"This is the very chance that quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship has been waiting for.
"Upon the forward field now, the Holy Dragon Angel Legion's thirty T5 warships have each their own task of battle, and what remains to be moved are those ten T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyers only.
"The captain of the quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship holds that he can deal with the ten T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyers opposite, and so has chosen this moment to move.
"First destroy the ten T5 Chaos-Knights opposite, and then seek a chance against the T5 warships remaining." Lilith, seeing this, set out her analysis.
"But I think this is a bait the angel Tilia is selling?" Charlotte stuffed a fruit into her mouth.
Zhao Chen rubbed his chin and said levelly, "If this be truly a bait, then it must be said Tilia's boldness grows greater and greater.
"She means not at all to fight the enemy a war of sawing back and forth; she has fixed upon the enemy's quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship, and would destroy the enemy's quasi-T6 Destroyer within this battle.
"And so grasp outright the advantage upon this field of the Angel Race against the Demon Race!
"She looks far and high."
Lilith heard the meaning within it; she muttered, "The notion is a good one; but whether her teeth are good enough for it, that must rest upon herself."
Zhao Chen kept his eyes with a smile upon the changes of the war within the picture.
The quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship, having joined the field, may within the compass her firepower reaches be called an existence that masters all.
A single shot of her bow cannon shattered outright a T4-grade interstellar battleship far off, star-shield and all.
And at the same time the main guns, the secondary guns and the interstellar missiles fitted upon her hull all opened fire; and that capacity for putting out firepower matches a moving interstellar fortress.
Charlotte upon her side raised a hand and touched now and again upon the warship model before her, as though editing something.
Zhao Chen cast an eye over it: that warship's model was the very quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship within the picture.
And what she was editing was the several figures upon this quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship, and above all the data of the weapon modules she is fitted with.
Though of the combat intelligence got before from the Machine Race's side there was already some part upon the quasi-T6 Destroyer.
Yet Charlotte by the look of it would adjust it once more herself.
And under Charlotte's watching, the data upon this quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship grew clearer and clearer.
Zhao Chen cast an eye over it and saw several key figures.
Bow cannon: an energy-type electromagnetic cannon, of force enough to destroy at a single shot a T5 Imperial-Steel-Fist-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship at full star-shield energy; long ranged.
Shortest interval between shots: five minutes.
Main guns, four: energy-type main guns, of force enough to destroy outright a T4-grade interstellar battleship at full star-shield; interval of fire five minutes, but of middling range.
Twenty-five electromagnetic cannon of middling bore, firing solid shot, long ranged but wanting in force.
In the matter of middle-and-close-range weapons.
Five hundred high-rate laser cannon, of middling range, quick of fire, middling in range and middling in force.
Aimed chiefly at enemy ships at middle and close range, and at such targets as interstellar fighters.
One thousand three hundred fully automatic six-barrel close-in guns.
And fifty missile launchers besides, the number of interstellar missiles carried reckoned at some three thousand, all of them of middle-to-long range.
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"What do you make of this quasi-T6 Destroyer?" Zhao Chen, seeing Charlotte's brows a little drawn, inquired in his curiosity.
Charlotte pressed her lips lightly together, and then called up the data of two other warships.
Which were the Owl Dragon Legion's T5 Hades and the T5 Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleship.
She pointed at several of the data points and said, "This quasi-T6 Destroyer… how shall I put it?
"If one compare conventional firepower alone, the Hades falls short of her.
"But the Hades' strategic meaning lies in her two particular weapons.
"And set against the T5 Holy Redeemer, the force of that bow cannon of hers stands above the Holy Redeemer's, but her other conventional firepower falls short of the T5 Holy Redeemer's.
"But because I do not know this quasi-T6 Destroyer's cost of building, nor her inner system of energy.
"Judging by firepower alone, she is like the Hades and the Holy Redeemer — leaving the Hades Field out of the reckoning — carrying a cut-down Sword of Hades, the two of them joined into one whole existence."
Charlotte's analysis is somewhat complicated.
But Zhao Chen understood her meaning for all that.
"Then were you set to deal with this quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship, how many starships would you want?" Zhao Chen asked.
Charlotte raised a hand and stroked her own chin. "If the Hades might be used, and with the first stroke a hundred times in a hundred, one Hades would be enough.
"Though she did not win, she would at the least not lose.
"But if the Hades be not used.
"Then give me one T5 Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleship, and five T5 Frost-Tyrant-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Battlecruisers to go with her, and that will serve.
"And there is another case besides: five to ten T5 Crimson-Reaper-class Heavy Interstellar Strategic Missile Ships, with a covering attack of firepower — no other expenditure whatever but the interstellar missiles, and she may be taken!"
Zhao Wan'er beside them, having heard this out, pursed her lips and said, "Then by the look of it this quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship is nothing so very much."
Zhao Chen and Charlotte exchanged a glance, and smiled and said nothing.
That Zhao Wan'er should feel so.
Is in great part because the Owl Dragon-line warships are in fact, within the T5 grade, already existences of the very topmost sort.
And the gulf between them and quasi-T6 is not so very wide.
"The ten T5 Chaos-Knights have moved!" Lilith said.
Zhao Chen turned his eyes upon the video window.
The angel Tilia's last ten T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyers had stirred at last.
In a fan-shaped array they came at that quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship.
And that quasi-T6 Destroyer-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship seemed to have foreseen long since that such a thing would happen.
She locked her bow cannon at once upon the hull of one T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyer.
The energy shell, long laid up, went out.
A vast light-effect of the impact filled the sight.
The star-shield of that T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyer she had locked upon was struck, and after a brief few seconds the star-shield broke into four pieces and five.
And the energy shell fell upon the hull.