In less than two minutes, the stretch of sea where the Holy Light Empire's expeditionary fleet lay had become a complete shambles. The entire expeditionary fleet had suffered a catastrophic blow...
The flagship broke apart, exploded, and sank. The expeditionary fleet's two throne archdioceses, five Scepter Archdioceses, and tens of thousands of elites aboard it, along with every sailor on the flagship—not a single one survived. Under such terrifying force, apart from the seven knights who struggled briefly before dying, many people did not even have time to understand what had happened before they were instantly reduced to ashes...
The tens of thousands of steel fragments flung out by the flagship swept across the eight battleships around it. At the terrifying speed of those steel fragments, even a metal faucet, striking a battleship at several times the speed of sound, could easily punch through its armor and inflict severe damage.
After that wave of steel fragments swept through, everything above the decks of the Holy Light Empire's eight battleships was a wreck. Four of the eight battleships had several huge holes blasted into the portions of their hulls below the waterline, the largest over two meters across. One battleship even had its central keel snapped clean through by a steel fragment weighing several hundred kilograms, leaving a huge hole in its underside. Amid the shrieking twist of steel, that battleship began to sink...
The battleships rang with howls like ghosts weeping and wolves crying; flesh and blood were everywhere...
Many of the steel fragments that had swept across the eight battleships also struck vessels farther out. Before anyone could react, a hundred-meter tsunami came crashing in...
Two minutes later, only three of the Holy Light Empire expeditionary fleet's eight battleships remained on the sea. Two had capsized, their bottoms facing