The Eagle Rises in a new world

The Empire's Mistake(1)

Kingdom of Fenn, in the ocean about 30 km west of Nishinomiyako

The Papaldia Empire imperial army's dragon carriers were arranged in a perfect line.To facilitate the arrival and departure of wyvern lords,dragon carriers were twice as large as ships-of-the-line.The empire advanced their shipbuilding technology in secret,so it were the only country capable of building dragon carriers.Vice Admiral Armos nodded contentedly to himself when he surveyed the fleet of dragon carriers,their very presence giving off a sense of might.

"Dragon Knight Captain!" he said to the man standing next to him.

"Yes sir!"

"The imperial army is strong!!!"

"Yes, I am aware."

"Why do you think we are strong?"

"Because of our comprehensive strength, sir."

"You're exactly right! However, the reason to have pride in our power, even more than our ships-of-the-line, the true core of our strength, is our dragon carriers. Dragon carriers allow us to outrange any opponent far beyond the capability of any cannon. Captain, total control of the air means total control of both sea and land. That is what I believe."

"Indeed, sir! That is a very enlightened perspective!"

"The Papaldia Empire is invincible on the sea because of our dragon carrier fleet! As long as we have them, the imperial army will carve a path for our empire to rule supreme! And look! Leading that fleet is our newest, most advanced flagship, the Mille! ...How spectacular. It overflows with functional beauty, enough to match its size."

The Mille was built with much more antimagic steel plating than normal, and thus it was the strongest, largest, and most beautiful ship in the fleet.

Just then they saw 40 dots appeared about 5 km away from 1000 meters and soon began to dive in pairs of 2 towards a ship each.Vice Admiral Armos looked ahead cautiously.

"?! What's that?!?! What... what speed!!!"

Those "things" continued to pick up speed,sharply turned upwards right and began to circle around them.Just then they saw what looked like 4 black eggs fall towards the fleet except Armos's ship.the 4 100 kg bombs,scored direct hits on the dragon carrier fleet's flagship,the Mille.

Ksha!!!

There was a violent flash... and the Mille was engulfed in light.

Bom... BAAAAA-BAAAAAAM!!!

The giant flagship become wrapped in an even larger explosion,accompanied by the roaring sound of destruction.Right before Armos's eyes,Bombs,which individually had enough firepower to destroy a 1000 tons boat,erased the flagship Mille from existence,along with its crew and wyvern lords.The leftover noise from the blast echoed across the water.

"Wha... wha... what the hell?! What just happened?!"

Distress ensued.

Another flash... and another roar...

"The Fissennuss has been lost!!!"

The Papaldia Empire's cutting-edge 100-gun ship-of-the-line Fissennuss,sporting the most advanced antimagic steel plating,was the pride of the empire,and it disintegrated into dust after a single attack. Flashes and roars erupted one after another.

"Dragon carrier Ganam, lost!!! Dragon carrier Masale, lost!!!"

Tragic reports kept coming in as the mysterious objects kept,without missing even once, blowing up dragon carriers.