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Summary.
The world of Nova terrae can be described as almost a world full of magic with people (humans, elves, dwarves, beast-people, fairies, demons etc.) and creatures possessed magical powers that can create, summon or cast magic that can either heal, destroy or create life like they developed spells and devices for practical use such as golems for agriculture and heavy industries, teleportation spells and gates, electrically powered ships through magic electrical crystals and many more. While magic is used in practical life, it is also used in war such as casting spells for destroying armies, cities and even a small country and aside from that, warriors with magic enhanced their weapons like swords and spears became formidable and reliable in war but the development of magical cannons and guns were not also left behind and it made war more deadly and brutal than before.
Kingdoms, empires, republics and other nations waged war on each other for the sake of territorial conquest, resources, prestige and greed for power and nearly plunged their world into total chaos where millions perished and many lives were traumatised and irreparable emotionally and economically, and now with the age of colonization, the world’s powers discovered new lands and also wanted to conquer the old ones, like the island continent of Ryuushima (a continent with humans only), war will be more intense as before.
Chapter I. The threat approaches.
Island of Mizu, Ryuushima Continent.
The island of Mizu, the westernmost nation on the continent is a prosperous island province that benefited from ancient technologies of humanity like teleportation, advanced robotics and electronics, nano and biotechnology and quantum computing is now watching a large fleet of foreign ships, 100 miles from its western coast.
The foreign ships are made of iron that some of it emitted smoke, others didn’t and what’s surprising as it was composed of more than 50 vessels of all sizes armed with cannons in its broadsides and the largest ships have 4 turreted cannons, with 3 each turret. The foreign vessels were flying a flag, a blue rectangular banner with a crowned woman in white flowing dress holding a sword and scales and they are approaching faster than anticipated.
“Alert the whole island, call in the 32nd fleet!” one of the soldiers inside of a tower at the coast of the island commanded to his subordinates. They were monitoring the fleet using cloaked drones and submarines since it entered the 100 mile exclusive zone and they will warn first the fleet by sending a squadron of aircraft.
At the fleet.
The fleet of the Holy Empire, composed of 50 metallic vessels armed with magical cannons that can fire plasma of electricity or high explosive lava using magic crystals and magician operators are now approaching what they called a barbarian lands.
At the largest vessel, the Sancta Libra (holy scales/ weights) a large vessel of 300 feet long and 70 feet wide armed with 25 cannons (10 inches guns) each in its broadsides and 4 larger turreted cannons (with 20 inches guns) with two each at the front and rear of the ship. The ship has a large middle accommodation and a towering command centre with state of the art magical detectors and a barrier along with large search lights.
The commander of the expedition, Admiral von Hohenfriedberg was tasked by the Emperor to set foot on the continent and to open itself up to the rest of the world for trade and potential colonization just like what they did to other isolated nations, using gunboat diplomacy.
“Hmm! The barbarians of this continent for hundreds of years forbid anyone to go in and out but it will be no more as our mighty fleet will crush any attempt by the savage inferiors to close themselves” muttered by the admiral to his crew inside of the bridge of the battleship, then something appeared on the horizon, a large group of flying metals with no propellers? And then once it was nearer to them a voice spoke.
“This is the 1st Naval Air Squadron of the 32nd fleet of Ryuushima confederation, all foreigners are forbidden to enter these waters, turn back now or we will use force!” Once the fleet heard it, one of them asked the admiral if they will fire on the flying contraptions and he told them no and he instead ask to speak to the flying ships using the amplified speakers.
“Soldiers of the continent!, this is Admiral von Hohenfriedberg, commander of the Expeditionary Diplomatic Fleet by the order of His Imperial Majesty, the Holy Emperor Claus XXXII, we are here for a diplomatic mission for trade between our nations”
“Your entrance here is denied, turn back now!” the aircraft speaker exclaimed and they fired some kind of lances flying towards the fleet and several ships were hit and damaged, while some sunk as their magical barriers were of no match to the weapons. The admiral once saw this alerted his men and they began firing their guns against the flying machines but they cannot reach it, so they used higher calibre guns to fire and commanded the mages to summon lightning and blizzard strikes against the enemy.
The flying machines on the other hand then fired its own guns, an APHE (Armour Piercing-High Explosive) rounds from its 30 mm rotary cannons and killed some of the crews on the surface. Some ships remained unscathed due to the magical barriers involved and some of the ship’s people began to fire at them ranging from bullets to magic which they mostly dodged. On the other hand, the islands submarine squadron fired its torpedoes at the rear of the enemy fleet and the Imperial navy responded by throwing magic at the water.
On the other hand, cruise missiles silos from the coast of the island opened up and fired at the direction of the enemy and it particularly targeted the flagship in which Admiral Hohenfriedberg commanded.
“Admiral, there are incoming objects at us!” one of the mages said, and he commanded to strengthen the barrier and brace for impact. Once the cruise missiles reached the ship, the barriers with all its might deflected it but it shook the ship due to the large explosive force of the missiles.
The air squadron on the other hand continued its attacks from the air and the submarines finished the rest of the job.
The admiral couldn’t believe it, the precious fleet of the empire was destroyed in matter of minutes, it enraged him to the point he ordered to full speed towards the island but alas his demise came from multiple torpedoes that sank his ship.
After the destruction of the Holy Empire's fleet, the aerial squadron of the Island began a search and retrieval operations and to search for survivors to interrogate them and to execute them later.