Chapter 15: Ismena, Goddess of War

  Under Musa-Mein's expectant gaze, Malong's right hand slowly reached out to the inferior crystal ball that cast an inward projection image.

  Inside the crystal ball, it is still following the course of the Battle of Coryza, depicting the cruel war of queue shooting.

  Although slow, Ma Long's fingers finally came into contact with the icy surface of the inferior crystal ball.

  Just as Ma Long's fingertips had just come into contact with the icy surface of the inferior crystal ball, he astonishingly felt his soul tremble uncontrollably for a moment!

  The soul's irrepressible tremble caused Ma Long's vision to blur for a very short time - when his line of sight recovered, Ma Long was thoroughly and completely shocked!

  Because Ma Long suddenly realized that the place he was in was no longer Musa-Mein's dilapidated hut, but on...the bridge deck of a giant airship flying at full speed!

  This airship is really huge, and the area of its flight deck alone is at least equivalent to four football fields!

  Right next to Malong, there was a pitch-black iron cannon platform that was even taller than him. Five or six robust soldiers wearing thick black Erfa Empire winter uniforms were shouting slogans and working together to load a golden-yellow shell, about the size of a small bucket, into the huge black cannon in front of them, which resembled an earth-shattering grenade launcher but had a maximum diameter of at least one meter at its tail end.

  Then, the tail of this black cannon was locked, and a soldier who seemed to be the gunner inserted a small crystal that shone with cyan light, which made Malong feel that there was a huge energy stored inside, into a hole on the right side of the locking mechanism.

  There was another soldier with three chevrons on his shoulder, pointing to a hovering airship painted with the emblem of the Loraine Republic's Sky Guard, shouting out commands that Marlon couldn't understand but could guess were for inputting firing parameters into the cannons.

  Under the command of this soldier, the hand-cranked control wheels on the fully loaded cannons were vigorously turned by other soldiers.

  The ear-piercing sound of the interlocking gears, clearly audible to Malong's ears, also successfully drove the already loaded cannon to adjust its elevation and azimuth, slowly changing the direction it was facing to directly target the Republic of Loring's airship.

  It seems that the floating airship of the Loraine Republic's Sky Guard had also detected this huge threat, at least Marlon saw the black muzzle of the cannon on the airship through his exceptionally good visual ability, and several of them had already started to turn around.

  Unfortunately, the War King beside Ma Long was the first to sound off before the War King of the Luoling Floating Airship.

  BOOM!!!!!

  In the deafening roar, the golden shell shot out of the barrel and hit the Lothlorien airship in the blink of an eye.

  Heaven knows how much energy was injected into this shell, it easily tore through the steel outer armor of the Loring Float Airship and poured into its interior!

  Then the Loring hovercraft suddenly inflated like a balloon being blown up from the inside, lost control and crashed to the ground...

  The violently inflated Lorring hovercraft suddenly burst and disintegrated into several large pieces in mid-air. A high-speed rotating cyan whirlwind wrapped around the largest piece of debris, hurtling it diagonally towards the ground.

  "Hurrah! Ah hooray---!"

  The Halle artillerymen who had scored a direct hit cheered loudly and slapped each other on the back.

  But just at this moment, the huge Helva Empire airship suddenly experienced a violent shaking like an earthquake!

  The artillerymen of Hallepha, who were just celebrating, suddenly had two unprepared guys, cheers turned into screams and were thrown out, then made a desperate cry towards the ground.

  Ma Long was almost thrown off the deck of the airship by this sudden and intense shaking.

  But fortunately, just as Malong was about to be flung off the airship's deck, a not-too-large but powerful hand grasped his arm...

  "Get down!"

  Musa-Mein's voice came from behind Malon and entered his ears, and almost at the same time he was already dragged by Malon from behind and fell on the icy steel deck of the floating airship.

  As Malong lifted his head from the ground, he saw that another warship had already caught fire and was still persisting in crazily tilting its cannons to fire at the "19th Nation Alliance of Serpa" war airship. A string of fiery red metal cannonballs shot over - undoubtedly, it was an ally of the Lorin Republic's airship.

  This burst of shells successfully destroyed the newly erected Hallef artillery, and the flying shrapnel hit the remaining few Hallef gunners. In just one breath, all that was left of the gunners were dismembered corpses, with white brains mixed with colorful intestines scattered all over the surrounding area.

  The smell of blood, mixed with the stench of burning and heat waves, filled Marlon's nostrils, causing his heart to beat violently.

  The shockwave from the shell explosion and the deafening blast also made Ma Long's head a bit dizzy.

  Fear...

  Facing death at close range has instilled a deep fear in Malong's heart.

  "Where is this?"

  Ma Long subconsciously asked, although he came from the earth world and had watched many war movies and horror movies, but sitting in a movie theater watching a movie and being on the verge of being killed by shrapnel was absolutely two completely different concepts.

  Ma Long is, after all, an ordinary person who can cry and laugh and be afraid, not a Terminator T-800 robot killer who wouldn't even flinch if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him.

  "Isu Meinas, the Valkyrie of the Black Helios' Southern Skyfleet, flagship and pride of the Helios Empire in the skies. But a few hours later, it would be destroyed and crash-landed under the relentless wolfpack tactics of the Loraine National Defense Skyfleet's 3rd and 4th Fleets, as well as the Serpa 19 Alliance's 1st Expeditionary Skyfleet, at no cost to themselves. This unexpected turn of events also crushed Duke Griffith-Stein, commander of the Helios Imperial Guard Heavy Armored Division, the 7th and 9th Armored Divisions of the Helios National Defense Army, who was directing operations on the ground. All this... would have a profound impact on the final outcome of the Coria Saha Conference War."

  Musa-Mein's voice once again continuously entered Marlon's mind, answering the question raised by Marlon in his daze.

  Ma Long finally realized that he had actually descended into... the inferior crystal ball held by Musa-Mein, the scene of the Coria Saha Great War!

  "Now, do you understand? What is the huge business opportunity hidden in this invention of mine."

  Musa-Mein's voice once again entered Marlon's ears.