Chapter 556 Hammer Drop (Part 9)

After the metal warhead exhausted all its kinetic energy on the shield, it fell to the ground like a piece of scrap metal, making a dull sound of impact on the flat and hard surface around the banquet hall.

"Ji... the shield pressure is increasing... if the next round of bombardment is still at this level..." Susie hesitated.

Yves wiped the blood off her hands and looked up at the starry sky of this world.

When she saw the interceptor ship descending from the sky, she understood where her enemy was. The enemy came from the sky and projected their firepower on the ground from a higher sky.

"It doesn't matter, I can still withstand another round of bombardment. You go and ask the priests to provide energy for the shield."

She didn't expect the opponent's attack to be so fierce and violent, and she was raining down a torrential firepower on herself out of sight.

In the past half an hour, the artillery washed the 300-meter area centered on the banquet hall with high-explosive burning. The facilities they built in three months were destroyed in this half-hour bombardment.

The broken flag of the Crusaders fell and burned in the fire.

The war had begun to move in a direction she had never touched before.

"Distance?" Yves asked.

"From the ballistic simulation distance, the launch point is 20 kilometers away from here." Susie said: "Do we need to let the priests take off with air combat equipment? Maybe it can slow down the bombardment and give us time to evacuate the soldiers."

Her full perception field can well obtain the trajectory of the incoming target, and through the enhanced computing power, it can reversely deduce the source and distance of the bombardment, and then obtain the specific coordinates of the opponent's fire position.

This is the reason why she was chosen as the adjutant of the Holy Knight.

"Twenty kilometers, too far..." Yves used her fingertips to draw a distance on the chessboard: "Even if our priests take off with air combat equipment immediately, it will take ten minutes to arrive."

It is more likely that the priests we sent out did not play the role of interception and stagnation, and were killed by the guards around the fire point.

Like the Magic Empire, the Vatican's army naturally has air combat troops. Every magic civilization that has developed to this stage has more or less positions for air combat spellcasters.

Reconnaissance, suppression, morale attack.

Humans officially touched the sky from the gliders they made of wood and canvas, but humans living in the magic world can reach the unreachable world without the help of steel wings.

Humans with wings called "magic/divine arts" have the qualifications to touch the sky since birth.

Many things that humans have only done now were completed in the ancient times.

This convenience is a gift, but it is poisonous.

"If everyone takes off... No, it won't work." Yves shook her head and rejected her idea in her heart.

After seeing the enemy's combat methods, Yves did not think that her air combat priests could defeat an unknown enemy who was obviously well prepared in the air.

She couldn't remove the shield, equip the air combat equipment and take off, which was equivalent to abandoning the 300 priests in the banquet hall.

But if the worst happened, the air combat equipment in the banquet hall could still save some priests, most of whom were priests who had traveled with her to several worlds.

They were not comparable to the consumables of the Crusaders outside.

"Forget it..." Yves sighed.

As long as they spent a few nights, the portal would open and the main force of the Church would arrive in this world.

The mission of the vanguard army ended at that moment.

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Inside the banquet hall, the priests and nobles were arguing over the shells that fell on the protective shield. They didn't care about the battle outside, they only cared about themselves.

"The gap between the bombardment is fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes is enough for us to run out." Zhou Quan was still fulfilling his responsibility as a lord: "I saw that they have changed to armor-piercing shells. Leaving now is our best choice."

The moment the solid shells fell to the ground and he saw the unexploded metal lumps rolling on the ground, he realized the purpose of the initiator of the bombardment.

They used heavy artillery to smash the protective shield supported by the Church and their tortoise shells.

For this artillery that has completed the fire preparation, the estimate of the shells is not too much.

Fortunately, they changed to armor-piercing shells and narrowed the attack range, which gave the people hiding under the protective shield of the banquet hall a chance to escape.

Armor-piercing shells are far less lethal to soft targets than high-explosive shells... provided that you are not unlucky enough to stand in its path, then it will show you its absolute kinetic power.

"Sorry, we will stand with the Holy Knight until the last moment." Theresa said: "I will pretend that I didn't hear what happened just now. The Holy Knight can handle things well."

Zhou Quan didn't want to.

But he has already joined the camp of the Holy See, so he must naturally try his best to preserve the vitality of the other party. If he escapes now, he will leave a criminal record in both camps.

With a criminal record, neither side will accept him, and he can only roll back to his extremely slowly developing territory and fight the growing "wild monsters" around him.

If he knew that there were such monsters on the sky island, he would have run to the eastern defense line with all his assets, and his own people there could at least leave him a safe and barren land for him to develop.

Zhou Quan looked at the determined light in Therese and the other Hound Sisters' eyes and sighed in his heart, hoping that fewer of them would die in the upcoming battles.

These people look normal. He knows very well that most of the people in the Vanguard Army are crazy people who have been brainwashed by the Church.

The war machine built with hatred for aliens and belief in gods will not stop until the war stops.

He was born in a world without gods, and he has no way to understand the enthusiasm of these people born in a magical world for "gods"...The system clearly tells him that gods do not exist.

It's just that I don't know how many people will die before they wake up from this enthusiasm.