Chapter 237: The Mighty chanical Squids
Faced with the surprise attack of the chanical squids, the destroyer had no ability to retaliate.
The mont the chanical squid’s tendrils wrapped around the hull, it released a high-voltage current.
These high-voltage currents surged across the hull like a madly darting web of electricity, instantly engulfing the entire destroyer in a flickering inferno of lightning.
The current surged through the riveted seams and piping systems of the ship, bursting electronic screens in the bridge one after another.
The Ghouls reacted swiftly, steering the fleet to accelerate and scatter.
However, two ships were still entangled by the chanical squids during this process.
They had no ti to rescue their comrades and imdiately unleashed a torrent of firepower, destroying both the ships and the chanical squids entangled with them.
At the sa ti, the Ghouls deployed a large number of deep-sea bombs into the surrounding waters.
As the chanical squids were destroyed, the pilots were forced to activate ergency escape devices to flee from their ruined hulls.
Waiting to receive them were the Swordfish Mini Submarines lurking deep under the sea.
The Tomorrow fleet also encountered a sudden assault.
A Level 1 Subrsible-type City of the Ghouls had bypassed the blockade line and approached the fleet to open fire.
Under its sudden strike, a Zhenlang-class Destroyer was blown apart and destroyed.
“I knew you’d target my fleet,” Li Ye said coldly.
He had already made preparations.
Just as the Subrsible-type City was preparing to retreat, several figures appeared.
They were none other than three chanical squids.
Their anti-radar detection capability rendered them virtually invisible to enemy fleets and cities, turning them into phantoms in naval warfare.
One hundred ters, seventy ters, forty ters...
As the distance rapidly closed, the chanical squids suddenly accelerated. A dozen tendrils, like massive pythons, simultaneously coiled around the steel body of the Subrsible-type City.
The chanical squid on the far left firmly entangled the city's propellers and thrusters. From its inner high-voltage discharge nodes erupted blinding arcs of bluish-purple electricity. Under the electric assault, the submarine's propellers emitted a grating tallic screech.
The squid on the right wrapped around the city’s torpedo tubes, rendering it completely incapable of counterattack.
The final one activated its beak-like maw, and a drill pierced the city’s outer hull. A spray of high-pressure acidic liquid quickly corroded the shell, riddling it with holes visible to the naked eye.
As seawater flooded in, the tendrils of the three chanical squids simultaneously tightened, crushing the mobile city in the middle like a soda can.
With a thunderous explosion, the Subrsible-type City was torn in half, slowly sinking into the abyss amidst flashing electric light and clouds of bubbles.
The chanical squids released their tendrils. The thrusters on their backs silently activated, and in the blink of an eye, they vanished without a trace.
“That was it? Solved that easily?” Li Ye said in astonishnt.
Rather than their powerful anti-ship combat ability, the chanical squids’ greatest strength lay in their anti-radar stealth.
This ant that enemy ships, submarines, and mobile cities would struggle to detect them—
Unless they possessed high-grade detection items.
“Looks like these chanical squids can definitely be upgraded through upgrade blueprints,” he thought.
At this very mont, mobile cities on both sides were locked in fierce combat.
With support from the Starshine, the Iron Whale successfully caught an Assault-type Mobile City.
With a low hum from Fang Yong, the Iron Whale comnced its familiar "scrap-and-return" routine.
The Titan’s Grip magnetic system on the deck roared to life, greedily absorbing all kinds of heavy machine guns, cannons, and firearms held by enemy combatants.
At the city’s forefront, the Giant Jaw Crushing and Cutting Apparatus activated, and the precision steel teeth and Hydraulic Smashing-Hamr Array began spinning at high speed.
The Level 1 city was torn apart like a child’s roughly dismantled toy, reduced to countless burning fragnts by the relentless cutting.
The wailing of steel echoed across the sea.
During this, the enemy’s rear-positioned Fire-support Mobile City launched a round of intense salvo fire.
But the Iron Whale blocked it with its Energy Shield.
Failing to land a hit, the Fire-support Mobile City tried to reposition for another shell reload and volley.
Yet a strange sight erged—it couldn’t move at all.
The cara panned to the city’s rear thrusters and propellers.
There, clinging tightly, was a chanical squid. Its tendrils had latched onto the propulsion system and were now releasing high-voltage electricity and acid.
Upon learning that the enemy city had lost mobility, Yang Zheng imdiately ordered a precision bombardnt with the Electromagnetic Railgun.
The projectile launched at supersonic speed, tearing through the air and hitting the Fire-support Mobile City head-on in an instant.
