Chapter 336 Air Combat (Two chapters in one)
The front of the giant airship cabin that had just docked was a cone-shaped ship bow, with huge glass portholes inlaid on it, and decorated with exquisite carvings and copper frames around it.
Inside the portholes were the high-ranking members of the Federation delegation who were visiting this time. They looked down from above and naturally saw the small commotion in the crowd of people who were welcoming them from the Empire below.
"It seems that something big has happened. By the way, where are our spies in Munster?"
"Let them find out the situation immediately."
"I want to know the general information within half an hour." Trena said with a smile.
"Yes, sir," a school officer immediately bowed and said.
As the Federation delegation headed by Trena slowly got off the airship, the welcome ceremony officially began.
However, compared to the cheerful scene, the Duke of Munster and Admiral Edward were extremely anxious. The two quickly exchanged opinions behind Duke Victor.
They decided to leave immediately. After all, when the lengthy welcome ceremony was over, it was estimated that Bretsin would be finished.
"Envoy Trena, welcome to the Dragun Empire."
"Duke Victor, I'm very happy to see you. These two are..." Trena looked at the Duke of Munster and Admiral Edward beside Victor and said.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce them. This is the Provincial Governor Duke of Munster, and this is Admiral Edward."
"Your Excellency, Envoy, I'm very happy to see you."
"Your Excellency, Envoy, Duke Victor, I'm very sorry. Edward and I have an urgent matter to deal with." Duke Munster couldn't help it and spoke.
After all, he was the first person responsible for what happened in the territory of the Munster Province.
"Oh? Your Excellency, Duke, Admiral Edward, if you two need help, you can tell me directly. This time, the giant Lancelot-class gunboat of our Federation came with me, and its combat effectiveness is quite good."
Trena looked at the two of them curiously and said meaningfully.
Duke Munster and Admiral Edward looked at each other and saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.
"This."
"Mr. Special Envoy, thank you very much for your kindness. Please allow us to discuss with Duke Victor first. Perhaps, we will trouble you later."
Duke Victor was obviously stunned. Although he was the person in charge of receiving the delegation, it was quite rude in diplomatic etiquette for the consul to be absent in the territory of the Province of Munster.
A few minutes later, Duke Victor excused himself to go to the bathroom, and he and the Duke of Munster immediately bumped heads.
"Ferreira (the real name of the Duke of Munster), Edward, is the situation really that bad?" Duke Victor's face sank.
"Yes, the situation may be worse than imagined." Admiral Edward glanced at the Duke of Munster and quickly introduced the situation.
"Duke Victor, a suspected undocumented sealed gate was discovered at Longya Pass some time ago. Just a few hours ago, the survivors of a Diamond-level sword-wielding team that had lost contact sent an urgent message."
"The one sealed inside is an ancient dragon, which is said to have strong corrupt energy and can corrupt living beings and restore strength."
"At present, this corrupt dragon is on its way to Brightxin and has destroyed three towns along the way."
"What! Doesn't that mean tens of thousands of people have been killed or injured?" Duke Victor said with his eyes wide open.
"Yes, the problem now is that if we don't send strong and fast support immediately, if Brightxin is destroyed, it will mean hundreds of thousands of people will be killed or injured."
"In addition, after Brightxin is destroyed, according to the intelligence, if the other party recovers its strength by corrupting living beings, I'm afraid they will soon return to their peak strength."
"This is the worst part." Admiral Edward said with a serious face.
"Yes, Duke Victor, we just discussed it. Now, we may need to use the Griffin Guards you brought this time to escort us. Otherwise,
I am afraid that we will not be able to do so in terms of strength." Duke Munster said. Duke Victor was silent after hearing this.
After all, this time node is very awkward, just when the Federation delegation arrived at the first stop of the Empire.
If all the Griffin Knights are transferred now, it is equivalent to telling the Federation that the situation on the Dragun Empire side is very bad, so bad that it can't even maintain the basic stability of the situation.
In terms of diplomacy, this is a taboo and is very unfavorable for the subsequent negotiations between the two countries.
"In other words, it is too late to wait for the Imperial Guardians to come, right?" Duke Victor thought for a while and said.
"Well, so we want to mobilize all the Griffin Knights and rush to Brightsing immediately. Even if we can't stop them, we have to try to lead them away from Brightsing."
"At least try to buy some time to allow some people in the county city to evacuate."
"So, I hope that the batch of Griffin Guards you brought with you, Your Excellency, can also go together." Admiral Edward added.
Duke Victor frowned.
Obviously, he was weighing the pros and cons of the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the fact that he had to tell the Federation.
But soon, he figured it out. Although there were few wars between the Empire and the Federation over the past hundred years, there were constant small frictions. They had planted countless spies and spies on each other. Could some situations be covered up by covering up?
