Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 906 War breaks out
Swah——

With an almost inaudible whistling sound, the iron-gray spindle-like object hit the square full of students at an extremely fast speed.

And then...it was gone.

Ok?
Melissa looked in that direction somewhat blankly. There was a steam locomotive that was outdated but still full of mechanical charm. Most of the students didn't know what had happened, and a few noticed the object falling from the sky. But the gray shadow was missing.

Lily also noticed this. She first frowned and looked around, her eyes stopped on a strange oval shadow, and then she raised her head and looked at the sky as if she had some kind of perception.

Backlund's sky was shrouded in a light haze, but overall it was much brighter than last autumn. Huge objects were moving slowly. They floated into the sky above the city from the north in a dense formation with certain gaps between them. The nearest one was almost right above the two's heads. The shadow was left by it blocking the sunlight.

Its main body is an oval airbag made of solid cloth and alloy frame, painted dark brown, with a slanted red, white and yellow logo painted on it. A box that is less noticeable than the main body is hung below, with rapidly rotating propellers at the rear and sides. Short and thick guns extend from openings everywhere, pointing to the ground. There is also a huge throwing port right below the box.

At this time, another spindle-shaped iron-gray object appeared from the opening that was larger than a human.

Lily's face turned pale in an instant.

As a senior student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, she could recognize that this was a state-of-the-art airship, and could also guess what the object that was about to be thrown out was.

It was a heavy bomb that would kill all the students in the square once it landed!

"Everyone, leave the square immediately!"

She shouted loudly without hesitation, and when the students in the square ahead looked at her curiously, she pointed to the sky:
"Feysac's airship!"

Afterwards, she did not continue to rush into the square to drive away the crowd who were still confused. Instead, she hugged Melissa, who was staring at the sky with a dazed expression, and hid under the thick Intis sycamore tree on the side of the road.

Because she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the bomb under the airship had swung free from its restraints and was about to hit the school again.

Neither the teaching building nor the laboratory was safe at this moment, as they might become targets of attack by the airships overhead. Only the roadside decorative trees that were not very conspicuous and had few people around would be spared by the enemy because of their low value… Lily thought calmly in her heart as she threw Melissa under a solid tree trunk, curled up her body, lay on top of her, covered her ears, closed her eyes, and prayed to the goddess.

At this moment, she could only feel her own heavy, rapid breathing and Melissa's trembling body beneath her.

……

The expected explosion, ground shaking and crowd's exclamations did not occur.

Lily Granger puzzledly released her hands from covering her ears, opened her eyes and looked up at the sky.

The huge airship painted with the Feysac tricolor flag was still floating above the school, with its ferocious muzzle pointing at the ground and a terrifying bomb hanging below the launch port, seemingly ready to fall at any moment.

But its propeller had stopped rotating, as if it was tightly tied by some invisible ropes; marks of tightening appeared on the surface of its airbag, as if a transparent giant hand was grasping it.

The heavy bomb had clearly fallen off the hook, but it had been tightly "stuck" to the bottom of the metal box, swaying constantly with the high-altitude wind. Near the dropping port, soldiers in neatly-dressed uniforms could be seen shouting something in panic.

The next second, the bomb exploded in mid-air.

A fireball larger than the airship's airbag appeared under the box and instantly enveloped the war machine fixed in the air. The metal deformed under the shock wave, and the black machine guns and cannons were twisted by the high temperature. Although fireproofed, the airbag was still fragile and gaps appeared. The solid alloy frame could no longer support its elegant streamlined shape.

As the fireball continued to rise from bright to dark and then into black smoke, the airship, like a rag doll, fell downwards, carrying with it countless metal fragments and struggling human bodies.

At this time, a huge roar reached the ground, causing the students who had been reminded by Lily but still did not know what was happening to panic. Some of them stared blankly at the huge burning object falling towards them, some screamed and rushed into the nearby teaching building, and some even clung to the wheels of the steam locomotive, closed their eyes, and seemed to have accepted their fate.

However, these destructive debris did not fall into the campus. They created circles of rippling water less than a hundred meters from the ground, and disappeared from everyone's sight with the slight sound of breaking glass.

It looked as if there was a transparent glass curtain wall above their heads, leading to another world, keeping all the fragments of the airship out.

Is this... the goddess protecting us?

