Chapter 39: 38. Black Lightning

38. Black Lightning

Li Ang washed up hastily, put on his clothes, and came outside.

Zoe and the nearby villagers also noticed the anomaly in the night sky.

The villagers looked fearful, thinking of the magnitude climbing that the Earth Snake wanted to destroy the island. They were on the ground and should have experienced a round of trepidation long ago.

Now, the distant sky was as bright red as blood, and their panic was self-evident.

Zoe ran over, grabbing Li Ang's hand.

Like the villagers, whether it was the anomaly in the sky or the scene of war, it was the first time in her life she had seen it.

In the blood-red light curtain, five magic airships about 100 meters long were arranged in an array. Their hulls were shuttle-shaped. The suspension device was different from the streamlined air bags above traditional airships. They used armored suspension wings manufactured by magic technology, placed on both sides of the rear of the ship.

Airships are products of the magic island nation of Makaina. As a new type of tool, their hulls are flatter and wider, have faster flight speeds, have strong resistance to extreme weather, can be equipped with magic ship cannons, and have the performance of colliding head-on with large flying monsters.

However, the island nation of Makaina is located in the Ignis airspace, and their ships don't need to come to the Floss airspace for war.

Satus Island is located in a remote area, and the nearby islands are not very prosperous, so it will not cause disputes at all.

Li Ang looked at those airships carefully and found that the emblems hanging on the ships did not belong to the island nation of Makaina.

Then they should be products sold by the island nation of Makaina. I heard before that they started accepting orders for new types of ships, and many forces placed orders immediately, but the top teams were all watching.

What kind of forces do they belong to? He had never seen the emblems on the ships.

The airships were not attacking each other. What they were constantly capturing and bombarding with ship cannons was a group of ice-blue light.

That group of light impacted between the ships at high speed. Every time it impacted, it would cause a piece of cold ice to condense, and its own powerful kinetic energy made every collision with the warship cause some soldiers on the deck to fly directly out of the ship and fall to the bottom of the sky.

The air battlefield was getting closer and closer to Satus Island, and Zoe's hand was also held tighter.

Li Ang looked at her. The girl found the gaze he cast, and the panic on her face turned into a smile and passed it back to him.

It seemed that as long as he was there, she wouldn't worry about anything.

But Li Ang had worries.

As the fleet approached, he also saw clearly what they were fighting.

It was a giant monster, to be precise, a giant wolf galloping in the sky.

Its body length might reach 20 or 30 meters, and it was dark blue all over. Its amber eyes dragged streamers. The hair on its neck, back, joints, and tail was long and soft, and the color at the end transitioned to ice blue, turning into light spots drifting in the air.

At the moment of seeing the giant wolf, Li Ang saw rune divine light flickering in Zoe's dark red pupils. She opened her mouth, wanting to speak but stopping.

The magic ship cannons extending from both sides of the airship hull had been capturing the giant wolf's movement trajectory, and the rapid-fire cannons on the deck were continuously spraying purple-red energy bullets under the control of soldiers.

"Woo—!"

After approaching Satus Island, the giant wolf seemed to have gone mad. After a high-pitched howl, magic power surged around it, and dozens of ice blades four or five meters long condensed. The low temperature brought snowflakes fluttering, and half of the sky entered a frosty weather, and even the island could feel the chill.

Li Ang saw at a glance that it was the power of the exalted realm that had stepped into Rank 7 or higher. No longer needing the process of spellcasting materials or aggregating matter to reshape, it directly created and shaped a large number of ice blades that were harder than steel.

The giant wolf's body rotated, and its furry long tail flicked outward. Dozens of ice blades were shot out in an arc one after another, immediately staining the ship deck with blood.

After the ice blades were shot out, they did not shatter. They gathered back to the giant wolf's side. It condensed a layer of cold ice armor on its body surface. These blades rotated in the air and combined with the armor, turning into a set of ice blade armor that brought death.

"Awoo!"

The giant wolf roared and rotated its body, hitting an airship like a tornado. At the moment of contact, the cold ice blades tore and penetrated the steel on the ship's surface. Combined with the giant wolf's violent impact, the entire hull was split into two from the middle.

After the hull was torn, the magic circuit of the airship immediately broke, the spirit core inside lost control, and the large amount of magic power brought in ignited purple-red flames. The other spirit cores in the two sections of the hull exploded simultaneously, exploding into two groups of scarlet dust in the sky.

"Oops," Li Ang sighed: "No wonder the top team didn't place orders before, the safety of this magic technology is still a bit of a problem."

The soldiers blown to death fell towards the bottom of the sky, some lost their support and flew in the air, just happened to come near the giant wolf, and were bitten to pieces by it.

This force is a bit outrageous. They have money to buy expensive magic warships, but no money to equip soldiers with paragliders.

When that airship was attacked, the remaining four ships stopped attacking and scattered. At this moment, there was already a certain distance between them.

"Escaped?" Zoe said.

Li Ang felt a strange spiritual reaction.

He raised his hand and felt a tingling sensation on his skin. With his skill of spiritual affinity, he could feel that all the spirits nearby had fallen into trembling.

What's the situation? This feeling has never been felt before.

At this moment, the four ships adjusted their direction, facing the giant wolf with the bow. The mechanism at the bow opened, and a total of four strangely shaped cannons extended from the bow.

They have the appearance of magic ship cannons, but the barrels are longer, covered with strange substances, with dark purple as the base, like asphalt or even biological tissues. They are constantly wriggling, and at the same time, yellow bubbles like pus are rising.

The four cannons fired at the same time. What was sprayed from the muzzle was not energy bullets, but four black lightnings. They spread into more beams in the air, forming an electric net for a time, blocking the giant wolf's space for evasion.

The lightning was like a living thing, tracking the giant wolf, and finally bombarded it.

The black electric light was bounced off by the sturdy ice blade armor, and the explosion caused was not enough to shatter the armor, just blowing up some ice gravel.

However, when the electric arc touched the parts of the giant wolf's body not wrapped in armor, it was like a wildfire igniting dry grass, instantly causing black flames to burn on its body.

"Woo—"

The giant wolf seemed to feel unbearable pain. The ice armor on its body surface could not be maintained and disintegrated into broken ice and flew in all directions. Some fell on Satus Island, directly causing the surrounding meadows to be shrouded in frost.

Unable to extinguish the flames on its body, the giant wolf howled and crossed the sky of Satus Island, galloping towards the horizon.

The magic power furnaces at the stern of the four ships were turned to the maximum, and purple-red flames sprayed from the stern, chasing the giant wolf swiftly.

By the time they almost became black dots on the horizon, the quiet village became noisy. The villagers couldn't understand this level of war and were in a mess.

Li Ang immediately found his bag. Besides the notebook and adventure lantern, he also had a key item for leaving the island—a ship beacon.

It is a product of the entire sky's largest shipping company, Kantan Helm. It is made of special mineral parent-child stones. The child stone falls off the parent stone, and there is a mutual traction spirituality between the two.

As long as the beacon is opened, the scheduled passenger airship carrying the mother stone compass will perceive it and then head to the location of the child stone beacon. It can be understood as a mobile "bus stop".

This kind of beacon is something that VIP passengers have. Li Ang has been adventuring in the airspace for many years, and this is also a part of the accumulation.

He injected spirituality manipulation spells to make the child stone's spirituality stronger, so that their mother stone reaction would be greater, and they would prioritize coming over. The success rate is very high.

Seeing that fleet and the giant wolf, Li Ang felt that he should leave the island as soon as possible. ===== CHAPTER 40 =====