If Brightsin was really destroyed, such a tragedy would inevitably be hidden. Instead of doing that, it would be better to let the Federation go with them.
Although the other party would know more about the Empire's strengths and weaknesses, the same was true in reverse. They could also see what new things the Federation had come up with in the past two years.
"Ferreira, Edward, let the Federation intervene together." Victor said.
"It's a good opportunity to see what these Federation people rely on."
"Let the Federation come along?"
Duke Munster and Admiral Edward looked at each other and their faces lit up.
For them, being able to quickly eliminate this huge hidden danger is the first priority.
"Well, mobilize all the griffin knights. Oh, and mobilize all the small airships! Even if there are no airships as big as theirs, we have to make a big show of it." Duke Victor added.
"Well, there are only two small airships at the moment, and the others are on missions and are already on the route. It will take at least a few hours to mobilize a few more."
On the other side.
In the reception hall.
"Do you know the situation?" Terena turned her head and asked the adjutant.
"Well, I basically understand it. It is said that a corrupted dragon is currently on its way to Brightsin and has destroyed several towns along the way."
"Corrupted dragon? That's not easy to deal with." A federal major general on the side whispered.
"Can we deal with it?" Terena asked calmly.
"Not a big problem."
"That's good, it's a good opportunity to show our strength to the empire. Let's go, I'll go and tell Duke Victor again." The beautiful woman Terena stood up and said.
"Hmm? Special Envoy, will this expose our strength?"
"Don't forget, we are here to negotiate, and showing strength will lead to better negotiations." The beautiful woman couldn't help but laugh.
In the same corner of the reception hall.
"Sir Ryan, it's an urgent mission, we need to set off now, Admiral Edward is already waiting on the military airship." The capable young woman with an anxious face came to Ryan and said.
"Hmm? So urgent?" Ryan raised his eyebrows.
Set off immediately?
This is the first time Ryan has encountered such an urgent mission.
But soon, Ryan thought of something and said, "Wait a minute."
"Yes, Sir Ryan, I just received urgent intelligence. The specific content will be released later. Admiral Edward will introduce it to you on the airship." Olena said quickly.
"Well, let's go." Ryan stood up and said.
A few minutes later.
"Edward, who are you waiting for?" Duke Victor asked with an unhappy look.
"Oh, I just called a diamond-level swordsman from the branch, and he should be here soon." Edward said apologetically.
"Facing a giant dragon, a diamond-level swordsman is probably useless."
"This." Admiral Edward thought about the many times that Ryan had been able to turn the tide before, hesitated, and nodded.
"Duke Victor, I am also familiar with the young man Edward mentioned. He is a young man who is good at creating miracles and is also the chief security consultant just hired by the Munster Administrative Office." Duke Munster explained.
At this time, Ryan, accompanied by Olena, also happened to board the airship.
"Huh? Is this the one?" Duke Victor looked at the two people beside him suspiciously, obviously a little unconvinced.
So young?
How could he be so strong? Maybe he is a relative?
However, even if Duke Victor had some guesses in his heart, he would not say anything to his face.
In the cabin, Admiral Edward quickly and concisely introduced the situation.
"Just now, we received urgent intelligence."
".The forbidden gate at the Dragon Tooth Pass was broken, and an ancient corrupted dragon attacked several small towns along the way. It is currently heading towards the county city of Brightxin."
"What! A dragon?" The Griffin Knights and several Diamond-level sword bearers present were all shocked.
And Ryan narrowed his eyes, quite shocked.
Although he had known some news from the Dragon Tooth Pass before, it seemed that the Black Sword Squad went to investigate a mine suspected of being a forbidden gate, but he did not expect that the current news would explode based on this.
"Silence! The Imperial Capital should be sent soon, so our combat goal this time is to try to interfere with the other party and not let them attack Brightxin calmly."
"At least, we have to buy some time for the residents of Brightxin to evacuate."
A few hours later, as the airship arrived near Brightxin.
Whether it was the Empire or the Federation, they could see on the airship that Brightxin's county city was in chaos at this moment, and a dragon with a body size of dozens of meters long was raging over the county city.
At the same time, there were thousands of monsters of different sizes fighting with the defenders of the county city, but with the Corrupted Dragon leading the attack, the battle was almost one-sided.
At this moment, the situation was already precarious.
"Let the Griffin Knights go first and find the opponent's weakness." Duke Victor looked at the scene in front of him with a solemn face and said.
As the Duke of the Imperial Capital with rich combat experience and the special envoy of this time, Duke Victor took on the responsibility of commanding the battle, while the Duke of Munster and Admiral Edward were responsible for deployment and coordination.
"Yes, Duke Victor." The captain of the Griffin Knights bowed slightly and said.
With a sharp whistle, he and Viscount Felke, a total of two teams, a total of 24 Imperial Griffin Knights, were divided into two straight lines and rushed towards the Corrupted Dragon.
