C502
Splash, chuaaaa--
Splash, chuaaaa---
"Human, there are so many ships!"
As Raon said.
Cale looked around.
His ship, located at the rear.
In front and on both sides, a huge number of warships were moving very fast, maintaining a certain distance.
"Turn on the lights!"
"Turn on the lights!"
Shouts coming from ahead.
The warships of Isle 16 heading towards Isle 19.
Lights shone simultaneously on the warships, of which only half remained.
"Attack Isle 19 first, then-"
Alberu, standing next to Cale at the bow, observed the night sea.
"She has decided that defense is useless."
The Great General Perry of Isle 16, upon understanding the current situation, made a decision immediately.
'Isle 19 will conquer Isle 16 today.'
And it would do so bringing along numerous pirate islands that follow or cooperate with it.
In such a situation, General Perry, who could not ensure intact forces, could have chosen to stay on Isle 16 and defend.
Because Isle 16 was an excellently defended island.
"Because, even if they defend, they will eventually fall."
"Correct."
Cale nodded at Alberu's words.
Chuaaaa-
Chuaaa---
"In a situation of food and troop shortages, no matter if Isle 16 is a natural fortress, it will eventually fall to Isle 19, which will strike ceaselessly."
The Heavenly Demon, who was behind, spoke in a low voice after Alberu finished.
"I told you the answer is to kill the leader."
Smirk.
Both Cale and Alberu let out a brief laugh.
It was similar to a bitter smile, but they did not deny the Heavenly Demon's words.
General Perry immediately activated the emergency alert on the island and gave orders.
'Evacuate all residents to the interior of the castle and activate the defenses immediately!'
'Gather all fishing and merchant boats! Prepare them to leave the island immediately upon receiving the signal!'
'Send messengers to all the islands of the Great Generals and to the island generals of the Council of 17 within the Central Sea! Say that Isle 19 is attacking the Guardian!'
After performing the minimal defense.
'Listen, all sailors!'
She boarded the flagship she used to use when setting sail, raised the flag that symbolized her, and shouted.
'Today we go to Isle 19!'
'We will eliminate the enemy that caused us to lose our comrades and attempts to bring down the honor of the Guardian!'
She had made a decision in a short time.
'And I, Guardian Perry, will cut off Shark's head!'
'Waaaaaah---!'
'Uaaaaaah---!'
Following her orders, the sailors shouted, and a desperate determination settled in their eyes.
"It was excellent judgment."
The Heavenly Demon praised General Perry's decision.
"General Perry thought the only way to reverse this situation was Shark's life."
Unlike the sailors, who had undergone numerous trainings and protected the sea gate for generations, the pirates had a high probability of collapsing if their leader disappeared.
Ssiik.
The corner of the Heavenly Demon's lips went up.
He had a slightly interested expression.
"But it is also the most dangerous option."
Witira, who had been observing the surroundings in silence, spoke.
"They have resigned themselves to death."
The sailors on the warships.
Seeing their expressions, Witira felt it.
They have thrown themselves into the sea now, resigned to die.
"Isn't it natural?"
The Heavenly Demon responded naturally.
"In number of ships, number of people, quality of the force. Isle 16 is at an absolute disadvantage now. Of course, the strength of the staff might be a little higher for Isle 16. But this dark night. Pirate ships will swarm continuously from all directions and attack."
The Heavenly Demon said to Witira, the heir of the Whale tribe, as if throwing the words at her.
"It is a battlefield where defeat is evident. So, why do soldiers advance?"
“……."
"Because otherwise, everyone will die."
My homeland.
My home.
My family.
Everything will end.
Therefore, for the only remaining possibility, the soldiers threw themselves into the sea.
"The sea is not a merciful place."
At the words the Heavenly Demon murmured, Witira closed her eyes tightly.
It was then.
"Huh?"
Raon's voice, who had turned invisible, reached everyone's ears.
"Die? Everyone? That won't happen!"
Witira opened her eyes and looked in the direction the sound came from.
Flutter, flutter.
With Raon's wing flapping, the cold night breeze brushed her cheek.
The child's cheerful voice arrived.
"Aren't all these ships our allies?"
"They are our allies!"
"They are allies."
On and Hong responded to Raon's words.
Witira suddenly realized that these three children, although young, had been by Cale's side more than she had and had gone through great battlefields.
