Hiss—!
The Shipboard Analysis Machine vented steam.
"Set firing data! Bearing 27-00, elevation 06-80! Eight rapid shots—fire!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ...
The continuous, terrifying barrage on deck shrieked in unison. Surging muzzle flashes blotted out the clouds, while violent muzzle blasts drove back the waves.
On the overseas battlefield, neither the Duchy nor the Federation had yet committed their battleships—their absolute main force—to the front lines.
Not to mention the Legendary Battleships that had been regarded by every nation as tools of national preservation thirty years ago.
In fact, as human technology advanced, technological weapons capable of countering Extraordinary Power, such as the "Elemental Turbulence Bomb," had gradually stripped Legendary Battleships—the crystallization of extraordinary power—of their dominance over the seas.
Even excluding the unreasonable Legendary Battleship Skills, the basic specifications of those "old-fashioned Sailing Warships" might not even match those of an ordinary modern battleship.
But at this moment, large numbers of cruisers from both sides were already patrolling the many shipping routes. Once they suddenly encountered one another, a brutal battle that shook the sea would erupt.
After all, in a war where technological power had developed to this point, neither the Duchy nor the Federation expected to achieve a swift victory.
The higher-ups had all come to a clear realization: modern warfare was about the economy, logistics, and technological reserves. Otherwise, there would not have been an arms race over the past twenty years.
At the present stage.
From east to west, in the Eritrea Sea, the Treasure Sea, the Black Sea, the Golden Sea, and the Shattered Star Sea...
Both sides' primary strategy was to sever the other's maritime lifelines, suppress the enemy's war potential, and eliminate their living forces.
Just as, at this moment, the two Fast Cruisers of the Duchy's "Golden Sea Fleet,"