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"Oh my God, what kind of monster is this?"
A group of Cormier Navy roared in horror. ()
This thing was beyond their comprehension, and now, the strange ship beyond their cognition was constantly screaming and ramming into the Cormier fleet at an alarming speed.
Although the ship was not too big - several laps smaller than their king's flagship, and not as big as Cormier's main battleship, which was a medium-sized warship, and if it had been before, such a large ship that appeared alone might not have been taken seriously by Cormier's navy, and they would have been willing to engage in a siege-style war of annihilation at sea, but this ship made them abandon such ideas for the time being—and quickly turned from temporary to permanent.
The sunlight reflected from the metal hull shone into their eyes, and the battleship seemed to turn into a moving ball of light, crashing into the fleet at a very high speed, and the outermost wooden ship was hit by the hard steel corners, and the bow of the ship immediately clicked loudly and was pierced by the impact horns— Although it turned in time, the consequences were worse, the entire bow of the large ship was smashed away from the center by the metal battleship, and the battleship once again let out its strange cry like a giant whale, and with a large piece of wood, it collided with several Cormier navy who had fallen from the large ship onto the iron ship.
The Cormier warship, whose bow was damaged, slowly but unstoppably tilted towards the bottom of the sea, and the metal battleship split the bow of the big ship like a knife, and a large amount of seawater poured into it, and many Cormier navy jumped into the sea, but the disaster did not end there, the speed of the metal ship was surprisingly fast, and just when the Cormir fleet was caught off guard, the second big ship was also hit and sunk by the metal battleship.
"Quick! Inform the mage, protective cover!" The Admirals were still sane, knowing that this monster iron ship was born of some kind of magic, and in their minds, there was no power other than magic that could make a large ship of steel float on the sea.
If the moment the metal ship first appeared, they still suspected that it was an iron ship that was strong on the outside, then the result of the collision with the two Cormier warships cleanly made them abandon this idea - being able to knock over two large ships of the same size as themselves shows that this battleship is really steel.
The Cormier Battlemage Regiment was not slow at all, and the sizable mage regiment quickly dispersed to the flagship and several large ships near the flagship, and began to cast protective spells in an attempt to make the wooden ships gain defensive power that would not be easily shattered by steel, while the remaining warships, under the command of naval officers, retreated to the rear of the battle line.
This deployment looked a little chaotic under the impact of the steel metal ship, and two more large ships were buried at the bottom of the sea under the close contact with the metal ship, and there were pieces of broken wooden planks floating on the sea, and Rann II looked at several admirals who were holding the planks and drifting with the waves in the distance with an extremely ugly expression, and his teeth were gritted.
"Your Majesty, you need to hide behind as soon as possible. The Admiralty Chancellor admonished.
"I'm protected by a mage, why should I hide behind the army like a coward?" shouted Rann II angrily, pointing his finger at the metal ship still in pursuit of a large ship, "Go, fence him, surround him, and see how many of them are engaged with us." ”
The Admiral secretly complained that the iron ship was smooth and slippery, and there was no decent flat deck at all, and that people standing on it would only slide along the iron sheet into the sea, and it was conceivable that this ship was not designed for broadside warfare—this monstrous whining ship was much faster than a wooden sailing ship with a tailwind, and this huge piece of iron floating on the sea, if you want to crush a fleet, it is enough to constantly rampage.
However, the admiral quickly figured out that Rann II's orders might be the only way to deal with the ship - send a group of men to the hull of the enemy and carry out a suicidal assault. ...,
And now is a good opportunity, the metal ship knocked over a large ship again, but the speed is slowing down a little, and the admiral quickly ordered, and the four large ships next to the flagship that were wrapped in a magical protective force field surrounded them from four angles.
"Elder Shaw Brandt, the splinters of wood are coming around. "Inside the cabin of the metal ship, the lookout on the upper deck relayed the message to Elder Xiao Brandang through a magic teleportation device, and his tone was quite inappropriate.
The atmosphere in the cabin was also extremely relaxed, they had already knocked over five large ships, and a fifth of Cormier's army was drinking seawater nearby, Elder Shaw Blanc scratched his cheeks with joy when he saw that the battleship he had designed was so powerful, for the sake of this warship, he could be said to have worked hard, not only sent all his apprentices, but also requisitioned a large number of people from the Coastal Association, so as to create such a sample.
Yes, sample, the entire hull of the ship is just steel smelted by ordinary dwarven craftsmen, but some good materials are used in the key parts - but the cost is not too much.
In Elder Shawbrandt's mind, this iron ship, which was not even a giant ship, was a prototype of the 'multi-turret sea fortress' he had in mind, but the power displayed by this prototype was enough for him to feel very proud.
"Pieces of wood?and magic protection?huh~ this is trying to stop me?" Shaw was not at all worried about this kind of attack, many Cormier warriors jumped from their large ships to the upper deck of metal ships with ropes, trying to hook the hull with hooks, break the porthole and get into the hull, but the seemingly fragile transparent window made them suffer.
The pure gold long sword in the hand of the commander of the Guards Legion slammed at the window, but it only left a little insignificant scratch, and several magicians on the big ship suddenly turned white, knowing that the outer layer of the thin window was actually pure gold glass from Yongju Island, no wonder there were less than ten portholes exposed on this entire steel ship, such an expensive thing, of course, it was impossible to place too much.
