"Reduce engine output to one-fourth, and wait for them to come!"

Xiao Hei sat on the chair, crossed his legs and gave orders. Looking at the smug expression of the little guy in front of her, Chlos seemed a little uneasy. She hesitated for a moment, and finally found Illya who was sitting not far away. After all, compared to Xiao Hei, Illya was easier to communicate with.

"Ms. Illya, isn't this too reckless? Although it's not nice to say this, but if something happens to the Blizzard..."

"I can't do anything about it."

In response to Kolos's concern, Illya shook her head.

"I'm sorry, Master said that when he's away, Xiao Hei will be in charge of the Blizzard. But don't worry, Sister Chloë. Xiao Hei and I have experienced countless battles that are more difficult than this. In fact, if you ask me, this is really not a threat."

"is that so?"

"Yes, the reason why Master chose Xiao Hei is because Xiao Hei is most like him... At least I think if Master were here, he would probably make the same decision."

"Well……"

Hearing Illya's answer, Chlos was speechless for a moment. She looked at Xiao Hei, who was leaning on the chair with his legs crossed and looking leisurely and contented. She could not imagine what Fang Zheng would look like if he did the same thing.

"The target is within visual range."

At this moment, Theo gave another hint, and then everyone saw the huge spaceship from the society on the screen.

ark.

Although this battleship still retains some features of an airship, from the outside, it looks more like a huge aerial fortress. On both sides of the hull, countless automatic turrets are constantly rotating, trying to destroy any invading enemy with great momentum.

"Ouch."

Seeing this, Xiao Hei's eyes lit up and he changed his action.

"This is really interesting... This thing already has some concept."

Although most people didn't understand what Xiao Hei was saying, Illya knew what he was talking about. They followed Fang Zheng through countless worlds, so they naturally understood the development process of each civilization. In fact, in many magic worlds, most civilizations that can create floating vehicles will first use ships as a transition. On the one hand, this is because of their fixed impressions, and on the other hand, according to Fang Zheng, the civilization level of these worlds is still relatively low and cannot reach this level.

Spacecraft like the Blizzard look cool and awesome, but to make an aircraft look like this, it requires the addition of aerodynamics, materials science and other basic sciences. It takes a long time to develop these technologies, and you can't just use your strength to make a brick fly.

However, the association's ark already has the prototype of the early concept of a space battleship that travels to the starry sky. It has a large number of closed structures and self-propelled artillery placed on both sides of the hull to ensure maximum coverage of the 360-degree all-round attack range - these are unimaginable for civilizations that have not left the gravity circle.

"Ling, lock on to the target. I believe Big Brother will be interested in this. Keep moving forward and circle around the target at a quarter rate, capturing all of its top, bottom, left, and right."

"Why do you want me to come? You can do it yourself."

Although she complained, Ling still quickly maneuvered the warship. Soon, the Blizzard began to move forward slowly and began to circle around the red association warship as the center point.

At the same time, the Red Ark of the Society also began to attack the Blizzard. The turrets quickly turned and aimed at the silver eagle in front of them, and then the cannons emitted a series of shining roars. Then, the shells whizzed past and shot at the Blizzard.

Since the Blizzard was only cruising at a quarter of its speed, there was little chance that the shells would miss the target. Seeing the sparks flashing from the turrets, everyone on the Blizzard could not help but feel their hearts in their throats. Many of them even subconsciously grabbed things around them to protect themselves from the impending impact.

However, nothing happened.

The shells didn't even hit the hull of the Blizzard. On the contrary, before they hit the hull, a circle of azure blue translucent light suddenly appeared outside the Blizzard, blocking the enemy's artillery attack. The shells exploded outside the azure blue light circle, while the Blizzard inside the light circle was as stable as a rock, not shaking at all.

"That's it?"

Looking at the shield grid in front of him that was barely flickering, Xiao Hei was greatly disappointed.

"The amount of these broken shells that explode is less than the amount of shields that recover in one second? What can this thing do?"

"Well……"

Although no one knew what Xiao Hei was complaining about, Joshua, Chloë, Olivier and others standing on the bridge all showed embarrassed expressions.

"Your Highness."

