400 An Unfair Battle Part 2 (1/2)

The flagship's alarm was only triggered when the bone fish got five-hundred meters away from the warships.

”What's going on?” An officer walked out of the cabin and asked.

”I don't know. The magic alarm went off, it seems that the enemy got close to us.”

”Where are the guards?”

”They're at the mast, but they didn't see anything.”

The officer thought and decided for safety reasons he should tell someone. He turned around and walked towards the captain's room to let the higher ups decide if they should issue the alarm to the entire fleet.

When he came before the captain's room, he saw the black robed mage that was always composed come dashing out. The mage looked terrified as he ran towards the deck.

The black robed mage dashed towards to deck and dispersed his perceptions. Then, he heard explosions rising and subsiding there. More than a hundred living organisms hit all the warships. The black robed mage could feel the deck shaking and he shouted, ”Mage group, abandon the ship! Quick! Abandon the ship!”

Among the bone spirits that attack the warships, at least half of them ran towards the rudders first. Once the rudders were damaged, even if they could mend the leak at the bottom of the ship, they would not be able to leave. Even if they used magic to control water current, the ships could only go forward in a straight line, That made it easy for the enemy to trail behind.

Bloodstones that the bone spirits carried ignited and made loud explosion noises, they could even feel the vibration from afar underwater. The alchemical boat was not even one mile away from the fleet under the ice. Such close attacks almost finished the battle within one minute.

The enemy was too careless, they did not monitor underwater at all. On Myers Mainland, underwater attacks were rarely seen, but it was a common strategy to consider.

Among the twelve warships, the eight fully armed commercial ships received the most damage as all the commercial ships were attacked by twelve bone spirits. There was no magic array defending the bottom of the ship. When the bone spirits knocked into them from the bottom, they knocked a few hole directly. The winged skeleton used multiple attack methods and one fully armed commercial ship was hit on the same spot by eight bone spirits. Its tremendous explosion almost broke the ship into two pieces from the middle.

That was not the only ship and almost none escaped. Before the people on the ship responded, the bottom of the ship had a big hole that was four meters in diameter. The body of the ship cracked along the hole and slowly sunk.

It was already night time, most of the sailing crews or the warriors were already resting. The minority of the patrollers jumped into the water to swim onto the ice sheet. Without a lifeboat and in seawater at such temperature, it made the human body lose its temperature very quickly. Even though the ice sheet was just a few hundred meters away from the fleet, these people lost their senses really quickly. Only a few swordsmasters could get through it with the sword aura in their body. They were shivering when they got to the ice sheet.

The black robed mage was surprised and angry, he flew in the air to look at the battle below. He had yet to see the traces of their enemy. He could not be blamed as warships from east island nations and the unconquerable fleet in Cloudflow Empire were different. The fleet from Cloudflow Empire had boats that were in charge of guarding and they could cover dozens of miles of sea area, including space underwater.

The alchemical boat might not be discovered by the monitor boats from Cloudflow, but once they attacked, that would expose their target.

Very quickly, there were another four gray robed mages that flew into the air, next to Youxi Maso. They were all grade-6 grand mage that were unsure about the situation.

”You guys head back, bring everyone in the mage group to fight for lifeboats.” The black robed mage knew that even if he found the enemy then, he would not be able to change the fact that the fleet sunk. He suddenly regretted his earlier actions, ”If we went onto the ice sheet earlier to trigger the final attack, would this be happening?”

Four grade-6 gray robed mages flew back to gather people from the mage group to leave the ship. The black robed mage guessed correctly, all the mages on each warship had not realized the danger that they were in. After the attack, the first thing these mages tried was to repair the warships with magic.

To use magic to repair the warship was just a temporary solution, the correct way was to have mages mend the hole with magic and at the same time have the carpenter fix the leak with material. They must fix the hole entirely before the magic lost its effect. No matter how many magic chords a mage had, it was impossible to sustain the boat and prevent it from sinking otherwise.

The person who was directing the carpenters had fled and those carpenters already ran to the deck to look for lifeboats. The four main warships were damaged too badly and those who were in charge of mending the ship knew that even with the mages' assistance it was impossible for them to fix the ship. On a two-hundred meter long warship, there were at least twenty holes now.

There was a total of forty members in the mage group and these forty mages would not be able to block all the holes.

The winged skeleton did well. He had forty-eight bone fish attack one ship at the same time, the defence magic array on the bottom of the ship would struggle for a while until it lost its effect. The bone spirits attacked in batches, they could attack the position on the bottom of the ship which had the weakest protection. They could also attack the same spot repeatedly. These defence magic arrays were not activated entirely, hence they could not take such frequent tremendous explosions.

If they were the armored warships from Cloudflow, they could withstand the attacks for a while, but the warships from the eastern island nations put their metal armor above the waterline. Their underwater defences were much weaker. By doing so they could increase travel speed and save on cost, but it was a vital flaw during battle.

The two magic warships from Sregl Island would not sink so quickly even if the defence magic was not activated. If the attack number was insufficient, the two warships would not be damaged much. As long as there were enough mages on the ship, they would be able to mend the leaks.