Vesryn Pulse: Wrath of Xenon

CHAPTER 78: AIRSHIP MERGE

CHAPTER 78: AIRSHIP MERGE

KEVIN VALESMITH

8 MONTHS AGO

It’s been half an hour since the battle against the Elysian army started. During our pursuit of the airship that is responsible for kidnapping the princess, we were intercepted by three more airships that are designed for war. Each and every enemy airships unleashed their strongest units at their disposal: which are dragon knights. There are roughly forty of them that flew and bombarded us with their fire breaths.

Too bad for them, I have a backup of five airships that contain dragon knights from our very own Dragon Knights Academy. The Emperor granted me permission of commanding fifty-three fourth-class dragon knights, seventeen third-class dragon knights, and two second-class dragon knights. Sadly, I do not have any first-class dragon knights in my arsenal in this battle. My first-class dragon knights who are namely Alphonse Faradeiss and Danielle Keine are out of the battlefield as they are dealing with Elysia’s Lothar Pendragon. One of my best first-class dragon knights, which is Xenon Wingate, is confined in a hospital.

Even though I don’t have control over the Alterra’s best, we have the upper hand in this battle as we outnumber the Elysian Dragon Knights. That is a given fact since Alterra is the number one producer of dragon knights on the whole planet.

Fireballs, rocket projectiles, bullet storms, and various magical missiles hurled around the skies. The vast Sargusian Forest was showered with countless sparks that made wildfires all over the area. Airships bombarded airships with their artillery, dragons fought dragons with their specialized bombs, and dragon knights fought dragon knights with their weapons. Their spells, guns, and swords did the talking as we are very much at war with the other country.

“Wraith, use your Magma Dragon to burn that airship on the left flank! Octavius, negate and intercept all magical projectiles that are approaching on the west! Windstrafe, use those rocket launchers to bombard that Tropica Dragon!”

That was just three out of the one hundred commands I have assigned my troops to obey. I also control magic knights and general infantry soldiers that are in charge of boarding the enemy airships, so I don’t expect I’ll be resting my mouth sooner or later. I can already feel my sore throat and my mouth is about to dry out of saliva any minute.

The enemy airships are retreating due to the fact that we greatly outnumber them, but they continue to fire back. They are trying to protect the target airship, at all cost, even making the Elysian warships circle around that vessel that is suspected to have the princess.

“Commander, we can’t breach through their defenses!” One of the dragon knights reported. “We need more firepower!”

“I see that,” I answered back to the dragon knight.

Well, I’m not blind. I can see that we are dominating this battle against the Elysian army, but all the enemies do is to focus their forces in defense while protecting the target airship and fleeing at the same time. They are attempting to hit three birds with one stone, and they are quite succeeding about it.

I have an ace on my sleeve. I am in possession of Alterra’s most advanced battle airship, which is S.S. Eaglecrest. In terms of speed and firepower, nothing can stop this big bad metal boy to destroy any adversary.

I immediately went out of the command room of the airship, and my dragonoid rockstar Rius followed me. We went to the top main deck of the airship and gazed upon the enemies and allies fighting around the view. As the pressure of the wind makes my admiral uniform flap, I held my chest and synchronized my heart to the heartbeats of my dragonoid.