In the midst of the brutality of war, how had these children managed not to lose their innocence?
While Witira thought that without realizing it.
The three children who had already lived a hellish life before meeting Cale, Raon, Hong, and On, spoke successively.
"Our human has never lost at sea!"
"Our side will be fine!"
"It will be fine."
Ah.
Witira felt the absolute faith of the three children in Cale.
And at the same time, she realized that these children, more than simple faith, had been speaking the truth.
The Whale tribe, rulers of the sea.
She had also experienced countless defeats.
But, this man before her eyes, Cale Henituse, had never lost at sea.
"Young master, it is approaching."
When Ron's voice arrived, Witira could realize that Cale was looking forward.
Chuaaaaa-
While everyone advanced forward, a ship moved towards the rear.
It was the flagship on which General Perry was riding.
“……."
“……."
Cale met General Perry's gaze.
At the moment the mist ship and the flagship advanced side by side.
Tap.
Perry propelled her body slightly from the railing and moved to the mist ship.
"!"
Seeing that movement, a special glint appeared in Cale's eyes.
'She is light.'
It was known that General Perry used an extremely fast sword.
As a Guardian, one would think she would use a heavy sword, but it was said that no one could match the speed of her sword.
"Sir Cale."
General Perry, who had boarded the mist ship alone. She looked at Cale and spoke.
'Acceptable. Let's go together.'
Perry, after accepting Cale as an ally and positioning him in the rear.
She approached Cale with a serious face.
"I have a request for you."
The moment General Perry mentioned the request. Cale opened his mouth.
"Is it about rescuing Vice Chief Ebo?"
“……!"
"Or is it about recovering something important that he must be carrying?"
"!"
Perry's pupils shook.
"How-"
At her barely spoken words, Cale responded with an impassive expression. As if it were nothing.
"I thought today's great pirate eradication operation was not just that, but a smokescreen for something else."
“……."
"I assumed it was to go find allies, and the right person for that would be your younger brother, Vice Chief Ebo."
“……."
"Since there is a spy among the allies, that is why you come to us alone to make this request."
“……!"
At Cale's words, who had understood everything, Perry had no choice but to express with her silence that everything was correct.
"Probably, General, you want to prepare for the situation where you cannot kill Shark today."
And at Cale's following words, she was left speechless.
Cale said:
"Are you asking us to take care of Vice Chief Ebo's matter?"
Ah.
Perry let out a sigh.
All the sailors of Isle 16 are heading to Isle 19, resigned to die at sea.
She also had to prepare for the situation where she could not kill Shark.
'...Even if Isle 16 falls.'
This sea must not collapse.
"General."
That is why she had tried to ask the powerful stranger before her eyes.
To deliver Ebo's message to General 7. That in exchange, she would give them the most they could wish for in this situation.
Because amidst mistrust, what was reliable was a transaction.
But, this man-
"General, are you worried about who is behind Isle 19? That is why you want to warn General 7 even more of the danger, right?"
This man, is too dangerous.
Perry, unable to say anything, saw how the corner of Cale's lips rose.
"Are you scared of him?"
The words hidden in it were felt clearly.
'Are you scared of us?'
Therefore, her answer was decided.
"A Guardian has nothing to fear."
General Perry decided to trust the courtesy of those who had treated her and Isle 16 as Guardians.
In the dangerous sea, those who knew how to maintain even the smallest courtesy were more reliable than thought.
And only then could she see Cale Henituse smiling with a very satisfied expression.
"Then let's make a proposal."
Cale, looking at Perry's serene and sure eyes, made a transaction offer suitable to the counterpart who had decided to bet something on him.
"We will board the flagship."
"!"
"General, you know an approximate map of Isle 19, right?"
The one who knows the information of the greatest enemy best must be General Perry.
"Take the elite troops and, circling around, capture at least one island, one port."
If that happens.
"Who is the rearguard that pirate Shark communicates with, what is his trick. Surely there will be something on the island that serves as proof. Take it."
Not only today's survival, but one can aspire to the future.
"I have heard that, tacitly, until now Isle 16 could remain neutral because the generals of the Council of 17 did not touch the Guardian, considering it an inviolable territory. The one who broke that would have nothing to say even if he receives a legal beating, right?"
The red-haired man smiling as if he were enjoying himself.
Perry swallowed hard and asked.
"What are you going to do, you who will board my ship?"
