Under the cloudless sky, a medium-sized airship sailed through the clear heights, flying toward the distant horizon.
The journey seemed to have no end. No matter how long they flew, there was nothing ahead but blue skies and white clouds. Occasionally, they would see dark storm clouds, flashes of lightning, and peals of thunder. Aside from that, only groups of small Demon Scarabs appeared in the distance. There was nothing else.
Because of this, aside from the time when they had eagerly watched the scenery outside after boarding yesterday, everyone had stayed in their own rooms today or wandered around the airship to pass the time.
Luo Zhen and the others were no exception.
However, they passed the time differently from ordinary people.
At that moment, the five members of the Special Operations Squad S128 were gathered in Luo Zhen's room. They sat in a circle with their eyes closed and serious expressions, as if they were engaged in an intense battle and could not afford to be distracted for even an instant.
Before long, all five of them relaxed their faces and opened their eyes at the same time, displaying perfect coordination.
Under these circumstances, Kanata was the first to speak thoughtfully.
"Sure enough, it's difficult to charge straight through in that situation, isn't it?"
Kanata had said something that seemed utterly inexplicable.
Yet the others all agreed.
"Indeed. The enemy formation is too dense. Aside from concentrating our fire to eliminate the first wave of attacks, charging straight in would be far too impractical."
Chloe expressed her opinion.
"But if Senior Chloe begins with bombardment, the enemy will launch their own bombardment as well and cancel out Senior Chloe's attack. Unless Senior Chloe uses Compressed Mana, but that would consume too much mana. We basically wouldn't be able