Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 338 Are They Really Friendly Forces?

Langning Lavelle saw all the strange changes in the world, and the communication device channel was constantly receiving dense prompt sounds. Whether it was the observers in the rear or the combatants on the front line, when they realized that the world they were in had undergone earth-shaking changes, even they were included in it, even if they had received the most rigorous training, they could not remain calm. For a time, the formation of the constructed mechas that launched an offensive around the Earth Mother Spirit God-Titan loosened a lot, and the beams fired from the gun barrels of the magic chariots no longer intertwined into a light network that filled the sky, with unstoppable momentum and power.

After discovering this, Lang Ning calmly conveyed instructions in the communication channel: "Don't panic, carry out the mission according to the original combat strategy; observers, report the magic parameters of the surrounding area, have you captured any traces of magic release or the breath of the seal being activated?"

"Report, the regional parameters are being parsed, but... the calculation cannot be completed smoothly. All the data has turned into meaningless garbled codes and graphics. There is no meaning to it!"

Lang Ning frowned slightly: "What is the status of the Knight System and the Magic Matrix System?"

"everything is normal."

The reporter's tone was not so confident. After all, everything being normal was the most abnormal situation. When all the data turned into garbled characters, how could the Knight System and the Magic Matrix System operate? Who could guarantee that they would not suddenly malfunction and cause unnecessary casualties?

So, where did this strange and bizarre change come from?

Lang Ning was lost in thought for a moment amid the roar of artillery fire. At this moment, the observer's urgent voice came from the communication device: "Report, there is a large energy reaction approaching at high speed in the sky, and it will soon enter the battlefield area... Is it that whale!?"

At the end of his speech, his tone had become astonished, as if he had seen something extremely incredible. Lang Ning quickly raised his head, and through the transparent porthole on the roof, the visual range auxiliary plug-in faithfully put the magnificent and shocking figure in the sky into his eyes, so the fourth ship officer of the Feiyemente and the commander of the mobile corps immediately understood the reason for the other party's amazement. After all, not everyone can watch a warship that looks like a giant whale swooping down from the sky and remain indifferent.

It was a simple description, but it made Alice gasp in amazement: "One million HP, this is too exaggerated."

What it is?
Friend or foe?

The most critical question flashed quickly through Lang Ning's mind, and he was unable to make a judgment for a while.

[Earth Mother Spirit God - Titan: HP 1000000/1000000]

After criticizing this unorganized and undisciplined behavior for the umpteenth time, Alice shouted, "Who's in charge of the shooting system? Switch the ammunition to armor-piercing shells, and then shoot this ugly monster hard!"

"Uh, I think it should be me?" Olvera looked at the blue screen in front of her hesitantly. It showed a scan of the ground and a crosshair. There was a joystick on the console, and the target could be locked by pushing the joystick. Princess Beman, who had rich gaming experience (relatively speaking), learned how to operate it without a teacher. After pushing the joystick to lock the Titan Spirit on the ground, she shouted, "I have locked the target, Alice!"

"I told you to call me Captain Alice!" The golden-haired captain shouted, "Of course it's shooting! Who is controlling the aiming system now!?"

"Alice!" Yieta shouted while controlling the battleship, "What should we do next?"

If I were to use the cartridges of "First Fantasy: The Four Heroes" or "Dark Castle: Dawn Waltz" to fight him, I don't know how long it would take to win. Of course, the greater possibility is that I won't be able to win at all. After all, this guy doesn't look like he can be fought by human power.

At the same time, Yieta, who was sitting in the main driving seat, pursed her pale lips and placed her hands on the spherical operating instrument, carefully controlling the giant sky ship to keep a safe distance from the ferocious monster on the ground. The curved crystal screen displayed the opponent's message -

"I told you to report to the captain!"

Among all types of ammunition, armor-piercing shells are the most numerous. They should be the conventional ammunition mounted on this sky beast, the Zero Arus. Alice decided to use it to test the waters.

Saint Shallia silently manipulated the buttons on the instrument, switched the ammunition type to armor-piercing shells, and then silently pressed the red button representing firing. After completing this operation, she spoke again silently, as a reminder to everyone: "I fired."

