The Imperial Sky Frigate Golden Stag wasn't build for heavy combat. Rather, it was a light vessel belt for speed and maneuverability. There were definite advantages to both, when it came to airship naval tactics, but it meant the vessel wasn't as heavily armed or armored as were the heavier battleships.
And so, when it came under attack by a blue dragonflight over the skies of the vast ocean, there was a problem. "Fire the cannons!" came the order of the ship's captain. "Give the wyverns a broadside, see if we can clear a path to hit the dragon!" The thundering sound of tech weapons fire roared as the salvo of projectile weapons began to blow holes through the flight of wyverns, dropping many of them out of the side while the vessel continued its attempts to keep its distance.
The Imperial Arcane Knight known as Manfred wasn't actually part of the crew, in that he didn't fall under the commander's chain of command. Technically, he outranked the commander, though he didn't try and give orders of his own. Rather, he was assigned more to augment the forces of this vessel in its journey.
For the time being, he was in the crow's nest, using a spell to augment his own visual sight in order to locate the dragon. But something was wrong... where the dragon should have been, was only a large wyvern. But then he located the creature out of the corner of his eye. "Above us!" he shouted too late as a blast of lightning blew a hole clean through the light armor of the vessel, severing the mast upon which he was standing.
As the knight plummeted down to the ocean below, he was vaguely aware of the continued thunder of cannon fire along with the lesser thunder of musket fire atop the deck itself. In his fall, he was spiraling too far out of control to keep track of the progress of the battle, and before he knew it he had landed in the ocean with a splash. Feeling himself rapidly lose his consciousness, it was all he could do to hold on to the wooden mast with the rest of his strength in hopes that he wouldn't drown as his vision faded and he blacked out.
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