It was an hour later that the Silver Wing arrived at the battleground after venturing across the Rock Island upon hearing the rumbling of artillery from a distance away and the distress signals in mid-air.
Smack!
“Help!”
“…”
In the blazing fire, the originally powerful class 5 battleship Warrior was completely turned into burning firewood. There were shouts and cries for help.
Numerous sailors on the warship were forced to jump off the ship to escape despite having no lifeboats.
Before the Silver Wing could come to save the wounded who had fallen into the ocean waters, the Warrior, who had been ignited by the fire, exploded a tremendous roar!
Boom!
Then there was silence.
Alvin had his mouth agape. He was still joking about a warship being destroyed in front of his eyes yesterday. This kind of shock was far from the insignificant battle with the Blood Anchor, and nothing that could be written in the war reports.
“Target the pirate ship, all to be ready, open the cannons, go upwind, we will take revenge!”
“Take revenge! Take revenge!”
The scene in front of them enraged the people on the Silver Wing. Although they had conflicts with the Warrior, the audacity of the pirates who dared to openly sink the warship to kill the sailors caused the crew of the Silver Wing to vow to avenge their comrades!
Also, Gull’s command to go to upwind also indicated his intention to fight to the end.
That was because they would not be able to escape if they were at upwind.
“Gargon!! Tell me why there is a second warship! This is the prey you prophesied?!”
One-Eyed Bech’s face twisted in anger and the excitement of having just unlocked the secret treasure of the ocean was instantly replaced by annoyance.
As the captain of the ship, he could not admit that he was so engrossed in the joy of having his dream fulfilled that he did not think about the meaning behind the Warrior’s distress signal.
Gargon had to take the blame.
The unexpected interruption of their plan did not please anyone, but One-Eyed Bech also knew that anger would not solve any problems. Moreover, with the help of the secret ocean treasure The Mourning Song of the Sinking Ship, he would not necessarily lose the battle with the Silver Wing, since they did not have many casualties in the battle earlier on.
Holding up the shipwreck statue which had begun to emit visible black fog, One-Eyed Bech rushed into the captain’s room. Before closing the door, he shouted viciously to his own pirate cadres, “Stop them for half an hour, whoever dares to retreat will be thrown to the bottom of the sea to feed the fishes!”
The pirates were in a difficult situation. Although they had used their trick to lure the Warrior into a trap, it was still a class 5 battleship after all!
Their own ship had suffered quite a bit in the battle.
In that situation, if they fought another class 5 ship, they would be courting death.
However, the brutality and ferocity of One-Eyed Bech overpowered their fear of the navy, so they ordered the gunners to return fire, before lifting the anchor and leaving for another place. As long as they were able to hold until their captain came out, it should be alright, right?
Wo…!
Woosh…
The sails were expanded fully.
The two ships left Rocky Island and headed into the deep sea. When they passed by the wreckage of the Warrior, the Silver Wing released all their lifeboats. They could only pray that there were survivors.
Boom!
The pursuit lasted for only 20 minutes. Although the pirate ship managed to use a chain bomb to cut the foremast of the Silver Wing and caused them to slow down, the Silver Wing also managed to hit the pirate ship, causing them to lose the chance to escape.
Boom—
Boom—
Boom—
After firing for three rounds to ensure that the pirate ship was indeed unable to move further and the pirates on deck were badly injured, the Silver Wing chose the best angle to lean towards the pirate ship.
At the same time, the navy did not forget that their target was One-Eyed Bech.
“Anchor down! Let’s go all out!”
Pushed to the point of desperation, the pirates did not lack the courage to die. They sunk the anchor, then all the pirates rushed out from the cabin together.
Without waiting for the Silver Wing to attack first, the pirates had begun the fight.
“Attack!”
“Kill the damn navy!”
“…”
The sailors on the Silver Wing naturally were unwilling to show weakness. Some on the deck fought, while some went directly to the pirate ship.
One side was the pirates and the other side was the navy. None of them were cowardly, and in the blink of an eye, the two ships were turned into a bloody battlefield.
As the strongest force on the Silver Wing, Gull looked around and could not spot One-Eyed Bech, who was claimed to have Knight class skills. Gull passed the command power to the Silver Wing’s first mate.
