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As soon as Envoy Nel returned, the Pirate King Aquila summoned all of his admirals.
Dozens of pirate admirals gathered in the mansion conference room.
Each of them was a leader leading hundreds of ships and huge alliances.
Aquila looked down upon them with majesty.
“The Duke of Cariosa has rejected our request for reconciliation. Now all that remains is war. Admirals, take your positions and defend the island.”
'I've prepared enough. In the end, if we block this port, we'll win, and if we take it, we'll break through. A siege is several times more difficult than a defense, and the fortifications have already been completed.'
His beloved subordinate, Nell, stood by his side with one arm missing, adding to the justification.
Of course, the pirate admirals did not simply say 'yes.'
“Our strengths are versatility and freedom of movement.”
“I am concerned that emotional judgments may be undermining the benefits.”
“Wouldn’t it be better for each of us to go out to sea and respond immediately?”
Some people openly said they would run away, while others spoke indirectly.
Aquila gave the order to do so or not.
You shouldn't even pretend to listen to such words.
“Admiral Tenye. General Oungula. Guard the ports and forts. I will give you command of the admirals. Take the swordsmen under Admiral Tarti as well.”
The large, pigtailed man and the hook-wielding general bowed their heads.
“Understood, Your Majesty.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The pigtailed man, Tenye, was from the grasslands of the East, and the hooked general was a pureblood raider who had been living as a bandit, a bandit, a pirate, and a thief since he was seven years old.
“Admiral Arinth. Go to Wing Isle and take charge of the ballista. Sink all the landing ships.”
“I will do as the headquarters says.”
The handsome man who always wore his hat pulled down low bowed his head.
He bit his lip, afraid of Aquila, who might change at any moment.
'Please, please let me survive this time. I still have work to do.'
No, he was afraid of everyone, not just Aquila.
He was afraid of the charming beauty, Pagine, who sat next to Aquila, he was afraid of the purple priest who always kept himself hidden, and he was afraid of Valencianus who was said to have killed Tarti.
It was no different back home.
So he took up the bow.
Although he had a natural talent for swordsmanship, he took up the bow.
To kill by shooting from a distance.
“Okay. Then lastly… … .”
Aquila looked around at the admirals, starting with Arinth.
It's wrong to expect anything from pirates, but there were very few people you could trust.
On the battlefield, it is common for weak allies to be more fearsome than strong enemies.
If you weed out those people, you won't get hit in the back of the head at the most important moment.
bang!
The doors on all sides opened and armed men came in and dragged out several admirals.
“What are you doing?”
“Aquila! Aquila!”
“Misunderstanding! I don’t know what you were thinking, but it was a misunderstanding.”
The pirate admirals resisted violently as they were dragged away, but Aquila's men quickly subdued them and put daggers to their necks.
Some admirals glanced at the sight with anxiety, as if they had expected this to happen.
Aquila raised his glass as if nothing had happened.
“Now, everyone, let’s have a toast.”
* * *
In the afternoon, when the sun had reached its zenith and was beginning to set, huge dark clouds gathered in the clear sky.
Gurrrrrr!
An unnaturally humid wind blew from the distant sea, and the dark blue waves rose high.
While most people would be afraid of the ever-changing nature of the waves and clouds, pirate admiral Arins was afraid of one person.
'It's a cariosada.'
The Great White Shark of the East, the head of Asenortha, the descendant of Summerlin, the daughter of the storm, the conqueror of the East… … .
The great lord who had been known by countless nicknames since taking up the sword at the age of 13 and reigning over the eastern seas was coming to the Union Port of the Anchor Archipelago.
Until ten years ago, pirates plundered the eastern coast of the empire every day.
The fleet of House Asenorta was strong even then, but pirates targeted ports and coastal towns rather than the fleet, and the fleet routinely chased after the pirates.
The fleet that had once been a powerhouse was now a scourge for pirates.
During the period of rapid pirate growth, Cariosa blocked the sea routes by causing typhoons, expanded the reconnaissance radius by using ospreys and wyverns, and destroyed their strongholds by burning large and small islands.
