Chapter 384: Empire Grip

Clendor stood on the rooftop at the bridge command room, looking at the long fleet lined up in the back, surging in his heart.
Except for the huge Iron Armor flagship, the Empire ’s Grip, the rest of the ships are also made of Iron Armor. Although these reconnaissance ships, frigates, and supply ships are equipped with one or two sets of weapons, their size is less than one-fifth of the flagship, but when When hundreds of ships came together, they still looked extremely spectacular.
In the low whimper that sounded from time to time, the white smoke emerging from the chimney stretched into pieces, and the seawater was also swinging to the sides due to this huge fleet. The iron armored bow was more stable than the magic guided ship. Even more subtle, there is a kind of momentum before.
As the flagship, the Empire's Grip is definitely the most striking presence in the fleet. Its top is hung with a black wing flag symbolizing the Northern Empire. The towering bridge and slender body make it different from the ordinary Ming Dynasty. Ships and armored ships, towering turrets at the front of the hull, and super guns up to 406 mm in diameter. This gun will fire 2,700 pounds of super heavy armor-piercing shells. Dozens of DúLì artillery and machine guns can attack without dead ends. Enemies from any direction, but even if equipped with such a complicated weapon system, the magically-guided high-pressure steam engine with propeller power makes it able to sail at high speed without losing speed, and can also sail at high speed on the sea.
In today's era, "Emperor's Grip" and its two companions, "Sacred Dragon's Breath" and "Northern Morning Dawn", are absolutely deserved maritime overlords, even if their opponents are magic warships.
but……
Klendo glanced up at the dragon body circling above the fleet, then lowered his head and sighed. The Black Wing Empire was capable of making such a powerful warship, but was dragged by its personnel and talents. At this stage, the Northland has not been able to provide navigators, gunners and other seafarers in large quantities.
After all, even as the captain of the Empire, he now plays multiple roles, and still has to go to colleges and universities to teach from time to time. It is conceivable how scarce the North is.
This is also the reason for this ocean-going plan. Only the Empire holds an armored ship group. The personnel on "Breath of the Holy Dragon" and "Northern Dawn" are still in the training and running-in stage.
"I hope that the development of the ocean plan can encourage more people to join this industry." Klundo thought: "After all, the sea is the romance of men."
The destination of the Empire's Grip armored ship group is Villost, another continent that does not belong to Elladia.
A thousand years ago, the continent had been called this name. Back then, the ocean fleet of the Sunless Empire had set foot on that land, but for some reason, the southerners gave up on Villost. At present, it is more reliable to say that the elemental response of the Villost continent is not active, and it can even be said that it is deadly, which makes it difficult for the caster and the magic product to function there; the local indigenous primitive is foolish and difficult to communicate However, their physiques are much larger than those of the Eladiyas. They have extreme hatred of foreigners, and once they come into contact, war will break out. After evaluation, the Sunburst Empire judged Villost to be worthless and suspended further plans.
Later, the trading city also arrived in Villost, and the historical data left behind confirmed this statement from the side.
Clendor originally followed an expedition caravan. They successfully arrived on the continent. Although they did not dare to go too far, they successfully left charts and maps of a small part of Villost, and later applied for it. When he enlisted he was dedicated to the Black Dragon Emperor.
When the Black Dragon Emperor received the chart, he only glanced at him to indicate that he could leave, and did not show interest in the New World. This disappointed Crendo, and for this reason he was depressed for a while. But now, the Black Wing Empire, this new and huge country, has finally turned its eyes to the depths of the ocean, the other side of the ocean, and the vast new world outside of Ieradia.
There are several major difficulties in cross-sea navigation. Self-supply, disaster climate, and sea monster attacks. Among them, the changing climate at sea and the powerful sea monsters in the deep sea are the most worrying issues, but the more you worry about the more you will encounter. When receiving an urgent call from the command room, Clendor realized that he was working.
The maritime climate changed suddenly, and the weather was still fairly bright. With a bright white light breaking through the sky and rolling thunder, such as háo dark clouds filled the sky immediately, the rain quickly poured down.
"Sir, there is news from the reconnaissance ship that there is something ahead and something is approaching us. The number ... not a lot."
In fact, without him, Clendor himself can see through the magic survey system carried by the grip of the empire that countless dark shadows are approaching the ship group under the sea, and the speed is very fast. These things come from all directions, like It was a shark smelling blood.
"Notify everyone to prepare."
Clendor said deeply that before leaving Hong Kong, he had been mentally prepared for the unexpected situation, and that the fleet was not a soft persimmon. All of them had more than one experience in combat training and exercises.
Before the two sides contacted, the dragon above the circle rushed into the sea first. When it rushed out of the water again, a huge strange fish was already in his mouth.
"Dark Double Star" Blackhia, sister of the Black Dragon Emperor, her mission is to accompany the ocean fleet to find a new continent and provide the empire with details of Villost.
"Roar."
Blackxia swallowed the strange fish into her belly, and her slender neck agitated for a while, then she uttered an excited clamor ~ EbookFREE.me ~ has grown to sixteen meters and her body turned backwards in the sky and rushed into the sea again.
The enemy was approaching. At the sea in front of the fleet, the dorsal fins of the strange fish had surfaced. At the same time, thick and fleshy suction cups were extended from the sea. After the reconnaissance ship lifted off, it could not stop dancing and began to try to capture the roaring black dragon in the sky.
"Prodalk."
Crendo's expression was condensed, and he did not expect to encounter such an adversary when he led the Northern Fleet for the first time. The word "Prodolk" was derived from the ancient Orc language, and was inherited by the human language and common language, which means that A powerful octopus sea monster.
This octopus can be up to 100 meters in length and has more than 24 contact arms. Its unique physiological system allows it to completely float the body to the surface when needed. Its terrible regeneration ability and deadly entanglement attack are its most significant. At the same time, this sea monster can send a terrestrial creature that cannot receive sound waves and enslave all the fish it comes in contact with. According to the "Monster Book", the most powerful of this octopus can even hunt adult sea dragons. , Is one of the very scary monsters in the deep sea.
Some fishermen, pirates and other people who live on the sea even worship Prodork as a shrine and pray all night before going out to sea.