The next day, beneath blue skies over an azure sea, sonorous war drums echoed across the waters of Penglai.
Waves surged as more than eighty enormous warships sailed across the sea in a Fish-Scale Formation. Even the smallest were colossal vessels, a thousand meters long, hundreds of meters wide, and dozens of yards high, like savage Sea King Beasts baring vicious fangs. Ordinarily, such colossal ships would need escorts of various classes, but this fleet had no escort ships whatsoever. It consisted entirely of superwarships of colossal size or greater, churning up waves dozens of meters high. Its imposing presence awed the ocean.
At the heart of the fleet was its largest vessel, Penglai Immortal Island, shaped like a floating island. The Heaven-Piercing Divine Ark and the Jingyang Water Estate escorted it on either side, followed by eight Emperor-Grade Warships guarding the eight directions, then eighteen King Grade warships, with thirty-six ordinary Iron Colossi forming the outermost perimeter. One Emperor-Grade Warship, three King Grade warships, and twelve Iron Colossi belonging to China's Otherworlder community followed close behind. Its small numbers meant the Great Huan Fleet lacked the sky-blotting, boundless grandeur of the Canada-U.S. Allied Forces, but it possessed the crushing might of a heaven-supporting giant. Sea beasts scattered wherever it passed, and even the occasional Sea King Beast fled at tremendous speed.
In the waters northeast of Penglai Commandery lay the Hawaiian Islands.
Magical Hexagram Formations flashed incessantly across the islands, and endless crowds poured out of them like a rising tide. Their clothing varied widely, but most were Otherworlders from dozens of regions in North and South America, including the United States Region, Canada Region, Mexico Region, Brazil Zone, Colombia Region, Peru Region, and Argentina Region.
The banner raised by the Great Huan Dynasty proclaimed a "campaign against