Dejected, the dwarf followed everyone back to the deck. He looked at the sea level in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.

Carl and Hope fiddled with the equipment on the ship a little awkwardly and tried to determine the direction through the instruments on the ship.

It had been nearly four years since they last used something like this, but fortunately the two of them quickly regained the skills they had learned in the Thunder Sea and maneuvered the bronze and wooden warship to the west.

Mitris transformed into an eagle to observe the surroundings, while Ying and Nia cleaned up the blood and corpses under the deck.

When the warship finally turned around and prepared to leave the sea, Midris, who was hovering in the sky, suddenly landed and announced some bad news.

"I saw other ships. They are heading this way in an organized manner. I suspect that this ship may have something on board to help them locate themselves."

It is actually quite difficult to fight a skirmish on the ocean in the pre-information age.

No one has satellite positioning, and they all rely on their super eyesight blessed by magic to observe the surrounding sea. In this situation, if they are not careful, the two sides will miss each other.

But Dalkart's fleet found Carl and his crew so easily. This was certainly due to the "contribution" of the dead old captain, but Mitris's guess was also possible.

"Search the ship first, and leave the enemy to me!"

Nodding to Nia and Hope, Carl went straight down the deck and ran to the cargo hold where the Sky Comet Dragon aircraft was located.

Opening the cargo hold's baffle, Carl stroked the aircraft's wings and took deep breaths repeatedly.

If a group of stronger adventurers had come, Carl wouldn't have been so nervous.

But what came was a fully armed fleet, so this was no longer a local conflict but a small war.

"Phew, relax. We just need to hold them back. Once the ship reaches the shore, we can circle around a few more times and come back."

After mumbling to himself to comfort himself, Carl possessed himself and drilled into the chest of the aircraft, then merged with it.

Red fire element energy spread out from the chest of the Sky Comet Dragon, and flames gradually appeared at the tips of its wings and on its limbs.

Operating the dragon-beast-shaped aircraft, Carl ran towards the exit skillfully.

The magic power at the end of the wings became increasingly intense as Carl ran. When he jumped out of the cabin, red magic flames suddenly spurted out from his chest, limbs and wings, lifting the heavy body of the aircraft straight up.

"call--"

The wings on both sides flapped violently, the aircraft quickly climbed to a high altitude, and then flew quickly towards the enemy fleet.

Three Iron Ant constructs were tightly attached to the back of the aircraft. Carl controlled them through his psychic powers as an extra layer of insurance for himself.

Looking at the direction Carl left, the four women remained silent, trying to keep the ship sailing normally.

No one asked the question "Can Carl come back?" They just silently maneuvered the boat towards the shore of Xen'drik, silently searching for a possible locator.

Unlike the heavy atmosphere on the ship, Carl's mood suddenly became much more relaxed after adapting to the aircraft.

The closer he is to the enemy, the higher the level of adrenaline in his blood.

The Sky Comet Dragon aircraft with silver outer armor looked like a red comet. Before Carl could get close to it, Dalkart's army discovered him.

Through the sensors throughout the aircraft, Carl was able to see the crew below adjusting the magic cannon and trying to shoot him down.

This discovery completely shattered Carl's original mentality of luck, so he no longer thought about simply circling around, but dived towards one of the ships.

"They are all ironclad ships. It seems that their manufacturing process has some traces of Aundair. Did spies steal relevant information? If so, these ships are probably driven by construct technology."

After quickly figuring this out, Carl dodged the magic cannon and fell into the ocean.

One of the iron ants that was attached to his back took the opportunity to separate, then quickly came to the bottom of the ironclad ship and attached itself tightly to it.

Carl's eyes in the aircraft suddenly lit up with psychic energy, and the Iron Ant construct attached to the bottom of the armored ship also lit up with psychic energy.

The two sides were connected in a wonderful state. Carl's thoughts were translated into mechanical instructions of the construct by psychic energy and input into the body of the Iron Ant.

After doing this, Carl activated his energy again and jumped out from under the sea.

The red energy in the Sky Comet Dragon's chest surged up and then turned into a red breath of fire that hit the deck of a ship.

Some sailors had their bodies set on fire, but more of them raised their weapons and attacked the Sky Comet Dragon.

Carl was flying like a real dragon beast, flapping the wings on both sides of his body again, and dodged the attacks from various muskets and bows and arrows.

At the same time, the iron ants on the bottom of the ship began to operate on their own.

Although Carl was no longer in control, the temporary program that Carl had just transmitted through his psychic power began to operate.

The iron ant crawled quickly on the bottom of the ship, trying to find the part of the structure connected to the propeller.

It crawled from the middle of the ship to the stern, and finally found the part of the structure that controlled it near the propeller.

