LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 412: Chapter 380: The Unsinkable Ship!

It’s all over…

After colliding with the War Steed, Lapaton was flung onto the deck from his position at the bow. When the crew helped him up and he regained consciousness to look around, he knew it was truly over…

Within his line of sight, flames shot up into the sky, and waves of heat kept rolling in—waves of heat coming from one exploding warship after another.

Among these exploding warships were those commanded by Lapaton, as were Rocky’s. In short, the entire expanse of space had become chaotically engulfed in these explosions.

Seeing this, Lapaton knew the breakout had failed, and he truly couldn’t escape this time.

In fact, from the moment he noticed the enemy had positioned all their warships across the sky, determined to block his escape at all costs, he had anticipated this outcome because once a collision of such magnitude occurred, it would result in mutual destruction—no one would fare well.

…

Lapaton was well aware that although his fleet had a greater number of warships, which appeared as though the enemy couldn’t possibly stop them all, the reality wasn’t as it seemed. Just like now, when the warships collided and exploded, especially with large-scale chain explosions, all surrounding warships would be affected. Even if they weren’t directly hit, charging through this chaotic region would be extremely difficult.

If given more time, Lapaton believed his fleet might have a chance to break through this area of space, but they didn’t have that time anymore.

Now, Karina’s Void Magic Squad had already caught up, fiercely targeting the warships that hadn’t collided. Even more crucially, after such a long duration, Berg had tightened the encirclement, with a large number of warships gradually closing in. Therefore, Lapaton and his men simply couldn’t run anymore.

If they couldn’t run…

…they would take someone down with them!

Supported by his crew, the fifty-something-year-old Lapaton’s gaze was resolutely fixed on the War Steed!

“Fire… fire…!”

Glancing at the War Steed, now close at hand, Lapaton issued his final order—fire!

Up till now, Lapaton didn’t know who the commander of the War Steed was, but he firmly believed that the commander who dared to risk his life to block him was no minor character, perhaps even the architect of it all. So, knowing there was no retreat, he chose to go down with his adversary, determined to take the enemy commander with him even in death.

It must be said that Lapaton was indeed an outstanding soldier. His judgments were impeccable, his will as solid as rock, and his authority equally awe-inspiring. It’s worth noting that his flagship was already sinking, and after such a severe collision, it was reaching its limit to keep afloat.

Even so, when he ordered to open fire, the remaining few crew members still carried out his command, aiming the warship’s cannons at the War Steed!

At this point, they were at zero distance from the War Steed, which meant that aiming was unnecessary—firing would ensure a hundred percent hit rate. So, in an instant, the gunners fired the Magic Energy Cannons!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

One cannon blast followed another, each accompanied by a burst of fire on the hull of the War Steed, some shells struck the armor, and others pierced right through the ship.

However, facing the enemy’s final attack, the resilience of the battleship became evident; despite suffering such a severe collision, the War Steed still displayed unbelievable toughness! Even as the hull was punctured with hole after hole from the enemy’s final barrage, the War Steed did not sink.

“Gunner… Gunner! Wil! Wil!”

Staggering to his feet from the deck, Rocky felt everything spinning before his eyes, but before he could recover, the roaring sound of cannon fire and violent shaking beneath his feet came.

The successive cannon blasts were deafening, and still dizzy from the impact, all he could feel was his head buzzing as if it were about to explode at any moment, but Rocky couldn’t afford to worry about that; he couldn’t even figure out his orientation before he started shouting.

“Sir! I’m right here!”

Following the sound of the voice, Rocky saw Uncle Wil staggering toward him, obviously also severely wounded in the recent collision.

“Return fire! Return fire quickly!”

While gesturing to Wil not to come closer, Rocky shouted out loud with all his might.

“Understood!”

With that response, Uncle Wil rushed to the cannon emplacement and commanded the gunners to counterattack with the greatest speed!

Since the ship was facing the enemy, even though some of the artillery on board of the warship had been destroyed by the impact, there were still numerous Magic Energy Cannons on the War Steed that turned their muzzles towards the enemy, and moments later, bursts of fire shot out.

In this way, the two warships began an artillery duel at point-blank range, where there was no longer any talk of hit rates, for they were so close to each other that the flagship’s bow was now pressing against the side of the War Steed, and thus every shell from both sides hit its mark without fail.

In such a close-quarters artillery duel, the advantages of the battleship’s thicker armor and the greater number of Magic Energy Cannons became the key.

Against the enemy’s bombardment, the War Steed’s defensive power was clearly superior, and although the ship had also suffered serious damage from the collision, it retained more artillery, which meant that after only a few minutes of firing at each other, the War Steed’s advantage was already established.

Just a few minutes had passed when the flagship commanded by Lapaton was nearly torn apart, and the already unstable warship could no longer maintain its hover and began to slowly descend, whereas the War Steed – although half its hull was riddled with holes – still floated in mid-air, giving the impression of an unsinkable ship, invulnerable to any sort of attack!

It didn’t take even a dozen minutes more for Lapaton and his flagship to plummet from the sky, soon crashing violently into the forest on the ground below, the resulting explosion swiftly engulfing a large swath of forest.

Fleet Commander Lapaton of Chenxiu City, killed in action!

And with the sinking of Lapaton and his flagship, the rest of the warships led by Berg finally arrived, but by the time they got there, the battle was nearly over, with Karina, having joined the fray earlier, leading the Void Magic Squad to sink all the remaining ships one by one.

With that, this carefully planned ambush battle was finally over.

In this battle, the reinforcement forces sent from Chenxiu City totaled fifty-three warships, including one flagship-class patrol cruiser, thirty-three destroyers, and twenty escort ships, all of which were destroyed after this fight, not a single person from the entire fleet, Commander Lapaton included, survived…

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