Section 258 Plane War (11)

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"Call the mothership, we're returning. Captain Beta looked at the dark cloud outside the porthole and commanded without looking back.

"Yes, Captain. Tennison, a minor mage who has the qualification of a third-order arcanist and is also a fifth-order arcanist, replied.

Captain Beta was subordinate to the reconnaissance sub-ship of the six floating carriers, which first appeared in the Asturian conquest of Mordo, relying on the floating carriers, raiding the Modo palace in the rear, ending the war ahead of schedule and reducing losses.

After that, the development of floating ships was divided into divisions, and the development of motherships was developed.

The division of labor refers to the fact that because of the construction of floating ships at that time, if the requirements for all aspects were as full-featured as the first one, the cost was too high, so a main ship with various functions later appeared, and the supporting ones were sub-ships with different emphases of reconnaissance, combat, and transportation; on this basis, the floating main ship developed to a large scale and could accommodate the sub-ships to enter the main ship for maintenance, thus forming a system in which a floating carrier was equipped with about 10 sub-ships for combat.

Such a mothership is a combat unit, but in terms of magic guidance facilities, only the magic guidance facilities on the mothership are the most complete, and the sub-ships are different because of the cost, and the shortcomings will be used as a means of mechanical things.

After the development of Skynet and Demon Brain, the communication between the mothership and the sub-ship can be connected through Skynet, although this connection is not direct enough and requires Skynet to transit, but the improvement of combat effectiveness has been greatly benefited.

A mothership is a team, and the floating subship that Beta is responsible for is the reconnaissance subship of the No. 6 mothership of Gongwei, which is inferior to the combat subship in terms of combat capability, but it is fast.

This time since. Ten floating carriers transferred from the mainland took turns to attack. Inflicted great casualties on the demons of Purgatory. However, the previous No. 9 floating carrier went too deep, and as a result, it was pursued by a large number of servants and succubies and fell into the sea, which slightly damaged the morale of the floating fleet.

After that, like Beta, they were much more careful, and the command also ordered that the range of activities of the floating carrier should not exceed the coverage of the floating city skynet.

Tennison, the little mage, is on the ship and is specifically responsible for communicating with the mothership, and there is such a person on every floating ship.

"Captain. Caught up. Semington, another observer on board, said that he, unlike Tanelin, was responsible for what the observation subship could directly observe.

Fighting in the Besses plane, some of the functions of the floating ship are limited, mainly because the Skynet coverage here is not comparable to that of the mainland.

It is said that the new generation of floating subships on the local can already receive the situation of Skynet in the range of high-altitude observation, of course, this requires the addition of more complex magic brains on the sub-ships to cooperate.

This made Semington very envious, and he still had to use his eyes to directly observe the situation around him, even with Skynet's support. You can use the Eagle Eye technique, but it's still impossible to leave everything out.

The servants like the ones who are catching up now have risen up from below. It was in the dead end of his observation, and by the time it was discovered, it was already a little late, and the sub-ship would be intercepted by them.

"Prepare for battle. Beta said in a deep voice.

In the floating sub-ship, the speed of the reconnaissance ship is the fastest, but the floating flight with the help of the magic array is not so simple, the initial defense of the floating ship mainly relies on the ship's magic array to launch an energy shield to resist the enemy's attack or resist the pressure of extreme speed flight, and its own materials cannot support long-term air combat.

In the battle to occupy Mordor that year, the biggest role of the floating ships was actually to transport enough troops to the past, and they did not experience any fierce air battles.

Later research has shown that although the energy protection provided by the shipboard magic array can help resist the stress of flying, if you want to fly faster, you must increase the level of energy protection provided by the magic array, and when flying at extreme speed, the load of the mother ship or sub-ship itself will increase, and you will always need stronger materials.

So, there is a reason why it is called a floating ship instead of a flying ship.

Speed is not the strength of the floating fleet, although it can be done, it will inevitably cost a lot of renovation costs, from materials to shipborne magic arrays need to be updated.

A horde of servants rose from above, welcoming like crows.

The various combatants on the floating sub-ship were in place, and the magic array on board the ship was also operational.

The energy protection on the Floater has been enhanced by one level to allow it to float at a faster speed for a while.

The servants slammed into them fiercely, and when they passed through the energy shield, their flight speed was visibly reduced, as if they had crashed into a cotton bale, although their faces were fierce and their expressions were hideous, but the claws they swung out looked weak and weak.

At this time, a layer of shock waves suddenly appeared on the hull of the ship, and all the servants who approached the sub-ship seemed to have been hammered by a sledgehammer.

