Lord of the Sky City

“Damn… As soon as they get close, fire at will!” Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire

After hearing the officer’s explanation, Nelson clenched his teeth and glared outside the city wall, and spat out a sentence fiercely.

Just as the officer had said, the magic cannons mounted on the walls of Backhill Village indeed had ranges of only a hundred meters or so, being short-ranged cannons. These were originally meant for fighting demons, to bombard them all at once when they amassed beneath the city walls, so they were useless against distant targets.

Nevertheless, Nelson wasn’t too worried, because their magic cannons couldn’t reach the Tank Type 1, and similarly, the Tank Type 1 couldn’t reach them either. Thus, he simply ordered the gunners to shoot immediately when the enemy approached any closer.

But just as he had finished giving this order, the two Tank Type 1s stopped a hundred meters away from the city wall suddenly moved—both the armors lifted the long barrel guns on their shoulders!

“What are they doing…”

As Nelson watched the armors raise the gun barrels on their shoulders, he was taken aback. Before he could react, two loud booms of artillery fire reached them!

And it was in the instant after the cannon sounds that two of the wall merlons were blown away one after another!

“Enemy attack!”

“Quick, save them! People have been injured by the blast!”

With the merlons blasted away, the city wall immediately descended into chaos. At that time, the wall wasn’t vacant—on the contrary, to effectively stop the enemy from getting close, Nelson had already stationed rows of archers, with not just a single line but three rows amounting to over a hundred people!

Under such circumstances, when the Tank Type 1 fired their cannons and blew away the merlons, they also inflicted injuries on the archers on the wall.

In the explosion, over a dozen archers were injured, several of whom were immediately struck dead by the flying debris that hit them—some on the head, others in the chest.

“Damn…”

While chaos reigned on the city walls, Caryus and Raphael inside the Tank Type 1 Armor were also talking.

“Raphael, did you hit the target?”

“No… The angle of aim was too high, the shells flew off.”

“Same here, only hit the merlons, not the cannon emplacements. When you aim next time, lower the angle a bit. The City Lord is watching from above; we can’t keep firing blanks.”

“Understood.”

Agreeing with a nod, Raphael then readjusted the angle of his shoulder-mounted Magic Energy Cannon and began to aim. After a good while, he finally pulled the trigger.

With the pulling of the trigger, a thunderous roar followed, and the huge recoil of the magic cannon caused a significant shake in Raphael’s cockpit. Then he immediately looked towards the distant city wall and saw that this time, he had finally hit the target!

Just like before, his shot struck the top of the city wall, blasting the large stone blocks from the parapet into the air, affecting quite a few people as well.

Unfortunately, he still did not hit the turret, but he was very close—the explosion had sent wall debris flying to within just one meter of the turret.

Raphael was still not satisfied with this because Rocky had said to try not to damage the city walls as much as possible, yet his cannon fire, far from destroying the turret, had flattened the battlements instead. If Rocky were to blame him for this, he couldn’t bear it, so he quickly got in touch with Caryus.

“Caryus, try the Magic Energy Beam,” Raphael said.

“I’ll give it a shot.”

After agreeing, Caryus activated the Magic Energy Beam Emitter and took aim before pulling the trigger.

Unlike the Magic Energy Cannon, when the Magic Energy Beam was fired, it did not produce a loud noise, but only a whooshing sound as a half-meter-long beam shot out instantly and, indeed, hit one of the magic cannons on the wall!

Although the Magic Energy Beam was not as powerful as the Magic Energy Cannon, destroying an unprotected Magic Cannon was still a straightforward task, so when the beam hit the Magic Energy Cannon, it directly blasted the cannon off the turret. The barrel was sent flying over a meter high before falling outside the city wall.

“Use the Magic Energy Beam design, Raphael. It’s more accurate and causes less damage to the wall,” said Caryus.

“Alright!”

Realizing that the Magic Energy Beam was significantly more precise than the Magic Energy Cannon, the two immediately abandoned the cannon and started a continuous assault with the beam.

“Quick! Pull everyone back!”

Just as the two had found their target and began bombarding the city walls with the less powerful, but more accurate, Magic Energy Beams, Nelson on the wall was ordering the archers to quickly withdraw.

He had not anticipated that the enemy would have such weaponry, capable of bombing the wall from a hundred meters away—a veritable mobile artillery. Under these circumstances, he had no choice but to pull out all the archers from the wall to avoid unnecessary casualties.

At the same time, Nelson also noted that the two Tank Type 1 Armors were clearly aiming for the turrets on the wall, so he immediately gathered two Void Magic Warriors left in the village by the Chamber of Commerce.

“Quick! Go and destroy those things!” Nelson shouted to the two Void Magic Warriors, pointing at the Tank Type 1 outside the wall. Understanding the urgency, the two warriors exchanged a glance and then immediately flew up and out over the wall.

Although the Tank Type 1 was more than a hundred meters away from the wall, this distance was trivial for Void Magic Warriors, who could cross it in the blink of an eye. So, in just a moment, the two warriors flew above the two Tank Type 1s.

“Destroy these things!”

Like Nelson, the two Void Magic Warriors did not know exactly what the Tank Type 1 was, but without pondering on this issue, they launched an attack as soon as they were in range.

Faced with the attack from the Void Magic Warriors, Caryus and Raphael naturally did not dare delay and immediately deployed the Defensive Net. They then controlled their armors to retreat while firing a barrage of Magic Energy Bullets into the air.

Rocky had specifically stressed to them during their training that Tank Type 1 was designed for land combat. It had no flying capabilities, let alone anti-air measures, and could at best use Magic Energy Bullets to disrupt aerial enemies. Thus, if they encountered Void Magic Warriors, they had to deploy the Defensive Net and retreat from the battlefield immediately, without engaging in a fight.

Caryus and Raphael certainly took this advice to heart, so as soon as they saw that the enemy had dispatched the Void Magic Warriors, they didn’t hesitate to retreat toward the Guard Corps, knowing that their own side also had Void Magic Warriors—and four of them!