The flames from the explosion erupted nearly a hundred meters in all directions, and the light lit up half of the night sky like dazzling fireworks. In the billowing smoke, the battleships that had been blown up and scattered in all directions turned into countless fragments, and they fell to the ground with brilliant firelight. Cleo and the others were touched by this cruel and beautiful scene, and after staring blankly for a while, Princess Celestia couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Although she had won the victory, she watched nearly a thousand lives disappear in an instant, and her mood became a little low, when will this cruel war end? Thinking of this, Cleo shook her head, smiled bitterly, and then ordered: "Let's go, gather everyone to go back to the island immediately, and repair well before the next wave of attacks from the other party comes." ”

Moments later, Cleo led dozens of aerial combat puppets back in triumph. With excitement, Oni and the others were already waiting on the flat ground in front of the Crystal Palace. When the eldest princess stepped down the Thunderbolt Type III, the little Lori Alchemist immediately ran up and shouted excitedly, "Sister Cleo, you are too powerful!"

Cleo was also very excited, she glanced at everyone who came to greet her, and saw that everyone was looking high-spirited, and the decadent look of not long ago had already been swept away!

Although this victory did not change the overall situation of the enemy's strength and weakness, it was also of extraordinary significance. Previously, the Athenian warriors suffered a crushing defeat in daytime air battles due to their lack of experience in air combat, and Liliang was almost completely lost. Then they all lacked confidence in the ensuing battle, but what they didn't expect was that after a brief lecture from Cleo, the Athenian warriors learned their previous lesson and soon showed their true strength as an air battle puppet!

In this sortie, they paid only a very small price in casualties, and achieved an unexpected victory in destroying one cruiser and ten fast ships of the opponent, and reinvigorated the morale of the enemy, which had been at the bottom due to the crushing defeat! Now the Athenian warriors were full of hope for victory in the war, and everyone was ready to fight bravely in the next battle.

However, it backfired. Since the skirmish, the Nicene fleet has not made the next move. As he had been at the beginning, he had been floating quietly among the clouds in the distance, not knowing what the trick was.

The time in the dark passed slowly, and the north wind blew with the cold of winter, and the temperature gradually dropped. It was the cold before dawn, and in the early hours of the morning when the sun was about to rise, both sides were holding their breath and waiting for a new day of battle.

Cleo and Ellens returned to their hiding spots in the trees, and through the dense foliage, Princess Celestia frowned and stared at the floating fleet in the distance, wondering: "It's strange, what are these Nicaeans hesitating about?"

Elrens lay on the ground and said nonchalantly, "Maybe they were too frightened by the Death Ray and the Aerial Combat Puppet to fight again!"

"Then why don't they just go home!What's the point of staying here?!" Cleo asked reluctantly, "Besides, they probably tested our defense capabilities just now, what are they waiting for?!"

"Who knows!" the dragon pouted, "Maybe they still have reinforcements, and they plan to kill us in one fell swoop when the reinforcements are all there!"

"Reinforcements?!Where did they get reinforcements!" Cleo became more and more irritated the more he spoke: "The strength of the Nicaean floating fleet is weak, and most of them have to be stationed on the front line, and these are estimated to be all the money they can gather in front of them! And the Nicaean alliance Shinra does not border here, and their floating fleet cannot cross the airspace of the entire Olympia to come here!"

"Forget it, don't think about it so much, anyway, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will come to cover it!" Ellens sat up and patted the eldest princess on the shoulder, comforting her: "Maybe the other party has some secret weapon, you need to wait for the dawn to use!But you don't have to worry, as soon as the sun comes out, you will immediately kiss me, as long as I recover the form of the black dragon, what secret weapon is not Lao Tzu's opponent, hahaha!!"

Cleo squinted and glared at the evil dragon, damn the guy, can this be considered a comfort?!

On the other side, inside the Phrygian air battleship, the fleet commander Mendes and the court mage Narciss, were relatively silent in the command room.

This time the tentative attack, the small fleet was completely lost in a short period of time, which was really unexpected, and the two people who were originally sure of Zuihou's victory couldn't help but be deeply worried.