Immediately after that, all kinds of attacks were sent out from the ship, and there were attack spells on board, but the sub-ship was definitely not as good as the mother ship, especially since this was only a reconnaissance ship that focused on reconnaissance.

The commonly used attacks of the sub-ship's ship-borne magic array are fireballs and ice arrows, because the space of the sub-ship is limited, and the magic array on it and the number of people that can be loaded are also limited, so some mechanical attacks are also used as a supplement to the lack of firepower on the ship.

In the early days, heavy crossbows and the like were placed on the ship, so that some non-magicians could also fight with the ship; later, the invention of the machine gun not only installed the mothership, but also the combat sub-ship could be equipped with one or two, and no more would work, because it was too bulky, and overweight meant that the source power of the sub-ship should be increased, otherwise it would bring about a decrease in the overall ability of the sub-ship.

The Scout sub-ship commanded by Beta did not have such a machine gun with considerable lethality, and the oldest heavy crossbow was still used, and for this battle, seven more people who did not have spell ability, but were born in the army and could use firearms proficiently.

Each of them was armed with three guns, one of which was a long-range musket that could reach a distance of 400 meters, which was used to strengthen the firepower of the floating ships in this war.

In addition, there is also the spell-casting attack of the mages on the ship itself, and the reason why the commander asks the floating ship not to attack outside the Skynet range that the Floating City can use is because within the Skynet range, if the casters on the ship have the qualifications of Arcanists, it is equivalent to having some more spell-casting abilities.

Captain Beta even knew that because of this war, the local Skynet Management Company had decided to temporarily open the restriction and provide all Arcanists with spell slots for low-level spells for free.

Originally, Skynet's spellcasting was limited by spell slots, because the Arcanists drew the source power from Skynet and then cast spells, otherwise they would have to use their own magic and spiritual power as the source power.

The source power of Skynet comes from burning black rock and extracting magic crystals from storage, which is not free, so the spell slots of the Arcanists need to be purchased from Skynet, and there is a limit to the number of times per day.

But for the sake of this war, Skynet Management has temporarily broken the limit, which is equivalent to infinitely providing Arcanists with spell slots for low-level spells.

This cost is said to be counted in the new military budget of the governments of various countries, but the money is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is to provide low-level spell slots almost infinitely, and whether the supply of Skynet source power can keep up.

This is the key, which means that the black rock and refined magic crystals that Skynet "burns" every day will reach new heights, and will continue to climb as the war intensifies.

The consumption of these resources is not enough for the Kaos plane, but only for other colonial planes to increase their efforts.

As Beta ordered the attack, the magic array on the floating subship was fully activated, providing sufficient power to the subship, and the servants were rampaging in the group.

Due to the energy protection on the surface of the ship at any time, the attack of the servant demons is weakened, on the contrary, every time they make contact, the shock wave above will make the servant demons be beaten, and they are in a state of stagnation in action, although they did not fall, but the subsequent attack on the ship will easily hit the target.

As a result, the servants who were hit by fireballs, ice arrows, or spells cast by the mages on the ship themselves turned into fireballs or ice cubes, and kept falling.

Tennison was the only one on the ship who didn't take part in the war, as his job was to liaise with the mothership, which was his first priority, unless the Servants invaded the subship.

When he saw the servants and demons in front of him falling one after another, and a passage was about to form, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

He was a brave young man from a well-to-do middle-class family, his father was a businessman and his mother was a doctor, but he chose the path of a mage and joined the army.

However, it does not mean that he is not afraid of death, the real bravery is to be afraid of death, but he still moves forward towards death.

Captain Beta's mood was also relieved, and it seemed that there was no danger.

But just as the scout ship was about to break out of the encirclement of this large group of servants, in the gap that had been opened in front of it, there was suddenly another phantom.

"So many?" Semington looked ahead in amazement, the phantoms moving extremely fast, quickly filling the gap in front of them, and then pounced.

There has been a large number of succubi before, when the last time the floating carrier fell.

Compared to servants, succubi are more difficult to deal with, and their biological rank is much higher than that of servants, which means that succubi are more than superior to servant demons in every aspect, but they usually don't like hard attacks, but are used to attacking together surrounded by many inferior creatures.

But if you want to fight hand-to-hand, succubi can also fight hand-to-hand, although it is far less terrible than the refining demons of the same level, but at least it is much stronger than the servant demons.

Moreover, they can fly faster and more agile in the air than the Servants, and in addition to their own charm powers, they can also use skills such as Cluster Fireballs, Pain Whips, and Storm Whips. (To be continued.) )