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Choaaaah-.
The night sea was calm, cool, and mysterious.
The boundary where the darkness of the distant sky and the horizon melt into one keeps rippling, taking the viewer's mind away.
If it weren't for me, it would have been such a bizarre sight that my confused mind would have been polluted or visited by beings from beyond the boundary.
That's why sailors believe in so many superstitions.
Swaaaahh …
The flagship Tempesta was sailing alone, without any escort ships or speedboats.
The flying dragon knights that had been flying across the sky were nowhere to be seen, nor was the fleet that had been following them.
Cariosa gave a sinister smile and ordered only to advance.
I asked with skepticism.
“Duke. Why don’t you bring a fleet with you? Even in a naval battle, numbers are power.”
She licked her lower lip lightly, tasting it.
“Your Majesty, do you know when is the best time to hunt carnivorous prey?”
“When you believe you are hunting… … is that what it is?”
“It’s the same as mixing in tricks between attacks in a one-on-one fight, or creating fake gaps between units in a plains rotation. The difference is… …we can last much longer.”
In the distance, lights big and small began to appear.
The sight of over 170 sailing ships approaching at the same time was truly spectacular.
A voice speaking in the language of the Eastern Continent could be heard from afar.
“Let’s kill the women and rape the men.”
I was able to understand a few words because I had studied them before returning, but they weren't words that made me want to save him.
Cariosa ordered coolly.
“Put down your sails. And lower your flag. When I go fishing, I don’t need to tell the fish who I am.”
This was not a war, it was a conquest.
Swaaaah-!
A single warship sailed toward hundreds of pirate ships.
Chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck.
I thought I heard a loud noise behind me, and then 20 knights and 80 sword-user-level servants gathered around the signboard.
They wore armor made of iron plates sewn together like scales, carried two or more straight swords, and had a grin as sinister as the Cariosa.
The men of the East Sea, the most brutal warriors on the sea, robbing pirates of their treasures and eating fishmen raw.
“Ready to go.”
Cariosa looked at the lead pirate ship, giggling.
Although it was quite a large ship, it looked like a cat in front of a tiger in front of Tempesta.
The ship seemed to have taken the glory or yoke of the vanguard.
“… … ! … … !”
A man who appeared to be the leader was standing on the bow and shouting something.
When the gap between the two ships was about 300 meters, she held up two fingers without saying anything.
I secretly thought the battle mages would fire spells.
However, it was not the wizards who moved, but the knights and elite soldiers gathered at the sign.
“Gareon, the ‘Hammer Shark’. I follow the orders of the Great White Shark.”
“Kelsey, the 'Blind Spear'. I follow the orders of the Great White Shark.”
The two knights each took four servants and jumped into the water.
with a plop!
Sir Tentia and I looked at Cariosa in horror.
“Peacock! What kind of human sacrifice sorcery are you talking about-.”
Cariosa shook his head and pointed to the water.
“Don’t act like a country bumpkin, Valencianus.”
Sir Tentia let out a sigh.
"……oh my god."
The two knights and eight servants were crossing the water faster than the fish.
Chararararak!
Each steel scale that formed the armor twisted and turned like waves, creating propulsion.
With spells like weight reduction, increased buoyancy, and amplified vibrations, the sea men literally roamed the sea as if it were their home.
As they approached the pirate ship, the pirate ship sign also became busy.
“Coming!”
“We have to cross too! Bring the hook!”
“We have to stop them from throwing hooks. Everyone get ready!”
Then Cariosa gestured to the battle mages.
“Arrow of lightning radiation.”
A battle mage brought out a huge, expensive-looking silver arrow and hooked it onto the large crossbow mounted on the flagship.
Crackle! Crackle!
He cast a lightning spell on the silver arrow, and the arrow glowed blue.
"firing."
Cheeeeeing!
The crossbow arrow left the crossbow and flew 300 meters, leaving a blue spark.
The sight of it illuminating the darkness looked like a blue shark hunting for prey.
