A Colossus on the Horizon!

Itō Hidetaka glanced at Singh.

Clearly, this Indian prince was used to a life of luxury and had no skills for surviving in a dungeon.

The aerial bombardment just now had left him grievously wounded, half his face blown away.

Although all injuries sustained in a dungeon would disappear once he left, the problem was that surrender was not permitted at this stage of the dungeon...

That meant Singh would have to keep suffering until he died in the dungeon.

"Mr. Itō, I trusted you, which is why I handed command over to you, and this is what you've made of things?"

"Your assessment of the enemy's forces was completely wrong! We've been played for monkeys this entire battle!"

"I don't think your reputation as a genius dungeon designer holds up to scrutiny at all, Mr. Itō."

Singh was beside himself with frustration. He was a prince, for heaven's sake. When had he ever suffered like this?

When he first entered the dungeon, he had intended to surrender and leave immediately. It was a Purgatory-level dungeon, after all, and he knew perfectly well that his chances of winning were slim.

Then Itō Hidetaka had run his mouth and talked him into staying!

And look how that had turned out. Now he could neither live nor die.

Naturally, he had to vent his anger on Itō Hidetaka!

Hearing this, Itō Hidetaka was furious in turn. He sneered.

"If Prince Singh could handle it himself, why did you hand command over to me?"

"You're a prince raised in a greenhouse, and you really think you can make sense of a dungeon?"

Itō Hidetaka's barbs nearly made Singh cough up blood with rage.

"You!"

"Just you wait, Itō Hidetaka. You've offended my Brahmin Royal House. You... you'll regret this."

Itō Hidetaka had no time to bicker with Singh now. He simply threw out a few words.

"Prince Singh, calm down."

"The mission instructions in the dungeon told us to deal with the Nation-Destroying Fleet, but what showed up was an air force."

"There's clearly an error in the mission description! Lin Ye did this on purpose, just to mislead us."

"Once I leave the dungeon, I'll report this to the Firmament."

"That will surely make Lin Ye's dungeon disappear!"

Itō Hidetaka was very good at finding excuses for himself.

Although he had just been shocked by the air power in Lin Ye's dungeon, he had no doubts about his own abilities.

After leaving the dungeon, he would give the Emperor the same explanation.

Lin Ye's air power was formidable, but there was also an obvious error in the mission description for the Raging Waves dungeon!

Judging by its name alone, Raging Waves should have been a naval warfare dungeon.

Yet what lay before him now was a strange aerial combat dungeon.

Wasn't it strange that the main fighting force in a naval warfare dungeon consisted of all kinds of aircraft and bombers?!

If he had known about this strange setting beforehand, Itō Hidetaka could have brought his own fighter planes, and he might have stood a chance.

So this was simply a flawed dungeon that should never have existed!

Many of the viewers watching the dungeon livestream were amused by the shouting match between Itō Hidetaka and Singh.

One was a noble prince at LV3, and the other was a design genius at LV2.

Yet here they were, trading insults.

[How embarrassing. What good does it do for these two to keep insulting each other now?]

[Looks like Lin Ye's dungeon has really left this bunch completely baffled.]

[Lin Ye's dungeon really is well thought out. There are schemes everywhere you look.]

[Unbelievable. I never expected Lin Ye to have such an enormous air force. Once this dungeon is over, there's sure to be big news on Azure Star!]

Some people also raised the same question as Itō Hidetaka: why were there aerial combat forces in Lin Ye's naval warfare dungeon?

Of course, most of these people were stubborn members of the Great He Clan.

[Baka yarō, there's obviously a problem with Lin Ye's design!]

[The mission prompt only mentioned the Nation-Destroying Fleet. It never said anything about aerial combat forces. The mission prompt was obviously misleading!]

[Exactly. What right does a naval warfare dungeon have to include aerial combat?!]

[...]

[The people above, wake up. These mission prompts are all reviewed by the Firmament. Do you really think the Firmament would make such a basic mistake?]

[Who said this was a naval warfare dungeon? It's just called Raging Waves. There's nothing wrong with my interpreting that as waves churned up at sea by aircraft bombs.]

[When all's said and done, Itō Hidetaka simply made a bad judgment.]

The bullet comments argued endlessly.

Then another sudden change occurred in the dungeon!

After one round of bombing, all the aircraft turned back in an orderly formation and stopped attacking.

The way they looked, they seemed to be preparing to land at any moment...

"What are those planes doing? We're out at sea. Where could they possibly land?"

Itō Hidetaka was once again astonished.

He hurriedly found a floating piece of wrecked deck and used it as cover, hiding behind it for the time being.

At that moment, a deafening roar suddenly rang out across the vast sea, as though the heavens had been split apart by a thunderbolt!

It left Itō Hidetaka and Singh's ears ringing and their heads spinning.

They hurriedly looked toward the sound. In the thick fog, countless enormous shadows emerged indistinctly, like monstrous beasts from a nightmare.

The objects were so immense that they looked like towering mountain ranges moving through the mist, slowly advancing toward them!

"That's... what is that?!" Itō Hidetaka stared at the mass of colossal objects, feeling as though he had stopped breathing.

His voice turned shaky and weak.

"Damn it, could Lin Ye have more weapons?" Singh cried out as well. "My God! Someone save me!"

By now, the early morning had passed, and the sun had just leaped above the surface of the sea.

Sunlight slowly began to disperse the thick fog.

Through the hazy mist, the first enormous figure slowly took shape.

Itō Hidetaka held his breath and stared.

When he saw the colossal object's true face with his own eyes, Itō Hidetaka felt his heart nearly stop, his mind going completely blank.

The colossal object was a warship too!

It really was a warship!

Compared with a conventional warship, however, the one before him was far, far larger.

Judging by its length, it had to be around three hundred meters long! A single glance at it inspired an overwhelming sense of pressure.

Its height above the water alone was more than ten meters!

Vast quantities of steam poured continuously from the ship, rising into the air without end like a giant dragon's breath.

Rather than a warship, it was more like a moving island. Every inch it advanced stirred up raging waves on the sea.

The planes that had just bombed them were landing on the ship's deck in an orderly fashion.