Chapter 115 - Owl’s Sanctuary
Over a hundred ships of various sizes from the five main bases and the two large pirate bands were gathered outside Red Rock Base, totaling over ten thousand people.
They stopped three thousand kilometers away from Red Rock Base, cleanly split into seven groups. Yellow Rock Base’s fleet was the strongest among those gathered, with two Caracal-class cruisers, six destroyers, and eleven frigates. Yellow Rock was also the largest base on this side of Wild Star Region, with it having over one hundred thousand residents, so it was normal for this base to possess a fleet of this size.
The other bases’ fleets were obviously much weaker compared to Yellow Rock Base’s. The rest only had a single cruiser as their main firepower, with seven to eight smaller warships following behind. They were at least one level lower be they in terms of maintenance of ships or equipment.
Maintaining an entire fleet was quite costly as this included stocking weapons and training for their crew. The expenditure costs of each fleet were absolutely astronomical and would be impossible to support these brave things without a sufficiently strong economy.
The seven fleets were flying quite far apart with a few hundred kilometers of gap between them. Although attacking the Owl’s Sanctuary was a group operation, these base leaders and pirates had no concept of teamwork at all. Seeing them proceed together was as united as they were going to get.
Xia Fei was piloting his Vampire among the Ning clan’s fleet, slowly flying out of the Red Rock Base to gather with their allies outside.
The Ning clan’s main ship was an Amarrian Augoror-class cruiser. It was actually quite well maintained, with about eighty percent of its components being new. The ship looked really stylish with its glistening golden body.
“Focus fire on their main entrance!” commanded Ning Baichen passionately on the projected screen.
They quickly locked onto the round alloy door and bombarded it with missiles, cannons, and lasers. Different weapons produced a different color, like firecrackers, when they hit the alloy door, creating quite a lively atmosphere.
It was surprisingly easy. The main door of Owl’s Sanctuary seemed incredibly brittle as it was blown into smithereens without much effort. Xia Fei was suspicious of this; how could the main door of an armed base be blown apart so easily?
How could the rest of the ships who were overcome by the victory and the incredible prize pool take into account such thoughts, however? Dozens of ships rushed into the base, fearing that the loot within might be taken by those before them.
Scar had less than a thousand subordinates, while the combination of all allied ships reached over eight thousand. Even a tiger could be defeated eight against one. Moreover, these people did not care much for their lives as they rushed into the base in hopes of getting Scar’s head in their hands.
Xia Fei calmly watched all this unfold as he trailed after them, maintaining a safe distance.
Owl’s Sanctuary was completely different from Red Rock Base. These old ancient bases were built for war. There was a limited amount of living space within Red Rock Base due to the complex roads and it being riddled with pipelines and warehouses.
It was only through years after years of modifications that Red Rock Base slightly resembled a city instead of an army base today. In order to gain more living space, the complex pipelines were all removed, and many things that did not have use were disposed of as space trash.
Owl’s Sanctuary, on the other hand, had fewer residents, so there were fewer modifications made to it. The interior was incredibly messy and narrow, equipped with many useless things. Unless one had lived here for a few years, anyone new would surely get incredibly confused and lost.
The coalition army stopped at the port as people rushed off their ships with various weapons in hand, quickly occupying the dock area.
Scar’s men put up a pitiful defense before shamefully retreating deeper into the base.
“Everyone, let’s go to the command center to get Scar!”
“We’ll have a lifetime supply of money if we get Scar!”
“The Owl Pirates are done for; start looting!”
A few managed to contain their excitement, but everyone clearly was unable to do so as they rushed to pillage and loot deeper into the base; it was as if treasures were within an arm’s length away from them.
“This is for you,” Tully handed Xia Fei an armband as they got off the ship.
The armband was made from a piece of red cloth. The coalition army was a combined force of eight strong groups, and many of them did not know one another, so they agreed to wear a red armband in order to help identify allies.
Xia Fei smiled before putting it on his arm and chasing after the others.
Just as everyone was focused on trying to plunder and catch Scar, nobody noticed that a white lightscreen slowly rose, enveloping the entire base.