Everyone in the Bluebeard Pirate Gang, along with the mages, stood stunned and speechless by that strike. Aboard the Large Cargo Mana-Powered Ship that had launched it from over two thousand meters away, there was also dead silence.
After a long while, a loud gulp echoed through the utterly quiet bridge, breaking the silence.
"Gods above... did we really launch that attack?"
The senior and mid-ranking officers of the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guards Fleet and the other crew members on the bridge exchanged looks, their expressions equally strange.
After another long pause, Garn Solon, who wore the uniform of a senior officer in the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps and was commanding this operation, coughed and said gravely, "Enough. It's not as though you haven't seen the power of this Dawn's Wrath Cannon during our drills. What's so surprising? Stop standing around! Combat team, prepare for the next stage immediately. Our enemies haven't disappeared yet!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Understood!"
A chorus of replies rang out, and several people in officers' uniforms sprang into action.
Garn Solon cleared his throat and was just about to speak when a middle-aged man in white robes standing to his right suddenly frowned. "Commander Solon, I must remind you that maintaining the shield consumes three hundred and seventy aether mana per minute. It has been active for over ten minutes now, consuming nearly four thousand aether mana. The Dawn's Wrath shot you just ordered consumed another eighteen hundred aether mana outright. The magic crystals currently aboard can yield approximately sixteen thousand aether mana at most. Please keep an eye on consumption."
"Enough magic crystals left for sixteen thousand aether mana?" Garn Solon rubbed his chin and made a quick mental calculation, then laughed. "That's still plenty! All right, that's enough. Pass down my orders. The