This made the sailors who climbed the ship and cut the window cry bitterly, and immediately, the magic mechanism activated by Elder Xiao Blanc in the cabin caused them to fall into hell, and a powerful electric current spread through the shell of the iron ship, and these sailors suddenly felt their bodies numb, until they reached the sea, and the survivors let out a miserable scream.
The electric current passed through the armor of the captain of the guard, and it only made him tremble - as a high-ranking officer, all the equipment on his body was worth a lot, and his defensive ability was already amazing, not to mention that he had been on the battlefield for a long time, and his physique was far tougher than that of ordinary soldiers, and this electric shock only made him slightly numb, but the feeling of his body told him that even if it did not make him lose his ability to move immediately, in a few moments, he would be knocked down by this electric current.
After years of combat experience, he decided to take a desperate gamble, shouted and raised his long sword, thrust heavily into the iron hull by the porthole, and cut it downward, and the hull was actually pried open by him, and at that moment the electricity paralyzed his limbs, and he let go of the long sword, looking at the part he had cut with some expectation, and then hope immediately turned to despair.
Underneath the iron shell, there is a sturdy steel frame.
His eyes turned red in an instant, and his heart felt bitter and hopeless at the futility of his efforts, and in the next moment, the blue water covered his vision.
"No, no......" Rann II looked at the futile efforts of his captain of the guard, and clutched the railing with his palm: "Hell!"
The Admiralty Chancellor and the Priest also looked ashen, and on that side, several battle mages tried to cast disarming spells to break spells that might make the iron ship float on the sea, but they obviously underestimated the craftsmanship of Elder Xiao Brandang, it was not difficult to make a large iron hull float on the sea, the difficulty was only how to make it run, after having steam power, all this was not a problem, so Rao is Cormier's battle mage cast countless spells, and still failed to make this steel monster sink. ...,
As for magic attacks, not even the shell of an iron ship can be broken.
Only the Chief Mage's Great Cleavage made the iron ship shake for a moment—but only for a moment, and soon, the slightest magical interference in it was removed, and the big ship slammed straight into a warship that was part of the encirclement not far ahead.
Despite the magical shield, the Cormier ship could theoretically not be destroyed by the steel blast, but the ship's commanders knew very well that the weight of several orders of magnitude lighter than the iron ship would cause them to capsize on their backs under impact, but the king did not order the evacuation, and the steamship came surprisingly quickly, so they could only watch the steel ship crash into their side.
At the very moment of the impact, more than a dozen Cormier seamen fell from the side of the ship to the sea, the Cormier ship tilted into a very exaggerated angle, and the bow of the iron ship was against the side of the big ship, and after only a few breaths, the ship turned over and buckled upside down on the sea, and everyone on it fell into the sea.
Rann II was dumbfounded, as were those who could see the scene on the distant shore.
The two Imasca apostles swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and stared at the iron ship that had been rampaging through the circle of Cormier's warships and had sent more than a fifth of Cormier's army to the bottom of the sea, while feeling their legs weak.
On the other side of the reef, several bald heads in red robes saw the situation at the battle place through the Eagle Eye Technique, and they were also very shocked, Del Songpaya's brain was blank, and the red-robed clerk and spy leader Lu Misen next to him were not much better, especially Lu Misen, who had a deeper understanding of the power of Pan Diesel.
This iron-hulled battleship has broken through the imagination of many people.
Finally, when the sixth ship of Cormier's fleet was overturned, the battle wizards found a way to stop the iron ship from becoming powerful, and the dense force field walls blocked the steel ship around it, and Shaw Brandt started the engine several times in a row, but after the whistle blew, the iron ship still could not move at all.
Chief Battlemage Cormier, who floated directly in front of the ship with his levitation technique, and maintained the most powerful force field wall with his assistants, knew that the metal ship could not turn in place, and as long as it blocked its direction, it would not be able to wreak havoc again.
While consolidating the walls of the field, he was also calculating the timing, as long as the monster was fixed, the next step would be to destroy it with the most powerful spell.
Seeing more and more battle mages gathering on several nearby ships, the Purple Dragon Knight and the navy also regained their positions, and the battle mage's assistant messenger also came with the news, Rann II knew that there was a way to deal with the iron ship, and the fingers that were clasping the railing loosened slightly.
Although he found a way to fight against the iron ship, the king did not feel happy at all, and his ambition to 'liberate' the city of Ximen had been smashed by this iron ship.
Thinking of this, he became furious again, and vowed to take the city, otherwise he would not be able to face the nearly a thousand sergeants who had been rammed into the bottom of the sea by this iron ship.
The admiral next to him looked at the big iron ship imprisoned by the force field, and he was also relieved.
Even an iron ship is unlikely to survive being hit by a few meteorites.
Rann II understood this, the Admiralty Chancellor understood it, the Chief Battle Mage who was preparing the spell to find the right time to do so, the Elder Shawbrandt in the cabin also understood this, and of course, Pan Diesel also knew this.
So he appeared above the battlefield and threw the spell that had been prepared earlier.
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