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 thumping sound on the flat and hard stone 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 falling 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 support 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 to rain down on her out of sight.

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

The broken Crusader flag fell and burned in the fire.

The war has begun to move in a direction she has never been exposed to.

"Distance?" Yves asked.

"From the simulation distance of the ballistics, 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 reverse the source and distance of the bombardment, and then get the specific coordinates of the opponent's firepower 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 firepower point.

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

Reconnaissance, suppression, and morale strikes.

Humans officially touched the sky when they made gliders out 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 in modern times were completed in the classical era.

This convenience is a gift, but also a poison.

"If everyone takes off... No, it's not possible." 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 could not remove the shield and equip air combat equipment to take off, which was equivalent to directly abandoning the 300 priests in the banquet hall.

But if the worst happens, the air combat equipment placed in the banquet hall can still save some priests, most of whom are priests who have traveled with her to several worlds.

It is not comparable to the consumables of the crusaders outside.

"Forget it..." Yves sighed.

As long as they survive tonight and the portal opens, the main force of the Church will arrive in this world.

The mission of the vanguard army also 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, but 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 switched to armor-piercing shells. Leaving now is our best choice."

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

They wanted to use heavy firepower to smash the protective shield supported by the Church and smash their tortoise shells.

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

Fortunately, they switched 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.

The lethality of armor-piercing shells to soft targets is far less than that of 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 everything."

Zhou Quan didn't want to either.

But he had already joined the camp of the Holy See, so he naturally had to do everything he could to preserve the other side's manpower. If he ran away now, he would have a criminal record in both camps.

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

If he had known that there were such monsters entrenched on the Sky Island, he would have run to the eastern defense line with all his wealth, where his own people could at least leave him a piece of safe and barren land for him to develop.

Zhou Quan looked at the determined light in Theresa and other hound sisters' eyes, sighed in his heart, and hoped that they would die less in the subsequent battles.

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

The war machine built with hatred for aliens and belief in gods will not stop as long as the war does not stop.

He was born in a world without gods, and he had no way to understand the enthusiasm of these people born in a magical world for "gods"...The system clearly told him that there is no god.

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