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Minasan Oidemasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!
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Author:
みのろう (Minorou)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan!
Editor:
So-Chintzy!
Chapter 1
Upheaval
Part 7
Louria Kingdom. CapitalGuard Knight Order. Command Headquarters.
「A manacom message from Louria Kingdom’s Eastern Subjugation Navy, 『We are currently engaged with a ship that is believed to be the enemy mainfleet. The enemy ship is big and equipped with a powerful magic weapon. Thisweapon already sunk one warship of our fleet. We request air support forcounterattack.』……End of message.」
「Well-well, so it’s the enemy"s main fleet…… Very well, dispatch the entire 250wyverns.」
Patagene’s mouth tip crooked as he gave the order themanacom operator.
「Ho-…… However, Sir, we had already a.s.signed 150 wyverns to the vanguardarmy and since we need 100 wyverns to defend the capital, there will be no morewyverns left for the main army……」
「Are you not listening? Every wyvern. If it is the enemy’s main fleet, this willbe a decisive battle, so we must seriously throw our weight on them. ──What? Do you think the enemy have any capabilities to reach the Capital?」
「I see, I understand. 『Informing all Wyvern Squadrons.We received a communication from the Eastern Subjugation Navy at sea west from Maihark.They are engaging the enemy’s main fleet. Every Knight on standby has beenordered to depart and support the navy! I repeat ─ ─ 』」
The Dragoon Knights who were waiting for their turns toshine shouted their cheers.
The 250 wyverns, which had their emergency scrambleorder, flew to the sky one after another.
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Rodenius Continent- Northern Sea
The Aegis ship’s Combat Information Center (CIC) hadalready detected 『them』.
「This is…… not good, if we do half-baked attacks, it might put our lives atrisk.」
The flying objects that appeared on the radar were numbered250 and they could keenly feel that the enemy was not giving up at all.
They must make a swift judgment and so they decided tointercept the flying objects with full power.
「Intercept them as soon as we are ready. All hands, prepare for air combat!」
An order, that would be unthinkable back on Earth, wasgiven to the entire Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality Deployment Force.
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Suddenly, smoke rose one after another from the huge ship3 km ahead. Something with tails of light pa.s.sed through the skies above the LourianFleet. There were similar things flew from another ship that could barely beseen on the further east direction from that huge ship, which also flew aimed inthe same direction.
「What kind of trick is this!」
Sharkun was surprised but only for a brief moment, thosenumerous ‘something’ accompanied by light trails, flew from the eastern horizonwith frightening speed accompanied with a thunderous roar.
He had a bad feeling about this, but he guessed thatthis will be gone when the wyverns arrived.
「Soon the Wyvern Dragoons from the headquarters will reach this area. Allships, attack!!」
Oars protruded from the ships. Together with the soundof the drum, the oars were rowed vigorously, and the fleet accelerated.
The 4399 warship vessels of the Louria Kingdom EasternSubjugation Navy began to attack the monster-like huge ship
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The Louria Kingdom’s Dragoon Corps had departed togive naval support. This operation with 250 units, the largest one in the Kingdom’shistory, overwhelmed those who were on the ground and saw their gallant figures.
Aglameus, the Captain of the Dragoons, had alreadyconvinced himself of their victory.
The report from the manacom stated that it is the enemy’smain force, but the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality naval strength would be around 50vessels at best, even if they are more powerful than this, it would be just about100 ships at the very most.
The Navy alone was probably enough to destroy it, but perhapsVice-Admiral Sharkun intended to keep the damage of the Kingdom’s Fleet at theminimum and also showcased the tremendous number and power of the LouriaKingdom’s Army and the Dragoon Corps.
This was the first time so many Wyverns were mobilizedfor a single combat operation, and with squadrons this big, they could able todefeat even the legendary Magic Emperor Army. There was no way that they would bestopped by something on Qua-Toine Princ.i.p.ality level.
Not only Aglameus, but every Dragoon also thought so.
「Hmm? What’s that?」
Those with a good eyesight noticed it.
「── !!!」
The black dots that suddenly appeared, immediately shortenedtheir distance with the Dragoons.
「A light ─ ─ ARROW!」
The moment he shouted, the Wyvern Squadrons at thefront of the flight formation were swallowed by a thunderous roar and explodingflame.
The pieces and ruined remnants of his 23 comrades fellinto the sea as chunks of various size. Without both the still living and the alreadydead understood what had happened, after ten-odd seconds, another 12 Dragoonswere attacked by the second wave of light arrows. Several seconds after everyDragoons realized the situation they were into, yet another 18 Dragoons fell downone after another.
