The clouds were like boiling flames, black and red intertwined, as though the entire sky were burning.
The barrage raining down from the heavens seemed unable to stop that black curtain from falling. Billowing smoke had already swallowed one corner of the towering fortress.
Even though that spark was as faint as a speck of dust.
It had still shattered the myth that the shield was impregnable.
As flames burst from the right wing, the soldiers on the ground all wore astonished expressions, their eyes filled with disbelief.
And a faint unease.
"...What happened?"
"Why did the engine fail again?"
"Something seemed to hit it just now..."
"How is that possible?! The deflector shield's defense is absolute. How could anything get through?!"
"Was that a parachute? Or am I seeing things...?"
"Are those lunatics planning to board the Heart of Steel?!"
"What could that handful of people do... At most, maybe one or two hundred-man squads."
Although one engine had failed, no one was worried that anything would happen there.
As the least sophisticated things aboard the Heart of Steel and attached to the wings, that row of engines malfunctioned all the time. One going out was nothing worth making a fuss over.
The most plentiful spare parts in the airship's inventory were propeller blades.
It was just that the redeployment plan would probably have to be delayed by more than two weeks...
Also looking toward the Heart of Steel, Raquel opened his mouth slightly in surprise.
From the moment the commotion had broken out in the sky, the airship's observation cabin had had no time to spare for their side.
He did not know what those natives had done.
But looking at the unbalanced airship, he roughly understood that he could probably forget about air support for the time