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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 579 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 579: The Hexagonal Invasion Part 2

But here is where the real problem lies. And it is a major one, at that.

Gigaton-Class battleships are basically powerless against Terraton-class battleships, and there is no way to actually circumvent that rule. But if that is the case here, then what would the Gigaton-Class battleships of the Grand Fleet of Futatsuoka aim for here? We do not know that, and it is this kind of uncertainty that makes me really anxious.

But totally unbeknownst to us, the answer to that question would be waiting for us right as we exited this literal death zone!!

「Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit! The transport planes are exploding! There are only two of them left, and that is including us into the equation!」

「The squadron of fighting ships! That must be it!」

「Ahh, it seems that about sixty percent of them all got wiped out in that Germanic Range back there.」

「Whoa there! Even flies tend to live longer than that!」

Thanks to the vast majority of our forces being even more useless than a bunch of mosquitoes, it seems that the remaining forty percent of the fleet is going to have to do all of the heavy lifting ourselves. Just then, a single rocket was sent in between the enemy’s defenses, blowing a hole in some of their Gigaton-Class ships and opening a path for us to follow. Nice! Now charge through! Do not stop, no matter what!

「Alright, ready or not, here we go!」

Oh shit! And here we have another enemy drone sticking close to the other transport ship, not wanting to give it up no matter what…… Oh shit, that’s not good! Aaaand there it is, another explosion!

「I have even more bad news, guys, it looks like we are going to be the only ones who are going to be landing on the enemy’s vessel at this rate. Now those idiots should be able to see the error of their ways, choosing fighter ships like that.」

「Huh? Seriously now? Why were the fighter ships no good?」

「 You know why you don’t want to let the enemy ships land on top of you? Their armor is covered in a thin layer of exploding force field. One touch of this thing and you are done for. So there you have it.」

「Yeah, just what Fox said here. But based on that, is there anything that can be done here?」

Hey, look here! Who would have thought? More enemy drones on their way! Just the thing we need here!

「Hey, Gazelle—san!? Please, do something! At this rate they are going to catch up to us!」

「Alright! I’ll see what I can do here! Everyone, attention please!! The situation looks pretty dire, so we are responding with some equally dire evasive maneuvers! Now brace yourselves!!!」

By injecting the left and right boosters in the opposite directions and turning the rudder to the maximum without any moment of needless hesitation, the transport ship will rotate vigorously as if it was rolling over! Now this is the barrel roll I can get behind! Now the only thing that is left to do is to shake off those drones and start accelerating forward, showing people that we mean business!

「Yo, what the hell are you…… Whooaaaahhh!?!?!?」

「Uhahahaha! Let me tell you where we are going! This ship will be forced to leave after a runaway behavior. Player: Hornets Nest’s second ship! We are going to rendezvous at that hexagonal ship!」

While performing the behavior similar to being blown away with apparently uncontrollable movements, we pretend to be “out of control and accidentally approach”, approaching the hexagonal ship that looks like a combination of hundreds of huge hexagons. ……If it was a Gigaton class, we would have been intercepted for sure, but if it was a Terraton class that would not cause even one damage if it was hit by a transport ship? Or at least that’s what I think.

「I knew it, it was completely ignored……!」

And as long as you run a huge ship, it’s hard to think of giving detailed orders to NPC soldiers. In other words, NPC fighters go to the main corps without paying attention to the dying transport aircrafts at all. Well, if you invade the ship as it is with a transport ship, you will be dealt with swiftly. And if you are preparing for the invasion while approaching, you will be targeted by the defense systems, so that’s it.

「Oh, by the way, do you guys happen to know what happens when you open the ship’s hatch in the outer space?」

「Huh?」

「Ah?」

「Ehh?」

「What the?」

「Alright then, we are going to meet on site! Use the boosters on your back to get to the start gate!! This transport ship will self-destruct after you have all left the ship!!」

I don’t know how you guys are going to get out of here, but you’ll have to do it fast! Even if you have to break it, just do it! Then it’s self-destruct time!

Watching the metal animals blow away from the opened hatch, I press the suicide switch on the transport ship to release the seatbelts. At the next moment, my body was blown out with the rest of the air here, and when I jumped out into outer space, a gauge showing the amount of residual air appeared in the field of view displayed by the animal helmet…… Just as expected. It’s just like I have seen it in the tutorial.

This is the secret technique called “Fake Accidental Transportation” that is said to have been used only by some “carriers” in the Universe Storm. The nuclear bomb player forced discharge technique that utilizes the nature of outer space, and it seems to have been very useful in different worlds as well……… Anyway, honestly, if you do paratroopers that are not airborne, you will only be targeted immediately by the defense systems. That’s why space weapons are automatically homing onto other weaponry or debris, because they have a high level of civilization. Now, the key to a successful ambush is to steer yourself in such a way that your enemy thinks that you are nothing more but a harmless trash. That’s how you win space combat.

「Alright! Let’s go! Let’s do it!」」

As I was accelerating in order to catch up to the shock wave that the self-destructed transport ship created, I could not help it but to start laughing and be unable to stop for a while. And just like that, the five of us managed to reach that hexagonal safe haven, by some weird stroke of luck or maybe even a miracle. I don’t really care what it was, what counts here is the result.