The Imperial army began retaliating fiercely after recovering from the initial chaos of the sudden attack. Under the combined efforts of the land and air forces, they managed to strike down several Evernight warships in a short period. Although the Empire had also lost two vessels to the ambush, they still held an advantage in the trade.

Seeing that things weren’t going well for them, Evernight increased their altitude and pulled back into the clouds. The Empire didn’t dare chase after the enemy without ample information, so they dispatched a single high-speed airship into the clouds to scout the area.

The corvette’s captain almost collapsed after breaking through the cloud layer as he came face-to-face with a tightly organized enemy fleet. There was an unfamiliar airship that was terrifyingly big—it had to be a duke-grade vessel, if not a grand-duke.

Duke-grade airships rarely accompanied the Evernight fleet after they had lost control of the void. Those that were still in the area would usually operate alone so that they would not be dragged down.

For such a large fleet to appear, could the Empire have lost control of the void?

Two warships from the Evernight...