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But I thought the arrow wouldn't hit the pirate ship.
Looking at the angle, it seemed like it would cross low, as if swimming over the sign.
Wedge!
As expected, the arrow simply traversed the entire sign.
Crackle! Crackle!
Pulling out dozens of electric filaments like tree branches, electrocuting everyone on them.
Without Celerraji's 'spread' spell, lightning was not effective as a ranged attack.
Therefore, none of the pirates died from the lightning strike.
“Ahhhh!”
“This fu*king shit!”
“I’m done… … .”
But it was enough to make my body freeze for a moment, and then ten hooks were caught on the sign.
Clang!
The two knights and eight servants boarded the ship without shedding a drop of blood.
The pirate captain and his crew hastily armed even the oarsmen, but it was already too late.
“Everyone, die.”
“Anyone who surrenders will have their throats cut off, and anyone who fights to the end will be thrown into the sea!”
The two knights drew their swords, spitting out sentences that made it impossible to tell which side was the pirate.
* * *
It took longer for the squires to mop up the remnants and throw the corpses and injured pirates into the sea than it did for the pirate ship to be taken over.
Cariosa returned to her flagship, praised the two knights who had sacrificed their captain's head, and smiled at me.
“This is how you fight a naval battle. Arch-Admiral.”
I nodded, watching the remaining pirates not come forward easily.
“Should we first break their momentum and then chase after and slaughter the fleeing enemies?”
“Yes. In the grand scheme of things, it’s like land. Okay. Let’s see who will come out next. The brave or the weak. This time, there will probably be six or eight ships.”
“Why don’t they all come out… … Ah. That was a stupid question.”
Tentia Kyung made a face of incomprehension, and I whispered softly.
“If you want to move to close combat, you have to stick together, but no matter how big the battleship is, there’s a limit to how many it can stick together at once. And there’s no proper means of attacking outside of that.”
“It’s not like one knight simply fighting multiple soldiers.”
As Cariosa said, seven ships came out this time.
They approached from afar, shooting large crossbows, and if there was a mercenary magician, they would also fire spells like fireballs.
One soldier was impaled and killed by a blind crossbow, but there were no other casualties.
The mercenary wizards were pinpointed as soon as they cast their first spell, and fell, spitting out blood, to the dispel spells of the Asenortha battle wizards.
“Since our ship is much larger, they have to shoot their crossbows upwards. Just aiming seems difficult. Is this the majesty of a battleship?”
Cariosa smiled faintly, running her hands through her gray hair.
“If we use a land-based analogy, it’s like trying to defeat a 6-meter-tall giant with six soldiers. Now, the ones whose eyes have wandered will start to come out. They’ll rush in and try to attack.”
She spoke as if she were a prophet, and her prophecy came true.
“It’s a flood!”
“Burn it.”
So she ordered her battle wizards to fire flaming arrows, burning all the sails, and then sent the knights to turn them into ghost ships.
A ship that had become a ghost ship passed us by.
“Isn’t it going to sink?”
“You can sink them as much as you want. That’s how you deal with cheap ships. But a proper large sailing ship with magic circuits engraved on it costs thousands of gold coins each. If you run seven fleets, the maintenance costs will go crazy. That’s why my personality is like this.”
I gloomily scattered the spear of fire I had been preparing.
Cariosa was kicking the heads of the pirate leaders the knights had brought back.
Now that I know roughly how much it costs to maintain an army, I can fully understand.
Cariosa lifted one of the heads that had just come in and smiled lovingly.
The magic lamp hanging behind her cast a faint halo over her azure hair.
The Great White Shark of the East held up the pirate captain's head like a hunting competition trophy.
“Hehehe.”
Blood dripped from the severed neck.
You may not understand that.
A question suddenly occurred to me.
“… … Do you want to cut my hair too?”
Cariosa laughed bitterly.
“No. There are many things in the world that are more beautiful when you are alive.”
Bam.
She threw the head she was holding onto the floor and drove me into a pillar.
