Bang.
The pirate ship and the warship from the Ice Sculpture Kingdom slammed into each other fiercely.
Then various spells and hooks were thrown onto the opposite side, causing the ships of both sides to become entwined.
The boarding planks also immediately rushed up.
"Kill!"
"Charge with me!"
"Kill all these damn pirates!!"
The pirates shouted arrogantly, while the Snow Elves also cried out.
Shouts of battle intermingled as the assault teams from both sides charged onto the opposing decks, causing casualties to surge instantly.
Swords clashed, and blood and flesh flew.
Fighting energy and magic intertwined, and the fallen Humans and Snow Elves rarely managed to rise again.
The iceberg emitted a soft white light, like a veil, draping over the Snow Elves.
This radiance had comprehensive effects like healing, energy restoration, and defense.
The Lijian family was in charge of the second navy fleet, and the middle and lower level leaders of the navy were all members of the Lijian family. They were united in spirit, never easily abandoning their comrades, often forming formations of varying sizes and executing defensive counterattack tactics.
In contrast, the pirates were as fierce as giant waves, violently crashing against the blood-and-flesh defense line formed by the navy.
Compared to the kingdom’s second navy, the pirates were inferior in terms of equipment and military discipline.
Thus, after a brief ship-to-ship battle, the pirate side suffered far more losses than the navy.
The First Officer quickly walked to Da Han’s side and reported, "Squad Leader! We’ve detected that each iceberg contains Golden Level alchemy components."
"Currently, the Drifting Icebergs have shown defensive capabilities against cannon bombs, protecting ships and soldiers. We speculate it may have some attack capabilities."
"The second navy fleet is the regular army of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, and they are elite. Now with the help of the Drifting Icebergs adopting rare naval battle tactics, they have numerous advantages, and our vanguard is no match for them."
Da Han didn’t finish, still maintaining the Divine Arts of time, predicting future scenes.
After a moment, he slowly spoke, "Send Kong Pan, Firepower Fear, and Hard Skull up there."
"Assemble the Ice Thorn Team, Ice Burst Team, and Frost Shooter Team, and have them ready at any moment."
"Order the mages to prepare the Light Snow Skill; I want to cover the entire battlefield."
...
Da Han commanded steadily, issuing a series of orders.
The Vegetable Basket pirate group, Firepower Fear pirate group, and others, were all Golden Level pirate groups. Although smaller in scale compared to Da Han’s Ice Seal pirate group, they couldn’t handle the Ice Sculpture Kingdom alone but wanted to plunder it, so they temporarily joined Da Han.
The pirates formed a second wave of offense, causing the Lijian family’s sea defense line to noticeably waver. The once orderly front line became jagged under the pirates’ assault.
Several icebergs consecutively fell, the alchemy components inside destroyed, and the icebergs slowly sank into the sea.
Without the icebergs as support, the naval warships retreated one after another, converging around the rear’s icebergs.
Cong Mang, wielding a long stick, smashed a Silver Level navy officer’s head with one strike.
He charged back and forth on the warship’s deck, killing with enthusiasm.
Behind him was the Vegetable Basket pirate group’s signature team—the Bachelors Team. Under Cong Mang’s lead, they inflicted astonishing casualties.
The combat style of the Firepower Fear pirate group was different.
This pirate group, primarily composed of Water Pigmen, had specially trained elite teams for sea combat with strong ship-destroying abilities.
Occasionally, navy warships’ bottoms were pierced by Water Pigmen, but soon, these holes were sealed with ice.
When ship-destroying attacks failed, the Water Pigmen were undeterred, fully utilizing another advantage—firepower!
A large number of cannons, bed crossbows, and others opened fire, forming a dense and vast firepower web.
Under the barrage of firepower, the Snow Elves moving on the decks quickly turned into corpses.
Hard Skull laughed heartily, "Ram them!"
His flagship, although only Silver Level, had a ram that was a Golden Level alchemy component.
Behind his flagship were over a dozen demon energy ships, all equipped with excellent quality rams.