Upon impact, its kinetic energy transford into a devastating force. The city’s armor shattered like fragile glass, and the projectile continued through multiple internal layers, wreaking havoc within.
As the Peacemaker struck its target, the Starshine also destroyed a second Assault-type City.
Now, only a Level 1 Defensive Mobile City and a Level 3 Assault-type Mobile City, along with the enemy’s air units and part of their fleet, remained.
Under Li Ye’s command, the Tomorrow fleet began large-scale missile bombardnt of enemy aircraft, while the naval units encircled the remaining mobile cities and fleet.
“What about that Level 3 Assault-type City? Should we try to find it, Lord?” Yang Zheng asked.
Li Ye gently shook his head.
The main strength of the Level 3 Assault-type City was in its land-sea-air combat units. Its own combat ability was relatively weak. Now that its combat forces were nearly wiped out, that city was essentially a hollow shell.
“It won’t show itself. It’s probably already fled,” he replied. “We don’t need to bother with it. Let’s focus on eliminating the remaining enemies, then support Bishop Heath.”
“Understood!”
The Starshine then engaged the Defensive Mobile City.
Using the Frost Cannon, it froze the surrounding sea, and followed up with a Hunter Cannon shot that crippled its mobility.
Imdiately afterward, a volley of Molten Cannons rained down.
Amid rolling explosions, the Defensive Mobile City sank beneath the waves.
On the deck, Lin Wu gave a slight nod and picked up his walkie-talkie.
“Reporting: All enemy Level 1 Mobile Cities have been destroyed.”
With support from the Tomorrow fleet, the Ghoul air units suffered heavy losses—only a few aircraft managed to escape.
The Tomorrow Alliance had seized air superiority.
anwhile, the Iron Whale accelerated and ramd into a Ghoul destroyer.
The Giant Jaw Crushing and Cutting Apparatus activated again, gnawing at the ship.
The destroyer’s armor began to fracture and crumble. Its command tower was shredded into tallic scraps like paper. The hydraulic hamrs struck the hull in perfect unison, breaking it apart with trendous force.
As the Iron Whale suddenly shifted sideways, its precision steel teeth carved a fifty-ter gash along the ship’s longitudinal axis, tearing it apart completely.
The air units dove down to indiscriminately bomb the remaining ships.
As the last enemy vessel tried to escape, the Deep Sea Hunter submarine below launched a torpedo and sank it.
The battle was over—the Tomorrow Alliance had secured a resounding victory.
Excitent erupted among the crew.
The wreckage of the destroyed ships, mobile cities, and falling aircraft—these were all valuable tals. Recycled, they could be forged into steel at the Steel Mill.
As for the Ghouls aboard the vehicles and mobile cities, they were Level 3 monsters, nurous in count, promising a generous haul of dropped resources.
Li Ye gently shook his head.
“No need to collect just yet. The war takes priority. Let’s head over and support Bishop Heath imdiately.”
On Heath’s front, the situation was similarly favorable. The forces of the Blood Clan Civilization had been utterly routed.
But they had encountered a new and serious problem.
The duel between Mobile Warriors had concluded.
Only the AM-W2 unit of the Human Forces remained in the sky.
The Monster Forces’ Unit Two had survived in the ocean.
Now, Unit Two was rapidly approaching Heath’s forces.
“Have the fleet intercept it imdiately!”
At Heath’s command, the fleet began deploying nurous deep-sea bombs and launching torpedoes.
However, Unit Two evaded them all using Mobile Evasion and a Gas Curtain Barrier Launcher.
On the Radar Screen, everyone watched it draw closer and closer.
The Monster Forces’ Mobile Warrior had begun its assault on the Human Forces’ fleet.
As the Mobile Warrior activated its Supercavitation Torpedo Launcher, torpedoes detached from the bomb bay, trailing spiral cavitation clouds from their tails. The supercavitation effect tore a vacuum tunnel behind them.
One Cruiser was hit directly. The supercavitation shockwave tore through the hull, the Keel shattered like broken glass. The entire warship broke in half amidst a deafening explosion, and its flaming wreckage was swallowed by the towering waves.
The sea erupted with a thunderous roar, and the Mobile Warrior burst forth, its crimson eyes locking onto its target.
The fleet retaliated wildly—CIWS and anti-ship missiles poured down like rain. But the Mobile Warrior activated its Gas Curtain Barrier Launcher, forming a turbulent shield ahead of it.
The mont projectiles struck the shield, their trajectories twisted and they self-destructed in the turbulence.
