The Strange Dream Reappears

In the rule-chaotic Shattered Star Sea, a massive fleet laden with all kinds of supplies and treasures was winding its way eastward, toward the exit of this sea region.

At this moment, the sky was filled with a blood-red setting sun, as though it had dyed the entire sea a glaring crimson.

Something was wrong!

There was something else beneath the seemingly tranquil sea!

Screee!

A vast swarm of at least several hundred or even thousand blood-red creatures—resembling jellyfish, starfish, and even some bizarre plant—turned into an underwater tornado and charged densely toward the fleet.

Their bodies were flower-shaped, their surfaces covered in brilliantly colored chitinous shells, with more than a dozen orange-red tentacles growing beneath them.

This was a group of highly venomous Sea Lilies.

Worthy of the Shattered Star Sea, a place teeming with remarkable beings. More than half of them were colossal creatures over ten meters in diameter, and even Small Species sea monsters that had already grown to thirty meters long were not uncommon.

Within the fleet flying the long pennant of the Crown of Thorns Sea Serpent.

Irant, dressed in a crisp black military uniform and a Captain's Cloak, stood on the deck of the All Heavy Gun Battleship-class Sea Pearl.

After solemnly Scanning the returning exploration fleet behind him, he swiftly issued his orders:

"Order the rangefinding team. Target bearing: starboard front. Distance: 10,000 meters. Calculate the firing data!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Under normal circumstances, the calculating personnel of the rangefinding team could only operate manually, using plotting boards, firing-data tables, firing-data rulers, calculators, command rulers, coordinate scales, and so on.

They determined firing data for enemy targets based on factors such as wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, air temperature, the height difference between cannon and target, propellant temperature, drift caused by planetary rotation,