At the same time, on the deck of the Sword Sail, several ballistas placed in the bow of the ship let out a whirring and air-tearing roar under the control of the crew, and pushed a row of huge crossbow bolts with thick arms into the sea on the side of the ship.

The night sea shimmered in the silvery moonlight, and the surging waves revealed the attackers, and the appearance of the so-called nocturnal visitors was soon revealed by the light-producing spells cast by several of the ship's mage crew, revealing the limbs of humanoids and the bodies of fishes in the snow-white light, as well as another snake monster about the size of a troll.

The creatures with humanoid limbs on their bodies, like their physical features, are known to humans along the shores of Emerald Bay as fish-people. The name Fish-Man is very graphic for this kind of monster, but it is not accurate enough, after all, the Koutao Fish-Man in the dark region, the Shark-like Fish-Man in the depths of the sea, the Loka Fish-Man who likes to inhabit the warm coastal waters, and the Naga Fish-Man who appears on the side of the ship as a hostile insailant at the moment - these many subspecies are combined to be a complete fish-man race, just like the simple phrase "human" naturally includes the Holm in the hinterland of the Golden Warbler Empire and the Arranstians in the southern barbarian frontier of the Empire.

Castaño's Naga Fishmen belong to the Chaos and Evil Camp, and these unorganized and undisciplined creatures are said to have been close relatives of the Selenthora, but were banished from the undersea palace because of their weakness, and were later conquered and enslaved by another, more powerful sea monster, and received a new name for the creature by its name.

The more powerful and evil species, the snake man Naga, is behind the fish-man slaves.

Strictly speaking, the snake man naga should not be counted as a "naga" in the traditional sense, because the naga creatures that were first discovered by explorers and scholars are another creature with a human face and a snake body, and the habitat is not entirely oceanic, and the faction tends to be good and evil according to the different subspecies, for example, the ghost naga that haunts the swamp area undoubtedly has a chaotic and evil nature, and the patrol naga who lives in the temperate plains has golden snake scales and an old man's kind human face, and usually belongs to the orderly and good camp.

The snake man naga, this burly sea monster is said to be a group of ancient snake people subspecies after migrating to the sea after the mutation of the product, their skin surface is attached to a layer of armor-like fish scales, the abdomen as the dividing part of the human body and the snake tail, follow a matriarchal clan order, orderly and evil, under the order of the clan queen, plunder the ships passing through the sea, like to send their enslaved fish slaves as substitute cannon fodder to eat the first few rounds of counterattacks of prey in battle.

Because of the birth and discovery of the snake man, scholars in Castaño changed the name of the traditional naga to the human-faced naga, thus distinguishing the two distinct creatures in the academic field.

Returning to the battle scene - the Sword Sail's defensive weapons roared into operation, and the ballistae on the deck quickly took advantage of the first-hand advantage of long-range attacks to bring down many cannon fodder fishmen on the sea, causing the poor corpses to float on the surface of the sea with their bellies, or to be pushed deep into the water by the heavy crossbow arrows, and to take advantage of the height advantage of the ship's deck to also injure some of the snake people at the back of the fish-man queue.

The expedition ship under Victor was a true warship, with a crew of working sailors who could be transformed into military-trained professional soldiers when the need arose, and even employed a handful of full-fledged mages and priests on board.

The commander of the snake man naga may have known that they had found the wrong target, but he quickly threatened the fish-man slaves in the front row of the line to continue to push forward at the risk of death, and then ordered some of the snake man naga soldiers to take the opportunity to dive to the surface and wait for an opportunity to approach the hull.

"Archer!" The experienced crew guards on the deck saw this scene under the magical light searchlight provided by the mage, and immediately made targeted deployments.

The rows of longbows quickly took place, and the "great net" of arrows was cast at the enemy, and it was like a raindrop falling densely, causing a few more dark red bloody balls on the dim sea—

However, compared to the advantages of the bow, the stern of the Sword Sail seems less reassuring.

The Serpent Naga attacked from the right side of the bow and the left side of the stern at the same time, and the marauders of the sea seemed to see the slaves and clansmen of the bow battlefield as decoy, and the elite troops surfaced from the stern direction, threw javelins onto the aft deck, and threw hooks and began to board the ship en masse.

The shaking that Urs and the others had felt in the cabin was probably caused by the battle at the stern. These sea monsters initially attempted to attack the bottom of the ship below the surface, but the hull of the ship was covered with a layer of hard iron armor, and the iron armor on the side of the bottom of the ship was also equipped with twisting blades to deal with underwater threats.

The monsters soon climbed to the side of the ship - however, many of the stern guards seemed to lack a disciplined obedience compared to the bow crew guards, but they did not lose the courage to fight, and basically formed a battle group of several people to engage in fierce melee combat with the monsters on board.

Yes, the guards who appeared at the stern of the ship were the adventurer passengers who had flooded onto the deck from the cabin after noticing the anomaly.

Adventurers' minds are so strange that even a mage who is good at confusing spells does not dare to guarantee that he can guess the thoughts of every adventurer, just like when a ship at sea is maliciously attacked, most ordinary passengers will choose to stay below deck and take refuge, but adventurers are likely to take up weapons and join the battle.

Seeking the thrill of life, accumulating the experience of fighting, out of pure kindness, the experience of despair...... Reason is never an effective force that prevents an adventurer from taking action.

The captain of the Sword Sail was now directing the battle at the bow of the ship, leaving the stern work to the first mate, a middle-aged man over forty years old.

