The Admiral of Hogwarts

As the White Robe Society's leader gave the order, the purplish-red glows on the old warships suddenly intensified.

In an instant, a massive amount of magical power swept through the entire warship, and even the ship girls dozens of nautical miles away felt the powerful magical reactions erupting from these war machines through their reconnaissance planes.

"The decks are full of souls of the old Japanese Navy fools," Enterprise, as the overall commander after the two fleets merged, detected many interesting things through her carrier-based aircraft.

"In other words, these Japs don't actually operate these complex war machines, but instead choose to imprison the souls of those Japanese Muggles to complete a series of tasks."

As the magical modifications on the magic World War II warships controlled by the White Robe Society were fully activated, translucent, purplish figures began to appear on the ships' decks and bridges.

Through the reconnaissance planes, everyone on the Admiral Network saw the souls operating various machines on the ships, constantly wailing.

"Isn't this normal?" Des Moines, sailing close to Enterprise, said. "If they could really fully control those warships, then these things would definitely have become Abyssal fleets."

"You're right, but this thing should be considered half-Abyssal now," Enterprise said with a grim expression. "Even if my carrier-based aircraft are thousands of meters away from them, I can feel that intense aura of death and hatred for the entire world."

Just as the ship girls were completing their reconnaissance, the battle between the two Japanese fleets also entered its final moments.

Because all the energy was needed to activate the powerful magical artifact, the Yata no Kagami, the magical defenses on the Tenka Maru suddenly weakened a lot. Therefore, in the new round of shelling, shells finally penetrated the defenses and struck the ship's hull.

Although the Japanese wizards on board tried their best to block the incoming large-caliber shells, they were ultimately unable to completely intercept the dense barrage without the magical barrier.

Two 127mm shells and one 155mm shell directly hit the side of the Japanese Ministry of Magic's ship. Then, the gunpowder, mixed with the injected magic power, exploded, creating a large hole.

The wizards on board responsible for damage control only spent a short time repairing the large hole in the ship, but the magical structures inside could not be easily restored.

More fatally, these explosions destroyed a large number of magic flow structures inside the ship, causing the entire ship's various defenses and attack methods to collectively develop fatal problems.

"As expected, these guys didn't consider the issue of damage control," Enterprise, controlling the reconnaissance plane, said in the Admiral Network. "They actually installed all the key facilities together."

But in reality, this wasn't because the Japanese wizards weren't smart enough, but because this ship was an antique passed down from the Edo period to the present day.

During this period, dozens of generations of wizards kept adding various things to it, constantly modifying and optimizing it, eventually creating this powerful magic ship.

But the corresponding price was that there were as many things on the entire ship as a tangled mess, and even the current Japanese Ministry of Magic couldn't figure out what the situation of this ship was.

With the first shell hitting, this Atakebune fell into a vicious cycle. The disabled magic circuits weakened the ship's power, and the weakened ship allowed the White Robe Society's shelling to hit this large Atakebune more easily.

As a result, just ten minutes after the first shell hit, this Ministry of Magic warship named Tenka Maru turned into a large pile of garbage floating on the sea.

Although the wizards of the Ministry of Magic on board tried their best to repair the ship, provide protection for the ship, and even tried to attack the warships, these actions were all resolved by the White Robe Society one by one.

"Times have changed. This ship did defeat our ancestors, but that doesn't mean it's still as powerful today as it was a hundred years ago." Watching the battle being decided, the White Robe Society's leader revealed a cruel smile while standing on the bridge.

Just as he raised the gohei in his hand, preparing to give the broken ship a final blow, the Wang Lin who were bound to the steel ships around him suddenly let out terrified screams.

"Enemy planes straight above, diving down!"

"What?" After hearing this shout, the leader who was about to launch immediately turned back to the ship. In an instant, a virtual water mirror appeared in front of him, and the mirror was showing the bombers diving down from all directions.

While this White Robe Society fleet was frantically attacking the Japanese Ministry of Magic's magic ship, the bombers that took off from the three carrier ship girls, Enterprise, Illustrious, and Wasp, secretly arrived over this fleet under the cover of night.

When all the planes were launched and in position, with Enterprise's order, dozens of bombers dove down towards the fleet below with a whistling sound.

For this small fleet consisting of three destroyers and one battleship below, the battleship was naturally the most conspicuous and most important target.

Therefore, at the first moment of issuing the attack order, most of these bombers that cut through the air and fell from the sky directly pounced on that Yamato-class battleship.

"Anti-air—anti-air!" Although he didn't know where these bombers came from, the White Robe Society's leader also knew that he couldn't let the other party drop bombs on his head.

Unfortunately, even after a lot of magical modification, the inherent anti-air problems of Japanese warships were still a fatal flaw.

What's even more fatal is that the ship girls' bombers were also magically modified, so they were far more powerful than the normal version of the bombers.

As a result, only two bombers were shot down in the first round of attacks, but 90% of the bombs were dropped on the target. Although this Yamato-class took seven or eight bombs, they were basically defended by magic.

However, the destroyers with smaller displacement were unlucky. In addition to one being directly hit and sunk, the other two also had a lot of black smoke and flames coming out of the ship's gaps, and the speed suddenly slowed down a lot.

At this time, the second batch of bomber units also arrived over the White Robe Society fleet. Realizing that the situation was not right, the White Robe Society leader immediately commanded the fleet to concentrate all firepower to prepare for anti-air.

Even the main gun turrets of that Yamato-class battleship rotated, and at the same time, the gun barrels were raised high to disperse the cluster of bombers.

It has to be said that the Yamato-class battleship, which has been improved by magic, has been cured of a lot of cervical spondylosis. The turret rotated quickly and aimed at the dense swarm of aircraft in the sky as if it had been added with and power.

"Boom—" With a loud noise, the 460 main gun, aiming at the sky swarm at a high elevation angle, spat out a ball of flame. The shell exploded violently after reaching the predetermined height, flying out a large number of incendiary bombs and fragmentation bombs.

Then, these small bombs that flew out exploded one after another, forming a cone-shaped barrage of nearly 1km in the air.

Not long after the first shell exploded, the remaining shells were also launched in the air and exploded, forming a wall of fire in the air.

Although the first shell made Enterprise and the others vigilant at once, and urgently dispersed the bombers in the sky, this round of attacks still caused Enterprise and the others to lose 12 bombers.