The New King Ascends the Throne

The sinking of the USS Roosevelt Aircraft Carrier was like a signal—a symbol of an entire fleet's annihilation.

The warships of every nation that had fought alongside the USS Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group were all left dumbfounded. Of course, this did not include Great Britain, because the HMS Queen Elizabeth had fled long ago.

Aircraft carriers were the core of the Beautiful Country's fleet. Now that even its core had been destroyed, the blow dealt to the fleet's confidence and morale was immense.

But the Jieko Group gave those enemy warships no chance to catch their breath. Soon, more Bio Plasma Cannons came roaring in.

If even a nuclear-powered carrier weighing a hundred thousand tons could not withstand such damage, then other warships naturally would be no exception.

Every explosion of a Bio Plasma Cannon was accompanied by the sinking of warships costing hundreds of millions of dollars, with countless sailors buried beneath the sea.

The three Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers also launched a massive barrage of anti-ship missiles, finishing off the already completely chaotic USS Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group and accelerating its destruction.

Under such ferocious bombardment, the warships of the USS Roosevelt Carrier Battle Group were destroyed one after another, their numbers visibly dwindling.

The Beautiful Country's fighter jets in the sky also understood that the tide had turned. They had no way to break through the dense, monstrous air-defense network of the Head of State.

Continuing to fight would only mean throwing their lives away for nothing. The spirit of fighting to the death deflated like a punctured ball, and the fighters all chose to flee.

What drove the Beautiful Country's fighter pilots to despair was that the air base in the Ryukyu Islands had been subjected to carpet bombing by the Phoenix Sky Strategic Bombers, leaving