“And… …what would have happened if I had said that?”
"ah."
“Your royal family is so defenseless. And so perfect. It makes you want to challenge yourself. You know? You want to climb high mountains, and pick beautiful flowers and take them with you. That’s it.”
I thought about what I had done to the princesses and princes of certain countries before I returned.
It was the instinct of the powerful mixed-blood nobles and the Dragonblood royal family.
“… … You’re drunk on the scent of blood. Come to your senses. Duke. You’re the supreme commander.”
“Yeah. I know. I’m still watching you.”
Cariosa released the pillar and turned towards her enemies.
Even on this street, it felt like the pirates were stirring.
Looking at the situation, it didn't seem like they had come out with the intention of fighting a decisive battle in the first place.
“Why is Cariosa here?”
“Weren’t you going south to plunder us?”
“Tarti, that son of a bitch!”
An endless stream of curses were heard, a mixture of Eastern Continental language and the official language of the Empire.
There were already more than thirty ghost ships floating behind Tempesta.
Even though I came out prepared for a decisive battle, it was enough to dampen my spirits.
Suddenly curious, I asked a nearby officer, and he said that after a battle, those ships are found by Wyvern, the crew is dropped off, and sent to the port.
“Sir Tentia. It seems there is nothing we can do.”
“I think so too, Your Majesty.”
I even considered going into the cabin.
At that moment, twenty pirate ships came toward us at once.
Among them, there were three ships with flags with white letters on a red background.
* * *
Cariosa waited until they were close enough this time, then sent out ten Eastern Knights and forty Squires, with lightning-projectile crossbows at the ready.
Charrrrrr!
The scales of the armor spun and created a current, and the knights and their servants split the waves like dolphins.
“Your Highness Valen?”
Sir Tentia called me as she was opening the cabin door.
I looked at the pirates on the ship with the red flag.
“Aren’t they pirates?”
They were dressed in ornate oriental armor and wore iron masks that resembled ogre faces.
In the East, that mask was only used by sword users.
I felt uneasy and clenched my fist without realizing it.
Of course, there was no way Cariosa didn't know what I knew.
Besides, the Eastern Knights are sword experts, this ship is full of powerful battle mages, and if that doesn't work, Nana Cariosa can just roast them with her magic.
And the moment the 90 or so Eastern warriors jumped off those three ships, the feeling of relief also faded away.
"crazy."
I instinctively blurted out the six characters.
Chook! Choooooah!
Warriors wearing oriental-style armor walked on water.
Some people were in water up to their knees, others up to their ankles, and anyway, they walked on the water splashing.
It was a magical tool I had never seen before the regression.
I couldn't even guess what kind of magical circuit was engraved into it.
Buck, buck!
They pulled out two swords and started to race across the waves in earnest.
Chooah! Chooah!
The other pirate ships passing by fell behind them.
Cariosa made an expression like a great white shark bitten by a seal, or a cat bitten by a rat.
The officer blew his trumpet, giving an urgent order to retreat, and the eastern knights turned around.
Choaaaak!
However, since both sides used magic tools, swimming could not beat running in speed.
“Kyahahahaha!”
“Ugh!”
Phew!
The eastern seeds were stabbed by the sword one by one and sank into the water.
Even knights who were sword experts had difficulty creating mana blades underwater.
Choaaaak!
Twenty pirate ships approached Tempesta.
“How dare these sea trashes!”
Cariosa swore and drew her magic sword, Storm.
“The disaster I brought upon myself!”
Woohoo!
The wind overlapped the dark blue blade, and it turned white like an aura blade.
She slashed her sword towards a pirate ship.
Saaaaah-!
A white wind blade shot out, the wind blade swelled long, and the pirate ship in the lead was cut in half.
Kwajijijik!
It was like watching a wild boar running at full speed towards a blade placed on the ground.
The wooden planks shattered and the 50-meter-long pirate ship sank as if it were a lie.
As if that was a signal to them, the hundreds or thousands of pirate ships that had been standing still until then all began to move.