The Griffin's flying speed was extremely fast. In less than half a minute, the two sides started fighting.
Compared to the tens of meters long body of the corrupted dragon, the twenty-four formerly majestic griffin knights now looked like a group of sparrows besieging a giant eagle.
"Swoosh!"
The well-trained griffin knights controlled the griffins to quickly dodge the sharp claws and wing attacks of the corrupted dragon, moving like the wind, and at the same time, threw the sharp short spears in their hands at the corrupted dragon.
"Puff!"
Many short spears pierced into the skin of the corrupted dragon, which immediately made many griffin knights look happy.
"Captain, the opponent's defense is not strong!" A griffin knight shouted with a happy expression.
This situation is much better than they expected, because according to the normal dragon's scale defense, their spears can't even break through the dragon's scale defense.
But the next second, something unexpected happened!
"Be careful!"
As if stung by this group of annoying "flies", the corrupted dragon took a deep breath, and then exhaled violently 180 degrees in front!
A huge, strong yellow-green breath like a high-pressure water gun instantly hit the three griffin knights who couldn't dodge.
In the astonished eyes of others.
The three griffin knights, including the griffins under their crotch, quickly grew hair, rotted, and were covered with colorful mushrooms in just a few seconds, and then lost their balance and fell from the sky!
With one breath, he killed three elite griffin knights.
This scene made Admiral Edward and others on the small airship in the back change their faces.
You know, the Empire has to consume as much gold as a person to train a qualified griffin knight.
The loss of each griffin knight is a major loss for the Empire, but three griffin knights were lost in less than half a minute of fighting. The next battle will be difficult.
"Damn, what are these people from the Federation doing? Are they watching a show?" Duke Munster couldn't help but burst out a swear word and said.
"This is a battle that took place on the territory of the Empire. We can't interfere when the other party makes a move." Victor said with an ugly face.
Ryan thought about it and planned to tell Admiral Edward, why not let him try.
Suddenly, the giant gunboat of the Federation began to move.
About two kilometers behind the air battle scene.
In the captain's room of the Federation's Lancelot-class giant gunboat.
A group of federal officers were carefully observing the siege of the corrupt dragon by the Empire's griffin knights.
"Good control, everyone seems to be at the level of a great knight, and they cooperate well with the griffins."
"Well, they are indeed the top elite troops of the Dragun Empire."
"However, it is probably very difficult to train such griffin knights. How many can there be in the entire Dragun Empire?"
"The two teams of griffin knights in front of us should be the majority of the griffin knights in this Munster province. Oh, yes, this still counts the team that escorted us. In other words, there are at most 20 griffin knights in a province."
"Very elite, but unfortunately, there are too few."
"This training strategy of the empire cannot cope with the subsequent combat losses."
The officers and soldiers commented one after another.
"What a powerful breath!" After seeing the breath of the corrupt dragon, the federal officers and soldiers also changed color.
"This corruption ability is too amazing."
Seeing this scene, Terena's pretty face couldn't help but become solemn. She turned sideways and said to the general officer beside her:
"Lieutenant General Ruiz, the next battle will be handed over to you."
"Of course, Your Excellency Terena, we should show our wings and let the corrupt Dragun Empire know the development of the Federation in recent years." Lieutenant General Ruiz bowed slightly and said with a smile.
"Turn left, prepare for portside artillery fire!"
"All ship guns start loading!"
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One after another, the orders came down from the brass tube to the lower cabin.
The huge gunboat suddenly turned sideways in mid-air, which made Duke Victor and others on the small airship next to it think that the Federation was going to escape at first.
But the next second, they saw two rows of dozens of black holes suddenly appear on the side of the opponent's gunboat, followed by dozens of flashes of fire and a burst of cannon-like sounds.
"Boom boom!"
In an instant, the surface of the corrupt dragon's body suddenly exploded with five or six huge holes, and yellow pus immediately spurted out.
"Ang!!!"
The corrupted dragon screamed, and at the same time, it shifted its attention from the griffin knights around it to the "big guy" not far away.
"The power is not enough to destroy the opponent. It seems that we have to use secret weapons." Vice Admiral Ryze narrowed his eyes and said.
"Main gun ready!"
In the middle of the side of the ship, an extra large hole opened.
Looking inside along the slender gun barrel of the hole, a huge hexagram magic array was engraved on the gun base, and six official wizards were chanting spells according to the order just issued by the captain's room.
As the spell sounded, the hexagram suddenly surged with a huge energy and injected it into the huge cannon covered with various inscriptions.
The next second!
"Boom!"
A ball of lightning-like thing quickly bombarded the flying corrupted dragon.
"Bang!"
As if it had sensed the danger, the corrupt dragon dodged slightly to the side, avoiding the vital parts of its body, but a big hole was blasted out of one of its flesh wings, causing it to fall rapidly.
