The Dragon Emperor · bridge.
Zhao Chen stretched himself, and at this time saw a figure appear beside him.
Zhao Chen looked across, put out a hand, and pinched her waist.
"What are you doing." Charlotte said it in a pretty anger, and glanced about them.
"Oh — I had thought it a holographic projection." Zhao Chen wore an air of having done it by mischance.
Charlotte threw him a look of the whites of her eyes.
"Is the business over there finished?" Zhao Chen asked.
"Those 100,000 warships the Demon Race took over are wholly destroyed by us.
"Newly received as those warships were, though the crews were crews of experience, the ships had no working together whatever between one and another.
"And with the confusion of our striking them besides.
"They could not bear a single blow," said Charlotte.
"It is tiring to stand; sit down and talk." Zhao Chen patted his own knees with a face of perfect innocence.
Charlotte walked past before him; and just as Zhao Chen supposed she truly meant to sit, his face took a slap from that white tail.
And it must be said there was a pain in it of a particular kind.
Charlotte raised a hand, a hovering chair appeared beside her, and she sat upon that.
"Why waste a chair?" Zhao Chen muttered with an aggrieved air.
And the shamed and angry look in Charlotte's eyes seemed ready to take a hard bite out of him.
And Zhao Chen does like just this in his great white cat: that before outsiders she must feign her reserve, and being teased by him dare do nothing about it.
Heh heh heh.
"Is the field here to be left alone?" Charlotte looked at a video window beside them, within which was playing the very contest between the Mechanical Divine Church's legion fleets and the Silver Mechanical Angel Legion.
Though the Silver Mechanical Angel Legion is not so many in number as the Church's fleets, the former's advantage lies in a great quantity of high-quality warships.
In the count of T5 warships, for instance, it holds five times the enemy's.
No wonder it may be called a Machine Race elite fleet.
"It is nothing; leave a few watch posts upon it and that will answer.
"We have proper business of our own here," Zhao Chen said, his voice low.
Charlotte looked toward the war sand table upon the other side. "You mean to look into this business of the Mechanical Divine Church?"
"I have just had word from another T4 Banshee's scouting.
"That doctor who made disaster again and again, first in the Starlight Empire and then in the Holy Radiance Empire, may well have to do with this Mechanical Divine Church." Zhao Chen said it coldly, and a killing intent flashed through his eyes.
"That doctor." Charlotte was somewhat startled; she marked the murder in Zhao Chen's eyes.
Seldom can she catch such murder in Zhao Chen's look.
Even when they fought the interstellar hive-race before, it was at most a will to fight!
And this time it is truly the wish to kill a man.
Charlotte knows well the troubles this doctor has made, first and last; since that business in the Starlight Empire's Xueyan Star Region — the sacrificed star system, the mutant swarm.
This mysterious doctor has stood ever since at the head of Zhao Chen's list of the dead.
Zhao Chen led the five Owl Dragon legions now at hand — 150,000 warships — back into this star system.
Very soon they came to that vast mechanical-styled starship manufactory.
At this time a video window sprang up beside Zhao Chen.
"Reporting to the Commander — within this district, by our investigation, there are 200,000 interstellar warships garrisoned still! We guess this should be the last strength the other side has hidden," the captain of that T4 Banshee-class Light Interstellar Stealth Scout reported.
"I understand.
"Go on with the watching, above all after we open our attack presently.
"Keep the closest watch for me; not one warship or shuttle of theirs is to be let flee this place.
"Above all those two creatures called the Mechanical Prophet and the doctor.
"If their positions can be fixed, take them alive if you can; and if you cannot take them alive, destroy them!" Zhao Chen said, his voice low.
"Yes."
Zhao Chen's eyes went to Charlotte beside him. "One base, 200,000 warships.
"Resting upon these five Owl Dragon legions you can move now — 150,000 warships.
"How long to take this place?"
Charlotte raised a hand and cast an eye over the enemy fleet data upon the field.
Within it was a table of the enemy fleets' fighting strength as scouted.
At such things as T3- and T4-grade warships Charlotte gave but a glance.
She looked chiefly at that topmost line — the T5-grade warships.
"Four hundred T5 warships." Charlotte muttered it, then looked at Zhao Chen. "To master this district wholly and destroy all resisting strength.
"It wants ten hours.
"If it is merely to hold the advantage, five hours will answer."
"Then it is left to you." Zhao Chen stretched himself and adjusted the angle of the captain's chair, that he might enjoy this battle from a comfortable angle.
Charlotte did not go back to her own ship, but chose to command the fighting from aboard the Dragon Emperor.
Little Dragon Girl too was authorized by Zhao Chen to take Charlotte's orders.
These two characters working together are, upon a field, simply two swords joined into one.
That Zhao Chen could be so easy in his mind.
Was upon the one hand Charlotte's ability, and upon the other, of course, the Owl Dragon Legion's completed expansion.
The Owl Dragon Legion's establishment has by now been expanded to at least 30,000 combat-type warships apiece.
And every Owl Dragon legion is fitted besides with a certain number of T5-grade warships — at the least ten to twenty apiece.
Chiefly the three classes: the T5 King-of-the-Hill-class Heavy Interstellar Comprehensive Strategic Escort, the T5 Chaos-Knight-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Destroyer, and the T5 Lightning-Wraith-class Heavy Assault Interstellar Cruiser.
And thereafter, by each legion commander's requirement, other main-battle warships are fitted.
For instance Su Lan's Owl Dragon Fourth Legion, which loves carrier starships and the carrier system of battle: she has fitted herself a T5 Fire-Qilin-class Heavy Carrier Starship as flagship.
While other commanders may choose the T5 Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleship as their own.
And a few will choose the T5 Frost-Tyrant-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Battlecruiser.
By which the several legion commanders' requirements are met to the utmost.
In short, the Owl Dragon Legion since its expansion holds warships of T5, T4 and T3 grade together.
Because a great campaign wants a certain number of hulls, the T3-series warships remain in the Owl Dragon Legion's service.
Unless, in some future when Zhao Chen can build T4-grade warships upon a great scale, the T3 series may then be struck wholly out of the Owl Dragon Legion.
To return to the point.
Zhao Chen watched Charlotte, who had already begun laying out the tasks of battle.
His eyes went far off, toward those sheets of mechanical planets.
He has a presentiment that here he may perhaps unveil no few of the Machine Race's secrets.