The limbs were fixed like hooks, and the iron ant immediately attached itself to them with its metal body.

Immediately afterwards, the refined gold parts in the abdominal cavity of the construct started to move, and then directly pierced through this part of the outer shell and penetrated into the construct parts of the ironclad ship.

The Iron Ant was connected to the structure inside the ironclad ship in this way, and the propeller that was originally spinning rapidly suddenly stopped.

Above the sea, Carl dodged the bombardment again and dived towards another ship.

Suddenly, he noticed that a ship he had just visited was stopping moving forward.

The ironclad ship that Andel was preparing to build in recent years was a project led by March, the master of the Tower of Wonders.

And Carl also provided some help in this.

Now, this help is the key to Carl's fight against this group of enemies.

Falling back into the ocean, Carl quickly approached the ironclad ship that had just stopped moving.

When he was less than 500 meters away from the iron ant, his spiritual power reconnected with it.

Some data was transmitted back from the Iron Ants, and Carl immediately understood part of the operating modes of these ironclad ships.

After quickly re-modifying some of the Iron Ant's programs, Carl changed direction and rushed towards the ironclad ship that was suspected to be the flagship.

This time, Carl had more experience, so he went directly to the propeller and released the remaining iron ants.

When he jumped out of the sea again, the flagship, like the ironclad ship before, was suspended on the sea.

Vibrating his wings, Carl turned his body in mid-air and rushed down towards the flagship.

The enemies on the deck also tried to bombard the Sky Comet Dragon with magic cannons, but the straight-forward shells were too easy to dodge. Carl slightly adjusted his flying posture, dodged the shells, and landed.

"call--"

Red flames spurted out from the head of the Sky Comet Dragon, and the soldier who had just operated the magic cannon was instantly turned into flying ashes.

Raising his dragon claw that was still emitting heat and red light, Carl aimed at the magic cannons and slashed horizontally.

"Kill this dragon beast!"

The shouts of soldiers rang out all around, and Carl was wantonly killing those soldiers who were aiming at him.

Just when he thought the plan would go on smoothly, a powerful spiritual energy suddenly emerged in the cabin.

'This feeling... is at least on the same level as Iris!'

The thought flashed through his mind, and Carl gathered his energy again, preparing to release his breath into the cabin.

But just as the red light on the Sky Comet Dragon's chest gathered, a figure accompanied by flashes of psychic energy appeared beside Carl.

Before Carl could see his opponent clearly, a force had already acted directly on the side of the Sky Comet Dragon, knocking Carl out.

This is not a spell, it is just the basic application of psychic power in controlling objects.

However, the maximum object that Carl can move is no more than 20 kilograms.

"Oops, we've encountered a strong enemy."

Realizing that the enemy was difficult to deal with, Carl immediately flapped his wings and prepared to fly into the sky.

The range of psychic power is limited. Carl feels that as long as he keeps his distance, he has a certain chance of defeating the opponent.

But just as Carl was climbing urgently, the psychic on the opposite side had already caught up with him.

Suddenly, the psychic opened his arms and aimed at Carl who was fleeing in front of him.

The huge amount of spiritual energy instantly acted on Carl, causing him to be in a trance for a moment.

Fortunately, the method of using psychic power he learned from Elise was very reliable. After just a little struggle, Carl broke free from the effect of the telekinesis spell.

Faintly, Carl seemed to hear the psychic behind him exclaim "self-dream world".

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Carl quickly changed direction. The energy in his chest reached the dragon head of the aircraft and then all of it was sprayed out.

Red flames covered the psionicist, but an invisible force condensed into an air wall, blocking the power of the breath.

Realizing that the aircraft could not cause any effective damage to the enemy, Carl took a deep breath and then detached from the Comet Dragon aircraft.

The sound of whistling wind rang in his ears, and Carl was thrown into the air by the wind from high altitude.

The psychic who was maintaining the defense raised his head and gave Carl a determined smile.

This smile made Carl extremely angry. Without any hesitation, he directly summoned his own mecha, the Skyfire Optimus Prime mecha!

"I will attack in Gundam form!"

Inside the body of the huge mecha, Carl let out a low growl, then controlled the mecha to take out the electromagnetic cannon behind it.

A dazzling flash of lightning burst out instantly, and a flying saucer-shaped projectile was accelerated to three times the speed of sound, instantly penetrating the psychic's defense.

His body turned directly into debris, without even a piece of flesh left.

"You're pretending to be your mother here with me!"

Reaching out and grabbing the Sky Comet Dragon and hanging it behind the mecha, Carl felt as if he had taken a sip of ice-cold soda in the hot summer, and his whole body felt refreshed.

(End of this chapter)