A relentless bombardment enveloped the sky, and in just a fleeting moment, onlookers were struck dumb.
Countless shells pierced through the battleship, plunging into the water!
The surface of the sea was pounded by wave after wave of explosives, stirring up curtains of water, but there was no trace of a battleship – this stretch of sea was utterly vacant!
"What..." A myriad of shocked faces gazed upon this scene, their minds momentarily unable to process the occurrence.
"Impossible... could it be a mirage? But why would a battleship appear just now?"
"An illusion? I don't believe it, I clearly saw it, so many of us did, how could this be?"
The visual disruption system, of course, aimed to deceive these very eyes.
The three commanders were utterly baffled, unable to decipher this phenomenon. Their minds were thrown into chaos by Raine's stratagem.
Just then, the crew reported a fleet appearing on the radar!
"Should we... open fire?" The Demon Princess was suddenly indecisive, worrying about another false image.
The three commanders exchanged glances, but no one dared to give the order.
Due to their concerted attack on the illusion, the battleships of the three fleets were relatively concentrated, all arranged in a fan-like distribution according to pre-war deployment.
Just as the illusion caused the crowd's minds to descend into turmoil, an even more inconceivable event transpired.
In the heart of the fan-shaped formation, within a regular circle with a radius of about 6,000 meters, thousands of battleships, as if bewitched, began to sink rapidly without any apparent damage!
These battleships were not sinking at a tilt but were uniformly submerging.
The moment the waterline surpassed the deck, the battleships were irreversibly filled with seawater, and they sank instantly!
Witnessing the scene, the bystanders were petrified, unable to utter a word for the longest time.
Captain Boone stood aghast, staring as an aircraft carrier sank beside him, his eyes bulging and twitching in disbelief.
"Can anyone explain to me what the devil is going on?" he exclaimed.
Regrettably, no one could inform the legendary captain of what had transpired.
Even more terrifying was that very few of the sailors aboard the sinking ship managed to surface. These highly skilled swimmers, at most, flailed a few times on the ocean surface before quickly sinking into the depths. They didn't even have time to grasp the lifebuoys thrown from other ships before they submerged.
"Why is this happening? Didn't anyone survive?" he queried in disbelief.
"I'm certain their ship wasn't hit... but why did it sink? Why?"
The mental state of the three group leaders was on the verge of collapse - such a situation was unheard of.
"Good heavens, who exactly are our opponents?" The Buddha Sovereign's anger was suppressed by his fear. "Or should I say, are they even human?"
Just then, a second circle appeared. The sailors, still confused about the situation, abruptly realized their own ship was sinking, their eyes filling with horror.
However, having witnessed the previous scene, some were prepared.
Several sailors yelled at their companions, "I feel so heavy... It's, it's gravity! I'm feeling a sudden increase in gravity! Our ship is sinking, quickly, save us!"
Gravity? The Sea Commander's brow furrowed.
"It must be their crew! It's a crew member's mutation ability!"
The Demon Princess looked at the Sea Sovereign in terror, "A gravity mutation? This ability is too powerful! Zark can change air pressure, and he's at Stage 7 Level 7, but his range is only a radius of 50 meters."
Ice Emperor can freeze the entire sea surface, but it's worth noting that he doesn't freeze the entire sea surface instantly; it's a gradual freeze.
Including creating ice walls, even though Ice Emperor's control distance was quite far, his actual impact was only on a small local area.
In other words, his range of influence at any one time was not terrifying.
However, this mutant could affect an area of ten square kilometers at once. This ability is unimaginably terrifying! Moreover, he could trigger it twice!
They naturally didn't know that this was not the ability of a human, but the power of the Earth Heaven Crystal!
[Super Gravity Field (Level 1): Research Progress 100%.]
[It can increase the gravity in the target area threefold, covering a range of ten square kilometers, with an effective time of 100 seconds, used twice, and a recovery time of three months.]
The level one super gravity field could only threefold the gravity. At first glance, three times the gravity doesn't seem like much, but it's somewhat frightening when you think about it.
Modern warships are made entirely of metal and are inherently very heavy.
Take aircraft carriers as an example. Light aircraft carriers typically displace between 10,000 and 30,000 tons, medium ones generally displace between 30,000 and 65,000 tons, and heavy ones typically displace between 65,000 and 100,000 tons.
In the age of civilization, the Spanish Prince of Asturias had a standard displacement of 13,400 tons and a full load displacement of 17,190 tons.
