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If it's too easy to lose, it becomes rather boring.
"Be careful with your strength..."
Realizing that Hindenburg was starting to get a little carried away, Frederick also spoke up to remind him.
Even if they come from an unfriendly faction, they are still ship girls, so it's not necessary to treat them with deadly methods.
"Ahem...Are you all just good at making threats?"
The monarch calmed the surging blood in his body, took a deep breath, gently moved his five fingers to relieve the numbness in his tiger's mouth, retreated again to a safe distance, and then gripped the sword and staff tightly in his hands again.
In a head-on confrontation, with artillery support, it would indeed be difficult for them to withstand Hindenburg's attack.
The opposing team's combination of close-range and long-range units is indeed quite difficult to deal with.
If this were a game, the optimal solution would be to first find an opportunity to eliminate the turret mage responsible for ranged damage from behind.
But the monarch knew that although Frederick seemed to be only firing cannons from a distance from time to time and appeared to be unskilled in close combat, if he really thought that the other side was a fragile turret that was easy to deal with up close, he would definitely suffer a great loss.
Both sides are old rivals and know each other's strengths and weaknesses.
The Ironbloods were also aware of their own combat habits, so they appeared to be handling the situation with ease.
Just as he was hesitating about how to break the deadlock, Hindenburg and Frederick launched another attack, giving the monarch no chance to catch his breath.
Subconsciously, the monarch once again held the sword horizontally in front of his chest, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Om-"
Suddenly, I heard a sound like distorted radio waves, followed by a faint sound of breaking glass.
"Looks like there's still time..."
The familiar figure reappeared before them, and a shield of dark blue light instantly unfolded, completely enveloping the area where the two were.
The shells struck the dark blue light shield, but the explosions didn't happen again. Instead, they seemed to be swallowed up by the shield and dissolved within it.
"Is your body still able to move?"
As Xu Huan spoke, he also felt the energy absorbed by the shield and frowned.
This level of strength... I've never seen anything like it before.
A little tricky.
"It's not as fragile as you think, Commander." The monarch breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the young man arrive.
"The invading enemies... are there only two people on the other side?"
The young man looked at the two figures in the distance, feeling as if he had seen them somewhere before, a strange sense of familiarity lingering in his mind.
Especially those black and red dragon-shaped ship armor...
Was Hu Teng's also from back then?
Forget it, I'm too lazy to think about it too much.
Since you've already taken the initiative against me, I should at least physically stop your next move.
I also took this opportunity to stretch my muscles and bones.
"Yes..."
The monarch nodded.
"They are very strong, you need to be careful..."
"I rarely look down on people on the battlefield..."
Xu Huan flicked his wrist, and black armor instantly covered his entire body: "You choose one? Or should I take care of them all?"
"Then I want the nearest one... Commander."
The monarch gripped his sword and staff tightly.
"Row."
Xu Huan nodded and disappeared from the spot.
far away.
"Looks like reinforcements have arrived...and they're pretty fast."
Hindenburg looked at the newly arrived figure and the blue energy shield, somewhat puzzled: "But when did the Royal Navy's ship girls get another new member? Is this a tactic we haven't seen before...? Should we continue fighting?"
"We can test that newcomer's abilities."
Frederick also had some doubts.
At this distance, she couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but for someone who already knew the royal family inside and out, there were many ways to identify who the other person was.
But so far, what that 'newcomer' has shown is completely incomparable to any of the data he has accumulated over a long period of time.
Could it really be a new ship girl? Or does she possess something that allows her to conceal her true identity?
Frederick personally prefers the latter part to the former.
As for whether he might be a commander or something...
Hindenburg and Frederick did not even entertain the slightest thought in the direction of this conjecture.
Are you kidding me? The commander is human.
Which human could stand on the sea like a ship girl? Which human could directly help block legendary-level firepower at sea?
Chapter Ninety-Eight: Don't Let the Flood Flood the Dragon King Temple
"Oh? That new guy seems to have suddenly disappeared..."
Hindenburg was observing the newly arrived reinforcements in the distance when he saw them disappear from the spot in the next second, and subconsciously gave them a warning.
"Will it hide itself? It shouldn't be a large ship... but it doesn't look like an underwater vessel either."
Upon hearing this, Frederick looked at the radar detector on his ship's equipment and found that apart from the monarch's red dot, there was nothing else.
"The stealth capabilities seem quite outstanding right now, so remember to pay close attention to what's behind you..."
"Okay... Remember to cover for me."
Hindenburg verbally agreed, but he still stomped his foot and charged straight toward the monarch once more.
At this moment, her blood was boiling, and she felt increasingly unable to control herself.
“Really…”
Frederick sighed, and just as he raised his baton, aiming the cannon at the monarch, a soft voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"I think you'd better cover yourself up first..."
Frederick's pupils contracted slightly, and the sudden chill emanating from his back instantly spread throughout his body, like a bomb that had been detonated in an instant.
The ship girl instinctively tried to create some distance, but found that a whip leg had somehow lashed out at her hand with lightning speed.
Why didn't they attack the vital points first, but instead tried to disable their own weapons?
I feel a bit looked down upon...
Instead of retreating, Frederick advanced, taking advantage of the opponent's momentum. He abandoned his baton, turned around and used the force to kick his opponent's face with a high kick, his full, long leg encased in black stockings.
At the same time, the black and red mechanical dragon began to roar, and the energy ball condensed again, ready to be launched after slightly forcing the opponent back.
Frederick went head-to-head, but Xu Huan was not one to be easily forced back either.
On the contrary, he prefers hand-to-hand combat to the so-called tug-of-war of long-range fire from both sides, when it is allowed.
Frederick was, in a sense, more to his liking.
Arms covered in defensive armor blocked the force of the kick, then the center of gravity shifted slightly, and the whole person leaned hard into the opponent's body.
"boom--!!"
The force of the impact to his abdomen caused Frederick's pupils to shrink slightly, and he bent over a little.
This time, instead of choosing a direct confrontation, she used the force of the impact to fly backward, creating a long distance between herself and the enemy.
In the distance, the expected artillery support did not arrive. Hindenburg turned his head in confusion and saw Frederick being knocked away.
"Is it that difficult?"
Just as she raised an eyebrow slightly, preparing to turn around and go to the rescue, the monarch's sword staff, which had been waiting for an opportunity, pressed down on her again with a gust of sword wind.
"choke--"
The mechanical dragon's giant claws once again blocked the opponent's sword, but this time Hindenburg was not as composed as before, and was forced back several steps by the force.
How did the opponent's strength suddenly increase so much?
Hindenburg was somewhat surprised.
The monarch, feeling the increase in power and the abundance of energy within his body, let out a long sigh of relief.
"Do you even have time to pay attention to other people now, Miss Hindenburg...?"
"Tsk..."
Hindenburg's interest grew even stronger: "That's better... so it doesn't break down after only a short while..."
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