Chapter 1321: 430. Angel Crystals
Noland Lee was over a hundred kilometers from the battlefield.
This distance was negligible under the effect of mental magic.
After casting a series of spell marks, he successfully saw the situation of the Archangel Group Fleet through “Mind View.”
At the start, the Archangel Group Fleet consisted of 20 ships, all of which were special engineering ships of auxiliary nature.
After nearly half an hour of intense combat, the number of ships was significantly reduced, less than half remained.
Correspondingly, the quantum leap inhibition field released by this fleet had also shrunk considerably, but it hadn’t disappeared.
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The reduced inhibition field was concentrated by the fleet in a corner of the battlefield.
There, 18 unwanted artificial angels were protected by the player fleet.
This player fleet, holding the artificial angels on behalf of Angel Enterprise Alliance, was not just comprised of battleships and cruisers with combat capabilities; it included transport ships, specifically large transport ships designed for moving large targets.
These transport ships were originally used to recover shipwrecks, but now served as carriers for transporting artificial angels, multiplying their prestige several times over.
While the battle raged, the players loaded the artificial angels onto the transport ships.
Once the quantum leap inhibition field disappeared or the transport ships left the field’s range, the 18 unwanted artificial angels would be immediately transported to the territory of the United Bureau, bidding farewell to the Angel Enterprise Alliance.
The Archangel Group Fleet was clearly aware of this.
While maintaining the interference of the field, they orchestrated the artificial angels to launch a fierce attack on the player’s transport ships.
Just unfortunately, the United Bureau’s Security Guard was stationed right by the player’s transport ships.
The Security Guard’s raider ships unfolded battle barriers, providing all-around protection for the transport ships.
This was a defensive line formed by a total of 80 raider ships.
Just the thought of 80 layers of barrier shields was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
Simplifying estimates, only if a Titan ship appeared and fired at full strength against the 80 layers of barrier shields, could it penetrate all the barrier shields.
The Archangel Group Fleet was in a very passive situation.
Fight?
No chance, as player ships inundated the area like an ocean, and their reinforcements were endless.
Leave?
No way; if they leave, those artificial angels that experienced the annihilation of a star wouldn’t really return, and they definitely hold extremely important research data.
Drag it out?
Continue to drag out the time?
Yes, that was the only option left.
Higher command in the star sector was assembling a fleet, and if they could just delay a bit longer, at least a hundred artificial angels would come for support.
The longer they dragged out the time, the more losses and pressure the United Bureau would face, and they would inevitably collapse and leave in disarray.
Inside the Archangel Group Fleet, captains of various ships were discussing and strategizing.
Using mental magic, Noland Lee listened in on their conversation roughly.
It was estimated that in 15 minutes, the first group of about a hundred artificial angels would depart from the central space station of Motuoli Starfield.
By then, the situation on the battlefield would begin to shift, and the numerical advantage of the players would be wiped out, inevitably putting them at a disadvantage.
Noland Lee glanced outside the ship.
Some skilled players had already successfully approached the Archangel Group’s ships and were in the process of setting up magic bombs to blast the ship shields, or directly using spells to attack the shields.
Because the raider ships, among others, adopted modular designs, their ship shields were not a single entity, but segmented and combined according to ship sections, forming a shield similar to assembled blocks.
If players wanted to board the ship forcefully in a short time, they had to target the weak points of the Archangel Group’s ships.
After much choice, the air pressure control room located in the lower belly of the ship became the top choice, a place used to adjust the ship’s air pressure levels.
After learning that artificial angels would soon return for support, Noland Lee pondered for a few seconds.
He quietly planted magic bombs inside and outside the airtight pressure chamber’s hull.
If the players couldn’t break through the ship’s defenses quickly, Noland Lee would lend them a hand.
After all, capturing the artificial angels alive also benefitted him.
Noland Lee did not want to see those 18 artificial angels reclaimed by the Angel Enterprise Alliance.
Having done this, Noland Lee turned his attention to a magic screen.
The spell mark transmitting this screen was located on the ship numbered “Archangel-0366,” which belonged to the Archangel Group Fleet.
The captain of this ship was the commander of the fleet.
His appearance was very, very peculiar.
He had four limbs and a torso like a normal human, but his head was significantly longer than a normal human’s, resembling a pumpkin about one-half meter long…
To be precise, the lower part of his eyebrows appeared normal, but the eyebrows were half a meter from the hairline, and between them was a wide, long forehead.
This bizarre appearance was quite common among the humans of the Archangel Group.
Ordinary crew members had foreheads less than twenty centimeters, the captain’s was double that, and the Fleet Commander had an extra ten centimeters on top of the captain’s.
It could be said, the higher the rank, the longer the forehead.
Noland Lee couldn’t help but take a few more glances at the peculiarly featured commander and incidentally activated a detection spell. noveldrama
“Oh~ so that’s how it is. The bigger the forehead, the bigger the brain capacity, the more stuff that can be crammed inside.”