"Slow down! All ships, close on the flagship!"
Andrei instantly regained his composure and gave the order.
A second volley of missiles trailing white streaks had already punched through the clouds.
Ssu-nalna Einhorn used his ability again, pressing both hands against the air.
A raging thunderstorm and a wall of fire hundreds of meters high erupted from nowhere.
The missiles slammed into the fire and detonated in midair.
Blinding fireballs merged into one, and the shock wave sent several nearby airships rocking violently.
At the sight, Andrei burst out laughing.
"That Edwin thinks a few firecrackers that can turn corners will win him a war?"
"Before the might of an Angel, those heaps of scrap built from gears and gunpowder aren't worth a damn!"
Before his laughter had faded, the clouds overhead split apart.
Driven by blue jets of flame, two eighteen-meter giants descended through the clouds and hovered directly in front of the airship formation.
Their blue-and-white bodies gleamed with metal, while massive thrusters on their backs spewed ghostly blue particles.
Each held a giant gun several meters long, and V-shaped antennae on their heads flashed amid the lightning.
They were the weapons known as Gundams...
Everyone froze at the sight of the two Gundams hovering ahead, staring blankly through the windows at those monsters that defied aerodynamics and common sense.
"What the fuck... are those things?"
Andrei muttered. How could something like this exist?
Creations of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery?
Impossible.
Those people couldn't build anything like that!
Ssu-nalna Einhorn frowned and thrust both hands upward.
A powerful convective cyclone laced with lightning hot enough to melt steel became a thunder dragon that roared toward one of the metal giants.
The instant the lightning struck its armor, a transparent orange barrier appeared and