Kingdom of Fenn, Capital of Amanoki.
On the day of the Military Festival in the Kingdom of Fenn, the capital of the Kingdom of Fenn, Amanoki was filled with representatives from various neighboring countries of the Kingdom of Fenn. They brought their best military equipment to be shown to other countries. In addition, they also held talks on the sale and purchase of military equipment and talks on mutual defense treaties between countries.
One of the festival participants is the neighboring country of the Kingdom of Fenn, Thearcy of Gahara. They sent wind dragons to join the military festival. Currently, they are flying in circles observing the other participants, who on average send their military ships. The rider of that wind dragon was Captain Susanoo.
Seen below, the military ships belonging to various countries are anchored. Of the many ships, one looks very different from the others. The ship, in comparison with other ships, is very large and has no sails.
"Wow, the light is so bright," said the wind dragon, who was a partner of Captain Susanoo.
Wind dragons, unlike wyverns, had high intelligence and were able to communicate with humans. Therefore, no wyvern would dare take on a wind dragon.
"The weather today is quite hot." replied captain Susanoo.
"That's not the sun. The big ship below emits a strong and dazzling light." said the wind dragon.
"What light? I do not see it." said Captain Susanoo.
"Beh, humans can't see it can they? We use it to communicate and locate targets in the air. The distance depends on the strength of each wind dragon. I can see or search for targets up to 120 km away. The ship below emits a much stronger light than me and is so focused that it is blindingly bright" said the wind dragon.
"Really interesting, it means the ship can find targets in the air and communicate that way. What an interesting country." Susanoo thought.
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Meanwhile, the Myto Empire's destroyer also detected a radar beam from the wind dragon flying above them.
"It's amazing. The huge wyvern flying above us emits focused beams of electromagnetic waves. It seems to function as a radar. Its emitting power is also quite large." said a sensor officer.
The report attracted the interest of the ship's officers who were at CIC. This is because, for the first time, there are living things that can use radar with a large enough power, both to determine the position of objects around them and also seem to use natural radio to communicate between them.
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"So, those are Myto's warships... It almost looks like castles." Unintentionally voicing his inner thoughts, Sword King Shihan uttered to himself. "How ludicrous, even considering the information we received before from Gahara, for a metal ship this big to float..."
This is because, compared to the Fenn ships, they are galley-type ships using sails and oars to run them. Its size is also relatively small compared to the Mardut class destroyer.
One of the aides said, "I've been to the Palpadia Empire, and their ships don't use metal as the main material for shipbuilding. However, some of Palpadia's main ships are larger in size than Myto Empire's ships. "
"But it should be remembered that the ship in front of us is not a capital ship but an escort ship. Therefore, the capital ships of the Myto Empire must be much larger than the main ships of the Palpadia Empire." Sword King's response
"My king, Myto's ship, should begin attacking our decommissioned ships any minute now."
It can be seen that Myto's destroyer is approximately 3 km from the 4 ships that have been decommissioned. The Sword King watched this exercise intently with a telescope.
He saw smoke rise from the Myto ship, then he heard the booms a moment later. BOOM... BOOM... BOOM... BOOM... Four rapid shots. Immediately afterwards, the target ships were rocked by very large explosions, and spray and debris shot up into the air. All four targets had been totally blown up and only small floatsam remained on the sea surface.
"...... This... I'm speechless... How powerful..." thought the sword king.
The Sword King's staff, who formed the backbone of the Kingdom of Fenn, could only stare in amazement at the power that completely destroyed their previously-held concepts of war. One ship easily sank four other ships. Furthermore, it fired that many shots in a row with no lag. How do they even reload it? Even in the Papaldia as superpower country, it was likely that no one could determine how this was possible. They were completely speechless.
"Immediately resume negotiations and immediately obtain a defense agreement. Only by relying on the defense agreement with the Myto Empire, will our security be guaranteed from the interference and attacks of the Palpadia Empire" said the Sword King with a smile.
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The radar officer on Myto's destroyer detected many flying objects approaching the festival position. Their speed is 350 km/h. There are 20 of them in close formation.
"Is there a country west of here? Palpadia Empire isn't it?" asked the radar officer.
