Chapter 348 - Secret Tactics (1/2)

Lewis Vermont, an Adept Mage from the Vermont Clan, is the leader of the Fourth Mech Knights Division.

After his and Skywalker Clan failed to put their spaceship out of their planet, they no longer bothered attempting to create another one especially after Wallace conquered the Moon.

Their final goal is just an orbital spaceflight but the young man exceeded that and even created a Moon Base… No one would've ever thought of that during that time.

The Mage Tower helping them also stopped supporting their clans as their best Sages and Arcanists disappeared together with the spaceship.

In the end, he heard that some of the best Technicians and Arcanists even went to the Traceless Hand's Company and applied for a job.

Of course, he didn't blame them for that and even participated in his third batch of recruitment…

He was able to pass the examinations and was appreciated enough that he managed to become a Mech Pilot and was promoted to a leader after only a couple of weeks…

He knows that his job would not be easy once the enemy arrived and expected that it would endanger his life…

However, he accepted the task since there wouldn't be anyone who will fight for their planet aside from them who are living there…

”Everyone… Wallace has sent his signal. We will be moving once their spacesh.i.p.s dropped…”

It is unfortunate that the Arians together with the Omen IV were obliterated by the Empire's vicious tactic. Everyone felt a little frightened about this but none of them talked about it. After all, it might just trigger some people who are also feeling the same thing.

It is best to keep quiet in this situation and focus on their mission. Especially after they learned that their fellow Mech Pilots at the back were in trouble…

'Just how long are we waiting here… Do something about those Invaders already…' Lewis grumbled for a bit as he had an impulse to disrupt the flagship and throw off the other Mech Frames targeting their fellow magicians…

Right now, their Mech Knights were still covered by camouflage they made and appear like a small asteroid, they have to act in unison with the two remaining spacesh.i.p.s in order to execute their plan flawlessly.

As their patience slowly runs out, Avalon finally gave its signal…

[ Initiate Aether Execution Plan. ]

As soon as they heard this, no more words were said as they started to enact the operation…

Their camouflage was destroyed and the 30 Mech Knights appeared in front of the huge fleet.

Whoosh~

It shot a projectile instead of a beam or lasers that one would expect… The shot was even so silent as if the cannon is just a magic accelerator.

Their turrets tried to intercept their projectile but it was too late…

Boom!

However, the projectile was still blocked by the Imperial Flagship's barrier… It exploded on its shield and dissipated like it was nothing.

The Mech Pilots celebrated a bit after seeing this…

The first reason is that it wasn't intercepted by the enemy's CIWS at all… This means that the projectiles that would come from this cannon would hardly be intercepted again.

It is a good start and their plans haven't ended yet.

The other reason for their celebration was also because of their successful diversion…

After all, they will be quite troublesome if they didn't deal with them early on.

[ Heat Signature Detected… ]

[ Incoming projectiles… Evade ]

Their small group is now being targeted by the gigantic spacesh.i.p.s and were fired upon… However, they didn't felt scared and continued… The cannon started firing again and as usual, it was blocked by the enemy's barrier.

But this is all part of the plan…

”Detonate!”

Whoosszshh!

As soon as Lewis gave his command, their Mech Knights burst with Mana and used activated their Artifacts.

Extremely cold energy started to gather around the fleet as the ice started appearing as it slowly covered the entire fleet until they were all frozen…

Ice Magic is a very common spell that all Series would have except for the few specialized Artifacts…

However, the black ice they've used can be said to be a Magic that already approaches Grade 5… After all, this is a combination spell of Petrification and Ice Magic.