In the captain's room of the Federation's Lancelot-class giant gunboat.
"Vice Admiral Ruiz, very good command. Next, I think we will have a great advantage in the negotiations with the Empire."
"Pa pa pa!"
The mature young woman Trena smiled and was the first to applaud Vice Admiral Ruiz. Then, the others immediately reacted and the applause was thunderous.
Duke Victor and others on the small airship nearby, when they saw this scene, their faces relaxed at first, but they were not very happy, but they were silent.
Because the power of the attack from the federal gunboat was comparable to the second-level witchcraft, or even more powerful.
"It seems a little wrong, everyone, look." At this time, Ryan reminded.
Immediately, everyone's attention was focused on the falling corrupt dragon again.
The corrupt dragon staggered and fell to the southwest corner of the city of Brightxin County. For a moment, smoke and dust rose.
"Ang!!!" But with a loud dragon roar.
With the corrupt dragon that fell to the ground as the center, thousands of mushroom people around it rushed to the other side's position from all over Brightxin City, like moths to a flame.
Due to the smoke and dust, everyone could not see clearly what happened, but they knew that some changes must be happening.
A few seconds later, the intact corrupt dragon flapped its wings and rushed straight into the sky!
"Not good!"
"The enemy can recover from injuries by devouring this kind of monster's followers!" Admiral Edward, who was extremely experienced in combat, exclaimed.
The corrupt dragon rushed towards the giant gunboat of the Federation.
"(Ancient Dragon Language) Follow the great Agnes and step into corruption!"
"(Ancient Dragon Language) Ancient corruption!"
The breath was so powerful this time that a yellow-green breath like a waterfall was sprayed on the side of the cabin of the giant gunboat, and it fiercely confronted the milky white witchcraft protective shield that was instantly activated by the giant gunboat.
This scene made Duke Victor's face change drastically, and he said: "We can't let the Federation delegation die here, which will directly cause the relationship between the Federation and the Empire to become hostile."
"Send flags to the Griffin Knights, let them intercept Agnes regardless of the loss, and let the Exxon behind prepare to ignite the high explosives and directly hit it." Duke Victor said with a hint of ruthlessness on
his face. "In this case, the loss of the Empire will be too great." Duke Munster frowned.
Admiral Edward also had a solemn expression on his face. The only four griffins of the Sword Bearer Division had all gone up at this moment.
At this moment, as if thinking of something, Admiral Edward turned to Ryan and said:
"Ryan, you are not a flying knight. You will be responsible for leading the team to kill the infected people and monsters on the ground later to ensure that they cannot restore the injuries and physical strength of the corrupt dragon Agnes again."
"That's right! We can't let this corrupt dragon recover again." Duke Victor nodded and agreed.
However, Ryan looked thoughtful and did not agree immediately. After thinking for a while, he pointed to the corrupt dragon Agnes that had just severely damaged the federal gunboat and said:
"Admiral Edward, let me try. Perhaps I should be able to deal with it."
It's not that Ryan wants to show off, but it's based on several considerations.
First of all, he is a member of the Empire. For now, both Admiral Edward and Duke Munster are very caring towards him. If the corrupt dragon continues to wreak havoc, not only will the residents of Brightsin suffer, but these two will also be blamed by the Empire.
Secondly, he didn't want to see the griffin knights, including Felke and Fisher, fall in front of him one by one, especially when he could still do something.
Finally, Ryan actually wanted to verify some of his assumptions.
"Huh?"
Everyone, including Admiral Edward and Duke of Munster, looked at Ryan, not knowing what this meant.
Duke Victor frowned. He didn't have a good impression of Ryan, who was late.
This time, he was even more unhappy to hear that the young man in front of him actually questioned Edward's order.
But he saw that Edward didn't say anything, and his lips stammered twice, but he didn't scold him.
As Ryan's mind moved, he heard the lookout suddenly shouted: "A ferocious bird of prey suddenly came behind us."
"Don't worry, this is my mount." Ryan said calmly.
"Huh? Ryan, you have a flying mount?" Admiral Edward's face was happy, but when he thought of Agnes's power, it was dark again.
Because even if Ryan became a flying knight, it would at most be equivalent to having one more top griffin knight, and the impact on the battle situation would be minimal.
But Duke Victor on the side had a different idea, and looked at Ryan with an even more unfriendly look.
You are a flying knight?
Why didn't you attack with the griffin knights when they were fighting the rot dragon just now? Are you afraid of death?
Just when he couldn't help but scold them,
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Three heavy objects fell to the ground.
The blood-feathered horned beast that had just landed placed three combat puppets on the deck of the airship.
Ryan had already turned around and walked over, and heard a voice from afar: "Prepare three high-explosive bombs for me."
(End of this chapter)
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