"What is it?" asked the executive officer.
"Are they invited? Because there was an unidentified flying object that was quite fast heading here from the direction of the Palpadia Empire. ETA 12 minutes" replied the radar officer.
"I don't think I saw it on the invite list. If I'm not mistaken, isn't Palpadia quite hostile to the Kingdom of Fenn?" said the executive officer. "Make sure their presence is not hostile via manacomm, and also ensure their invitation to the authorities."
The executive officer also immediately contacted the captain, asking him to come to the CIC.
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Upon the arrival of the captain at CIC, the executive officer reported to the captain, "Captain, there are 20 bogies approaching at a speed of 350 km/h, ETA 6 minutes. No response to communication with them. Fenn Palace has also been informed that the Palpadia Empire was not invited."
"Battlestations, activate the shield system, prepare all weapons, especially anti-air attacks, and the engine room information is ready for immediate maneuvering. Start tracking the bogie. Tell our status to the Fenn palace." captain's orders.
"Ready, captain" said the executive officer.
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20 wyvern lords from the Palpadia Empire's imperial oversight army who came to Amonaki to carry out punitive strikes as well as to give demonstrations to all countries around the Kingdom of Fenn not to go against the wishes of the Palpadia Empire, like the Kingdom of Fenn, or associate themselves with the Kingdom of Fenn.
There were also three of Gahara's wind dragons flying over the capital. When the wind dragons looked over, the wyvern lords, like mild-mannered teenagers being glared at by gangsters, meekly looked away.
"Ignore the people from Grahara, focus on the Fenn palace and... the strange ship below." said the commander of the wyvern lord army of the Palpadia empire while pointing at the ship from Myto.
The wyvern lords scattered into 2 groups and started attacking their targets.
The festival participants became confused about the development of the incident. Was this part of a military demonstration? But suddenly the twenty wyvern lords swooped down on two targets: the palace of the Kingdom of Fenn and the ship belonging to the Myto Empire. Fireballs began to appear in their mouths, indicating that the wyvern lords had begun the attack.
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At CIC, Myto's destroyer had detected a fireball aimed at their ship and palace. When the captain of the ship saw this, he immediately ordered an evasive maneuver to avoid the wyvern lords' fireballs.
"Fire micro AA missiles at the wyverns that attack the castle, and use AA cannons and main cannon to attack the wyverns that attack us." captain's orders.
However, just as the order was about to be executed, a ball of fire had already shot out from the wyvern lords that attacked the palace, hit the palace, and ignited a fire in the palace of the Kingdom of Fenn. There are also four fireballs heading towards Myto's destroyer. Due to the extremely close range, less than 300m, 2 of the fireballs couldn't be avoided by performing evasive maneuvers. The two fireballs were harmlessly bounced and absorbed by the ship's shield. This caused the shock of all who saw it, including the Wyvern Lords riders who attacked the ship.
But the revenge from the Myto destroyer is very devastating. 10 small AA missiles were fired towards the wyvern lords attacking the palace. To spectators who didn't understand the technology, it seemed like 10 balls of light flew from Myto's ship and maneuvered towards the 10 wyvern lords. Even though the wyvern lords maneuvered trying to dodge, the ball of light still followed it, and finally, at almost the same time, the 10 fireballs hit the wyvern lords. The moment the fireball touched the wyvern lords, there was a huge explosion (to a fairly primitive audience) that shattered the wyvern lords and their riders into small pieces.
As for the wyvern lords attacking the ship, the 25mm coilgun shot, which had much higher kinetic energy than the regular 25mm bullet, hit the wyvern lords. Moreover, the 25mm bullet contained high explosives, so the results were devastating. It only took a few rounds to kill the wyvern lords. Even though the cannon fired a barrage of 50 rounds at a time, the result was the wyvern lords and riders being cut in shreds by 40-50 25mm coil gun bullets. It only took less than a second to destroy a Wyvern Lord and his riders. Plus, the 130mm main gun also fires. A total of 7 wyvern lords were destroyed by 25mm shells, and another 3 were almost completely destroyed by 130mm main gun fire.