Lily stared blankly at the sky. The unscientific scene made her mind go blank, and all she could think of was praise for the goddess.

But she quickly came to her senses, her eyes fixed on other airships of the same shape. They seemed to have discovered something, and began to gather in formation, flying towards the sky above the campus, with their guns all pointed in this direction.

With a loud metal crash, their propellers also got stuck.

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“I didn’t expect that the war was not initiated by the Kingdom of Loen… While they were preparing for war, other countries also sensed the danger and responded in the same way. The Feysac Empire took the initiative and launched a surprise attack, aiming directly at the capital of Loen—Backlund…”

Looking at the airships that blocked out the sky, Angel sighed in a low voice.

Beside her, countless invisible threads extended out, trying to bind the propellers of the airship, making them lose power while facilitating the transmission of black flames to ignite the ammunition and bombs inside and destroy the invaders.

Even though she objectively did not want Loen, led by George III, to gain an advantage in the war so as to perform the "Black Emperor" ritual, it was the Feysac Empire that initiated the war, and their first shot was aimed at civilians.

Sensing that the wreckage of the first airship she shot down had all fallen into the "mirror world", she put away the invisible mirror that consumed so much of her spiritual energy and focused all her energy on the other airships above her head.

Under her control, the propellers of these airships were bound by strong silk threads one after another, and some were directly cut off by the lines with "precision" and cutting ability, completely losing the ability to move.

Clumps of black flames also spread along the silk threads at an extremely fast speed, and against the background of the azure sky, a strange black grid appeared, like a spider web covering the sky above Backlund University of Technology.

At this moment, on the airship in the center of the Feysac Army formation, a light interwoven with red and black, blood and rust flashed, instantly covering all the airships that were approaching, connecting them together one by one.

In an instant, those deadly invisible threads were repelled from the surface of the airship, from the propeller shaft, and from the warehouse full of shells and bombs.

The diseases that had already appeared near them and were quietly entering the box with the air and eroding the soldiers' bodies were also dispelled by this force.

It's the connection of the "Iron Blood Knights"... no, it goes a step further. Not only can it concentrate the strength of the entire team, but it can also jointly build defenses so that even the weakest part can present a defensive power consistent with the collective... That is the authority of the "War Bishop"!

Angel seemed to realize something. She put away the silk thread that would not be of much use, took out "Angelica's Blade" from the mirror space, let the high-temperature flame cover the sword body, and let the surging fighting spirit enter her body.

Feeling the burning heat in his body, Angel took a deep breath, and his figure shattered like a mirror. He came into the air along the channel in the mirror and appeared from the porthole of an airship.

She did not enter the airship, but appeared outside the porthole, clinging to the transparent glass window with the help of invisible silk threads.

On the other side of the glass, several tall Feysac soldiers were operating artillery. The changing light and shadows made them look out the window involuntarily.

A young, round-faced woman was smiling at them, her long, jet-black hair fluttering in the wind, but there was no smile in her eyes.

The next second, the straight sword in the woman's hand flashed with a blue-purple flame, and a hundred-meter-long flame stream instantly penetrated the thick armor, cutting the entire metal box off the main body of the airship. All objects inside burned and twisted in the high temperature, followed by a violent explosion.

boom--

In the flames, Angel's figure followed the shock wave and left the airship that was filled with only death and destruction. With the help of "lightness", he floated as if he had no weight at all and moved towards another airship.

Since group damage can be resisted by "connection", she will deal with it one ship at a time!
But as they left the burning airship and their vision became wider, Angel's heart, which was burning with fighting spirit, slowly cooled down.

In her sight, countless airships with dark brown backgrounds and red, white and yellow markings were coming from the north one after another. The densely packed air bags blocked out the sky, making it impossible for her to count the exact number for a moment.

Even if she cut down all the ships one by one, she would not be able to cut down all of them even if she exhausted her spiritual power...

Frustration almost filled Angel's heart. She tightly grasped Angelica's Blade to encourage herself. Various thoughts flashed through her mind, evaluating how to deal with these airships with minimal effort.

At this moment, there were movements in the Holy Wind Cathedral and other places in the city. Giant blades composed of blue-black gusts of wind flew into the air, aiming directly at Feysac's airship.

The three major churches also responded!

The war that was about to engulf the northern continent began with Backlund as the focus.

(End of this chapter)