Boom—
He landed on the pirate ship like a cannonball and headed straight to the captain’s room. Although he did not know what One-Eyed Bech had plotted, the best choice they could make was to stop the other party from succeeding.
At this time, of course, Alvin could not just watch. It was the first time he had encountered pirates since he joined the navy, and he could not wait to practice the skills he had learned.
Without any delay, he used the Sword Art: Pontoon!
His figure blurred and turned into a beam of silver light. The light of the sword went around the deck of the Silver Wing, causing blood to splatter in the air after every flicker. One pirate after another died to his sword.
If Gull was at the pinnacle of official knight, Alvin was confident that he had now reached the pinnacle of apprentice knight and had the power of a first rank.
If he had to waste a lot of energy to fight against the ordinary pirates, wouldn’t his eight years of Extraordinary sword techniques go to waste?
The situation on the Silver Wing gradually stabilized after easily killing a pirate cadre who had obvious traces of an Extraordinary.
This wave of pirates with the power of Extraordinary was obviously much stronger than the Blood Anchor. However, after Alvin single-handedly killed three pirates. The contrast in the combat power of the navy and pirates was obvious.
The pirates were already smaller in number than the navy to begin with, and after having just gone through a battle, the result was obvious if there were no mishaps.
“Pfft!”
“Hrrgh, hrrgh, ah!”
Gradually, the screams of the pirates began to thin out and the navy realized that these guys were just distractions and that the real target, One-Eyed Bech, had not appeared yet.
Alvin shot Gary a look and told him to take over there.
Grabbing a cable, he also swung onto the pirate ship. Even if Uncle Gull did not need his help, he wanted to witness the battle between the knights.
“Stop him, don’t let him in the captain’s cabin!”
“Attack, everyone!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The pirates who were left to guard the ship endured the fear of facing a full knight and swarmed to block Gull from making his way to the captain’s cabin.
They even brought in a large amount of firearms to stop Gull from nearing.
Even though Gull was already an Extraordinary and his physical strength far exceeded the limits of ordinary people, it did not mean that he could ignore the bullets, let alone the continuous close-range shots.
Time passed as he changed his footwork and moved around to avoid the gunfire.
At this point, Gull also realized that One-Eyed Bech was probably in trouble and that his men were buying him time. However, the longer the delay, the greater the uncertainty. Since the pirates had not chosen to run away, they definitely thought they still had a chance to turn the tables.
Therefore, he did not wait any further.
He retreated and rushed to the ship’s bow in two steps, cut off the smallest foremast with his sword, and shouted as he grabbed the mast with both hands.
“Hrrgh!”
With more than four times the strength of a normal human, he threw the mast with full strength.
Boom!
What did it feel like being hit with a siege hammer?
The pirates would tell you—it felt like flying!
Even their screams were stuck in their throats. After just two swings, the path made of blood and flesh was completely cleared.
A small number of pirates were knocked into the sea and many more were smashed.
Gull was no longer obstructed.
Like the brave and fearless knights in iron armor from the era of cavalry battles centuries ago, Gull charged into the captain’s cabin, with a long mast in his hand, like a knight holding his own rifle.
Every time he stepped on the deck, the oak deck would make loud sounds as if a war elephant was running past.
Bam! Woosh!
Alvin had just boarded the pirate ship and heard a loud boom from the stern of the ship.
He looked up and saw that the captain’s cabin had been blown to smithereens.
Two figures fell to the sea with the broken pieces of the ship.
He made use of his Data Vision to figure out who they were. The tall man in military uniform was Gull, while the other strange figure was undoubtedly One-Eyed Bech.
However, Alvin was confused. “Is he a human?”
Half of his naked upper body had been transformed into the shell of a crab or lobster. The other half was still in human form, but it was covered with undersea creatures of all sizes, such as barnacles, tubeworms, moss worms, mussels, and algae. He looked as though he had lived at the bottom of the sea for many years, extremely strange and disgusting.
The most terrifying thing was that the eye patch had fallen off from his blind left eye and there was a cluster of thin, black tentacles that kept swinging like the ghostly hands of undersea water ghosts in the empty eye socket.
Looking from afar, Alvin could already smell the terrible decay.
“Is this the world of the Extraordinary?”
Alvin’s worldview was turned when he witnessed this strange scene. He was at a loss for words and did not realize that a figure who had bone ornaments all over his body gradually appeared from the hatch that led to the lower deck.