The entire counterattack from the Myto ship only lasted less than 30 seconds. This really surprised the participants of the military festival. This is the first time that wyverns, moreover, are wyvern lords capable of being killed by a ship. Also, in this case, it wasn't just one wyvern lord but 20 wyvern lords, and in a very short period of time.
Sword King Shihan and his aids' mouths all hung open. There was no mistake—the wyvern lords were sent by Palpadia. For Fenn, driving off wyvern lords was an extremely difficult task. An entire squad of warriors wouldn't be enough, and their scales were too tough for arrows to penetrate. They would have to hit them by surprise with ballistae, or use something like the legendary longbow Berserk Arrow. However, the Berserk Arrow required too much strength. There were probably only three people in the entire kingdom who could draw it.
It was practically impossible to shoot down a battle-ready wyvern lord. If any country outside the civilized area could defeat even one wyvern lord, they could be proud of their place in the world. It was unclear if Fenn was powerful enough to do so...
Currently, Myto Empire has easily destroyed all 20 battle-ready wyvern lords in a very short period of time and with no damage. The Sword king and the festival participants sensed that times were changing. After the festival was over, the festival participants would be busy trying to meet the representatives of the Myto Empire.
It was clear that the wyvern lords had come to make a punitive strike. Myto is currently being dragged into the conflict. Sword King Shihan laughed as he watched his palace burn, because he thought that the Myto Empire's dragging into conflict was the will of Heaven.
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200 km from Amanoki
Palpadia imperial oversight army's eastern fleet
This fleet was assigned to carry out a punitive strike on the Kingdom of Fenn. The 20 wyvern lords were from several carriers owned by the fleet. The leader of the fleet, Admiral Poquetoire, assumed this mission was a milk run. Only the wyvern lords' attacks were needed, no fleet needed to get close to the Kingdom of Fenn.
"Communication with the Wyvern Lords' squadrons was cut off." Said a communications officer to the fleet leaders.
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All the fleet leaders were confused. What happened there? How could those 20 wyvern lords be defeated? Is there a communication breakdown? However, manacomm is almost never able to interfere with its transmission.
Admiral Poquetoire, the leader of this fleet, was worried. He was sure that something bad had happened. But he also had orders from Kyeos, head of the 3rd foreign affairs department, to make a punitive strike on the Kingdom of Fenn. With a heavy heart, he ordered the fleet to start moving towards the capital of the Kingdom of Fenn, Amanoki, at medium speed to give time in case the wyvern lords returned and only a communication breakdown or other minor incident occurred.
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A few hours later,
Mardut class destroyer, Myto Empire.
Multipurpose meeting room.
"What a mess... We've certainly stepped into it now..." said Yani's ambassador to the meeting participants, who were the diplomatic team plus the ship's leader.
"What is the information we have been able to gather up until now?" asked the captain.
Although Yani's ambassador is in charge of the diplomatic mission, the ship's captain must be able to ensure the safety of the ship.
Ambassador Yani gave several points regarding today's events:
- The attacking force was most likely from the Papaldia Empire, a country 500 kilometers west of Fillades, according to the Kingdom of Fenn and military officers from other countries. They were part of the Third Civilization and were thought to be one of the five superpowers of the world.
- The squadron belongs to Papaldia's so-called "imperial oversight army," and they were probably dispatched by the 3rd foreign affairs department, which deals with countries outside of the civilized area.
- They must have been executing a punitive strike on the Kingdom of Fenn and chose the Military Festival in order to assert their authority over all the countries in attendance. In other words, this was gunboat diplomacy.
- As reported by orbital assets, there was a fleet of 22 ships about 200 km west of Fenn that was currently sailing east at about 10 knots.
"What should we do with the 22 ships that are currently approaching us?" asked the captain.
"According to a directive from Admiral Ira, we can take aggressive steps against the Palpadia Empire."
"That's right, but we'll ask Terminus for instructions on what to do. We still have until tomorrow before the ships arrive." Ambassador Yani said.
Then, Ambassador Yani told his men to send a report to Terminus and wait for Myto's leaders to respond.
