Ch.229The Final Blow Makes a Masterpiece…! (1)

Meanwhile, our ranker all-star team that had teabagged Icarus, who was filming “Home Al—” no, “Home Alone Team”…

To be precise, right after the real battle began.

Except for Raksha, who disappeared with just one destroyer that had been modified to discard armor and ridiculously enhance mobility and firepower…

The rest of the team members began to wonder if they had pushed Icarus too far.

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-[I mean, that guy survived a 1v5 on his own. Did we provoke him too much?](Menaldo)

-[If we’re not careful, he might go tryhard and just make things annoying for us](Indefatigable)

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When concerns like these were being voiced in the team chat, you can imagine how serious it was.

Of course, despite these concerns, they only thought it would be “annoying.”

After all, no matter how strong Icarus was.

Thanks to the testimony of Betelgeuse and Koenig on their team, they knew there were at most 6 battleships remaining.

That’s why Betelgeuse, who had testified to this fact, sent another encouraging message to the other rankers and users expressing concern.

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-[Are you afraid?](Betelgeuse)

-[Damn, this is exciting](Menaldo)

-[He’s scratching at this, but I like it even better](Laura)

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Of course, the information that those remaining ships included non-standard vessels like Kraken-class or Hresvelgr-class.

Along with information about the “unidentified stealth ship(?)” that Betelgeuse mentioned.

And finally, the widely known “Kraken’s surprise teleport bombing” among the gallery and rankers.

What synergy could occur if this overlapped with the strategic missiles of Arcadia, Koenig, and the Hresvelgr that Betelgeuse mentioned.

And if they allowed their fleet to be hit directly, there was a very, very, very high possibility that the main ships would be destroyed and the battle situation would instantly become unfavorable.

So they quickly calmed down from the heated teabagging atmosphere and began to formulate strategies and countermeasures as if nothing had happened.

Especially regarding the “unidentified stealth ship,” one of the problems Betelgeuse had pointed out…

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-[We each have something like a stealth ship too, can’t we form a squadron to counter it?](Menaldo)

-[What’s the point of using invisible ships to fight an invisible enemy?](Indefatigable)

-[Dunno?](Menaldo)

-[Ah, I think I can handle that with the ships I have](Mona Lisa)

-[Oh](Antares)

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Mona Lisa assured them that with her “Seraphias-class electronic warfare cruiser” and the electronic warfare support aircraft among her “Anomalocaris-class combat aircraft carrier” fighters.

No matter how high-grade the stealth ship(?) might be, it would never be able to approach their fleet.

And regarding the second problem of teleportation and strategic missiles…

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-[But come to think of it, that guy was carrying transport destroyers at first, but now they’re all gone?](Koenig)

-[Oh? Is that true?](Betelgeuse)

-[Yeah](Koenig)

-[Then that means we only need to block the strategic missile bombardment once from either side](Antares)

-[Yeah, anyway, whether they use teleportation for strategic missiles or launch carrier-based aircraft attacks, the response is simple. Just maintain an anti-air formation]

-[If possible, it would be best to find terrain where one side doesn’t need to be defended, like a huge gas planet or asteroid belt nearby, and hold out there](Betelgeuse)

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Similarly, due to all the leaked information, countermeasures were quickly established.

Of course, despite having teabagged the opponent, other rankers might have complained about taking such a defensive stance.

If they went on the offensive and got their engines destroyed by a teleport rear attack while charging, that would truly be an ugly situation.

At the same time, while drawing aggro through the global chat, they secretly scouted using stealth reconnaissance aircraft and discovered.

Surprisingly, even though one of the opposing users only had an “aviation cruiser” which was meaningless in the current theater.

If they engaged in a straightforward power struggle, they would surprisingly be pushed back.

Rather than recklessly charging forward, they formed a fleet anti-air formation as a defensive posture to counter the most threatening elements.

And just as they were finishing their defensive preparations…

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-[Oh, carrier aircraft ahead](Mona Lisa)

-[…They’re really swarming like bees](Menaldo)

-[We need to intercept](Laura)

-[What are you waiting for? Launch the aircraft quickly](Antares)

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When the opposing team with Icarus attempted to launch a massive attack with 70-80 thousand carrier aircraft directly against the all-star team.

They believed their judgment was correct and immediately began to engage in interception, deploying all anti-aircraft weapons from each ship.

And not long after, the enemy team appeared from the direction where the aircraft were swarming, leading all their fleets.

Mobilizing all their firepower, they not only launched additional aircraft.

But also bombarded the all-star team’s anti-air formation with gunfire and missile support, charging forward relentlessly…

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-[Energy reaction confirmed]

-[Strategic missile, strategic m-s ahead](Antares)

-[Wow, they’re just ramming straight at us from the front](Menaldo)

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When about 100,000 missiles, including the “strategic missiles” and “heavy torpedoes” that the rankers were most wary of, flew toward the fleet formation that was already being pummeled by carrier aircraft.

The brains of the all-star team, Betelgeuse and Antares, were able to somewhat guess the protagonist’s mental state at this point.

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-[It seems like Icarus just threw everything at us](Antares)

-[I think so too](Betelgeuse)

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Though they couldn’t know for sure.

They suspected that “perhaps” his mental state had collapsed due to unfair treatment, and he was just relieving stress through an “all-out attack” with all his firepower and aircraft at once.

And then he might be planning to surrender cleanly afterward.

So they abandoned their plan to break formation to prepare for additional flanking attacks.

Instead, they decided to launch aircraft from the carriers in the fleet, including Mona Lisa’s Anomalocaris, to engage in aerial combat to protect the fleet from that massive number of attackers.

The problem was that regardless of Antares and Betelgeuse’s suspicions, with over 70,000 carrier aircraft.

Along with a total of about 100,000 missiles being fired by those charging ships…

After nine consecutive battles, the interception capability of their significantly reduced fleet was far exceeded.

Unlike the aerial battle, which they were steadily winning thanks to the outstanding super-large combat carrier Anomalocaris, the fleet’s anti-air formation achieved an interception success rate of 70-80%…

Even though they successfully intercepted most of the strategic missiles, which as mentioned earlier were as large as “cruisers” and thus slower than other missiles.

Among the remaining approximately 20,000 missiles, 2 strategic missiles also survived and flew smoothly, resulting in.

One of them directly hitting the lower center of Betelgeuse’s “Odin”-class battleship, which was performing evasive maneuvers to avoid missiles.

As if to demonstrate what a ship-belly punch truly is, living up to the reputation(?) of its owner Betelgeuse…

It set the amazing new record of being the first battleship of the all-star team to be sunk.