The American Nimitz-class aircraft carrier from the age of civilization had a standard displacement of around 73,000 tons and a full load displacement of 104,000 tons.
The full load displacement of an aircraft carrier generally does not exceed 40% of the standard displacement! When the full load displacement is exceeded, the ship runs the risk of sinking.
However, within the supergravity field, the gravity had tripled. Triple gravity is equivalent to stacking two more aircraft carriers on top of one. The outcome is self-evident.
Raine lowered his telescope, exclaiming in astonishment, "Damn, I thought this Level 1 super gravity field was utterly useless, yet it's so powerful? It's deserving of a stone that can alter plate tectonics. The Super-Gravity Field is too formidable!"
Fancy and Olivia exchanged glances. Olivia voiced out weakly, "Fancy, is our captain really as professional as we think? He's always considered such a terrifying triple gravity as useless?"
Fancy, unsure how to defend Raine, advised, "Ignore him. He's excessively greedy, always desiring a stronger gravitational pull. He simply disdains a mere threefold increase..."
"Indeed, his greed is quite apparent, I've noticed it myself."
Raine engrossed in the battlefield, didn't hear the women talking behind his back. Even if he had, he probably wouldn't have bothered to respond, his mood was too buoyant.
Two iterations of the Super-Gravity Field had decimated two-thirds of the enemy forces, leaving them with less than a thousand warships!
"Heh heh, just a thousand left, huh? Let's see how you resist me now!"
Elsewhere, due to the disappearance of the gravitational field, numerous crew members of the three major battleship troops had narrowly escaped death.
However, the faces of the three group leaders were more unsightly than the others.
Up until now, they had only spotted a single mirage battleship and hadn't encountered the enemy fleet. Yet their own fleet had suffered horrific losses.
A few hours prior, they had been leading three thousand battleships to hunt down Raine and his crew with great momentum. But now... only a third remained!
Suddenly, 50 kilometers meters away, the enemy battleship spewed rolling tongues of fire. They had launched their all-out attack!
"Damn it, 30 battleships launching an all-out attack against our 3000 battleships?!" The three group leaders were already livid.
Regardless of the outcome, this was likely to be the most disastrous command of their careers.
A relentless bombardment enveloped the sky, and in just a fleeting moment, onlookers were struck dumb.
Countless shells pierced through the battleship, plunging into the water!
The surface of the sea was pounded by wave after wave of explosives, stirring up curtains of water, but there was no trace of a battleship – this stretch of sea was utterly vacant!
"What..." A myriad of shocked faces gazed upon this scene, their minds momentarily unable to process the occurrence.
"Impossible... could it be a mirage? But why would a battleship appear just now?"
"An illusion? I don't believe it, I clearly saw it, so many of us did, how could this be?"
The visual disruption system, of course, aimed to deceive these very eyes.
The three commanders were utterly baffled, unable to decipher this phenomenon. Their minds were thrown into chaos by Raine's stratagem.
Just then, the crew reported a fleet appearing on the radar!
"Should we... open fire?" The Demon Princess was suddenly indecisive, worrying about another false image.
The three commanders exchanged glances, but no one dared to give the order.
Due to their concerted attack on the illusion, the battleships of the three fleets were relatively concentrated, all arranged in a fan-like distribution according to pre-war deployment.
Just as the illusion caused the crowd's minds to descend into turmoil, an even more inconceivable event transpired.
In the heart of the fan-shaped formation, within a regular circle with a radius of about 6,000 meters, thousands of battleships, as if bewitched, began to sink rapidly without any apparent damage!
These battleships were not sinking at a tilt but were uniformly submerging.
The moment the waterline surpassed the deck, the battleships were irreversibly filled with seawater, and they sank instantly!
Witnessing the scene, the bystanders were petrified, unable to utter a word for the longest time.
Captain Boone stood aghast, staring as an aircraft carrier sank beside him, his eyes bulging and twitching in disbelief.
"Can anyone explain to me what the devil is going on?" he exclaimed.
Regrettably, no one could inform the legendary captain of what had transpired.
Even more terrifying was that very few of the sailors aboard the sinking ship managed to surface. These highly skilled swimmers, at most, flailed a few times on the ocean surface before quickly sinking into the depths. They didn't even have time to grasp the lifebuoys thrown from other ships before they submerged.
"Why is this happening? Didn't anyone survive?" he queried in disbelief.