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Only half an hour later, the answer from Terminus arrived. Basically, the commands from Terminus are:
- Protect Amanoki from the Palpadia Empire's attack
- If possible avoid casualties on the side of the Palpadia Empire
- The purpose of this is to show the Kingdom of Fenn and festival participants the military power of Myto, as a form of gunboat diplomacy, in return for the gunboat diplomacy carried out by the Palpadia Empire.
"How do we avoid casualties from the Palpadia side?" grumbled the captain of the ship after reading the answer from Terminus.
"My part is to inform the leadership of the kingdom of Fenn of this development." Ambassador Yani said while evading answering the ship captain's question.
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The diplomats from Myto again met with officials from the Kingdom of Fenn. After a short time, Knight-Captain Magreb came to greet them.
"Honored guests from the Myto Empire. Please allow me to express appreciation on behalf of the Kingdom of Fenn. During the ambush earlier, your forces were incredibly swift at exterminating the enemy forces. Sword King Shihan is extremely grateful." the knight-captain lauded solemnly with his head bowed low.
"We have news that there are 22 ships, most likely from the Palpadia Empire, moving towards the capital of the Kingdom of Fenn, Amanoki. Most likely, they will arrive tomorrow," said ambassador Yani.
"Oh, I see. Can we ask the Myto Empire for help to protect us? Not a single ship from the countries present at the festival was able to deal with it. We will also ask Gahara to provide assistance using their wind dragon." Knight-Captain Magreb replied.
"We want to help, but until now, the two countries of the Myto Empire and the Kingdom of Fenn have not had any diplomatic relations. In terms of today's incident, we were merely defending ourselves from being attacked." answered Ambassador Yani.
"We will immediately ask Sword King Shihan to ratify diplomatic relations, also ratify the application for defense relations between the two countries." Knight-Captain Magreb replied. "Please wait a moment. I will tell Sword King Shihan."
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Not long after, Sword King Shihan came with Knight-Captain Magreb to meet the diplomats from the Myto Empire.
"Can we ratify the diplomatic relations treaty and the defense treaty right now?" The Sword King asked Ambassador Yani.
"Of course, I am authorized to ratify such a treaty. However, it should be noted that in the security agreement, we have the right to be able to use the sea port and airport that will later be built in the Kingdom of Fenn for berthing and re-supplying our military ships. We will also establish a representative office in the Kingdom of Fenn which may contain a small number of military personnel, no more than 100 people. On the other hand, the Kingdom of Fenn can also use our sea and air port facilities, and we will assist in the defense of the Kingdom of Fenn," said ambassador Yani.
"Very good. Please present the agreement documents to us so we can study them before I sign them," replied Sword King Shihan.
Ambassador Yani also submitted documents for diplomatic relations and defense agreements. Meanwhile, Sword King Shihan summoned the relevant ministers to attend and review the existing agreement documents.
After approximately 2 hours, the officials from the Kingdom of Fenn and Sword King Shihan were satisfied with the contents of the two agreements. Sword King Shihan then signed and ratified the two treaties, followed by ambassador Yani.
After that, Sword King Shihan invited the diplomats from Myto to attend a party along with the other festival delegates. At that party, Sword King Shihan announced the newly made agreement with the Myto Empire. This caused an extraordinary sensation and resulted in the diplomats of the Myto Empire being the center of attention and being contested to be able to discuss diplomatic relations with each of the participating countries of the festival. As a result, it was only after late night that the diplomats from the Myto Empire were able to exit the party venue feeling extremely exhausted. But they are satisfied with the speed with which the agreement can be verified, especially given the demands of many countries to open diplomatic relations.
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The next day
50 km from the capital of the Kingdom of Fenn Amanoki.
Papaldia Empire, Imperial Oversight Army, Eastern Fleet.
Admiral Poquetoire observed the eastern sea. The skies were clear, but the breeze over the ocean was dry and pleasant. Currently, they were only about 50 km from the Kingdom of Fenn's capital.
Suddenly, a ship was quickly approaching them. The ship's speed was over 30 knots and there was no sign of a sail on board.
"What ship is that? It's really fast" asked a sailor.
Admiral Poquetoire immediately made up his mind to prepare for battle. He immediately ordered the rest of the wyvern lords on the carriers to be launched. There were only eight wyvern lords left that could be prepared for battle.