The pirate group led by Hard Skull loved nothing more than driving their ships to ram everything in sight.
Boom, boom, boom...
The warships were toppled by Hard Skull’s pirate group, with some capsizing on the spot.
"These warships are too tough!"
"It’s the floating icebergs causing trouble; it’s really annoying."
Hard Skull gritted his teeth and cursed.
Every time his ship rammed, the navy warship’s outer layer would quickly form a layer of Ice Armor. The Ice Armor was controllable, able to increase to significant thickness in a short time.
Hard Skull’s pirate ship would first break through the ice layer to damage the warship’s body. Often, the destructive power of the ram would be mostly neutralized by the surface ice layer.
Some pirates were slaughtering, others were stalemated, but overall they had the Second Navy fleet suppressed.
"The new type of warship coupled with the floating iceberg tactics gives us an advantage."
"However, our mid and lower-level officers are no match for the pirate leaders, leading to significant losses."
Sansa Manta nervously assessed the battle situation.
The pirates had long baptized themselves in combat, with those possessing talent and luck gradually emerging from a brutal elimination process as small leaders, big leaders, and chiefs.
With such fierce competition, those who rose to high positions naturally were the elite among the elite.
In contrast, the navy’s training intensity for mid-to-lower levels was far inferior.
"To maintain control over the Second Navy fleet, the Lijian family employed nepotism, placing family members in many critical positions. Combat strength was not the sole standard, not even the main one."
"In contrast, among pirates, strength is respected..."
Sansa Manta’s thoughts wandered. As an outsider joining the Lijian family, she deeply understood the internal affairs and immediately analyzed the true reason starting from the battle situation.
She slightly tightened her grip on the Magic Wand, knowing that her time to act was near.
Sure enough, not long after, Kong Pan issued the order for Sansa Manta and others to take action.
Sansa Manta took a deep breath, canceled the spell, and deliberately revealed her presence.
As a mage, she had to protect herself, especially on such a chaotic battlefield where it’s impossible to predict what might happen next.
Sansa Manta cast a Debuff Magic, immediately affecting many pirates, who were then seized upon and killed by nearby naval soldiers.
Yue Qian quickly flashed to different areas of the battlefield.
He is the middle generation of the Lijian family, the future pillar of the family. The concentration of Inner World Bloodline in his body is quite adequate, allowing him to continuously flicker using Magic-like spells, performing short-range teleportation.
This makes his support and evasion capabilities exceptionally strong, leaving the pirates cursing, unable to catch up with Yue Qian.
Yue Qian, being at the Golden Level, has formidable combat power. Very soon, he slew three Silver Level and lightly injured a Golden Level pirate.
With the support of Yue Qian and San Shaman, the navy barely managed to stabilize their position.
But good times didn’t last long. With an order from Da Han, the pirates’ third wave of offensive quickly surged in.
"The defense line won’t hold." Kong Pan assessed the situation, sighing to herself.
She took out a plate-shaped magic tool, ready to personally act, casting a spell to create a space barrier.
But the next moment, a Cold Ice Beam instantly traversed over a thousand meters, piercing through the entire battlefield like a thin, extremely sharp long spear, shooting towards Kong Pan.
The alchemy tool on Kong Pan’s body flashed brilliantly, buying her critical time.
Kong Pan hurriedly dodged, avoiding the Cold Ice Beam.
She immediately spat a mouthful of blood, forced to break her spell, causing a backlash.
At the same time, Da Han leisurely retracted his forefinger.
Just now, it was he who personally struck!
Kong Pan was so frightened, cold sweat covered her, her face pale.
"How could it be?"
"I was just about to make a move, yet Da Han reacted so swiftly!"
"No, that’s incorrect."
"Da Han is a believer in the God of Dusk, mastering Time Divine Arts. It must be he used Time Divine Arts to predict what would happen the next moment."
"Da Han, he has made his move..." Kong Pan looked at the magic image, her face quite grim.
After Da Han made a move, he did not stop; instead, he slowly ascended, swooping towards the position where Kong Pan was located.