At the same time, a soldier with short hair and a serious face standing next to Olivier also came over - he was Olivier's close friend and the prince's confidant.

"What's wrong, Mulla?"

"No, I just want to say that judging from the caliber of the Ark's cannons, its power is no less than the light main guns of our Empire's airships. Frankly speaking, if our Empire were to face this Ark battleship, I'm afraid it would suffer heavy losses."

"But the firepower of this Ark can't even tickle the Blizzard."

Looking at the Blizzard, which was still leisurely and relaxed in the face of the full-force bombardment of the Society Ark, as if strolling in the garden, Olivier's face was also solemn.

It seems that my evaluation of this battleship is still much lower.

At the same time, as if angered by the Blizzard's slow behavior, the cabin under the Ark opened, and several missiles fell from it, then shot out with flames and flew towards the Blizzard.

"There's also a built-in missile launch bay? This is really interesting..."

Seeing this, Xiao Hei found it even more interesting. This Association Ark was almost a complete copycat version of a regular space battleship. Except for the fact that it was not strong enough to escape from the gravity well and its combat power was not strong enough, other aspects were really good.

The whistling missiles came rushing over and smashed into the shield of the Blizzard, but also returned to no avail. The only effect was that this time the missiles managed to barely knock down one grid of the shield - and then it was restored to full in less than a second.

"It seems that's it."

After carefully inspecting the Ark of the Association from top to bottom and from left to right by operating the Blizzard, Xiao Hei sighed.

"Big brother will definitely be interested in this thing. Okay, let's get started."

"Missiles loaded, target locked, launch."

Theo gave the report indifferently, and as she spoke, everyone saw a small missile shot out from the Blizzard and flew towards the Red Ark.

Compared to the huge missiles released by the association, this missile was so small that it looked like a work of art, and there was only one. It rushed towards the Red Ark with a long tail of smoke. Although the Ark had turned its guns to try to block the missile, its speed was obviously faster than the attack of the shells. It didn't take much time before everyone saw that the missile had arrived in front of the Red Ark.

However, the scene that followed was beyond their imagination.

A sun suddenly appeared in the sky.

This was the only impression they could describe. The moment the missile hit the Red Ark, the dazzling light instantly filled the entire screen. Everyone hurriedly turned their heads away, or put their hands in front of their eyes to block the dazzling light.

The light disappeared after a moment, and when everyone raised their heads and looked forward again, there was nothing there.

Such a huge warship disappeared completely, as if it had never appeared.

They even went to the window to see if there was any fallen debris below, but they saw nothing.

“Your Highness…”

At this moment, Mura's originally calm voice also showed a hint of trembling.

"Excuse me, I can't understand what kind of power this is..."

"Yes, a warship that was as big as a castle disappeared completely. Nothing was left behind."

Olivier also took a breath and stared at the sky and white clouds outside.

"If this is a fortress or a royal city on the ground, what would it look like?"

“…”

Mura did not answer this question, perhaps he did not dare to think about the answer to this question.

"Target destroyed, keep moving forward."

Xiao Hei didn't pay any attention to her own results. In her opinion, this was the fate of a warship without a shield in the atmosphere. If Fang Zheng hadn't specifically told Xiao Hei to teach the association a lesson and let them know how powerful Starlight Technology was, she wouldn't even have let the other party enter the line of sight and would have directly used a laser cannon to shoot it down from dozens of kilometers away.

This is why Fang Zheng let Xiao Hei take charge instead of Illya. Xiao Hei not only has a similar temper to Fang Zheng, but also has no mercy on the enemy. But Illya is different. She is soft-hearted after all. Xiao Hei made such a big fuss in order to let the association and the people on the bridge see the power of their Tiandao Palace with their own eyes to prevent them from having any inappropriate thoughts. But with Illya's personality, even if she thought of it, she would not do it.

Soon, the Blizzard moved forward again, and this time it didn't take much time for them to reach above the city in the sky.

This was also the first time that everyone saw the city from close up.

