Editing City Series:Volume1 Chapter 7 (section)

===Part 10===

Meanwhile, the three in the vertically-oriented Kaiserburg looked up at the scene.

“Did we get him!?” shouted Paul.

He saw a legendary spell activating before his eyes. The black Finster Kunst swallowed up all light. At full power, it covered a radius of about one hundred meters.

They had aimed a bit high so it would not reach the people in the square, but the enemy fighter craft had still been completely enveloped by the vortex of destruction.

It sounded like a giant had punched the earth.

The German Cathedral’s dome was instantly blown away and torn apart.

But it only lasted an instant.

The spherical black barrier burst from within.

The shattering of gravity sounded surprisingly like shattering glass.

A spear of flames flew from within. The Flammen Lanze had almost entirely solidified and its strong directionality had broken through the wall of gravity.

The three in the Kaiserburg knew what that giant spear was.

“A Panzer Emblem!”

Paul frantically had the ship ascend, but his disbelief slowed his reaction time.

In an instant, they felt an impact much like being kicked from behind. The spear had caught the ship somewhere. As the ship ascended, its tail end rose up as if to move forward and the entire ship rotated in three dimensions.

“Kyah!”

The western sunset was visible out the window where the city had been. After a few clouds rotated into view, the city returned from above. They saw the spear of flames instantly burn away the building the Kaiserburg had been hiding behind.

“Else! Where were we hit!?”

“Um…w-w-w-w-w-wait! Hold us steady!”

“Shut up. I’m trying.”

The ship twisted around as if tossing or turning in its sleep and it began to fly upside down. The scenery outside appeared upside down to them.

Else held her skirt down and checked the electric display in front of her.

“The two upper field emitters and the rear skirt have changed color!”

“Crap. So the weapons and directional wings were damaged. What color are they?”

“They’re both yellow.”

“Keh. They’ll be back to normal in fifteen minutes.”

“Professor, is the Kaiserburg still not growing?”

“It probably needs just a little more. To be honest, that attack got us pretty good.”

“It’s too early to celebrate. We have to win this battle first.”

“Not a chance. The field emitters are one thing, but what can we do without the skirt?”

“We can’t fly straight, so we can’t use our full speed for the next fifteen minutes.”

“Can we escape?” asked Else.

Still upside-down, Walter turned toward her while smiling and holding his right arm in his left hand.

“We can’t. And so we’ll fight.”

“How?”

He gave her an awfully good-natured smile before answering.

“We’ll do something unexpected.”

“Eh?”

“Professor, move us behind some convenient cover. We’ll search for a place to turn this all around.”

“Sure thing.”

After Paul’s response, the ship flipped right-side up.

The items that had fallen to the ceiling fell back to the floor and Else’s bag fell behind Walter.