Sometimes, they would push the fishermen towards the pirates and even try to kill them.
Ten years passed like that.
Now Cariosa was targeting the pirate island, and the pirates were defending it.
The story was that she pushed the pirates to the end of the sea.
'Pirates defending against the military.'
Arinth checked the batteries given to him, suspecting something was wrong.
Rocky islands stretched out into the sea, each one armed with huge ballistae.
Thousands of pirates passed over the rope ladders that connected the islands, carrying large arrows and oil cans to be fired from ballistae.
“Bring it quickly!”
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“Be careful. Once that thing catches fire, it will never go out.”
“Take off the cover and put on the chain!”
Arinth stood on the easternmost island among dozens of winged islands.
To the west was the harbor that had to be defended, and to the east was the endless sea.
Of course, that sea is not an endless sea.
He knew the waters of this sea, and knew by heart which city was on which coast.
'I didn't come here to get this.'
He carefully loaded the ballistae the pirates had brought onto one side, ordered his men to aim the giant ballistae downwards, and checked that the sights were accurate.
'Now I'm scared to even go back.'
The same work was being done on hundreds of ballistas stretching westward to the harbor.
“Yeah. I’m afraid of everything.”
He muttered as he looked at the sails and flags beginning to appear on the eastern horizon.
“So I prepared better.”
Blue-background shark and swirl flags waved majestically beneath the dark clouds.
“It’s the Storm Fleet!”
“The Storm Fleet is coming!”
“It’s Cariosada!”
The pirates shouted, waved their flags, and rang bells.
The first to appear were the 150-meter-long unsinkable warships.
Arinth did not pay attention to those battleships.
The great warships could never approach these shallow shores.
But it was a different story when the battleships split to make way and the flat, turtle-like landing ships appeared.
They are called landing ships, but each ship was 60 meters long and carried over 400 soldiers.
They were soldiers of the most notorious army in the East.
Everyone knew.
The soldiers of House Asenorta were full of sword users even at the non-commissioned level, and even the young soldiers boasted of their prowess in easily cutting off several heads of the mermaids.
If it was a pirate, they would behead him without any mercy and hang him on a pole.
Arinth shut her eyes tightly and opened them again and shouted.
There was always tension on her beautiful face.
“All hands! Prepare to fire!”
* * *
Krrrr! Krrrr!
The sound of the gears turning was loud.
“Move! You lazy bums! Move!”
“Huh, ha!”
“Loaded!”
Four pirates rushed in and aimed their ballistae, two of them wound a pulley that looked like a cartwheel and pulled back the string, and one of them loaded the ballistae with an arrow longer than a lance.
In front of the arrowhead hung a large jar of oil, filled with a low-flashpoint oil extracted from a plant called the flame flower.
Woohoo!
The moment the arrow landed, the ballista glowed softly.
The custom-made parts added elasticity to the bow and gave speed to the massive arrow.
It wasn't a particularly great level of magic, but because the arrow itself was so huge, even a slight push from the back greatly increased its absolute power.
Choaaaah! Choaaaah! Choaaaah!
Twenty landing ships approached, cutting through the waves in a sharp wedge shape.
Phew!
Arinth blew his horn and made the pirates wait.
'If you fire five or six shots to one side, you can sink the ship.'
Originally, pirates were a race that had nothing to do with waiting, but they knew of Arinth's archery skills.
If you dared to rebel, your head would definitely be blown off by an arrow flying from far away.
“Wait a minute!”
“Drag in!”
“You have to come inside here.”
Pirates who were as big as the captains of ships were shouting and swinging their whips here and there, conveying what Arins wanted to say.
'Come closer, come closer.'
Arinth muttered as she looked at the landing ships.
At that moment, with his uniquely keen senses, he sensed the huge flow of mana.
'Cariosa? No. This is… … not wind, but fire.'
Far in the distance, near the horizon, a strangely large fireball could be felt from the flagship Tempesta.
Saaaaah-!
