This time, however, the wizards were well trained and did not panic because of the sudden attack or their losses. Their tactical arrangements had been comprehensive beforehand, and their defenses were deployed in good time. The prepared Dragon Formation had suffered damage so negligible it could almost be ignored.
According to the response requirements laid out in their usual Tactical Manual, the wizards belonging to the aerial forces quickly shifted formation and changed their direction of advance. The smaller dragons immediately retreated onto the Floating Ships, while the other wizards aboard the Floating Ships and those riding on the dragons' backs all began, with practiced precision, to weave defenses with their wands.
Amid the crisscrossing Charms in the sky, they drew out an invisible energy field to protect the vanguard of the Dragon Formation, then pressed down together with fierce momentum toward the area below where the Undead Charms had been fired from.
But the attackers had insidiously mixed a number of Fiendfyre Curses into the mass of ineffective Charms. The giant fire-breathing Ravens and all kinds of bizarre beasts formed from the flames cunningly bypassed those shields and headed straight for the Floating Ships suspended in the air behind the dragons.
Previously, when preparing to seize Germany and the United States, they had already engraved Fire-Resistant Runes on the decks and armor of the Floating Ships to deal with possible counterattacks by local wizards, so the effect these ambushing Fiendfyres could produce in a short time was limited. Yet while they could not cause fatal damage, when the Ravens formed from Fiendfyre flapped and slammed into the high-raised sails, they still followed the ropes and devoured every combustible little fitting. These parts were not as fire-resistant as the decks, and they strengthened the Fiendfyre. Though the ship's body itself