The Mobile Warrior charged into the center of the fleet, and its arm-mounted armor ejected a High-frequency Vibrating Blade, which oscillated at tens of thousands of tis per second. Seawater evaporated into high-pressure steam the mont it made contact.
A nearby Destroyer attempted to flee, but with a single sidestep, the Mobile Warrior swept its blade across, slicing the bow cleanly.
Molten tal dripped from the cut, seawater poured in uncontrollably, and the ship sank in hopeless torrents, its crew struggling in the vortex.
Next, the Mobile Warrior raised its Plasma Pulse Rifle and fired at a nearby ship.
The plasma beam pierced through the ship’s armor, the extre heat vaporizing steel instantly. The internal munitions depot detonated, tearing the warship apart in a massive explosion. Fireballs shot into the sky, and shockwaves sent waves dozens of ters high rippling outward.
In less than a minute, three ships were completely destroyed.
The remaining ships tried to flee, but the Mobile Warrior activated its Vortex Generator.
A terrifying whirlpool, hundreds of ters wide, ford instantly in the surrounding sea. The distorted gravitational field disrupted the ships' movents severely.
Seeing this, Heath slowly shook his head.
“So this is the power of a Mobile Warrior...” he murmured.
He had only heard about it before. Now he had seen it with his own eyes.
Under everyone’s watchful gaze, Heath slowly gave the order.
“Fire. Let’s bury it.”
The Mobile Cities imdiately opened fire on the Mobile Warrior.
It dove underwater to evade.
But escape was impossible.
Because this ti, Heath had used all his Level 4 Shells – Rose of the Earth’s Core in one go.
These shells streaked forward and plunged into the sea.
No fire, no explosion—only a silent bloom of death underwater.
The shell casings unfolded like deep-sea flowers, unleashing over ten thousand shards and steel needles at extre velocity, each with enough kinetic energy to pierce armor plating.
They carved a dense trail of cavitation bubbles underwater, like a silver rain rising in reverse.
The Mobile Warrior was engulfed.
The first wave of fragnts shredded its Supercavitation Torpedo Launcher, water flooding its munitions bay, triggering a sympathetic detonation. Its left arm was torn off by the high-pressure currents.
The second wave pierced its chest armor. The bulletproof observation window of the cockpit shattered, and icy seawater rushed in instantly. The pilot’s blood misted under the intense pressure.
The third wave destroyed its Vortex Generator in the legs. Hydraulic fluid mixed with seawater, blooming into an eerie iridescence in the deep blue.
The Mobile Warrior was completely destroyed.
When the blip disappeared from the Radar Screen, the command room erupted into cheers.
But soon, their excitent dimd.
Not only had the Mobile Warrior been destroyed—several nearby ships had been caught in the blast.
Thanks to Heath’s brilliant command, the fleet had erged from the battle with minimal damage. But in dealing with the Mobile Warrior, they had suffered near-total casualties.
Heath’s gaze grew solemn.
Even knowing ships would be caught in the blast, he had to fire the Rose of the Earth’s Core shells.
It had been the only chance to destroy the Mobile Warrior.
If the enemy had sensed danger and distanced itself, the shells would have done little damage.
The Mobile Warrior would’ve remained in the waters near his forces, lurking, sinking ship after ship, city after city.
As commander, he had to be decisive—
Even if it ant disregarding the consequences.
Upon learning that the Tomorrow Alliance had also finished their battle, he gave a small nod.
“Now, we unite to attack the Level 3 Mobile Island.”
The forces from both sides rged and advanced with great montum.
Even without mobility, destroying this Level 3 Mobile Island was no easy feat.
The Monster Forces had designed it as a seaborne Mobile Fortress of War.
Its armants included:
12 triple-mounted Level 3 Main Cannons.
48 Hive-style Level 3 Rapid-fire Cannon Arrays.
Level 3 Modular Vertical Launch Missile Units.
Level 3 Torpedo Launch Arrays.
Upon spotting the human forces approaching from afar, the Mobile Island opened fire.
The 12 triple-mounted main cannon turrets slowly turned, the dozens-of-ters-long barrels lifting into firing position via a hydraulic system, and then roared to life.
All around the island, the 48 Hive-style Rapid-fire Cannon Arrays began to howl, creating a fifteen-kiloter-wide death barrage with staggering firing speed, destroying incoming missile salvos and forcing back squadrons of warplanes.
In the center of the island, the vertical launch silos opened simultaneously, unleashing various missiles trailing eerie blue flas.
Beneath the sea, the Torpedo Tubes had finished loading. With a series of muffled booms, torpedoes launched one after another, carving vacuum tunnels underwater.
“What firepower!” Li Ye gasped.
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