As if the giant had taken a deep breath, a tremendous amount of mana was rushing towards it, like the ocean waters being swept away before a tsunami.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Arinth saw the azure ripples in Tempesta.
The space itself shook as if it was being consumed by something, and gradually turned red, then slowly began to rotate and rise into the sky.
Whioooo-.
The azalea flower rose into the sky like a whirlwind.
Whioooo-.
The dark clouds began to rotate with the haze.
Whioooo-.
A huge dark cloud rose up, glowing red.
The blood-red color gradually deepened, eventually burning softly like the color of sunset.
Whioooo-!
"ah."
Arinth realized something was wrong.
“No, no, no!”
I also realized why the Violet Priest had said that we must form an alliance with the fish people.
Kwakwakwakwa!
Eventually, a fiery typhoon swept across the cloudy sky.
It seemed to be hundreds of meters in diameter and burned as hot as hellfire.
The heat was palpable even from several kilometers away.
“Oh, sir. What on earth is that?”
The pirate, who was shaking and expressing doubts, was relatively calm.
“The God of Light is angry!”
“It caused an underwater volcano to erupt!”
“Cariosa brought the fire demon!”
Even among the captains, there were some who ran away screaming loudly.
Arinth also felt like running away.
His brilliant eyes saw a giant whirlpool filled with naked, androgynous boys.
They were laughing like crazy and had curved horns sprouting from their heads.
“Ha, hahahaha… … .”
Arinth turned her eyes slightly and looked into the eye of the storm.
Between the eye of the storm and the wall of flame, a figure was floating comfortably in the middle of it all.
Inyoung had white hair, golden eyes, and was clearly smiling.
Arinth muttered the name in a miserable mood.
“You bastard, you bastard, your brother Valencianus.”
Inyoung aimed her hand forward, and a huge firestorm began to move.
Hwaaaaak!
A hot wind rushed through the cloudy sky.
A dry, hot wind blew over the islands that formed the 'Anchor Wings'.
The moss and undergrowth on the rocky island are dried and twisted.
“Ahhhhh!”
“fu*k! It’s hot!”
“How do I overcome that… …?”
“I will run away, Admiral!”
“Wait, that’s an order!”
“X it!”
The pirates ran screaming, leaving the ballista behind.
Arinth knew that if things continued like this, she would be defeated without even firing a single shot.
Jeez!
He pulled the bow he always carried and aimed for the captain's head, but he was unable to fire an arrow.
'I… … am not qualified to tell you to die with me.'
A firestorm passed over the landing craft fleet and came up to the top of the anchor wing islands.
In the typhoon's whirlwind, 'spears of fire' began to pour down like rain.
Whaaaaaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaaaaa!
The fire spears fell with a terrible crash, targeting not the pirates but the ballista batteries.
bang!
The moment the window fell, the ballista burst into flames.
The flames imbued with the serpent's power melted even the core components that had been cast with the spell.
The flaming oil jars attached to the arrows shot up and scattered their contents, and the pirates remaining in the area were reduced to ashes or looked upon those who were reduced to ashes with envy.
“Eww!”
“Save me!”
“Fire! Fire! Hit it and drop it. There’s a sorcerer over there.”
“You idiots. That’s just a fireball! Shooting at it won’t do anything. Run!”
“The fire god is angry! Cariosa will kill us all.”
“It’s the Archduke Valencian. Didn’t you hear that the Dragonblood Imperial Family was coming?”
“Tell the other guys to fight! I said we should run away from the beginning!”
“Release the prisoners first! They’re the ones who have decided to start a new life.”
Arinth looked up at the sky with a blank expression.
Cold sweat ran down her beautiful face beneath the hood.
“Kwaaaaak!”
Thousands of his men ran away screaming.
Wedge!
A spear of fire falls from the whirlpool.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Hundreds of ballistae supported by the royal families and nobles of the East are all burning.
Choaaaak!
As the landing ship of Asenorta passed leisurely before his eyes, as if teasing him.
"ah."
He thought that all this might be some old trick.