This Is the Nation-Destroying Fleet

Even more inconceivable, more unbelievable, was that nearly ten smaller destroyers were following close behind the enormous, awe-inspiring colossus.

Like worker bees in a hive, they surrounded their queen, trailing her like shadows and never daring to stray a single step.

Even from a distance, it was clear that these destroyers were top-of-the-line vessels. By any measure, every single one was unquestionably superior to the ships Itō Hidetaka himself owned.

Yet now, placed alongside that "Iron Behemoth," the destroyers paled in comparison.

They simply could not be compared!

Then, immediately afterward.

One enormous warship after another emerged from the depths of the thick fog.

These giant ships came in different designs. Some were slightly taller than the first, while others were slightly smaller.

But without exception, every single one was at least 200 meters long!

Every giant ship was packed with aircraft of all kinds, and each had a ring of destroyers and cruisers around it. The vast fleet almost blotted out the entire surface of the sea.

Itō Hidetaka counted them. There were as many as thirty giant ships! And the destroyers and cruisers surrounding them numbered over a hundred!

What a terrifying fleet this was. It had even surpassed the limits of Itō Hidetaka's understanding.

Beside him, all Singh could do now was shriek and babble.

"God!"

"Oh my god!"

"The thirty naval units in the mission prompt actually meant giant ships like these?!"

"Fuck! So one giant ship, together with all the smaller ships around it, made up a single naval unit? What?!"

Singh's analysis was indeed a little trick Lin Ye had employed when setting up the mission.

In his previous life, Eagle Sauce's Nation-Destroying Fleet, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, had been Eagle Sauce's strongest naval force during the S2 era. That one fleet alone could defeat the entire navy of the little Japanese!

The fleet as a whole was actually made up of seven task groups.

Each task group, in turn, contained four to five large or light aircraft carriers.

Each aircraft carrier, in turn, commanded ten to twenty cruisers and destroyers.

If counted by the number of ships, the entire Nation-Destroying Fleet was easily in the hundreds.

But when Lin Ye wrote the mission description, he used naval units, not ships.

Counting one carrier and all the destroyers and cruisers supporting it as a single naval unit was a perfectly reasonable description.

Since the Firmament had approved it, that meant this wording was accepted too.

"How could Lin Ye have such a massive naval force all by himself? Against a fleet like this, never mind ten thousand people—even a hundred thousand might not be enough!"

"Lin Ye's wealth is on the level of the richest man on Azure Star!"

"This is like seeing a ghost in broad daylight!"

Singh was so nervous that he was starting to become incoherent.

Faced with this enormous fleet, he truly did not know what to do.

He could neither swim forward nor swim back, and could only flail about in place.

Beside him, Itō Hidetaka, hiding in the wreckage of the deck, likewise had his mouth hanging wide open.

As he looked at the spectacular sight of the giant ships, a terrifying thought suddenly sprang into Itō Hidetaka's mind.

A thought even he himself dared not believe!

"What is this?"

"Could the warships in this Nation-Destroying Fleet... could they be aircraft carriers?!"

Naval units like aircraft carriers had actually been invented on Earth during the S1 era.

As the name suggested, they were large surface combat vessels that used carrier-based aircraft as their primary combat equipment and provided them with a base of operations at sea.

These large units brought naval and air power together in perfect combination.

They were remarkably effective at striking surface ships, submarines, land targets, and coastal bases. As a result, countries soon increased their funding for research and construction, and by the S2 era, aircraft carriers had been put into widespread use.

In this respect, Azure Star lagged slightly behind Earth. Even now, the aircraft carrier had yet to be invented there.

There was, however, no shortage of ideas for aircraft carriers.

Many dungeon designers from Azure Star's nations with relatively strong naval forces had already tried to create carriers in their dungeons, but none had succeeded yet.

At this critical juncture, whoever managed to create an aircraft carrier would be ahead of the entire world!

The Emperor of the Great He people had even issued a personal edict! Whoever designed an aircraft carrier in a dungeon would be a hero of the Great He settlement.

That was why, after seeing one giant ship after another, Itō Hidetaka had realized with a jolt that these were aircraft carriers!

"Aircraft carriers?" Singh was startled again. "You're saying these big things are the aircraft carriers every dungeon designer dreams of day and night?!"

"There can be no mistake. They can carry all kinds of carrier-based aircraft and form carrier battle groups with smaller vessels like cruisers. That's practically identical to the current aircraft carrier design concepts on Azure Star!"

"These are aircraft carriers! These are aircraft carriers!"

Itō Hidetaka's heart was now filled entirely with fear and shock.

His earlier arrogance, his ambition to conquer the Raging Waves dungeon by himself, had now vanished without a trace.

Even a single aircraft carrier would be able to walk unchallenged across Azure Star. One could even say that a single small carrier was enough to design a hell-difficulty dungeon.

And this dungeon actually had a full thirty aircraft carriers!

Thirty!

No wonder the Firmament had rated it purgatory difficulty.

Itō Hidetaka could say with complete certainty that, against a fleet like this, it would be impossible to conquer the dungeon with the dungeon weapons he had.

There would not be the slightest chance.

Itō Hidetaka simply could not understand why Lin Ye possessed such cutting-edge military technology.

If a force was backing Lin Ye, what kind of force could it possibly be?

Having remained hidden for so long, why would it expose technology that was ahead of the world at this particular moment? And why choose a rookie like Lin Ye to carry all of this?

If there was no force behind Lin Ye and he was working alone, then creating a dungeon like this through the strength of one person was simply too outrageous.

Itō Hidetaka had held on until now to see just what Lin Ye's trump card was, so he could prepare for his next attempt at conquering the dungeon.

But now that he had seen Lin Ye's trump card, all it left him with was despair.

At this very moment, the dungeon's bullet chat had also come to a complete standstill.

The entire Raging Waves dungeon was left with an empty screen.

No one dared say a word or send a single bullet comment.

That was how viewers were: as long as something was within their understanding, they could run their mouths.

But once it surpassed their understanding, all that remained was shock. They had no thought of sending bullet comments anymore.