Chapter 228 Lethal Weapon
The fog dissipated. After the sailors were at a loss by the huge suction behind them for a long time, what was greeted was the sky that could be seen again and the sunset that was about to fall. The golden sunlight turned the clouds in the sky into something like oil painted on the painter's canvas. The lights, colors and shapes made people instinctively beautiful. But the sailors now had no intention of appreciating the sunset and clouds. When the wind stopped, the first thing they had to do was to see what caused the strong wind. Then, they saw the two huge figures standing on the water of the sunset. "Monster, monster, monster! Captain! Monster!"
Hafdan slowly supported his body, and the wound on his abdomen seemed to have a worse effect than expected. When he finally came to the edge of the deck and looked back, the two Neptune remained inhaled. Even the captain of the Black Arrow had never seen or heard of such things. For a moment, even sailors, known for their imagination and language, did not know what language to describe the creatures they saw. So they could only attribute it to monsters with the vagueest title.
But the two monsters stopped acting after completing their work, and stood in the sea like two strange towers. The panic of the sailors gradually disappeared in such silence. After all, they had experienced too many things that would make people wake up from their dreams on this day, and it was difficult to feel any more intense fear at this time. When they turned their sights to the surrounding ships, they realized that the loss of the battle was actually much greater than expected. Many ships were flooded by sea water, or the bows had been buried in the water, or they simply had masts and debris floating on the water. The ships were sunk through the decks in the previous battle with the Siren, and in addition, there were quite a few people on the ships.
Although this battle is not a tragic victory, the price paid by the human side is not small. Even based on the current war loss ratio, even if the sailors are all dedicated soldiers and no ship left their posts without help, the fleet of the human side may not be able to last for another day. In comparison, there are very few sirens corpses floating on the water. However, this is normal. Humans have no way to kill sirens in the water. Most of the corpses were floating by the sailors after throwing dead people on the deck into the water.
But in front of the battlefield, the situation is not entirely like this. What is presented to everyone is a doomsday scene, with a large number of marine creatures, including but not limited to siren, whales and other sea beasts they have tamed. The top creatures in the ocean float like garbage in a heart-wrenching reddish-brown sea water. People cannot see the wounds on these corpses, and their intuition also tells the sailors that it is best not to approach these corpses so curiously to check the cause of their death.
As for the source of these reddish-brown sea water, it clearly points to the two remaining witch ships in the sun. The boat full of various copper pipelines steadily releases deadly alchemy potions from the pipelines below the water surface, killing all creatures close to the sea surface indiscriminately. Fortunately, the potion itself is as viscous as oil and does not melt into the water, so it will not penetrate deep into this water to bring greater disaster. But the things in the other witch ship may not be such a gentle weapon.
"Sir, we are about to reach the top of the Siren's stronghold." The great witch, who had regained her youthful posture, opened her eyes after hearing the report from her subordinates.
"How strong is the opponent's resistance?" As the leader of the witch group, there is no problem with the Great Witch sitting in this flagship. However, as an extremely powerful spellcaster, especially the King of Witches, who is famous for monitoring the entire silence Bay without leaving home, her problem seems a bit strange. However, the witches serving around the Great Witch know why their leaders cannot sense the situation outside the hull, because most of her energy is spent suppressing something inside the hull, which is so difficult to control that even several senior witches who rotate to participate in spell casting will feel powerless when assisting the Great Witch.
It was such a terrible thing, but the Great Witch brought it here with almost one person's strength, bringing it to the enemy's heads. This made other witches feel tired and made them truly understand how powerful they had. But the leader has not been long. When she returned to her youthful appearance, it showed that she decided to leave the world in this way. All witches knew about this, and as the designated successor of the Great Witch, Eaton stood quietly behind her, and her mission was to ensure that the remains of the Great Witch returned to the soup pot.
"There are still scattered resistance that will not hinder our speed of progress. The Siren did not seem to think that we were a threat, and so far have not sent a large amount of military force to stop us. They must have thought that as long as we stay under the water, we can't do anything to them." The witch who reported the situation said with some contempt. Siren was obviously arrogant in this war. They have never really launched a full-strength attack on humans and witches so far. They do have such arrogant capital. After all, fighting Siren in the ocean is irrational. The natural barrier formed by deep sea water makes it difficult for human weapons and witches' magic to truly pose a threat to Siren. What's more, they also have a magnificent fortress with divine power such as the pyramid of the sea. So from the beginning, Lie Tao's military strategy was to set out to win at a less cost.
But Lie Tao made two mistakes in his strategy, or they did not expect two things. First of all, the first point was that they never thought that the system of coordination with the chief priest would collapse in wartime. Moreover, this collapse was not as simple as the leader being assassinated. The foundation of the entire Lie Tao social operation was based on his belief in the goddess of the tide. Now this foundation has been removed, and the entire building built on it collapsed and damaged.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Lie Tao. No one could have expected that the arrival of a human would cause such a terrible result, just as no one would think that the earth under their feet would suddenly shatter. This was not their fault. But even so, they still made a real mistake, that is, they underestimated the preparation and determination of the witch group for this war. Or, Lie Tao and others did not care about their opponents' status, because they firmly believed that under the guidance of the goddess, they would definitely win the war.
This laid the foundation for their second mistake, that is, the Siren always believed that they were invincible in this war and were the attacking side. They never thought about what would happen if the witch had a weapon that could reach the depths of the ocean and could cause damage to a large range of creatures. In fact, they could not blame them, just like two knights would not be wary of the other party suddenly taking out a crossbow arrow from behind when they drew their swords. However, when the witch really had such a weapon, the error would become very fatal.
"Don't worry about what they think. All we have to do is sail to their heads, and then they will die." The Great Witch said lazily. She didn't know that the Siren had lost their ability to resist at this time, but even if her subordinates told her that the Siren was in chaos, the Great Witch might have attributed it to the assassination team sent to play a role. However, even if Losa and the others really killed the other party's chief priest, the Great Witch still had to use this deadly weapon on the Siren.
Chapter completed!