Chapter 685 - Bloody Sea 2 (1/2)

A few hours later, Grenada’s main unit successfully managed to complete the bypass and tail the Symphonia fleet.

All of a sudden, seeing the enemies appear in the rear made the Symphonia fleet confused.

“Hahaha! Those men are probably very shocked!”

However, it was already late to move the plans.

They were still at the end of the reef, and soon, the fleet would reach a point where firing would be easy for the Grenada fleet.

The thought of erasing Symphonia made Fernando smile.

“Your Majesty, even if we attack, we need to be very careful till the very end of the battle. Luke de Rakan is a man who is very good at magic, and we have no idea what he might do.”

In naval battles, the most troublesome ones were the wizards.

They could burn sails or an entire ship with simple flame magic.

“Huh, no matter how good he is at magic, how can he block tens of thousands of shells all by himself? We can handle their fleet.”

“As you put it, Luke de Rakan is a human. But…”

“The Duke is way too cautious, which is bad. If you are a person of the sea, shouldn’t you be trusting the power of your own fleet more than assessing the enemy?”

At the sarcastic words of Fernando, Nathan went quiet.

Instead, he decided to devote his time in carefully eyeing the enemy fleet with the telephoto artifact.

‘It seems like the movement on the deck is heavy. It is natural if they are trying to respond to our surprise attack, but… what is with that long rope which is flying in the sky? Are they flying a kite?’

He heard stories about the naval battles of the Southern Continent about kites carrying people or scouts to the sky.

He even heard about it from the survivors of the recent Song army and Yemaek ambush, so seeing that string in the sky made him a little worried.

‘But it isn’t just one or two. How many did they even launch?’

The enemy ship, which was assumed to have flown kites into the skies, were more than dozens.

When Nathan moved the telephoto to the sky, he was interrupted by the sailor on the mast who was yelling.

“There is something in the sea! And it is floating toward us!”

“What was it?”

Duke Nathan hurriedly moved the telephoto item to the sea.

He could see a floating item that was being drifted by the ocean current and moved toward their fleet.

A large wooden barrel painted in blue.

Nathan, who couldn’t get the bad feeling out of his mind, looked over at the enemy fleet.

The Symphonia sailors, who were too busy on the ships, were dropping barrels into the water.

Nathan, grasping the situation, hurriedly yelled to the helm of the ship.

“This is a torpedo! Go ahead and turn!”

The expressions of the officers and the seniors on the deck changed when they heard the word torpedo since they experienced what a torpedo could do in the last war first hand.

“Board title! Turn the ship!”

“Hurry up! The enemy’s torpedoes are floating toward us!”

When the flagship, which was moving ahead with good momentum, suddenly turned, the ships, which were following it, were confused about what was happening ahead.

But soon after, the situation was communicated to the others, and the Grenada ships all clamored for an evasive maneuver.

However, the speed of the torpedo floating through the current was faster than they expected. And the number of the torpedoes was over a hundred.

Bang! Bang!

Pop! Pop!

The battleships that couldn’t be avoided in time were struck by the force. There also accidents where the ships collided with each other because of the sudden change in direction.

“Th-this..!”

“We are being taken down by them again!”

When flames and smoke rose to the sky, Fernando and Nathan, who were on the deck, were feeling crushed.

They really didn’t expect it.

Not on the coast, but the enemy was using torpedoes in the middle of the sea.

‘Were they using the ocean currents? Damn it! They expected us to tail them…!’

The torpedoes used by the Symphonia fleet inflicted considerable damage on the Grenada fleet.

It was because there were many ships that couldn’t turn back and evade the attack as they were too overwhelmed, and some ships that couldn’t change the direction as the steam engine was already at full speed and turning it would tilt the entire ship.

However, the more serious problem was the entire fleet had been scattered.

On contrary, the Symphonia fleet lined up all its battleships in a straight line to fire.

“Shoot!”

“Take those pirates down!”

Bang! Bang! Pop!

Every time the shells fell from the sky, heatwaves and black smoke soared from the Grenada fleet.

Dozens of ships sunk or were destroyed.

Still, there were far more Grenada ships than Symphonia.

There were more than six hundred ships in good shape.

“Damn, fight back!”

“We have more ships on our side!”

The firing from the Grenada fleet began.

However, it didn’t hit the Symphonia fleet in huge numbers.

It was because the Symphonia fleet was equipped with a front-row firing while Grenada didn’t have that.