“So beautiful…”

Looking at the sky city in front of them, Kolos couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Even Theo and Ling were shocked by the beautiful city floating in the sky. Under the sunlight, they could clearly see the blue lake above the sky city and the straight roads crisscrossing on the lake. At the center of the lake, a tall stone tablet stood up, surrounded by dense forests and grasslands.

“How ignorant.”

Seeing that Lian Ling and Tio were both making a fuss, Xiao Hei couldn't help but curl his lips. It was only because the big brother didn't build a star city or Macross here, otherwise why would they be so shocked to see such a crappy thing?

Although she secretly complained that the people on the continent of Semlia were all country bumpkins, Xiao Hei still acted according to her next goal. She looked at everyone and then asked.

"What do we do now? Do we just blow it up?"

"Well……"

Hearing Xiao Hei's question, Chlos, Estelle and the others were stunned for a moment before they reacted. At first, they just wanted to use the Blizzard to dock on the floating city, and then they would go in and defeat the culprit inside. But now Xiao Hei provided them with an idea they had never thought of.

That is to blow up this floating city directly.

After the battle on the Ark just now, no one would think that the Blizzard could not do such a thing.

"Eh? It's such a beautiful city, it's such a shame to blow it up."

Estell was outspoken and expressed her thoughts immediately, but Xiao Hei curled his lips in response to her words.

"This is the simplest, most convenient and quickest way. With the firepower of the Blizzard, this broken place will probably cease to exist after a round of salvos. In less than a minute at most, we will be able to solve Liberl's stagnant power... Isn't this the top priority right now?"

"Well……"

"Miss Xiaohei is right."

Joshua nodded.

"As long as the Ring of Glory is completely destroyed, no matter what the Society wants to do, it will be impossible."

"But... this is an ancient secret treasure after all. Isn't it a pity?"

Estelle looked at Chlos for help, and the latter suddenly became embarrassed.

Just as Estell said, this is an ancient secret treasure, the Treasure of the Void, one of the seven treasures that the goddess once bestowed upon mankind.

It just exploded like that?

In the past, Chloë could have consulted her grandmother, but now, she has completed the succession ceremony and become the Crown Princess of Liberl, so she has to make her own decision on such matters.

"...Miss Xiaohei, can I have a conversation with Mr. Fang Zheng?"

"Wait a moment."

Hearing Chloë's question, Xiao Hei closed her eyes, and after a moment, she looked at Chloë again.

"Big brother said you make your own decision. Of course, if it's up to me, instead of running into this to find the culprit who is hiding somewhere, it's better for me to blow it up completely and leave nothing behind. If you go in, it's hard to guarantee the danger. I don't know how the other party controls this floating city, and there's no guarantee that they won't set traps inside. And according to the general routine, even if you defeat the culprit, the other party may self-destruct before dying and destroy the city and take you with him. In that case, why do you have to risk your lives on this trip? Wouldn't it be better to just blow it up here and go home?"

"I agree with Miss Blackie."

Joshua supported it again. He didn't want Estelle to take risks. After all, it was an association.

However, at this moment, another voice sounded.

“I don’t think this is a safe approach.”

Everyone turned to look and saw that the person who was speaking was a red-haired woman in church clothes. She looked at Xiao Hei with a smile on her face.

"This time we are dealing with the core members of the society, the Apostles of the Snake. They must have made all kinds of preparations to control the treasure of the Goddess of the Sky. In this case, if we act on our own, it is very likely that we will alert them and let them escape directly. Moreover, if we don't see their demise with our own eyes, we really can't be sure whether these people are really dead, right?"

"Who are you?"

Xiao Hei narrowed his eyes and stared at the red-haired woman with dissatisfaction. The other party came with Chloe and the others, so Xiao Hei didn't care. But it was different now that she wanted to speak.

"This is Rufina Argent from the Church of the Seven Lights."

Chloë hurriedly introduced them.

"She is a knight of the Star Cup Knights, helping us investigate the association."

“I see…”

Xiao Hei shrugged and looked at Chloë.

"But Sister Chloë, you should make the decision. After all, this is your national affair. Big Brother said that Starlight Technology is only responsible for assisting and making suggestions. The specific decision will be made by the Liberl Royal Family."

Chloë never expected that the first choice she would face after ascending the throne would be so difficult.