Close Combat

After that, the electromagnetic cannon returned to its main task, continuing to pressure the Radiant Holy City at an overall rate of nearly a thousand rounds per hour. Like cheerful little birds, the shells smashed brilliant patterns across the enormous, beautiful shield.

Yuya watched the magnificent spectacle above the city through a building's window. She took out the phone Su Ming had given her, chose an angle, and snapped a picture.

Unfortunately, the result was terrible. The flecks of light had blurred together into a hazy, pale mass, utterly failing to capture the grandeur of light and shadow scattering over a vast area as the shells struck one after another.

Yuya shook her head and put the phone away helplessly.

Inside the room, a large number of papers lay spread across a table. Members of several infiltration teams sat around it, quickly compiling the intelligence they had just gathered. Before long, they finished their calculations.

"Judging by how often the magic crystal stone warehouses are making transfers and how much they're transporting, the Radiant Holy City is consuming roughly eighty to a hundred thousand magic crystal stones per hour overall." A team member handed Yuya the paper bearing the results.

Based on Newman's analysis, the electromagnetic cannon had been bombarding the area where Angel's Protection had the lowest shielding efficiency, and the results were indeed remarkable.

Yuya picked up her radio and reported the collected data to the Pansy's command center.

"President, can we outlast them?" she asked worriedly.

Generally speaking, the attacking side consumed more energy than the defending side, all the more so when the electromagnetic cannon was striking from an extreme range of 200 kilometers. Although technological weapons retained energy over long distances far better than magic, Yuya had heard that the shells had only a third