Chapter 1125 - A Heavenly Object (1/2)

As the alarm blared, fighter aircrafts took off in a formation of four, whistling toward the destination. The pilots prepared themselves quickly for the upcoming battle.

“Eagle Eye III, this is Eagle Eye I. We’re heading to the destination. Maintain formation! Scan the radar and search for the target!”

“This is Eagle Eye II. Captain, what exactly did you say we’re going to face? Those old dudes up there sure are panicky.”

Gazing at the radar screen, the wingman asked in confusion. Even though the pilots had an emergency take-off, they weren’t aware of their mission even until now. Their higher-ups commanded them to reach the destination and stop the intruders, but as for who the intruders were, they never mentioned it. Could they be foreign hostile aircrafts? Or was this just an exercise for a secret mission? The intruders shouldn’t be aliens, right…?

The pilots wondered what the officials were up to, making the entire situation top secret. Besides, the order they received was to hold back the intruders until the evacuations were completed… This was their first time receiving such an odd command. Although they were full of doubts at the moment, obeying orders strictly was their duty as qualified militants.

“It isn’t up to us to worry about the mission. We’re approaching the targeted sea region! Everyone get ready for battle!”

“Captain, there is a response from the radar… it’s a space shuttle!”

Almost at the same time, a long trail of fire whistled across the fighter aircrafts from above. The massive and powerful airflow almost disrupted their formation.

“Damn it, what’s with that space shuttle. Is it in a hurry to kill itself?”

“Cut the crap. Beware your surroundings. There are movements ahead…! Everyone get read—”

That was the end of the pilot’s words.

At the next moment, the thick white cloud churned before their eyes abruptly. An enormous, pitch-black dragon expanded its wings, bursting out of the sea of clouds, staring at the space shuttle with its golden eyes. It widened its mouth and let out an ear-deafening snarl.

“Oh, Lord…”

Looking at this scene, everyone was speechless. Before the devastating presence of the black dragon, their fighter aircrafts were only the size of sparrows. Despite them sitting in the cockpit, they clearly felt overwhelming pressure as though boulders were crushing all over their bodies. Some even felt their arms on the operating levers begin to tremble on their own. They held their breath and gazed blankly at the monster in front of them. Their heads were completely blank and not even the doubt of “what exactly is that?” came up in their minds. They stared at the dragon in a daze and completely forgot what they had to do. The dragon was so massive that they lost their consciousness.

“Disperse immediately. Lock onto the target and fire! Delay it as much as possible!”

After a few moments, the senior pilot returned to his senses and ordered hurriedly. His voice instantly pulled his bewildered comrades back to reality and they got into action without responding. Humans had a natural sense of fear toward the unknown and danger. The dragon made them feel utter despair and fear in every aspect. In this situation, the only thing humans could do was to defend themselves! No matter the result, that was the only thing they could do!

“———!”

Shortly after, the 12 fighter aircrafts left their formation swiftly and spiraled around the dark dragon.

Facing these enemies who appeared all of a sudden, Erin disregarded them entirely. She had fought more than once with these strange-looking ‘metallic birds’ on the moon bases. Even though she was somewhat astonished with the advanced ‘alchemical techniques’ in this world, to the moon princess born in the Country of Darkness, air wars were never her weakness. Facing the attack of the ‘metallic birds’, Erin didn’t even bother to move. On the contrary, she continued to stare at the space shuttle in the distance that had almost turned into a black dot and flapped her wings to give chase. One had to admit that Dr. Martin was really lucky as Erin had almost sunk her teeth into the space shuttle earlier. But it was a pity that after entering the atmosphere, she neglected something: gravity existed on Earth.

Erin, who was already used to flying in space and above the moon’s surface, didn’t consider the effects of gravity and almost plunged into the sea head-on. Fortunately, her reflexes were quick in adapting to the conditions on Earth. But it was due to this slight delay that allowed the space shuttle to draw a distance apart.

“Oh-no-no, seems like I need to be quicker.”

Although Erin didn’t know where the space shuttle was heading, she was sure that it was about to reach its destination. It was apparent from the resistance she received from these pawns of Chaos (referring to the fighter aircrafts) that were trying to stop her. But even so, she had to hurry up. At this thought, she hesitated no more and fluttered her wings. With this motion, the enormous black dragon picked up speed all of a sudden and shook off the fighter aircrafts in the blink of an eye.

Looking at this scene, the pilots were stumped. They thought such a massive creature was only capable of moving slowly, but didn’t expect it to flit across them in a black dazzling flash and fly into the horizon!

Damn it, this isn’t logical at all. How is it able to move that quickly?

“Chase it! Go all-out! Report to the base command immediately!”

Erin wasn’t mindful as to what commotion she would cause. Right now, only the space shuttle was in her eyes. She witnessed the battle between Rhode’s group and Chaos, so she was well aware that she had to snatch away the black slate while the enemies were onboard the ‘small metallic device’ and couldn’t summon too much Chaos. If not, she didn’t know what would happen. Not only that, but Lydia and Rhode were also waiting for her return. As a gentlewoman, she couldn’t let others wait for her too long, wasn’t it?

At this thought, Erin’s eyes glinted wittily. She widened her mouth and in this action, a massive magical ritual appeared in the sky. Air trembled and violent gales blustered to form a barrier ahead, stopping the space shuttle like a massive, flat wave. The wind barrier pushed toward the space shuttle. The space shuttle that was like an arrow released from the bowstring finally losing speed. In the face of the powerful gales, its speed declined gradually. Even though the blaze spurting from its tail grew larger and brighter, its body was getting more overwhelmed like a boat swept by strong waves in a storm.

“No, it can’t be. The space shuttle is losing control, doctor!”

“Damn it!”

While the loud sirens trumpeted, Dr. Martin clasped the black leather box in his arms grimly. He thought he would be able to stop the intruders after awakening the sleeping spirits. For that, he had even given up the Americas Region’s headquarters. But he didn’t expect them to split into two and come after him. This damn dragon-like monster was apparently hard to deal with and incredibly smart. He thought he could pin his hopes on the headquarters in resisting it, but it seemed like it didn’t work at all!

What should I do?

Right now, he didn’t have any more strength to summon more spirits. But if this continued…