"You already know, don't you?"
The flagship without Perry.
Cale and his group, boarding a ship without its captain, pretending to be the flagship.
"Shark will concentrate all his strength on the flagship to aim at you."
Perry spoke with a trembling voice.
"Will you be able to handle Shark?"
"Ha, haha-"
Cale responded laughing.
"Yes."
Although it was too concise an answer, the moment Perry heard it, without realizing it, she clenched her fists with both hands.
Although, like this dark night sea, she could barely see a step ahead.
Suddenly, a path seemed to be glimpsed.
'If it is this man-'
This man can handle Shark.
When she felt his energy, didn't Perry feel her breath cut short as if remembering the Great General?
'No.'
She soon corrected her thought.
'Shark cannot handle this man.'
Yes. Rather, Shark will not be able to handle this man.
Because this man is definitely stronger than Perry herself.
But there was something she had to say.
"They are many."
"I know."
"And they may have brought a rearguard, another ally."
"I know."
To Cale, who said he knew everything, Perry asked:
"Can you handle everything?"
"Yes."
Cale shrugged and asked in turn.
"Why do you keep asking the same question? It seems our time is limited."
Ah.
From the first question about Shark, feeling that the counterpart had already calculated up to here, General Perry felt a chill.
"...I will definitely repay the favor."
At General Perry's words, Cale and his group only responded with a smile.
'…….'
Seeing that scene, Perry felt something disturbing.
'What is it?'
Cale and his group, who were heading to the flagship in her place. The expressions of some of them seemed inexplicably very cheerful. As if they had found a toy before their eyes.
Only then, realizing that, besides Cale, everyone was equally formidable, she stealthily went out towards the rear with part of the elite sailors.
'Anyway, it's all or nothing.'
General Perry headed to Isle 19 with all the ship's lights off, not only to escape the crisis but to prepare a stepping stone for a counterattack.
In a different direction from the allied ships moving away with bright lights.
"...Please-"
She turned her head seeing the bright lights of the flagship that, without realizing it, had headed to the center.
“……."
Perry's face turned cold.
'Just by them holding back Shark for a moment, even if they cannot defeat him and are defeated.'
A path is seen.
She had asked Cale that, if the situation became unfavorable and he could not rescue Ebo, to transmit a message to him.
'Leave it to your sister.'
To transmit these words to him.
That contained a meaning.
'Die.'
These were words meaning that even if he died, she would take over.
Her younger brother Ebo would understand immediately and die along with the message.
“……."
She had prepared for the worst as much as possible.
Chuaaaaa-
Only a few ships quickly cut through the water.
And in the distance.
Boom!
The moment a sound was heard, Perry sensed it.
'They have met.'
That Cale's group and the forces of Isle 19 had clashed.
As she said, Cale could see countless ships approaching from afar.
"Wow."
Cale sincerely admired.
Chuaaaa-
Chuaaaa---
They did not fit in the view.
Really, an endless and huge number of pirate ships was approaching.
"...The center is Isle 19."
As the subordinate General Perry had left behind said, in the center, pirate ships with the flag of Isle 19 were seen.
They were leading from the front.
"Are there ships without flags too behind?"
At the Heavenly Demon's words, Cale thought that the ships without flags behind the pirates of Isle 19 could be rearguard forces.
"Ha."
"They are crazy."
The sailors, resigned to die, lost their words seeing the approaching pirate ships.
Endless pirate ships.
If those pirate ships surround them, they will be captured immediately.
"Sir Cale. We must disperse."
Before being surrounded, they must first disperse and fight individually.
They must create a chaotic battle.
"No."
Cale shook his head at Perry's subordinate's words.
"With the flagship at the front, let's group as one."
His finger pointed at the ship behind the leading ship of the pirates of Isle 19.
The ship with Shark's flag.
"We will attack Shark's ship, the flagship."
Chuaaaa-
Chuaaa---
The pirate ships approach faster.
"Kahahahaha! Finally, that crazy Perry has shown her face!"
"Captain, the number of enemies is as we expected!"
"Kahahahaha! Do not hesitate and advance! Surround immediately and completely massacre the navy of Isle 16!"
As they had already agreed, the pirate ships cut through the sea without hesitation.
Their momentum was felt sufficiently even seeing the pirate ships getting closer and closer.
