Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 339: A thrilling air battle?

In Alice's makeshift driving system, not all ammunition can be fired directly. Special types of ammunition such as delay bombs need to be carried out by carrier-based auxiliary aircraft for close-range bombing to achieve the greatest effect.

Following the captain's order, the crystal hatch at the bottom of the sky battleship opened again, and an auxiliary aircraft like a silver gull carrying a retarding missile was dropped from the ship, and attacked the Titan on the ground along a predetermined trajectory. It raised its sharp serrated wings in mid-air, making a sharp whistling sound, and flew through the air at an extremely fast speed.

Metien, who was in charge of executing the order, saluted Alice in a formal manner: "Captain, the delay missile has been launched!"

"very good."

Alice showed a satisfied expression, not knowing whether it was because Metien had faithfully carried out her orders, or because of the words "Captain" she said. In short, she felt that the pink-haired girl was a talented person, so she decided to promote her to be her right-hand man, and also to set an example for other disobedient members: "From now on, you are Captain Metien!"

"Huh!?"

Isn't that the same military rank as Sister Yieta? Metien was flattered.

"By the way," Alice turned her head and looked at Lingge beside her, and said thoughtfully: "Yieta is the driver, I am the commander, Ovira is responsible for aiming, Saint Xia Liya is responsible for ammunition loading and firing, Metien is responsible for operating the auxiliary machine, Shemi and Xiao Yang are responsible for joining in the fun... Then what are you responsible for, Lingge?"

This question was so profound that the young man was unable to answer it for a moment.

Instantly, a violent gust of wind roared and instantly submerged the ground where the Titan stood. In the shining light of the cannonballs, the ancient and hard earth quickly corroded and melted into a pool of soft and filthy mud, like thousands of hungry tentacles extending from the darkest swamp, greedily devouring those who trampled on its body.

……

"They actually did it?" Lang Ning looked at this scene, his eyes widened, and he muttered to himself: "It didn't use magic, and it wasn't a seal... What kind of power is that?"

The shadow of the giant warship passed across the sky, and soon, the area that had turned into a swamp began to burst into even more intense and dazzling flames. It was the Zero Arus, which was pouring artillery fire on the Earth Mother Titan from a high position. The light spewing out of the cold gun barrel exploded and quickly turned into black smoke that filled the sky and dispersed. The smoke was mixed with flashes of gold and red sparks. The scene was like a monster on the ground suddenly caught fire, and the flames from the sky were about to burn it to ashes.

The bright silver auxiliary machine swept a swift trajectory under the gray sky. The Earth Mother Titan, who only had its nemesis in its eyes, did not take the small flying insect seriously at all, and naturally did not make any move to stop it. This allowed it to successfully pass through the dense firepower network interwoven by magic rays, pounced towards the Titan's feet, and quickly detonated the bombing after getting close enough.

A deafening roar came from the mouth of the beast with sixteen rows of sharp teeth. Alice, who was watching this scene in the cockpit, clenched her fists in excitement: "It worked! Yieta, move forward! Saint Shalia, keep firing armor-piercing shells!"

Even the Titan, the mother of the earth who rules the earth, could not escape from this deep swamp. Its huge body sank visibly, and its heavy steps landed on the mud and instantly sank deep into it. The power it should have controlled corroded its body surface made of rocks and debris, and even the strongest steel bars and bricks and stones were gradually worn away, leaving no traces of their old appearance. No matter how hard it tried, it was impossible to pull them out, let alone continue to move forward towards its nemesis.

But he soon realized that now was not the time to think about these issues. Wasn't this the time for the strong attack he had been pursuing? After realizing this, he immediately issued an order in the communication device: "All combat personnel, listen up, change the combat strategy now, use full firepower to cover the strong attack, and destroy the Titan at all costs!"

The knight-type mechanical soldiers in the sky fell to the ground one after another, and the cold steel foot armor and the shield-shaped protective device on the back quickly opened to both sides, revealing a dazzling mechanical structure inside. Amid the whirring of steam and the creaking of gears, metal bearings pushed the precise and stable auxiliary mechanical arms to start, and according to the current terrain height and angle, they formed an exoskeleton support frame that perfectly conformed to the laws of mechanics, ensuring that no matter what kind of external impact it encountered, this structure would not be shaken in the slightest.

