"Attack! Formation Three, full output."
The commander's agitated order came through the communications system. On this battlefield, even a World Lord could be annihilated by a weapon because of a single small mistake.
So even the calmest Legion Commander found it difficult to remain completely composed.
The soldiers who received the order swiftly shifted formation, instantly forming several diamond-shaped formations in the air.
After technological exchanges, the Wizard Alliance had thoroughly researched things like legion formations. The essence of a legion formation lay in the legion itself, not the formation. Elite soldiers needed only simple coordination to easily crush the complicated military formations of a rabble.
Even if that rabble obeyed every command without question.
This set the tone for the Wizard Alliance's legion formations—simple and swift.
Of course, that did not mean the Wizard Alliance had abandoned complexity. They had merely transferred that complexity into the structure of their fighters.
Reliable Alchemy Machinery replaced the complicated operations of legion soldiers, allowing the Alliance's legion formations to have both complexity and simplicity.
A tremendous roar sounded above the legion soldiers' heads. Less than three thousand meters overhead, War Airships like a school of sharks were engaged in an exceptionally brutal "close-quarters brawl."
These warships should have been roaming the Astral Realm, their engagement distance maintained several Fleeting Light-seconds apart.
But now, they were practically face-to-face.
Energy weapons were nearly useless under such circumstances, because both sides' weapons needed time to charge. Ramming... only required pushing the throttle.
Boom!
With the collision, a Furnace People warship instantly became a ball of fire.
Molten iron rained down from the sky, mixed with flashes of energy from the melting warship components. From below, it looked like a crimson downpour.
And such crimson rain seemed never to stop across this battlefield.
Opposite them, the