"Sir Cale! If we group-"
"No. Grouping together is how we will survive."
Cale had no intention of convincing Perry's subordinate.
He only gave an order.
Because now it was urgent.
"I am the captain of this ship."
"...I understand."
Perry's subordinate closed his eyes tightly.
Swish!
He raised a flag, and soon the allied ships grouped together.
"Raon, wind!"
-Understood, human!
Chuaaaaa-
Cale's flagship placed itself at the front.
And before Cale stood a person.
It was Witira.
Dressed in General Perry's uniform, with a hat put on deeply, covering her hair.
Witira, who was holding a sword awkwardly.
"Kahahahaha!"
Shark laughed mockingly seeing General Perry at the front.
"She is aiming at me!"
He had understood her thought.
Even if they dispersed, even if they provoked a chaotic battle, Perry must have understood that finally, everything would be decided in her fight against Shark.
"Good, fine!"
Shark, seeing the sailors approaching, gave orders to his subordinates.
"Raise the flag!"
"Yes!"
Swish!
The subordinates raised a flag, and whoever received the signal sounded a horn.
Buuuuuuu----
Immediately, the pirate ships moved.
The pirate ships surrounding the sailors approaching like an arrowhead, like a crescent moon.
Despite that orderly movement, the sailors held their breath and only looked at the flagship at the front.
Except for the flagship, everyone believed that General Perry was on that ship.
That is why they acted trusting the General.
Meanwhile, Shark smiled broadly at the approaching sailors.
He, protecting his own flagship, looked at General Perry's flagship coming beyond the two ships he had in front, and spoke.
"Everyone prepare to attack!"
He took some binoculars and looked at General Perry's ship again.
General Perry in uniform-
"Huh?"
Until now, it was far and not seen clearly.
Although the hat hid Perry's face.
"The sword-"
Perry's stance holding the sword was awkward.
No, it was not proper of General Perry.
As a lifelong rival, Shark knew Perry better than anyone.
"!"
At that moment, he immediately understood.
What trick that crazy Perry was using, pretending to be simple.
"It's a fake!"
He immediately realized that that Perry was not the real one.
"That crazy woman dares!"
To use a trick like this!
Surely she must have put a fake and is hiding behind!
But even so, all ships are surrounded!
When anger, contempt, and a slight worry appeared on pirate Shark's face.
"Captain! What do we do?"
"Crush them!"
Even so, they must crush.
The arrow running towards the pirate ships deployed like a crescent moon.
To break that arrow, they must launch a total attack.
Buuuuuuu--
The order did not change.
While observing the two allied ships heading towards the fake flagship, Shark's eyes, following them, burned.
"Kill them all!"
Today I will finally kill General Perry and take control of this sea!
Only I will be the owner of this place!
I will throw them all to the bottom of the sea!
"Kill them all!"
The moment Shark ordered to start the total attack.
"Archie."
Suddenly, a great voice reached his ears.
The voice amplified by magic was low.
A serene voice, a voice that recited, descended upon the nearby sea.
"Archie. Now do what you want."
It was in that instant.
In the instant he ordered the total attack.
Boom!
The pirate flagship.
Shark's body, which was on the deck, shook instantly.
"Grrk!"
He let out a groan.
Suddenly, a great impact was transmitted to the ship.
But he had no time to regain his balance.
Thud!
Something surged from the sea and descended onto the deck.
Crack!
The existence that descended breaking the deck.
"Kahahahahaha! Everything must be destroyed! You damn pirates, know that today is the day you will receive a beating! Kahahahahaha!"
The Beast Person Archie, the Orca, slammed his fists together with force and laughed cheerfully.
"Kahahahaha!"
While doing that, he hit the deck with his fist.
Craaack!
Archie began to destroy the ship, for starters.
Of course, he also began to destroy the nearby pirates.
Bang!
"Gyaaak!"
Smash!
"Ugh!"
Thud!
"Grk!"
Archie, whose wait had ended, laughed.
"Kahahahahaha!"
And Shark, seeing that scene, heard the trembling voice of a subordinate behind him.
"Ca-Captain! The fake flagship-"
The subordinate shouted urgently.
"It is spreading fog! Fog is sprouting from the fake flagship! And it is red fog!"
A fog red as blood sprouted from Cale's flagship.
It was a stronger and denser fog than the one that had covered the sea of the Roan Kingdom.
