisia.

"learn."

Gardenia also charged Aroundight in her hand, and the magical double blades of forgiveness green burst forth.

"Yes!"

The magician girls, scattered across the other Leviathan motherships, responded, their standard double-edged lightsabers flashing in unison, along with their usual beam guns.

High in the skies above the South Pacific, a DEM airship that looked unpleasant, resembling a red organic entity, was navigating in stealth camouflage.

Colonel James A. Pattington looked with displeasure at the ragtag armed fleet displayed on the ship's monitor.

"Why should I command this rabble that can only be pirates to attack a Foehn Fleet that is on par with the U.S. Pacific Fleet?"

Colonel James grumbled to himself. He thought he should have been commanding a genuine air fleet like the now-dead Ernest Brennan. Instead, he was leading a group of armed ships that weren't even regular naval warships to attack a fully armed Foehn Wind fleet. If it weren't for the Magician and Bondsky, and the fact that the Foehn Wind fleet was carrying [Material A] plundered from Nelly Road, he would have suspected that DEM headquarters was just wasting money giving the Foehn Wind a victory.

At that moment, Ellen Mira Messer's voice came through the bridge loudspeaker.

"Colonel Pattington, we must not be careless. I don't want to experience the same failure again, where the entire fleet was wiped out in the 4V Keelung campaign without achieving our objective."

She also appeared on the monitor, dressed in business attire.

"Yes, I will remember it."

James A. Pattington's displeasure quickly vanished, and he spoke seriously.

Eileen noticed the colonel's displeasure and frowned.

"Tsk..."

Colonel James clicked his tongue in a voice no one else could hear. Putting aside the fact that she was the world's number one magician, just taking orders from a little girl old enough to be his rebellious daughter was not pleasant for him. In addition, this woman was rumored to be the mistress of the executive director of Westcott. However, the colonel was not an incompetent person who did not understand his position and duties and was not easily swayed by personal likes and dislikes. So he continued to ask in a businesslike tone.

"So, Minister Messer, do we still need Notoria to take the initiative and use magic cannons to destroy the defenses of the Burning Wind Fleet?"

Colonel James would prefer Notoria to take the initiative and deal with those already somewhat outdated "water-going" ships, letting them witness the power of the DEM airships.

"Notoria should continue with its missions of disabling stealth and controlling and commanding the battle. We still haven't figured out how Foehn managed to shoot down our fleet in an instant, and their airships and Ratatosk's airships should still be protecting them."

Ellen's face was full of wariness towards the elusive opponent, Fenfeng. After all, the more they fought, the more mysteries surrounding this opponent became, and the dark cloud of Fenfeng grew larger and larger in her heart.

Colonel James was furious with Ernest Brennan and the captain of the Albert when the topic of the Foehn and Ratatosk airships came up.

Those two bastards smothered/sunk his wedding ship, Albert! If they hadn't sunk his wedding ship, he wouldn't have had to cower in the air, using his anti-stealth field to irradiate the Firewind's mechanical whale fleet. Instead, he could have gone down and ridden their warships in the face, or at least had a fair and thrilling 2v2 battle with them.

In DEM's initial concept, after two airships belonging to the Ratatosk Agency and the Foehn Wind respectively took off on Yostvandak Island, there should now be two top-notch airships sailing with the Foehn Wind fleet. However, after the anti-stealth device irradiated the Foehn Wind fleet, no airships were found except for the naval warships.

“Minister Messer, our Eye of Solomon system did not detect any of the Foehn Wind's airships above the fleet, nor were any of Ratatosk's airships. This Foehn Wind fleet must be relying on its own cloaking capabilities without the assistance of any airships.”

Colonel James reported this fact.

"What? The Foehn and Ratatosk airships aren't helping the Foehn fleet become invisible; instead, those warships can become invisible on their own?! Is the intelligence confirmed?"

Eileen was shocked when she heard James's report.

"Yes, Minister Messer, the magic waves emitted by our Crimson Blue Eye device have not been interfered with or shown any abnormalities. This information is absolutely true."

Colonel James confirmed with a stern face.

"……………………"

The speechless Ellen never expected that the Foehn Wind fleet could become invisible on its own, without relying on one or more airships to provide stealth cover.

"Therefore, I suggest that we launch an attack to directly destroy the escort ships protecting their aircraft carrier. They are not capable of resisting our magical artillery fire. Once they lose all their escort ships, those aircraft carriers will be nothing more than lambs to the slaughter in the eyes of us magicians and Bondsky. It will only be a matter of time before we safely reclaim the stolen [Material A]."

Colonel James believed that there was nothing that the Magic Cannon couldn't solve; if there was, it was simply a matter of not firing fast enough or powerfully enough.

"That would be ideal, but I cannot risk losing one of my two remaining airships to attack the Foehn's Whale Fleet. You must understand that we cannot yet confirm that Foehn and Ratatosk's airships are not in the South Pacific. At 2 against 1, you will be at a complete disadvantage. Without my permission, you must not launch an attack."

Eileen didn't want the last two airships to be destroyed in the fighting in the South Pacific. The training of the new batch of airships and their crew and captains wouldn't be completed until next year.

"Yes, Minister."

James had no choice but to obey the order, seeing that it was a death order.

After Ellen disappeared from the screen, Colonel James scratched his peaked cap: "Parallel activation of Ashcroft-β25 to 40, continuously firing anti-stealth magic waves, target: the Burning Wind Mechanical Whale fleet."

