"Commodore! A pirate naval squad is sailing to the east. I believe they are planning to destroy the shipyard," Kenway reported through the communication crystal.
"Intercept them and don't let them destroy the shipyard."
"Yes, Commodore!"
Burchard frowned as he looked at the projection of the enemy ships being damaged. A lot of them even got destroyed and sunk into the sea. He even saw the mothership of the pirate getting damaged from inside.
Everything was going well, but he couldn't remove the feeling of uneasiness in his heart.
"Something is off."
Suddenly, Aldred's voice came. "Burchard!"
There were sounds of explosions. Soul Flare was firing, and pirates were screaming in pain.
"What happened, Sir? Do you need any help?"
"No! The pirates have three motherships!"
Burchard's eyes widened. He checked the projection again, but he didn't detect any other mothership at all.
That was when the pirate ships came out of the fog, and Burchard saw none of the enemy ships received any damage at all.
"The magic detection… they are fooling the detection spell. Kenway! Come back to formation! There is no pirate naval squad going to the east! They're tricking us!"
Kenway jolted out of his seat and immediately turned the wheel while ordering his squad to retreat.
But it took time for a ship to fully turn around, and the pirates took that opportunity.
Two naval squads came from the fog, from 17 nautical miles behind Kenway's naval squad.
The pirates fired their cannons.
Immediately the shells crashed onto Kenway's ships, and some of those shells blasted the back end of the ships also known as the aft.
Kenway slammed the table when he saw this. "Activate the protection spell!"
The golems activated the magic crystals and a thin layer of barrier enveloped each ship. It wasn't as effective as the shield provided by the Mother of Destruction, but it was enough for now.
Suddenly a shell crashed onto his ship, and it shook him to the left and right.
"For God of War's smelly armpits! I will kill those damn pirates! Golem artilleries! Fire!"
Aldred had put his Artillery Golems on each ship just in case. Because they did not require to move around, eat, drink, or sleep, they could just stay in a confined space, and the roof above their head would open when needed.
This was the time of need, and all the roofs were opened by using magic. The artillery golem fired their golem shells which were basically golems who could fly and explode.
Because these shells were golems, they were fairly intelligent and could make their own decision if necessary.
The shells flew into the sky, and as they saw steel shells coming at them, they simply dodged and kept moving forward.
"Captain! Those weird flying things are coming at us," one of the pirates shouted.
"Keep firing at them! I don't know what they are, but I am sure it's not something you can eat."
The pirates stopped attacking Kenway's ships and focused their attacks on the golem shells.
These golem shells had the size of 155 mm, they were fast and agile so the pirates had a terrible time shooting one down.
The golem shells then swarmed the pirate ships and exploded when they got near the pirates.
The pirates screamed as they were engulfed by the fireballs. Some of their smaller cannons exploded which caused further damage. Some of the golems even flew deep within the ships and then exploded when they saw critical facilities were nearby.
But even with that, the ships barely felt a dent. The ones that felt the most damage were the crew. Most ships' crew were Gold Rank, and very rarely did they use Platinum Rank and above on a ship. This was because sailors died all the time.
Either from monsters or got hit by cannon shells. Sailors generally had a short lifespan. Around 5-8 years.
And this could drop to 1-3 years in the time of conflict.
And on the battlefield, sailors die all the time.
There was not much a Platinum Rank could do anyway when a shell struck their ships.
This made it a terrible decision for any nation or power to put them on a ship.
So even though ships could cost billions to make, they were still not willing to put their Platinum Ranks on them.
So even though the barrage of golem shells failed to sink the ships, it did eliminate the crew of the ships.
Ships require a large amount of crew to function, so when they were killed, the ships were basically sitting ducks.
Kenway, the captain of the 1st Destroyer's Naval Squad, smiled when he noticed this.
"The Lord's weapon is much more useful than he said it was." Kenway laughed.
"Approach their ships and aboard them. We will steal everything they have!"
…
Meanwhile, Aldred was still wreaking havoc on one of the three motherships.
The pirates he slain didn't even have the chance to scream before they turned into a corpse.
And when the other pirates saw how effortlessly he killed their comrades, most of them started to hesitate.
Aldred, face covered in blood, grinned at the pirates with a Phantom Doomblade in his right hand.
The blade crackled with red lightning and a red aura that had consumed all the souls of the dead.
The pirates personally saw the blade consumes the souls of their comrades, and they were terrified of it.
"What is this? Are you all scared now?"
The pirates trembled and took two steps back. Even though they kept shooting at him with their Soul Flare which was a weapon that could kill a Platinum Rank, they still couldn't get rid of him.
Aldred always anticipated their shots, and he would dodge them long before they could even pull the trigger.
"Fucker! I will kill you!" The pirates fired their Soul Flare, but they were shocked because Aldred suddenly disappeared.
"Where is he?!"
"Are you looking for me?"
The pirates turned around and saw Aldred standing behind them with a cannon beside him.
"See you later."
The cannon fired.