After thinking in silence for a long time, Narcisse finally said in a gloomy voice: "I have warned you a long time ago that the defenses on this floating island are very strong, and you should wait for the fleet of Melagaros to arrive before attacking, so as not to waste your troops!

The commander of the fleet stood up with a dark face and slowly walked to the window.

He looked at Delos Island floating in the distance, and retorted: "You and I can see very clearly that the real reason for the destruction of the Trebizond is not the defense facilities on the floating island, but the opponent's air combat puppets! The tactics they showed in the daytime air battle were obviously very poor, who would have expected that they would suddenly make such great progress now? The Trebizon was negligent and did not retreat in time, so the other side would have destroyed the tail propulsion device, otherwise it would have come back safe and sound!"

The golden-robed mage sneered at Mendes' back: "Don't mention any daytime air battles, don't you doubt it, it's probably just a show! Maybe they deliberately put on a posture of heavy losses, the purpose is to lure us into being deceived! Fortunately, we didn't attack as aggressively as you did at the beginning, otherwise we were afraid that we would have fallen into the hands of the other party, and now the whole army has been wiped out!"

Listening to the other party's words, Mendes shook his head in disagreement, and stretched out his hand to point into the distance: "No one will lure the enemy at the cost of losing most of the troops, something must have happened here! Just now we all noticed that the opponent's air defense system was not as terrible as the legend, and it was even interrupted for a while. If we had more than one warship at that time, but the whole army would have assaulted, the other side would definitely not be able to resist it!"

"In any case, I'm against taking risks. Narcissus still insisted: "Their air defense system did perform mediocre just now, but who knows what kind of trick this is playing, it is likely to be another trap! Now what we have to do is to wait patiently for the fleet of Mel Achlos to take the lead for us!"

"I've said many times that Melaglos can't be trusted!"

The argument was endless, and the fleet commander became more and more unable to control the anger in his heart, he turned around again and shouted loudly: "At the beginning, we had agreed that the two fleets would attack at the same time, and attack Delos Island on both sides! As a result, it has not yet arrived at the battlefield, and the so-called Empire has not been found, so it is simply more than enough to succeed!"

Narsis was silent, and the matter of contact with Melagalos was completely driven by him. It is true that this deputy regent of Pera has a big problem, but the benefits of working with him are also very obvious, and this is mainly done for long-term strategic considerations, rather than temporary gains and losses.

However, it was difficult for him to explain this strategic idea to Mendez, after all, the fleet commander was responsible for his subordinates and did not have to think too much about other issues. Now that the fleet is facing a dilemma, Mendes' pressure and anger can be imagined, and Narcis can only hold back his anger and try not to exacerbate the dispute with him.

Looking at the court archmage with a gloomy face and not speaking, the fleet commander took a few breaths and forcibly suppressed the irritability in his heart, and suddenly felt a little deflated. Zuihou had no choice but to sit down, as if muttering to himself, "If we had seized the opportunity to attack in a big way, maybe we would have occupied the entire island of Delos by now." Do we still need to put our hopes in a fickle villain like Melagoros as we do now?"

Time passed slowly, and the moment when the sun rose before dawn was not far off. Elrence and Cleo were still patiently watching the enemy fleet in the bushes, but the Nicaean never responded, and Princess Celestia was starting to get a little discouraged.

At this moment, Oni's crisp voice came from the crystal ball again: "Sister Cleo, the Queen Mother spoke to me just now, and the Empire Air Battleship is about to arrive!"

"Really, that's great!!" Cleo was refreshed, and the defense-capable Empire had finally arrived, and once it joined the battle, her hopes of victory would be greatly enhanced!

Oni smiled and said, "I'm trying to connect to the Empire's magical communication system right now, would you like to come over and discuss the tactical arrangements together?"

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll be right there!" Cleo said, picking up Elrens and walking briskly towards the Crystal Palace.

After a while, the two of them soon came to the transparent hall at the top of the Crystal Palace. The little Lori alchemist was constantly controlling the metal instrument in the center at this time, and Cleo fixed his eyes to see the face of Captain Pythia, who had not been seen for a long time, appear on the screen