"Yes, sir!"

The crew quickly operated the ship's computer and used the newly installed Crimson Blue Eye device to launch special magic waves that swept towards the South Pacific Ocean where the Mechanodon fleet was located.

From a magical perspective, Notoria flying in the air is like a unit in CNC3 with anti-stealth capabilities, shooting out a fan-shaped green beam forward.

This low-density, low-frequency magic wave, meticulously modulated by researchers codenamed "Red Sunset Blue" in the DEM display device development department, is based on the researchers' ingenious idea: since the invisibility device needs to make visible light and electromagnetic waves bypass it to achieve the invisibility effect, then magic waves are used to interfere with its operation and prevent these visible light and electromagnetic waves from being distorted or deflected by the energy of the invisibility device.

This sounds like a fantasy, but it was actually accomplished by the team led by the researcher codenamed "Red Sunset Blue," resulting in the current Red Sunset Blue Eye anti-stealth device.

This anti-stealth device can now be equipped not only on massive airships, but also miniaturized for use on the Magician's CR-UNIT, making it quite convenient.

Meanwhile, the fleet of Burning Wind Mechanical Whales, which was being irradiated by the anti-invisibility magic beam emitted from Notoria, also became visible as DEM had hoped.

As the distorted sound, like microphone noise, echoed in the air, both the Swordfish frigate and the Leviathan mothership gradually appeared under the layers of magical beams that resembled ripples on the water.

"Hmm? This kind of magic wave?"

Standing on the Leviathan mothership Black Whale, Lin Haiyuan immediately felt two magical beams of opposite density and frequency sweep past him.

"Are we being irradiated by something?"

Gardenia immediately looked up at the sky above her head with alarm.

"This is Valkyrie 01. Battalion Commander, Political Commissar, from me to Valkyrie 05, we all sense two magical beams with completely opposite frequencies and densities shining on us!"

Charlotte immediately reported what she had perceived, and Valkyrie 10 and Valkyrie 15 subsequently reported the same information as Charlotte.

"What exactly is this...?"

Just as Lin Haiyuan was feeling puzzled, everything she saw told her and everyone else an obvious fact.

The Swordfish frigate and the Leviathan mothership, which had been concealed by the illusionary force field of the mist vehicle, were revealed from their shimmering, semi-transparent state under the illumination of the two magical beams with completely opposite frequencies and densities.

Not only the warship itself, but also the waves and ripples created by the warship's hull as it sails on the water are fully displayed without any concealment.

DiDiDi! A piercing alarm sounded from both the bridge of the warship and the command center.

"Warning! The psychic illusion field of the Mechtooth Whale Fleet has partially failed after being irradiated by two unusual magical beams, and the fleet's cloaking status has been broken!"

Warnings from WalkerNet AI and AI Odin simultaneously appeared in front of the two commanders.

"Calling the Wind God, this is Black Whale! The fleet has lost the cover of the psychic illusion field! I repeat, the fleet has lost the cover of the psychic illusion field!"

Xiao Yuanxun calmly and collectedly called headquarters.

"Wind God received. DEM is quite skilled. They actually used two magic beams with opposite frequency densities to directly break our cloaking, instead of confirming our location coordinates through special sensors."

Lin Haiyuan did not expect that DEM would develop a sonar-like detection method so quickly to break the stealth of the Mechanodon fleet, except that it used magic beams with opposite frequencies and densities to directly break the fleet's stealth.

"It seems that DEM has indeed realized that we evaded the US Navy's search through stealth methods. They've already dusted off and upgraded the anti-stealth device that was shelved in the prototype stage and are continuing to use it. However, as long as we destroy the device that emits those two magic beams, DEM can continue to be blind. Without a magician to confirm, they simply cannot catch us. But what is the problem?"

Alice's first thought was to destroy the anti-stealth units to ensure the fleet could continue its stealthy voyage.

"Location of magic beam transmitter in progress..."

Walker.com AI paused for a second before providing the answer: "The location of the magic beam source has been determined. The target is located 500 nautical miles east of the Mechanized Whale Fleet at an altitude of 6000 meters. Judging from the radar echo and satellite imagery, it is a DEM airship. There is a greater than 90% probability that it is the DEM airship 'Notoria', which was severely damaged by mechanical artifacts in the Battle of Keelung."

This kind of behavior, which is like turning on a flashlight to illuminate a certain area, is not difficult to locate as long as there is specialized detection equipment. Doing this is equivalent to warships or submarines using active sonar.

However, when warships and submarines use active sonar on enemy submarines, it's basically telling them that they have been detected. The other side can then respond by launching a torpedo based on the sound waves emitted by the sonar device. Only anti-submarine aircraft can use active sonar to search for submarines under the surface of the sea without any restraint.

However, the Whale Fleet is not a submarine without anti-air capabilities, but a genuine fleet. It is not difficult to beat the air warship that dares to actively target them. The Bursting Bees released by the four Leviathan motherships will let the enemy feel the terror of the Kamikaze drones.

"Is DEM so confident in the sturdiness of its airships' random areas, or does it think they won't be attacked by us at all? How audacious."

Alice was already considering whether to send the Moe Shark, Red Devil Shark, Tiger Shark, and Sea Soul Shark Catapult Burst Bee to teach that DEM air battleship a lesson.

"One minute until the DEM armed convoy approaches the fleet."