The man had the characteristic appearance of a Holm, with blond hair and a muscular beard, blue eyes, white skin, and a muscular head of one hundred and eighty centimeters, under a set of half-body armor with a helmet, and stood near the staircase and brandished his long sword, guiding the free adventurers who kept running from the cabin to the deck to the place where they were needed to assist the crew in defending against the enemy.

The Adventurer's power is a useful force for a ship, but it needs to be properly guided, otherwise it may get in the way of battle.

The symphony of swords and shouts filled the air under the moon.

Most of the fish-man slaves on the pirate side have been killed by the stern adventurers before boarding the ship and on deck, and the few who are trying to survive in the crowd by relying on their small size, occasionally looking for opportunities to launch dastardly sneak attacks.

The snake man Naga has a sucker-like attachment on her snake belly, and her strong upper limbs climb the adventurer's field of vision with a hook in one hand, and grasp a variety of weapons with the other, from the common scimitar and longsword to spears and halberds that are long-handled weapons. The tall and burly size of these monsters like trolls puts a lot of pressure on the stern battlefield, their strength and physique surpass ordinary people, and their agility in wielding weapons is no less than that of ordinary rangers.

Casualties began to spread -

The result of no casualties is difficult to produce in a melee situation, just as the weapons of the adventurers split the heads of the fish-man slaves of the Naga pirates, and the guy in the hands of the snake man Naga did not take long to open the scoop to a few unlucky adventurers, the one-handed sword that fits the size of the snake man Naga is the size of a half-hand sword in the eyes of humans, and it is strange and scary to wield with the rude power of the monster, and the power of the slash should not be underestimated.

"Damn bastard!" Some of the weaker adventurers did what they could, and when they realized that they would die if they continued to do so, they chose to retreat to the edge of the aft battlefield, entrusting the odds to their other colleagues who were still in a state of fierce fighting, as well as a group of crew members who had been patrolling the aft deck from the beginning.

The first mate guarding the staircase on the deck also did not forget to loudly remind the adventurers who joined the battle: "Beware of those big snake people, and avoid engaging them head-on as much as possible if you are not sure!" ”

He deliberately called the snake man Naga as a big snake man, he was afraid that the brains of some reckless men were made of iron, and he knew that it was very dangerous and rushed to die, and he couldn't help but wonder if there would be too many enemies tonight?

The Sword Sail has been on voyage in the waters near Okazawa for ten years, and most of the big and small things have been encountered, but the number of enemies tonight is a bit unusual.

He saw that the aft deck was already very crowded, and the snake man Naga on the side of the ship was still climbing up from the sea, and the feeling of hell seemed to be explained only by one circumstance—

"The Day of the Great Plunder."

The first mate gritted his teeth and muttered the term out of his mouth.

Every year, the Naga of Castaño's snake people would choose a day blessed by the priests as the date of the festival, and send out several times more warriors than usual to the sea, and use the cover of night to loot at least one large merchant ship, and carry the supplies on board to the lair of the sea to present to the queen of the clan.

This festival, which has sacred significance to the snake people Naga, is called the Great Plunder Day, and the exact date of the date is not fixed, the only thing that can be determined is that it must be held once a year.

"Shhh Suddenly, just as the two sides of the fierce battle were in a stalemate, directly behind the stern climbed up a snake man Naga, who was bigger and stronger and a little larger than the other people, and the scales on his body refracted dark green in the moonlight, and the arms that were almost as thick as the heads of two people raised their hands and slashed over a crew guard who was close to it on the spot, and scared the other adventurer next to him to slip his footsteps, screaming and popping into the sea, and most of them would not survive if he thought about it carefully.

The hulking snake man Naga was the captain of the monster pirates, his blood-stained scimitar swinging proudly in his hand, his mouth wide open and spitting out the tip of his tongue with impunity.

"Hurry up and inform the captain, report the battle situation here, and ask for backup!" The first mate took a breath of cold air and beckoned his adjutant to rush to the bow of the ship that was in an advantageous position, while he was ready to put aside his command duties for the time being and go into battle himself.

He can serve as the first mate on the Sword Sail, and naturally has a strength that is not bad compared to ordinary people.

But at that moment, a dark figure ran up from the top of the staircase and passed in front of him.

The pitch-black figure was like a dark shadow, and it sped towards the place where the serpent man Naga Lieutenant was, especially at the last distance—

The first mate blinked, as if to confirm that he was not mistaken—he saw that the black shadow seemed to disappear like smoke and dust in an instant, and then appeared in front of the serpent man Naga Lieutenant, and the sudden attack caught the other party by surprise, and a cross-shaped two-handed greatsword flashed white in the bright moonlight.

Sharp slashes, splatters of blood—and heads that rise into the air!

The cost of the Shadow Scale Cloak may be a little bigger, but at this moment, Urs thinks that the attributes provided by this equipment are actually quite good, after all, dark vision gives him the freedom of vision in low-light and no-light environments, and although the skill enhancement of hiding and stealth check +2 is not useful for him, the "shadow attack" ability twice a day is really good.

He had just used it once in the process of sprinting - the whole person came to the target like a shadow, took advantage of the sword, and his hand rose and fell, completing a clean and neat decapitation blow.

The rest of the Thorn Squad followed suit, following from the staircase on the stern deck. Kotor, Stonefist, Thea, Jay, and Belelise and Dorothy, who followed a little slower.

Everyone is there, and it looks like there is still a night battle on the deck......

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