Thunderbolt Strike

Through the porthole beside him, Zhang Tie looked at the black mass of airships filling the sky outside, wave after wave of shock crashing through his heart.

The strength Huaiyuan Hall had displayed in this operation gave Zhang Tie an even deeper understanding of its true power.

Once the two airship squadrons had fully spread out their formations in the sky, the enormous forms of Huaiyuan Hall's war airships filled an airspace spanning several kilometers in every direction.

Luckily, it was night. If it had been daytime, just the vast, dark-cloud-like shadows cast upon the ground by such a huge fleet of airships passing overhead would have filled people with immense dread.

The airship Zhang Tie and the others were riding was a Furywind-class Rigid War Airship that Huaiyuan Prefecture had only begun equipping its forces with last year. Its nearly four-hundred-meter-long hull, payload of over three hundred tons, cruising speed of 160 kilometers per hour, and fully loaded range of 4,500 kilometers made it a true behemoth of the skies.

Unlike the cigar-shaped airships Zhang Tie had ridden before, the massive, slightly triangular hull of the Furywind-class Rigid War Airship greatly resembled a kind of ray Zhang Tie had once seen in the ocean. Its enormous body also gave this airship an extraordinarily spacious interior.

At that moment, as Zhang Tie looked at the Huaiyuan Hall elites on the other side of the passenger cabin, he felt as though he were sitting in the cabin of an ocean liner.

While in flight, the airship was so quiet and steady that one could scarcely feel it was speeding through the air.

Not long after Zhang Tie boarded the airship, all the Hidden Dragon Hall students learned the causes, consequences, and operational details behind Huaiyuan Hall's mission. The mystery of Star-Gazing