Leaving a trail of light like a shooting star, thosethings were moving like possessing a will and obliterated the glorious LouriaKingdom’s Dragoon Corps one by one. A certain Dragoon was blown without even beingable to avoid, while another Dragoon who had an excellent kinetic vision tookaction to evade the light arrow, but he couldn’t elude the pursuing light arrowand perished in the explosion. Because of the extremely powerful explosion causedflame to engulf the surrounding airs.p.a.ce, even if they had avoided direct hits,there were Dragoons who lost their life, engulfed by the explosion on theircomrade.
「The h.e.l.l!? What the h.e.l.l is going on!!」
Aglameus yelled.
It was something that no one could answer. Withoutknowing what is going on, his comrades who shared joys and sorrows together, hisarms brothers, and the Wyvern, which should be the strongest weapon in theworld, were all but slaughtered with mechanical precision.
This sort of event never existed even as a single inkspot on the entire history chronicles.
『No way!! This can’t be happening!!』
『I can’t shake ‘em!! I can’t shake ‘em!! Why?? Why?? The light is coming!! UWAAAAAAaaaaa-』
The manacom devices were filled with screams.
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By the time the brief storm had pa.s.sed away, theWyverns had been reduced from 250 to only 100 units.
The squadrons were disordered and shaken, but finally,they could see the Louria Kingdom Navy Fleet and they reorganized theirformation. When the 100 Wyverns reached the skies above the Louria Kingdom Navy,they changed into a really slow flight speed.
In front of the fleet, there was a huge gray ship.
(So that’s the one……?)
The squadrons that had fallen into confusion before regainedtheir composure when they saw 「enemy」. After they reorganized their combat readiness, they made the ship astheir objective and started to accelerate again. Just then, the ship shot outlight arrows in succession.
「d.a.m.n you────」
Aglameus’ angry voice, which was filled with hatredechoed in the sky above the Lower Fleet.
The light arrows shot by the ship pierced through tothe remaining wyverns without missing a single shot.
The Lourian sailors who seen this sight from theirship deck, finally lost their fighting spirit.
Their allies in the sky…… were falling like raindrops.
「d.a.m.n you...... !! d.a.m.n you all to h.e.l.l!!」
Even when their numbers were depleted one afteranother, Aglameus and his comrades kept approaching 『Myoukou』.
When they reached the 7 kilometers point to 『Myoukou』, their numbers had been diminished into just 50 wyverns.
Suddenly, the iron rod attached to the ship was firingsomething. One unit was pierced through by that shot and fell down. The loadingwas much faster than they thought, furthermore, light arrows rained down from theunseen faraway place.
When their distance approached the 3 kilometers point,which was near the Lourian fleet, the storm of attack ceased.
At this time, including Aglameus, only three unitsremained.
「So they run out of Magic? …… I will avenge my comrade’s grudge!!」
Aglameus’ entire body was trembling with rage. The hugeformation of 250 wyverns disappeared in a blink of the eyes, only 3 units remained.It will be dissatisfying if he could not exact a revenge for this. It was also unforgivableof how his comrades were turned into such miserable state. Indeed, if hereturned back to the country like this, there will be no doubt that he would bebranded as incompetent.
「Prepare to attack!!」
The wyverns rode by Aglameus and his two comradesspread out their wing and extended their neck. They were preparing to shot a concentratedflame shot. Their jaw opened widely as flame ball began to mold inside theirmouth.
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On the CIC of the Aegis warship 『Myoukou』, how the approaching large group of enemies was shot down by the ship’santi-air missile launched from every destroyer ship and the current state ofaffairs were displayed on the radar.
The enemy’s speed was slow, but their number wastremendous, that the radar operators were tense and concentrated on their duty.
That number was steadily reduced, even by interceptingthem with the main gun’s attack, and they managed to reduce them to just 3units, but those 3 units had approached until the 2-kilometer range.
A few seconds later, the close-in weapon system (CIWS)operated. The self-operating CIWS had already been configured into the anti-wyvernduty configuration and accurately aligned towards the direction of the enemy.
─── Bmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ───!
A bullet storm released by 20mm autocannon with 3,000 roundsper minute firing rate sounded like a beast’s groan as the firing sound was toorapid.
The hundreds flying 20mm tungsten rare-metal bullets easilypierced the wyvern’s strong scale and shred their robust body like a paper. The2 units were instantly turned into minced meat and fell into the sea as blackrain.
「Argh──」
The last one…… also followed them afterward.
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NEXT CHAPTER:
I like the smell of burning ship in the morning.
Also, please nerf the helicopters.