As soon as the words fell, the crystal-like structures at the bottom of the Zero Arus battleship cracked, revealing dark and cold holes inside. Gun barrels with a silvery metallic luster protruded from the holes. Ten gun barrels in each row on the left and right simultaneously fired at the targets on the ground. Roars vented from the muzzles, and a scorching flame flashed at the same time, almost exploding like the sun. "That is--"

When the gun barrels poked out of the dark holes and aimed at the ground, Langning Lavelle felt something was wrong. The next moment, the dazzling brilliance of the flashing gunfire was reflected in his dark pupils, and the uneasy omen suddenly became a reality. He shouted to the communication device almost reflexively: "Mechanized troops, retreat immediately!"

The knights in the sky flew like silver-white birds, lightly passing through the dozens of rock arms that the Earth Mother Titan was swinging wildly, and then began to accelerate collectively, emitting streams of white steam from the heat sink of the magic furnace, which mixed with the star-blue magic flow and gathered into a two-color ocean. Their figures passed through the ocean, drawing a graceful arc trajectory, and quickly left the bombardment area of ​​the sky battleship.

The next moment, the roar of artillery fire swept across the sky, and the flames of the explosion flickered violently on the surface of the Earth Mother Titan, like flares on the surface of the sun, cooling rapidly in the extreme dazzling splendor. The Earth Mother Spirit God let out a terrifying roar, and hideous cracks were torn open in the places hit by the artillery fire. The thick mosses, lichens, iron-colored shrubs and huge rust-red mushrooms covering the surface of the body withered and fell to the ground, like jagged rocks collapsing and peeling off from the steep cliffs, falling into the dark abyss.

The health bar above the Titan's head dropped a little, and exaggerated damage numbers could be seen popping up continuously. The damage of each shell hitting was calculated in tens of thousands.

Lang Ning frowned deeply: emotionally he wanted to believe that the sky battleship that suddenly appeared and launched the attack was a friendly party. After all, the artillery fire just now also caused considerable damage to the Titan; but reason told him that the other party was just carrying out indiscriminate bombing. If he had not commanded the retreat in time, many of his own soldiers would probably have been caught up in the artillery fire.

Or is it that the other party is neither a friend nor an enemy, but just a simple...troublemaker?
He couldn't figure it out.

……

Inside the cockpit, Alice had no time to care about the feelings of those "neutral NPCs". She cheered for her brilliant victory, and then gave orders with great pride: "Keep going, keep firing! Don't stop!"

Since the armor-piercing shells were effective, she did not plan to replace other ammunition. The Zero Arus, piloted by Iyetta, flew over the head of the Earth Titan. The ten gun barrels at the bottom continued to launch fierce bombardment at it. The rumbling sound of artillery fire suddenly resounded throughout the sky above the battlefield, and dazzling flames broke out.

On the ground, Langning Laville seemed to understand something. Although this sky battleship was not his enemy, it would not cooperate with his actions and would just shoot on its own. He had to order the mecha troops to disperse and no longer maintain the original formation. The magic chariot also slowed down to avoid being caught in the enemy's artillery bombardment.

The reinforcements that dropped from the sky did not make him change his original combat strategy. He still took delaying time and diverting attention as his main strategic goals, trying to buy enough time for the Orbital Corps' evacuation operation.

This was not because he was passively avoiding the battle, but because although the Earth Mother Titan was under attack from both the sky and the ground, her energy was not tied down, and she still approached the Scarlet Night Gate on the horizon with an astonishing and terrifying momentum. The land she rumbled past was devastated, and dust and haze rose up, swallowing up her vision. As for the other troublemakers, they were nothing more than insignificant ants to Him.

He will not stop until He faces His true enemy.

According to this trend, in a short while, the Wind City of Avion will be destroyed in the sudden disaster and reduced to a ruin under the feet of the giant beast.

If there was any way to limit His ability to move... Ronning Lavelle gave a thoughtful look as he directed his troops to attack.

In the cockpit of the Zero Arus, Ling also discovered this problem.

"We must stop the Titan's actions." He said to Alice in a concise manner: "According to the current damage calculation, we cannot destroy him before he destroys Avion. Once he destroys Avion, everything we have done so far will be meaningless."

Yieta, who was concentrating on controlling the flight of the warship, trembled slightly when she heard this, and her hand on the spherical operating device stopped moving unconsciously. The silver-white giant whale that was flying across the sky at high speed deviated slightly and failed to fly according to the predetermined orbit, causing the last shell to miss the target and not hit the Earth Mother Titan.

"Of course I know this question, but..." Alice scratched her cheek, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she had an idea: "Saint Shallia, switch the type of ammunition!"

"We use slow bullets!"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)