Chapter 902 - 678: Double Victory

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Yes, what the Nightmare Knights excel at is close combat! And once a Nightmare Knight boards a battleship, the battleship’s most prized firepower becomes completely useless!

This is Ruosha’s tactic! From start to finish, she never intended to engage in a battleship duel with you. What she relies on is still her most proud force, the Nightmare Knights!

Powerful Nightmare Knights!

"Damn it!"

In the vast cosmos, although Nightmare Knights charging at the battleships were continually shattered, if just two of the Nightmare Knights truly landed on a battleship, within five minutes, that ship’s captain would certainly declare surrender.

Normally, Nightmare Knights would utterly dominate ordinary soldiers, and this dominance was not mitigated by the number of soldiers. The core technology from Giant would continuously enhance the Nightmare Knights’ strength, which was precisely the terrifying aspect of Giant technology, making the Nightmare Knights ever stronger!

And these were just the regular Nightmare Knights. The fleets now faced nearly thirty-meter-tall gigantic metal warriors, a battle on an entirely different level.

As one battleship after another surrendered, the blaze of gunfire in space began to thin out. The large Nightmare Knights that were shattered were starting to repair themselves automatically out of thin air, reassembling their broken parts into metal warriors. The commanders immediately lost their will to fight.

On average, it took two Nightmare Knights to capture a battleship. No matter how numerous your battleships, could they outnumber the Nightmare Knights?

No, that was impossible.

And so, the once thunderous military exercise ended like this.

The military personnel were disheartened.

Because Ruosha, whom they had always looked down upon, had just defeated them so easily! You say she just relied on the Nightmare Knights? No! This little loli could even kill a strong man with just a breath! And now, in the war dominated by battleships, Ruosha had triumphed over two fleets with ease.

Perhaps, with even more battleships present, they would still be no match for Ruosha.

The Emperor was very happy.

He was happy to see the military faction of the Azure Sky Empire face a challenger for the first time. The military bigwigs, previously arrogant and disrespectful even to the Emperor, all had ashen faces, filled with shock and disbelief. Some commanders voluntarily came before the Emperor to pledge their loyalty again, tactfully admitting their prior disrespect.

At this point, the Emperor was quite satisfied.

The Emperor was also saddened.

He was saddened because he had not anticipated that his most prized Azure Sky fleet would be so easily defeated.

Yes, the Emperor silently used the phrase "easily defeated" in his heart, because from beginning to end, Ruosha hadn’t employed any tactics; she simply charged through, and then it was all over. The time included Ruosha’s waiting for the fleets to reassemble without attacking; all told, it didn’t even add up to an hour.

An hour, and the Azure Sky Empire’s most prideful fleet had surrendered. The Emperor chuckled self-deprecatingly. Such a tale, if told, might be too unbelievable to be taken seriously! Fortunately, Ruosha didn’t seem too interested in his Azure Sky Empire; otherwise, mightn’t his empire change hands within minutes?

In fact, the Emperor of Azure Sky had never imagined Ruosha to be so formidable. He thought she would be strong, might well put the Azure Sky fleet through a hard fight, but in the end, victory should belong to the well-trained Azure Sky fleet. However, the outcome proved the Emperor had been too confident in his fleet. Ruosha used tactics they’d never seen before, wielded weapons they’d never encountered. Then, total annihilation was the result.

What should have been a weeks-long exercise ended prematurely due to Ruosha’s overwhelming victory, leaving the military without a response.

A military bigwig racked his brains, yet found no suitable countermeasure within the existing tactics. There were only so many ways a battleship could fight, unless they started rolling out small, swift battleships now to grapple with those large, new Nightmare Knights. However, these small battleships were no match for the Nightmare Knights in firepower.

For a time, the entire military of the Azure Sky Empire was plunged into confusion.

However, there was one person who was very pleased, and that was Fang Zuo.

The stronger Ruosha was, the more it proved that his defeat at her hands was not due to a lack of strength. It also proved how correct his decision to bring Ruosha to the Azure Sky Empire was. Otherwise, if Ruosha had joined another empire, she might have truly become the Azure Sky Empire’s nightmare.

Soon, the news of Ruosha’s crushing defeat of the Azure Sky fleet in an internal exercise spread across the entire Plane. The Azure Sky fleet was a benchmark in the Plane, representing the pinnacle of military force. While some nations refused to accept the Azure Sky Empire, they had to acknowledge that its military was the strongest on the Plane.

However, when the news reached the Hong En Empire, and Emperor Hong En mentioned it to Isrile, the response he received was a face full of Isrile’s mockery.

"Your Majesty, I must say, compared to the Giant era, your crude imitations of Giant technology are as frail as paper mache. My warriors could easily wreck them," Isrile told Emperor Hong En.

"In fact, some inappropriate voices have emerged within the army lately. They say that you, the Giant Beast Empress, enjoy privileged treatment and priority in resources but have yet to prove yourself in war," Emperor Hong En said with a smile, seemingly sincere but with an underlying meaning.

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