Admiral Poquetoire was confident of winning. The enemy ship seems to only have 1 cannon, and it's also not that big. He has 80-gun warships with 4 ships in his fleet. Even the command ship where Admiral Poquetoire was located was a 100-gun ship bigger than the enemy ship. Moreover, there was support from the air in the form of eight wyvern lords.
But behind the enemy ship at an extreme distance were the primitive ships belonging to the Kingdom of Fenn and the participants of the military festival. Admiral Poquetoire wasn't that worried about the ships, even though there were quite a number of them, but technologically they were far below the ships of the Palpadia Empire.
Without thinking, Admiral Poquetoire ordered an immediate attack when all the wyvern lords were airborne. But when the eight wyvern lords began to dive to attack, suddenly eight balls of light seemed to fly from the strange ship. The ball of light quickly chased after the wyvern lords, and the moment it hit the wyvern lords, there was a huge explosion that shattered the wyvern lords and their riders. Not a single wyvern lord remained after the attack.
Admiral Poquetoire was very surprised by what happened, but there was no option to lose for Admiral Poquetoire. As a result, he immediately ordered a high-speed charge to the strange ship. But the strange ship easily kept a distance between it and Admiral Poquetoire's fleet. The distance between the two of them remained at around 4km, and Admiral Poquetoire couldn't fire his cannons because the distance was far above the magic canon range owned by Admiral Poquetoire's fleet, which was under 2km.
Suddenly, the cannons from the strange ship started moving towards Admiral Poquetoire's ships. BOOM, a gunshot came from the strange ship. Admiral Poquetoire found it very strange. Why did the ship shoot at such a great distance? But that question was answered with a fairly powerful explosion in front of the leading ship of Admiral Poquetoire's fleet. A warning shot.
However, Admiral Poquetoire was unable to retreat due to orders from the 3rd foreign affairs department head, Kyeos, so all he could do was order the ships in his fleet to sail faster to reach the firing range of their cannons. But this could not be done. Even though Admiral Poquetoire's ships had reached a speed of 19 knots, the strange ship easily kept its distance from Admiral Poquetoire's fleet.
For more than 5 minutes, a chase ensued between the strange ship and Admiral Poquetoire's fleet. At last, the strange ship's cannons fired again in succession, almost without pause, at Admiral Poquetoire's ships.
Boom!!..., there was an explosion on the front ship of Admiral Poquetoire's fleet. The Paos was hit by a direct hit on its main mast, and it fell on the other mast. There were a lot of people on the rigging trying not to fall with the poles. Something like this happened in several other ships as well.
"The ship-of-the-line Paos, Galius, Mahmese, and Kummashroe lost their main masts and were unable to move." reported a sailor to Admiral Poquetoire.
"This... this is preposterous!!!" thought Admiral Poquetoire.
Cannons were very inaccurate weapons. To counter that, 100-gun ships-of-the-line were invented. However, the enemy ship was targeting the swaying masts and actually hitting them! Their reloading speed was incredible!
The attack from the strange ship continued. The crews of the Palpadia Empire's ships could only wait for their fate, whether their ships were disabled or not. . They were hopelessly outmatched, and by only a single enemy ship. They wondered if they might be dreaming. The enemy's unparalleled accuracy had already decimated about half of the fleet's masts, and it continued to keep its distance.
Finally, Admiral Poquetoire made up his mind after seeing that nearly half of his fleet had already been crippled that they would only be crippled. But if their entire ship is paralyzed, how will they get home? It would be even more embarrassing if they were forced to surrender to the opponent.
"... Retreat! Any seaworthy ships, withdraw while towing a crippled one. This operation has failed...!" Admiral Poquetoire's orders.
The first battle between Myto Empire and Palpadia Empire ended in an absolute victory on Myto Empire's side. Worse yet, the Palpadia Empire doesn't know for sure who their enemy is. Casualties that arise are also almost zero. Only the wyvern lords riders lost their lives. Meanwhile, on the ships, there were only minor to serious injuries.
It was the first naval battle in the entire history of the world that was settled without any deaths on board.