At the same time, the arm armor on both sides pushed back and fitted, directly connected to the magic furnace; two pairs of combat mechanical arms similar to human arms were also combined to form a simple device similar to a turret. The two detachable magic cannons on the shoulders slowly sank and changed positions with the operation of the internal gear device, and were mounted on the turret. The dual muzzles formed by the resonance structure of the symmetrical magic circuit were aimed at the Earth Mother Titan that was trapped in the swamp and could not move. Hundreds of mechanical soldiers completed the transformation and fixation at the same time, so the knights who were as flexible as flying birds just now instantly transformed into hundreds of heavy turrets fixed on the high ground and hillsides. The support frame formed by the auxiliary mechanical arms and the resonance effect of the magic circuit ensured that each of their artillery attacks could be carried out at maximum power without hurting the drivers inside due to the violent recoil.

This is the Knight-type Construct Robot's assault mode.

Under the command of Langning, the constructed mechas in assault mode and the magic tanks in the rear burst out with fierce artillery fire.

The bright and dense magic rays suddenly exploded like stars in the world, dimming all the scenes outside the field of vision. The roar of the Titan became more angry, and hundreds and thousands of damage numbers burst out from its head. Although it was not as powerful as the armor-piercing shells, it was more frequent, so the output efficiency seemed to be stronger than that of the Zero Arus.

"Huh?" Alice was surprised and puzzled: "The NPC's output is so powerful?"

When I saw them scrambling to avoid the bombardment, I thought they were another group of guys who were dragging their feet.

Captain Golden Hair never considered how much trouble his indiscriminate firing without warning would cause to friendly forces.

Under the coordinated artillery fire from both sides, the Earth Mother Titan's health bar dropped rapidly, but this conceptual god who held the power of the earth was not just passively taking a beating. After realizing that he would not be able to welcome the battle he had always dreamed of unless he got rid of all the annoying little bugs around him, he immediately turned his spearhead and stopped trying to break free from the quagmire under him. Instead, he raised his ugly and ferocious head and roared furiously at the sky.

A large amount of stinking poisonous gas suddenly spewed out from the huge mouth full of sharp teeth. The dull yellow-brown color, which symbolized corrosion and acidity, immediately occupied the entire field of vision. The melted air even made a sound like molten lava bursting. The Zero-Type Arus, which was venting its artillery fire, did not have time to avoid the range covered by the poisonous fog. The silver-white surface of the ship instantly became mottled. Linger noticed that the armor shield value on the dark blue light screen in front of him was constantly falling.

[Current armor shield value: 186534/250000]

After just a few seconds in the poisonous fog, he lost nearly 70,000 shield points. He immediately reminded Yieta to evacuate the area. The white-haired angel's forehead was sweating, and he nervously operated the spherical axis instrument on the console, driving the Zero Arus upwards and rushing out of the poisonous fog, but at this time, the beautiful silver-white armor layer was covered with pits and acid-etched holes.

Besides, this poisonous fog was just a cover-up by the Earth Mother Titan. The real offensive was still to come: giant stone edges with sharp ends emerged from the deep canyons torn apart the wilderness. Each of them carried a momentum enough to pierce the sky, chasing the giant whale fleeing in the sky and approaching at an extremely fast speed. When Yieta discovered the attack from behind, the nearest stone edge almost brushed past the tail of the battleship, tearing a hideous scar on the armor and causing the shield value to drop by more than 20,000 in an instant.

She was startled and immediately turned the spherical control device vigorously, controlling the Zero Arus to fly continuously in the sky, sometimes turning sharply, sometimes falling, dodging the giant stone edge chasing behind. However, this high-frequency operation brought about a violent shaking in the cab. Everyone was dizzy and lost their sense of balance due to the constantly changing direction and space. Alice, who was standing on the command platform and trying to show off, almost hit her head on the metal railing. After barely holding the handle next to her, she shouted angrily: "Don't keep running away, Yieta! Fight back! Hey, wait, be careful ahead!"

She reminded loudly, and Yieta then noticed that in order to avoid the attack from behind, she had unknowingly controlled the battleship to fly to the front of the Earth Mother Titan. At this moment, she was still accelerating towards the upright upper body of the swamp scorpion, and the latter also stretched out its thick and stiff rock arms to grab her. A terrifying shadow was cast between the steep and rugged palms of the giant, as if he wanted to catch this little bug that kept harassing him in the sky and crush it with the most terrifying brute force.

It was too late to turn around now. The angel was frightened and his face turned pale, as if covered with a layer of winter snow. On the ground, Langning Laville looked at this scene, shook his head helplessly, and ordered the communication device: "All combat personnel, listen to the order, change the direction of the artillery fire, support-"

He paused before continuing, "Support our temporary allies."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)