Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 656 - 618 The Great Retreat
Chapter 656: Chapter 618: The Great Retreat Chapter 656: Chapter 618: The Great Retreat Ten minutes seemed endlessly long for Erwin, but he had to wait.
During this prolonged wait, all he could do was watch helplessly as his fleet was annihilated by Rocky and his forces with devastating ease.
By the time the arduous ten minutes had finally passed and the reinforcements led by Erwin had arrived at the battlefield, the situation was even worse than he had imagined.
In just that short time, Tawa’s fleet had lost more than half its strength! Over two hundred warships were sunk in this battle, a few of them by Rocky personally, but the vast majority were destroyed by Rocky’s fleet.
Such a result was a heavy blow to Erwin, leaving him dumbfounded. He could never have anticipated such colossal losses, and that was just the losses for the fleet. The situation with the Void Magic Corps was even worse because after the fleets had engaged in close-range cannon fire, the Void Magic Corps from the City of Fury, having just retreated, had to launch again. But this time, they faced not the enemy led by Liliya but the Void Magic Corps from Thunderhawk City, led by Rocky!
In this battle, Rocky vividly demonstrated the profound impact a single person can have on a battle. When he no longer targeted the warships, and instead led his troops to engage with the Void Magic Corps from the City of Fury, a catastrophe unfolded.
The captains, who had until then been somewhat effective in battle, all became his prey.
Many had heard of the notoriety of Rocky and the White Demon, and knew of his moniker as the Battlefield Demon. But the old saying holds: hearing is false, seeing is believing. When Rocky truly started hunting in his favored manner targeting his preferred prey, the true extent of his horror was revealed.
In front of the White Demon Armor, even the War God Type 5 Armor, boasting 11,000 mana points, was useless. None of the targeted captains survived, not even when facing attacks from more than ten armors, Rocky still managed effortlessly.
Under his leadership, the Void Magic Corps from Thunderhawk City quickly gained the upper hand in the skirmish against the Void Magic Corps from the City of Fury. The captains from the City of Fury were nearly all slain by Rocky, and the ordinary members couldn’t stand against them either. Although Rocky hardly bothered with these ordinary members, only a few managed to escape successfully. With no captains to pose a threat, the superiority of the Thunderhawk Armors in aerial combat became starkly evident.
The alternation of two Magic Energy Submachine Guns allowed the warriors in Thunderhawk Armor to avoid melee combat entirely, merely using the submachine guns to continuously shoot and kill their targets. As the Void Magic Warriors from the City of Fury dwindled, this oppressive situation intensified.
Although the losses were severe for the Void Magic Corps, their desperate engagement had drawn a great amount of enemy forces, which ultimately prevented Tawa’s fleet from being completely annihilated. Just imagine, if there were no Void Magic Corps holding the line in a desperate engagement, and Rocky had led both his Void Magic Corps and fleet to attack the City of Fury’s fleet, what would the scene have been?
It’s likely that when Erwin arrived with the reinforcements, there would have been no one left from the City of Fury’s forces!
It was also precisely because Erwin led the reinforcements that arrived in a timely manner that Rocky’s offensive had to slow down and eventually stopped.
Again, quantity can trigger a qualitative change. The forces from the City of Fury were significantly behind in technology compared to Rocky’s forces. If the two sides fought equally in terms of numbers, the City of Fury would definitely lose, but such equality did not exist.
Erwin’s reinforcements were also composed of two fleets, so when he entered the battlefield and joined forces with Tawa’s remnant soldiers, the total number of warships for the City of Fury approached six hundred, along with more than thirty squads of Void Magic Warriors. Conversely, Rocky’s fleet, after one round of combat, was left with just over seventy warships, and nearly ten were destroyed in the face of fierce enemy fire, while the number of Void Magic Corps was reduced to just over seventy, with more than thirty Void Magic Warriors having died in the subsequent battles.
In this situation, Rocky knew he couldn’t keep fighting. Continuing might still heavily damage City of Fury, but his own side would crumble. Therefore, he decisively chose to retreat. The fleet began to pull back first, while he led the remaining Void Magic Warriors to cover the rear.
As he ordered the fleet to withdraw gradually, Erwin also made a decision, which was to give up the pursuit.
Because he was scared…
The various performances of Rocky and his troops in the previous battles had instilled deep fear in Erwin. This fear was not the kind that one feels facing a formidable enemy, but rather, a fear of the unknown.
He didn’t know what advanced technology Rocky had mastered, nor did he know what advanced technology Rocky had used to make his troops so formidable. This fear of the unknown made Erwin give up the chance to pursue, because he didn’t know what Rocky would do if he did catch up.
Thus, the fierce exchange of fire came to an abrupt end. Subsequently, both sides slowly pulled back, Thunderhawk City’s fleet gradually flew back to Thunderhawk City, and City of Fury’s troops regrouped at their original position. It felt as though Rocky might turn back and strike at any moment. In the meantime, both sides’ Void Magic Corps remained on alert, ready to defend against any enemy attack at any moment.
Time flew by quickly, and in just a matter of minutes, Thunderhawk City’s fleet had left the battlefield. Once the fleet had successfully retreated from the battlefield, Rocky ordered the Void Magic Corps behind him to return as well, although he did not leave himself.
After the fleet and Void Magic Corps had moved away from the battlefield, only one person remained opposite the City of Fury’s army. Then, before Erwin and his people could react to the situation, the lone Rocky suddenly leapt up and flew into the air.
In an instant, he soared to the sky, looked down at the fleet below, and immediately his chest armor opened up, revealing a massive cannon hidden within the breastplate.
Demon Annihilation Cannon!
With the Demon Annihilation Cannon revealed, the White Demon Armor immediately entered full status mode. The armor lit up from top to bottom, and then these lights rapidly converged on the cannon.
With a boom, a vast beam of light shot out from the cannon in an instant and raced towards City of Fury’s fleet with the speed of lightning, striking a warship almost immediately!
The struck vessel was a flagship, a flagship that had once blocked Rocky, the very flagship aboard which Tawa was stationed!
After being hit by the Demon Annihilation Cannon, the Defensive Net lit up instantly, but regrettably, the originally formidable Defensive Net shattered in less than three seconds, and the immense Magic Energy Beam then heavily landed on the deck!
With a thunderous noise, the unprotected flagship was instantly penetrated, and then it transformed into a massive fireball in the air. The explosion’s shockwave even affected the two nearby warships, nearly flipping them over in mid-air…
And only after this did Rocky in the sky turn and leave.
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