At that moment, aboard the Yaoguang Angel, which was stationed in orbit above Salna, Major General Anto Baiya and the fleet personnel were anxiously watching the battle on the ground.
They felt terrible, as if they had strength to spare but nowhere to use it.
They were in command of a powerful, fully battle-ready fleet. Never mind the Yaoguang Angel, the fleet's flagship carrier, or the five light cruisers dedicated to air defense and support. Any one of the four Clear Sky-class heavy cruisers alone could turn the countryside within a thousand miles of Crystal City into a wasteland.
Void wraiths? Subspace beasts? There were no occult experts aboard, and this was the first time they had heard those names. But they had complete confidence that in the face of overwhelming force, no matter what—
They had heard those monsters were immune to conventional ammunition? Fine, then they could just hit them with neutron bombs. The heart of a neutron bomb's blast was as hot as a star. What kind of monster could survive being burned by that?
Put simply, the Empire's experienced fleets weren't strangers to the occult. Their usual approach was that if there were no knightly lords or inquisitors around, they simply opened up with everything they had.
The problem was that a city of three or four hundred thousand people lay near the battlefield. With a population that large, there were bound to be civilian families, perhaps even noble ones. No matter how blunt and brutal the Imperial Army could be, they couldn't just drop a pile of thermonuclear bombs and level the whole area.
As mentioned earlier, this fleet had been assembled specifically to support the more than two hundred Starrealm Knights. There was no shortage of personnel; the fleet had nearly ten thousand crew