Kong Pan couldn’t care about anything else, hurriedly teleporting to another ship through the alchemy components.
She had long since not stayed in her flagship to prevent Da Han from executing a decapitation strategy.
This is the world of the strong.
The pirates with Holy Domain Level combat power hold a clear advantage.
Da Han ascended high into the sky, overlooking the entire battlefield below. From his height, the ships looked like wooden toy cars.
The pirates and navy in combat were in the heat of battle, while those not involved temporarily gazed up, closely watching Da Han’s every move.
In the ordinary person’s vision, Da Han had already shrunk into a black dot in the sky, indistinct.
No one dared to approach Da Han, but Kong Pan decisively ordered a bombardment.
However, when the Golden Level bombs entered Da Han’s Holy Domain, they all ceased hostilities.
Da Han sincerely prayed:
"My Lord, believer Da Han salutes You!"
"You are the dusk, the God of Time, the endpoint all must face."
"You preside over the passage of time, all phenomena fade with You."
"Please, descend with divine power, let the enemies experience the ruthlessness of time."
Unlike ordinary prayers, prayers on the battlefield are often brief.
As Da Han’s prayer ended, endless light shone down from the high sky, forming transparent Time Order Swords.
The sword blades fell like torrential rain.
The Snow Elves hit by the blades spat blood and retreated, their fighting energy and spells nearly unable to succeed.
The blades struck the demon energy ships, causing explosions, mana circuits damaged, alchemy devices consecutively failed.
Time Divine Arts — Sword Slash: Time Interlacing!
The targets struck by the divine arts experienced severe temporal interlacing in different body parts. Some experienced a faster flow of time, while others slowed down.
This severely affected the mobilization of mana and fighting energy, and the demon energy ships were no exception. In fact, the demon energy ships were more rigid than Transcendents, only able to watch as the ship’s magic circuits and other components sustained damage, unable to make subtle adjustments.
"It’s such divine arts!" Seeing the Time Order Swords shooting down from the sky, Kong Pan gritted her teeth.
She wasn’t without trump cards, but the formidable methods of new-style warships and drifting icebergs were all eliminated by the Time Order Swords.
"It must be Da Han calculated the future, so he made a preemptive move to specifically use this divine art to suppress our side!" Kong Pan looked up and sighed deeply.
Her fighting spirit fell to rock bottom.
"Retreat, retreat!" She decisively ordered.
The battle had reached this point, and the Lijian family could already provide an explanation.
The City Lord of Snowbird Port understood the subtle political landscape within the Kingdom; how could Kong Pan of the Lijian family not know?
When Da Han made his move, without any sign of Holy Domain support from Ice Sculpture Kingdom, Kong Pan knew: she would not be getting Holy Domain reinforcement from the Ice Sculpture Kingdom.
"We must preserve the living strength for the family!"
"Order everyone to enter the iceberg!"
Accompanied by this order, warships still capable of free movement all rammed into the nearby icebergs.
When they collided, a magical scene unfolded. The iceberg seemed like a layer of light and shadow, rippling only slightly before swallowing the warships into its depths.
The momentum of the iceberg continually increased, and with each warship absorbed, its aura slightly rose.
The Time Order Swords falling onto the iceberg had their effect greatly reduced.
"The drifting iceberg incorporated a significant amount of Time Ice Blocks as construction material. Its resistance to Time Divine Arts and spells is quite extraordinary."
Most of the warships, along with their crew, entered the iceberg.
The speed of the Drifting Iceberg surged, carrying the second navy’s main force as it decisively fled!
Da Han, however, did not make another move.
He leisurely descended onto the flagship, the Ice Seal.
"Go chase them."
"Go plunder."
"We are pirates, after all!" He laughed a few times.
The pirates erupted in earth-shaking cheers.
Some pursued the Drifting Iceberg, blasting away at the icebergs, mercilessly attacking the navy. Others parted from the group, acting independently, heading for the coastal towns of Ice Sculpture Island.