Chapter 1300: 421. Large but improper_2
The Artificial Angels’ methods were far from limited to just firing laser beams.
The 20 Artificial Angels put down their longswords and instead lifted their shields, aiming at the players scattered like stars across the sky.
Ring after ring of white light waves emitted from the front of the shields.
As the white light waves flew forward, they expanded continually, quickly growing from the hundred-meter diameter of the shields to a staggering thousand meters across, enough to envelop battleships.
Many players were unable to evade in time and were enveloped by the white light waves.
Their figures involuntarily slowed down, as if mired in thick mud.
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A froth-like halo of white light formed over them, significantly reducing their flying speed.
It wasn’t long before a player recognized that the white light waves released by the Artificial Angels were a “Stagnation Field.”
The “Stagnation Field” was specifically designed to bind escort ships and drones, forcibly lowering their cruising speed.
Normally, the range of the field wouldn’t exceed about 50 meters, which is the average diameter of the escort ships and drones.
The “Stop Field” emitted by the Artificial Angels, however, horrifyingly reached the breadth of a kilometer or more.
What was this?
This was a standard issue for binding battleships, let alone raider ships.
For the Artificial Angels to use such high-level interference devices on them, a group of insignificant players, was there no justice left in the world?
For a moment, the players’ voice communication channel was filled with incessant complaints.
“Damn, is this some kind of mistake?”
“Have these Artificial Angels gone mad? We’re not battleships, is it necessary to bring out such big guns against us?”
“The Artificial Angels can’t take it anymore! Using a butcher’s knife to kill a chicken!”
Among the chorus of complaints, an undisputed female alto resounded, full of force:
“Everyone, use the Three Ring Spell ‘Flash Spell’ provided by ‘Magic Leap’.”
‘Flash Spell’?
What magic is that?
Without openly questioning the other party, the players quickly retrieved the Spell List in their minds and activated ‘Flash Spell’.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
A series of flickering lights appeared in space.
The players who activated the spell became glowing points of light.
They vanished from their original locations and teleported over a hundred meters ahead in just 0.01 seconds.
The halos that restricted their movement couldn’t keep up with their lightning-like teleportation speed, and the players left them far behind.
“Bloody brilliant!”
“Is this the legendary flash move? The teleportation distance is so, so far~”
“Careful! The Artificial Angels are adjusting the direction of the ‘Stop Field’! Don’t get tangled in the field again!”
The female alto reminded them once more.
Observing the actions of the Artificial Angels, the players immediately silenced their chatter and flew on without a word.
They drew large arcs around the Artificial Angels, keeping a safe distance away from the behemoths’ field of influence and continued towards the transport fleet.
A very few players reacted too slowly and were unfortunately caught by the Stagnation Field.
But it was no issue.
The cooldown of ‘Flash Spell’ was very fast.
Within three to five seconds of being slowed down by the field, those few players used ‘Flash Spell’ to break free from the bind and caught up with their squad.
The larger-scale the Stop Field, the longer the interval between its activation and deactivation.
The woman responsible for commanding the players in battle calculated precisely the interval of the Artificial Angels’ activation of the ‘Stop Field’, and she guided the players to travel in straight lines during the few seconds when the field was inactive, swiftly approaching the fleet.
Such precise command was akin to her playing an RTS game, with the players acting as her controlled boarding combatants.
The players who came here to carry out the SS-level task were all elite members of the Great Guilds. noveldrama
After a brief period of coordination, they quickly grasped the commander’s intentions, and their mutual cooperation became increasingly skilled.
In less than three minutes, the players made it to within five kilometers of the fleet, safely and without much alarm.
There’s a saying in the domain of space warfare:
There are four types of defense systems for a spaceship: one is shields, two is armor, three is the hull, and four is speed.
Suppose a battleship is flying in orbit around a target.
So, when its orbital angular velocity exceeds the turret’s turning angular velocity of the target ship, the latter’s turrets will never manage to track it.
Non-pilots might not understand this at first.
So let’s put it another way.
A person is holding a gun, aiming at an enemy.
The enemy is running circles around this person, and they’re doing so very quickly.
The person with the gun can’t keep up with the enemy’s speed, making it difficult to aim properly at the enemy.
This is the legendary “speed as defense,” which relies on supremely high maneuverability to crush the enemy’s turret tracking speed, so they can’t aim correctly at you.
‘Space Walk,’ provided by Noland Lee to the players, enabled them to move at a high speed of 2000 meters per second.
2000 meters per second is the combat speed of an ultra-high-speed light drone.
With such high maneuverability, the transport fleet’s medium and large turrets could not possibly lock onto the players.
Only the small turrets, designed specifically to attack light drones, might just about manage to track the players’ figures.
But for the players, small turrets posed no threat.
‘Hurricane Armor’ was layered on the players’ Whirlwind Coats.
Its surface airflow would whirl at speeds of ten thousand meters per second, deflecting all projectiles.
The ultra-high-speed flow of air, saturated with intense Wind Energy, could shield against the ships’ laser beams as effectively as a Magic Shield.