Chapter 228: Lethal Weapons
The fog dissipated. After the sailors were overwhelmed by the tremendous suction behind them, they were greeted by a new glimpse of the sky and the setting sun. The golden sunlight turns the clouds in the sky into something like oil paint on a painter's canvas, and the light, shadow, color and shape make people instinctively beautiful. But the sailors of the present day have no intention of admiring the sunset and the clouds, and when the wind stops, the first thing they have to do is to see what caused it. Then, they saw the two huge figures standing on the water of the setting sun. "Blame, blame, monster! Captain! monster!"
Halfdan slowly braced himself up, and the wound in his abdomen seemed to have had a worse effect than expected. When he finally reached the edge of the deck and looked back, the two Aquamen were still in their inhaled state. Rao, the captain of the Black Arrow, had never seen or heard of anything like it, and for a moment, even sailors known for their imagination and verbal describing abilities did not know what to use to describe the creatures they saw. So they can only use the vagueest name to put it down to monsters.
But the two-headed monster stopped moving when they had done their job, and towered over the sea like two strangely shaped towers. The panic of the sailors gradually dissipated in this silence, after all, they had experienced so much that they would wake up from their dreams on this day, and it was difficult to feel any more intense fear at this time. And when they turned their gaze to the ships around them, they realized that in fact the losses in the battle were much greater than expected. Many of the ships were submerged, either with their bows sunk into the water, or simply with masts and debris floating on the water. All of those ships had been scuttled through the deck during the previous battle with the Kraken, and on top of that, there were quite a few ships that were no longer alive.
Although this battle is not a tragic victory, the price paid by the human side is not insignificant. Even at the current battle loss ratio, even if the sailors were all dedicated warriors, and not a single ship left its post in isolation, the human fleet would probably not be able to hold on for another day. In comparison, there are very few kraken corpses floating on the water. However, this is also normal, humans have no way to kill the Kraken in the water, and most of those corpses are floated by sailors after throwing the dead people on the deck into the water.
But at the front of the battlefield, this is not always the case. What appeared before the eyes was an apocalyptic spectacle, with an abundance of sea creatures, including but not limited to the Kraken and their domesticated whales and other sea beasts, the apex creatures of the sea floating like trash in a palpitating reddish-brown water, the wounds of the corpses could not be seen, and the intuition told the sailors that it was best not to be so curious to approach the corpses to check the cause of their deaths.
As for the source of these reddish-brown waters, in the sunlight, it clearly pointed to the one with the bow of the two remaining witch ships. The ship, covered in copper pipes, steadily unleashed deadly alchemical potions from the pipes below the water's surface, indiscriminately killing all creatures near the surface. Fortunately, the potion itself is as viscous as oil and does not melt into water, so it does not penetrate deep into the waters to cause greater harm. But what was in the other witch ship might not have been such a gentle weapon.
"My lord, we are about to reach the top of the Kraken's stronghold. "In the midst of the giant ship adorned with the bow of the raven, the great witch who had regained her youthful form opened her eyes after hearing the report of her subordinates.
"How strong is the resistance of the other party?" As the leader of the Witch Clan, the Great Witch has no problem sitting in this flagship. But as an unusually powerful spellcaster, especially the Witch King, who is known for being able to monitor the entire Heartless Bay without leaving her home, her problem is a little strange. However, the witches who served around the Great Witch knew why their leader couldn't perceive what's going on outside the ship, and that was because most of her energy was spent suppressing something inside the ship's hull, which was so difficult to control that even several senior witches would take turns casting spells and feel powerless to assist the Great Witch.
It was such a terrible thing, but the Great Witch brought it here with almost a single force, and brought it to the top of the enemy's head. This tires the other witches and gives them a real understanding of what a powerful leader they have. But the time is running out, leader. When she regains her youthful appearance, it shows that she is determined to leave this world in this way. All witches know this, and as the archwitch's designated successor, Eaton has been standing quietly behind her, and her task is to ensure that the archwitch's bones are returned to the soup pot.
"There is still scattered resistance that will not hinder our progress. The Krakens don't seem to see us as a threat, and haven't sent a large number of troops to stop us until now. They must have thought that as long as we stayed underwater, we couldn't do anything about them. The witch who reported the situation said with some disdain, the Kraken was obviously arrogant in this war, and they had not really launched a full-scale attack on humans and witches until now. They do have such arrogant capital, after all, it is irrational to face the Kraken in the ocean, and the natural barrier formed by the deep sea makes it difficult for human weapons and witch magic to truly pose a threat to the Kraken. What's more, they also have a magnificent fortress with divine power such as the submarine pyramid. So from the very beginning, Lietao's military strategy revolved around achieving victory at a lower cost.
But Lietao's strategy made two mistakes, or rather, they didn't expect two things, the first of which was that they never thought that the system of coordination with the chief priest as the head would collapse in wartime. And this collapse is not as simple as the assassination of the leader, the foundation of the entire operation of the Burning Waves society is based on the belief in the goddess of the tides, and now this foundation has been removed, and even the entire building built on it has collapsed and destroyed.
Of course, this can't be blamed on the hot waves, no one could have expected the arrival of a human to trigger such a terrible result, just as no one would have thought that the ground under their feet would suddenly shatter. It's not their fault. But even so, they made a real mistake, which was to underestimate the preparation and determination of the witch group for this war. In other words, the Fierce Waves did not care about the state of their opponents, because they firmly believed that under the guidance of the goddess, they would win the war.
This laid the groundwork for their second mistake, which was that the Krakens had always believed that they were invincible in this war, that they were the attacking side, and never thought about what would happen if the witch had a weapon that could reach the depths of the ocean and cause damage to a wide range of creatures. In fact, they can't be blamed for this, just like when two knights draw their swords and fight, neither of them will be wary of the other suddenly pulling out a crossbow arrow from behind their backs. However, when a witch does have such a weapon, the mistake becomes very fatal.
"It doesn't matter what they think, all we have to do is sail to the top of their heads, and then they're going to die. The Great Witch said lazily. She didn't know that the Kraken had lost the ability to resist at this point, but even if her men told her that the Kraken was in chaos, the Great Witch might have attributed it to the role of the assassination team that had been dispatched. However, even if Lothar did kill the chief priest of the other party, the Great Witch would still use this deadly weapon on the Sirens.
In the final analysis, this land and the sea cannot support two intelligent races.