The immense fleet of more than 3,000 large airships could form a gigantic formation sixty kilometers long and twenty kilometers wide, spread across three echelons between altitudes of five and ten thousand meters. Such a massive formation flying through the sky looked from the ground like an enormous cloud, blotting out the heavens and covering the sun. It would have been difficult not to draw attention.
In the air, without clouds blocking the view, anyone could spot such a colossal thing slowly moving across the sky from several hundred kilometers away, even without observation equipment. Naturally, it was no difficult task for Devil Race knights to discover it, especially since knights possessed keener eyesight and senses than ordinary people. Anything capable of flying had to have decent vision, and Winged Devils went without saying.
Moreover, when so many airships flew in a large formation, none of them could move very fast. Because of the wind direction, all the airships traveled at only a little over fifty kilometers per hour. To knights, that was as slow as a turtle.
Just as dogs loved chasing frisbees people threw out, to the Winged Devils, these more than 3,000 large airships of Great Xia held an indescribable, fatal allure the moment they rose into the air. At the sight of them, Winged Devils could not help but feel the urge to shoot every last one down.
Easy to spot, huge in number, and not particularly fast—these were the finest and most beloved aerial targets for the Winged Devils.
Zhang Tie had originally thought that escorting more than 3,000 airships and two Great Xia legions out of Elephant Mountain City would be a smooth, uneventful, somewhat boring mission. But before long, Zhang Tie realized that this assignment was practically a perfect job of sitting still