Editing City Series:Volume6a Chapter6 (section)

===Part 1===

The clouds spread out in the sky.

That white sea was illuminated by the sun.

Unlike the windswept bottom of the clouds, the top was formed from a series of round bumps and dips reminiscent of bubbles.

Those bubbles made from solidified water vapor were the only thing visible as far as the eye could see.

Just one thing stood out from that idle white ocean.

Something like a blue blade skimmed rapidly above the clouds.

It was the Sylphide.

The blue craft flew quickly without emitting flames or anything else. The atmospheric vibrations it produced tore away at the vast ocean below it, splitting the clouds apart like an opening book.

The only sound it produced was the loud impact of the craft tearing through the wind.

Pieces of clouds rose up and scattered behind it, much like the dust thrown into the air by a runner.

The Sylphide performed a roll while continuing straight ahead, as if to soak itself in that spray.

Then it made a sudden ascent.

Instead of flying straight up, it angled upwards just a bit to shift itself somewhat higher.

It distanced itself from the cloudy sea, so that sunny white ocean seemed to expand below it.

The ocean was blasted backwards below the Sylphide.

There was something within the clouds and it was accelerating at the same speed as the Sylphide.

A silhouette was briefly displayed on the clouds. It was a 200-yard ship with a rectangular twin-fuselage structure.

That shadow picture game ended in the blink of an eye as the clouds were further split apart and the ship itself emerged from below.

It was a German aerial attack ship. The twin-fuselage ship was painted a pitch black and fire burst from its spirit rockets which used an accelerant.

Unlike the Sylphide, it produced a loud rumbling from its rockets.

The rectangular extra tanks attached atop the twin fuselages were cut away with explosives.

The Sylphide attacked the incoming tanks with flame rounds from its Kunst Eyes instead of using Schwerts.

In just a few shots, tanks as large as the Sylphide itself had been reduced to flames.

The Sylphide broke through that fire to continue forward.

But the twin-fuselage ship had predicted that action. Even brighter light was shining from its rockets. Color was no longer enough to judge the intensity of the eruption – only the light and the shaking of the air could do that.

It accelerated.

The clouds began to trail from the decorative wings attached to its sides like white threads.

It shot forward.

The Sylphide responded by performing a roll and accelerating forward like it had been kicked.

Both ships roared loudly.

The clouds were blasted backwards while they competed in the field of acceleration.

Nothing out here could stop them. They raced ever onward without narrowing or widening the gap between them.

The Kunst Eyes on the front of the twin-fuselage ship launched ether light into the air ahead of it.

A hemispherical barrier made of light-red light formed in front of it. The panel was phasically fixed out ahead of the ship as a shield to part the wind.

That Luftram formed a Mach cone out ahead of the ship’s bow.

It continued to accelerate after creating a space shielded from its own speed.

It had three Kunst Eyes on the rear of each fuselage for a total of six in all. All of those emitted glowing swords behind it like it was spreading wings.

At the same time, the four diffusion Kunst Eyes on the top of the fuselages and its single-shot Drache Kanones took aim at the Sylphide.

The Sylphide pursued it all the same. It evolved through combat, so it did not fear its foe.

They were less than 200 yards apart as it continued forward.

The twin-fuselage ship responded by firing its diffusion Kunst Eyes. Each individual shot was small, but each Eye instantly launched 8 shots fanned out over a span of 30 degrees.

With four Kunst Eyes total, it fired a total of 32 shots rapidly enough to fry the Eyes themselves. The destructive fans worked together to fully cover a three-dimensional space, creating an unavoidable barrage.

And in this world of speed, those shots brought death in an instant.

In the realm the Sylphide flew through, the span of a second had to be divided into even smaller units to have any meaning.

Just as Schwerts emerged from its two forward-facing Kunst Eyes, it performed a roll.

The surface created by the thin panels known as blades covered a wider area thanks to the rotational movement.

The Sylphide tore a hole in the barrage and slipped on through.

It shook a bit since its inertial control was insufficient to fully negate the impact of the shots against its glowing swords. That slowed it some and the other ship pulled ahead.

Just as the distance between them widened a bit, the barrage came to an end. The twin-fuselage ship’s diffusion Kunst Eyes had burned out. The base of those hemispherical Eyes opened up and the burned-out panels within were ejected.

A few seconds later, automated mechanisms closed back up the base of the Eyes and new emission orbs pushed out from within.

But the Sylphide did not overlook that opening.

It put away the power-draining Schwerts and accelerated so hard it seemed to pitch forward.

It was closing in.

At the same time, ether light gathered in the two single-shot Drache Kanones on top of the twin-fuselage ship.

The light released a glowing spray for a split second before being released.

The Drache Kanones were fired.

With a sound a lot like a roar, two beams of light shot toward the Sylphide.

The Sylphide immediately submerged itself partially within the clouds to escape.

The clouds were scattered as it continued forward.

But the Drache Kanones were not done exhaling quite yet. The two beams swung down toward the cloudy sea to pursue the Sylphide like giant glowing pillars.

The illuminated clouds were scattered by the glowing heat.

The attacks swung down from the upper left and right, but the Sylphide ascended before they could converge. Remnants of the clouds trailed from it as it entered within the triangle formed by the intersecting Drache Kanones and continued its upwards movement.

It fired at the same time: three flame rounds fired from its rear Eyes.

Those fiery bullets arced in from the left and right to hit the twin-fuselage ship on the sides, but they were easily avoided.

Six Schwerts sprouted from the rear of the ship and sliced through the flame rounds.

Red flames blossomed in the sky and vanished behind the two speeding ships.

All that remained was sound.

The Drache Kanones had finished firing.

The twin-fuselage ship’s diffusion Kunst Eyes once more took aim at the Sylphide.

And the twin-fuselage ship mercilessly resumed its powerful acceleration.

The giant warship parted the clouds below it and the Sylphide pursued.

That blue blade of a craft accelerated toward the new barrage flying its way.

The Sylphide never considered any option but continuing ever onward.