Chapter 457: Flat Fish (1/2)

Adrian is in silent chaos. Because the citizens are not at all involved in this. But the authorities of Adrian are having hard times dealing with the mercenaries.

They are challenging every person under the imperial authority to duels and every duel is ending up with some serious loss for the authorities. All the mercenaries didn't have certain victories, but they did gain more wins than losses.

The emperor is having a hard time keeping calm and sent some messages to them. It is an invitation to join troops and get some special treatment. That is what the emperor thought about this.

He thought these people are trying to get his attention.

But he received no response and he got some unexpected news. A fleet of ships with the flags of the western continent is coming towards them and they were spotted by some patrol ships.

The sea between the two empires so small that they covered the distance in two days and in a day, they will reach the coast.

The emperor freaked out and since Adrian is a lot smaller than the western continent, on a Transcendent level beast and at full speed he was able to reach the coast by the next day night and he saw Arc and the troops still a bit away from the coast waiting there.

The troops of the Adrian empire are all gathering. But the superiors of the troops are not in the best of conditions.

They are just mauled by the mercenaries and now they barely recovered before preparing for the war.

With no announcement whatsoever, they knew that is a war. After all, would Arc come with these many ships just to visit and sightsee?

”Arc what do you mean by this?”

”Don't tell me, you don't understand this. This is an invasion.” Arc replied sarcastically.

”That is what I am asking. Why are you invading? There is no bad blood between us. We barely have any form of connection between the two empires.”

”Does an emperor need a reason to invade? It is for the conquest. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyway, I believe I am a better ruler. So, I will take this land as this is what I deserve.”

”Since, when did you become this cocky. I don't remember being like this in the thunder god temple?”

Arc didn't reply to this and asked.

”You want to jump right into it or do you want to have some challenges? I will leave that up to you.”

The emperor of Adrian looked at him with resentment. He understood that war is inevitable, there is no way they could go back now.

So, he looked at the two large warships in the lead and sent two warships of a similar size.

The naval troops of Arc aren't too many. That is something that puzzled him. Where did he even get that confidence without sufficient troops?

But he didn't care about that. The two large metallic warships are something that he didn't see before. So, he decided to test the waters and sent the same sized ships with troops.

There are not many people on the decks of the warships. Those who are present are few and they occupied some entry points of the deck.

The warships Sam made have two floors below the deck. The last one has the core and movement mechanism responsible for the motion of the ship and the floor above that has cannons all over. The deck is relatively empty and only has few cannons.

The ships have two cannons each on the bow side and two cannons on the stern side and six cannons on the starboard and six on the port side.

When the two large ships entered the range of the cannons, the cannons on the bow side are aimed at them and they fired.

The impact shells moved through the air and landed on the ships before blasting on the deck. The ships are made of extremely high-level. Which made it hard for it to completely break it. But there are some cracks on it.

The damage didn't end there though. A purple mist came from the impact shell and it spread all over the deck around the blast region due to the energy blast.

This made the purple mist gather and when it touched the crew, they felt some burning pain on their skin. Then only they noticed that the purple mist is slowly depositing in the form of some purple liquid on the deck and the place is starting to corrode a little bit.