"I'm certain their ship wasn't hit... but why did it sink? Why?"
The mental state of the three group leaders was on the verge of collapse - such a situation was unheard of.
"Good heavens, who exactly are our opponents?" The Buddha Sovereign's anger was suppressed by his fear. "Or should I say, are they even human?"
Just then, a second circle appeared. The sailors, still confused about the situation, abruptly realized their own ship was sinking, their eyes filling with horror.
However, having witnessed the previous scene, some were prepared.
Several sailors yelled at their companions, "I feel so heavy... It's, it's gravity! I'm feeling a sudden increase in gravity! Our ship is sinking, quickly, save us!"
Gravity? The Sea Commander's brow furrowed.
"It must be their crew! It's a crew member's mutation ability!"
The Demon Princess looked at the Sea Sovereign in terror, "A gravity mutation? This ability is too powerful! Zark can change air pressure, and he's at Stage 7 Level 7, but his range is only a radius of 50 meters."
Ice Emperor can freeze the entire sea surface, but it's worth noting that he doesn't freeze the entire sea surface instantly; it's a gradual freeze.
Including creating ice walls, even though Ice Emperor's control distance was quite far, his actual impact was only on a small local area.
In other words, his range of influence at any one time was not terrifying.
However, this mutant could affect an area of ten square kilometers at once. This ability is unimaginably terrifying! Moreover, he could trigger it twice!
They naturally didn't know that this was not the ability of a human, but the power of the Earth Heaven Crystal!
[Super Gravity Field (Level 1): Research Progress 100%.]
[It can increase the gravity in the target area threefold, covering a range of ten square kilometers, with an effective time of 100 seconds, used twice, and a recovery time of three months.]
The level one super gravity field could only threefold the gravity. At first glance, three times the gravity doesn't seem like much, but it's somewhat frightening when you think about it.
Modern warships are made entirely of metal and are inherently very heavy.
Take aircraft carriers as an example. Light aircraft carriers typically displace between 10,000 and 30,000 tons, medium ones generally displace between 30,000 and 65,000 tons, and heavy ones typically displace between 65,000 and 100,000 tons.
In the age of civilization, the Spanish Prince of Asturias had a standard displacement of 13,400 tons and a full load displacement of 17,190 tons.
The American Nimitz-class aircraft carrier from the age of civilization had a standard displacement of around 73,000 tons and a full load displacement of 104,000 tons.
The full load displacement of an aircraft carrier generally does not exceed 40% of the standard displacement! When the full load displacement is exceeded, the ship runs the risk of sinking.
However, within the supergravity field, the gravity had tripled. Triple gravity is equivalent to stacking two more aircraft carriers on top of one. The outcome is self-evident.
Raine lowered his telescope, exclaiming in astonishment, "Damn, I thought this Level 1 super gravity field was utterly useless, yet it's so powerful? It's deserving of a stone that can alter plate tectonics. The Super-Gravity Field is too formidable!"
Fancy and Olivia exchanged glances. Olivia voiced out weakly, "Fancy, is our captain really as professional as we think? He's always considered such a terrifying triple gravity as useless?"
Fancy, unsure how to defend Raine, advised, "Ignore him. He's excessively greedy, always desiring a stronger gravitational pull. He simply disdains a mere threefold increase..."
"Indeed, his greed is quite apparent, I've noticed it myself."
Raine engrossed in the battlefield, didn't hear the women talking behind his back. Even if he had, he probably wouldn't have bothered to respond, his mood was too buoyant.
Two iterations of the Super-Gravity Field had decimated two-thirds of the enemy forces, leaving them with less than a thousand warships!
"Heh heh, just a thousand left, huh? Let's see how you resist me now!"
Elsewhere, due to the disappearance of the gravitational field, numerous crew members of the three major battleship troops had narrowly escaped death.
However, the faces of the three group leaders were more unsightly than the others.
Up until now, they had only spotted a single mirage battleship and hadn't encountered the enemy fleet. Yet their own fleet had suffered horrific losses.
A few hours prior, they had been leading three thousand battleships to hunt down Raine and his crew with great momentum. But now... only a third remained!
Suddenly, 50 kilometers meters away, the enemy battleship spewed rolling tongues of fire. They had launched their all-out attack!
"Damn it, 30 battleships launching an all-out attack against our 3000 battleships?!" The three group leaders were already livid.
Regardless of the outcome, this was likely to be the most disastrous command of their careers.
