Chapter 1688: Chapter 1688

1688: Chapter 1684: Air Raid 1688: Chapter 1684: Air Raid The icy ocean has claimed far too many lives.

Even among the numerous planned scenarios, the scale of this initial battle, turning into a decisive battle, has exceeded expectations…

Such a low probability event was not extrapolated further, only inertially addressed.

Now, the staff headquarters is likely working overtime, yet unable to predict what will happen next.

“…Who could have expected those things from the West to burst forth at this time.”

The floating aircraft carrier fleet in the sky maintains distance while attacking with smaller aircraft from above.

Many an unlucky soul is turned into a spark in the sky, but some attacks prove effective…

As long as they succeed in their dive, the enhanced incendiary bombs and powerful machine guns bring a whirlwind of death.

Today, Australia has become an “city” for the invaders.

Being the largest island they have occupied in this world, it has naturally become their “capital,” with numerous Fishman Tribes spread throughout Australia Island.

However, considering the Fishmen’s living habits, ninety percent still dwell by the sea…

They need copious amounts of water to maintain their skin’s moisture, one of their survival conditions.

And since their main camps are by the sea, they naturally become the initial key targets of the joint Western fleet’s assault.

In the face of such “swarm” tactics, as everyone expected, the Fishmen’s Advanced Combat Powers attempted to ascend.

The sky filled with countless bright spots, each one a formidable Fishman General or lord wielding javelins or Elemental Power, each attack delivering substantial results.

But soon, the defenders realized this was a rather foolish act.

Among the professionals and Extraordinary beings, only a few can fly, and underwater beings like the Fishmen are even fewer.

The Void Ray makes for a fine space transporter, bomber, but dogfights are certainly not their forte.

The Giant Soldier Race, strong in ground defense systems, are virtually useless against aerial foes.

Naturally, only scattered High-level Transcendents took it upon themselves to ascend, and then….

They were directly picked off by the Aircraft Carriers’ sniping artillery.

Though “using a sledgehammer to crack a nut” might sound disparaging, taking out a High-level Transcendent with every shot is indeed no loss at all.

Quickly, those airborne adversaries, those Fishmen with Advanced Combat Power, realized that taking flight was an extremely foolish deed.

“Damn it, they’re too fast…..”

“There are too many of them, it’s unbearable.” Someone clearly couldn’t hold out against the overwhelming numbers.

The ability to fly among the Transcendents is always a minority, after all, it’s not a necessary skill, and most Fishmen are naturally aquatic creatures.

Their physiological structure is not suited for the sky, even with some degree of gliding or flying ability, they’re unlikely to have trained specifically for aerial combat.

Being able to fly is one thing, but being good at it and engaging in aerial combat are entirely different concepts.

Thus, facing those professional flying killing machines, they naturally find themselves facing annihilation.

Another unfortunate soul has been treated to a fall and closes its eyes, no longer moving, seemingly playing dead to crash to the ground.

It notices that even with the lord’s orders, there are too few on its side who can take to the sky, and continued struggle spells too much risk.

Every move made, its javelin and net yield some harvest…

But at the same time, hundreds of firearms and incendiary bombs are also aimed at it.

“To trade my life for this obviously mass-produced steel trash…

Even a Decree-level Life form, facing such round-the-clock pursuit, finds it too uneconomical.

So, it attempts to feign a crash, heading straight for the ground.

Another cannon shot turned it into minced flesh.

While the mother ship happily reaped lives, the surrounding escort gunboats also never stopped.

Unlike the aerial combat type humans used to fight against, this time the main modified cannons were ground-oriented, primarily long-range and precision-targeting, coupled with their most advanced radar fire control systems, their threat level was quite alarming, especially against individual targets.

“….Probably, they’ve also realized that close combat with these extraordinary life forms is too disadvantageous.”

The Western fleet standing in the Cloud Realm still maintained a safe distance and did not attempt to get closer to the islands and land.

Indeed, if the top combat powers got close, they might even dismantle machinery bare-handed.

Now, by maintaining a safe distance and using their range and tactical advantages for attrition, perhaps they have gleaned these tactical tips after suffering countless setbacks.

And on Dragon Moon Island’s side, they weren’t just watching the show either.

Calculating the distance, about twenty or so nautical miles away, already within the range of drones.

The next moment, a large number of drones took to the sky, forming a swarm like dark clouds, flying towards the front.

At this moment, the two great nations actually reached a consensus in some respects; facing the nearly infinite number of underwater legions of the Octopus Tribe, they both chose a large number of aerial units.

“Is it a wise choice…

forget it, at this point, we’ll know once we fight.”

The massive swarm of drones, under the control of controllers, began to join the battlefield.

Unlike the Western legion, which mainly relied on manned operations, the East went to a more extreme route; although the individual drones were clearly weaker, they were also significantly more numerous.

As a member of the decision-making layer, Lu Ping’an had a very deep understanding of this technology.

In reality, the controller only manages one drone; the other thirty to fifty support drones are just copying and supporting the actions of the main drone.

This is true drone swarm technology, embodying AI technology far beyond the times, which includes a great deal of “mechanical soul” technology.

This is a safety hazard, but from another perspective, these “support drones” also have a form of soul…

A sudden thunderstorm surged back and forth among the drone swarm, directly destroying hundreds of drones, but most of them still kept moving forward.

The agility of these drones was like that of real life forms; more importantly, they still had a strong resistance against extraordinary attacks.

Whether they have “souls” became quite clear at this moment.

The sudden roar of the cannons and the earthquake almost jolted Lu Ping’an to his feet.

The super cannons on Dragon Moon Island also began to slowly elevate, each magic bullet, filled with anger and vengeance, was launched at extreme range, delivering indiscriminate attacks.

And Dragon Moon Island’s “Dragon Head” spat out a pale beam of light that directly tore through the night sky.

At the same time, Dragon Moon Island was also under attack by Fishman Infiltrators.

Indeed, they had no way to deal with the fleet in the sky, but they had the potential to intercept and slaughter vessels from the Foreign Domain.

A large number of Infiltrators had somehow already climbed onto the island, and the war had fully erupted.